DW
13.9.13
We Made the Bed!
For reasons i will report on later, we decided to build our IKEA bed. I meant to take a photo at every stage but of course I couldn't. Here are the photos I did take!
10.9.13
Speed, Distance, Time Left, Petrol Consumption
Average Speed
This is not complicated but it's what I did as I was travelling from A to B on a long bus journey: I set up a spreadsheet to deal with the following.
Although there should have been nothing to worry about, I wanted to be sure that I would make my connection at my destination.
So I wanted to know how fast we were going. There were kilometre posts on the road side for most of the journey and my phone has a stopwatch utility. I found the speed of the bus by combining the distance travelled, one kilometre; and time taken to travel it. I could check our speed whenever I wanted to now!
Then I wanted to know how long it would take us at the last recorded speed to get to our destination B. All I needed to know was the distance to B and then use my knowledge of speed to estimate the time remaining. I could find the distance to B every now and again from the sign posts on the road that told us!
That's all I really needed to know but then I enhanced my spreadsheet by adding these calculations too:
Time to cover one kilometre:
In minutes
In seconds
I considered creating a table to record all of the speeds I found together with distances remaining etc but decided that was academic!
Finally, this spreadsheet can cope with kilometres or miles ... and can convert from one to the other.
Petrol Consumption
As I bought a new car recently I decided I would keep a record of all of the petrol I buy for it. I have also kept a record of the kilometres driven. I record the litres of petrol bought, odometer reading at the time I bought the petrol, cost of petrol, type of petrol: my car can use either E20 or gasohol 91 petrol.
My very simple spreadsheet shows all of the above data and the calculation of kilometres driven per litre of petrol and average cost per litre.
At this stage there are very few data points and the consumption averages have yet to settle down.
Duncan Williamson
This is not complicated but it's what I did as I was travelling from A to B on a long bus journey: I set up a spreadsheet to deal with the following.
Although there should have been nothing to worry about, I wanted to be sure that I would make my connection at my destination.
So I wanted to know how fast we were going. There were kilometre posts on the road side for most of the journey and my phone has a stopwatch utility. I found the speed of the bus by combining the distance travelled, one kilometre; and time taken to travel it. I could check our speed whenever I wanted to now!
Then I wanted to know how long it would take us at the last recorded speed to get to our destination B. All I needed to know was the distance to B and then use my knowledge of speed to estimate the time remaining. I could find the distance to B every now and again from the sign posts on the road that told us!
That's all I really needed to know but then I enhanced my spreadsheet by adding these calculations too:
Time to cover one kilometre:
In minutes
In seconds
I considered creating a table to record all of the speeds I found together with distances remaining etc but decided that was academic!
Finally, this spreadsheet can cope with kilometres or miles ... and can convert from one to the other.
Petrol Consumption
As I bought a new car recently I decided I would keep a record of all of the petrol I buy for it. I have also kept a record of the kilometres driven. I record the litres of petrol bought, odometer reading at the time I bought the petrol, cost of petrol, type of petrol: my car can use either E20 or gasohol 91 petrol.
My very simple spreadsheet shows all of the above data and the calculation of kilometres driven per litre of petrol and average cost per litre.
At this stage there are very few data points and the consumption averages have yet to settle down.
Duncan Williamson
Water, Water ... Anywhere?
The water for the house comes from the ground. So they are drilling for it today. As you can see here!
DW
9.9.13
Point to Point
Since i moved to Thailand i have travelled to Saudi Arabia, Mexico, England and Bangkok. All of those journeys essentially started in Bangkok.
Today i am taking a 6-7 hour bus journey to get to Bangkok as I wend my way to Dar es Salaam.
The bus left 30 minutes late, which is not much of a worry as it can easily make up the lost time en route.
Any stress will come as we approach Bangkok. Last time I did this journey there were horrific holds ups at major road works near Bangkok.
Whilst i am confident that my schedule has some slack in it, i like to control such things but when I can't I get tetchy! Anyone who has travelled with in times of loss of slack knows what I mean.
So far so good, then: free biscuits already eaten and free bottle water started. 😁
DW
PS we were well on our way to the bus station when Namwan told me I'd left my jacket behind. Very unusually for me I turned the car round and got said Jacket. Clot!
Kitchen Work has Started
They have started fitting the kitchen now and the skirting tiles are going on ...
DW
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