Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time moving around in one way or another. This has meant that I’ve had no time to post much in terms of content on here.
One reason is the massive increase in work load on bit-tech. At the end of January, we moved from working from home to working in an office environment with our sister publication, TrustedReviews. So far, this has been awesome, despite some initial worries. In the past, I’ve always worked better in my own company, but the office environment has helped to improve my productivity as well as adding another dimension to work too.
The work/home divide is working out reasonably well - when I get home, I’m almost free to do what I want. However, due to the increased work loads, I’ve been going home later and later. In recent months, going home before 8pm at night has been a rare occurance, and there have been months were I haven’t managed to get more than a couple of days (including weekends) off. I worked out that I’d got over three months of work to do even if I didn’t take any more products on board.
Obviously, the move to an office meant that I had to move house. I moved from Loughborough down to Camberley the week before we started working from the office. I moved in with Geoff, who also works on bit-tech and we’re sharing a pretty big 2-bedroom flat. Everything else that we looked at had a double and a single bedroom - this was the only one with two double bedrooms. It’s on the 3rd floor and there is no lift - that has its benefits, but it’s a long way to walk up and down if you leave something in the car. On the plus side, it’s helping to keep me fit and we’re not far from work, the motorway and the train station.
Finally, you may have noticed that I’ve moved my corner of the web from Suxeh.net to TSmalley.com - since the site is mainly about me, I felt that getting a proper domain name would help to define it a little better.
Over the next few months, I’m going to try and find the time to update this a little more often - the time between this and the last update was an absolute eternity and I don’t intend to let it slip like that again.