Week of 14th June, 2010

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Monday, 14th June

New shift fortnight starts today, a 10 o'clock shift. And the verdammt World Cup has started. I work with 3 fanatical football fans, who will argue football all day, often quite heatedly. This can get annoying, especially when a delivery rush is on. It's also distracting, but the only alternative is to wear a headset, for acoustic isolation, and I loathe that.

Later: Who bought the vuvuzela???????

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Tuesday, 15th June

Surprisingly little short-form work these two days. Not that much long-form, either. So it's quiet.

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Wednesday, 16th June

To Mum's this morning, to supervise a car-boot sale specialist who is going to assist in at least partially clearing the house. And there seems to be a lot of grist for their mill. Have to keep an eye on things we don't want cleared, though.

Comes now the news that Jane's cousin Liz (she who helps Jane with Auntie Dora) has hurt her foot. Apparently she stepped awkwardly while going into the back garden. So I was deputed to provide chauffeur services to the hospital, and back.

Later: Turns out to be a chipped metatarsal in her left foot. From stepping awkwardly on a concrete step? Maybe I should have more sympathy for the over-paid prima donnas of the football world, to whom such injuries are routine, since it is apparently easy to inflict such on oneself.

And finally for the day, Jane wanted her Children's Liturgy text typed for tomorrow, so that she and her  co-presenter can go over it. The actual presentation is this coming Sunday.

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Thursday, 17th June

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Friday, 18th June

Work today, the on weekend.

Again not much short-form material, so the trolley was cleared before home time.

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Saturday, 19th June

Ingesting language-dubbed programmes - 12 hours or more done, which is good.

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Sunday, 20th June

Father's Day

Some of the stuff I ingested yesterday needs work in Final Cut - gotta close up 4no 5 sec black holes in each programme.

 Later: make that 6no black holes in each of 7 episodes. But all done. Except: these are relicenced programmes for Channel X. As such there is spurious metadata lurking in the media management system database. This may have caused problems to 2 of those 7 programmes. I don't know, but I've left a note for our systems guru to investigate tomorrow.

And I was supposed to be another systems guru, but when we started using this system, I got hit with a lot of material that had to be loaded to the old hardware, and just lost track of what was happening with the new kit. Now I'm so far behind that I have only an inkling of how much I don't know. But I'm trying... Yes, Geoff, very trying...

Today is also the day of the Newbury Rally - but that's 60-odd miles down the M4. Somewhat too far for the quality of the event, so I'll pass. Next rally is McMichael, just this side of Reading, in 4 weeks time. That's a working weekend, but it's a night shift, so I've taken leave for the entire 3 days. If it hadn't been a night, I'd just have taken the day off.

 
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