Scuba Shifts North and Debt.

scubaangel

In their case when its bad it tends to be what gets consumed at the end of the evening.

I won't apologise for the profanities, I could be using much stronger words like jogging, or running.

4 miles isn't that far to walk - would take a little over an hour if you can walk at a decent pace.

Someone who lived near where I used to work had a mini tank thing (it was wheeled rather than tracked although I've seen tracked versions too so assumed it was a modification to make it road safe).

I have to admit I would be one of those people who couldn't afford not to go to work if it was in any way possible. It helped I guess that I knew if I couldnt get home from work again there would always be someone around who wouldn't mind if I camped out in their room for a couple of nights.

On the streets would generally be safer - the poor restaurant staff had to ask us to leave at 0130 as the place had been shut since 2300. Serves them right for putting us in the private room on the first floor rather than in the main restaurant on the ground floor or basement.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

In their case when its bad it tends to be what gets consumed at the end of the evening.

When the taste buds are numb, or is it the desperation?

scubaangel wrote: »

I won't apologise for the profanities, I could be using much stronger words like jogging, or running.

Jogging: what you do to memory.
Running: what your nose does.

scubaangel wrote: »

4 miles isn't that far to walk - would take a little over an hour if you can walk at a decent pace.

I can't. I live about 5 miles from work and it takes about 1h40 to do it (I tried it once, in case I had to get back sans vehicle). In snow, you're probably looking at 2 hours.

scubaangel wrote: »

Someone who lived near where I used to work had a mini tank thing (it was wheeled rather than tracked although I've seen tracked versions too so assumed it was a modification to make it road safe).

You can use tracked vehicles on the road provided you've passed the test. The scorpion family is quite popular as you can get some speed out of them. At least 50mph and 70+ has been rumoured. They're still quite cheap, but I have nowhere to put one...

scubaangel wrote: »

I have to admit I would be one of those people who couldn't afford not to go to work if it was in any way possible. It helped I guess that I knew if I couldnt get home from work again there would always be someone around who wouldn't mind if I camped out in their room for a couple of nights.

I have a camp bed in my locker at work. Just in case.

It's not really the weather round here, it's more the fact that during the first sniff of snow everyone in the cities panic and it's then gridlock which extends 30-50 miles. I can usually get home through the back roads, but sometimes it's a touch dodgy - last winter it took me 40 minutes to go 200 yards.

Yes, I was only 400 yards away from my house as well...

scubaangel wrote: »

On the streets would generally be safer - the poor restaurant staff had to ask us to leave at 0130 as the place had been shut since 2300. Serves them right for putting us in the private room on the first floor rather than in the main restaurant on the ground floor or basement.

They probably don't want you in the basement. That's where the dungeon is. You have to pay extra for that...

scubaangel

But as we pointed out to the staff when I worked - unless they were on an early shift there was no excuse for not noticing the weather and making appropriate arrangements, even if that did mean a bit of a walk then using the staff transport to get home (it would run roughly hourly, and they were willing to be flexible to let people leave a little early if it saved them having to wait an hour for the next one).

Now I'm thinking about learning to drive tracked....

It wasn't too bad where I was as it was between two cities, and I lived near high priority roads for the gritters, even the quiet roads I could take were medium priority for the gritters. Where I am now we're about a quarter of a mile from the council boundaries, our council has the main road as a low priority while the other one has it as a high priority even though its effectively a country lane so its easier to go up hill and though the backroads than down the main road to get anywhere. The locals tend not to panic here, but then the village ranges from semi rural to the middle of nowhere. The ones down south had a panic and didn't leave the house making driving fairly easy.

I now have plans to not only go down to london early December but am heading back the week after to see the girls. Just need the means to pay for it.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

But as we pointed out to the staff when I worked - unless they were on an early shift there was no excuse for not noticing the weather and making appropriate arrangements,

:rotfl:

Some people here don't notice the weather even when it's snowing. Had a laugh a couple of years ago as the people downstairs from us took off in a panic into the stuck traffic. One woman (she's notorious) had just cleared a small "vision block" in the windscreen of her car and nothing else. She had about as much all-round vision as if she'd been driving a Tiger tank...

