{"id":1635,"date":"2011-04-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:00:00","slug":"the-final-adventures-of-roger-wilco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/the-final-adventures-of-roger-wilco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Adventures of Roger Wilco?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers might recall the previous<\/a> adventures<\/a> of Roger Wilco<\/a>, the somewhat superior raccoon. (There are several links there, best read in order.)<\/p>\n

Well last week I suspect we saw the final chapter in Roger’s round-the-world trip which has included Birmingham, Malov, San Francisco, Malov, Birmingham, Cirencester and many points in between.\u00a0 Through the magnificent efforts of some good Oak Table friends, he arrived with James Morle in London at the UKOUG Exadata event to complete the final leg. (I also finally took delivery of my new OT T-Shirt, which is very cool …)<\/p>\n

We all adjourned to a bar with outside tables and a wide selection of good beers so that Roger could say farewell to some of his new friends.<\/p>\n

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Left-Right – Roger Wilco, Paul Logan of Pythian, Dan Norris, James Morle, David Kurtz, Tanel Poder and the back of Peter Brink’s head.<\/p>\n

He almost didn’t make it back though as he went missing again<\/em> and I knew that I would be in deep trouble when I got home. When I saw the evil glint to Lisa Dobson’s smile, I realised something fishy had been going on. He’d been kidnapped!<\/p>\n

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Once untangled, I was able to finally delivery him home to Edinburgh. His fur looks a bit bedraggled but he has lost none of his sense of superiority. In fact, he’s much worse because he claims to have been places and seen things that a cuddly toy can never forget and the others are never likely to see. To say the atmosphere at home is a little frosty is an understatement!<\/p>\n

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I only hope that in time they bring him down to earth with a sharp bang and we can all get back to normal again. If not, I worry he might decide to go off on a new set of adventures. <\/p>\n

As long as he doesn’t find himself in this sort of situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers might recall the previous adventures of Roger Wilco, the somewhat superior raccoon. (There are several links there, best read in order.) Well last week I suspect we saw the final chapter in Roger’s round-the-world trip which has included Birmingham, Malov, San Francisco, Malov, Birmingham, Cirencester and many points in between.\u00a0 Through the magnificent… Continue reading The Final Adventures of Roger Wilco?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1462,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/the-continuing-adventures-of-roger-wilco\/","url_meta":{"origin":1635,"position":0},"title":"The continuing adventures of Roger Wilco","date":"December 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"(... or why cuddly toys aren't allowed out of the house with me too often.)What I neglected to mention in the last post was that, when JB turned up at All Bar One, not only did he tell me how much he'd enjoyed Robyn's presentation, he also highlighted the fact\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/serendipity\/uploads\/xrogerandaimee.jpg.pagespeed.ic.ggolzrHsip.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1457,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/roger-wilco\/","url_meta":{"origin":1635,"position":1},"title":"Roger Wilco","date":"December 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a bit of a story behind this one, so bear with me.Here's an excerpt from an email thread discussing arrangements for the Oak Table at this year's UKOUG conference. 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