Scents of Direction

	Scents of Direction


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	Thursday, September 05, 2002 Ahhh, lots about road numbering on this site. I'm far too tired to read it now though - Steve, 8:04 PM, I don't understand motorways in this country, or to be more specific, the numbering system used to identify them. In the last couple of days I have driven on the M1, M6, M38, M40, M42, M54 and the M69. I know that the M1 was the first motorway to be opened way back in the sixties, so did they number them in the order they were built? If this is the case, where is the M7? and how come there is an M602 up near Manchester, are there really over 600 motorways in this country? "A roads" are worse. For a little while I lived in Oxford and Worked in Crewe (Cheshire), on the drive to Crewe I passed the A34 at Oxford, the A34 at Birmingham and the A34 in Staffordshire! all separate roads that are not linked to each other (as far as I know) I need to consult Google - Steve, 8:03 PM, I've been working in Oxford today. It was good to go back "home" but I could have done without the 6am start and the twat in a Golf GTi that cut me up on the M40. - Steve, 7:39 PM, Wednesday, September 04, 2002 Busy times at home recently. This week Clare has started working the evening shift at a local warehouse to get us some extra cash, the shift is 6pm until 10pm. I try to get home from work by 5.30pm (my hours are fairly flexible) so that Clare can leave at 5.35pm, I then entertain Georgia until she goes to bed at around 8.30pm. When Georgia goes to bed I try and get the washing-up and stuff done before Clare gets back at 10.30pm. It's unfortunate that we have to work in this way, Clare and I only see each other for about an hour each day. Neither of us wanted Clare to go back to work full-time while Georgia is young as that would involve having to use a nursery or childminder etc. We both prefer Georgia to be looked after by one (or both in an ideal world) of her parents, rather than strangers. We just have to put up with the weeks being full until Georgia goes to school or nursery when she is older, or I get a fairly substantial pay rise which is well overdue (in my opinion!) - Steve, 2:22 PM, This must be so frustrating to parents who can't send their children to school until the criminal record checks come back. I would be interested to know exactly how many of the thousands of checks have resulted in a teacher not being employed, I bet it's not many, if any at all. - Steve, 10:09 AM, Tuesday, September 03, 2002 Enetation is currently offline for a short while - no user accounts or user sites are affected by this. No comments for a "short while" then! - Steve, 9:53 AM, For the first time in ages I actually managed to get out of bed at the right time. Normally I have every intention of leaping in the shower after the first beep of my alarm clock at 6.45, in reality the snooze button is reached for several times before I can peel back the duvet. So this morning I; got up, had a shower, got dressed (after finding a shirt and tie with ease), had breakfast and packed my laptop all before 7.30. I was ready to hit the M6 with a kind of inner calm that is a rare treat for a weekday morning, but then I couldn't find my fucking shoes! I'm not a girl, so I only have one pair of shoes that I can wear with a suit, I couldn't find them anywhere. I searched for ages and eventually found them in the bottom of Georgia's toy box! She must have put them in the toy box at some point yesterday evening and when I tidied all of her toys away when she was in bed I didn't notice. Now I've got a headache and I'm pissed off. - Steve, 9:40 AM, Monday, September 02, 2002 I don't think working standard office hours suits me, I just can't deal with the early starts. Ideally I would like to work from late afternoon to the early hours of the morning as this is when I feel most awake and creative, it's unfortunate that a lot of my work involves conversations, meetings and phone calls which have to be done in office time. I suppose I'm fortunate that I can work from home sometimes, but I find it hard to stay motivated when other stuff is going on there. I spent a few months working nights during the college holidays, the shift started at 23:30 and ended at 07:00. I loved driving past the rush-hour traffic on the way to a bowl of cornflakes and bed (consecutively not simultaneously). The only problem was that I also had a Saturday job that started at 9am and it took 1.5 hours to travel between them. I'm sure I had a point when I started this post. - Steve, 10:25 AM,


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