It was smaller than this:


But you never know - she may have been a gynaecologist in a previous life.

Needless to say, I stayed back a number of hours to avoid her.

scubaangel wrote: »

even if that did mean a bit of a walk then using the staff transport to get home (it would run roughly hourly, and they were willing to be flexible to let people leave a little early if it saved them having to wait an hour for the next one).

That's good of them. We just get the usual things going round saying "If you're on flexi, then you can leave early" - duh! :doh:

scubaangel wrote: »

Now I'm thinking about learning to drive tracked....

Does look like fun doesn't it?

scubaangel wrote: »

Where I am now we're about a quarter of a mile from the council boundaries, our council has the main road as a low priority while the other one has it as a high priority even though its effectively a country lane so its easier to go up hill and though the backroads than down the main road to get anywhere.

It's easier doing that here even if the roads are completely untouched by salt. It's the drivers that's the problem, more than the snow.

scubaangel wrote: »

The locals tend not to panic here, but then the village ranges from semi rural to the middle of nowhere. The ones down south had a panic and didn't leave the house making driving fairly easy.

Round here is a semi-rural dormitory kind of place, so there's a real dichotomy between the "semi-rural" and the "townies". That's where you see people inching through the snow with their foot flat to the floor. It's only the snow flying out the back of the car that propels them forward.

scubaangel wrote: »

I now have plans to not only go down to london early December but am heading back the week after to see the girls. Just need the means to pay for it.

I'm sure you'll manage - was there a reason why you couldn't just stay down there with someone and combine both of them?

scubaangel

The main one being that I've already booked the coach tickets for both journeys the first trip. But I'd feel like I was imposing on the girls if I was to stay with them - baring in mind it's the same friends I stayed with the other week. I'll look in to coach tickets down again in a few days - am getting closer to cashing out on a couple of survey sites so with any luck I'll be able to cover the cost from that.

scubaangel

Just had an email letting me know that I've had £5 paid in to my paypal account by the company who run appXpert - for app testing on my phone, now I know they pay am happy to keep testing apps for them for the time being.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Just had an email letting me know that I've had £5 paid in to my paypal account by the company who run appXpert - for app testing on my phone, now I know they pay am happy to keep testing apps for them for the time being.

Oh? What's the deal with that? Do you have to do reports and things?

scubaangel

Download the app and answer a 4 or 5 question survey with optional comments, you only get 20p a time but there are bonuses for numbers/being the quickest etc.

Today I've had a fairly successful day as far as online earnings go - smashed my self set target for daily earnings on instagc thanks to a fairly easy crowdflower task, and a couple of suveys on swagbucks mean I've beated that target too. So am running the sbtv and reward radio to keep the points building up while I attack the surveys in my inbox and draft a couple of reviews for ciao and dooyoo.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Today I've had a fairly successful day as far as online earnings go - smashed my self set target for daily earnings on instagc thanks to a fairly easy crowdflower task,

Crowdflower?

scubaangel wrote: »

and a couple of suveys on swagbucks mean I've beated that target too. So am running the sbtv and reward radio to keep the points building up while I attack the surveys in my inbox and draft a couple of reviews for ciao and dooyoo.

Did notice you were quiet. I suppose it keeps you off the streets.

scubaangel

They're an online entity who are in to crowsdsourcing, so you can do 'tasks' like rating how attractive someone is via insta and swagbucks (and other similar sites) for currency on the sites, I find that on the whole there are more tasks on the insta wall than the sb one and it's better rates.

I've been quiet as I've been at my Mums most of the last couple of days so while I can get away with some internet stuff for some reason she thinks forums are a waste of time and if I'm seen using them will be given other chores to keep me occupied.