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Seriously? |
04 Jul 2009 04:17 |
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A few weeks ago I wrote about British Airways asking it's staff to work for free for one month. British Telecom has now gone and topped that asking their staff to take a year off with only three months pay upfront as incentive! Of course that is only one of the options available; employees may also be offered a £1000 incentive to go part time while parents are going to be encouraged to only work during term time. Like I wrote before, because the economy is in a downturn, it doesn't mean that people can live on part time wages and certainly not three months pay out of twelve. Bills don't stop coming in, mortgage payments don't pay themselves and food doesn't magically appear in the cupboards. BT plan to axe a further 15,000 jobs which makes total job losses of almost 30,000 by the end of this year! I think the executives in charge of these huge companies live in a dream world; how do they expect people to live for a year on three months wages. I'm sure parents don't work as many hours as they do through choice, it's a necessity to keep their families stomachs full and clothes on their back! It's just their way of laying people off without actually making them redundant so it doesn't make them look so bad in the press!
Things up are looking up here in Kansas; Erin and I went to our second sonogram to check on the baby's progress a week earlier than we thought but it's all good! The baby is absolutely fine, nothing out of the ordinary and it was confirmed that we are having a little girl. Erin is ecstatic about it; I don't mind what we have as long as it's healthy but I am happy that Erin got what she wanted; one of each; to complete the set so to speak! Tomorrow or maybe I should say later today I will be barbecuing at Erin's mothers, the first time anyone has barbecued there since Erin's stepfather died. But when I checked out the barbecue grill it was all rusted out as it hadn't been used for over 18 months. So we had to go out and buy a new one; finding a five burner propane grill for under $200 plus an added 10% off because we happened to be served by the manager. We got it home and I started to assemble it only to find the instructions to be in the wrong order so a ditched the manual and built it from the photo on the box. Two hours later it was all working and I didn't blow myself up so everything is good. Now I am looking forward to grilling later today although as I am barbecuing I expect it to rain... Jason + Barbecue = downpour!
HUGE news back home in Plymouth; the city's football club Plymouth Argyle have been taken over by a consortium lead by ex Manchester United chairman Sir Roy Gardner and Keith Todd's KKC partnership and Japan's Shonan Management Corporation, the consortium now owns 51% of the club. Paul Stapleton has stood down as chairman but remains vice chairman while Gardner takes the chair. I view this with cautious optimism; with Gardner's comments about getting the club into the Premiership in five years. He also says that he's in it for the future of the club and not for financial gain, that remains to be seen of course. Maybe I'm an old sceptic but I find it hard to believe that anyone of his standing would invest in a club not looking for a good return on his investment in five years time. Paul Sturrock is to continue as manager and hopefully he'll have some more spending money to get in decent players. I believe Sturrock knows that he can't make speculative signings of the magnitude he did last season signing all the very expensive prize turkeys he did. Although I am sceptical Roy Gardner sounds like he has a sensible head on his shoulders, let's hope he can move the club forward. Paul Stapleton has done a wonderful job in getting Argyle to where they are but he has realised that he can't take the club further. I take my hat off to Stapleton for all what he has done for the club and for realising that new blood is needed to take the club forward!!! Thank you for everything Mr. Stapleton!
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Put your toys away and shut the f*ck up!!! |
29 Jun 2009 02:49 |
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Since my last blog entry, common ground and agreement has been found in the bullshit power struggle in Formula 1. The agreement means that Formula 1's rules and regulations will remain the same as 2009 for the 2010 season with the possibility of the refuelling ban going ahead as planned and KERS being ditched by all teams supposedly. Part of the deal struck means that Max Mosley is not standing for a fifth term as FIA president. But all that has been thrown in the air when FOTA released a statement announcing that Mosley has been removed from power effective immediately which is obviously untrue as the FIA hasn't released a statement confirming that action. Now Mosley is threatening to stand for a fifth term saying that the F1 Teams Association hasn't abided by the terms of the agreement to not speak of each other in a bad light and portray a true representation of the agreement. It seems that certain people within FOTA have a personal vendetta against Mosley and we know that Mosley has a personal vendetta against Flavio Briatore and Luca di Montizemolo. I want to collectively slap the lot of them, grow the fuck up, you are supposed to be representing the best interests of the sport, pack up your toys and stop acting like children. Mr Bean for FIA president? He can't do any worse!!!
