Welcome to Slim's Speakeasy. As I get more comfortable with the medium, I will be posting news and stories of me new life in fair Eire (pronounced AIR-uh). Polly will be contributing here as well, at least until she gets her own blog.
In the meantime, life is humming at "AOL Broadband". We recently changed our name to that from AOL-UK. We're one of the leading internet service providers in the UK: I work as Quality Manager at the Member Services call centre (like that spelling?) in Waterford, Ireland. When you call a company and get the message "your call may be recorded for quality," it's my team that does that. I also manage a variey of other insights into the member experience. I have 19 people on my team: 17 analysts (folks who record and score calls), 1 team leader (who manages the team for me), and 1 coordinator (who helps me manage the program details and our outsourced partners in India). We work with three companies in India, one each in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. I'll be heading off that way before too long.
As for Waterford, it's a town of about 40,000 souls on the southeast corner of the island, http://www.mysecureform.com/iismaps/smallmap.jpg. Situated on the River Suir (pronounced like sure), it's the oldest city in Ireland, having been founded by Vikings in the 8th century. It's modern claim to fame, of course, is Waterford Crystal: the factory and museum-cum-gallery is about 500m from my desk at work. If you're hoping for cheap factory-outlet prices, you won't find them here. Nor will you find any seconds at discount: if it ain't perfect, it's smashed, remelted, and made again. The artists are paid by the piece...
For those of you planning a visit, Cork airport is the way to go. There is a small regional airport here, but it's only serviced through Luton (London), Manchester, and somewhere in France (summer only). And Dublin is just a big pain in the arse.
In other news, I've made the switch to tea, although mainly because the coffee is so bad. And it's time for another cup...
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Is that your subtle way of saying: "SEND COFFEE!"? (It is at least a hint that when we visit we should bring you some coffee...)
Best of luck to ya!
Love your blog, David, especially the wallpaper! I did click on your highlighted address, but got the "this page cannot be displayed" message. Fortunately, this way works, and Polly gave me your email address.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! do they celebrate that there? Sure and they should with all the blarney about!!
Love, Nancy & Bill
Way cool Slim. Can't wait to hear more stories of Eire.
Q
Lovely to hear from you, can't wait for future updates!
Everything sounds so exciting, congrats!
Hugs and kisses
With love from Nova Scotia
Mister! I be loovin' yer new car! It looks just like the one Tina and I drove all around the great green isle. We named it "Darth" and loved it to pieces!
Well now I finally know what a blog is! I need to be dragged into modernity kicking and screaming. This is a great way to still feel connected to you in a convienant and inexpensive manner. You should have started this years ago!
Love ya,
Anne
enough about cars and sports. What are the men like. Send photos.
enough with the car and sports crap - what about the irish men. when will you post photos of the irish men?
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