DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

Aside from neglecting my blog as per usual!

I have had a hectic few weeks and months, deciding on, planning, and arranging a move out of cold, wet, grey London, to sunny Australia! In a weeks time from now, there will be no more London, no more tubes, no more crowds and no more getting wet all the time walking to and from work (even if it does rain here far far less than back in Ireland!). Kassie decided, for various reasons, to move back home to Brisbane a few months back, and I have finally seen sense and decided to do the same.

To say that I am excited about a move like this is a massive understatement. I’m sorry to say goodbye to an absolutely amazing company to work for, but as I’ve said to everyone since making my decision, sometimes certain things in life come along to take you off in a very different, and exciting direction, and those opportunities are too good to turn down!!

I am looking forward to taking a few weeks out without working, hooking up with Kassie and her family, Conor and Claire who have beaten me down to Brisbane, and all the other people I’ve got to know over the past year and a half down there. I can’t wait to explore the city and countryside with my camera on my back and take in something completely new to me. I can’t wait to feel heat on my bones all year round for a change!

I’m not sure how much the blog will be resuscitated over the coming weeks and months, I will try! Every time I go to make a concerted effort to update it, I just seem to loose interest again. I guess I do kind of have a good excuse now, to keep everyone back home updated on how I’m getting on. If you would like to see updates here, and they’re not forthcoming, please feel free to poke me until I get around to it. If you do want to see what I’m getting up to however, I can guarantee that my flickr stream will have pretty regular updates!

Ok, the past few weeks have just been so completely hectic, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. There’s been so much going on to keep me busy and my feet have hardly touched the ground.

A large part of this has been due to the fact that I am very shortly (less than 4 weeks to go!) relocating myself from home to London. To say that I am excited about this is a massive understatement. I’ve always marked this year as the year that I was going to leave Ireland and start my travels around the world. I’m not going too far from home for a number of reasons: my girlfriend lives in London, it’s just about one of the coolest cities in the world, and I’ve landed one of the coolest jobs that I could ever have hoped for over there.

As of August 1st this year, I am going to be working as a Network Engineer for LINX - The London Internet Exchange. For those not familiar, LINX is a not-for-profit organisation, operating for the Good of the Internet. They provide a means for their members, Internet Service Providers, Large Corporations etc to interconnect their networks and move traffic cheaply and efficiently throughout the internet. LINX is the 2nd largest Internet Exchange (IX) in the world, and around 90% of all UK internet traffic traverses their network. So, to say that I’m excited about going to work there would be putting it lightly!

So, the process of getting my life together, throwing out everything and anything that I don’t need, thinking about what I want to bring with me, selling my car, finding somewhere to live etc is well underway. I never thought that there was so much that I would have to do, but I suppose I’ll get there in the end. I’ll be posting details about my car, pricing etc on here over the next few days for anyone who is interested, but, to quickly summarise, if anyone is interested in a Green 03 MINI Cooper Chili Pack with 56k miles and a full BMW / MINI Service History do please get in contact. As soon as I’ve researched market prices I’ll be able to let you know the price too, but, you can use this as your guideline for pricing.

Finding a place to live in London is going to be the sticking point for me. Trying to decide where I want to live, as well as trying to find the right sites / agencies to go looking for property is more difficult than I had imagined. Oh for a daft.ie or myhome.ie type service for London. If anyone can offer any pointers there, please let me know. I’m not especially fussed where I live, once I get to be somewhere within about 30 minutes tube ride from Borough tube station I’m happy with that!

Hopefully when I get moving, the blog will become a little more utilised as a place for people to keep up with what I’m getting up to over there for those who are interested. I know everytime I promise to start using the blog again, I always end up neglecting it again for weeks on end, but meh, I can always try!

London, my soon to be new home!!