In my own life, there hasn't been any more problems with the pregnancy, Erin has been off work since Thursday resting while I took care of care for Conner and general household stuff. Our obstetrician put Erin on bed rest for the last four days and has ordered her to have light duties at work. What I didn't know before today is that Erin had a fall in the office the day before which might have caused the placental abruption. Erin slipped on some water outside the bathrooms. This water came from people coming in from the pool without towelling off first and there was no sign notifying people that the floor might be wet. The office manager basically blamed my wife saying she needed to take "appropriate steps" to not slip on the water. REALLY? If there is likely to be water on the floor then it's upto the office manager to place a high visibility sign stating that the floor maybe wet. My wife won't do anything about it because she assumes she'll lose the case, me personally I would sue their collective arses especially as I am in the land of litigation. Anyway the bleeding has stopped completely which is great and we have another appointment for a further sonogram on the 9th of July to make sure everything is going as planned with the baby. Hopefully at that time we should get confirmation that we are having a baby girl.
In other news; I can now leave and re-enter the US as on Thursday I received my travel document that allows me to re-enter the United States without having to go through the whole foreign spouse petition bullshit. And on Saturday I received my notification to attend an immigration interview on the 3rd of August. So hopefully I can be working a couple of weeks after that assuming that they either give me a green card or a employment authorisation document at the interview! At least we are seeing progress after months of nothing from USCIS!
And finally Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50 on Thursday afternoon. Many will remember him for his music but I will remember him for the controversy he has courted over the years. The child molestation allegations and the way he paid off parents to avoid legal proceedings. Some people say that it was just greedy parents trying to exploit Jackson but if that's the case, why did he pay them off instead of fighting the case? Jackson confessed to Martin Bashir that he had children sleeping in his bed with him at his Neverland ranch! And of course it was the baby dangling incident, dangling his own baby over a balcony to the public back in 2002. I believe Michael Jackson to be a paedophile and I think that he was a deeply disturbed man who never grew up believing his actions to be normal and that he had done nothing wrong. I know that my comments will probably upset many but I know I am not the only one to have this point of view!
Update (18:24): Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go! I have received my employment authorisation card from USCIS so all I have to do now is find a job. First thing I am going to do is send out resumes to all the live music venues in the hope that I can get back into sound engineering whilst applying for general work in whatever I am able to do! a job is a job at this time!
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More hospital time! |
25 Jun 2009 04:48 |
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I find myself sitting awake at 4am in the morning worrying about things. Yesterday I spent the day in hospital with my pregnant wife after she was rushed to hospital with severe bleeding. Obviously I hear about this and start to assume the worst hearing such statements as "when she was transferred from the wheelchair to a bed there was a pool of blood in the chair." I couldn't get there myself as I can't drive myself there not holding a US licence n' all. Getting myself arrested on the way there wouldn't have helped matters. I eventually got to the hospital when Erin's mother arrived to take our son Conner for the day instead of having him being bored at the hospital. After being there for several hours, after a lot of poking and prodding and two sonograms later we find out that the baby is fine right now but Erin's placenta is slightly detached from her cervix and there is nothing we can do except for to hope and pray that we don't miscarry. It's frustrating to both myself and Erin that we can't do anything about it. The doctor said that there's nothing they could do at this stage of the pregnancy to stop a miscarriage if it is going to happen. Erin isn't taking this news very well and I am trying to hold it together being strong for her. It's going to be hard to take if we miscarry now that we think it's a girl and have seen her face and other body parts, it's no longer a foetus, it's now a baby and it seems that we are a week further along than our obstetrician said we were. People have said that it happens sometimes and often everything works out fine in the end, I hope this is one of those cases.
I got to drive the car back from the office to our apartment for the first time today as Erin was rushed to hospital straight from the office. I had avoided it previously as I haven't driven a car in years and never driven an automatic on the right side of the road. But I managed fine after being told that I need to have my foot on the brake to engage a gear, obviously I didn't know that as I had never driven an automatic car before. I engaged reverse and lifted off the brake and the car started moving backwards without applying any power on a flat road; of course my reaction was to step back on the brake. Once I got over that it was fine, driving was just like I remember just without a clutch! Although it was hard to not left foot brake not having a clutch pedal to rest my left foot on. I guess it doesn't matter as long as I lift off the accelerator before braking; too many years of playing racing games on my Playstation and PC with steering wheel and pedals.
