The Civils Side of Life

For the first time this year I’m able to find some time to get away from work and spend an extend vacation with family and loved ones. For a few moments it looked as though I had ruined it all before we had even got into our journey. I cleverly managed to leave my hand luggage, including passport, on the train we took to the airport.

• Designer sunglasses… £12
• Daring low cut swimwear… £25
• Missing my flight & flying via Lyon… £540
• Spending time away from work… Priceless

I’d like to thank all the hard working staff at London Midland Trains and the efficient crews of Air France, without who I wouldn’t have been able to join up with everyone, albeit a few hours late.

Over the previous week I’ve had the pleasure of doing two jobs instead of just one. With my site manager on holiday I was left holding the reins. It was an interesting week with a simple aim, to pour the structural floor slab to block C.

Thankfully being a bank holiday I only had to cope for 4 days. It all started with blustery showers and a sense that all could be achieved if only the weather treated us kindly. I knew that I could cope with having to do both the engineer work and also do enough planning and organising to keep the job progressing.

All I had to do was to tell people to wait and if necessary to stop until I had time for them. This may seem a little odd but I know that I can handle the pressure of multiple tasks as long as I keep in mind the end goal. I tend to treat each task with the same priority unless something is going to lose us time and/or money. This strategy usually keeps me sane and in control.

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Over at the GigaPan website they have a dynamic front page that features panoramas from a user created, themed collection. These change periodically and can have pretty much any theme you could want, from panoramas created on a specific day, panoramas of an area to those associated with a public holiday.

Having returned from a pleasant few days away over the bank holiday I checked in on the world of GigaPans and was surprised to see my Armed Forces Memorial panorama staring right back at me. Thanks to Jeffrey Baker my panorama had been listed along with 37 other images as part of his ‘memorial day gigapans‘ collection to commemorate Memorial Day, a national holiday in the US marked on the last Monday of May.

To suggest your own collections of featured panoramas you first need to be a registered user of the GigaPan website, registration is free. Then send an email to illah [at] ri.cmu.edu with the following information;

• name of collection,
• curator user name (you),
• id numbers of panoramas separated by comma.

Example
Lego
cidodd
542,4964,4983,4985,10993,11033,11160,22300

Just a quick post to add to my slowly expanding set of GigaPans.

I intend to give you a more in depth account of my more significant and/or interesting GigaPans. However from time-to-time I will give you a quick look at other panoramas that I have taken. You can always check out the GigaPan website to keep up-to-date with the latest creations.