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I've been dwelling on how pointless my job actually is; I take digital photos of receipts because technology hasn't come so far that the humble scanner can't take anything smaller than an A4 sheet of paper, so you have to employ a staff of eight to do what is really should be one persons job. I'm supposed to average 275 images an hour, so far...
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Two weeks on the new job of playing with a digital camera for a living and it's going quite well, only downside that it takes me nearly an hour and twenty minutes going to and from work, at least I'm working with people in my own fucking age group.

Saturday: Got down the Tap, John gives me a flyer for ZOO8, find out that there...
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Saturday: Going record shopping again, this time we are focusing mostly on Jazz. Had a look round HMV was tempted to buy a Herbie Hancock boxset, but not for thirty five quid. Went into Sister Ray and found a Toots & The Maytalys album I've been trying to find for ages, down to Zavvi for a couple of cheap Miles Davis CDs, then Ray's Jazz...
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So Nan's funeral has come and gone, a very emotionally charged day, Auntie Pauline kept whipping her eyes sitting in front of me all through the service. There was a lot of Jesus and hymns in the service that I wasn't too keen on ("blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted" does that even need to be said?) but I found some...
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The bad news; my Nan died in hospital a couple of weeks ago. I visited her five days before, it was like she had a stroke, she could hardly speak or make eye contact, according to Mum she was speaking more than the other times she had been without me. On the day the hospital had called and told Mum that Nan was having difficulty...
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Friday: So I'm working one day a week in the finance department at the municipal buildings in Gillingham scanning documents onto a computerthat's it, that's all my job entails. I have my own little office, which isn't as glamorous as it sounds because it has a broken radiator which can't be turned off and the room is packed with boxes of documents waiting to be...
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Friday: Whenever I go record shopping in London I always just have a few things in mind that I want to get and always buy more. Went to HMV in Oxford street bought boxsets of Joy Division and Hank Williams, went down to Zavvi and bought some Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Reed then went to Ray's Jazz and got some John Coltrane and Flea Kuti,...
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Saturday: I'll try and keep the facts to the bare minimum. Nearly didn't go 'til Steve text me on Friday afternoon. Did a dummy run on Saturday morning to make sure I could find the place (got a bit lost and wound up in Northfleet and had to back track). Text Steve that I'd go if he'd give me a lift to Gravesend train station...
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Thursday: A guy actually apologised for nearly bumping into me when I got off the tube at Oxford Circus, I assumed he mustn't be from London because it is very rare that you will be shown such courtesy in this place. Had a look round HMV then went to Sister Ray and bought a Birthday Party album, then to the megastore formally known as Virgin...
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Saturday: I did this on a whim really, I saw this show advertised on the Metal Hammer board and thought I'd not bother going out on Friday, save my money, buy a ticket on the day and even if I couldn't get one I'd still go record shopping in London. As it happens the show was far from being sold out (my ticket was numbered...
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Haven't written anything in a while for good reason; a week before Christmas Mum got a virus which caused her to feel faint and fall down the stairs, thankfully she only spent a couple of days in hospital and just came out with a bruised hip and couldn't bend down for a few days, later that same week I caught the virus which had me...
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Monday: So this is my last chance to go record shopping in Camden, went to the second hand shop, got the new Joe Lally, the Rapeman CD and Fugazi's Furniture EP. Went up the street to look at the corpse of Fopp then had a look at the other second hand shop, they didn't have anything sorted into order, could find some gems there but...
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