Month: September 2016

I don’t remember this bit when I bought a ticket!

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Hi, Okay, let’s bundle all of my weekly thoughts into the proverbial washing machine and give a spin. I’d make a joke about not mixing the colours, but it may sound unpleasant. You know, like a bad Trump 😛 Satire aside, it’s been a bit of a mixed week. I have…. at the risk of sounding like dear old Marvin from Hitchhikers, felt a bit low and I resisted the urge to write anything about it. Mainly because I don’t think it would have done me much good to have talked about the cold, dark mud, when instead, I should be working on getting out of it. Which, after some walking, a little thinking and some distraction; seemed to manage. […]

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Human Interest

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Hi, Ah, must focus. I’ve been flitting between browser tabs, putting off just writing. Right…. deep breath, Lynn and go! 🙂 That joke twice Ring, ring, goes my office softphone. Yours Truly > Hello, Richard speaking. Mystery Caller > Hi, [insert salesman name] here. Is that Sarah? YT > No, sorry. I think you’ve got the wrong number – MC > Ah. [pause] Oh. I’ve copied the number down wrong. I thought your were Sarah, Head of Department. YT > No, I’m afraid not, but I could pretend if it helps. MC > [laughter] Only at the weekends, though, eh? You know, a friend of mine… Mystery Caller then embarks on a story about his tall female friend who ran […]

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Building sites

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Hi, I am thankful that it’s the weekend. Not that this week has been stressful or hard. I think, it overdid it a little last weekend concentrating on building the new Nottingham Chameleons web site. Yes, two late nights (nearly 2am. Tsk. When will I learn!) on Friday and Saturday, meant I wasn’t fully recharged for the week ahead. Still, my own fault, but I’m done now. “If you build it, they will come…” Chameleons had been using a free forum hosting company for just over a decade and the service had been great. Then one day, pop, it vanished. Not a peep from the hosting company. The whole lot just vanished in an instant. Quickly, we set up a […]

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You underestimate the power of the trans side.

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Hi, After a much enjoyed holiday, I’m back. I hope the back catalogue of scheduled posts kept you amused while I was away. The holiday was one to remember and the Jones Massive certainly had a good time and without too much coin nor trouble. What’s not to like eh? 🙂 Unexpected Turbulence It’s funny, I’ll often start a post with a line about highs and lows. Frequently, these are minor bumps in the road of life. Nothing to knock your tracking or rattle the frame mind. Then, there’s the proverbial near miss, pothole or – as it felt like this Tuesday – driving through a hailstorm. What set me off, I don’t know. I could hazard a guess at […]

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Beware glass dreams

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The other day I stumbled across a German TV programme called Sexchange. In it, they took half a dozen folk – women and men, and made them over as their opposite gender. Unlike some shows, it wasn’t cheesy and didn’t seem played for laughs. Now, I don’t speak German, but YouTube has an automatic subtitling and translation system. On a slight digression, the YouTube system is s a bit Monty Python in places. Perhaps this is as the tech is listening to the audio track and translating on the fly. I guess there are many phrases we use that may not convert well into other languages. I think I saw the subtitle “but that’s not my tennis” at one point. […]

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