So I finally made it on holiday! Dispute all the concern with volcanic ash, the flight was non eventful. I’ve taken a package holiday with Ving which is a first for me – I’ve never been on such a holiday. So far all is good. Ving as a company has been outstanding, the already said I would get my money back should the vulcano screw things up.

Its mighty pretty and there’s not really much to do here, right now I am sat on the bus on my way to the hotel; the weather is great. I brought new sunglasses, they are fairly expensive and I hope they survive the next few weeks.

Everything is paid for… Hmmm free beer! I think its going to take a few days to relax and stop thinking of work, I’m looking forward to swimming! After this holiday begins another diet so I will enjoy it while I can.

Funnily enough our coach driver was stopped for speeding!

I have a fair amount of blogging to catch up on! The photo attached was taken in the car park!

So, on Thursday I am due to fly to Greece or am I? If there is a god I dont think he wants me relaxing – my last trip was cancelled due to Ryanair and a snow storm. This time I’m probably not going to go because of a volcano. That kind of sucks as I severely need some time off – I’ve had a fairly high pressure life at work recently. Two major volcano blasts in 2 years, major earthquakes in Japan – I wonder how long it will be before this planet cracks open line an egg – perhaps the rapture was supposed to be the rupture.

I can’t believe all those christian types were expecting to go to heaven this week leaving the rest of us heathens to live the rest of our time here. The joke is on them, having in some cases paid us to look after their pets. What is the world coming to :) I’m still having fun with the iPad. The picture I drew above is on the iPad, and I have redone my company signature or at least the image part of it.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed!

It’s fair today the last month as been busy. I have spent most of it in Finland on a fairly high pressure project that became my issue over night. I have a funny feeling that last week the project manager of the project sent out a mail to our senior manager saying we have no ideas on where to go with some technical issues on the same day I sent him a mail with 7 things he should try. Still the direct emergency is over now even thought there are lots of things I need to be involved in.

There are a couple of things that happened during my stay that kind of made me think I had been transported back to the 80s

1. The building I worked in is an ex government building – they have all looked the same since the 60s
2. They still have smoking rooms – I thought that was outlawed everywhere!
3. Someone I was at a bar with one evening drove home after 3 pints, which reminds me of my college days – a fella named Gordie who was an ex Para that would routinely drive home pissed in his mini.
4. First song of the day – video killed the radio star.

This morning I have to catch up on a few other projects, get my task lists up to date, prepare for a team meeting etc…If shifted into priority B mode. I’m on holiday in a few weeks which should be nice.

I was thinking today about airports – the iconography is really good – the little signs with the plane on – the little mens and gents toilet signs, all those escalators – all clearly contrasting on a backgroud – a lot of though has gone into such things so that they can be internationally recognised. It s a really good job.

I cant help but wonder how alien things must seem for people in languages that dont use the standard numeric set tho I mean those helpful signs 1-29 might not be so helpful to a guy from china.

A lot of thought has gone into the design of airports and there’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes we take for granted or just don’t see. I was looking at the IT infrastructure for a large airport operations company a few weeks back. Theres tons to think about