Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Monday 14th of December 2020 Let’s see what I can remember of Monday now that it’s ten to one on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night)... I think that I got up at about two o’clock in the afternoon, and after having to do a few bits, I got on with editing the Christmas Music special of Pods Like Us. What have I put myself in for? I got it edited, but ran out of time to get it posted up. Typing the details out would have taken longer than I had, so I uploaded the episode to site as a file, so that it was there. I also uploaded it as a private file to my soundcloud account, which I listened to at work. After listening to it, and deciding that it was fine, I filled in the details onto the site, attached the already uploaded sound file, and then pressed “PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY”! Good episode, and full of fun from everyone involved. The night shift actually dragged, and I was thinking about what a guy at work had done with reference to working over Christmas... So, we have to provide our ser...

  Sunday 13th December 2020 Finished initial edit of the Christmas Music special episode of Pods Like Us, but still didn’t make the midnight release time. I didn’t get a whole load of my jobs done at work, mainly because the first hour was taken up by going out to bring a guard from site to home, and then later three hours was spent well out of the area learning some sites from another run on the third mobile run, which was further out than usual. It took about twenty minutes to meet the other guy at a site just outside of Lincoln, and then I followed him to the seven sites in question. We got out, did the patrols, and I took notes.  Once finished, it took about forty minutes to get back to Newark from where the last job was. Four hours taken out of my time for my own work there. I thought that I would get more podcast listening in, but I didn’t seem to. Let’s hope I’ve got those jobs in my head ready for my day shifts on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day! Podcasts listened to...

  Saturday December 12th 2020 I’m tired a lot lately! I don’t sleep so well these days, which is why I went to sleep after seven in the morning, and waking a little after one in the afternoon.  I carried on editing the first of the Christmas special episodes of Pods Like Us, which seems to be a long and laborious job! I was on the chat with Amazon for about an hour about sending two things back - one that they had sent two copies of by accident, and the other the wrong size. I got to work a few minutes late, and then my first job was to be a taxi for a guard, and a lock up had no set time, which is absolutely terrible. It was a fairly decent night, but it dragged like the dog at the back of the Griswold’s car in National Lampoon’s Vacation!  PODCAST LISTENING - Watchlist  - Ben & Tom were incredibly vocal about their dislike of Mrs Brown’s Boys! Robby The Robot’s Waiting  - finally I can finish watching the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, after Netflix remov...

  Thursday 10th December 2020 I got to sleep probably around 7:30 or so, woke at ten past twelve thinking it was two, until I realised and went back to sleep, eventually. I always have trouble falling to sleep. I woke up at two, had a cuppa, breakfast, washed and did my teeth, before going out at 2:40 to catch the launderette before they close at 3pm (2 hours earlier than pre-Covid), get an eBay parcel from Argos, and had to leave my car in the Morrison’s car park, as the space I was parked in on the street had now been taken, and I had no change to park elsewhere! I’m so tired lately. Went to get shopping from Morrison’s, got change for parking elsewhere, and found a space. Go figure...    At least I have the change for car parking now, just in case. I’m sick of the tiredness and headaches lately! Thursday night shift No call outs, which was good because I was so bloody tired! Got my work done though, which is a ridiculous thing to say as it’s incredibly rare that I miss...

  Wednesday December 9th 2020 night shift There were two unusual things on Wednesday evening/night...    Firstly I was working, which is rare because I normally get Tuesdays and Wednesdays off each week.    Secondly I was doing the outer run, which I very rarely do in the week. I normally do the outers on Saturday and Sunday, but here I was covering someone else’s shift. As if that wasn’t bad enough, I’m actually doing day shifts on New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day, which will be my first day shifts for three years! Getting up at 3 o’clock in the morning will not be good! I’m on nights from the 24th to the 28th prior to that.    My Christmas will be December 29th and 30th (until about 8pm    when I will have to go to bed to be up for 3am on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day of course). No call outs in the shift for me, so I was able to get around the regular lock ups and run sheet in a fairly relaxed manner, which is good considering that ...

  Monday December 7th 2020 afternoon/night I got to bed after work at around 8 I think, and fell asleep at around nine, followed by sleeping past my 12:30 alarm, waking at 2pm, and rushing to get bits bagged up for the laundry.    Uniforms are a necessity of course, although it turns out that it’s a good thing that I still have uniform bits to fall back on. I dropped that off, then parked back up, and went to WH Smith’s (we live in the centre of town, which is both a blessing and a curse, but more the latter). A magazine that’s almost redundant to myself! Already the Christmas TV guide was out, on Monday the 7th of December! I suppose that I understand that with it being two weeks away at that point from the week that THAT DAY falls! People are staying safe, and there is a tier system in place all over the UK, as there are restrictions all over the world! It’s a different year for the Christmas season, with these restrictions and fears, but it can be done! During the nigh...

Saturday 5th of December 2020 night shift Already tired before even starting the shift, after less than three hours of sleep. Somehow got through the shift, and there were no alarm calls, which was great in that I could get on with the normal site checks that were on my board.    I think it was somewhere between 200 and 250 miles that I clocked up. 2 Legs: A Paul McCartney Podcast Reelblend Punky Radio Robby The Robot’s Waiting Out Of The Blank Sunday 6th of December 2020 So, I got in from work at about twenty past five in the morning, saying that I’ll limit myself to going to bed at six. It turned out to be around half past six... Not bad for me! I got to sleep a little after seven I think. For some reason I woke at 8:45am think it was three in the afternoon.    Realised very quickly that it wasn’t, and went back to sleep relatively quickly, which is very different to the usual! Normally once I’m awake, I can’t get back to sleep, so I must have been really tired. I’...