A day in the life of........You
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0whateverhrs - Get a wake up call to go and fetch someone, remember to polish scythe en-route.
+15mins - Laugh at expression on their face when they finally recognise me.
+17mins - Pretend that the offer of money and/or sex has tempted me into giving them a bit longer, just to see the look on their face (again)
+17.1 mins - Take them anyway.
+30 mins - Get back into bed and dream of an uninterrupted nights sleep.
( I won't bore you with other 'collection' details)
Other activities?
Pick up spare habit/shroud from Dry Cleaners, put up with usual complaints about blood stains and the smell of realisation (similar to adrenaline, sudden realisation tends to be brown and liquid).
Answer e-mails from various cult leaders regarding discount collection fees for mass suicides, laugh again.
Answer letters regarding whether the end is 'nigh'. Always respond with, "noi, it'll be learter", although it doesn't work very well in print, might have to put it on my ansaphone instead.
Tell queue of Nirvana fans outside that I don't need any help.
Pose for a few pictures with coma patients who think they're at Universal Studios.
Get the projector serviced (flashing someones life before them thousands of times a day tends to blow a few bulbs and wear cogwheels) and consider upgrading to either Powerpoint or DVD.
Collect nurses uniform from the Fancy dress shop, to assist in collection of people about to pop their clogs during a kissogram.
Oops! My pagers going off, keep your eyes open, you've got about 15 minutes. See ya?
+15mins - Laugh at expression on their face when they finally recognise me.
+17mins - Pretend that the offer of money and/or sex has tempted me into giving them a bit longer, just to see the look on their face (again)
+17.1 mins - Take them anyway.
+30 mins - Get back into bed and dream of an uninterrupted nights sleep.
( I won't bore you with other 'collection' details)
Other activities?
Pick up spare habit/shroud from Dry Cleaners, put up with usual complaints about blood stains and the smell of realisation (similar to adrenaline, sudden realisation tends to be brown and liquid).
Answer e-mails from various cult leaders regarding discount collection fees for mass suicides, laugh again.
Answer letters regarding whether the end is 'nigh'. Always respond with, "noi, it'll be learter", although it doesn't work very well in print, might have to put it on my ansaphone instead.
Tell queue of Nirvana fans outside that I don't need any help.
Pose for a few pictures with coma patients who think they're at Universal Studios.
Get the projector serviced (flashing someones life before them thousands of times a day tends to blow a few bulbs and wear cogwheels) and consider upgrading to either Powerpoint or DVD.
Collect nurses uniform from the Fancy dress shop, to assist in collection of people about to pop their clogs during a kissogram.
Oops! My pagers going off, keep your eyes open, you've got about 15 minutes. See ya?
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0 my god its so early am Rudely awoken by alarm
05:30 Breakfast, wash etc
06:25 Drop Mrs Valiant at station. Set off towards M25 to join 1000’s of others trundling along at snails pace.
06:50 Reach M25, come to standstill
07:30 Finally reach Heathrow stretch, providing motorway hasn’t been closed again. Gaze forlornly at departures / arrivals hoping that’ll be me soon.
08:00 Get to work.
08:05 Log onto PPRUNE, ensuring that lots of other applications are open too so I can quickly switch when the boss gets in!
08:30 Glazed expression quickly develops as begin todays installment of staring at PC screen to do work.
08:30 – 12:30 Continue to stare at work on PC screen. Occasionally disturbed from zombie like trance by sound of biz jet or company shuttle arriving / departing. Unfortunately desk is nowhere near a window so cant see what it is. Haven’t learned to spot aircraft by just their engine noise yet!
12:30 Wander to canteen, try to glimpse apron to see if anything of interest has flown in today. Wonder if any of them need co-pilots?
13:15 – 17:15 Start afternoon with visit to PPRUNE. Rest of afternoon continues much as the morning staring at PC, eagerly awaiting any email to break the tedium. Thoughts regularly wander to flying, think about getting float rating so I can go and work flying seaplanes in the Maldives instead
17:15 Head back onto the motorways hoping there’s been no accidents and it wont take me 4 hours to get home again tonight
19:00 Pick up Mrs Valiant. Get home and cook dinner for both of us - what a good husband I am!!
19:30 – 22:30 Try to persuade Mrs Valiant I should be a house husband, she can work and keep me and I’ll stop at home, go flying and do the chores
22:30 Failed miserably to persuade her again, so head to bed looking forward to a repeat of the day tomorrow
05:30 Breakfast, wash etc
06:25 Drop Mrs Valiant at station. Set off towards M25 to join 1000’s of others trundling along at snails pace.
06:50 Reach M25, come to standstill
07:30 Finally reach Heathrow stretch, providing motorway hasn’t been closed again. Gaze forlornly at departures / arrivals hoping that’ll be me soon.
08:00 Get to work.
08:05 Log onto PPRUNE, ensuring that lots of other applications are open too so I can quickly switch when the boss gets in!
08:30 Glazed expression quickly develops as begin todays installment of staring at PC screen to do work.
08:30 – 12:30 Continue to stare at work on PC screen. Occasionally disturbed from zombie like trance by sound of biz jet or company shuttle arriving / departing. Unfortunately desk is nowhere near a window so cant see what it is. Haven’t learned to spot aircraft by just their engine noise yet!
12:30 Wander to canteen, try to glimpse apron to see if anything of interest has flown in today. Wonder if any of them need co-pilots?
13:15 – 17:15 Start afternoon with visit to PPRUNE. Rest of afternoon continues much as the morning staring at PC, eagerly awaiting any email to break the tedium. Thoughts regularly wander to flying, think about getting float rating so I can go and work flying seaplanes in the Maldives instead
17:15 Head back onto the motorways hoping there’s been no accidents and it wont take me 4 hours to get home again tonight
19:00 Pick up Mrs Valiant. Get home and cook dinner for both of us - what a good husband I am!!
