My dad has a funny anecdote about letterboxes (fnarr, fnarr). Some companies liked bills settled well before Christmas, so they can pay staff bonuses. He got a phone call from the boss of a transport… (View Post)

Seriously impressive! I haven't quite finished for the day (though I won't be doing a run in the dark in this wind...), but I am at 5,930,125 steps for the year, an average of 16,292 daily.… (View Post)

It is up to Russia to decide what comes next for Russia. Trying to determine that for them would just add to that paranoia about the West, and is probably unknowable anyway. (View Post)

I wanted to go into tunnelling, where most of the money is spent underground. :) (I am still really, really fascinated with the subject. In an alternate universe, I'd be working on a tunnel some… (View Post)

My dad was mainly in demolition and groundworks. He said you could never accurately price or estimate any job before you got out of the ground. Even connection to services could provide very costly i… (View Post)