CraigBlog

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

  • US Preclearance in Dublin was pretty damn uneventful. I was hazy on the photography rules post-preclearance, so I didn’t take pictures of the Last Chance To Get Your Twee Shit kiosk. I mean, it wasn’t called that on any sign,…

  • I’m writing this offline due to poor free wifi time-management. And because having used the free allowance for plebs in the procss of getting signed up for the longer allowance for Heathrow Rewards members, the system is sticking to “Time’s…

  • Things went more or less to plan. The More is that I’m here in my cabin at Heathrow Terminal 4, with my stuff, ready to fly out tomorrow. The Less is that I had to go back to my residence…

  • It’s Wednesday night. I fly out on Saturday midday-ish, though I’m leaving Aylesbury on Friday night & spending the night in an airport hotel, as I wasn’t sure how long it’d take to get to Heathrow on a Saturday morning.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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?…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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