Friday didn’t go too well for me.
I decided to leave the electric pushbike at home and embark by bus to Guildford (and consequently to the Surrey Research Park). Sadly, after two buses failed to turn up and an ever increasing queue of old people and student-types, I decided to go by train. This particularly journey didn’t go too bad. Coming back: not so good.
By the time I got to Guildford train station, it had been announced that a car had hit a railway bridge which would affect trains heading into London Waterloo. The announcement boards for incoming trains kept repeating this fact over and over again. By the time a train did come in, all of us bundled into the nearest carriage and set off, thinking we were heading to Woking first.
Oh dear, no we weren’t.
We travelled all the way into London Waterloo where it turned out that the train was going back to Basingstoke via Woking. Had to explain to the ticket inspector that there were no announcements or indications that the train wasn’t a stopping service. The inspector was quite understanding and told me that she had spoken to quite a few people in a similar situation. Got back to Woking close to 8pm and home about 8:30pm. Two and half hours after I left work.
Back on the bike Monday..
Oh, to make matters worse – had to re-install OS X Snow Leopard on the Macbook as it’s been playing silly buggers over the past few weeks. Lots of rainbow beach balls and no activity at all. So had to spent an hour and half wiping and reinstalling everything again. Thankfully our own SquirrelSave service saved me embarrassment when I realised that my SSH keys were wiped. Thank goodness for Cedric the Squirrel!
