How to travel
The whistle has blown and the doors have locked closed and the train is about to depart from Limerick to Dublin city - a 2.5 hour journey.

I have my laptop and portable modem and a bottle of cote du rhone, a corkscrew and a glass - oh the trappings!

I forgot that the headphones on my new phone (Samsung Tocco for the win!) are not compatible with my laptop so my plans to watch Trailer Park Boys have been scuppered as every second word is 'fuck' and if I am going to impose the sounds of TV on my co-travellers, I will at least try to be civil!

Battlestar Galactica it is!

However, my new phone (Samsung Tocco!) allows me to watch SKY sports for the bargain price of E1.99 p/w. so I will be watching Manu versus Wigan at 7.45 for the last half hour or so before I arrive in Dublin.

There is the question however of the next two hours.

I will get progressively drunk.

I will surf the net.

I will add more thoughts here as and when I see fit.

I will watch BSG and if it's loud enough in here, probably Trailer Park Boys too.

How do you travel?

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 17:43, 13 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

How you watching the match?
Sky Sports is showing Spanish football, apparently.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 17:49, Reply)

How do I travel?
By car to the train station (15 minute drive at 6am), then by First 'Great' Western train for 125 miles (1hr 45 mins) to London, then across London via the Bakerloo and Jubilee Tube lines, then on a usually-delayed or cancelled Southern service train. Then I walk the final 3 minutes to my office.

Return journey is a reversal of the outward procedure, as the Haynes manual might say, but with less chance of a seat.

People who whinge about having to get a bus for 20 minutes? Don't give me your shit. I'm a hardcore commuter.

Enjoy your journey, baz.


I HAVE A FUCKING TIME MACHINE AND IT'S FUCKING AWESOME.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 17:49, Reply)

CHCB
I really hope you're not doing what must be a 3 hour commute every day. If you do I hope they're paying you bloody well!

My preferred method of transport is a pair of skis.
( Captain V, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 17:59, Reply)

Not every day,
just once or twice a week.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 18:19, Reply)

I walk
eleven minutes down the hill to the cab office, and eleven minutes back up in the afternoon.

If it's raining, one of the drivers'll come fetch me, and drop me off.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 18:56, Reply)

haha No3l - nice!
I live fifteen minutes walk form work - it's the only way to live.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 19:33, Reply)

how do I travel?
when Limerick is involved?


AWAY!

FAST!
(Duckeee Is nothing special, in fact, she's a bit of a bore, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 19:40, Reply)

crapcrapcrapcrapcrap
where's the premier league on then?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 19:43, Reply)

fuck it
nearly there now

baz does not believe in being inconvenienced
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 19:53, Reply)

i think I missed something
what kind of mobile do you have?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 22:54, Reply)

Almost exclusively on the no. 268 bus.

(WANKERTRON you say "prick", I say "wanker", Thu 15 Jan 2009, 0:04, Reply)

mobile from god
I cant imagine for a microsecond that indeepest Ireland you can get a data connection faster than gsm speeds. And it wasn't on sky. And it wasn't on till 8. And it was a bit shit. But we gt the points
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 9:28, Reply)

Yeah I was wrong about that
but I watched some Spanish football and the overal journey was quite pleasant and my new kickarse Samsung Tocco rocks!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 15 Jan 2009, 9:29, Reply)