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Easter and chill
Apr. 6th, 2023 10:22 pmI'm now on holiday for the Easter break. Since I wasn't working yesterday and today, that means six days which is much needed. I went to the city to get my Reandron shot on Wednesday, only then finding that I had failed to update my phone number [again] for the pharmacy, so their efforts to tell me the nurse was off sick were to no avail.
So I got to ride the Midland Line's rail replacement bus two days in a row, which was exactly as delightful as one might imagine. [Trains are off until the 25th]. I thought midmorning it would not be packed. This was not so. Lesson for future me; do not sit on the bus's back row where the bloke who has nothing to hold on to will thud into you each time the bus makes a turn. He did apologise but he also couldn't stop doing it.
Anyway, went back today for the jab and then home again since I was starting to feel groggy. Stocked up on food supplies when I figured I could ride without falling asleep, bolted for home again and am now engaged in bingeing on the English/French latest version of War of the Worlds. Which is really not much like the original story at all, but I'm finding it so engrossing anyway that I don't mind. It's now reminding me more of Fringe than it is of H.G. Wells, which may give you an idea and I'm very pleased that it's supposed to get a fourth season. It's on SBS, so I'm enduring the ads, but have decided that paying for a streaming service is now beyond my wallet, so I guess it's good that SBS does have some very good shows to watch.
Still on transport; yes, I have been riding my e-bike to work but that method has become more unnerving of late as the bike lanes become clogged with other bikes and even worse, those infernal scooters. The French, who recently banned tourist company scooters in Paris, termed them "anarchic" and I think that's exactly right. Most bike riders know the road rules for the two-wheeled; scooter riders appear to regard them as suggestions only, if they even know them. I'm not sure they're even speed-capped, having had them easily overtake me and then disappear into the distance to cause more havoc.
Beyond that hazard, the Bayswater area is now such an active building site around the train station, including more heavy machinery and vehicles than I've ever seen in one place, that it feels like an obstacle course through the Terminator future world. Since it's now the time of year where darkness falls before I make it home, that's not at all comfortable. Still, I won't have to tackle it for a few days now!
So I got to ride the Midland Line's rail replacement bus two days in a row, which was exactly as delightful as one might imagine. [Trains are off until the 25th]. I thought midmorning it would not be packed. This was not so. Lesson for future me; do not sit on the bus's back row where the bloke who has nothing to hold on to will thud into you each time the bus makes a turn. He did apologise but he also couldn't stop doing it.
Anyway, went back today for the jab and then home again since I was starting to feel groggy. Stocked up on food supplies when I figured I could ride without falling asleep, bolted for home again and am now engaged in bingeing on the English/French latest version of War of the Worlds. Which is really not much like the original story at all, but I'm finding it so engrossing anyway that I don't mind. It's now reminding me more of Fringe than it is of H.G. Wells, which may give you an idea and I'm very pleased that it's supposed to get a fourth season. It's on SBS, so I'm enduring the ads, but have decided that paying for a streaming service is now beyond my wallet, so I guess it's good that SBS does have some very good shows to watch.
Still on transport; yes, I have been riding my e-bike to work but that method has become more unnerving of late as the bike lanes become clogged with other bikes and even worse, those infernal scooters. The French, who recently banned tourist company scooters in Paris, termed them "anarchic" and I think that's exactly right. Most bike riders know the road rules for the two-wheeled; scooter riders appear to regard them as suggestions only, if they even know them. I'm not sure they're even speed-capped, having had them easily overtake me and then disappear into the distance to cause more havoc.
Beyond that hazard, the Bayswater area is now such an active building site around the train station, including more heavy machinery and vehicles than I've ever seen in one place, that it feels like an obstacle course through the Terminator future world. Since it's now the time of year where darkness falls before I make it home, that's not at all comfortable. Still, I won't have to tackle it for a few days now!