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Just got to pass her A levels, some other stuff and she's there.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
When he was little he loved bus books.
Geeky bus books with lists of serial numbers in the back which he'd memorise... his teachers wondered for a while if he was on the autistic spectrum. And he loved travelling on buses with his Nan. It was their special thing.
When he first became a bus driver one of his friends asked Cam if his autistic brother could look at the buses in the garage but as Cam was new he didn't feel he could organise it. A bit like Cam the lad was really into buses and his favourite day out is a visit to the London Transport Museum.
Cam didn't forget and realised that he hasn't got long at the garage before he leaves for America. On Sunday morning he took Mark (not his real name), he's 21, around the garage. Cleared it with the bosses and went in on his day off.
So he started with giving Mark a uniform, and a special driver's badge with his favourite number.
Got him to do some paperwork...cos proper bus drivers have to do paperwork :-)
Then they went to look at the buses. And in the depot just happened to be Spirit of London -- which meant nothing to me but to a bus geek it's really special as it was rebuilt after the 7/7 bomb attacks. It was absolutely filthy so Cam took Mark on board, fired it up, and took them through the giant bus washer!
Finished off with giving Mark a load of stickers and signs and memorabilia. Cam said Mark doesn't say much but his response to did you enjoy the morning was, "Better than the Transport Museum."
Which isn't bad.
He downloaded a 32bit Ubuntu ISO and made me a bootable USB stick with it, so then I installed Ubuntu, persuaded Firefox to see the interweb, loaded the filestore tree of my latest s/w project from the company's server - and compiled it once I'd done an apt-get update and an apt-get install uuid-dev. Also got a nice pic of Sharon Corr for the wallpaper
I'm almost sorted for doing some software at home
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Even more impressive given that I knackered my right ankle again about 3 weeks ago and so standing still hurts, never mind all the fancy stuff I had to do tonight. So lets hear it for painkillers!
As for me... nothing much to share, just that it's been a nice day with lovely weather, I got the windows open and loads of fresh air in, played some guitar (stuff I wanted to play rather than stuff I needed to, for the first time in a while) and have just had a nice dinner and a big glass of wine. Now I'm gonna switch the Xbox on and play Forza Motorsport for a little while. Smiles all round
Long time no see!
I trust you and the rest of the bear family are all well?
My happy post is perhaps a little bittersweet; my dear old mum made it out of hospital and into the hospice yesterday but was a bit tuckered out for visitors. Went to see her today and the place is lovely; much quieter and more restful, and she's in clothes rather than a horrible hospital gown. Still not long for this world but a lot more dignified.
My smiley, happy moment today is that the doc actually has a concrete plan for fixing my insomnia. Sure, it involves a month of constant sleeping tablet use, but...I'm willing to give it a shot, because at least he seems interested in solving the problem rather than getting me off the appointment list.