{"id":598,"date":"2005-07-09T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/er-thats-it\/"},"modified":"2005-07-09T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T15:07:24","slug":"er-thats-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/er-thats-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Er&#8230;that&#8217;s it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the last blog lots of things have happened. Obvious really but I thought I should mention it because I don&#8217;t plan to try and remember them in any detail.As humph preens my hair, here they are in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My last week at Goldsmiths has been and gone. More about this later.<\/li>\n<li>I Still haven&#8217;t written to anyone \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>For health reasons ,I have stopped drinking.<\/li>\n<li>Michele had a birthday.<\/li>\n<li>We had our eighth wedding anniversary.<\/li>\n<li>My sister has moved back to London <i>at last!<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The 120GB Maxor hard-disk I bought to replace the 80 Maxtor drive that packed-up without warning, packed-up without warning. I&#8217;m now the proud owner of a 300G Seagate drive and in the process of recompiling my music collection. technology&#8230;tchoh&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>4 bombs went off in London during the rush-hour and,without wanting to belittle the terrible trauma of the families involved, very few people were killed or injured.<\/li>\n<li>Live 8 and G8 came and went<\/li>\n<li>All of the Londoners who didn&#8217;t even want the sodding olympics still got a warm smug feeling when the announcement was made. But purely because it didn&#8217;t go to Paris \ud83d\ude42\n<li>other stuff too probly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday was my last day at Goldsmiths. It&#8217;s true to say that after 13 years I&#8217;ve become a tad institutionalised and so it&#8217;s very difficult to believe at the moment. There was a leaving do in the Hobgoblin after work and it was great, if not a little emotional. Not drinking at such an event is surprisingly enjoyable. Apart from remembering it the next day, I didn&#8217;t feel ill, didn&#8217;t say or do anything regretful and still had as good a time. Weird eh ?<\/p>\n<p>When I resigned, it was made clear that I didn&#8217;t want a collection or a ceremony. Mainly because I&#8217;d left and returned several years ago; two collections would be a bit embarrassing. They cheated and made a collection but turned it into a kitty to buy everyone drinks which was great. They also bought me a present, wrapped in brown paper to reduce its presentishness. The perfect present in fact: a USB hub and combined coffee cup warmer! Fantastic.<br \/>\n[Humph says: 8ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt tttttttttttttttttttt    ]<\/p>\n<p>There were cards full of really lovely comments, an excellent custom-made t-shirt [&#8220;veg &#8211; out&#8221;] that loads of people signed. lots of people I haven&#8217;t seen for ages turned up too. Lovely to see you folks!<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people took pictures so there should be some up soon. <\/p>\n<p>This morning, Suzanne was kind enough to help me move my 13 years of office detritus from work to home. Two huge carboard-boxes full of junk, an old Alpha, and a ZX81. We&#8217;ve got too much stuff in our little flat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I got home last night, the realisation that I&#8217;d left the place kicked in and caused me to panic. Scary things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the last blog lots of things have happened. Obvious really but I thought I should mention it because I don&#8217;t plan to try and remember them in any detail.As humph preens my hair, here they are in a nutshell: My last week at Goldsmiths has been and gone. More about this later. I Still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}