The Orifice

Not my first choice location (third, actually) but I lucked out with client, project, team and environment. This post is just about the environment and how to get there.

Where is there? Reading, that's where.

Reading is not the arsehole of England, oh no. That's Maidenhead. Were Maidenhead to go out for a massive curry featuring Chicken Vindaloo, Lime Pickle and 25 pints of lager, and then, in the morning, really needed a poo - a big poo -, and left a really annoying stain that just wouldn't go away, that would be Reading. With traffic lights. Lots of traffic lights.

So, you want to go to Reading? Here's how...

First up, hie thee to Ladbrooke Grove tube station...
...to get one of these...
...to Paddington main-line station and then get a 125 (that's 125 miles per hour - or something close to the speed of light if you're Australian) which...
...goes right past the tech-park where my office is (As I couldn't get a nice shot of my building, I got this one of one of Oracle's offices. We also share the site with The Evil Empire - aka Microsoft.) and then on to...
...Reading station (yeah, what a dump) and then...
...on the free bus to the tech-park.

Time to work:
- Home - Ladbrooke Grove: 5 min
- Ladbrooke Grove - Paddington: 5 min
- Paddington - Reading Station: 25 min
- Reading Station to the Tech-Park: 30 bloody minutes around Reading's bloody traffic lights.

I wouldn't mind, but I get to the office 30 min after the train has gone screaming past its back door. Distance travelled in 30 min? About 2 km!

And then it goes all lovely. We got a pond.
We got green stuff.
But, most of all, we got ducks.