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Well, I lived. It was harrowing. I needed all my concentration and forbarence. A quest of mind over matter, keeping the end goal clearly in sight. Focus, very precise focus, and the many years of endurance that I could call on. That’s how it’s done. That’s how I survived unscathed through the 90 minute teamContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 44”

“Be careful where you bleed !…” Story of my life, in that instruction. I mean it was a completely insignificant scrape, just on my pinky knuckle. Simply awkwardly placed at the joint. Of course I have no idea how I sustained this injury (drink was NOT involved), my first hint is that there are redContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 43”

The good news is, they renewed my website subscription when I wasn’t looking, so you get a whole other year of dogs life(s). We’re now counting down the days to my firewalk (Oct 9TH), but they’ve decided you can only have two guests, so the all singing, all dancing, full musical with orchestra and dancers,Continue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 42”

The French have an expression which I have always loved, “Esprit d’escalier” (there should probably be some accents). For those unfamiliar, it would normally translate as “the spririt” – or perhaps better. “the inspiration, of the stairs” and it is used to refer to, for example , “the brilliant retort you should have said fiveContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 41”

It was a toss up whether to do this today -in isolation, or tomorrow -after the op, but experience has taught me that I generally feely grogy and uninspired in the immediate aftermath (like major dental work). So here I am “stuck” in my room of 1000 games, several hundred books, a PC and aContinue reading “It’s A Dogs Life 40”

It’s fdels about 2 pm ‘ish, which is bad, because I have slept maybe 4 hours, but worse because ideally I should have no sense of “when”. It should be “no-time” according to the wierd calculus of nightshift, but my body insists it is “get up time”, while my intelect looks ahead to tonights 9Continue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 39”

Well I’m off to work one final non rolling backshift. As of tomorrow I return to a full rolling 24 hour pattern (Booo), I am however off tomorrow (Hooray). In truth I can’t complain, it’s been 18? months (maybe more) since I worked my normal rota, and I do still have a job to goContinue reading “It’s A Dogs Life 38”

I spent the morning on the phone. A long planned, several times postponed – courtesy of lockdown- trip away, needs must be moved again. These things happen. No plan actually survives contact with real life. Naturally I have just been issued with revised shifts, which, I have already juggled somewhat to get the requesit timeContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 37”

There is generally never a good time to discover an unexpected problem with your car. I am sure that somewhere, someone, just on holiday, but with no actual plans, has gone to their car to save the short walk to buy milk, and discovered to their mild annoyance they would have to stroll after all,Continue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 36”

Two months till the fire walk! There was idle talk of a song. This is a work in progress. Ordinarilly the muses will show me some 3 or 4 chords to go with my lyrics, but on this ocassion, prompted by the comments of some good friends, I understand that my compostion must, in fact,Continue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 35”