Monday, December 31, 2001
Addition to Resolution-
Take more photographs! I'm going to try and post an image a day (or the equivalent) in 2002.
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Take more photographs! I'm going to try and post an image a day (or the equivalent) in 2002.
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Sunday, December 30, 2001
It's nearly New Year. I'm going to be so glad to see the back of 2001. It had such promise early in the year, but that all gave way to disappointments, frustration and bad management.
I'm into the final straight of my 3 1/2 + years employment with The Gas, my absolute final day has been set as 15th February. Tthough the way things tend to work out, that'll probably become some time in March. There are a few people I'll miss, and one ex-manager who I'll be glad to never see again (though someone with a mysterious resemblance to her will be popping up in The Eliza Effect- why make up idiot managers when you have such a rich source making your life hell.) It feels wierd, and a little scary, but it's past time to move on.
List time (it is the end of the year, after all)-
Places I'll gladly never visit again-
Southampton
Barnet
Solihull
Staines
Leicester
Places I'd happily return to under other circumstances-
Cardiff
Edinburgh
London
Undecided-
Croydon
Richmond
Kingston
Observations-
If someone wants you sacked for another person's mistakes, you're probably in the wrong company.
Never promise more than you can deliver, and bitch slap anyone who does it for you.
In this networked world, why did I have to drive over 10,000 miles in the last six months?
Resolution-
Happier, healthier, wiser.
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I'm into the final straight of my 3 1/2 + years employment with The Gas, my absolute final day has been set as 15th February. Tthough the way things tend to work out, that'll probably become some time in March. There are a few people I'll miss, and one ex-manager who I'll be glad to never see again (though someone with a mysterious resemblance to her will be popping up in The Eliza Effect- why make up idiot managers when you have such a rich source making your life hell.) It feels wierd, and a little scary, but it's past time to move on.
List time (it is the end of the year, after all)-
Places I'll gladly never visit again-
Southampton
Barnet
Solihull
Staines
Leicester
Places I'd happily return to under other circumstances-
Cardiff
Edinburgh
London
Undecided-
Croydon
Richmond
Kingston
Observations-
If someone wants you sacked for another person's mistakes, you're probably in the wrong company.
Never promise more than you can deliver, and bitch slap anyone who does it for you.
In this networked world, why did I have to drive over 10,000 miles in the last six months?
Resolution-
Happier, healthier, wiser.
Labels: Croydon, Edinburgh, Leicester, List, london
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Monday, December 24, 2001
Merry Christmas to one and all.
I'm doing this on Christmas Eve, because tomorrow is given over to eating, drinking and eating again.
We're not getting a white Christmas, despite a dusting last night, but that's probably for the best as I have to drive back to Manchester on Boxing Day.
My thoughts on the year later in the week.
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I'm doing this on Christmas Eve, because tomorrow is given over to eating, drinking and eating again.
We're not getting a white Christmas, despite a dusting last night, but that's probably for the best as I have to drive back to Manchester on Boxing Day.
My thoughts on the year later in the week.
Labels: Manchester
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Tuesday, December 18, 2001
And there it goes, barring the epilogue. The final chapter may get reworked, I had problems on the first draft capturing the sheer enormity of it. I may yet fill in the gaps to show how everything got to that point, as I have said, I didn't get enough time to flesh out the story as much as I would have liked.
I've received the Ink Link award from Planet Cartoonist. And with the bare minimum of cartoon content on the site compared to what I have planned for next year.
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I've received the Ink Link award from Planet Cartoonist. And with the bare minimum of cartoon content on the site compared to what I have planned for next year.
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Sunday, December 16, 2001
Another Sunday night special. Two short chapters as I begin two wrap everything up.
Tuesday's update will close out the stories in time for Christmas, leaving just the epilogue, which will be published on New Year's Day (barring monstrous hangovers).
I'd planned to have more chapters to this tale, more snapshots of the character's lives outside the two main narratives, but work commitments saw me spending more time in cars and hotels than my own home. Ah well, that's over now, and it all provides material for The Eliza Effect- which will be coming your way from late January.
Stay tuned.
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Tuesday's update will close out the stories in time for Christmas, leaving just the epilogue, which will be published on New Year's Day (barring monstrous hangovers).
I'd planned to have more chapters to this tale, more snapshots of the character's lives outside the two main narratives, but work commitments saw me spending more time in cars and hotels than my own home. Ah well, that's over now, and it all provides material for The Eliza Effect- which will be coming your way from late January.
Stay tuned.
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Thursday, December 13, 2001
Departmental Christmas party on Tuesday. We went to Coombe castle, somewhere in the midlands, got dressed up and were very, very drunk. A selection of the pictures which won't get me fired- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Sunday, December 09, 2001
I'm trying to get Ten Years Asleep wrapped up before Christmas. So there's an update tonight and another one later this week. Stay tuned.
(Plus, on Tuesday I'm going to be dressing up as a musketeer and embarassing myself at the Christmas party, so no update then.)
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(Plus, on Tuesday I'm going to be dressing up as a musketeer and embarassing myself at the Christmas party, so no update then.)
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Thursday, December 06, 2001
I've started reading the last Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon, to satisfy my guilty techno-thriller craving. I'm only a fraction of the way in (it's bloody huge), but first impressions-
You can't stop reading it, you need to know how it's all going to pan out. The good news is it looks likely to be another large-ish conflict at the end, just based upon the characters being set up, rather than the nasty anti climax of Rainbow Six. The bad news is you get more than the usual Clancy editorialising through characters- a depiction of the Chinese which isn't quite racist but is certainly xenophobic, some unnecessary homophobia, dismissals of ecological concerns in ways which would sound stupid to anyone but an oil baron and regular slagging of Clinton (despite the fact that in Clancy's universe, ol' Bill never even made it into the White House.)
I'm still going to read all the way to the end though.
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You can't stop reading it, you need to know how it's all going to pan out. The good news is it looks likely to be another large-ish conflict at the end, just based upon the characters being set up, rather than the nasty anti climax of Rainbow Six. The bad news is you get more than the usual Clancy editorialising through characters- a depiction of the Chinese which isn't quite racist but is certainly xenophobic, some unnecessary homophobia, dismissals of ecological concerns in ways which would sound stupid to anyone but an oil baron and regular slagging of Clinton (despite the fact that in Clancy's universe, ol' Bill never even made it into the White House.)
I'm still going to read all the way to the end though.
Labels: Tom Clancy
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Gah!
I was supposed to have a snowboarding lesson tonight in Sheffield. I got to the city with a half hour to find the ski centre and promptly got lost. Then I drove round for an hour trying to make sense of a piss poor map I'd downloaded from the internet.
I guess I could have found my way easily if I'd known that Sheffield Wednesday played at Hilsborough. But I didn't, and all the other stadia were in the other direction. Finally, I gave up and started following signs for Manchester, which was when- you guessed it- I found the bloody ski village!
No snow board lessons for me, but I should be able to find it next time.
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I was supposed to have a snowboarding lesson tonight in Sheffield. I got to the city with a half hour to find the ski centre and promptly got lost. Then I drove round for an hour trying to make sense of a piss poor map I'd downloaded from the internet.
I guess I could have found my way easily if I'd known that Sheffield Wednesday played at Hilsborough. But I didn't, and all the other stadia were in the other direction. Finally, I gave up and started following signs for Manchester, which was when- you guessed it- I found the bloody ski village!
No snow board lessons for me, but I should be able to find it next time.
Labels: internet, Manchester
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