Aled Treharne on October 13th, 2005

Well, just got back from a callout which has annoyed me a litle. I’m exhausted – only got 2 hours sleep last night due to various things, so I was looking forward to going to bed early and getting a good night’s sleep. Well, I didn’t get a good night’s sleep. About midnight the pager […]

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Aled Treharne on October 12th, 2005

Todays’ rant of the day is Sysadmins making DNS changes when they know shit all about DNS. Me: Yup, I can see the CNAME’s been changed on that zone, but your hosting company’s forgotten to update the serial. Customer: Ok I’ll tell them. A few days go by… C: It’s not working. M: They still […]

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Aled Treharne on October 11th, 2005

Er, yes, well, apologies for no updates, I’m sure I’ve missed a callout for here, but it’s been incredibly busy recently. Sunday just gone we had an exercise with the crew of 169 who flew up from Chivenor to play with their FLIR. Great fun, but a few things: 1. If you see a helicopter […]

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Aled Treharne on September 30th, 2005

So, last night was much fun after a long hard day at work. One of the project managers’ who’d been aroudn for some time was leaving yesterday so we went out and had a few drinks. I bowed out after one and headed off up to base for training. Last night was a medical night. […]

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Aled Treharne on September 29th, 2005

Wow. That was some rain last night. The last time I saw rain like that was in the states. I didn’t go above 20mph going through the village last night, with roads knee-deep in water and rivers bringing down the rubbish from the mountain. You could see how bad it was this morning from all […]

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Aled Treharne on September 27th, 2005

Looks like it’s made the BBC news site. We’ve not heard any more on this.

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Aled Treharne on September 26th, 2005

You Are A: Monkey! Monkeys are intelligent and agile, well-adapted for jungle life as they swing happily from tree to tree. As a monkey, you are a social animal who eats a wide range of food, is quick to learn new things and loves to climb. A monkey’s tiny primate features are irresistable, as is […]

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Aled Treharne on September 26th, 2005

It’s been a fun weekend. I got to look after an 18 month old Labrador/German Shepherd cross called Weston this weekend. He was absolutely gorgeous, and a wonderful dog. Sat we spent pottering around the house and Nath popped up for dinner. He adored Weston and much fun was had. Sunday, Weston and I went […]

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Aled Treharne on September 23rd, 2005

Last night’s debrief shed some more light on the last shout we had. Apparently, a 75 year old gent and his 60 year old wife had drive from Cardiff to a layby near Cowbridge where they sat in the car having a drink. She decides that the call of nature is too strong and pops […]

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Aled Treharne on September 22nd, 2005

So Reynolds has the same opinion of “Golden Hour” as I do – I watched it last night and just turned off halfway through. It’s even worse than Rock Face aka Rock Farce was. He also goes into some detail about sternal rub – , you may want to remember this. 🙂

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