Last day in work yesterday. Surprisingly, I've lasted longer in this job than in any previous ones. So to me it felt like a bigger goodbye. But part of that was undoubtedly that I'm just not going to "see you around" or have a chance to catch up to see how peoples career's are going; I'll probably never see any of these people again. So that feels a little strange. Also in the back of my mind is a constant reminder that I'm freely giving up a good job in a country with a good economic situation to move somewhere where there's neither. We've been lucky to get somewhere to stay for the two weeks since moving out of our old place. Moving out was threatening to be a disaster as the vacuum cleaner keeled over and died literally the night we were cleaning up and left us with no other choice than to clean the carpet with our hands. We've shipped as much crap as possible, thrown out tonnes of perfectly good clothes and towels and kitchen utensils just because we can't fit them into the one suitcase each the the airlines so generously allow us. But spending the last couple of weeks back in our old haunt was worth the short move. It's so much nicer here, the weather has turned all summery, as if the place is trying to get us to reconsider leaving. We have actually being trying to change our travel plans as we'd booked a few days in Bangkok on the way out but that's now impossible with all the flooding. This is the first time that I've used a travel agent to go anywhere and the first time to get full travel insurance so that's got to count for something. Anyway now that I'm finished work I've got a few more days to take those last photos of places I'm unlikely to visit again. It's not like I'm can casually drop by anytime soon.

Finally, months and months overdue, I gave my notice at work last week. Come February no more drone work and hopefully..eventually..much better pay. I can't believe I've been there for two and a half years. But thats definitly long enough. Long enough to see theres no where to go in that company. That the company itself isn't going anywhere either, and that I was right royaly being ripped off. Not uncoincidently (??) I'm moving again. Leaving the apartment, my nice new apartment, to move back into my old room in my mothers for a while. Plus ca change an all that.. I'm also heading off to Japan after Christmas for New Years (bound to be better than what usually happens here) Todo list for '08: move to Oz.