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Dec. 9th, 2003 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueThis weekend was SINergy. That was pretty good.
Unfortunately, I just got the starting edges of a miserable cold, and so wasn't entirely with it for the session. Which sucks a bit. Mostly because I didn't managed to introduce some of the plot I was intending to. Oh well.
Did anyone get afflicted by that "Roger Mortimer" bloke, and get utterly bored by his aerospace ranting?
Oh, and I just heard that the first toll motorway in the UK is open today.
It's called (creatively) the 'M6 Toll' because it follows the route of the M6, and you have to pay a toll.
There was some MP on the radio flapping his sphincter about why paying for roads is a good thing, because it'll reduce traffic etc.
I bet he still goes everywhere by car though, and claims tolls and congestion charges on his expenses.
They just don't get it. The roads are busy, yes. And getting busier. The reason is that there is NO ALTERNATIVE. Not because you aren't charging motorists enough.
I run a car. I reckon with loan repayments, tax etc. that costs me about £10 per day. (regardless of miles traveled). It also costs me about 10-12p per mile in fuel. My 40 mile round trip to work and back, I figure works out as about £5 worth of fuel. (Working from the assumption that however I got to work, I'd want a car.)
My journey to work, took me 40 minutes this morning, including a stop for a bacon roll on the way. This was sitting down, nice and warm in my car all the way.
Keying in my route to work, reckons I should get a bus from tile hill lane (5 minutes walk, get 07:24 bus, get off at station at 07:34)
Get the 07:59 train, to rugby for 08:10.
Walk the rest of the way to work (another 15 minutes or so)
Now, that means, I'm leaving at about 07:15, to get to work by 08:30 - transit time of 1:15. This is, of course, assuming that the trains etc run even approximately on time. Which in this country, they so blatantly don't.
Bus fare, about £1 (cos they don't do change), train fare £3.90. Total journey cost of £5.90, and another 30 minutes less snooze time.
Is it any wonder I'm never going to use public transport?
Like speed cameras, congestion charging are fob off preventative measures. They aren't going to work, but they are going to net the government a little more cash, and provide _yet another_ way to sting the motorist for cash.
It's also much cheaper than actually fixing the fucking problem. If it costs me more, and takes me longer to get from a) to b) by public transport, I'm never going to do so. The _only_ people congestion charging hurts are those who are borderline on running their car.
The current government are going to wave their arms, and blame it on the previous government. (Note, this is irrespective of who are currently in power when you read this). But they're not going _fix_ the problem, because that's going to be expensive, and make them _directly_ unpopular. (Look at what happened to the guy who re-nationalised railtrack. He got crucified).
Politics. It's a disgusting game.
I'd also like to thank whoever it was who passed this lurgy on to me. I'm here, in work, committing bio-warfare. But I still feel rough, and I'm only here because of an important project with a vendor.
Who canceled because they're ill.
Bastards.
(And why don't they sell tylenol in this country? It's fantasic stuff.
Come to think of it, that's probably why.)
Unfortunately, I just got the starting edges of a miserable cold, and so wasn't entirely with it for the session. Which sucks a bit. Mostly because I didn't managed to introduce some of the plot I was intending to. Oh well.
Did anyone get afflicted by that "Roger Mortimer" bloke, and get utterly bored by his aerospace ranting?
Oh, and I just heard that the first toll motorway in the UK is open today.
It's called (creatively) the 'M6 Toll' because it follows the route of the M6, and you have to pay a toll.
There was some MP on the radio flapping his sphincter about why paying for roads is a good thing, because it'll reduce traffic etc.
I bet he still goes everywhere by car though, and claims tolls and congestion charges on his expenses.
They just don't get it. The roads are busy, yes. And getting busier. The reason is that there is NO ALTERNATIVE. Not because you aren't charging motorists enough.
I run a car. I reckon with loan repayments, tax etc. that costs me about £10 per day. (regardless of miles traveled). It also costs me about 10-12p per mile in fuel. My 40 mile round trip to work and back, I figure works out as about £5 worth of fuel. (Working from the assumption that however I got to work, I'd want a car.)
My journey to work, took me 40 minutes this morning, including a stop for a bacon roll on the way. This was sitting down, nice and warm in my car all the way.
Keying in my route to work, reckons I should get a bus from tile hill lane (5 minutes walk, get 07:24 bus, get off at station at 07:34)
Get the 07:59 train, to rugby for 08:10.
Walk the rest of the way to work (another 15 minutes or so)
Now, that means, I'm leaving at about 07:15, to get to work by 08:30 - transit time of 1:15. This is, of course, assuming that the trains etc run even approximately on time. Which in this country, they so blatantly don't.
Bus fare, about £1 (cos they don't do change), train fare £3.90. Total journey cost of £5.90, and another 30 minutes less snooze time.
Is it any wonder I'm never going to use public transport?
Like speed cameras, congestion charging are fob off preventative measures. They aren't going to work, but they are going to net the government a little more cash, and provide _yet another_ way to sting the motorist for cash.
It's also much cheaper than actually fixing the fucking problem. If it costs me more, and takes me longer to get from a) to b) by public transport, I'm never going to do so. The _only_ people congestion charging hurts are those who are borderline on running their car.
The current government are going to wave their arms, and blame it on the previous government. (Note, this is irrespective of who are currently in power when you read this). But they're not going _fix_ the problem, because that's going to be expensive, and make them _directly_ unpopular. (Look at what happened to the guy who re-nationalised railtrack. He got crucified).
Politics. It's a disgusting game.
I'd also like to thank whoever it was who passed this lurgy on to me. I'm here, in work, committing bio-warfare. But I still feel rough, and I'm only here because of an important project with a vendor.
Who canceled because they're ill.
Bastards.
(And why don't they sell tylenol in this country? It's fantasic stuff.
Come to think of it, that's probably why.)
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Date: 2003-12-09 05:23 am (UTC)If you want something slightly stronger try some ibuprofen. If you believe the BNF (British National Formularly) it's safe to double the recommended doses given on packets of ibuprofen. Under no circumstances do that with paracetomal.
The other thing to try is paracetomal + codeine tablets.
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Date: 2003-12-09 06:48 am (UTC)I like Anadin Extra. It's not very powerful - just a mixed aspirin/paracetamol - but it also has a nice jolt of caffeine to help the brain get up to speed.
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Date: 2003-12-09 08:36 am (UTC)At the moment, I'm mostly settling for lemsip and coffee. Separate cups. Hmm... now there's a thought. Coffee lemsips.
I'm not even going to suggest vodka lemsips ;p