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Went to the sales today.

Most of the stuff I bought wasn't on discount. One shop even packed my purchases in a bag with the words "Clearance Sale" in big red.

I looked around the bag for the accompayning "... my arse".

But this is a job hunting blog, not a sales hunting blog and so I need to change the subject.

It's the third day of the new year so I have five months left in this job. I took two months off in November and December. That is, off from job hunting.

But now I better take advantage of being in a job to get another job.

There's a few things I can automatically do. These include:

- update my business cards and make them look a bit better. I have about 400 left but I think they need to be improved.
- update my web site. I'm no longer a CCNA as that expired in December. I will requalify sometime. Meantime I should update my web site's c.v. and other information.
- atttend the upcoming British Computer Society event in London.

I'm living in central London and work in the City so I'm running out of excuses as to why I don't network better. The only one I can come up with is that January is always a quiet month.

Readers should note that although I very eagerly wrote a list (above) about the things I should do, I'm not going to do them today.

It's not just pure procrastination (one of my favourite activities when I get round to it), I'm going through an excellent book on Windows 2003 Server by Mark Minasi.

In the last few years I've been rather hands-off (to the extent of even managing hands-off managers). But in this job I need to be more technical. This book, however, is very easy and indeed enjoyable to read. And I write this from a non-geek perspective.

Well, I better go read the book ...