What did annoy me is Travis who drove my wife to hospital was told by the apartment complex manager that he would have to take the time used taking my wife to the hospital as lunch rather than putting it down as working so he could still have lunch and get paid for the hour offsite. What a heartless bitch; Erin could be having a miscarriage and she is worried about paying less than $10 for the time Travis was helping out a fellow workmate. I really don't like her at all; I don't think she is a good manager; she has poor organisation and people skills. Literally people have changed their mind about taking an apartment because they didn't like her saying she is rude and unprofessional! Oh and get this; the management company won't pay for maternity leave; they consider the baby to be a parasite. I really can't wait to get working and moving off this property allowing my wife to rest and relax more until the baby is born.
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Sarkozy, the next Hitler? |
22 Jun 2009 18:51 |
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As many of my blog entries start; I read on the BBC News website about French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposing to ban Muslin women wearing a traditional burka in public. France has already banned the Islamic headscarf and other religious symbols from public schools. Sarkozy has gone on record as saying "The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience. It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic." Muslim women do not wear it because they have to especially outside of Muslim countries, they wear it because it's religious and/or part of their Muslim identity. Basically what Sarkozy is doing is marginalising the Muslim community denying them the right to wear religious or faith based clothing while out in public places. What next? is he going to imprison people that defy a ban if it does become law? It's not offensive to others; it doesn't bother anyone. That's no better than Hitler killing all the Jews to create the master race. He is stripping Muslims of the identity by removing anything that signifies their faith. But in the same address to parliament Sarkozy went onto say "the Muslim religion must be respected as much as other religions." - In that case let the people of Muslim faith wear what they feel is appropriate for them instead of forcing them to wear non faith based clothing! My wife gets on my back for my dislike of the French but when the French government makes comments like this; is it any surprise that I dislike the French attitude?
In the ongoing saga of FOTA versus the FIA; it seems that certain people within FOTA want to get out the FIA world champion at any cost. That person is Renault team principle Flavio Briatore who over the Silverstone weekend has indicated that a breakaway championship is the only way forward and he doesn't want compromise saying the time for a deal has passed. Previously over the weekend FIA president Max Mosley talked about Briatore wanting to become the next Bernie Ecclestone and calling the Italian a "loony". The name calling is frankly childish but both sides have resorted to throwing petty insults at each other through the press. No wonder Richard Branson wants to distance his Virgin Group from Brawn GP and Formula One with all this bullshit damaging Formula 1 and companies associated with it. I wish that Max would just announce the final entrants list and leave the FOTA teams out in the cold and give all the potential new teams the go ahead to start developing instead of delaying the announcement indefinitely. The new teams will lose interest if he delays too long and F1 could end up with only five teams and 10 cars on the grid for 2010. Lola have already pulled their name off the standby list; why take the risk of other teams taking their name off the list as well. Time is short for the new teams to get everything in place for the first race in Melbourne in March 2010; the teams need to start development of their cars now; not at the end of July, August.or even later!
I'm disappointed with Michael Owen's decision to leave Newcastle United when his contract expires this month. Owen signed for £16m back in 2005 and a reputed wage of £100,000 per week. Personally I don't believe that Owen has been good value for money for the Magpies; he has been a constant sick note being injured for much of his time at St James Park. The ex Liverpool player said he would prefer to remain a premier league player with his management company harping on about his past glories. If he is so great then why did Newcastle get relegated? he isn't the player that he was while at Anfield. The decent thing to do would be to take a pay cut (it's not like he needs the money) and remain at St James Park to help Newcastle return to the Premiership. I hope that no Premiership club will touch him to teach him a lesson but I doubt that will happen but I doubt he'll get £100k per week at any Premiership club at this time.
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Bye bye FOTA! or is is? |
19 Jun 2009 17:14 |
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At midnight last night the Formula One Teams Association announced that it was to start planning a breakaway "F1" series. FOTA comprising of Ferrari, McLaren, Toyota, BMW, Renault, Red Bull, Squadro Toro Rosso and Brawn GP have elected to form an alternative series to Formula 1 rather than accept the revised budget cap of €100m for 2010 to be reduced to €45m from 2011 onwards. I really don't care what happens now I just want all the bullshit posturing to stop and get back to racing. If we have eleven new teams plus Williams and Force India next season so be it; Formula 1 will survive especially with well known brands like Aston Martin (Pro-Drive), Lotus (Litespeed), Brabham and March being on the standby list. The FIA screwed up by allowing teams to have too much power; in my mind teams bring the cars and race; the governing body makes and enforces the rules and regulations and the two should never mix. But I have come to the conclusion that Max Mosley needs to be replaced as he clearly doesn't have the balls to follow through with his threats of excluding the FOTA teams after today's dealine indicating that further negotiations could go on right up to the start of next seasons opener in Melbourne next March. The FIA president either needs to follow through with his threats or give into FOTA's demands so we can concentrate on racing instead of off track bullshit politics.