19:30 – 22:30 Try to persuade Mrs Valiant I should be a house husband, she can work and keep me and I’ll stop at home, go flying and do the chores
22:30 Failed miserably to persuade her again, so head to bed looking forward to a repeat of the day tomorrow
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0800 snatch that extra three hours in bed
1100 Quick cup of Starbucks wait for call from man wanting Spitfire ferrying to Australia.
1110 Argue over expenses for the trip and agree first class hotel and business class return
1130 Pop down to end of garden and fire up Jet Ranger for brief sortie to nearby hotel with an excellent lunch menu and collection of wild, intelligent, and lusty women.
1400 Jet Ranger back to local airfield where the Hunter is on line and waiting for me
1500 Hunter sortie over and friend wants check ride in the JP
1630 JP check ride over and friend agrees I can have his Kingair 200 for a week to go and play in the med
1700 it gets better - friend calls on mobile as he departs and says that Kingair out of action due some expensive missing part but I am free to take the Citation V.
1830 Quick check on the unfortunate sad baxxards on PPRUNE who don't have the same access to aircraft as me.
2000 Start getting tired but realise hot date organised with two thin and blonde sisters who have been left a pile by daddy
2100 Evening of debauchery begins
0300 Sh*t wake up and realise it is all a dream!
1100 Quick cup of Starbucks wait for call from man wanting Spitfire ferrying to Australia.
1110 Argue over expenses for the trip and agree first class hotel and business class return
1130 Pop down to end of garden and fire up Jet Ranger for brief sortie to nearby hotel with an excellent lunch menu and collection of wild, intelligent, and lusty women.
1400 Jet Ranger back to local airfield where the Hunter is on line and waiting for me
1500 Hunter sortie over and friend wants check ride in the JP
1630 JP check ride over and friend agrees I can have his Kingair 200 for a week to go and play in the med
1700 it gets better - friend calls on mobile as he departs and says that Kingair out of action due some expensive missing part but I am free to take the Citation V.
1830 Quick check on the unfortunate sad baxxards on PPRUNE who don't have the same access to aircraft as me.
2000 Start getting tired but realise hot date organised with two thin and blonde sisters who have been left a pile by daddy
2100 Evening of debauchery begins
0300 Sh*t wake up and realise it is all a dream!
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Fascinating thread you've started Paul.
A common theme is the vast amount of time spent/wasted travelling. My day tomorrow (well, today 'cos it's 1 am) is an extreme example.
I have to interview a Swiss businessman for a book I'm writing. The sad fact is that as a professional hack I only care about words on the page, and in particular pithy quotes - a 20 minute phone conversation would give me all I need. But guess what's happening....
The man concerned feels that he wants to meet face to face; that's fine, he agrees to come to my office in London. That's an hour, no problem. But then the bank that is sponsoring the book decides that's no way to treat their client - their director has to come with me to the interview and we should go to him.
So now, I'm up at 7am for a flight from LCY to Zurich, an hour and a half in the car to his factory, some pointless lunch, the interview, then the reverse trip. About six hours travelling and an entire day taken for something the creative aspect of which will be about an hour at most - I could stay in bed till 11am (and for that matter return to it at 3 pm!!) for the same result.
How do we manage to waste so much time?
A common theme is the vast amount of time spent/wasted travelling. My day tomorrow (well, today 'cos it's 1 am) is an extreme example.
I have to interview a Swiss businessman for a book I'm writing. The sad fact is that as a professional hack I only care about words on the page, and in particular pithy quotes - a 20 minute phone conversation would give me all I need. But guess what's happening....
The man concerned feels that he wants to meet face to face; that's fine, he agrees to come to my office in London. That's an hour, no problem. But then the bank that is sponsoring the book decides that's no way to treat their client - their director has to come with me to the interview and we should go to him.
So now, I'm up at 7am for a flight from LCY to Zurich, an hour and a half in the car to his factory, some pointless lunch, the interview, then the reverse trip. About six hours travelling and an entire day taken for something the creative aspect of which will be about an hour at most - I could stay in bed till 11am (and for that matter return to it at 3 pm!!) for the same result.
How do we manage to waste so much time?
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Let's see - a working day can often go like this ............
04:00 Alarm goes off - get out of bed for the 3 S's
04:20 Cup of tea & feed the cat
04:30 Pack my bag for the day & iron a shirt
05:00 Drive to Heathrow
05:15 Park in Long Stay - stand in freezing bus shelter with 30 others whilst driver sits in bus 20ft away smoking fags and gorping at page 3
05:25 Bus driver has read his horoscope and now being bored, decides to pick us up and drive us to the terminals
05:35 Shove card in e-ticket machine to find travel agent has screwed up and I don't have an e-ticket. Go and join back of long queue to check in.
05:45 Check in
05:50 Join queue to go through security. Takes forever because the queue is full of morons walking through the metal detector with mobile phones in their pockets.
06:00 Clear security and walk to lounge
06:05 Have breakfast in lounge - leave message for secretary to put rocket up travel agent
06:20 - Flight shows as boarding - walk to gate. Find out that flight isn't bl@@dy well boarding at all (Or - join back of queue behind party of 30 Japenese tourists who indivudually can't find their passports, tickets or both).
06:30 Get on plane and pickup copy of FT (if lucky)
06:35 Watch fellow passanger struggle to find locker space and cause choas in the aisle whilst getting flustered with the Cabin Crew who suggest it might have to go in the hold. Ponder why they ever thought they could travel with a hand-held wardrobe in the first place.
06:40 Captain announces that due to Air Traffic Control delays we won't be leaving for another hour. Read FT, and then coma inducing articles in Flight Magazine.
07:50 We're off - oh look - here comes the Cabin Crew with a mouth watering, dried up plastic sandwich - lucky I ate in the lounge.
