Archive for May, 2009

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Hit (it) from behind

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but I was finally involved in a car accident on the I-10. And no, it wasn’t my fault. I was driving home after a particularly stressful day at work (where I had to berate one of my direct reports for falling asleep at his desk - and I’m not really one for confrontation, so that was really tough for me), pootling along in the fast lane at just around the speed limit, when my car got hit from behind.
I pulled over onto the shoulder (thankfully they have one on the outside […]

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All good character-building stuff

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I am in life (probably a mid-life crisis thing) and about my schooldays (probably because I’ve been in touch with a few of my old ’schoolchums’, recently), but mainly about the correlation between the two. I’ve aways credited my school - the Duke of York’s Royal Military School - with helping me get to where I am, but the more I think about it, maybe I should credit my school with hampering me from getting to where I could have been. It could have all turned out so differently, if only I’d had a […]

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