This has been a week of change. For the past three months I've been working at a new job in a new project. I wrote VB, I wrote stored procedures. This week I'm back at the office working on another project. It's like having another new job... I'm starting to get used to this.

In the last three years I've had four full-time jobs, five different desks. In all these job changes except the first, my fellow employees at the new job were familiar. In some case some made the move with me. In others I knew people in the new job. It's all very sureal. I've excelled at each job, they've all just crumbled around me. And all the time I think back to Dad who got his first job in the '70s and stuck with it for more than 30 years. It's a common theme. This job feels secure. This company is stainless steel.

Today is casual day. I'm new so I didn't know. I have my tie off. I wish I had my sneakers.

At home, the computer room is painted, everything removed. I have the fun of putting everything back, like lego, but ignoring the instructions. I find irritation in cables. Masses of cables, and dad's obsession with neatness. I desire a soundcard with multiple Line-In and separate speaker and headphone Line-Outs.

I've started doing crosswords in an attempt to improve my spelling (that's my excuse anyway). I can't tell if it's helping and it's unlikely to improve anything here. Give it time. Much of my problem is I type (and read) to fast. So far it's only prooved that I really cannot spell as well as would be expected. In a crossword, close enough isn't good enough.

While in this changing mood, I'm on the edge of attempting to rebuild my computer. Software that is, not hardware. Each time I do this I catalog the software and drivers and I need to perform the rebuild, check the computer, discover it isn't running too bad anyway and don't bother. Bets on that happening again? It's usually a damn good excuse to back-up though. I've a 30 gig harddrive worth of recordings/jams/ideas sessions to sort out and put somewhere. I desire a folder with plastic pockets for CDrs, four per page, and room for the CDr inner-sleve. Officeworks?

The band now has ~50 CDs and nothing to do with them. Until we're back to being a full band, heavy promotion has limited use. People want to see you live. PBS, RRR and Triple J's Oz Music show will be receiving packages in the nearish future.

I'm vaguely thinking of putting together an Approximate CD, having it mastered and nicely printed to sell. Possibly as a little fairwell, a collection of the best of a project that for the moment has been shelved.

This week I write documents. It's like being at uni, except even the lecturers don't care. Writing technical for the untechnical.

Friday. Long lunches. Post-work-pub.