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...West Coast, however, my cell phone became more useful as an alarm clock than a telecommunication device. It would not pick up a signal for days, but did occasionally storm back to life, buzzing and beeping, as it caught up with a barrage of missed calls and text messages. My contingency plan was fatally flawed—my phone card had expired (with all my credits!) months before I returned home...
...kids to see ?42nd Street? (a road-show company of which Beth had taken the kids to in San Francisco) on 42nd Street. We had less than an hour to don our rain-gear, take a subway uptown and hope tickets were still available for the 8 o?clock performance. The deluge outside only heightened our giddy mood; some of us sang ?Singin? in the Rain? while others whirled, Gene Kelly-style, around lampposts. We arrived at the Ford Theatre and snapped up three pairs of seats and, thanks to code numbers from broadwaybox.com, saved about $250 off the list...
...Thursday Island before they call it a day. Otherwise, the ACV crew will be babysitting the detainees in the harbor until the morning - a hassle, and also a bureaucratic drag on a $A5 million asset and a highly skilled crew that is supposed to be on call around the clock. Cummins unleashes the throttle and the Indonesians get a taste of Torres Strait waterskiing, Bay Class style...
...Quick, quick, quick," mutters Chris Dore into the phone. The paper's night editor doesn't need to check the clock to know the evening's first deadline is close. Interruptions are briskly dealt with. Expletives are occasionally uttered with quiet vehemence. "Let's get this show on the road," he says loudly. Around him the paper's most senior production editors - a team known as the backbench - are assessing the last few pieces filed for tomorrow's paper by journalists from Cairns, Canberra or a few desks away, "tasting" them for tone and logic before flicking them over...
...about Mark, it's not about supporting Howard, it's about policy ideas," he insists. The story, it's agreed, will be vigorously chased. Washington correspondent Roy Eccleston is called, late at night his time, and asked to write a piece on the FTA vote - straight away. The clock ticks...