I work in a crazy place. Today every one in the Mountain View office got given an Earthquake Preparedness Kit, complete with water and food supplies, tent, gloves, first-aid kit, ducttape, solar powered torch (yes, really), and a bunch of other stuff that would help us survive in an earthquake.
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Diet
27 August 2006
During the week I tend to eat 3 (or 2.5) good and healthy meals a day at work, this means I generally have little or no food in my apartment. At weekends I prefer to eat out with friends, but when no one’s around then my eating habits kind of suck. My diet this weekend, for example, has constituted of:
- Cheese-bread roll
- 4 taquitos
- Green salad
- Half a plate of very oily chips at Hollister airport cafe
- 1/4 pack of horrid beef jerky
- Bowl of jelly worms at the office while finishing a prototype
- Then to drink: several pints of water, 2 cans of diet-cherry-vanilla Dr. Pepper, 2 pints of Stella, 1 Irish Car Bomb, 2 Redbull and Southern Comfort, shot of Jagermeister, 3 Corona, more water, 1 litre of diet coke, a can of rockstar, a bottle of fruit juice, 4 probiotic thingamies, water, Diet Root Beer
I stopped in at the office on the way back from sky diving to finish up some work, so I’m now eating left over salad and pizza from some random event earlier in the day. When I’ve finished here I have to drive back to SF, only to come back in less than 12 hours.
Cleared for solo; Return to the motherland
8 June 2006
Lat weekend I did my 6th AFF lesson and was cleared for solo. I then proceeded to jump out of a plane at 15,000 feet… completely alone. The previous 2 lessons had been with one instructor who basically hovers near you as you do excersises and makes sure you’re ok. It was so different being out there on your own, just falling with no one around. I’m now working towards my A-Licence, which involves a lot of self-study and getting advice from experienced jumpers.
On a completely different topic: I’ll be returning to England at the beginning of August for my cousin’s wedding. I’m planning on working from Google’s London office for 2 weeks, then spending the 3 weekends seeing friends and family. If you are around and want to meet up please get in touch, especially since a lot of my contact details are out of date or were lost in a hard drive crash.
Bike2Work
18 May 2006
It is bike-to-work day today, so I decided to join a group of cyclists riding down to Google from San Francisco.
The ride is 40+ miles and takes you down the edge of the bay, past the airports and industrial estates to Palo Alto and then over to Mountain View. Everyone else was on road bikes, so it was tough for me to keep up. Pretty much the whole way I felt like I was flat out in top gear, and if they’d gone any faster I just wouldn’t have been able to maintain the speed.
But I made it and the only things that are really hurting are my arse (I need cycling shorts) and my back (to make it even harder for myself I had a back pack).
Right, off to get a much needed shower.
6-months
1 May 2006
I’ve been working in the states for 6-months now. Which is crazy. This is the longest I’ve been outside the UK in one go. Things are still good, though it seems I suffer from hay fever in California too :(
Things I’ve done in the last few weeks:
– Visited JJ in Whistler, British Columbia, for 4 days snowboarding
– Seen Blackalicious play
– Seen Yeah Yeah Yeahs at The Warfield in San Francisco
– Jumped out of a plane for the third time (Category C1 sky dive)
– Read The United States of Europe
– Worked a lot
