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- 08:44 @fonsus well, big showrooms is what car sales are all about. they are the cathedrals of the automobile. #
- 08:45 morning tweeters. just passing leighton buzzard on the way to nuneaton for the last workday of the week. W00t and doublt w00t! #
- 08:52 very chatty shrill young child across the aisle from me. i wish they could have a quiet car where children were banned, banned, banned! #
- 13:10 just returned from lunch at Subway...quite a walk from the work site. Had a BMT which I shouldn't have had...my bad... #
- 14:45 @mkrigsman one correction: "A to Z" (pronounced "zed") is the local map book and so they found addresses using "the A to Z" not "A to Zs" #
- 14:46 @mkrigsman otherwise it was good and scary, especially on friday afternoon when all the traffic accidents happen around here. #
- 17:17 Taxi mixup so missed 4:35 pm train to London. Stuck for an hour, sigh. Taxi's been good up to now. #
- 17:21 @fonsus It's just you, I'm afraid. I'm at a sodding railway station in the middle of Nowhere, England waiting for a train. #
- 17:34 @fonsus I get enough pageantry in church. When the olympics come to london in 4 years' time I shall make sure I'm elsewhere. #
- 20:13 @fonsus i think twitter lost my reply, which is that we'll rent for £2000 per week, but for you, £1900! It'll be a steal! #
- 20:14 @BrianHeys Google Docs is already evil...they deleted some poor sod's account and he lost everything...someone said he was a spammer... #
- 23:38 nighty-night tweeters, hope you all sleep well. i'm knackered--too much commuting today. the 5:35 nuneaton-euston train sux a very big one. #
Aug. 9th, 2008
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mollymeekWhy I haven't been posting much lately
Aug. 9th, 2008 09:51 amAs those of you who read my LoudTwitter LJ posts will know, I've been commuting to Nuneaton/Hinckley for the past three weeks for my job. I'm doing some release management and quality assessment work for a large utility. Interesting stuff, but it does leave me pretty exhausted at the end of the day. I am getting behind in my email reading, my LiveJournal reading, and in my life in general.
I have, however, discovered the value of Twitter in keeping a record of what's happening in slices of 140 characters or less. This is quite useful, and I am becoming more enamoured of it the longer I remain in Nuneaton.
The highlight (or lowlight) of this week was yesterday, when my taxi driver failed to show up at the site to take me to Nuneaton Station in time for the 4:35 train to London. I called Sandeep (we are on a first-name basis now) and he told me that he had asked a friend of his to pick me up in his place because he needed to take his family somewhere. The friend had gone to another site in Hinckley, TNT (the delivery people), and picked up someone else for the train station. Sandeep had sent someone else to TNT, and he returned empty-taxied because the other driver had picked up the fare that he was meant to pick up.
Sandeep was in his family car with his family, and turned around and came to Hinckley and picked me up, with wife and son in the back seat, and took me to Nuneaton, not in time for the 4:35 train but what could one do? I thanked him profusely and didn't become depressed or annoyed about it, as there was nothing that could be done. This is good for me, as I tend to become nervous and grumpy when transport doesn't work out well. I think it's the beta-blocker, which makes me more mellow, on the whole.
So I went into the coffee shop at Nuneaton, bought a few train-related magazines and a mug of coffee, and whiled away some pleasant time reading about American trains. Got the 5:35 train, which stopped at Rugby and Milton Keynes, and got home around 7:30 pm.
I hope that things will be much more pleasant next week.
I have, however, discovered the value of Twitter in keeping a record of what's happening in slices of 140 characters or less. This is quite useful, and I am becoming more enamoured of it the longer I remain in Nuneaton.
The highlight (or lowlight) of this week was yesterday, when my taxi driver failed to show up at the site to take me to Nuneaton Station in time for the 4:35 train to London. I called Sandeep (we are on a first-name basis now) and he told me that he had asked a friend of his to pick me up in his place because he needed to take his family somewhere. The friend had gone to another site in Hinckley, TNT (the delivery people), and picked up someone else for the train station. Sandeep had sent someone else to TNT, and he returned empty-taxied because the other driver had picked up the fare that he was meant to pick up.
Sandeep was in his family car with his family, and turned around and came to Hinckley and picked me up, with wife and son in the back seat, and took me to Nuneaton, not in time for the 4:35 train but what could one do? I thanked him profusely and didn't become depressed or annoyed about it, as there was nothing that could be done. This is good for me, as I tend to become nervous and grumpy when transport doesn't work out well. I think it's the beta-blocker, which makes me more mellow, on the whole.
So I went into the coffee shop at Nuneaton, bought a few train-related magazines and a mug of coffee, and whiled away some pleasant time reading about American trains. Got the 5:35 train, which stopped at Rugby and Milton Keynes, and got home around 7:30 pm.
I hope that things will be much more pleasant next week.
This year's holidays
Aug. 9th, 2008 09:54 amI now have dates for our holidays this year:
I shall be in Massachusetts from 11-19th of September, and HWMBO and I will be in Singapore from 17 October until 3 November. arriving back in London 4 November.
I would like to spend a few days in New York or maybe in Washington DC, but don't know whether I can do that. I would actually like to travel down there 1st class on Amtrak and back.
In Singapore we will probably take one side trip somewhere (I know not where).
Next year: Australia!!!
I shall be in Massachusetts from 11-19th of September, and HWMBO and I will be in Singapore from 17 October until 3 November. arriving back in London 4 November.
I would like to spend a few days in New York or maybe in Washington DC, but don't know whether I can do that. I would actually like to travel down there 1st class on Amtrak and back.
In Singapore we will probably take one side trip somewhere (I know not where).
Next year: Australia!!!