h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't know - I am one of the first to be interviewed but I would say next week at earliest....

So you have laid-in an amazing quantity of tobacco product then, I suppose? Still, best wishes there friend.

After working the long weekend, are you know off for a couple of days?

Nope - last early today - lates for the next 3....

Aren't you just so very lucky.

I don't miss the shift-work at all. Or the uniform. Now I do my monday to friday, 7:30 to 4:00 and then home. No worries about on-call tech over-night, call-outs for local or national emergencies, etc. Only a little bit miss the feeling of being part of something as large as national defence though. After a very few years, it becomes part of your nature. Imagine after 21 years?

*Imagines Reverend in Boy Scouts uniform instead*

*flashes extremely bowed-legs in Boy Scout shorts, s as Lil s for the hills !!!*

I remember being a beaver, cub, scout and the seascouts and the very scary scout masters we had 's for the hills.....

Didn't have such options in my little village. But I too probably would have run.

still ing I remember the days too well....

Be careful, young friend. Too much and you might get rather healthy. Can't have that!

I am in good health - tad overweight - poor eyesight - smoke too much - good health

Are you sure that you're not a displaced Canadian?

Who knows - my family history can only be traced back 130 years and the only canadian relatives I know of married into the family after I was born

Hmmm, first of my line got to Canada, perhaps by way of the US, about 1850. Before that, the only record is from local census calling them Prussian. At that time, that was a LOT of territory.

I bet - nothing else I could find before then on our family name...

Hey mate. How's your night going? Succeeding at throwing your circadian clock out of whack for the late-shifts?

Working at it - sorry if not replying much - busy on MSN too.....

but yep I think another hour - possibly two will help....

No worries, I hear you've been chatting with a few mutual friends on MSN. For tonight, the upshot looks favourable.

and pop back if you feel like it, friend.

I am bouncing between and having fun so can't complain....

Hey, ya can always complain, but so many others are too, who would hear ya? There, that's my last 'inspirational' bit for today.

So what hours are your later-shift anywho? 4 to midnight?