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  • π Approximation Day

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    I was trying to keep a very chilled day, and didn’t want to be in Stafford all by myself, so I figured I’d go to London, given that I’d need to be there anyway the next day. It turned out that my friend K. also had the day off, so we decided to go do…

  • Chicago to Dublin to London to Aylesbury

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    It’s a long & exhausting trip, and it’s not getting any easier. The Indy to Dublin route opened after I booked, or I’d have at least tried that, to take out an airport and some time. For some reason, the host/server at the hotel restaurant was singing Julio Iglecias (?) songs to himself, and seemed…

  • London to Chicago

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    The hotel didn’t have AC, but did have windows that open a bit, so I could get some cooling effect & got a decent amount of sleep, admittedly in “only my feet are under the covers” mode. Woke up a little bit before my alarm.Hotel breakfast wasn’t as crowded as I’d dreaded. ( there was…

  • Ferry Time

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    Thanks to the hotel shenanigans, I didn’t get the train I’d intended; Not a big deal. There was one to Rotterdam soon after, so I caught that instead. (the planned one would have taken me to Schiedam Centrum, where there’s also a metro stop on the line out to Hook of Holland, where the ferry…

  • Middlesex v Glamorgan at Lord’s

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    It was Good Friday, and the weather was nice, so some friends who care about cricket went to Lord’s to watch a match. Or maybe the first day of a longer match; I’m not sure, the ticket is unspecific, and I don’t really care enough to ask. Turns out it’s the first day of a…

  • AKL to SIN to LHR to AYS to Chateau Guineapig

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    I left out a few train stations along the way

  • Greenwich Friday, Saturday, Sunday

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    Back to the Geovation hub to work today, even though I (correctly) expected it to be deader than yesterday. I stopped off at the coffee place from yesterday ( Goswell Road Coffee ) and hung around in there for a bit. They may be winning the “weird decorating” prize. The hub was, as predicted, dead.…

  • Greenwich Monday to Thursday

    Greenwich Monday to Thursday

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    Leaving Salisbury went smoothly; I’d packed everything I possibly could, done the dishes, and even vacuumed the night before, so all I really needed to do was shower, put on the clothes I’d set out the evening before, and go, retuning the key to it’s lockbox & dumping some rubbish on the way out. Me…

  • Esri UK Annual Conference 2023

    Esri UK Annual Conference 2023

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    I’m writing these a bit asynchronously, but hopefully I covered the leg thing when talking about leaving Bournemouth. Short version is that walking was painful but got better over time, and that I was hoping it was a dehydration/exertion thing, because the symptoms were worryingly close to The Great L5S1 Rupture Of 2015. Slept well,…