Next up was the bedroom. I have a two bedroom flat, but I use the larger of the two as my computer room/office. Basically my computers need more room than I do.

If the blinds were open, you’d be able to see The Company’s Sydney corporate headquarters. That isn’t the reason I closed them though! If I opened them then I wouldn’t have been able to take a photograph.

Notice how you can see the floor, and the top of my dresser. Things I found packed away today was another smaller chest of drawers (yes, I apparently had an entire piece of furniture that I hadn’t unpacked, after over a year after moving in), and my soccer trophy. When I was five I was a member of the Purple Rockets, the only team in the league to win all of its games. I contributed primarily in my ability to out pick the opposing team in terms of dandelions.

Hanging over my bed is my favourite picture of rust. Yes. I have a favourite picture of rust.

Today, I had coffee with Sima, the young woman who recruited me to work at Company 2. Actually I had a coke, I thought that was somehow less childish than ordering a hot chocolate (I don't do coffee). I retrospect, I don't think so. There was someone else there, also from the company that recruited me. They were asking me how things were, and pumping me for information, trying to gauge if there would be new positions opening up there. I think Company 2 is a bit like the Golden Goose for them. They told me that the folks I'm working for at Company 2 have been happy with the work that I've been doing. This always surprises me, because I don't think I actually work very hard. When I was in the kindergarten and the teacher would say “All right, time to clean up”, while all the other kids were busy putting things away, I was busy looking like I was putting things away. I think fundamentally that unaltered strategy guides me to this day.