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  • Gen Con 2017 – The Events Melee

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    I had 43 events on my wish-list, got 5000th-ish in the queue, and got 5 of those events. One of which was a duplicate, and had to be thrown back, and which might have blocked out some others.. It turned out OK; Subsequent looking at games and time slots filled in the gaps, until I’ve…

  • What’s Going On?

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    should I be linking to or inserting the various songs I reference in blog post titles? serious question – I name them that way because it amuses me, but I wonder whether either of the readers of this thing have ever wondered, “What’s that a reference to?” this one seemed appropriate as an update title,…

  • Cup Of Brown Joy

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    I thought about posting a succession of ‘Today’s Clothing’ images, but it’s one small step from there to Fashion Blogging, and I think we’d all agree that I have no business being in that sector of the internet. So, week one. There have been a lot of meetings to be told about things, and I’m hoping…

  • First Night

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    First day of the new job. Here I am, dressed for work, and apparently cosplaying as a tree. Note please the calm posture, indicative of someone who is not nervous at all. How to sum up day one? Induction maybe pneumonia? Induction Ooooo, laptop Tour hello hello hello hello Info Session ar num num Meeting smile…

  • I guess I live HERE now?

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    I’m now in a company apartment/flat; Not 100% on how long I can stay here, but I’m hoping that it’s long enough to see out the next week (my first week of work – I start on Monday) and the weekend without needing to hunt for a place. It’d be nice to be able to concentrate on…

  • It’s The End Of The Story; It’s What Happens Next

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    A couple of weeks have gone by since The Interview, and … they’ve been sometimes busy, sometimes relaxing, sometimes fun, in one instance gutwrenchingly horrible, and very occasionally productive. After the initial OhMyGodOhMyGod of the job offer, and some shenaniganry involving getting the contract printed so that I could sign it, I had a couple of weeks…

  • This Is Not The End

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    More photos, this time from Aylesbury; I didn’t take any on the trip down from Edinburgh, or through London, or out to Aylesbury. Aylesbury has a branch of the Grand Union Canal, and it runs past two sides of the hotel I was staying in. Near as I can tell, folks are living in those narrowboats; It’s…

  • Flight From The City

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    This is one of those “I Take Too Many Photos” posts; Just so’s you know. In the space between the phone interview & the face-to-face one, I stayed in North Berwick for a couple of nights. I’d been told about North Berwick by the other escapee from Pukey Van Der McGee’s reign; It sounded like…

  • Something Good

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    When last we left our hero protagonist, back in Barely Breathing, the phone interview had gone well, and the as-yet-unnamed company were interested in a face to face interview. There’s always a gap between Let’s Talk and Can You Do Thursday?, and in the meantime I discovered that Edinburgh was booked solid because of a rugby game.…

  • Barely Breathing

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    Yesterday there was a phone interview, as recounted in This Is Just Where I Came In, and it went well, I thought; Clearly I picked a good mix from the available behavior options. I’d not expected to hear anything back before Friday, or more realistically Monday, and … I didn’t have a solid idea as to…