Wow.

I left this blog alone a long long long time ago, and somewhat forgot about it.  I've since started and forgotten about 2 other blogs as well.  It would appear that I have the attention span barely longer than a goldfish when it comes to keeping things updated.  I can also never remember the details of an account I've signed up for, so after forgetting about it, and then remembering it, I can never find the details.  Hell, one of them I can't even find, even with the power of Google.

Actually, it was quite nice to read back things I wrote nearly five years ago.  Most of it is still very relevant (the fridge-freezer is now 44 years old!), and I still work in the same environment that I did five years back.  It's changed a lot in periphery ways, but the basic work is the same.  Which makes me wonder if it's time to move on.  It should be.  Over 5 years in one working enviroment is quite long these days.  That said, the company I used to work for has since been taken over, so my employer has gone from having 10 employees (I was number 6 in the entire history of the company, a fact I quite liked) to having over 50 thousand employees, of which I have no idea what number I am and no-one cares anyway.

I realised that working for this larger entity might not be for me when we had to move out of our shed and join a much larger location.  Not because we had to move out, but because the person who moved into our shed is a one-man-company.  He deals in classic cars, but more importantly works in a similar way to how we used to:  If something needs to be done, or he wants to do something, he can just do so without needing approval from a dozen faceless people in a different country.  Yes, it means he is at higher risk, as he cannot take holiday and cannot be sick without it affecting the business, but with that higher risk comes the benefit of massively greater flexibility.  Something I am mourning the lack of somewhat at the moment.