09:00 Land (or were we shot down - must be the F/O's sector)
09:10 Ignore smirk from passport control officer - god I can't wait till my 10 year passport exprires.
09:15 Get in taxi and hand address to driver. Driver annouces 'No Problem'. Off we go.
09:30 Hurtling down motorway/autoroute/autobahn. Driver has maps in one hand, mobile phone in other, steering with knees.
09:45 Parked at side of road - I ring customer/prospect and pass phone to driver so he can have directions explained.
10:00 Arrive at customer/prospect. Start meeting and blow sunshine up my companies backside
12:30 Invited for lunch. Ask for recommendation from customer/prospect. Sit down with plate of pigs b@ll@cks and over-cooked veg.
13:30 Continue meeting
15:00 Bid farewell to customer/prospect and get in taxi. Check voicemails, including grovelling apology from travel agent.
15:30 Arrive at airport - put card in e-ticket machine and get boarding card. There is a god.
15:45 Queue for security and passport control. Ignore smirk etc ...........
15:50 Go to lounge - get beer and peanuts. Make calls & check e-mail. Flight due to leave at 17:00 - due to Air Traffic Control delays earlier in the day the inbound aircraft is delayed. Flight expected to leave at 18:00.
17:45 Get on plane (grab evening standard) - watch the hand baggage fiasco again.
17:55 Captain announces that due to flow control restrictions at Heathrow we have a 45 minute delay.
18:45 We're off - oh great - here come the plastic sarnies
19:45 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
19:50 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
19:55 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
20:00 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window. So we'll be in the Lamboune hold then.
20:15 Landed
20:20 Hold short of cul-de-sac and wait for outbound aircraft that has just started push off stand
20:25 Hold short of gate because the parking aid hasn't been switched on.
20:30 Get off plane
20:40 Leave terminal and wait for bus.
20:50 Get back to car. Figure out I've parked it under a street lamp and it's now covered in pidgeon sh!t.
21:10 Arrive home - feed cat, watch news, go to bed. If it's a bad week - I've got to do it all again in the morning.
I Love my job
-S
04:00 Alarm goes off - get out of bed for the 3 S's
04:20 Cup of tea & feed the cat
04:30 Pack my bag for the day & iron a shirt
05:00 Drive to Heathrow
05:15 Park in Long Stay - stand in freezing bus shelter with 30 others whilst driver sits in bus 20ft away smoking fags and gorping at page 3
05:25 Bus driver has read his horoscope and now being bored, decides to pick us up and drive us to the terminals
05:35 Shove card in e-ticket machine to find travel agent has screwed up and I don't have an e-ticket. Go and join back of long queue to check in.
05:45 Check in
05:50 Join queue to go through security. Takes forever because the queue is full of morons walking through the metal detector with mobile phones in their pockets.
06:00 Clear security and walk to lounge
06:05 Have breakfast in lounge - leave message for secretary to put rocket up travel agent
06:20 - Flight shows as boarding - walk to gate. Find out that flight isn't bl@@dy well boarding at all (Or - join back of queue behind party of 30 Japenese tourists who indivudually can't find their passports, tickets or both).
06:30 Get on plane and pickup copy of FT (if lucky)
06:35 Watch fellow passanger struggle to find locker space and cause choas in the aisle whilst getting flustered with the Cabin Crew who suggest it might have to go in the hold. Ponder why they ever thought they could travel with a hand-held wardrobe in the first place.
06:40 Captain announces that due to Air Traffic Control delays we won't be leaving for another hour. Read FT, and then coma inducing articles in Flight Magazine.
07:50 We're off - oh look - here comes the Cabin Crew with a mouth watering, dried up plastic sandwich - lucky I ate in the lounge.
09:00 Land (or were we shot down - must be the F/O's sector)
09:10 Ignore smirk from passport control officer - god I can't wait till my 10 year passport exprires.
09:15 Get in taxi and hand address to driver. Driver annouces 'No Problem'. Off we go.
09:30 Hurtling down motorway/autoroute/autobahn. Driver has maps in one hand, mobile phone in other, steering with knees.
09:45 Parked at side of road - I ring customer/prospect and pass phone to driver so he can have directions explained.
10:00 Arrive at customer/prospect. Start meeting and blow sunshine up my companies backside
12:30 Invited for lunch. Ask for recommendation from customer/prospect. Sit down with plate of pigs b@ll@cks and over-cooked veg.
13:30 Continue meeting
15:00 Bid farewell to customer/prospect and get in taxi. Check voicemails, including grovelling apology from travel agent.
15:30 Arrive at airport - put card in e-ticket machine and get boarding card. There is a god.
15:45 Queue for security and passport control. Ignore smirk etc ...........
15:50 Go to lounge - get beer and peanuts. Make calls & check e-mail. Flight due to leave at 17:00 - due to Air Traffic Control delays earlier in the day the inbound aircraft is delayed. Flight expected to leave at 18:00.
17:45 Get on plane (grab evening standard) - watch the hand baggage fiasco again.
17:55 Captain announces that due to flow control restrictions at Heathrow we have a 45 minute delay.
18:45 We're off - oh great - here come the plastic sarnies
19:45 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
19:50 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
19:55 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window.
20:00 Oh look - There's the M25/M11 junction out of the window. So we'll be in the Lamboune hold then.
20:15 Landed
20:20 Hold short of cul-de-sac and wait for outbound aircraft that has just started push off stand
20:25 Hold short of gate because the parking aid hasn't been switched on.
20:30 Get off plane
20:40 Leave terminal and wait for bus.
20:50 Get back to car. Figure out I've parked it under a street lamp and it's now covered in pidgeon sh!t.
21:10 Arrive home - feed cat, watch news, go to bed. If it's a bad week - I've got to do it all again in the morning.
