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Mar 28, 2021 - 7:58 AM
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Graham Watt
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Would it be better to do a Saturday next, for Graham, Michael, Howard?
In my case Thor, it honestly doesn't really matter. I'll be able to make some of some, but never all of all, and probably not even some of all. Whatever. I'll pop in whenever I can, like a spontaneous trip to the pub to see my mates. That's the way I like to see the Cheers Zooms. But just as in "real life", I sometimes have last-moment commitments, or I'm just tired, or my wife will suggest a film to watch together. And I haven't really got an awful lot of free time.
I know that this is all me me me, but I don't know anyone as well as I do me myself I, so let me continue PULEEEZE -
This is kind of relevant to my latest comment on the Zoom thread on the other side, and also tangentially connected to Kev's recent thread about our changing drinking habits... Anyway, when I was a youngster, and even up until about the age of 35 I used to do quite frequent all-nighters. Then I'd sleep all the following day. I know that it's not absolutely necessary to have a drink with the Cheers meetings (actually it is, but it's not obligatory to get pished oot yer heid), but regardless of drinking or not drinking.... (to be continued)...
...(continued)...I actually find myself now wanting to go to bed before midnight, even on Fridays and Saturdays. Then I get up at 7 in the morning and walk into town for the newspaper.
And then there's the fact that I don't usually finish work until about 9, after starting at 9 in the morning. All day stuck to a computer screen, only taking time off to post comments on the FSM board. Then I have dinner until about 10. Then I often need to get some fresh air, even if it's just going for a walk around the block to stretch my legs. Then it's bed time.
No wonder I've only had time to hear THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO once.
I trust that this has been interesting for you all. A lot of hard work went into it, and it took me as long to type as it would to hear an episode score from the SAN FRAN set.
I hope to see you all somehow, someday, somewhere.
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Mar 28, 2021 - 8:45 AM
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Graham Watt
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Cripes, I had no idea your days were so jampacked, Graham. Working from 9 to 9....is that even legal?
As I'm self-employed, I decide the hours I do Thor. A lot of that is unpaid time too (researching the right exam for the right people and all that, marking papers...you know what "semi-professional, or semi-academic academia" is like). The best way to understand it would be to think of the owner of a bar. I don't know about Norway, but here the owner is (or was, pre-Covid) working his bollocks off from opening time at about 10:30 in the morning until the last customers left the restaurant at 2 or 3 in the morning. Then he'd be cleaning up until about 5, along with the rest of the staff (who would have part-time hours of course).
Anyway, enough of me. Although I think it's too late.
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Mar 28, 2021 - 8:51 AM
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OnyaBirri
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Cripes, I had no idea your days were so jampacked, Graham. Working from 9 to 9....is that even legal?
As I'm self-employed, I decide the hours I do Thor. A lot of that is unpaid time too (researching the right exam for the right people and all that, marking papers...you know what "semi-professional, or semi-academic academia" is like). The best way to understand it would be to think of the owner of a bar. I don't know about Norway, but here the owner is (or was, pre-Covid) working his bollocks off from opening time at about 10:30 in the morning until the last customers left the restaurant at 2 or 3 in the morning. Then he'd be cleaning up until about 5, along with the rest of the staff (who would have part-time hours of course).
Anyway, enough of me. Although I think it's too late.
So are you able to drink while you work?
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I am looking forward to today's chat later.
I am waiting for a beer delivery today that may not arrive until after the start - I am not confident Yodel will even find our house!
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