So, went to an interview today! Wow! Are my skills appreciated. Is this consultancy keen to sell themselves to me and me to their clients! I heard the lass saying “I can hear you are passionate about…..” and “….with this skill set……” and “those are valuable experiences…..”
The market is buoyant. I believed it was buoyant seeing that my customers cannot source project managers for love of money! So why should I be tied to the titanic!
Whether anything comes of this opportunity matters little. The fact is, this interaction has provided a fresh outlook, a knowledge that I can go to market. This little piggy worked at EDS, this little piggy played the field, and this little piggy? Time will reveal all!
Other positive news this week was a negative result on a diabetes test, which also revealed all good with my other organs. It seems I am healthy and can look forward to a good start to my 40’s. (Nuff said)
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That was Friday, the weekend has come and gone and we are rumbling along the tracks toward Wellington on a grey, windless morning. The weather has been mild and I have not needed to wear anymore than a suit jacket to work for a week now! The train is its usual busy self this morning, carrying the folk who commute weekly, living in the city during the week and escaping to the calm of weekend life further north. Large contingent of students, so a sleepy feel on Monday mornings, with long haired boys and pretty girls slouched down in their chairs, cramming in the last of the weekends rest before cramming their minds and livers.
A quiet weekend by our usual, teenage driven, two day frenzy. The girls slept over at our Zimbabwe neighbours on Saturday and they reciprocated at our home on Sunday.
I spent a bunch of time on the motorcycle this weekend and completed fitting the wheels. I had opted for a black finish on everything when I refurbished the wheels and was worried it would be too much, black that is. It looks fantastic though, broken by the silver of the brake disks and will be further balanced with the chromed mudguard fitted. Also made good progress toward finishing the paintwork on the petrol tank, a black base which will be detailed in a silver-grey. The combination works well and should tie everything together.In between cleaning paint off my hands and from under my fingernails, I found time to shoot nine holes at Kapiti Golf Club on Saturday afternoon. Travis and I popped up and managed to lose only a handful of balls but plenty of patience. Fortunately patience costs nothing, though those golf balls took a pounding, continually getting smacked in the teeth, for no reason, or being sent soo far over the green, they felt unwanted and needed “pad kos”.
But, as is golf’s want, on the ninth I drove very right off the tee, long and found a good lie on the fairway of the eighth hole. Slotted the eight iron over the trees onto the dance floor. Now three putting is a patience tester, but I did not care! Getting there was done in style and not having swung a club in some 4 months the round was actually not bad. I am again enthused and look forward to a round this coming weekend with some of my soccer mates.
The soccer is almost done. We have not played for two weeks now, having decided not to compete in the end of season knock out competition. We play in the league final in two weeks time and I think this rest will return the boys rejuvenated and focused on the job at hand.
(We are all in the 30-45 age bracket, so the season had started getting too long)
The train has rumbled through the last tunnel, my signal to finish up with the city only minutes away now. I have an aisle seat this morning, so no chance of a leisurely pack-up once we reach the platform.
Dianna Krall was a great music choice this morning. She is so accomplished and if you like female jazz vocalists, I recommend this album, “The Girl In The Other Room”