Cath and I got back from our Christmas trip last night. We had a superb time in France with Blair, Bo, Karyn and Bain, skiing and snowboarding and generally getting up to capers. We flew out of Gatwick on Friday to Geneva where we picked up our rental cars and drove to Annecy, a smallish [...]
It’s just gone Tuesday 23rd December and I’m sitting in my chalet (if one could call it that) in the French ski resort of La Plagne having just finished and submitted my assessment for TT282. It’s a dodgy business – I didn’t have anywhere near the time I needed to complete the work, so I’ve [...]
Hoooooooly crap. Just got back from opening night of Return of the King and it is aaawwwesome. The battle of the Pelennor Fields makes Helm’s Deep look like a cocktail-fuelled hissy fit. There are no words – see it, see it as soon as you can, on the biggest screen you can find and with [...]
I had an interesting flashback today. I’m at 200 feet in the circuit at Tamworth on my 2nd or 3rd training flight on Army pilot course in 1994. Major Mac, the school’s senior instructor, has lined up to show me a landing on runway 12 left. Now, at this stage I didn’t know a lot [...]
97% for Maths, 94% for Genetics, 94% for Physics. Schweeeeeeeeeeet. Cath scored 94% for Maths and 97% for Genetics (didn’t do Physics). Brain the size of a planet, I’ve always said.
Two down (mostly), one to go. TT281 was finished (mostly) at 0530 this morning after a 14 hour marathon. I literally sat down to it at 3pm and didn’t leave it for more than a couple of minutes at a time in that 14 hours. Just the remainder of the code documentation to finish – [...]
Having tenants is cool. Every week somebody gives you a bunch of money to help pay off your mortgage and all you need to do is let them live in the house they’re paying off. All the time (hopefully) the house is going up in value. Winner. Hang on, so why the hell are we [...]
Wow, I’m buggered. TT281 is a hard slog – just when I think I’ve got it licked, I realise I haven’t documented something or I’ve still got some coding to do, which turns out to be a massive piece of work. Have to finish the form componenent, all the HTML Javascript documentation (including documenting an [...]
have finished the final draft of my TT280 assessment today. Straight into TT281 (JavaScript)…
Yet again “circumstances” have conspired to prevent me getting paid. That now makes 15 straight months of not being paid my salary on the day it was due. What’s the number of that truck driving school; Truck Master I think it is? I might need that.
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