Day 84, Thursday March 26, 6.30am: Yesterday was the first day of Motorman Mike's new life. I'll have to ask him how it went.
Mike - and Yogi Clare, his short-term, long-term partner - are sub-radar members of TRSNYRC.
They've been busy resolving, but quietly. I'm still awaiting the details. It's just that they've both been rather busy to chat to a blogger, that's all. It's understandable. They've both been trying to make sense of their new lives together.
Mike and Clare offer us real romance - they were together, weren't together, are back together - as well as real drama. Like One-Lung-Is-Better-Than-None Mike and Not-At-All-Lubricious Linda (see Day 71) and Matt The Mildly Mad Magistrate (Day 44), they have decided to turn things upside down in a very big way.
Clare and Mike began, like many of us, by cutting back on the alcohol and, in Mike's case, doing a bit of cycling - 36 miles in one go the other day, he tells me. I think weight loss may also be involved. And Clare is also a marvellously talented musician and talks about reviving her piano.
But then Mike decided to go the whole hog and quit his job. He decided he didn't need the stress. We're right in the middle of a credit crunch, when everybody tells us to be worried about money and work, and he goes and jumps ship! The man's a legend.
Yesterday was his first day of freedom. The first thing he did - well, on the evening before, to be honest, as he was taking off his office tie and suit for the last time - was to break one of his earlier resolutions and get through a bottle of wine. We'll overlook it, Mike, this one time.
Clare, meanwhile, still has a few hurdles in her attempts to sort out her life. It's all a bit complicated and rather tiring.
But then, I'm sure, we can expect a few more details.
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