I Love my job
-S
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0445 wake up.....switch off alarm clock before it goes off at 0515, and wakes Mrs Skyyacht, (if she hasnt already gone to work on shift....) ...S, S, AND S. fire up PC. Check pprune....deal with e-mails that need replies. Feed cats....0615 - depart home. 0630 arrive at work. 0700, take first crew into simulator. 0915 exit sim, Have 10 minutes of comedy psycho-therapy from colleagues .., then to canteen to have large breakfast. catch up on news, check corporate e-mails, attend meetings etc. 1100 enter sim with another crew. two more hours of engine failures, fires, and dreary explanations of the air conditioning system. Exit sim....have more counselling. go to lunch. have coffee. attend last bits of admin. Depart work 1430 and either a) go flying, or b) go home to relax, and dream of an Issacs Fury with my name on it.
Repeat for five days in a row.......
Cheers
Repeat for five days in a row.......
Cheers
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A day in the life of an uplinker:-
3.30am Wake before alarm for early start to the day. Hoped I got some sleep but unsure.
4.00am Depart Wollongong bound Sydney, by car.
5.00am. Roll satellite truck out of depot in Sydney, drive it to Canberra. One refuelling stop on the way.
8.30am Arrive Canberra, find venue for uplink job. Buy new map because old map hopelessly out of date and hotel name has changed as well.
9.00am Park truck outside hotel, get dish pointing at and peaked on satellite, do cross-pol with satellite control ground station. Co-worker runs vision and audio cables into hotel. No sign of camera-crew yet.
10.00am drink coffee in hotel restaurant whilst waiting for camera-crew to arrive.
10.30 Camera-man arrives. No sound recordist so co-worker will do soundo's job, I run the truck. Typical Aussie television...no expense spared to keep the costs down.
10.40 Light up transponder slot with digital carrier, SCPC MPEG2 transport stream. Local downlink all OK so it's all working. Pix and audio received from hotel room. Talent for live-cross ready and wired for IFB (interruptible foldback). I've never heard of the guy but that' s nothing new.
10.50 Frantic calls from hotel room to truck for TV station to dial up the mobile phone for IFB. TV station master control refuses to answer my phone calls. Soundo writes IFB number on paper and cameraman locks camera on it. TV station MCR dials up number and IFB finally established to talent with a few minutes to go before live-cross scheduled to go to air.
11.00am Live cross to air. Monitor power amplifier output, reflected power, amplifier gain settings, helix currents and baseplate temperatures as well as local downlink fade margin, signal strength and bit-error rate. All running smoothly. Look at monitor. If the picture is in colour and moves then all is well.
11.12am Live cross concluded, stop illuminating spacecraft, cool off amplifiers, stow dish and recover cables.
11.30am Drive truck to Mum and Dad's for lunch (always good to see them, Dad is 82 now so take every chance I can to say G'day)
1.30pm. After lunch with Mum and Dad, drive satellite truck Canberra to Sydney with refuelling stop.
5.00pm Park truck back in depot in Sydney, drive from Sydney to Wollongong, arrive 6.30pm.
7.00pm. Nothing booked for tomorrow so plan to go flying, subeject to weather, money to buy fuel etc. Dream of one day getting a real job.
3.30am Wake before alarm for early start to the day. Hoped I got some sleep but unsure.
4.00am Depart Wollongong bound Sydney, by car.
5.00am. Roll satellite truck out of depot in Sydney, drive it to Canberra. One refuelling stop on the way.
8.30am Arrive Canberra, find venue for uplink job. Buy new map because old map hopelessly out of date and hotel name has changed as well.
9.00am Park truck outside hotel, get dish pointing at and peaked on satellite, do cross-pol with satellite control ground station. Co-worker runs vision and audio cables into hotel. No sign of camera-crew yet.
10.00am drink coffee in hotel restaurant whilst waiting for camera-crew to arrive.
10.30 Camera-man arrives. No sound recordist so co-worker will do soundo's job, I run the truck. Typical Aussie television...no expense spared to keep the costs down.
10.40 Light up transponder slot with digital carrier, SCPC MPEG2 transport stream. Local downlink all OK so it's all working. Pix and audio received from hotel room. Talent for live-cross ready and wired for IFB (interruptible foldback). I've never heard of the guy but that' s nothing new.
10.50 Frantic calls from hotel room to truck for TV station to dial up the mobile phone for IFB. TV station master control refuses to answer my phone calls. Soundo writes IFB number on paper and cameraman locks camera on it. TV station MCR dials up number and IFB finally established to talent with a few minutes to go before live-cross scheduled to go to air.
11.00am Live cross to air. Monitor power amplifier output, reflected power, amplifier gain settings, helix currents and baseplate temperatures as well as local downlink fade margin, signal strength and bit-error rate. All running smoothly. Look at monitor. If the picture is in colour and moves then all is well.
11.12am Live cross concluded, stop illuminating spacecraft, cool off amplifiers, stow dish and recover cables.
11.30am Drive truck to Mum and Dad's for lunch (always good to see them, Dad is 82 now so take every chance I can to say G'day)
1.30pm. After lunch with Mum and Dad, drive satellite truck Canberra to Sydney with refuelling stop.
5.00pm Park truck back in depot in Sydney, drive from Sydney to Wollongong, arrive 6.30pm.
7.00pm. Nothing booked for tomorrow so plan to go flying, subeject to weather, money to buy fuel etc. Dream of one day getting a real job.
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0715 alarm goes off- ignore it until attacked by cat demanding to be fed NOW!
0716- struggle out of bed being careful not to tread on any dismembered beaks, feathers, intestines etc and move downstairs on auto pilot until successfully identified coffee pot.
0800- attempt 1st part of Telegraph crossword
0815- leave for work
0820- arrive at work and continue crossword until morning briefing at 0845.
0855-1015- resist the temptation to hurl one or more members of Year 11 non-exam history class out of the nearest window.
1015-1030. - break duty- payback time! Ambush smokers behind canteen
1020-1220. As 0855-1015, only this time it's Year 10!
