End of an era… well the flat
Well today is the day that we give the keys back for the flat. Can’t say that I’m that sorry to see them go now, it’s been quite a dragged out process so I’ve not really got any attachments any more.
I suppose the one thing I will miss is the convenience of uni being so close 2mins has now become 25mins and having to go in today just to take my library books back is a complete arse. Why they remove the ability to renew online is beyond me!
The university is really getting on my nerves at the moment though as I can’t seem to get the Health and Saftey guy to approve anything for my experimentation and the timescales are getting close now. Apparently I am unqualified to operate and bench sander, it seems that being 25 and having two degrees does not qualify you as being responsible enough to use these machines safely. I would like to see the training course… It’s a real shame because the University is losing itself funding in the future as I now have no inclination to do any futher research with them when I’m at work - that’s probably a PhD student - at least a Masters that they’ve lost out on unless they buck their ideas up. I’ve managed to get the ok to build my test-bed at work where it will remain as it’s never going to be approved at uni.
Oh well enough uni rant, back to today and my 1000 words (I’ve written about 50).
Good Hunting
Yeah they withdraw the online renewal at the end of the year, I have no idea why.
I guess that it’s the attitude of the Health and Safety guy that really got to me - it’s not ‘how can we make something safe that you can use’, it’s ‘No, you can’t do that, or that, or that and no we can’t give you training’. Not exactly the attitude you expect from a ‘Leading wordwide research department’.
I’ll be relagated to my shed soon!
Well, at least it’ll be “MY shed, MY rules” hehe 
Did the renew online thing used to be there, then went away? That’s a bit retroactive :S
As for the uni being arsey about giving you permission, the sad fact is that we live in a day and age that is so scared of it’s own shadow, that I wasn’t that surprised that you’re having a hard time… sad but true. I wonder if nuclear fission would ever have got past HnS nowadays?