Michael Wawra

Attender of meetings. Rubbish Guitarist. Previously: Sword fighting, horse riding, rock climbing, lawyering, evangelist, coder.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@thameswater Acton Lane W3, between Highstreet and Gloucester Road. Next to the ActOne Cinema.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@thameswater Reported this two days ago in W3 but water is still bubbling from a broken pipe. I can see my water bill going up, and it’s becoming quite a mess. If it freezes it’ll be a danger to pedestrians on the crossing.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@iandowwright That is a supremely futuristic set of wheels. Nice. Love that front grill… or absence of I suppose?

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@tef That’s a beautiful photo. My condolences to you and all.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

I was right. @hertz were wrong. ECRCS was informed me I am to be refunded.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

Hired from @Hertz. Declined the “zero excess” insurance, I’ve £6k cover for that. On arrival, I’ve ZERO insurance, so need cover for €24k cost of car! Hertz sold it to me for €210… this feels like a scam. I will be lawyering on my return. Wife will be journalism...ing. Pls RT.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

Update! @Hertz say this doesn’t seem right either. Needs to be looked at after I return the car. Mrs xmjw less inclined to column in national paper, but possible interesting brexit story? Depends if it was a glitch…

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

I mean the 8th is the octave. Or do I? See!!! Zero index people… sigh.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

In music, you have more functions, just numbers given to a note. For the scale in G, G is the root, then you’ve a 2nd, 3rd etc up to a 7th which is the G up an octave. The fact this isn’t zero indexed really fucks me up…

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@jf I can’t shake the feeling that I am intellectually inferior to those with a better university degree than me. I think there is no end. Wife went to Cambridge, and she worries about those who got a better grade…

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@twopointline Yeah. Have a trip planned at the weekend and if don’t cancel on Wednesday I don’t get my money back. So can I get more gas before that? Else we’ll run out on the M25.. “need” is a complex word, but we do need the break!!

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

Drove around west London for 45 minutes before I found a queue. Waited for 50 minutes and boom. Full tank. They let 3 more cars in behind me and the staff had clearly had enough and shut up shop. They were super nice though. Helping people and all sorts.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

Contemplated hiring a zip car, driving it to my car, siphoning 50% of the fuel to my car, and putting it back… #pleasedontdothis feels very wrong, but a sort of interesting challenge…

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

“We could buy a Tesla… but the sensible choice is buy a used Golf and see if we use it…” Balls.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@aspleenic After the first episode I though “Who the hell signed this off?” Then I put the second episode on. So I guess I’ve a complicated relationship with it. We’ll see if I bother with the third though.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

So. I am at my first, ever, open mic. But I confess to not bringing an instrument… too scared. Calling it research. So far, it’s chatting and setting up mic booms.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@TheSimonEvans Terrific show!!! Really enjoyed that, thank you ever so much!!

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@TheSimonEvans Is there an intermission in tonight’s show? Trying to finalise my babysitter…!!

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@Hertz So why isn’t it included in the rental?

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

So in all likelihood, @hertz didn’t add insurance to my booking and then said it’s because I didn’t opt in, when I wasn’t given the option. My GDPR request to prove it has gone unanswered. ECRCS alerted, will raise with ICO in 20 days at this rate too, and then SC court… sigh.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

Just met a Jazz Percussionist at Kings X. Because I had a guitar. This is the first person to mistake me for a musician. If you don’t count the two people who clapped when we played in the office.

[Michael Wawra @xmjw]

@iandowwright I get that. Transitioning the greatest thing in the universe, ever, to “such that we can” is achinginly hard.