1220-1315. Supervise form members in classroom and swot up on IMC theory and finish crossword.
1315-1515. Manage to survive bottom sets in Years 7-9.
1630. Arrive home to be greeted by cat demanding to be fed NOW! Remind my teenage Goth that the neigbours really don't want to listen to his Manson records. Fend off irate neighbour complaining about the cat sitting on his fence and biting the head off a squirrel. "That's the third time this month...." blah, blah.
1700. Make tea.
1800. Start marking. (Did this boy really mean that "Hitler was the leader of the Nancy Party"?)
2100. Finish all the school related paperwork.
2100-2230. Try to write some more of latest bookand go to bed wishing tomorrow was Saturday and I could go flying.
0100. Surprise attack by cat wanting fuss NOW!
0716- struggle out of bed being careful not to tread on any dismembered beaks, feathers, intestines etc and move downstairs on auto pilot until successfully identified coffee pot.
0800- attempt 1st part of Telegraph crossword
0815- leave for work
0820- arrive at work and continue crossword until morning briefing at 0845.
0855-1015- resist the temptation to hurl one or more members of Year 11 non-exam history class out of the nearest window.
1015-1030. - break duty- payback time! Ambush smokers behind canteen
1020-1220. As 0855-1015, only this time it's Year 10!
1220-1315. Supervise form members in classroom and swot up on IMC theory and finish crossword.
1315-1515. Manage to survive bottom sets in Years 7-9.
1630. Arrive home to be greeted by cat demanding to be fed NOW! Remind my teenage Goth that the neigbours really don't want to listen to his Manson records. Fend off irate neighbour complaining about the cat sitting on his fence and biting the head off a squirrel. "That's the third time this month...." blah, blah.
1700. Make tea.
1800. Start marking. (Did this boy really mean that "Hitler was the leader of the Nancy Party"?)
2100. Finish all the school related paperwork.
2100-2230. Try to write some more of latest bookand go to bed wishing tomorrow was Saturday and I could go flying.
0100. Surprise attack by cat wanting fuss NOW!
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Variety being the spice of life and all....
Last week. Meeting in EDI.
08:59 Radio sparks into life. Laugh at Wogan's comment before the news.
09:03 News finishes. Get out of bed and get post.
09:04 Find bills, file on floor/table/briefcase. But mainly bin.
09:05 Seated.
09:15 Wake up (I am beginning to think I am the only person who's able to fall asleep whilst, well, seated!)
09:20 Shave. Mental note to buy gel sachets for super-dooper razor, which when they run out turns into a bog-standard razor.
09:30 Into shower.
09:45 Finally woken up, get out of shower.
10:00 Iron shirt (and plan to find Mrs Daifly to do that for me (which may be why there is no Mrs Daifly...))
10:05 Burn myself, again.
10:10 Remember that I should always start with the sleeves.
10:15 1 shirt, complete with zig-zag creases, ready to wear.
10:20 Dressed to impress (well, blind people).
10:30 After Breakfast, having mastered making cereal - with milk! - oh yes, get into motor and head off to Heathrow.
11:00 Parked in short stay and, thanking Mr Business Class, walk no queuing at all.
11:05 Into lounge. Wonder who's paid for their own ticket and who's travelling "business". Decide, with my suit that's slightly tight, that it's just me who is on "business". Decide, with four hours to the meeting that I'm owed a beer. Well, you do don't you.
11:30 Realise that I'm never sure whether I should have made my way to the flight on my own or whether they'll announce it. It depends on the airline my brain tells me.
12:15 Getting scared now as my ticket says 12:20 gate closes - there have been no announcements...
12:25 Give in.
12:26 Get to door. "BMI announce..." Feel chuffed that I look like a pro
12:35 Settled into seat. Do the standard Business Class routine of getting a ream of paper out of briefcase to read.
12:36 Re-read it.
12:37 Remember that very salient point that you should read again.
12:38 Accept Daily Mail from crew and start to enjoy the flight.
13:00 Proper meal, including wine.
14:00 Onto stand, get annoyed that everyone undoes their belts before we've stopped. Laugh when chap next to me teeters on the brink of falling when he's up before we've arrived onto stand completely. Give him disapproving look - as only an expert air traveller would.
14:15 Into cab. Realise combination of beer and wine before meeting was not clever. Start to feel ill being throw around the back seat.
14:16 Cold sweats.
14:18 Hot sweats.
14:21 See sign for destination. 5 miles.
14:22 Decide may need to think of plan of illness attack.
14:35 With a great deal of mind over matter hold it all in. Arrive meeting.
14:40 Techstop enroute.
14:42 Meeting starts. Early.
15:00 Fed up hearing about Unions... (Why I didn't apply for a BALPA job).
16:00 All done. Wonder whether this was really worth it. A phone call would surely have surficed. Decide that enjoy flying too much to turn down these trips. Hold tongue.
16:20 Lift back to airport with guy from meeting. Running out of chit chat when airport looms large. Thankfully. Don't need to know any more about his kids.
16:35 Buy book. Don't need it, but gate has closed for earlier flight. Means I have 2 hours+ to wait til next LHR flight.
16:40 Into lounge.
16:45 Give up trying to appear businesslike and grab beer and peanuts and book.
17:00 Check in with boss to extol virtues of meeting clients on site.
17:15 Pray for forgiveness for lies.
17:30 - 18:45. More beer.
18:50 - 20:00. Wine.
20:15 Waiting at the end of the cul-de-sac to the east of T1 for the pushback to hurry up. Start tutting in the way that only us high ranking business people can when we're delayed on the aircraft.
20:25 On stand. Again, bloody clicking of belts before we've stopped. Decide against shouting to them all.
20:30 Decide car is very, very bad idea. Get cab.
20:50 Home.
20:55 Erase all mental notes.
