CraigBlog

A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • The hopefully none of you who’ve been paying attention to the dates of these posts may have noticed that I’ve worked from Canterbury for five days & haven’t said a damn thing about how it went. This is for deep…

  • OK, that was weak, even by my standards. I am, of course, talking about Canterbury Cathedral, which turns out to be tricky to photograph, at least with a smartphone. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’d been told the…

  • I’m expecting to go through a few iterations of the packing scheme before I get it right. Today’s version had the everyday clothing in the low compartment, the stuff I thought I’d need as soon into a hotel room in…

  • Had pre-work breakfast with many of the crowd from last night. The enthusiasm for a pre-work pint had faded, which is, I think, no bad thing. Does it make me a bad person if I want to see what an…

  • The traveling kit, version one, is about as packed as it’s going to get. I suspect I’ve got too much electronic stuff, or packed it badly, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m still figuring out how best to distribute…

  • Slept ok. Better than the admittedly terrible idea of a night on the floor, but I kept waking up from dreams about cleaning, or with a panicked thought that I’d forgotten to clean something or clear out something. I figure…

  • ( posting this from day one, but let’s not get too concerned about that, shall we ) The last of the furniture went away on day -1, and I’m already regretting this numbering system. I’m also somewhat regretting my decision…

  • Our story resumes with me killing time in the early morning at Dublin Airport, waiting on the last of three flights. There was some sort of … I’m not sure what … during priority boarding where a couple of folks…

  • Woke up during the early morning to see a thunderstorm outside. (not a lot of point in closing the curtains when you’re on the 30th floor, and it’s nice to wake to the sunrise. Decided to skip hotel breakfast today,…

  • Had to change rooms, or at least potentially change rooms, for my last reservation of the three today. I could have gone down & checked, but since I’m going to have to pack things up anyway, it seemed easier to…

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