you work for [EDIT] in japan? no idea why it took me so long to work that out. i clicked my own link to your site from my own blog and got your bio which i hadn’t read before and the penny dropped!

i worked for [EDIT] in chiba in 1998. sdos was paul douglas and ian wilkinson was working in some capacity in the nishi funabashi head office. do these names mean anything to you. i have a million stories about that time but do they still get you to phone up the person who has to cover you when you’re sick instead of doing it themselves?

alternatively, if it’s your standby day, you nervously watch the clock tick round to 11am hoping no one phones you and tells you they’re sick and you have to go off to a school miles away for 8 classes in a row as it seems the sick guy chose his busiest day to fall ill?

happy days!!!

Mike Long