{"id":2659,"date":"2016-12-14T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:43:48","slug":"2659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Not Much Of An Update, To Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This post brought to you by Oh Hiroshima&#8217;s album &#8220;In Silence We Yearn&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJCLnFOfFKQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s been a while, so I figured it was time for an update, even though there&#8217;s not a huge amount to tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had my NiNo interview, for the magical number which allows you to pay tax and access medical care, sometime last week.<br \/>\nThis involved a bunch of sitting around, but a fairly pleasant interview, where the Jobcentre person filled out the form &amp; fudged the appropriate bits which might cause trouble, like my NZ Social Security number.<br \/>\nHe wasn&#8217;t sure what that might be, didn&#8217;t have info on what it might look like, and advised me to go with &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know&#8221; rather than guessing, as a wrong guess sees the form sent back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bringing this up because the relevant people called me today to check the address, so with luck I&#8217;ll have the number in a week. Might need to get my mail forwarded if it&#8217;s not here before I leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;\">Someone contacted me, via LinkedIn, about a possible job in Edinburgh.<br \/>\nProbably they did a search on &#8216;GIS&#8217; &amp; &#8216;Edinburgh&#8217;, because &#8230; well, I&#8217;m not the guy they&#8217;re after, and my profile shows it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Had to move out over the weekend, partially because the hostel gets booked out, but also because I wanted my own room for a few nights; Some of that was because recording a Big Red Couch episode is tricky in a hostel, given time zones and the like, and some was because I\u00a0<strong>really<\/strong> didn&#8217;t want to hear someone else snoring while I was trying to sleep.<br \/>\nThere had been a bad one in our room; Nice chap, but Jesus Christ On A Big Purple Tractor was he loud.<br \/>\nAt the start of the night there was the concern that, after a suddenly-aborted\u00a0<em>SNORRK<\/em>, he&#8217;d stopped breathing &amp; we&#8217;d need to resuscitate.<br \/>\nBy the end the thought process was closer to &#8220;If He Dies, The Noises Will End&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Said person was travelling in the one-bag style, so I got to see one of the backpacks which folks have reccomended for carry-on only travel; He&#8217;d selected it as being\u00a0<em>just<\/em> within the restrictions for cabin baggage, and it\u00a0<strong>did<\/strong> look nifty.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The weekend hostel was in Wood Green, in the Norf of London, and was in theory aimed at artistic and creative types.<br \/>\nNot sure whether they managed it, and I&#8217;m unsure how to review it, because it had the least vibe of any place I&#8217;ve stayed in yet, and I&#8217;m including the bad places in that assessment; The place by St. Pancras may have been a relic of the 70&#8217;s, but &#8220;shambles&#8221; is still a vibe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was like staying in an art gallery between shows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bg5iiq-dm2305.files.1drv.com\/y3mT6pYWB3_-z8cY8Oo5gsTlYPkOD39B14wL6LouSTIHkj99kTv-Wy-D-edjcLMGIyhwOIQrO8d1WmiQmBSJuQGpHduzGQQpem0NNL7bBEUKCA49IhTeVqSdgQNulCPnqTKXS9SYVIMr8fEwU8x8D6JPz2gb2YkGBmkRt09tEDHkfM?width=371&amp;height=660&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"371\" height=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cq5piq-dm2305.files.1drv.com\/y3mF6g-vBs26bqQT50FMbmXudyVibio0n7Uj82WVpYYnasP4m3hvMSSQAdoPZf4JPSsVn3nisMLx3LAplomYoPkTapVZk6eFByJJZ-G3wxAZ-yKnPYm5J96mdkhfiDahWkxyscAIBU-UqygN3R4hQMwOzgWizP-d4RsnkvkdDdSSGY?width=660&amp;height=371&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I saw other people a couple of times, but most of the time it felt like it was just me, rattling around in a shuttered art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The room, however, was nice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cq5kiq-dm2305.files.1drv.com\/y3m7pbQ5c9GTh8DZKBTLRrAhjQMtQ1iau_KRIJ0QDqGM_DwgsPxxm12RSybaOJRWnaGlDcanZryYKvzmZo9uHjaGiPSHt44HlWrf6AeLKfEbUcVMXjamJIggQSjVPUKLFsu8V19ei2js-zM2u0blBbJ2b6ufcm3svjR5H4QeY_Tytk?width=660&amp;height=371&amp;cropmode=none\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a cafe &amp; restaurant down at the ground floor, doubling as reception, and performance spaces upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>WiFi was a bit rubbish, sadly, but we got the recording done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post brought to you by Oh Hiroshima&#8217;s album &#8220;In Silence We Yearn&#8221; It&#8217;s been a while, so I figured it was time for an update, even though there&#8217;s not a huge amount to tell. 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