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Got hungry again so I'm quickly guzzling a hot dog before heading to the funeral, which answers the question of whether the croissants were breakfast or lunch as it's too early for tea
Last edited by NickFitz; 2 April 2019, 16:20.
Reason: Got, not Git. Autocorrect must be confused by all the git commands I've been typing…
Pretty good turnout really, given he was an only child with no family bar a couple of distant cousins he hadn't seen in many years - who showed up, having been tracked down through that nebulous Leicester chain of working-class-roots connections of which an outsider like myself will never be part.
Just came home to leave the car here, and now off to the pub to drink Roger's health
Good turnout at the pub too. And there’s a few people I haven’t seen in a few years, though I’ve known them for many more. Among the items recovered from his flat are hand-drawn versions of the floor plan for a club I used to work in, which he designed largely as it was eventually implemented : music:
I vaguely remember seeing these around 1996, when the owners wanted me to be full time manager of the downstairs bar. I didn’t want that, and worked there semi-part-time for about a year before I ditched the licensed trade in favour of what turned out to be web development
2 days post go live, and the client has no idea how we are holding it together. So far they have forgotten about £250k of stock that they can’t explain where it has gone. They also don’t understand how 6 customers received correct deliveries when the paperwork says they didn’t. They’ve no idea what I’ve done in 30+ hours work over the last 2 days.
And next week, they’ll wonder why fish and chips costs £55 in the hotel I’m holed up in.
No Pink Floyd at the service. There was When You Walk In The Room by The Searchers, because that was one of Roger's favourite songs when he was younger; Stone Free by Jimi Hendrix because that was a song Roger and his friends (including the one who organised the occasion) used to play in their band, Roger having managed to transcribe all the parts from listening to it overnight; Friend of Mine by John Hiatt, because the organiser likes it and offered it as a tribute; and Into The Mystic by Van Morrison, because it was one of Roger's favourite songs full stop.
Once I shambled home, my TV viewing was Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-Series 2011), concerning the social worker Janet Leach who acted in that role for Fred West, formerly of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Not sure why I was in the mood for that, but it's very good.
No Pink Floyd at the service. There was When You Walk In The Room by The Searchers, because that was one of Roger's favourite songs when he was younger; Stone Free by Jimi Hendrix because that was a song Roger and his friends (including the one who organised the occasion) used to play in their band, Roger having managed to transcribe all the parts from listening to it overnight; Friend of Mine by John Hiatt, because the organiser likes it and offered it as a tribute; and Into The Mystic by Van Morrison, because it was one of Roger's favourite songs full stop.
Once I shambled home, my TV viewing was Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-Series 2011), concerning the social worker Janet Leach who acted in that role for Fred West, formerly of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Not sure why I was in the mood for that, but it's very good.
Goodnight all
Oh, and the question we'd all been asking was finally answered: aortic dissection
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