Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Sunday May the 30th, 2021 -  The blurb - Another not so good sleep. Too much on my mind... I got in at around 5:30 I believe, and was in bed before 6:30.    I fell asleep at around 10am I think, and woke at 3:30pm. Between 4 and 4:30 I finished editing episode one of season three of Pods Like Us.    I just needed to use the Levelator software to level the individual sound files out, then place them back in, lower every individual sound file to avoid clipping and distortion, then save an mp3 to upload, and then while uploading add the show notes. I left Levelator doing it’s thing while I got ready for work, and finished the rest when I popped back later for a break. This will be different. I’m going to try and just listen to the shows and then paraphrase the synopsis in the descriptions. This is to see if all of the note taking is slowing me down at work, and to see if I can get more listening in, because I feel like I could listen to more and hopefully get more shows listened to. Sun

  Saturday  May the 29th, 2021 -  The blurb - From getting in late from the Friday night shift, it took me hours to drop off. I remember the bells for 9:30am, and nothing past them until I suddenly woke up at 2:15 for no reason.  I needed to get some stuff done anyway, so I basically got up and made me and Louise a drink, and I had a bowl of cereal.  I had another 45 minutes of editing time, and luckily only need a very short time on Sunday to have episode ready for the world. Talk about cutting it thin! Steady shift at work, but I think the note taking is slowing me down. I decided before listening to the Tabletop Genesis podcast episode about Peter Gabriel’s third self-titled album, that I would give it a listen. That was so much fun.  Possibly my favourite album of Pete’s. Saturday  May 29th 2021 - The ‘casts - Tabletop Genesis  - (1:58)  Ep9 Dec 13 2015 : 3 (Melt) by Peter Gabriel. Mike, Ellie, Stacey, Simon & Tom. My favourite of Pete’s albums. First song is Intruder with Phil

  Friday May the 28th, 2021 -  The blurb - I must have been seriously shattered when I got in from work, because when I did get in from work eventually at around a quarter to nine, I got into bed for about half past nine, fell asleep around 10am, and slept through the 3:30pm alarm.  I woke up at 4:45pm! Because of the time I got into work, I stayed until 6.30am, or I meant to... I rang the day mobile once I realised that I had left my keys in the site patrol key box.    This meant that I left the office a little before seven. I got home after a relatively easy night, albeit one that had a few phone calls again. I split the night’s pods by listening to a couple of albums as well - the latest album by Field Music is a great album.  I love the first album by Electric Light Orchestra, because there’s something very unique about it that is unlike any other album ever made in my opinion . Friday May 28th 2021 The ‘casts - Our Cynic Culture  - (0:24)  EP10 : Easter eggs with stout in? Sweet!

  Thursday May the 27th, 2021 -  The blurb - Steady shift for me at work, albeit with the phone ringing a fair bit. I got some listening in though. (The previous post went a fair bit into Thursday) Thursday May 27th 2021 iTunes Shuffle Invisible - Duran Duran Hammerdown - Ted Nugent (with Meat Loaf) Sakhi - John McLaughlin and Shankar Mahadevan Get On Top - Red Hot Chili Peppers Oblivion - The Five Hundred At The End Of The World - Lifesigns The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath Nos Voix Se Mélangent - Lazuli Deep State - Tau Cross Secret World - Jonah Matranga Thursday May 27th 2021 The ‘casts - The Ray Harryhausen   Podcast  - (1:19)  EP36 : Ooh, new opening music. That’s wonderfully epic! They’re doing it as their third videocast, calling it a vodcast. Is that right? John Walsh & Connor Heaney are counting down people’s top ten lost films that were conceived, as featured in John’s book, as well as their favourite scenes that never made released films. Vanessa Harryhausen picked her thre

Tuesday 25th of May 2021 Monday night’s shift finished late.  I was due to finish at seven thirty in the morning, but an alarm call came in at six minutes past seven.  I have to respond to alarms up until 7:30am, as there is no day shift responder until the office staff turn up. I got to the alarm to find that despite the Ops Manager saying that it was probably staff coming on, it wasn’t. It was a place that we have no key for, so I looked around that area to make sure that entrances and windows were all secure and undamaged. I figured that that was as much as I could do, as none of the five site contacts were answering their phones. When I tried to set the alarm it went off within a few seconds of getting out.  Obviously there was a problem, so once more I did a ring around. Eventually I left 45 minutes after arriving on site, with the oncoming staff sorting it out.  I was able to get in there after getting the number for their key cabinet, and using the key to get in there, only to f

  Monday May the 24th, 2021 -  The blurb - Again it took a long time to go to sleep...  I got in for a little before seven, in bed about half past, and remember still being awake for the church bells across the way telling me that it was 9:15am. Thank you church bells... Do you know what, you may think that church bells are romantic and all that, but they’re not if you live on the same street as them while they are ringing every fifteen minutes to tell you the time, as well as for every wedding, funeral, christening...  I had such trouble with a blowout on the work van. The wheel underneath was a bitch to get to, with the bolt so corroded that the threads had worn away in places, and obviously whoever put it there had used a machine to tighten it. There are some clever bastards around aren’t there... Eventually I got it off, but when putting the wheel cage back, the right side dropped out of it’s place as well. A pet peeve of mine is having spare wheels underneath vehicles, especially

  Sunday May the 23rd, 2021 -  The blurb - I woke up at around three in the afternoon, after more difficulty falling asleep. Pods Like Us is returning on May 29th (next Sunday), and I’ve got the first two episodes to their initial first edit, where I take out some bits, and now my next job is to listen to them as they are to then edit if necessary where it may not flow. There isn’t long to get it done... I was hoping that I would have at least the first six shows completely edited before next Sunday, so that I would be ahead of the curve. Luckily though I am recording the tenth episode for season three on Tuesday, which is a great position to be in.  A young common newt at Elston Mind you, I had about that many ready for season one and still ended up worrying because of episodes being postponed and it getting close to the wire.  Luckily I haven’t had a case of not having an episode to put out during season time though. As a bit of a tease I will say that I am carrying on playing with t