Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Thursday April 22nd 2021 -  The blurb - Awake at 8:30am.    I don’t know why, but I woke up at 8:30, for some unknown reason. Damn, I’ll probably be fighting sleep in the night shift! On Wednesday we were listening to Steve Wright’s show on BBC Radio Two, where they were speaking with Dr Hillary Jones, who was saying that an afternoon nap wasn’t a good thing, as it could cause mental problems when people get older.  I don’t understand why that would be, but it’s still a bone of contention with me about another thing that was mentioned on that show. Once again Dr Hillary said that people shouldn’t eat after around nine o’clock of night, which then people outside of my work mention to me, to which I always have to remind them that I work night shifts, so obviously can’t eat all of my daily intake of food in under six hours (if I get up at 3 in the afternoon), and then expect to last the ten and half hours until the end of my shifts (for 7:30am finish Monday ...

  Wednesday April 21st 2021 -  The blurb - Woke up at about half past seven, and got out of bed a little after eight o’clock.  I immediately put Food Network on for Louise on the tv, with Giada De Laurentiis, which was then followed by some baking thing where they were making things based on animals. I saw a couple of the things and said to Louise “I didn’t know that we were watching Nailed It!”  I caught the video for Damon Albarn’s remix of the Paul McCartney song Long Tailed Winter Bird, that is from the forthcoming III Imagined set. I like it! Louise watched a lot of baseball bits on YouTube, including a documentary that’s over an hour all about New York Yankees star short stop Derek Jeter, who is now the CEO for the Miami Marlins.  We finished watching episode five of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which had a hell of a lot going on in it, as well as a scene in the middle of the end credits!  I listened to a podcast while I nipped out and finished ...

  Tuesday April 20th 2021 -  The blurb - After getting in from work at about twenty past eight, I got into bed for about nine, and up at half past one. We watched  Gogglebox , and I’m not sure what else we did before I popped out. I was still not feeling tip top, but went to drop a bag of bits to the laundrette, and when I came back we had decided not to visit  Louise ’s parents the following day.  I’m worried about needing the toilet at a moment’s notice, and the whole farting business at the moment.    I could probably knock enemies out at a few paces at present.  💨   I went to Morrison’s in the evening to do a decent shop, and while there I listened to a couple of podcasts. Well, of course I did! After around an hour I got back home, and we had tacos for our dinner, which had scampi in them. I should really contact Dave from the podcast Taco The Town to guest on Pods Like Us! We watched the film  California Man  in the evening, ...

  Hey up! 👋  Monday April 19th 2021 - The blurb - Got in late from work at about seven in the morning for the 5:30am finish shift.  I woke up at about 3 in the afternoon, and watched some baseball catch-up on MLB, as well as some YouTube bits. I also sorted out the monster of a blog post about Sunday, which took a while. Started work at 7pm, but didn’t start listening to anything until around 9pm. Busy at the beginning with little bits and bobs, mainly phone based. It was a relatively easy going shift, but I’m still lethargic and tired, and need to sort THAT PROBLEM out.  I’ll say that I went in the night in a fashion, and leave it there.  The ‘casts - The Corona Diaries  - episode 50. No sign of  Steve “H” Hogarth , but instead  Ant  is chatting with  Steve ’s sisters  Gilly  &  Sue . Starts with the fun of discussing the family trivia game.  Ant ’s getting the truth about the early years of  H !  Gill...

  Sunday April 18th 2021 - I think it was about two o’clock when I woke up. I made a coffee and made  Louise  a cup of tea. I’m not sure what we did otherwise... Louise  carried on playing  Sims  on her tablet, and I got the previous blogpost finished up with pictures and everything. Too much information, but toilet stuff is still worrying... I got to the office for a decent time, but  Ken  was back late because he was covering for a guard not showing up, until one arrived. 2 alarms before midnight. One took 29 minutes to sort out, and the second 50 minutes. 1 alarm after midnight, 31 minutes on site, 30 minutes drive from previous job, and then 45 minutes drive to the next job after that.  That last bit I decided at a certain point in the journey to switch to music again with iPhone shuffle to “lively myself up”! I was having trouble staying awake, which is dangerous when you’re driving! Towards the end of the shift I did an open up for...

  Saturday April 17th 2021 - When I got back from work in the morning I think it took a while to drop off, and then I woke up at ten past one to the next door neighbour doing their best Roger Taylor/Ringo Starr/John Bonham impression. Noisy swine! If only guns were legal here... I don’t really mean that! I got to work at about ten to five, and immediately had an alarm call to go to that was a half hour drive each way. Fire door left wedged open by the staff when they closed. After doing the changeover with day man Ken, I left for there at 20 past. Ken had got back after five because he had a busy day with alarms as well. I got another call later on where I was joined by police. While there looking for the camera the monitoring station said they had seen action on, I looked to the are where they said it was, and found that they had stolen a CCTV camera from the site. It was my first time ever to the site. I got a fair bit of podcasts listened to, and had a couple of breaks for some ...

Friday April 16th 2021 - It was a Friday, so the sleep potential wasn’t great. I watched a couple of things on YouTube, but not a programme on the TV as such. I didn’t really have the time for anything else. I got to work at about twenty past five in the evening. Busy at the beginning with work bits and phone calls. Eventually I got iTunes to shuffle a few songs before listening to podcasts.    I did the same at the end of the shift as well. Nice message in the evening from Adam of Adam & Craig’s Guilty Pleasure Cinema to say that he likes the episode I’ve edited with them as my guests on Pods Like Us. That episode is out on Sunday and, in all honesty, I could easily have made two hour and a half episodes from the original footage. Some initial footage was recorded back in December in a little bit of time before recording a special Christmas break episode. In February we met again on Zoom and were supposed to talk for an hour and a half at the most. We talked for about two...