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The sun rises on a new day of my life, or at least a new start to my career. I'm no longer with BlueKanGo, for several comprehensible reasons. I accepted a contract with Ausy, a consultancy company with several agencies all over France. This particular agency is in Rennes, and for my first mission, I will be based at Le Mans. Everything went pretty fast, and I signed the contract about half an hour before my goodbye party with BlueKanGo. Double celebration!

There was a slight problem in the beginning; one of my diplomas isn't recognized anymore, which created a bit of a problem with my dossier. All that is being sorted out, and with the French administration, that is something that could take some time. While that is sorting itself out, they trusted me enough to send me out to a client, ST Ericsson, hoping that my embedded Linux related work can help them out with a big project.

My lifestyle has somewhat changed; I still get up at the same time every morning, but at least this time I get back an hour earlier. This changes a lot for me, and for the first few days I actually managed to get back before sundown. The fact that the train gets in earlier also means that there are more trams, which is excellent news.

Another thing has changed; I'm playing with highly specialized systems, and I'm not free to talk about everything, but what I will say is that the technology is exhilirating!  They have the technology and the equipment necessary, and it's a pleasure to have this much material at my fingertips... JTAG debuggers, digital probes, etc etc etc... I'm having great fun! I'm just wondering how long this will last...

One bad point though, the train isn't great. It is comfortable, but there are a LOT of people on that train, and a lot of stops. I'm having a hard time sleeping in the morning, and the lack of sleep is talking its toll... Albeiro once said that at least I still had my own personal "moment", my soft of secret garden; technically that isn't true anymore.