snow mkII
famous last words. It snowed again. That calls for some more seasonal pics. enjoy 
snow
So its been snowing, not much, but it has, and now its mostly all gone. Appearing in time to make fridays commute to work quite horrible for the 90 minutes it took, and disappearing in time for it not to be enjoyed over the weekend.
Anyway, to prove it happened here are a couple of pics from the garden, along with one to show the tree in scary mode.
antarctica
As I have seemingly discovered how to embed youtube into my blog I thought i’d repost this short selection of pics from february this year…
why i don’t use public transport…
Just finished trying to apply for a car parking permit for one of places I work for which seems to have got several times more complicated now they are saving the enviroment.
One of the questions is about journey times and asks how long it would take me to complete my journey using public transport and to give details of the services used. This has prompted me to discover the following:
in order to get to work on time instead of leaving the house at 6.30am and spending an hour and a bit driving and arriving at 7.45 (any later and I wouldn’t guarentee the traffic allowing me to arrive on time) I would have to catch a bus and two trains and then walk to my destination and leave the house at 5.30am to get to work for 8.10am.
I completely fail to see the benefit of using public transport as a viable means of getting to this particular place of work. Though I am sure it might have it’s benefits for shorter trips if it happened to go where I want roughly when I want, but i’m not sure it even does this without some convoluted travelling about town which can’t be good for the enviroment in itself.
non enviromentally friendly rant over.
here in my car
…so because a random thought struck me I have worked out how long i’ve spent (approximately) over the course of a year travelling too and from work – as a minimum.
turns out its just over 13 and a half days.
which is 3.7% of the year.
lets multiply that over a 40 year career span just in case i get stuck in a rut, and it turns out to be 540 days. Potentially a year and a half of my life just driving too and from work.
I’m sure many people do more than that. But I don’t think I like that statistic.
So.. Batteries..
I question the need for the happy family on the multipack of batteries. Why are they so happy? Are they overjoyed at the wonder of owning 12 aa size batteries? Or is it the power they will bring to all the small electrical gadgets in the house? How can they be that happy from one pack of batteries?
And where is the father? Have they sent him off to buy more batteries? Has the mother just divorced him signing the papers with one of those lighty uppy pens powered by one of the batteries?
I NEED TO KNOW THE BACKSTORY!!!!!!!
