Martin McDowell's Blog

Finally, I had much less to do today, unless you include driving – most of it on the M11, M25 and M3, M27 motorway (in that order). And the weather improved so I got to see that rarely seen English sunshine. I never stop being surprised on the size of the road and the chaotic [...]

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OK, this time it was for real. No more messing about with strange-side-of-the-steering-wheel car and funny gear sticks that didn’t want to move. I had to get to London, find parking, get to the Redbridge tube station, change at Mile End, end up in Westiminster station, walk to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) [...]

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If you asked me a few months ago that I will have to go to the UK I would not be so cheerful as the security checks at the airports would probably be as pleasant as sticking your hand in a meat grinder. Luckily the EU recently imposed new regulations that make air travel a [...]

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The presentation was held by Andrej Štremfelj (50) and Rok Zalokar (24) and the theme was the alpinistic achievement on a himalayan mountain peak Janak Chuli (7090 m) which took place from 15. Sep. 2005 to 01. Nov. 2005. The presentation was great, however I did expect more side stories and not just plain commentary [...]

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Some of the Slovene skydivers who are planning to go skydiving in the US next year had a meeting at the Paranoia school for skydivers. I attended due to my curiosity to see what is being planned but I won’t be able to go There were two possible locations: California (“Parachute center” near Acampo, close [...]

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Yesterday woke at 5 in the morning and couldn’t goo back to sleep. Today I woke up at 3 AM and couldn’t go back to sleep. What a bloody day Needles to say I manged to go to sleep not long before my alarm went off. I probably shouldn’t bother going to sleep tonight.…To something [...]

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Besides getting a job offer from Oracle this morning I had another great thing happened to me, I finally got the chance to order my skydiving parachute from Atair Ltd. in Skofja Loka. It will be a 7-cell canopy called Dragon 170. Already set the colours and everything. It will hopefully be finished in January [...]

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Although all of the stuff mentioned in the previous post was towards perhaps working as a vet in the UK one day, I was surprised this morning to receive a job offer from Oracle. How they found me, I have no idea, but the mail was for me and not just someone who’s name the [...]

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Next week I have an appointment with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) to get myself the certificate to do veterinary work in the UK. I hope it will all come together as it had takem me quite a long time to get it. My first attempts at getting the necessary documents go back [...]

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Well, so far I never had any need to publish a blog whatsoever. I created the blogspot just to see what it looks alike and how Google has organized things. I have done much blogging but sorry to say the Blogspot.com leaves a lot to be desired. Hopefully they will put as much work into [...]

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