New start

So here’s my day so far.

Woke up at about 6:40am to look outside and see a thin blanket of untouched snow.  Headed straight into the freezing bathroom for a shower, relished the hot water while I could, and got ready for the first day of my new job.

It was still dark outside by the time I had to leave the house. The cloudcover was grey, but the slowly rising sun painted it’s underside light blue for a few minutes, while I made my way to the bus stop. I tracked a pair of fox pawprints in the snow along the way.

While I waited for the bus it began to snow, and everyone huddled underneath the shelter. The journey was pretty unremarkable, apart from the slow speed we were doing through semi-gritted streets. My second bus stop was just as crowded, and twice as snowy.

I had to stand and wipe the condensation from the windows to find my bus stop, and only made it to the office with a few minutes to spare.

Kevin and Matt are nice, I’ve been taken through usage policies, emails, the sites and the updates they’ve planned. I’m already scheduled for a good five meetings in the coming week (a little scary). What else.. There’s a sandwich van that arrives every day, a local tesco and subway. Lunch lasts an entire hour, and while I can check on the 5punk forum during this time, I’m going to have to sacrifice 5kype :( Woe is me.

I may have the chance to learn all sorts of nice things (.net, ajax goodies) during my time here, and the mock-up for the new RoSPA website looks awesome, all sorts of fancy gadgetry going into it.