Facebook; is it a good thing or bad thing? I am starting to believe that Facebook in particularly the groups section is bad for the world. I noticed a group today that was demanded that a suspected child pornographer who comes from my home town of Plymouth be removed from the social networking site and it seems that the groups wishes have become reality (or virtuality maybe). The group also suggested that people leave defamatory comments on this individuals profile page. It seems to me that Facebook isn't actively moderated allowing for all sorts of groups promoting everything from racism to sexism to promoting of suicide. In this case what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? It's not the job of the general internet population to police; it's the job of the authorities to uphold the law. Besides everything else, social networking sites are making people less sociable; spending more time on Facebook than in the real world!
Back home in Plymouth it seems that DJ Mark Williams has gotten Plymouth's alternative rock nights all sown up. He now DJ's at the Quay Club on Wednesday, The Warehouse on Thursday and Friday in JFK's. The Voodoo Lounge alternative night, Asylum, that replaced my (Alternation) club night has now moved to Tuesday night instead of it's traditional Wednesday night slot that it has held for more years than I care to remember. The Voodoo Lounge has gone out of favour with the alternative crowd it seems mainly because of the extortionate prices for drinks. Oh well nevermind, it's not like I am ever coming back to Plymouth to live in the future!
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Police Brutality! |
16 Jun 2009 08:55 |
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I tuned into Radio 1 back home through the Internet and the first thing I hear about on News Beat is police officers in Nottingham tasering a man twice while on the ground. One officer is seen throwing three punches towards the man's upper body. This was leaked to local radio station Trent FM and later uploaded to social video site You Tube. We don't see what happened before the incident but the taser victim seemed to be relatively subdued on the ground. From what I can see from the video it was a complete overreaction on the part of the police and even looked like police thuggery. If the four officers involved don't at minimum get disciplined that'll set a dangerous precedent which will lead to more trouble with police patrolling nightclub districts. At least with this video in circulation the police can't sweep this one under the carpet; I can't wait to hear the police commissioner explain this one away. If you've not seen the video yet; click here to make your own mind up and listen out for the nob shouting taser, taser, taser!!!
Life here in Kansas is getting very strained because of the situation we find ourselves in. Being trapped in this apartment complex because we get a free apartment so Erin can't quit her job as a leasing agent to work in massage therapy. Right now because I am not working due to the slow government machine taking it's time issuing my work permit or green card. Which means that we can't move out of what I have dubbed Beirut because we don't have enough income to pay for a months rent + several hundred deposit elsewhere. if Erin took the job at the massage clinic we could easily afford to move as she would earn twice as much as she does now. But the catch is that we would have to move out of this apartment within 72 hours of giving notice at her job. Last night we got into a big argument about how to proceed in bringing up Conner. This argument came mainly from radically different upbringings, Erin had everything she wanted materially and I had very little growing up in a minimum income family. I'm not going to air my dirty linen here on the blog but Erin suggested that I go back home as she believes we made a mistake getting married. I don't believe it was a mistake and I am definitely not going anywhere especially with a baby on the way. I'm here to stay, I don't want a life without my new found family. A lot of arguments are caused by my frustration of not working and not having any money to do my own thing, just going out with friends for a couple of beers and a game of pool. Especially as in recent weeks I haven't had a moment to myself because Conner is home for the summer before starting Kindergarten in August. In a few days it'll be nine months since I last earned any money, which is tough for someone that is fiercely independent; I'm going stir crazy!
