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Message: 6160
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 24/05/2007
Subject: Re: Hours / The Chunnel / Backlogs & MM/JSW activity
Daniel wrote:
>We work from 10:00 to 17:00 (16:00 on Fridays), including lunch.
> Seven hours in the office five days a week? That makes the total of
> 35 working hours per week (only)!
That's very light by UK standards (09:00 to 17:00).
My previous job required 37 hours of work a week /not/ including
lunch, but I had the advantage that I was working from home.
> Is your job in France, by any chance???No! The travelling is just a lengthy combination of a bus-ride, some
waiting, a slow chugging train-ride, and a half-hour walk. It's the
least appealing aspect of the job so far.
> Oh yeah, if you spend four hours a day travelling, this couldIt's high time someone wrote a JSW-room or three based on the
> actually be it. God bless the Eurotunnel! :-)
Chunnel! The closest I can think of occurs in We Pretty, but it
didn't really turn out quite like my original vision of a tunnel
under the sea that I had several years before that.
>> But it's unclear whether the above changes will leave meI would certainly like it to be more, but only time will tell. I
>> with /less/ time for MM/JSW, or /more/.
>
> Oh, please, let it be "/more/"! :-)
still have some backlogs to clear - most notably my email-one, which
has gone back up from 700 to 963 since I started this job (but the
MM/JSW subset is down to 17).
A disappointing French Open would give me a chance to clear backlogs
(good for MM/JSW), and sadly that is a distinct possibility, as every
active member of my Eternal Fanship is struggling with injury - I
only have four of the eight of them left before the tournament proper
has even begun.
> I have a dream... I have a dream that this Group springs to life2000 and 2002 were the big years for MM/JSW activity, as my List of
> again, a kind of active and passionate life it knew at the turn of
> the century (I wasn't participating in those days, so I have no
> personal memories; those days are like a legend to me).
MM/JSW Games implies. Even after seven years, I'm /still/ working at
playing the games of 2000 to completion (most recently Willy Comes
Home).
I've often thought that if I were given six months to live, my
priority would be to finish playing every gamma-released MM/JSW game
to completion.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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