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#oneaday Day 229: Mental shutdown

I'm back from my trip, and I'm absolutely exhausted. A full-day meeting followed by a 3+ hour drive is not my idea of Having A Brilliant Day, so I'm sitting here absolutely frazzled and seriously considering going to bed before it even hits 10pm. In fact, that's exactly what I'm going to do as soon as I'm finished with this nonsense.

The meeting itself wasn't a bad thing — it was actually quite worthwhile and productive, but I'm not sure it needed to be the entire day. I won't bore you with the details because they're not very interesting, but they should help me and the rest of the team I work on to do our jobs better. So that's nice.

No, it's the three-hour drive back in the dark that's the real killer, and to make matters worse my phone battery died with about 45 minutes left to go. I was listening to Ed Zitron's excellent(ly cynical) coverage of E3 on his Better Offline podcast and enjoying it a great deal, but I had to suffer with the radio for that last 45 minutes, because balls to driving in silence.

And to be sure, listening to Absolute Radio '90s is… well, not really suffering as such, but it has got markedly worse since Matt Berry's contract clearly expired, because their new idents featuring someone trying (and not doing a brilliant job) to imitate Matt Berry's distinctive cadence are just infuriatingly shit. Whereas Berry's idents were genuinely amusing — and, rather brilliantly, different every time they came on — they've fallen back on that old commercial radio standard, "where real music matters". And they go on and on and on about "real music matters", sometimes for several minutes at a time. There's no humour, no heart, no feeling that "real music" really matters. Just the usual soulless commercial attempts to be "funny" and failing miserably.

At least the music they do play is decent, since as the name suggests, they play a selection of '90s hits (with a "no repeat guarantee!" that unfortunately doesn't extend to "not playing the same songs at the same time each day") — although listening to a few tracks during the vinegar strokes of my journey this evening made me realise that more than a few groups commonly regarded as "good" are actually pretty dull. Like Nirvana. Boring. Always suspected they were when I was younger, but dutifully bought Nevermind because everyone was obliged to in the '90s. But no. Can't even remember the name of the song that I heard on the radio this evening but it was as dull as the piss of an old man with a yeast infection.

Anyway, my tiredness is clearly letting the grump out, so I think it's probably for the best that I put the bin out and go to bed. So I'm going to go do that right now. Don't wake me.

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#oneaday, Day 157: Sleepytired

I keep promising myself that I'll do these earlier in the day, but it never quite happens, largely due to other things happening during the actual course of the day that distract me from this whole business that at first glance appears to be a bit of fun but I actually appear to be taking rather seriously if you look at the big number after the word "Day" in the title of this post. *gaaaaasp*

Anyway. Here I am. I have to be up in, ooh, about three hours to catch a flight to Scotland. I haven't quite made it to bed yet. Whoops. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day, and exciting too.

I've never done a "press trip" before. I'm not sure if that's the sort of thing I should admit in public. But there you go—I've never had the opportunity before and everyone has to start somewhere, right? It's an exciting prospect, though I have to confess to being a bit nervous too. But I'm sure things will be fine. The PR chap in charge of organising the whole day seems to be a decent bloke (Hi, if you're reading!) and there's a jam-packed schedule of fun and frolics for everyone to enjoy throughout the course of the day. I am greatly looking forward to the experience, and have my notebook and iPhone's Voice Memo recorder function ready to go for use as appropriate.

I'm not going to say too much about what I'm actually doing, 'cause I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to say about it. But suffice to say I will be pimping myself out all over Twitter when the stuff I've written goes live. And then you will read it. Yes you will. And you will like it. Possibly literally, if the site in question enjoys Facebook integration.

For now though, I had better get what little sleep I can manage, and I'll be here tomorrow evening, probably shell-shocked, exhausted and wanting very much to sleep for about a year.

It's nice to have something positive happening. I know it's only one thing on one day, but it's a start. And as I said before, everything has to start somewhere. Let's hope this really is the beginning of the upward slope.