Life

[jack]

car

I got my car back safe and all spruced up. The garage helpfully delivered it to my door and put the key through the letterbox -- I hadn't realised they could do that, the last time I had to have my car repaired I had to get a bus and taxi out to the little village where the car was and it was quite stressful getting there.

The key had a little paper tag with my surname on correctly spelled, with little circles for the 'i's :)

I do want to transition to not having a car (some combination of 'not usually driving' and 'renting a car when it's actually useful' with zipcar for short journeys if needed) but I decided right now in the middle of house-buying and other stress was the bad time to decide. There's some small amount of things I need to work out (best way of renting a car to visit liv without 5 hour train journey, figuring out if zipcar is usable, getting a back-up bike, etc) which are not too complicated, and I think will be all ok, but I didn't want to have to do all at once in the middle of housebuying.

beer

I've been to the beer festival every day this week. My alcohol tolerance has massively reduced, I'm drinking halves and still going easy, and feeling about right.

Each year, I run into more lovely people I've almost lost touch with -- friends from trinity, friends from maths, people from work, etc.

I need to do a proper beer tasting, I drink beer regularly, but I'm still muddled on which sorts of beer I like best.

Work

Work is going fairly well. The project is slowly ramping up, with many more short deadlines, which are satisfying, because you have a clear metric for success, but also has a feel of many-plates-up-in-the-air.

Comments

For when things have calmed down

[rmc28]

enterprise.co.uk suit me well for weekend lets and occasional week-long lets. In particular the Histon branch are happy for me to leave my bike with them over the weekend, so I can bike out, pick up car, leave bike with them, return car a few days later, cycle home. Practical who are on the Milton business park also were fine with leaving bikes for the duration of the let.

Zipcar (if you have a local parking space) fills the short local journeys slot that a weekend rental seems overkill for. Things I have done recently: supermarket run, taking C for an outpatient appointment in the wilds of Fen Ditton during the school day (saving a lot of time over going by bus or cycle, and allowing us more private conversation too), 24-hour rental to go to a wedding and do errands the next day.

[syllopsium]

This may rather be a sucking eggs reply, but I trust you've figured out by now that going halves is always the way to go at a beer festival, as in addition to letting you try more beer, the 'halves' tend to be quite generous in a lot of places!