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"I hear you singing in the wires -- I can hear you through the whine"
Posted Aug 24, 1999
Sometimes you have tunes in your head for no reason, and sometimes they're omens.
The Wichita Lineman popped into my head in the middle of a meeting, and I was trying to remember "I hear in the wires".
Perhaps there's a D-notice on old 60's country songs, as searching the web drew a blank, so I forgot all about it -- until I was back home and Jane 'phoned to let me know she's back in the country. I happened to mention the tune, she burst in to song and we ended up duetting. *And* she knew that Glen Cambell sang it, and armed with that, we found the lyrics, and sang the whole thing properly. Followed by Daydream Believer.
After she'd hung up, I suddenly realised *why* a song about wires popped into my head ...
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Water, water everywhere ...
Posted Aug 11, 1999
Arrghh! Our office has flooded! We've had to put the servers on duckboards.
Luckily, there was a *very* large pile of cardboard boxes which appear to have acted like sponges and saved all the expensive electrical gear from any damage ...
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90% of accidents ...
Posted Jul 26, 1999
Good news: I no longer have a 1960's style gas fire in my living room.
Bad news: I'm going to have to call these folks http://www.aar.co.uk tomorrow.
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Holiday!
Posted Jul 26, 1999
Hurrah! A week of not going into the office! This will of course, ensure one of two things:
a) It chucks down with rain.
b) My ISDN line will pack in.
I have backup plans for both of these eventualities. Both involve hammers.
In the mean time, I've got quotes for my fireplace, collected a copy of the electoral roll from the town hall (so now I know where to forward all the mail I've been mis-sent), sent forms off to the DVLA and been for lunch with Julia and Ian (who has his DNA article in PCW today).
I'm about to get a quote for repointing the brickwork around my fireplace, and take the old gas fire to the tip. Hurrah!
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As hot as my pants ...
Posted Jul 3, 1999
Thank heavens. The thunderstorm that my pressure-change induced headaches have been predicting over the last few days has arrived, bringing with it a welcome temperature plummet and a cool summer shower to enjoy from my secluded patio.
Watching the sky flit from black to white, feeling the rain course over me - this is what it's like to be alive! Only the yelps of confused car alarms snap me back to reality.
Earlier on in the evening, back at TDV Towers, our room was so unbearably hot we we had to take refuge in north-facing shade of the newly-vacated orange office to plan the next stage of the guide ...
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