Regarding my last thread:

Sorry about the tone I adopted when I made my last post. I had just recieved another large bill, and sat down to post whilst still feeling very fustrated and angry.

Thanks to everyone who replied with courtesy and stayed on topic. .

To everyone who didn't reply with courtesy, nevermind since your posts helped me to focus and realise that my problems were not that big really.

As there have been lots of talk recently with the elections etc here's a question for you all. We pretty much all agree the country is in the crappers right now (people are saying its bottomed out so can only get better we hope). But put yourself in the politicians position - what would you do to make it better? If you could make any laws and legislation you'd like to change the country to one you'd actually love to live in what would you do?

A few of mine are (in no particular order of importance) : 1) get rid of faslane and get out of iraq, 2) introduce a pet license which you must own to have a pet, 3) separate church from state finally, 4) bring back the 10p tax rate, 5) decriminalise cannabis and stop the yoyoing of classification bands

Im sick of the fact that both me and my wife work in professional jobs and bring home over £2500 a month yet we can't even afford to go on one holiday a year. We worked out that if we seperated she would still get £1000 a month (in benefits) but with the added benefit of not going to work (therefore she could spend more quality time with the children), also she would not need to pay council tax. I could move in with my parents and save £2000 on council tax. In total we would be a rough £3000 a year better off and she wouldn't even have to go to work.

How the fuck can it be more economically viable for us to split up.

If we had less moral scruples we might actually think of doing this.

So, it would seem that T-Mobile have just upgraded their network in our area.

Whereas we would only have the option of a strong GPRS (2.5G) or weak 3G signal, we now have a strong GPRS or a not-quite-so-strong-but-stronger-than-3G HSDPA (3.5G) signal!

Now HSDPA is supposed to give you data speeds comparable to that of a home broadband service. I clocked the speed (using Mobile Speed Test) at 360kbps (with a 1MB data transfer) this morning, which is not too bad bearing in mind the relatively weak signal. On GPRS (as I am at the moment), the data speed is around 39kbps (with a 100KB data transfer) - dial-up speeds!

I hope that they improve the HSDPA service in our area, so I don't have to waste my battery life on WiFi networks instead!

Amusingly, as I type this, I've just lost signal altogether! Oh, it's back again now.

Can anyone tell me the rough structure of an NVQ (Say Level 2)course, including Student/Tutor interaction.

I'm doing a project around it and I need to know what happens.

Your help would be gratefully received. And a plateful of biscuits/cakes/ice cream to the winning comment!

Thank you!

What a beautiful start to the day. Taking the car to the garage, then doing the gardens. Bugcast 010 will be recorded from the garden as long as the weather holds out! :o)

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IIRC The 10p tax rate was introduced by John Major when he was chancellor in a Conservative government. Its interesting to note that its now seems to be considered essential by most Labour MP's.

we're waiting for Heather to get here. think she got in about 8:30 or so and had to go pick up her car and should hopefully be on her way. she will go down to san diego tomorrow for an overnight with friends down there, then back up to LA saturday. we're going to take her out to silver lake, or as a back-up, to hermosa. then sunday we have tickets to go see phil n friends. I'm kicking off the day (mother's day + my BD) with baby daddy parents, Ian and baby daddy at their club for champagne brunch. I plan to keep the spirit going til we hit the show, then I'm off monday and B and I are going shopping - maybe santa monica, maybe riviera village in RB.

she just got here - stay tuned!!

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 I think, living in Las Vegas, I have forgotten what it is like to truly live in a big city. Las Vegas has a population of over 1.5 million, but, it just doesn't seem all that big...until you have to drive from one end of town to the other. But, only in traffic is that really a chore.

I've a client that I need to deliver some images to. I live in Henderson - he lives in Summerlin. That is a distance of about 16 miles.

Three weeks ago, I would have hemmed and hawed about the idea of driving there. "Geez," I would have thought, "I might as well just continue on to Reno!" One of my best friends, Barry, lives on that side of town, too. I haven't had lunch with him in a while because I hate driving all that way to his house (fortunately, he works for "Mama Mia" at Mandalay Bay, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from my place, so I occasionally go visit him at work. Plus, I get to hang out in the theatre and watch rehersals.)

But, a couple of weeks ago, I went to back to the town I grew up in - Houston. I had forgotten how huge it was. I haven't been there since 1999. 

I was in Katy, a suburb on the northwest part of town and I wanted to go visit my brother, who lives near The Woodlands (where I lived from the time I was 9 until I left for college). That trip was 52 miles one way! From one freakin' suburb to another!

Never again will I complain about driving from one side of Vegas to the other. Well, until I have to do it again, at least. And that is tomorrow. :P

See, instead of going back to bed from 7:15 to 8:15 ... seeing as my commute is to "walk across the hall", this gets me to work on-time. ... so instead of going back to bed, I sat down and watched another epi of Burn Notice. Gotta say, I like that show. I like anything with a) Bruce Campbell b) hot girl with an Irish Accent... and the dude is great.

planning
~ A day unlike any other... er, oh wait, that's backwards.
~ A day just like yesterday... except not skate park. Just work.
~ although... my dear Auntie from Kamloops came over. She's visiting family... and we're planning a big get-togeher on Mommy's Day.
~ so "entertain" auntie this afternoon for a coffee. She's sure got some groovy stories. Oh, and my cuz... one of her sons, has been working for Robert Bateman for over 20 years... yeah, that Robert Bateman. I had no idea. :)
~ Survivor and LOST are on tonight... I hope it's a new LOST. :)
wishing
~ to send some hopeful-vibes out to bronxelf_ag001
~ that delphaicdragon and her oral fixation... are getting along well...
~ for nontradstudent to give herself a break... !!
~ and that nbbmom doesn't... um... you know... find one in her sox or hair... ahhhhhh!

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If you look around, you can see the signs of war everywhere.
The thing is... it's all around you.
I'm not talking about Afghanistan or Iraq...
I'm not on about the War On A Noun (terror)...
No.
I'm talking about the stupid punk-ass war on Teenagers.
What exactly is the problem?
I mean... you're the guys that grew up in the sixties with "the man" giving your teen-age ass a hard time...
So what's going on? Are you still so mad that you figure you should pass it on? Some kind of sick "pay it forward" thing?
Everywhere you look there is something going on to screw with teenagers.
Maybe it's a "noise generator" in shopping malls that you can only hear - and be offended by - when your ear is youthful (teenage).
Or it's a crisp new sign reminding you of how big the fine for skateboarding is, while the roller blades and bikes scoot on past.
Or maybe... it's the pathetic way the schools have decided that teenagers will spontaneously explode into murdering whack jobs.
CLUE: More adults kill other adults and children every week in America than teenagers have killed in schools in the last decade.
I am sincerely and seriously upset about the way things have become so crazy in this modern-day war against The Dreaded Teen.
CLUE2: You're all going to be pissing in diapers and praying that the doctors and nurses caring for you have forgotten how shitty you treated them when they were teenagers.
!!!!

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The Oprah-Bot had the Cher-Bot on today...
Oprah was wearing a bedroom curtain all wrapped around her and Cher... was mostly in skin.
Did you know that if you combine their ages... Cher still has the scariest cheek bones on earth.
Oh, and here's Tina Turner too.
Oprah, Cher and Tina... holy wig city!!

/
I got a lump.
It's not a scary blind zit from hell.
But it's not "free floating" so it's not cancer...
But it's a lump. ... on the back of my right shoulder.
I gotta go to the doc and get sorted on a lump-ectomy.
ug.


~ See ya. :D

I'm taking tomorrow off work.

Just because I can.

:-)

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