February 29, 2004

First Work Week Update

My Apologies for no updates since monday, but work has been very busy and i've been pretty exhausted when getting home from work at night. Unfortunately there are no quick trains at night time so getting home can sometimes take a while!

Work is good, but busy. I will be finished my current project early this coming week then will be moving onto my next project, which is a more permanent position, effectively as long as I want it to be.

Sarah has also got a new phone, Samsung E700, so we will both be sending photo's to the weblog now that she has a phone and I have got mine sending photo emails successfully.

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February 23, 2004

Day 1 @ Accenture

Day 1 of New Employee orientation went well. Packed a lot of presentations and some chats to Project Managers (PMs). I have one more day if orientation tomorrow then head off to my first project which will be a small 1 week appointment based in London. After this I will move onto a permanent project in the same offices under a different PM.

It looks like I will be dumped into the thick of it from the start. Should be a very busy but exciting few weeks ahead!

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February 22, 2004

Holiday Over, Reality Starts

Sarah and I have successfully braved the challenges of being a tourist in London during the winter season and are back in Southend. We have been to a number of tourist locations, in no specific order being:


  • Madam Tussauds
  • The London Dungeon
  • The Olde Operating Theatre Museum
  • St. Pauls Cathedral
  • Southwalk Cathedral
  • Kensington Palace
  • The Big Bus London Tour
  • The National Gallery
  • Trafalgar Square
  • Tower of London
  • Walked across Tower Bridge

There is so much more to do, but we didn't want to rush everything as we have plenty of time to do those things we missed this time later in the year.

Much apologies for the Moblog (Photo Weblog) not getting updated while we were travelling, but my new phone seems to have issues sending email to the Text America format email addresses used to send photos online. Rest assured these will appear once I have figured out how to pull them off the phone.

For me reality starts tomorrow with my New Employee Orientation with Accenture. Although I have had a love/hate relationship with the last 3 months of my life, I am going to miss being able to sleep in in the morning!

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February 18, 2004

London calling

I am starting work this coming Monday so to make use of some of Sarah's annual leave before she loses it all in the new financial year we are taking a trip into London to see the sights. Yes, thats right, this is the first time we will be going into London to do touristy things!

Although I don't have a new camera yet (insurance is being a bit slow), I do have a cameraphone that I just got so I am going to try get that working so our moblog hopefully will get updated as we travel. So, if you are interested in what we are up to, check back on this page routinely over the next 4-5 days to get regular pictoral updates just below this paragraph whenever we snap a picture from the phone!

If you want to catch up on what we are doing then you can check out our textamerica moblog and that will show you all the picture we have taken over the next few days.

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February 02, 2004

Finally! A Bed

As of 2:30pm, Monday 2nd Feb we now have a bed! It's good to be able to lay on something nice instead of the floor!

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