Saturday 7 February 2009

Shopping, rugby and steam engines

Supplies were low so I had to go and get the car from the bottom of the track and get some supplies. Morrisons was annoyingly busy but it didn't take too long. After that I hung out at Andy's with the krew for some rugby. While watching it we tried out the new flavours that Walkers crisps are trialing. The results were as follows:

Chocolate and Chilli: Nice but flavour too weak.
Builder's breakfast: Quite tasty with bacon and egg easily distinguishable.
Cajun Squirrel: Interesting but eew after a couple.
Crispy Duck and Hoi Sin sauce: Pretty nice, but not great.
Fish and Chips: Not too bad but a bit fishy for my taste.
Onion Bhaji: Easily the nicest, agreed by all.

I got home OK but the last bit of the track needed about five goes to get the car up to the top. After that, spent some time recovering the data from Sian's laptop hard drive after deciding the motherboard is toast, and then resuming my experiments with USB RAID under FreeNAS.

The new Tornado steam engine has made it's first long distance trip with actual passengers. The shot at the end where it pulls up next to a modern train is awesome.

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