No sooner do I write on the problems of our public transport, it gets an actual nudge on the side of improvement. After all this time, a new schedule will be rolled out, from later this month toward the rest of the year introducing new and extra runs increasing services in real terms and also changing the route some of the services take when they get to the city, avoiding the loop and making the journey a bit quicker. Check the whole story.
These are real changes that will improve the situation, for many of our branches the train serves delivers people to.
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The young ones, they know it all. Another generation goes out ready to face the world, they don’t need advice, they don’t want the benefit of our experience, and once again, just like us a decade ago, they get scammed, taken to the cleaners and ripped off.
It happens to every generation, in a slightly different form, if there’s one thing that I can assure you that will happen to my children, is that they will get scammed. Naive and ready to part with their money for a fairy tale without a moments thought, or with too much intension to get rich quick, it will happen to them.
This might help you with watch to watch out for…
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Well yeah, if you get good value, but is that a real value or a perceived value?
Given the opportunity, spending a little more can really make it better, the quality of some things can be determined by what you spend and where you buy it from.
This all came about a few years ago when my wife and I went on a holiday and used some available frequent flyer points to get nice business class tickets. My wife used to travel a lot and she is a princess so getting the upgrade for some extra luxury is a must. We got to the airport on the day and I naturally dragged myself toward the long(ish) queue at the check-in desk like all the other sheep. My darling wife then tapped me on the shoulder and reminded me of our
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I am getting older…
That’s no secret
And along this path I am encountering new things that I didnt experience before…
That’s no surpise.
Alcahol seems to have this strange effect the next day now, more specifically the next morning, this horrible thing called a hangover makes me all slow and sore after a night of fun. The older I get the more I experience of life, medical things, family things, generally life experiences to which I was previously oblivious, and now sometimes thankfull for it.
Unfortunatley, aside from my parents, I suddenly am experiencing the horrible issues of divorce, not myself thankfully, my friends and family seem to be venturing into this unfortunate and terrible process of seperation in their lives. I watch from the sides, not sure what to do, not sure even what to say, and totally at a loss as to be able to help.
So now a good friend has been told that he is about to get a divorce, it wasnt his idea you see, it came from left field (where his wife hangs out) and told him it was the case. These things are hard to recover from, almost impossible to retract, change or avoid once they are out there. So this is the start of something that I have seen before and know where its leading to.
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It is interesting how, because of political correctness, terrorism or some other perceived reason in life, things need to be renamed to make them more palatable or more accurate in their title.
Sometimes it is to make ones self more important, changing the title of a job title from cleaner to sanitation coordinator, from Manager to CEO. Sometimes it is because of that political correctness thing I mentioned above, from Actress to Actor or from manhole to person-hole.
These things could be seen as ridiculous and I understand that many of them are, unless in your in the seat of that change, then to you, it is very important.
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No sooner do I write on the problems of our public transport, it gets an actual nudge on the side of improvement. After all this time, a new schedule will be rolled out, from later this month toward the rest of the year introducing new and extra runs increasing services in real terms and also changing the route some of the services take when they get to the city, avoiding the loop and making the journey a bit quicker. Check the whole story.
