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Temporary accomodation

The beauty of getting to walk through Hyde Park every morning at the moment is somewhat offset by the fact that I'm essentially living in a hotel. Well, not strictly a hotel as such (despite being called a hotel) but a temporary bedsit to call my own for a few weeks.

Certified

Finally, after months and months and months of putting them off, I finally got round to taking my certification exams. Well, I say got round to... more like one was going to expire, and the others I wasn't allowed to reschedule again. I'm happy that in a way I was forced to take them though, as I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it otherwise, plus given my situation at work and the state...

Knackered

Commuting is starting to get the better of me, as it did in 2008 when I first started working in London. 3-4 weeks was about my limit then, and it seems to be about my limit now. Freelance work is still slowly getting done, but mostly my time is either spent travelling, or desperately trying to revise for my upcoming MySQL Developer II exam, after passing Developer I a fortnight ago. I'm sure...