21:00 Close windows.
21:05 Zzzzzzzzzz. Ah, I'm aerobatting my Chipmunk.
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Today. Post-Bank Holiday.
06:45 Wake up at Mum's house. Was happy, as that's where I'd gone to bed night before.
07:15 Mum assumes old role of tea and toastmaker. Mental note that she was never this happy doing it when we all lived at home.
07:25 Out of bed.
07:30-08:15 Usual ablutes and more toast.
08:20 Tears as I leave. Her, not me...
08:21 Guilt at leaving.
08:22 On road, feeling homesick already. Fool.
08:30 Dad's. More tea.
09:00 Finally enroute again.
09:01 - 11:40. At various points, wish I'd had wee before leaving Dads.
11:45 Walk into office.
12:00 Walk out of office for lunch.
12:45 Start work.
13:00 Throw all post into bin. Wasn't expecting anything important, so figure "anything" would've been commented on by PA.
13:01 Wonder if throwing all in bin was good idea.
13:02 Relent and get it all out of bin.
13:03 Throw all back into bin.
13:03.01. Mental note to buy shredder which would remove 13:02-03.01 problems.
13:15 Wonder where to begin with work.
13:45 Having given up on 13:15 and made coffee, read paper and PPRuNe start to prepare for 14:00 meeting.
13:56 Boss breaks news that meeting is being held 10 miles away.
14:0X Arrive late for meeting. Edited for speed legality reasons.
14:05 (ahem) - 15:45 Wish I'd stayed at home.
16:00 Back into car and back to office.
16:20 Decide day is really done and start to pack up.
16:25 Boss reappears, start to unpack.
16:30 Resolve to stay til 17:30 - more coffee.
16:31 It's 17:30. No, only one minute gone.
16:32 It's 17:30. No, only two minutes gone.
16:33-17:30. Ditto.
18:00 Arrive home.
18:10 Empty car of weekend's stuff.
18:15 Erase mental notes.
18:20 - 22:00 Dinner, TV and nodding off on settee.
22:00 PPRuNe and start typing drivel about my day which nobody will read.
22:29 Post it.
22:30 Amused by fact that have wasted 30 minutes of my life doing this.
22:31 More amused that I'm off on holiday at the end of the week.
22:32 Less amused that I won't be able to get away with this forever and when I get back will need to present results of work.
22:49 Reread this post. Can't be bothered to edit bad, tired, spelling mistakes - add this line as a get out clause...
22:53 Into bed. Can't sleep as worried about when I'll do the work.
22:54 Doesn't last long. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Tonight it's a CitationJet.
(Oh yes, at various stages, a few minutes flying thoughts - and scientists reckon it's sex we think about every 8 seconds! Oh, wait, it is...)
08:59 Radio sparks into life. Laugh at Wogan's comment before the news.
09:03 News finishes. Get out of bed and get post.
09:04 Find bills, file on floor/table/briefcase. But mainly bin.
09:05 Seated.
09:15 Wake up (I am beginning to think I am the only person who's able to fall asleep whilst, well, seated!)
09:20 Shave. Mental note to buy gel sachets for super-dooper razor, which when they run out turns into a bog-standard razor.
09:30 Into shower.
09:45 Finally woken up, get out of shower.
10:00 Iron shirt (and plan to find Mrs Daifly to do that for me (which may be why there is no Mrs Daifly...))
10:05 Burn myself, again.
10:10 Remember that I should always start with the sleeves.
10:15 1 shirt, complete with zig-zag creases, ready to wear.
10:20 Dressed to impress (well, blind people).
10:30 After Breakfast, having mastered making cereal - with milk! - oh yes, get into motor and head off to Heathrow.
11:00 Parked in short stay and, thanking Mr Business Class, walk no queuing at all.
11:05 Into lounge. Wonder who's paid for their own ticket and who's travelling "business". Decide, with my suit that's slightly tight, that it's just me who is on "business". Decide, with four hours to the meeting that I'm owed a beer. Well, you do don't you.
11:30 Realise that I'm never sure whether I should have made my way to the flight on my own or whether they'll announce it. It depends on the airline my brain tells me.
12:15 Getting scared now as my ticket says 12:20 gate closes - there have been no announcements...
12:25 Give in.
12:26 Get to door. "BMI announce..." Feel chuffed that I look like a pro
12:35 Settled into seat. Do the standard Business Class routine of getting a ream of paper out of briefcase to read.
12:36 Re-read it.
12:37 Remember that very salient point that you should read again.
12:38 Accept Daily Mail from crew and start to enjoy the flight.
13:00 Proper meal, including wine.
14:00 Onto stand, get annoyed that everyone undoes their belts before we've stopped. Laugh when chap next to me teeters on the brink of falling when he's up before we've arrived onto stand completely. Give him disapproving look - as only an expert air traveller would.
14:15 Into cab. Realise combination of beer and wine before meeting was not clever. Start to feel ill being throw around the back seat.
14:16 Cold sweats.
14:18 Hot sweats.
14:21 See sign for destination. 5 miles.
14:22 Decide may need to think of plan of illness attack.
14:35 With a great deal of mind over matter hold it all in. Arrive meeting.
14:40 Techstop enroute.
14:42 Meeting starts. Early.
15:00 Fed up hearing about Unions... (Why I didn't apply for a BALPA job).
16:00 All done. Wonder whether this was really worth it. A phone call would surely have surficed. Decide that enjoy flying too much to turn down these trips. Hold tongue.
16:20 Lift back to airport with guy from meeting. Running out of chit chat when airport looms large. Thankfully. Don't need to know any more about his kids.
16:35 Buy book. Don't need it, but gate has closed for earlier flight. Means I have 2 hours+ to wait til next LHR flight.
16:40 Into lounge.
16:45 Give up trying to appear businesslike and grab beer and peanuts and book.
17:00 Check in with boss to extol virtues of meeting clients on site.
