Back 2 Skool!

Summer's gone and it's the start of a new term. Both Alicia and Jamie struggled to get out of bed this morning but, with a little encouragement, they managed it and we were out of the door for ten to eight. I dropped Alicia at her school and headed for the Leeds office for the first time in over a month. I'm really missing the decent Columbian filter coffee that I drink at home and the watery and tasteless instant stuff they have here is no substitute. Still, a walk into Leeds at lunchtime should perk me up a little.

There seem to have been a lot of people leaving the Leeds office recently - there are at least five or six cards and collections doing the rounds, mostly for people I don't know very well or haven't even heard of. I wonder if I should leave, to see who will contribute to my leaving present? I've been in this job for over ten years now, through four incarnations of the company from a small software house with under thirty employees to a multi-company group structure over ten times the size. My roles in that time have mutated from a lowly developer, to a project manager with sites in
London and Edinburgh to the strange niche of technical guru and internal systems developer that I have carved out for myself. I sometimes wonder about moving somewhere else, but I don't need any more money than I am on now and I am generally happy with the sort of things I do on a day to day basis. Even though I moan about driving to Birmingham and further afield, it really isn't all that bad given that I have a very comfy car to do the driving in (with a new one in a months time - yay!).

What else would I choose to do, if I were inclined to make a change? Writing has always been something that I have wanted to do, but I don't know if I have the motivation to take it seriously. I suppose that this blog is partly an experiment to flex my writing muscles and see if anything evolves from it. I have been quite pleased with some of the pieces that I have written, but most of it seems to be lacking a certain something. Mind you, I am not sitting down and redrafting things which I suppose I should do if I am not happy with them.

Ah, well - blog and be damned ...