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APRIL
09-04-01 - Launch - ?? days. A public announcement about the launch will be made tomorrow.
09-04-03 - Launch - ?? days. Today followed the pattern of yesterday
09-04-04 - Launch - ?? days. A quiet, relaxing, quite normal day… for a change
09-04-09 - Launch - 27 days. Blesséd sleep!
09-04-11 - Launch - 25 days. Still no news
09-04-12 - Launch - 24 days. Ignored my email all day
09-04-13 - Launch - 23 days. This was a tough way to start after a break! 09-04-14 - Launch - 22 days.
09-04-14 - Launch - 22 days. Yesterday, at this same time, I was leaving work in brilliant sunshine
09-04-15 - Launch - 21 days. Three weeks to go
09-04-16 - Launch - 20 days. Tomorrow that “2” will change to a “1”
09-04-17 - Launch - 19 days. In the morning the ecstasy of seeing “19”
09-04-18 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. Saturday morning and the usual round of business
09-04-20 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. It has been a long day
09-04-23 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. My particular part of the test has ended for a day or so
09-04-24 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. My tyre was still hard in the morning
09-04-25 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. This morning I really felt too tired to do anything much
09-04-26 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. An early start on a really miserable day
09-04-27 - Launch - 19 days and Holding. After the frenetic activity of the last two weeks,
09-04-29 - Launch - 15 days and Counting. We are about to enter the last two weeks before launch
09-04-30 - Launch - 14 days and Counting. The last two weeks. This has hit home