Taking Care of business Part 2

That last post was getting rather long, so I stopped for a while. Now I can write about what I actually started posting for. Soon I'll have worn out my welcome here at my brother's flat so I'll need a really good idea of where I'll be staying for work. I've been getting some good activity from recruitment agencies but I've been rather dismissive about a lot of what they've said (either they don't want contract or they wanted a Delphi programmer which I plan to avoid being). I did get one call about a games programming job in Newcastle, but now I've found GamesIndustry.biz which has a rather large jobs section. I've registered on the site with my CV, hopefully I'll get some more calls and I can decide if this games racket is worth pursuing.

Today Paul and I went to Glasgow Green and saw Nelson's Monument and the People's Palace. The People's Palace has a nice historical display of Glasgow and even does a little bit of a piss-take of itself with how the Glaswegians speak, some very funny stuff there. There was also a little display on "The Demon Drink" (it wasn't called that) with some writings on the Temperance movement, which was like voluntary prohibition, that had some great kitschy posters in it. One was great, I forget the text at the top but it was something to the effect of "Drink is bad for your health" then a picture of a pint followed by ABSTAIN in large letters. I thought it was great, there was also some advertising at the time of the temperance movement ("Taking the pledge" I believe it was called) that poked fun at it too. I've taken to the uniquely Scottish soft drink Irn Bru, it seems to be everywhere here. It looks like Lucozade, but tastes like Creaming Soda (supposedly with some kind of citrus but I can't taste it). It's Scotland's second most popular drink, after Whiskey or something. That's probably completely false, but Irn Bru is everywhere and I'm drinking it too much. I'd drink more water but I miss my Puratap from home. Instead I have to buy bottled water everyday which I think will end up being very expensive.

Well, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll have a job soon and somewhere to stay.