Away!

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January 5, 2005
by James in
I’m packed. I think. Not being the kind of person who is into the travelling thing, packing cases remains something of a dark art to me. Holidays to see friends are the worst as well because you never go with just clothes etc. No, instead there are presents. Huge bulky presents that are either a) [...]

Docking procedure

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December 31, 2004
by James in
This morning I was rudely awakened by the sound of a helicopter outside my bedroom window. Well it was due I guess. Pulling back the curtains in the living room showed why it was there. Presenting now an illustration of what happens when a car and a van attempt a high speed docking procedure at the [...]

Let It Snow

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December 25, 2004
by James in
What do you mean, what am I doing online on Christmas Day? What are you doing online on Christmas Day? Anyway this is just really to preserve for posterity the proof that up in Yorkshire there really was a white Christmas for a brief moment. I took the snap to send to Mila the proof and it seemed a [...]

Under Attack

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November 16, 2004
by James in
Five years I’ve lived in London now. Five years in a place which was always sold to me as a grim, dangerous place to live where street crime was rife and it wasn’t safe to go out at night. I never actually paid much attention to such doom-mongers. When I first lived here I lived in Tottenham and [...]

The Leaving Party

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October 30, 2004
by James in
You know it’s strange. I think I’ve only ever had one office leaving party dedicated to me before. That was back in 1996 when I left the firm of accountants I’d been working for ever since graduation in order to have a proper job on the radio for the first time ever. That night in the pub was [...]

Spooling Out The Tape

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October 15, 2004
by James in
OK hating this. I think it was like this the last time I had to work my notice from somewhere. That was back in 1999 when I was being cast aside by the radio station I worked for at the time. Unusually I had been told at the start of August that my contract, due to finish at the end of September, [...]

Going Through Changes

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September 5, 2004
by James in
I forget how long I’ve been saying to myself “I need another job”. Not that I hate the existing one of course but it is to be honest far too much of a comfort zone and also doesn’t exactly pay a fortune. Hence why I currently have two jobs in order to make enough money to rent a nice apartment and [...]

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August 16, 2004
by James in
Well I’m shattered. That is what an 8 hour shift on a Sunday – no scrub that – an 8 hour shift which starts at 8am on a Sunday does for you. Such a day needs a unique, could not be scripted under any circumstances moment to lighten things. We had one. You one of the two shows I was working on today [...]

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July 31, 2004
by James in
This week I have mostly been reading books… Actually no, make that ever since we moved into the new place. For various dull reasons that are too complicated to pick through here, the shower in the bathroom doesn’t work. Or rather it does but it has two settings. Off and “hot enough to sear your [...]

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July 27, 2004
by James in
Things that I have learned so far this week: Being a betting fan can be an intense round of extreme highs and extreme lows. Yesterday I was working at the radio station on the weekly live racing show and given that I had one of the countries most expert tipsters on the end of an ISDN line I asked [...]
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