Huzzah!

[andrewducker]

About 4 minutes after the last post, the taxi that I'd told them not to send me (because it would be far too late) turned up.  So I thought WhatTheFuck and leapt into it, arriving at the station at 28 minutes past to discover that the train wasn't until :33.  So I slid into my seat with 46 seconds to spare and read all the way to Stirling.

Where, yet again, I failed to win at Settlers of Catan - I was doing great until Adam mobilised people against me, and then won.  I've had the game since my birthday last August and I've yet to actually win a game...  Oh well, maybe next time.

Spent the journey back talking to George, an old friend of mine, who has gone from team leader to manager to head of IT (through a series of companies) and is about to become IT Director, with a seat on the board of the company he's with.  He's a lovely chap, but there's no way I'd take his job on.  We discussed the contracting market, and I felt the usual "Oooh, it'd be nice to earn £70k", before remembering that I _like_ my current job, and would rather have something nice and safe, so long as it's also interesting, which the current one is.

Now to get that tidying done that I was going to do before heading out.  Oh, the procrastination

Comments

Re: Settlers

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I owned and played Settlers for somewhere around 18 months before I won a game. I've still only won one. :) Interestingly enough Cities and Knights of Catan is a rather different game even if you can clearly see that it's based on Settlers...