Would you work for free? In just noticed an article on the BBC website about British Airways asking employees to take unpaid leave or work unpaid for upto one month! And the line that stands out for me is "BA's chief executive has already agreed to work unpaid in July, forgoing his month's salary of £61,000." - Now do all the BA staff get paid that much? baggage handlers for example. Mr Chairman, it's all well and good for you with your £61,000 per month salary but the people who work for £20,000 per year can't afford to lose a months income. Somehow I don't see the take-up being very high. Furthermore Mr. Chairman if you are so concerned why don't you take a pay cut, half it to 30,000 per month; that's a saving of £372,000 per year! |
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I'm bored now! |
13 Jun 2009 15:23 |
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The 12th of June has come and gone and the FIA have lost all credibility now that they have included the eight FOTA teams in the official 2010 F1 entry list. The eight FOTA teams, Ferrari, Toyota, McLaren, Renault, BMW, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Brawn GP still have not agreed to enter the championship unconditionally. The FIA have now given the eight teams another five days to decide if they want to enter unconditionally or not. Max Mosley has said that if the teams don't sign up before next Wednesday he'll start allocating spaces from the list of new teams who entered into the 2010 championship before the 29th deadline. The three new names that have been selected from the list of 10 new teams are USGPE, Campos Meta and an unknown entrant Manor Grand Prix. I am surprised to see that Pro-Drive didn't make it into the 2010 season as they had already been previously accepted into the 2008 championship but didn't make due to a late rule change disallowing customer cars. I expect Max Mosley to delay the deadline again come the 17th of June because he doesn't want to lose most of the established teams; that much is clear. FOTA called his bluff and he is back-peddling big time. Either the FIA excludes the in-dispute teams and fills the grid spots from the pool of new entrants or he might as well give into FOTA's demands, it's plain to see that Mosley doesn't have the courage of his convictions!
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Fingerprints! |
09 Jun 2009 14:35 |
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This morning Erin, Conner and I went back to USCIS' Wichita office to get my biometric information taken, basically fingerprints and photo taken. The bitch queen from hell (more information can be found here) was there but thankfully we didn't have to deal with her. The woman we dealt with my very friendly and nice, the service was prompt, efficient and friendly, we were in and out in 20 minutes. Now we just have to wait for either a letter for an interview or they may simply send out my green card. We also sent additional information as requested to USCIS PO Box in Missouri; hopefully they'll be satisfied with evidence we sent. The evidence is confusing because we get a free apartment; Erin's wages are about $4 more per hour than she gets for tax reasons. The free apartment is included as earnings to be taxable; we put a note explaining the discrepancies between the letter of employment and wage slips. Hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel now, being able to find work shouldn't be too far away now!
And it continues; budget-cap-gate rumbles on as FIA president Max Mosley turns up the heat on FOTA. Max Mosley has sent out a letter to all FOTA teams stating that they would be required to sign up unconditionally before the 12th if they want to have a say in the future of Formula 1. FOTA are poised to respond to Mosley's letter very soon if what Autosport reports is correct! This is what I predict will happen; both sides stick to their guns; Mosley ends up extending the deadline because he doesn't want to loose such a big chunk of the current grid, it's not just about Ferrari and Toyota anymore. Eventually we'll end up with a compromise of something like a €100m cap and technical assistance to new teams. I'll be very surprised if the FIA will want to start 2010 with all new teams bar Williams and Force India. Personally I would just exclude all the current teams if they don't sign up and push ahead with new teams, every sport goes through a revolution at some point, F1 will survive; faces change but F1 will always be F1.
And finally I've been having a heated "debate" about the McLaren F1 on the Forumula1 message boards with two McLaren fanboys. I've lost count of how many times I have been insulted by the pair because I don't agree that the McLaren F1 is the best thing since the Ford Model T. It all got blown out of proportion when I wrote "and frankly the McLaren F1 wasn't that great a car to start with" when commenting on the owner getting the full value of his $3m insurance policy after the car spontaneously combusted! Seriously though it's a car; it's not that important in the grand scale of things! You can read the full thread here if you have 15 minutes to kill!
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Annoyed by Fox TV's idiocy! |
07 Jun 2009 10:58 |
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I actually made the effort to get up at 7am this morning to watch the Turkish Grand Prix; I turned on the TV and tuned into Speed TV only to see a caption at the bottom of the screen telling me that delayed coverage will be shown seven hours later on Fox. I'm even more pissed off because I went to bed extra early, missing Iron Maiden's "Flight 666" on VH1 at midnight to make sure I was awake for the race, [insert relevant swear words here]. I am baffled by Fox Networks who owns Speed TV as to why they didn't show the race live at 7am on Speed TV for the dedicated F1 fans then show a re-run of the race at 2pm on Fox for the casual viewers. I did praise Speed TV's coverage previously but that praise has now been revoked for this act of total stupidity. It's obviously a commercial decision; nothing to do with showing it at a more sensible time; Fox can charge more for advertising time at a mid afternoon time slot than they can on Speed TV's early morning timeslot. I won't be watching the race this afternoon for two reasons; (1) I already know the result, and (2) I would rather spend that time with my family. Anyway; the result, Jenson Button took his sixth race win of the season comfortably beating the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel who only got pole by running light on fuel in qualifying. Mark Webber leapfrogged Vettel in the sister Red Bull to finish second 5 seconds behind Button's Brawn. It's looking like it's Jenson Button's championship to lose; the Brawn car is head and shoulder above the rest of the grid at the moment. In other news from F1; Force India have joined Williams in the naughty corner after submitting an unconditional entry into the 2010 F1 championship. Force India have been "suspended" or "kicked out" as Frank Williams said in a recent interview! Surprisingly Ross Brawn is supporting FOTA, so we could see Brawn win the championship at their first attempt only to leave at the end of their championship year. But I still agree with Max Mosley's budget cap idea and hope that he sticks to his guns even if we lose the likes or McLaren and Brawn, teams should not be allowed to dictate what happens in the sport; they should have a say in rules and regulations but not be allowed to dictate, teams are not bigger than the sport!
