This house isn't quite so bad now the cold snap has passed. Yes, it's cold in the evenings and overnight, but if you get the curtains closed and the radiator on early enough then it's not too hard to keep the bedroom nice and toasty. (I have asked ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rustica to remind me of this next time I complain about the cold.) Eating this evening wasn't too bad as we had been nice and warm upstairs. Getting up is hard, though, and I doubt we'll be making much use of the new furniture arriving this week until it's a bit warmer. This is a shame, as I fear we're getting a bit of cabin fever, and sometimes it all gets a bit much. Roll on the spring...!
I'm getting into the habit of automatically putting on more layers to leave the bedroom. At the moment I'm only wearing two pairs of trousers and three layers up top, but then it is a toasty 19C in here. Most of the time I take four or five layers to go downstairs, but they don't help with cold loo seats, which are Not Fun.
I'm hoping to cycle to work at least one day this week, though I'm nursing a strange tweak in my hamstring. I'm between a rock and a hard place: I need to keep moving the muscles gently to regain extension and power, but it would be rather ignominious to conk out halfway home. (It's only 4.2km [2.6 miles], and all on the flat - I reckon 15 minutes or so.)
Yesterday we went to visit my contact Charles, who lives an hour out of town. The rural seclusion there is breathtaking. Today we took a nosey around the (quake-hit) eastern suburbs. Some of the roads and infrastructure are in a pretty sorry state - they're still pumping what appears to be untreated sewage directly into the estuary :-( - but most of what we saw was people just getting on with their lives, and most homes not visibly damaged. There are some really nice properties there in New Brighton, and it would be a heavy blow if the residents were forced to leave.
We are now renting a PO box. I have updated my contact details post (linked from my profile in case you want to update your address books).
My work are quite keen to recruit more engineers (generally embedded, DSP and hardware) and have a number of positions open, so if you fancy working in a seismically active zone, let me know :-)
rustica to remind me of this next time I complain about the cold.) Eating this evening wasn't too bad as we had been nice and warm upstairs. Getting up is hard, though, and I doubt we'll be making much use of the new furniture arriving this week until it's a bit warmer. This is a shame, as I fear we're getting a bit of cabin fever, and sometimes it all gets a bit much. Roll on the spring...!I'm getting into the habit of automatically putting on more layers to leave the bedroom. At the moment I'm only wearing two pairs of trousers and three layers up top, but then it is a toasty 19C in here. Most of the time I take four or five layers to go downstairs, but they don't help with cold loo seats, which are Not Fun.
I'm hoping to cycle to work at least one day this week, though I'm nursing a strange tweak in my hamstring. I'm between a rock and a hard place: I need to keep moving the muscles gently to regain extension and power, but it would be rather ignominious to conk out halfway home. (It's only 4.2km [2.6 miles], and all on the flat - I reckon 15 minutes or so.)
Yesterday we went to visit my contact Charles, who lives an hour out of town. The rural seclusion there is breathtaking. Today we took a nosey around the (quake-hit) eastern suburbs. Some of the roads and infrastructure are in a pretty sorry state - they're still pumping what appears to be untreated sewage directly into the estuary :-( - but most of what we saw was people just getting on with their lives, and most homes not visibly damaged. There are some really nice properties there in New Brighton, and it would be a heavy blow if the residents were forced to leave.
We are now renting a PO box. I have updated my contact details post (linked from my profile in case you want to update your address books).
My work are quite keen to recruit more engineers (generally embedded, DSP and hardware) and have a number of positions open, so if you fancy working in a seismically active zone, let me know :-)
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