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Despite such an eventful month, i'm even suprised I havent updated my blog in a good while. I'm not on about the usual "uni finally over!!!", "exams over!!!" etc (but those included ;)). Well, lets see here:
6th May - car crash. Yeeps - the Fiat Punto ive kept in close to immaculate condition ends up with extreme rear-end damage. The sods law of it is that if the rear quarter panel wasnt as damaged, the car would not have been a write-off - the dent is deep, but because it's a welded on part, its heck expensive to replace. The rear hatch door (tailgate) and bumper are extremely damaged, and are being replaced - spent Sunday up the scrap yard (K & L Dismantlers). We found the shell of a black Punto, same age, same model, so we grabbed the parts we needed. The bumper was the hard one to take, as the remains of the car had no wheels, so the bumper was inches off the ground. What made it worse was the awful weather - I was wearing a new pair of jeans, and on their first day, they got rather wet. Oddly, its a grey Punto, but now with a black rear bumper, and an Orange hatch, but obviously, theyre being re-sprayed. As long as the quarter panel is pulled back into shape, were laughing. The car wont be worth much if trying to sell it, but ah well. Thing is, itl still look immaculate, its engine is in excellent condition, its done 53,000 miles, the damage was simply cosmetic, its been checked over - just that darn quarter panel would have caused the car to be on the next truck to the crusher. I intend to drive that car until it cannot be driven anymore - its never let me down before, and so what if it has to be labelled as a write-off? I really cannot see me selling it on. Every engineer who has had a look at it (found someone who was willing to fix it for £450, as long as we got the replacement parts), said how the car is in excellent condition for its age. Virtually no rust at all (were talking less than 1% of the entire bodywork has any signs of rust), clean engine, no leaks, nothing damaged, nothing stopped working - it seems to be the one Punto in the batch that refuses to fail.
Its coming up to the start of the sandwich year - I had a job interview for South Wales Fire & Rescue - I cant actually thing of a bad thing to say about that day, other than bashing my head on the top of the rather low doorframe when leaving the room I was interviewed in. No harm done, and a lot gained.
The interview took place between me, the manager I would be working with, and the recruitment manager. Now, bare in mind in previous interviews, I have not handled it too well - my mind has a habit of going blank, and this was the case with the Sun Microsystems interview, but here, I could confidently answer the questions, and as it is a subject I am enthusiastic about, this carried through as well. So here's hoping for a year of real productivity, and a fantastic experience in an organisation so friendly, people say hello to you even just sat in reception as a visitor!
Oh, and here comes the obligatory uni is over, and so are the exams! For a year this time, not just a summer. I would also like to point out that, if I went to uni with no web development experience, I would have sat there clueless in the job interview. It goes to show that uni is not as it's cracked up to be, at least with Glamorgan, who define "software development" as drawing diagrams in UML, and not actually touching code AT ALL.
6th May - car crash. Yeeps - the Fiat Punto ive kept in close to immaculate condition ends up with extreme rear-end damage. The sods law of it is that if the rear quarter panel wasnt as damaged, the car would not have been a write-off - the dent is deep, but because it's a welded on part, its heck expensive to replace. The rear hatch door (tailgate) and bumper are extremely damaged, and are being replaced - spent Sunday up the scrap yard (K & L Dismantlers). We found the shell of a black Punto, same age, same model, so we grabbed the parts we needed. The bumper was the hard one to take, as the remains of the car had no wheels, so the bumper was inches off the ground. What made it worse was the awful weather - I was wearing a new pair of jeans, and on their first day, they got rather wet. Oddly, its a grey Punto, but now with a black rear bumper, and an Orange hatch, but obviously, theyre being re-sprayed. As long as the quarter panel is pulled back into shape, were laughing. The car wont be worth much if trying to sell it, but ah well. Thing is, itl still look immaculate, its engine is in excellent condition, its done 53,000 miles, the damage was simply cosmetic, its been checked over - just that darn quarter panel would have caused the car to be on the next truck to the crusher. I intend to drive that car until it cannot be driven anymore - its never let me down before, and so what if it has to be labelled as a write-off? I really cannot see me selling it on. Every engineer who has had a look at it (found someone who was willing to fix it for £450, as long as we got the replacement parts), said how the car is in excellent condition for its age. Virtually no rust at all (were talking less than 1% of the entire bodywork has any signs of rust), clean engine, no leaks, nothing damaged, nothing stopped working - it seems to be the one Punto in the batch that refuses to fail.
Its coming up to the start of the sandwich year - I had a job interview for South Wales Fire & Rescue - I cant actually thing of a bad thing to say about that day, other than bashing my head on the top of the rather low doorframe when leaving the room I was interviewed in. No harm done, and a lot gained.
The interview took place between me, the manager I would be working with, and the recruitment manager. Now, bare in mind in previous interviews, I have not handled it too well - my mind has a habit of going blank, and this was the case with the Sun Microsystems interview, but here, I could confidently answer the questions, and as it is a subject I am enthusiastic about, this carried through as well. So here's hoping for a year of real productivity, and a fantastic experience in an organisation so friendly, people say hello to you even just sat in reception as a visitor!
Oh, and here comes the obligatory uni is over, and so are the exams! For a year this time, not just a summer. I would also like to point out that, if I went to uni with no web development experience, I would have sat there clueless in the job interview. It goes to show that uni is not as it's cracked up to be, at least with Glamorgan, who define "software development" as drawing diagrams in UML, and not actually touching code AT ALL.