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Well its been a classic planes trains and automobiles kind of a day....... first you've got to jam it all in the bags......grab a taxi....... but someone is digging the road so you cannot get the cab near the bags....... hassle hassle to get the kit in the taxi......ride to Union station........drag the junk to the automatic ticket machine...... that takes the money but issues no ticket.......... great......then you have to hassle hassle to get a ticket.........then you need to grab the junk and get on the train......it feels like a long way to the platform....... you know you are not looking that cool with it..... cos a petit young woman offers to help you....... er....... a little humiliating but hey you are obviously struggling......so then you take the train to BWI airport....(Baltimore Washington international) but it really is just Baltimore its a long way out of DC. So then you are in the wrong carriage for the airport station short platform....... requiring a whole pile more hassle to move the junk two carriages down....... much to the amusement of afore mentioned petit young woman........ So then you struggle off the platform....... then have to wait at a bus stop.......... then get a 15 min bus ride to the actual airport....... (are you getting this Matt? Reagan/National only..... I was half dead before getting near a plane....... please no more..... BWI........ and please no Dulles unless its essential or international out of DC)........ so then you are queuing for US Airways they are incredibly rude and make you hang for a very long time at their automatic check in that refuses to recognize you have a reservation........ er.........thats cos they have flicked you onto a flight operated by United......who also have huge lines so you have to line-up again...... and they will not allow you to actually have a seat allocation at check in ......they say you need to go to the gate before they can establish if they have any seats.........great .......... oh then there are mega huge lines at the security check ....... so i have a load of problems getting the film through security........ then i run down to the flight they do give me the final (middle row) seat on the plane........ah.....the joy....... but no boarding pass for the....... connecting flight out of Chicago..... great...... so more hassling in Chicago...... they have no knowledge of my reservation...... ah..... thats cos now Im on a flight operated by American Eagle....... er......not from this terminal...... great...... when I get there.... they for some reason cannot get their machine to print a boarding pass....... Matt tells me its now 5PM getting kinda late for breakfast........ then i am on a very small American Eagle plane out of Chicago.......... on to Omaha Nebraska.....for some reason its impossible to fly to Lincoln today..... so I have to drive from Omaha........ but of course all the baggage full of equipment is still in Chicago....... fantastic....... the car rental company has not got the class of car we have ordered....... so they are giving me a free upgrade to a crossfire which is a fine little sports car but could just about fit the camera gear I have now...... but if the bags ever turn up they will never go in it....... so more hassle hassle and I end up with a Jeep.... which is good cos there is still a pile of snow around still......... then I roll down to Lincoln to check out the locations I have to shoot tomorrow......its complicated but one client has not decided if they actually want anything from Nebraska........Im just working out if it can be physically done if they suddenly want it..... anyway this is all up to Matt..... the other client definitely wants their shoot to start at 8AM tomorrow...... its midnight and the rest of the kit has still not arrived...... great...... suddenly the cellphone rings its one of my craziest clients in NYC ......... he is going on about maybe zapping down to Central America the day after tomorrow...... is that possible?..... er..... over to you Matt?

I haven't had much time to shoot anything as ol' psycho correctly surmised .......... but I notice I still have a disk with a pile of police library pictures on it....... all shot on film in the past........ so you can be treated to some more old police pictures from the UK........ Here is a cop arresting a drug dealer at Kings Cross Station in London............ particularly relevant as Tilly seemed to be predicting my slide into drug and alcohol abuse ........ This is pretty well as close as I get too drug abuse. I weirdly dont even go in for that much drinking either.......... as sadly Im generally too busy and mostly too knackered for such pastimes.

cheers jez XX