Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year's Eve

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Here we are again. I went and had a look back to last year and that was funny - I thought that I had gone to get my blood test on Christmas...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

No Silver Bullet

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I remember reading the Mythical Man month by Fred Brooks and part of the re-read recently was No Silver Bullet. You can find a bit more dat...

Christmas

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When most people have trouble one way or the other. Ask my friend who mans a telephone helpline for the Samaritans - this time of year is o...
Monday, December 27, 2010

That figures

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Heard from a distant relative about her daughter and found out that she had breat cancer which I knew about but that the stress of that some...

Well that was unexpected

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Mr. Waste of Oxygen turned up and was almost a changed man - apparently retirement has done him well, he is less stressed and less obnoxious...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

And now for Christmas

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In just a few hours I'll be up and getting things sorted out for another Christmas Day here. Unfortunately the waste of Oxygen man will...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Worked a Treat

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Getting my blood done on Christmas Eve is great as I waited all of 3 minutes until my number was called and I was in and out in less than 5 ...

Late again

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I've decided to go get my blood test again on Christmas Eve - it worked out nicely last time with just a few minutes waiting and so I wi...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Looking Back

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I see that this year, at last, I'm looking in better shape than I have for the previous 4 Christmas periods. For this will be my 5th Ch...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Reconnecting with some old friends

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I hadn't realised quite how I'd disconnected myself from my old friends - whether consciously or not and it was nice to re-build tho...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Well that was interesting

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Flocky - bless his little cotton socks - picked me up this evening so we could go to our rehearsal as my Jag is in the garage still being so...

Admin, admin, admin

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Makes the world go around :-) Phew - that's the first lot out of the way. It is one of those things I hate doing, I build things and g...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Gee but it's cold

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I don't remember a cold snap like this for 20 years or more. We got out today but it looks as if the whole place will turn into an Ice ...

Extraordinary People

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I always liked the saying "Remember that you are unique, just like everybody else" - tonight watching the TV I was reminded that s...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Whoa - Snow and Tired and Disaffected and...

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So yes - Snow - wasn't expecting that until tomorrow - it has stopped but we have a good dusting - enough to make the roads slippy. The...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

That's not good

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I've been following a blog for some time and got the wrong end of the stick and thought that Jeanne had died a few months ago and was ju...

Saw this the other day - Christmas Dream - Perry Como

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I'd forgotten the Odessa File started like this - rather seasonal I thought. I'm getting into the spirit of this now :-)

Thursday dawns

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I was up earlier than normal and I'm pretty much charged ready for today with the team.  I've cleared the decks and I'm ready to...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Relax

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It is time to slow down and relax.  The team are here tomorrow and I intend to look at shutting down as far as possible for a couple of week...

After the High - the Low

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Now you'd be right to think what has HE got to be Low about but it is just the way I feel today - I should be ecstatic but in fact I...