{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-22T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-06-22T03:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T03:34:06","slug":"its-4am-and-im-on-my-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/its-4am-and-im-on-my-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 4am and I&#8217;m on my knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just over 100 people here at Mashed, about evenly split between those awake and doing stuff (mainly werewolf and Rock Band at this moment in time) and those grabbing a few precious moments of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Stace came up with a good idea early on, a night manager, someone to take over from a sensible time late on Saturday to give the core organisation team a good break. This year I&#8217;ve split the main on-site organisation into four roles &#8211; the Senior Producer and three Production Assistants &#8211; it&#8217;s worked really well and meant we&#8217;ve kept everything very well in hand &#8211; but for some reason the shift pattern for overnight isn&#8217;t resulting in as much sleep as I could do with!<\/p>\n<p>Ian Forrester is in his element, this is the middle of the day for him! Next year he can run the night shift I think.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on the event so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having dedicated staff rather than volunteers has made things much easier and smoother.<\/li>\n<li>I wonder if the smooth running has some-how taken the &#8216;edge&#8217; off the event a little?<\/li>\n<li>We have about 100 more people here at most times than we did last year.<\/li>\n<li>The screen is amazing, we can&#8217;t get a smaller one next year.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m very excited about tomorrow&#8217;s (today&#8217;s) presentations.<\/li>\n<li>Kingswood Warren guys are awesome, I wish I had more time to give them.<\/li>\n<li>Hotel in Muswell Hill has been dreadful, the concept of a 10 room block booking seems quite alien to them.<\/li>\n<li>Very happy to read the virtually totally positive twitter and blog posts coming out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m really on my knee right now, I can&#8217;t see how I can see the day out, and there&#8217;s still so much to do &#8211; I had the horrible two hour stretch in the middle of the night so I&#8217;ve not managed to get more than two hours sleep. I need some tips on keeping focused and awake. I think I may find a quiet corner and try some simple meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just over 100 people here at Mashed, about evenly split between those awake and doing stuff (mainly werewolf and Rock Band at this moment in time) and those grabbing a few precious moments of sleep. Stace came up with a good idea early on, a night manager, someone to take over from a sensible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/its-4am-and-im-on-my-knees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s 4am and I&#8217;m on my knees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mashed","tag-mashed08"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}