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  • This Is Just Where I Came In

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    Attempting to wrap my thoughts around the thorny issue of What To Do Next. The conversation with a recruiter I mentioned led to a phone interview; For a variety of reasons I’m keeping a bit quiet on who it was with, but it went well. The slightly nervous laughter from all parties turned into actual…

  • Pukey Van Der McGee: The Legendary Journey

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    I extended my stay here at the Safestay Hostel, and for some reason this involved me shifting rooms. I’m not convinced that their system is actually that good at keeping track of available rooms & bookings and so on – There were beds available when I asked, but it took a managerial type to intervene…

  • Round Here

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    OK, there’s not really any news; Jobhunt not going well, urge to punch recruiters for being shit-useless steadily rising, and I really have no clue what to do about it. Still, it’s a nice photo of the castle, I thought. Yes, more stairwell pictures†; This one’s at the Safestay Hostel, which has a somewhat complex…

  • Hangin’ Around This Town

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    Assuming that anyone is still reading this after The Ballad Of Pukey Van Der McGee, here’s something of an update on the current situation. That building on the left is the High Street Hostel; Window of the Lord of the Rings room was the one just above the outcropping at the far end, before the yellow-ish…

  • The Ballad Of Pukey Van Der McGee

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    You’ll be needing this to understand the full spatial impact and relevance of the tale unfolding here. OK, that’s a lie; I just felt like putting in a picture, if only because the rest of this has no pictures, and that’s a good thing in this case. I wrote about this on the Social Medias,…

  • Snow, Though Not Much Of It, In Edinburgh

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    We found ourselves back in Edinburgh, in no small part because even those places looking to hire people “immediately” in Inverness actually meant “we’ll take a look at CVs over a week or so, then do interviews a week or so after that”, which … Was sub-optimal. I did start the job-applying process in Inverness; At…

  • Inverness! Life Is Indoors There … Inverness! In The Frosty Air …

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    What? It scans. First, the basics. Inverness is cold. Bloody freezing, in fact, when the wind’s blowing, but it’s OK, because the houses are built for it, and have heating. At least, that’s what we thought. Turns out that this place is being run … cheaply, so the heating isn’t turned on all of the…

  • Employability in the nick of time, Badger exodus, and the train to Morningtown

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    I’d hoped that my National Insurance Number would make it to the hostel while I was still there, but as time went on it started looking less and less likely, so I made some alternate plans to leave a forwarding address for the blasted thing. I’m told that the situation can be be both better and…

  • Not Much Of An Update, To Be Honest

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    This post brought to you by Oh Hiroshima’s album “In Silence We Yearn” It’s been a while, so I figured it was time for an update, even though there’s not a huge amount to tell. I had my NiNo interview, for the magical number which allows you to pay tax and access medical care, sometime…

  • Twinkly Lights, Winter Wonderland, and Badgers

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    This is another one of them there consolidated update posts. Just so’s you know. First up, a few photos which didn’t make it into the last post, but which I quite liked. Greenwich looking all sparkly, Greenwich is crawling with markets – There’s the big mostly covered one which takes up the inside of a…