17:15 Pray for forgiveness for lies.
17:30 - 18:45. More beer.
18:50 - 20:00. Wine.
20:15 Waiting at the end of the cul-de-sac to the east of T1 for the pushback to hurry up. Start tutting in the way that only us high ranking business people can when we're delayed on the aircraft.
20:25 On stand. Again, bloody clicking of belts before we've stopped. Decide against shouting to them all.
20:30 Decide car is very, very bad idea. Get cab.
20:50 Home.
20:55 Erase all mental notes.
21:00 Close windows.
21:05 Zzzzzzzzzz. Ah, I'm aerobatting my Chipmunk.
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Today. Post-Bank Holiday.
06:45 Wake up at Mum's house. Was happy, as that's where I'd gone to bed night before.
07:15 Mum assumes old role of tea and toastmaker. Mental note that she was never this happy doing it when we all lived at home.
07:25 Out of bed.
07:30-08:15 Usual ablutes and more toast.
08:20 Tears as I leave. Her, not me...
08:21 Guilt at leaving.
08:22 On road, feeling homesick already. Fool.
08:30 Dad's. More tea.
09:00 Finally enroute again.
09:01 - 11:40. At various points, wish I'd had wee before leaving Dads.
11:45 Walk into office.
12:00 Walk out of office for lunch.
12:45 Start work.
13:00 Throw all post into bin. Wasn't expecting anything important, so figure "anything" would've been commented on by PA.
13:01 Wonder if throwing all in bin was good idea.
13:02 Relent and get it all out of bin.
13:03 Throw all back into bin.
13:03.01. Mental note to buy shredder which would remove 13:02-03.01 problems.
13:15 Wonder where to begin with work.
13:45 Having given up on 13:15 and made coffee, read paper and PPRuNe start to prepare for 14:00 meeting.
13:56 Boss breaks news that meeting is being held 10 miles away.
14:0X Arrive late for meeting. Edited for speed legality reasons.
14:05 (ahem) - 15:45 Wish I'd stayed at home.
16:00 Back into car and back to office.
16:20 Decide day is really done and start to pack up.
16:25 Boss reappears, start to unpack.
16:30 Resolve to stay til 17:30 - more coffee.
16:31 It's 17:30. No, only one minute gone.
16:32 It's 17:30. No, only two minutes gone.
16:33-17:30. Ditto.
18:00 Arrive home.
18:10 Empty car of weekend's stuff.
18:15 Erase mental notes.
18:20 - 22:00 Dinner, TV and nodding off on settee.
22:00 PPRuNe and start typing drivel about my day which nobody will read.
22:29 Post it.
22:30 Amused by fact that have wasted 30 minutes of my life doing this.
22:31 More amused that I'm off on holiday at the end of the week.
22:32 Less amused that I won't be able to get away with this forever and when I get back will need to present results of work.
22:49 Reread this post. Can't be bothered to edit bad, tired, spelling mistakes - add this line as a get out clause...
22:53 Into bed. Can't sleep as worried about when I'll do the work.
22:54 Doesn't last long. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Tonight it's a CitationJet.
(Oh yes, at various stages, a few minutes flying thoughts - and scientists reckon it's sex we think about every 8 seconds! Oh, wait, it is...)
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06:00 alarm goes off
06:00.5 wife wakes up, hits me(still unconscious), tells me to turn alarm off.
06:01 hit snooze
- repeat every 10 minutes until 07:00 finally get out of bed (black and blue)
07:00-07:20 ablutions, feed cat, get suited up.
07:20 motorbike to boring IT office job (four miles up the road)
07:30 check emails/PPRUNE
07:30 - 15:30 should be working, but PPRUNE tends to occupy a large part of my time..
15:30 get home and start DIY jobs should have finished 6 months ago
17:30 make tea
18:00 veg in front of telly (mixture of Eastender's for 'er, and Discovery Wings for me)
23:00 bed
I need to get a life.....
06:00.5 wife wakes up, hits me(still unconscious), tells me to turn alarm off.
06:01 hit snooze
- repeat every 10 minutes until 07:00 finally get out of bed (black and blue)
07:00-07:20 ablutions, feed cat, get suited up.
07:20 motorbike to boring IT office job (four miles up the road)
07:30 check emails/PPRUNE
07:30 - 15:30 should be working, but PPRUNE tends to occupy a large part of my time..
15:30 get home and start DIY jobs should have finished 6 months ago
17:30 make tea
18:00 veg in front of telly (mixture of Eastender's for 'er, and Discovery Wings for me)
23:00 bed
I need to get a life.....
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Today only -
4:30 Wake up. (Don't ask!)
6:15 Alarm goes off
6:16 Open presents. Bottle of Beer & chocolate. Mrs WHC has very good taste.
6:17 to the present. Wash, dress, eat, drive, login, swear at computer. Pprune. Go to tescos for do-nuts. continue swearing & pruning.
4:30 Wake up. (Don't ask!)
6:15 Alarm goes off
6:16 Open presents. Bottle of Beer & chocolate. Mrs WHC has very good taste.
6:17 to the present. Wash, dress, eat, drive, login, swear at computer. Pprune. Go to tescos for do-nuts. continue swearing & pruning.
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0625 Alarm goes off. Put Pitts special back into hangar and...wake up
0630 Walk dog by river, checking wx and recalculating years to go to retirement and day-long flying.....
0730 Join lemmings on rush into the North's premier city
0800 Switch on monitors, drives, Mac and laptop, another day editing television programmes starts.
0805 PPRUNE fix one
0810 set something off rendering, transferring, playing out, anything to let me keep on PPRUNING.
0830 Coffee! Download Form 215 and try to match it up with the TV forecast... hmmm the weathermen seem to be getting more accurate the more times I do this...
