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Riding my nightmare

by deadheaduk @ Wednesday, 25. Jan, 2006 - 23:28:47

I haven't written anything for ages because I have just been soooooo busy. January is usually a quite month at work but this year has been bloody mental. So far this week I got home at 11 pm on Monday and left again at 6am on Tuesday. Then both Tuesday and tonight I didn't get home till after 8. Next week is mad too.

We still seem to be getting a lot of shows for the Government. So far this year I've done events for the Dept. of Constitutional Affairs and the Home Office. I've put microphones on both Permanent Secretarys and the Home Secretary. It was interesting to meet the Permanent Secretary at the DCA, Alex Allan as I knew of him as he runs a rather good site on the good old Grateful Dead.

He must be the only high ranking civil servant who lists the Grateful Dead as an interest on their department website. I did however resist the urge to tell him that the lyrics quiz on his website has wasted so much of my time and how I've still haven't managed to score more than 6 out of 10!!

I've also been restricted in my blogging by the IT manager at work who has seen fit to add blog.co.uk to the banned list on our firewall. That'll teach me to fall out with him. Not my fault I know a lot about IT but it seems to piss off IT managers when you know as much as they do - especially if he has just reformated a colleagues hard drive losing al their data and the same problem occurs with your pc and you point out it could be a conflict between the new anti-virus software and the old one he has left on there.

Title comes from a track by a band called Budgie - it was a track of their album "Never turn your back on a friend" that I dug out after a good few years - it amazing how you don't hear something for 15 years and you can still remember the lyrics!! I saw them a few times back in the late 70's but they're still doing the rounds.

Finally it was Sarah's birthday today but I'm probably not allowed to say that she was >:XX!!


 
 

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isadora101isadora101 [Member]
26/01/06 @ 23:47

Happy Birthday to Sarah,
Bless, she's just a wee bairn. How old did you say she was? 22 or 42 i'm sure it was something like that.

deadheadukdeadheaduk [Member]
http://www.shewan.co.uk
27/01/06 @ 00:17

Well I've been banned from saying but if you were to average those two figures then you wouldn't be far off ;)

She's worried if people know how old she is they'll think I'm a dirty old man

isadora101isadora101 [Member]
27/01/06 @ 10:35

Deadhead (aka Rod stewart, Mick jagger et al) lover of young women! Dirty old man? No we wouldn't think that :)

[Visitor]

27/01/06 @ 10:26

Perhaps your IT Manager could learn a few things from Machiavelli (http://www.askmen.com/money/successful_100/119_success.html) - how to achieve your ends without estranging your employees.

creigiaucreigiau [Member]
27/01/06 @ 10:28

Happy birthday for Sarah two days ago. Did you do anything? or is that censored as well :-)

John

bobski77bobski77 [Member]
27/01/06 @ 20:19

My friends brother Alan, was really into Budgie. Everytime I went to his house he had it on, on his mum and dads music centre. The good old days.

[Visitor]

27/01/06 @ 22:24

Yeah, Happy B. to Sarah, who I reckon must be about 20 years younger than M. And what the hell ?

*I* was quite disturbed when David Cameron (a) revealed that he likes The Smiths, and (b) I believed him. It's not so much that I don't think Tories *can* like decent bands, but rather that he's started saying other things - POLITICAL things - that I also find sympathetic. Mind you, it's reasonably easy to remind myself that anybody who isn't Tony Blair is bound to sound good. Except George Galloway, of course (I knew yon George 20 years ago, and thought him an arrogant shit then; it's gratifying to have what I feared might be my prejudices confirmed so resoundingly...)

[Visitor]

28/01/06 @ 19:49

Are you old enough to remember Adam Faith as 'Budgie' on TV and the preposterous fasion it spawned in 'Budgie Jackets'? Or is it just me....?

[Visitor]

28/01/06 @ 21:15

Nah - it's me as well ! I was always a big fan of Charlie Endell...

[Visitor]

29/01/06 @ 19:48

LOL. God isn't memory TREACHEROUS. I was in the rag trade at the time and we made thousands off that series.

topofthestairstopofthestairs pro
01/02/06 @ 12:25

Thank go it's not just me who hasn't time to blog - is it me or was that the quickest january on record?

deadheadukdeadheaduk [Member]
http://www.shewan.co.uk
02/02/06 @ 23:23

Haven't stopped all bloody month - feeling burnt out already

Crazy stuff

[Visitor]

02/02/06 @ 12:47

I miss your entris with their simple craft and solidness.

deadheadukdeadheaduk [Member]
http://www.shewan.co.uk
02/02/06 @ 23:22

Thanks - there's a new one there now!

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