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Date: 30 August 2006 17:36:18
Sunday saw us arriving again for our final visit. I really wanted to see Randy Stonehill, see below, hear a talk on Green Energy and look round the stuff I'd missed the day before.
Randy went as described. I managed to make the talk on green energy and then things went wrong. Why? Well my mobile rang. Not an unusual occurence you say. That first phone call led to 7 others over the next hour and a half. As such I missed half the energy talk and the Wibmeet.
My Irish customer had an urgent engine to transport fdor a customer in Cyprus. There was a chartered aircraft enroute to Stansted to collect it but they had no way of transporting it from the hanger to the plane. How do you find a truck and driver on bank holiday Sunday?
On top of this no one knew when the plane would arrive. The Cypriots hadn't signed the lease docs and were still sending the plane. I finally got hold of a driver after an hour. He was then sat around at home waiting for the word to go. Finally at 7:30 we got the word to standdown until first thing Monday morning.
So, contrary to the accepted belief of my wife, I was not absent due to my reknowned unsociability but due to work. I hate inflicting my work life on the social time of others.
For those I missed, many apologies. Mr & Mrs Fishsoup I look forward to next year. Ditto Jack the Lass (though I heard the news...) Thanks for those who passed on kind words via the Mrs.