0900 Edit edit edit edit unedit edit edit
1300 Lunch .. time for more Confuser... I'll get the hang of Met eventually
1400 Edit edit edit unedit do changes do more changes edit edit, one step forward , two steps back, how ever do we get anything on the air??
1800 Enough is enough , last look at PPRUNE, dreaming of that Instructor rating that'll let me get others to pay for my hours...
1830 Drive home past the field, hmm three in the circuit, why aren't I???
1900 Dinner - time for a bit more study before the close of play, why is it suddenly midnight?
0000 - 0625 The perfect day for a quick burst of aerobatics...I wheel out the Pitts and z z z z z z z
0630 Walk dog by river, checking wx and recalculating years to go to retirement and day-long flying.....
0730 Join lemmings on rush into the North's premier city
0800 Switch on monitors, drives, Mac and laptop, another day editing television programmes starts.
0805 PPRUNE fix one
0810 set something off rendering, transferring, playing out, anything to let me keep on PPRUNING.
0830 Coffee! Download Form 215 and try to match it up with the TV forecast... hmmm the weathermen seem to be getting more accurate the more times I do this...
0900 Edit edit edit edit unedit edit edit
1300 Lunch .. time for more Confuser... I'll get the hang of Met eventually
1400 Edit edit edit unedit do changes do more changes edit edit, one step forward , two steps back, how ever do we get anything on the air??
1800 Enough is enough , last look at PPRUNE, dreaming of that Instructor rating that'll let me get others to pay for my hours...
1830 Drive home past the field, hmm three in the circuit, why aren't I???
1900 Dinner - time for a bit more study before the close of play, why is it suddenly midnight?
0000 - 0625 The perfect day for a quick burst of aerobatics...I wheel out the Pitts and z z z z z z z
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7.00 Alarm goes off
7:01 Alarm takes a free flying lesson
7:50 get up for ******* work
7:55 Stand dazed and wonder why i am up so early
7:56 Remember i have to work to pay for flying
7:57 Wish i had never started flying
8:00 Go to work
8:10 At work being electrical engineer
8:15 ****** off being engineer want to fly
12:30 lunch, think of flying, talk rubbish to workmates
13:25 depression sets in as back to work in 5
13:30 work again, wish i was flying
14:30 Is it not 17:00 yet
16:00 nearly there, start to get excited
16:30 Now you know how long my days feel
17:00 Home at last
On a flying day ommit from 08:00 to 17:00. That is a quick day
7:01 Alarm takes a free flying lesson
7:50 get up for ******* work
7:55 Stand dazed and wonder why i am up so early
7:56 Remember i have to work to pay for flying
7:57 Wish i had never started flying
8:00 Go to work
8:10 At work being electrical engineer
8:15 ****** off being engineer want to fly
12:30 lunch, think of flying, talk rubbish to workmates
13:25 depression sets in as back to work in 5
13:30 work again, wish i was flying
14:30 Is it not 17:00 yet
16:00 nearly there, start to get excited
16:30 Now you know how long my days feel
17:00 Home at last
On a flying day ommit from 08:00 to 17:00. That is a quick day
If it's a work month:
1. Get up at 7:00am
2. Usual SS&S
3. Stagger to restaurant for brekkie
4. Decide on large heart attack on a plate or healthy option
5. Stroll 150 yds to work and have 1st ciggie. Note +40C in summer and -40C in winter with appropriate togs.
6. Do meetings and telecons with farflung sites sorting out ***** that won't be important in 10 days time liberally intersprsed with some ppruning.
7. Go for 2 hour lunch.
8. Back for more of 6.
9. 7:00pm arrives. make choice of ale venue.
10. 7.01pm go for drinks.
11. Slide gracefully into bed hopefully before 11:59 pm
12. Start all over again for another 27 days.
If it's not a work month:
1. 7:00 am. Get assaulted by enthusaistic 4 year old who wants to tell me stories
2. Get little monster fed and watered and ready for school
3. Take little red haired monster to school
4. Relax and have a secret ciggy
5. Fanny around the house or go flying if Mrs. LNS is available for pickup duties. If weather crap go and shine aeroplane and talk crap in hangar.
6. If not flying in morning, take little monster for flying, ballet etc.
7. Reassure Mrs. LNS that little monster didn't really do Battle of Britain breaks and pull 3+ G on the bottom (she cackles like a witch when she does this).
8. Eat food lovingly prepared by self or Mrs. LNS.
9. Drink wine (plus maybe some Ppruning)
10. Go to bed.
11. Start all over again for another 27 days
1. Get up at 7:00am
2. Usual SS&S
3. Stagger to restaurant for brekkie
4. Decide on large heart attack on a plate or healthy option
5. Stroll 150 yds to work and have 1st ciggie. Note +40C in summer and -40C in winter with appropriate togs.
6. Do meetings and telecons with farflung sites sorting out ***** that won't be important in 10 days time liberally intersprsed with some ppruning.
7. Go for 2 hour lunch.
8. Back for more of 6.
9. 7:00pm arrives. make choice of ale venue.
10. 7.01pm go for drinks.
11. Slide gracefully into bed hopefully before 11:59 pm
12. Start all over again for another 27 days.
If it's not a work month:
1. 7:00 am. Get assaulted by enthusaistic 4 year old who wants to tell me stories
2. Get little monster fed and watered and ready for school
3. Take little red haired monster to school
4. Relax and have a secret ciggy
5. Fanny around the house or go flying if Mrs. LNS is available for pickup duties. If weather crap go and shine aeroplane and talk crap in hangar.
6. If not flying in morning, take little monster for flying, ballet etc.
7. Reassure Mrs. LNS that little monster didn't really do Battle of Britain breaks and pull 3+ G on the bottom (she cackles like a witch when she does this).
8. Eat food lovingly prepared by self or Mrs. LNS.
9. Drink wine (plus maybe some Ppruning)
10. Go to bed.
11. Start all over again for another 27 days
