08.07.04

Yesterday…

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:31 pm by GaZ

So here’s what happened yesterday…

The plan was to do some more work (doing the magazine thing again with John) and to look at some houses for Hanne and myself, so I get up and getready nice and early, when just I’m about to leave I get a call from the estate agent telling me the house has already been let. Bummer!

So I go off to start doing the magazine thing, when I get a call from a recruitment agency regarding a job with a company in London… it’s not an interview, but at least they’ve put my CV through. I’ll hopefully hear more next week. So I go about my merry way, popping the magazines through the letterboxes and thinking about the logistics of having to move to London, and I get about 1km down the hill that i’m working on when I realise that the magazines in my trolley are running out… doh! I left the box of spares up near the top of the bloody hill!@# So off I go back up, pick up the box and head back down to the trolley, when my phone rings… it’s my landlord.

“Hi Gareth… did you put some clothes in the washing machine last night?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Well, it overflowed and flooded the kitchen, and the room beneath it, before setting off the fire alarm… but don’t panic”
“Uh… ok” *panic*

So now the landlord wants to strip all the floor from the kitchen and the room beneath it to replace the wood underneath. Luckily the insurance will cover it, though i’ll probably have to split the insurance excess with the landlord. Actually I was just speaking to the builders, today, (they’ve started ripping up the floor) and they said that this has happened several times over the past few years… I’m gonna have to have a word with the landlord as to why I should pay anything, if this house is a bloody wreck.

Anyway, so I go back to handing out the magazines, now thinking about this recent turn of events, and as I’m walking up a driveway littered with childrens toys I trip over a small toy bike, slip on a skateboard, and fly through an open doorway at the feet of the startled owner…
“Your copy of Bath Life, ma’am?” I squeal through gritted teeth, trying to ignore the pain that’s shooting through my sprained wrist. After she got over the shock she was very apologetic for the mess in the driveway, probably praying that I wouldn’t sue for damages.

Anyway, so I set off again doing more magazines when I got another call from a company in Birmingham, inviting me to an assessment centre on the 25th of August. Woohoo! This day is just chock-full of ups and downs. The job is for a Java/J2EE programmer dealing with clinical trial management systems, and sounds quite interesting! I’ve gotta really, really try for this one, as both cash and time are running out (and it’s not feasible to move back to America… yet).

At lunch time I went off to see another house available for rent.. this house was a bit of a mystery, coz it’s a 2nd floor apartment on Grosvenor place, with two bedrooms, a big living room, and a nice kitchen, yet the price was quite cheap (compared to everything else Hanne and I had looked at)… so we assumed that there must be something wrong with the place. So Hanne did a little scouting on the ‘net and came across this page… check the 9th listing down. Now I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts, as I’ve never seen one myself, but just because something hasn’t been seen or hasn’t been explained doesn’t mean it isn’t true, so this discovery spooked me a little (I guess it also didn’t help that, during the evening, I had been playing Doom3 with the volume up and the lights off). *shiver*

The rest of the day working was (relatively) uneventful… when I got home I mopped up pools of water from the kitchen and drained the washing machine… oh yeah, and to add insult to injury my clothes weren’t even clean!@#

So far today has been a beautiful day, i’ve looked at one apartment (which was a bit too small), and now i’m gonna clean my room, get some lunch, and go and read a book in the park next door. Hasta luego!

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