SpuffMonkey

My son went a couple of years ago - I didn't plan any of it - but I got the impression that its a lot more regimented these days. He had to buy so many travel days within the period and had to pre book quite a few of the trips. I don't know if thats because of where he was going, or if it made it cheaper? I take it driving is a no-no?

Did a degree in Industrial Engineering, and graduated in 1981, just as all the heavy industry was closing Went on the dole and tried hard to make it as a photographer, I used to run a Darkroom Technique Adult Ed course at a local community centre and (as I lived in really scuzzy dangerous bedsits) kept all my kit and photos locked up there - alas idiots broke in and set fire to the place and I lost nearly everything, apart from a few contact sheets and negs I had at home - it was a fab record of the steel works and other factories in Sheffield but after 4 years of abject poverty, when I went to the bank to try and borrow some money to replace my camera, they just laughed at me. I saw an ad in the local paper for a YOPS graduate retraining course in Hull, learning Unix - applied and was accepted - it was a HND compacted into 1 year - which was pretty intense from a standing start. Started Jan 1985 and during the summer break, we all had to do an industrial placement - the place I was offered me a job at the end of the summer, so I just started work as a programmer writing systems for lawyers. Went from programmer, senior programmer, product analyst, systems analyst, project manager, IT Manager in various firms, then was seriously ill for a year and couldn't get back in at the level I had been and had to start again in support and then school IT. I thought I knew it all until I worked in a school! A year there should be compulsory for IT people!

Cor, is your Dad Robert Pattinson????

Watched Parasite today - pretty good I thought

My Mum used to work at one of their shops

You could always Freegle it

And stick a lightweight Linux distro on it!

Yes - I did one just before Christmas too - it was fine

Fraid not - but I did buy some of these recently https://www.scan.co.uk/products/icy-box-ib-158sk-b-trayless-aluminium-mobile-rack-for-35-sata-hdd for a NAS unit - and for the price, they're fine

The most useful bit of Discogs is that it makes you aware of how much some records are worth - a couple of mine were around £500 - which was a shock to me as I had bought them out of bargain bins years ago

We're planning on downsizing when my wife retires in 18 months - so trying to get rid of LOTS of stuff! Quite pleased with Discogs - its an absolute pita to get all the records on there - but they have been selling well - about 60 gone now - better than just chucking them to a charity shop

Come over to Discogs - its all old stuff there! I'm selling all my vinyl - only 400 albums to go!

I'm enjoying Upright at the moment - worth a watch

Oo - I've still got my Yankee screwdriver too! Quite handy for drilling in awkward spaces!

Yay - Rick & Morty is back