High Wycombe Costa on the high street

Here I am - I did a quick walk to the city center, takes about 30 min max which is quite reasonable. It is sunny with occassional cloud and it's quite crisp. I am drowning a huge mug of badly made capucinno here sitting outside Costa. Now I am feeling colder. I didn't have anything to do here, I just wanted to get out of the house and explore the surrounding a bit.

High Wycombe is not very beautiful or anything, it is quite dirty compared to Cambridge or St. Ives which is a bit annoying int he short run.

Apparently I forgot my SD card on the PDA - no work documents to go through, which was one of my aims today - alas I have a reason to be lazy heheh.

Slowly I need to investigate where everything are - I'm going to figure out where the train station is, go around once more and try to remember where some of the shops are - I need some bookcases but the Argos here (an endless supply of cheap and badly made furniture) has run out of my favourite tall bookcase - HAH!

Annoying - I am thinking of driving to Slough tomorrow to get some, I might go to Windsor for a short walk around, it's only a couple of miles from there.The
There are plenty of nice places near but this is not particularly beautiful - I can live with that for now - at least this place has all of the basics.

The other thing I need to look into is an astronomy club, and maybe the amateur radio cub but I started to think that I really don't fall into the generic radio enthusiast in this country either - which is a bit shame but we shall see.

I see much more near and far asian faces here and some funny looking goths and chavs, quite a difference after Cambridge, cos a bit like Huntingdon but this place is much more cosmopolitan compared to Hunts - there you would only get the chavs and inbreds!

Flat

It is getting better and better - the study is still full of boxes, the garage is still full of boxes, the living room is still missing its bookcases, the work desk is still not there but I'm getting there...

Tired

Went to Oxford today, very very pretty, much like Cambridge but in some ways grander, some ways more basic. I only wandered around for an hour or so and looked around the high street and didn't wander around the Colleges but it was a recce mission more than anything else, to figure out how to get there, what is where and all those are now figured out, I'll be spending more time next time. One lesson: Use the park&ride. As opposed to Cambridge, Oxford's inner roads are completely unusuable. Getting to the multi-story car park in the middle was such a pain, I should have never attempted. Also breaking a jar of pickles right in the middle didn't increase my annoyance.

It is way better than Wycombe center but a bit further away but still, 30 min drive is not that bad, I am used to the likes of it, I just have to make sure about the park&ride costs and latest bus times. I will probably like it over here, I should try London next weekend.

PS: OK, I am annoyed with the Blogger now since it bounced my email blog submission back and I have to redo this over the web interface. If you don't have a service that works, don't offer it asshats!

tired...

I'm done with the St. Ives flat, I went around for the last time today and cleaned the flat and left. I'm really tired, I couldn't even be bothered to empty the car - will look into it tomorrow morning. After that, maybe a trip to Oxford. Why not?

eee

I love my eee...
I still need to get used to the keyboard, I get lot of typoes but even X11 over ssh over WiFi is incredibly fast.

Podiobooks

I'm back to Podiobooks to see what they have in offer and I am catching up with the books now.

Podiobooks is one of the best things hit the earth - ever. Escape Pod has the short SF story in audio covered, Podiobooks does a great job with the longer products - some of the SF novels are seriously, seriously good but Sturgeon's law apply here too - I think that's expected. In Escape Pod, overall quality percentage is higher but Escape Pod is a reprinter's market, where only the better gets attention as opposed to first print. SF story collection books always tend to have better average quality compared to the magazines.

Viru

Found this strange octagonal pyramid bottle during shopping today and I had to get one.

The taste is not particularly interesting and being only 330ml, it's not much of a thirst quencher and per pint, it is expensive - it is not bottled in UK but imported as is, which is nice. On the other hand, it is 5% alcohol and refreshing. And the bottle is brilliantly cool! Because of its shape, it easily slips off your hand, be careful.

I am seriously going into self-brewing, it might be interesting - something I should look into after the move is all done and over.

Yorkshire pudding

I am addicted... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_pudding)

It goes well with cheese and jam. Yam yam yam!

Happy new years

bah humbug....

PDA

Blogging from Zaurus is quite fun but I have to watch the battery usage. I can almost touchtype which means I should be fine with ASUS 701. want one!


Its keyboard can't be more cramped compared to this but then I am using two thumbs here, and would like to use the whole keyb. over there. That reminds me, off to hunt an other zaurus on ebay!!