Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ I drove to Portugal and back on the yellow line
Hmm I'm sure that was a line from Inbetweeners, where Jay is saying the fuel gauge on a car is just a con to make you buy more petrol. This sounds like the sort of thing I would say doesn't it? But I'd not let the petrol gauge on the beetle go down to actual zero would I?
Driving to the station yesterday I saw it was on actual zero. Hopefully enough to get me to work, and there was. Fairly uneventful day in London. I fot falafel wrap for my lunch, from a different stall. It was cheaper but then he started putting halloumi in it. I stopped him, but surely it should be even cheaper without the halloumi? The halloumi must be about half the cost of the thing. Anyway, all good. There is a rumour they're getting rid of the free coffee machines though, and they might want us in the office more often. Doesn't seem likely to me, that they would be taking away office benefits, and they've actually taken away some space , you'd think they'd be making it better if they wanted us in.
Got the half five-ish train home, and did a bit of work on the train because I'm in the middle of something I'm interested in, it's a bit unofficial, a side task, though still obviously for work.
Car started when I got back to Folkestone, but I only got half way to the petrol station before it cut out and would not go on. Now if I'd left it where it was I could have left it overnight and sorted it tomorrow, but now I'm in a no parking zone. Luckily had a fuel can in the car. Maybe a mile walk to get some fuel and back, and all fine, and home, not even too late.
Hope I will remember to fill it up when I go out today at lunch.
Being busy with all this and then doing more work when I got in trying to get my Splunk dashboard perfected I missed that it was the twentieth anniversary of us seing Duran Duran at Kentish Town Forum. Was quite a star studded audience, we were sat behind Stephen Fry.
Estimated 1320 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to £1.19 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 but not the 'leccy).
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