Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Sunday was a difficult night, because I was really poorly for the whole shift. My head was spinning, I was choking whenever I needed to speak, and coughing up, well, that’s too much information.  I think that working over the bitterly cold weekend made it so much worse. What came next was a rarity. When I woke up on Monday afternoon, I sent a message to work to let them know that I wouldn’t be in, and that I couldn’t talk without choking. As I’m writing this on Tuesday morning, other than for trips to the toilet, I haven’t gotten out bed since getting in from work on Monday morning. I may have to organise a home delivery for the weekly shop. :-(  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember) Teens Talk with Nifemi - (0:14) November 27 2022: “Stress Management 2 - In this episode we have a lovely guest speaker Niniola as she shares her experience on how she has been able to manage stress. You can check out Nini's YouTube channel: @Niniola O.”  Omega Star 7 -

  I was still feeling bad, but soldiered on through it all. What else could I do without running the risk of losing my job for leaving them in the lurch. Ken being off wasn’t helping one bit!  Here’s a strange reference, but like the song Power To Love by The Cross, I had to just push on through. The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember) Bridgewater - (0:38) season 2 episode 12: March 24 2023: “chapter 22 The Deal - It will all happen again. Wrongs will be set right, souls will return to their proper place, and bargains will be made. Everything will change forever in the Bridgewater Triangle, even as things happen exactly as they are supposed to.”  Okie Bookcast - (0:32) episode 1: October 5 2021: After an introduction there is an interview with James, Charles, Chloe and Stephen from Literati press comics and novels, a great shop in Oklahoma City. The guest review of a favorite book for this chapter is from author Hannah Joy Herron, who chose the Stephen King

  Dreadful night shift, where I was feeling almost the entire night and, as I write this now on the Saturday afternoon, I’m still not feeling that great. A new site to check on, which needed a bit of attention as it was new. A door unlocked that needed sorting, having to work out the layout of the place, and all of that. The usual teething problems, especially of a site that came on so late that there was no way to do a risk assessment or see what’s there.  I had an absolutely terrible headache for a lot of the night, making me dizzy, as well as a sore throat, and some breathing issues. Unfortunately, as I’ve mentioned before, I work for a bunch of arseholes who don’t know how to organise their man power properly. This means that with Ken being off sick this weekend, there would be no way to cover me. Hence why I worked with terrible covid, hmm, last Summer. Because they were down to a single driver doing all three mobile runs. I still got told off for standing on an upright piano on a

  Thursday night - back to work on nights after my regular Tuesday and Wednesday nights off.  They’re not days off, they’re nights off.  The more I go to work the more it niggles at me - the only good thing about work is the time to listen to podcasts while I’m driving the work van!  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember) The Icarus Complex - (0:38) season 5 episode 9: March 21 2023: chapter 59 London. Returning to London after all of that time that he was in Bristol, Liam has trouble settling in, so contacts Elena on the phone for some friendship. I was surprised that I was in this episode once again as Liam’s agent Stanley.  Interhacktives - (0:12) 25 November 2016:  The rise of fake news #CillittBangEffect  Merriam Webster’s Word of The Day - (0:02) March 21 2023: fawn  Omega Star 7 - (0:25) season 1 episode 16: September 28 2021: “16.5 Space Is A Beach - Tricked! Trae has to use his wits to escape the slippery grasp of Cala Mastros, a Namyran ship Thief

  Mum is now near to the coal mining pit where her father (my granddad) worked, as did my own dad. Episode one of Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, called Lot 36, was superb.  March 13 to March 22 2023 -  My younger [half] brother James had let me know about his visit on Saturday, where he went with his wife Mamico, and their children Isaac and Emma, who were a bit of a handful.  Emma apparently had started the shower up, and Isaac was pulling all of the help cords dotted around the assessment flat. After asking and asking, I finally found out that my oldest brother Richard had gone to visit her on the Sunday, but after signing in, he got bored waiting at the internal door to be let in, so went back home.  I was at work on the Monday, but went to visit mum on the Tuesday, taking note of what food she still had and didn’t have, basing it on a list that Louise had written.  It was a difficult visit, with mum not in the greatest of moods.  Wednesday saw me getting a phone call

Monday night was better than Sunday, that’s for sure. Albeit a busy night, with a couple of handfuls of extra jobs on, and other issues, but it was better. I always wish I had more time for listening, and have toyed with the idea of listening to shows at faster speeds to help with listening to more pods. Recent events have really not helped my mood a lot lately, and that’s reflected in the work.  When I noticed in the night that a new episode of InSpectre had come out, I had to listen to it straight away.  I love that show - great writing, production, voicing, and it always makes me laugh - I think I have a leaning towards story based pods with humour in them, such as The Chronicles of Wild Hollow, Omega Star Seven, Desert Skies, and even The Icarus Complex has some great humour in there. Speaking of The Icarus Complex, the new episode of that didn’t arrive until after I had got home, or that would have taken priority of course. The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I