Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Monday March 28, 2022 - The Blurb - What happened on Monday then? I got home for about seven? However it was another rubbish sleep, which is becoming too normal for my liking.  During a couple of times in the day I managed to grab about three hours of sleep, but somehow made it through the night shift on Monday night.  Luckily the shift on Monday was relatively steady.  I got home for 9:20am on Tuesday from the Monday night shift, after leaving home before 6pm.  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember)! The Gerry Anderson Podcast - (1:28) pod 198: March 28 2022: intro. Chat between presenters Jamie and Richard. Fab fact - Starfleet complimented by Gerry himself. I really enjoyed the show personally. Listener’s feedback. News. Listener’s feedback. Part three of Jamie’s interview with graphic designer Malcolm Garrett. Listener’s feedback. Randomiser - Chris looks at Rat Trap from New Captain Scarlett. Chat. Outro. Post show banter - a    very important chocol

  Sunday March 27, 2022 - The Blurb - Sunday was another day with very little sleep, and an incredibly busy shift that night… God was it busy! But before all of that the day started with me getting home for around ten to six as mentioned at the end of the previous post, and a new episode of Pods Like Us came out, featuring the great chat with Rachel, who makes the great Laurn DaKat films - CLICK HERE FOR THAT EPISODE . Work started immediately, receiving a call for a site a fair way away. The call came at ten past five while I was getting ready at the office, and I reached the site at five to six, had to call a colleague for details as they hadn’t been updated, and found that the alarm had been reset before I got there. I had already done an external check and found windows open that I secured from the inside, reset and left to pick a guard up from a site 45 minutes drive away, during which time another alarm call had come through that I had to respond to following the lift. The lift h

  Saturday March 26, 2022 - The Blurb - Saturday… Let’s see what I can remember on the following Thursday… Okay, so after quickly looking at the previous post I saw that I got in at around twenty to seven. I should have got in sooner, but I had to scrape ice off the car before leaving work, and then had to fuel up on the way home, which made me later getting in. I was also tired. Go figure.  However, when I got home I could not fall asleep. Again I was awake through the noise of neighbours and Louise doing bits, but mostly the neighbours.  Actually, scrap that. I now remember -  I got to sleep a bit before 7:30, but then woke up from the noises at about 10am, and come in midday I was bored trying to sleep, so got up.  Eventually I went back to bed at about 1:30pm, fell asleep about half an hour later, and woke up at 3:30pm, before leaving for work about twenty minutes later. The journey to work was a pain. Roadworks at Kelham meant that I was waiting there for a very long time, with it

  Friday March 25, 2022 - The Blurb - From the previous post - “ I got in from work at about twenty to nine in the morning, 25 and a half hours since waking up.” And it took until after 10am for me to fall asleep, and then I woke up at 2:45 in readiness to leave for work around four o’clock, chancing whether I get to work on time or not. I’m getting sick of the shift turnaround on Friday, especially now after the move. Pissed off all night with work. Constant money worries, and tired as hell! Got home from work at about twenty to seven.  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember)! Reboot Rewind - (0:50) season 5 episode 6: March 25 2022: This time Chris and Jordan are looking at the original 1960 film the magnificent seven, and the 2016 reboot. Actually, I thought that Star Wars was based on the Kurosawa film hidden fortress? The $20 subject - that is supposed to show that the seven are willing to help them, because the villagers are that poor, that is all that

  Thursday March 24, 2022 - The Blurb - The alarm clock woke me up at 7:30am. On a work day. Why on Earth did I list 10am as potential time for recording on a Thursday? Well I did, and now I must stand by that decision! I’m writing this in the morning, so we shall see what happens, as the intention is to do the shopping trip afterwards, and then grab a couple of hours in the afternoon before getting up for work.  I’ve already finished the blog about Wednesday, and it just needs the pictures adding before publishing it.  I’m incredibly nervous about the signal holding up, so I’ll cross my fingers about that one! I’d say “wish me luck,” but you’ll read this after the event. Payday tomorrow, and that’s making me nervous as well. The chat with Martyn went well, albeit with some occasional signal issues, and I think that plugging in my bass to have a practice before the show caused some issues with the microphone signal, and had to mess about a bit with the settings door to the show properl