From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
news:3e3c5f78.36709412{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:28:00 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
>  wrote:
>
>
> >>
> >> That *is* nasty.   I think we've talked about this before, but my
> >> memory fails me (brain fart ).....are you actually
up on the moors,
> >> or is it just a reasonable drive despite the weather?
> >>
> >
> >Short drive long walk (but possible). Dalby Forest is closer & most of
the
> >time the trees protect you from the elements 
> That makes sense -- looking at some that stuff on the BBC site last
> night, I figured it had to be *really* close by - don't want to be
> going too far in that 'just' to walk the dog.
>

The roads were unpleasant. It had just dumped water on us before it turned
cold so it was snow on an inch or so of ice.

>
> >Sometimes going back up in swirls 
>
> Shudder .    We fnally got a story about it in our local paper,
> the temperatures don't seem all that bad (keep in mind that we have
> just spent a couple of weeks with daytime highs in the range of -12 to
> -15 C ) but it sounds like the blowing snow has been the big problem.
>
>

WRT the roads it was the underlying layer of ice. Other than that it was
the force 10 gales which made it fun.


> >
> >I arrange it in advance...............
>
> We (those of us that need it, that is) are set up so that we can get
> to our own PCs at work and also to the 2 machines that the mainframe
> operators run their console sessions on.   Works well for on-call
> support (it's not 'sprightly' performance , but the last couple of
> times that I've used it, I've been able to fix the problem in the time
> that it would have taken me to drive in), but the day to day work
> often needs hands-on access to some of our servers and stuff like
> that.
>
>


I never get to touch a machine as I'm a software only guy. Hardware / Tech
support people do that.

> >"Get off the machine & get to bed" from
> >Sweden 
>
> Hey, I know that 'call' .
>
>

Always freaks him out when I pop up notepad & type "go to
bed" .

> >
> >Where are you?
>
> In Ontario, Canada now.   Close to Toronto but at the very western end
> of Lake Ontario.    Came over here from Middlesbrough in November 1964
> - about a week before my 12th birthday.
>

Nowhere near Scarborough, Whitby & pickering then......but
wait.....those are in Canada too 

Adam

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