the ramblings of a part time radio presenter, part time student.
When it rains, Aberdeen is dull, horrible, grey and an awful place to live. When the sun shines, like it did today, my view of the granite city has a massive swing in the opposite direction.
I had my first ice cream and bbq of the year so far, and it’s only March 31st. I’m not getting my hopes up quite yet.
Snow in Aberdeen
A bit more snow in Aberdeen again this morning.
The second night in a row on my radio show I have said “there won’t be a drop of snow in Aberdeen tomorrow morning”. I think I will continue with ‘playing the hits’ and stop trying to ‘predict the weather’.
Sunday morning in Stonehaven
Sundays are an odd day. Since being given the Sunday Breakfast show over a month ago now, my weekends have completely changed.
I’m rubbish with early mornings, which isn’t the best of starts when you are being asked to host a breakfast show. No matter how tired I am, trying to get to sleep before mid night isn’t an option for me. In fact trying to get to sleep full stop when I know my alarm is going off at stupid o’clock isn’t an option for me. I have this fear I will sleep through it, or my phone (which I use as an alarm) will magically stop working in the middle of the night (given the state of my phone that is highly likely).
Because of this I end up going to work on a Sunday morning having had about 1 hour of really light sleep.
So once I’m off air at 10am, I tend to head home and have my full 6 hours sleep and wake up at about 5pm in a complete daze, and my breakfast show feeling like it took place the day before. As a result, my sleeping patterns are completely messed up for the rest of the week. It’s a vicious circle and before you know it, it’s Sunday again and I’m once again getting up when the rest of the world is asleep (or at least that’s what it feels like).
I am enjoying the Sunday breakfast show though. It is a hard show to do. I like to put 110% in to all my shows, but Sunday breakfast is just that little bit more demanding than the Monday to Friday evening show (which seems to role along for 3 hours a day quite happily).
On this mornings show I was quoting Bushisims. One of the worlds favourite comedians, George Bush, stands down this week to be replaced by a new president. While I don’t doubt Barack Obama’s ability to run America, I do feel American politics won’t be as funny as it once was (and I can’t help but feel sorry for the writers on Have I Got News For You).
Some of my favourite:
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.” –Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
“They misunderestimated me.” –Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” –Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
Good luck Obama, you’re going to have a hard act to follow!
David
And there Christmas goes for another year. I’m back from Shetland after my few days break. Shetland is really nice, but there is very little to do, especially at Christmas time.
Christmas was good, although quiet. I caught a cold man flu while I was there and are now suffering a little. Emma has no sympathy for me (she’s still not impressed that I left her for a few days).
It dawned on me while I was home that on Christmas day it would have been 10 years since I got the internet. How times have changed. In 1998 we connected via a 19k modem to a local rate Shetland number to connect to the internet. I was limited by my dad to 2 hours a week, although on Christmas day 1998 BT ran a special offer where all local calls were free after an hour connected. I remember spending the whole day on the computer (it did take a whole day to anything on the internet in those days).
Now a days I have super fast always connected broadband. Although I did get the impression that Shetland’s broadband network is slowly crumbling with the number of users (and BT are not planning on upgrading it any time soon).
In other news, Emma is already talking about marriage. We were watching a programme on BBC 2 where Joanna Lumley went in search of the Northern Lights in Norway and stayed in an ice igloo hotel. They have a marriage chapel. Emma has decided we’re getting married there. Better get saving…
Radio wise, filling in on Drivetime Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Give us a listen if you have nothing else to do, www.originalfm.com. Also on 6am New Years Day morning, I don’t expect you to be awake.
David
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