TheCoalman (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thecoalman) wrote,@ 2003-11-11 17:31:00 |
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Ups and Downs
As it happened the need to agonise wasn't there. The company decided they didn't have that role any more and so that was that for Amsterdam. I think I'm relieved because it's a big scary decision I didn't have to make. Which is illustrative of my cowardice of these matters. However it would indicate that I am not entirely happy in the new job. So it's time to return to being more mercenary again I think. My three month trial period is up fairly soon so that's a useful way out. Ironic that I was a little wary of them putting a trial period on me when I read my contract. But, as they say, the door swings both ways. And having worked in the company on a project (albeit the coding parts behind their website) it is fairly apparent that things get delivered down to bloody mindedness or luck rather than any particular process. And if that's the case I think I'll go back to my old job and double my money thank you very much.
Off to see Matrix: Revolutions tonight for the second time. I think I liked the first one though two things really grated. Namely the aimless pretty patterns the sentinels were making when they attacked Zion and the length of time Trinity took to die. With the first one I understand that there were probably more sentinels than the humans had bullets but trying to make them run out of ammo seemed like the hard way of going about things. And as to why they fired every gun into the opening rather than staggering their fire (like old musket infantry) to maintain the rate is a bit perplexing too. As for Trinity, I'm no doctor but I think she'd be dead of shock before she had 30 seconds (let alone 5 minutes) to deliver one final cringe inducing soliloquy (hmmm is it really spelt like that - dictionary.com seems to think so and it was my first guess so we'll assume I was right). Of course that probably makes me a heathen with no romance in my soul. So be it ;-)
The only other news really is that Basement Jaxx's "Do Your Thing" is an utter bastard to mix out of. Been trying to work out how to leave it cleanly for a mix I'm working on and it's just not happening. Which might explain why I almost never hear it in clubs. Mental note to leave it playing when I hand over the decks to Alex next :)
As it happened the need to agonise wasn't there. The company decided they didn't have that role any more and so that was that for Amsterdam. I think I'm relieved because it's a big scary decision I didn't have to make. Which is illustrative of my cowardice of these matters. However it would indicate that I am not entirely happy in the new job. So it's time to return to being more mercenary again I think. My three month trial period is up fairly soon so that's a useful way out. Ironic that I was a little wary of them putting a trial period on me when I read my contract. But, as they say, the door swings both ways. And having worked in the company on a project (albeit the coding parts behind their website) it is fairly apparent that things get delivered down to bloody mindedness or luck rather than any particular process. And if that's the case I think I'll go back to my old job and double my money thank you very much.
Off to see Matrix: Revolutions tonight for the second time. I think I liked the first one though two things really grated. Namely the aimless pretty patterns the sentinels were making when they attacked Zion and the length of time Trinity took to die. With the first one I understand that there were probably more sentinels than the humans had bullets but trying to make them run out of ammo seemed like the hard way of going about things. And as to why they fired every gun into the opening rather than staggering their fire (like old musket infantry) to maintain the rate is a bit perplexing too. As for Trinity, I'm no doctor but I think she'd be dead of shock before she had 30 seconds (let alone 5 minutes) to deliver one final cringe inducing soliloquy (hmmm is it really spelt like that - dictionary.com seems to think so and it was my first guess so we'll assume I was right). Of course that probably makes me a heathen with no romance in my soul. So be it ;-)
The only other news really is that Basement Jaxx's "Do Your Thing" is an utter bastard to mix out of. Been trying to work out how to leave it cleanly for a mix I'm working on and it's just not happening. Which might explain why I almost never hear it in clubs. Mental note to leave it playing when I hand over the decks to Alex next :)
