More of the same

[altivo]

Mostly. Watered veggies, cleaned barns, took Tess out to the pasture and brought her back, weeded a bit. Did two loads of laundry, ironed some shirts. I detest ironing, but it was time.

Made Mexican food for dinner including greens I'd thinned out of a garden bed. Received in the mail a 128K static memory chip I'd ordered, used it to expand the internal ramdisk in the Tandy WP-3 portable word processor I've been using. Seems to work just fine.


LJ and various radio forums have offered all the advice I can find on the small Gulbransen. At least they're hopefully positive about it.

Time for bed I think.

Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I hate ironing so much we farmed it out to my housemate's mother. :D We pay her though.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not only would I feel guilty about letting someone else do it, but I don't have that many clothes that I could be shipping some off to be ironed. ;p

Gary claims to like ironing, and I used to let him do my shirts when I was spending many hours a week on a commuter train. Since I stopped commuting, though, I feel guilty letting him do them.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I am getting totally fed up with commuting by bus I am getting totally fed up with the privately owned bus companies "service optimising." As such I am trying to save for a car myself.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Bus lines seem to be the worst of all possible worlds. Even streetcars are better, at least from the rider's point of view. My long commute was between Woodstock and the heart of Chicago and consumed 20 hours a week. Drive 9 miles from home to the station in Woodstock, ride the train about 60 miles to the station downtown, and walk another two miles to the college. Then reverse it in the afternoon. On the whole, it was reliable. I did it for three years that way and probably had a serious snag with train delays only three or four times.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Buses are horrid. Clattery diesels which are mixed in with regular traffic and thus get caught in the same congestion as regular traffic. Fares are taken by the driver which slows down the service even more. Like so much in the UK is all "on the cheap." And if there is one thing a bus line is, it's cheap to run. IF climate change is going to be the problem they claim it's going to be, then HUGE amounts of money need to be poured into mass transit outside the capital. The government is trying to put that off as long as they can. Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds, Southampton, Belfast have all been told where to go when it comes for funds for mass transit. As for me? I am fed up, and getting back in my car again. If it causes pollution tough. I've done my bit. I gave them a chance, and they blew it. If they cannot be bothered to meet me in the middle, I can no longer be bothered to try. I will NOT be a stooge for Arriva.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Heh..I seem to have hijacked your thread with my politics again. Sorry.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nah, s'ok. You'll find the same congestion issues with driving a car, though, plus you have all the maintenance, insurance, and parking to deal with. The price of fuel is on the rise again over here, with the filling stations raising their prices every time the futures price goes up.

I agree that allowing private corporations to operate mass transit is a proven disaster. It has never worked well for any length of time anywhere. The better operated systems I have been able to use have always been owned and controlled by public agencies and subsidized by tax dollars (usually a tax on gasoline and/or parking fees.)