Scooter Chronicles

I am changing jobs again. After a comment like that, some of you are probably wondering if I can stay in one place very long. Sure I can. I have in the past. I stayed with Forward Planning for just short of ten years. And I was at CHL for just over five years. My plan was when I left CHL was to stay somewhere for a decent period of time. Unfortunately that didn’t happen.

I have mentioned before that I left CHL for FMC and it was a nightmare. Maybe overstating it, but it was a mess. So then I took the contract position with FLSmidth with the idea of hiring in after the six month contract was done. But their offer was low. Very low. So after talking to Marcia, we made the decision for me to start looking again. Though...

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On Monday night, Marcia and I watched “The Last King of Scotland” starring Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy.

The best plot synopsis I could find was on IMDB, written by Kenneth Chisholm:

In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan (McAvoy), a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin (Whitaker), who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department...

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