Another poibt: I bought a new car! Yep, with the concept of public transportation not having reached the realms of once-great-britain, each individual has his or her own car. Actually this was confirmed by statistics. Apparently there are 26 million cars in England. With a population of 52 million, that makes one car per two people. Now, you may ask "so what?", well, consider that if you are younger than 18 you are not allowed to drive your own car, and consider there are a couple of grannies and granpas that don't drive, I think you will come close to about 1 car per person full stop!
Anyway, I'm deviating... I bought a Volkswagen Passat. A little old, from 1997, and quite high mileage (118k, but it's a volkswagen passat! Plus for the first 90k it was a company car and serviced regularly. The second owner did not have much service history, which was a shame, but they are servicing it for me now. I told them I don't want the service light blinking (and I don't mean cutting the wire!). Friday I will pick it up.
One more thing. Ofcourse the insurance I was quoted was ludricously high again, so I will change companies as soon as my accident has been finalised.
Actually it is quite luxurious, with CD changer and everything. Nice interiour. Anyway, here are some pics of it, judge by yourself...
The front...
The side...
The inside...
I'm picking it up friday.
Some people may have heard about the oil refinery that went up in smoke in england. And guess what... it is yet another show of British moronics... The fire brigade was not allowed to use foam in teh beginning because of "the environmental effects on the ground water". Of course it doesn't matter that water spreads the oil, thereby increasing the ground surface that is affected by the oil, and letting it burn up is of course totally acceptable. Ofcourse that has no effect on the environment! I mean, the gulf war effect never happened, and global warming does not exist, and hardly anyone drives in england anyway, so the effect is nil!
By the way, late in teh morning they got the go-ahead to use foam (water does not really extinguish oil fires, it jsut spreads it...)
2 comments:
VW's rock - just bought a Jetta. On to business though. I seems people don't frequent the sushicam forums much any more but I noticed a few requests on your part about 6 months ago (in regards to site design, etc). Have these been resolved? I'm one of those people that kind of has to always be doing something, so if you have work, I have time.
-Valentine
(lcvalentine@gmail.com)
That is very kind of you valentine. Well, so far I don't have many issues with regards to my blog. The only annoying bit is that I can't back it up anywhere. I would imagine it be simple to include a button that will drop your whole blog in a text file, that can later be called up again.
As for sushicam, it is still active. In fact, Jeff has been changing his website a bit lately. Mind you, the forums are mostly active when it concerns things japanese...
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