In general personal life stuff I am have real problems sleeping without the aid of sleeping pills. Even if I have been awake since 7am I still can't get to sleep until 4am - 5am. Which is driving me absolutely crazy, laying in bed while my wife sleeps watching online TV; I have watched several seasons of Eureka, Sliders and Quantum leap plus random other shows on online on-demand TV station Hulu (which sadly isn't available to UK viewers). I have come to the conclusion that I must be a natural nocturnal person or maybe I am a vampire; I do like the taste of blood! It's worrying that I am becoming reliant on sleeping pills to be able to fall asleep at a sensible time, took some at 8pm last night to be able to sleep before 11pm to watch the non-broadcast Grand Prix. This isn't anything new; I have been nocturnal for years because of work and it suited me back in the UK as it allowed me to talk with Erin through the night but now it's just damn annoying! I have also been struggling with the heat here in the mid-west; temperatures have been in the 90°F range and in the high 60°F's during the night this week and I don't like hot temperatures at all. And it's only going to get worse; apparently as the summer progresses temperatures can reach 110°F and above; I'm really not looking forward to August!
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This is exactly why I don't want to live in America! |
02 Jun 2009 15:15 |
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Erin has been getting threatened by some dickhead who is supposedly a gang member because of something that happened on property. Erin is constantly being called out for some bullshit reason or another on this damn property and the management company won't pay her for her time because she gets a free apartment; which was part of a pay deal to keep her at Buttonwood Tree about 10 months back when she handed in her resignation. Now we have this idiot threatening Erin and other Buttonwood Tree staff and the police will do jack shit about it. Basically one of us would have to get shot or killed before the police will do anything. It's getting to the point now where I want to get a gun to protect my family and I despise guns. He has been calling the office all day saying things like "I know where you live", "I know what car you drive" and "I know who your husband is". The police don't consider that threatening behaviour, no wonder people carry guns in this country when the police wont do anything when threats are made. This makes me want to pack up my family and move back to the relative safety of the UK. It seems to me that the police here don't take an active role in preventative policing; maybe if they cracked down on known offenders like this guy that is threatening us then there wouldn't be so many deaths due to gun crime? But that would be too simple wouldn't it, it's stupid that someone needs to be wounded or killed before any action is taken especially when it's a known offender! Erin and I want to move off this property because of all the trouble that occurs on this property; shootings, stabbings, domestic abuse and drunken idiots smashing up apartments despite not living here. And this is all in the last couple of months, we don't feel safe here but we are not in a position to move until my Employment Authorisation Document is issued.
In the continuing saga of F1's budget-cap-gate; it seems that Norbert Haug's suggestion of a €100m cap and technical assistance to new entrants hasn't been submitted as suggested if the latest Toyota and Ferrari statements are anything to go by. The two biggest spenders seem to want nothing to change according to their press releases; meaning no budget cap with the creation of cheap standardised parts for budget teams to use, but stops short of allowing full blown customer cars. Ferrari team principle Stefano Domenicali has also said that cost cutting in F1 should be self regulated by FOTA, which I don't agree with. FOTA needs to change drastically before that can happen. I believe that there should be no chairman; each team gets an equal vote as I believe that [FOTA creator] Ferrari president Luca Di Montizemolo is putting pressure on the independent teams like Force India, Brawn GP and the expelled Williams F1. The way I see it is that FOTA was set-up to benefit Ferrari as they effectively get two votes as team principle Stefano Domenicali and president Luca di Montizemolo both get a vote; does that seem fair to the other FOTA members; Montizemolo should have no say in my opinion. Montizemolo is no different to Max Mosley as he is just as much as a dictator as people accuse Mosley of being! |
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