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Posted Jul 6, 2000
Today is Thursday 6th July 2000, and at 3.00pm went to get a coffee and a Fanta, I leave the building, drinks in hand, and find three workmates waking towards me, one (James) on a mobile phone. He grabs my arm and says "Yeah I got one now". I know what this means, I drop the drinks and Mikes vending machine card and wind up pinned to the floor. I get my phone out and call Mike, struggling to keep the phone near my head I shout "MIKE HELP ME!!!", fat lot of good that was (his mobile was in his locker 
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Jamie arrives (and he's fat!) gives me a dead leg and proceeds to tape my anckles together, I'm carried through the hangar screaming and shouting then wheeled on a trolley to the ground equip. maintanance block where there is are lot more people waiting. I'm on the floor and shortly after being asked if I had any breakables on me and a knife being confiscated my trousers are filled with Pyrosorb (an absorbsive powder like saw dust) and then my overalls. A pole run through my sleeves with duct tape at either end then I'm carried to a black wheely bin, tie-wrapped (or cable tied) to the fence behind me.
All that wasn't so bad, then the cold water hose came out, and the wheely bin stared to fill up, 3 week old milk and rice pudding with moving bits in it pouted over my head and down my back then a traffic cone placed atop my head. Everyone vanishes bar the maintance guy (Andy) who makes sure I stay wet nad the bin fills up. I ask "Can I go home now?" Andy replies, "Don't expect any help!". Brill, any way I struggle out of the mess wondering where all my friend vanished to before the pain began, as I remove the pole from my sleeves I hear "WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!", and it was Mike being carried kicking and screaming. I jump out of the wheely bin with my legs still taped together and take off my overalls, briefly hosed down, collect my valuebles wish Mike good luck and set off to have a good proper shower, getting odd looks along the way.
Later it turns out that Mike, Dave and Rob cleared off just as the lads arrived, not letting me know, they get into Robs car and drive off whilst I stall the others. Wonder past the area I got picked up and find a can of Fanta and Mikes vending machine card. Soon they get Mike and Dave and Rob run off (like the cowards they are) again leaving Mike and I to face the concequences of ceacing to be apprentices.
Cya soon 
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Make or Break
Posted Jun 24, 2000
This is it, in two days time I find out if I still have a job. If I'm kept on at work then great, I won't have to move away and start anew, if I'm out of the job then I gotta look about, (MECHANICAL AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER, if anyone's reading this). Well see y'all soon
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ENGLAND!!
Posted Jun 19, 2000
Hello all,
Just an update, England won 1-0 against Germany in Euro 2000, Schumacher (boo, hiss) won the Canadian Grand Prix although my money was on Frentzen, and Audi (boo, hiss again) won the Le Mans 24 Hours in a spectacular 1-2-3 with Scotlands Alan McNish in second.
Hello to Surfer, hope you did well in your written exam today, and I think another friend of mine is on this site TREE ARE YOU READING THIS?
And at the moment I'm trying to think of a way to take the mick out of a 6'6" scafolder without getting clobbered, any ideas anyone?
Ziztem hehehe 
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Entry #1
Posted Jun 16, 2000
Hello, Just to say I almost got the hang of this now.
Oh yeah this weekend I have been given several tasks, first I have a game of golf with my father on Saturday morning (I hope were playing for money), then I have to get my head around a structural repair I must carry out at work on Monday and it's big. The cantilever structure on the right hand pylon has a crack in the lower spar and I must take the area apart and make a repair peice, as well as making a new hole in the good part of the pylon so that I can get access to the rivet tails (deadline 21st June). Then I have to devise a syllabus to teach the stores ordering computer system we got at work (Icarus) deadline 29th June. I got my work cut-out for me especially since I'm 4-5 assingment behind at college and have one project currently in progress.
Any way that's it I'm gonna go now and drink my Canadian whiskey and watch MTV2, bye.
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