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seen you around a few threads, and can sympathise about disliking your job

Just thought I would drop you a line to say hi

It is cold here, but not as cold as down there, I imagine

Hi!

Yeah, the job's complete cr*p, but it'll keep paying the bills until I find something less socially destructive to do. How's the sugar business these days? Every time I watch 'Landline' (I do have a life, but not usually on a Sunday afternoon) they're saying gloomy things about it... But then again, almost everyone's gloomy on that programme.

And it's about 4C at the moment, with -5C expected later...

an I thought our 10 deg was cold

I currently hate the sugar industry......... well really dislike the bosses

things are gloomy for the farmers, about to be paid $231 a tonne, as compared to american supported farmers,who get alot more than the world price, ours are struggling, they need $220 a tonne just to survive, so getting 10 dollars a tonne just isn't fair.

The thing that gets me is, due to ther low price, very little maintenance was done on my stage, an now we are suffering from continual breakdowns, which is making each shift a waiting game for something to break, or a fuse to blow, or a solinoid to stop working.

The rotten upside of this, we are crushing some of the best cane that has been seen for years, the purities are through the roof, an we have had to slow our crushing rates to cope

I stopped watching landline a while back, they became very commercial, especially, when that english chick fronted it(tiggy? twiggy?), seemed to just become another advertisement

enjoying a really bad chardonay at the mo

I think her name's Ticky, or something equally odd. Something suggestive of insects, anyway.

As for Sugar - well, what you described there is just another reason to hope this 'Free' Trade Agreement sinks. Like everything else Mr Sheen has done, it's not in the country's interest.

(It was -6C last night, by the way...)

it was 8 here, that's cold enough for me

yeah, that would be nice, the yanks get upset if we subsidise our famers, but they are allowed to support theirs

hope the bonsai(little bush) doesn't get in again

Tikky, that sounds about right

just heard on the telly, it was 10 here

back in a bit hubby wants the comp for a bit, again

The ghastly bonsai has just appeared on the telly. I think I'd better step outside for some fresh air.

I don't blame you, I feel nauseous every time he opens his mouth

He does make me feel quite ill; it's a side-effect of having my blood boil. But here's a mental picture that makes me feel better - imagine, if you will, the bonsai. Now imagine him with an old metal rubbish bin upside-down over his head and shoulders. Now imagine that you have a stick, which you can whack the bin with in a furious manner. (Tribal-type dancing around the bonsai is optional at this point.)

It doesn't sit well with my basic pacifism, but it is one way to vent one's feelings without actually doing any damage to anything.

This works well too ------>

oh that sounds like fun

bang,bang,bang

is good, also , and any other drink that contains alcohol.........

does rather a good job.

(Just imagine the tinnitus he'll have when you let him take the bin off!)

oh no, he won't be able to hear what he is saying, so he will have plausible deniability................



I'm off to got 12 hour day shifts this weekend

Sleep well... We can pick another politician to taunt next time!

Never mind me - I'm just trying to keep this thread current, and near the top of my list. I see that you're busy beyond what is reasonable with w*rk, so don't feel obliged to respond.



Ivan.

got a weekend off, so I am catching up on hootoo, but yeah, work is pretty horrendous this year

well what do you think of Lathams admission to smoking and inhaling marijuana?

I really don't give a toss what he did in his youth, is no more than,. what alot of us did of, but grew out of, at least he admitted it, unlike Billy boy, who rekoned he didn't inhale

All this muckraking is just making me more inclined to vote Labour, or Independent. I just wish they would get it over an done with, all this politicing, is driving me up the wall

On Latham: well, I'm not surprised that he's had a joint at some point; I don't know many people who have never encountered the stuff, and as most people I know are dull public servants, that's saying something. What's more curious is that the media gives a damn. Were I an editor, I'd file the story under 'who gives a s**t'. It should be a non-issue. I'd hate to see us become like the US, where an unintelligent electorate thinks such things matter.

I decided long ago to vote Green, with Labor as second preference - and the Libs at number 99.

This is how we know it is an election year

I don't think the greens have enough seats to really have an influence, unfortunately, we are still really only a two party country

that is until voters change they way they vote, not putting preferences, an making a single vote count

Maybe it's the electoral system itself that's at fault. The ACT's system is more like the current NZ model than the Federal model - multi-member electorates, which give the minor parties more chance of getting seats.

The ACT has a chance of electing a Green senator this time, which would be nice. The candidate is a high-profile member of the current ACT Legislative Assembly, and her support base might be enough for her to claim one of the ACT Senate places.

Well, That's another week gone........

Wasn't to bad overall, solved a problem everyone was worried about, the solution was simple, everyone was looking for reasons, but no one was actually doing anything, so I just tried something simple, cleaning! eh voila, problem solved, and did I get any thanks..............hah, yeah, right

Got the opportunity for a job interveiw next week, an wouldn't you know it I am on days next week! no fair, but thinking of using the 'womans problems' excuse, which I have never used before, to scam a couple of hours off on tuesday, so I can go............

I put a resume in to Bunnings a couple of months ago, an today they rang me an did a telephone interview, an then invited me to a 'group interview' at 1200 Tuesday, told them I would try to get someone to cover me, so I could go

I soooo want to go, working in a hardware store would be a dream come true, I lurrrrrve tools, give me a hardware store over a clothes store any day

Hope you week was surviveable

Good luck with the interview - I know a few people who work for Bunnings, in various states, and they say it's a good place to work, which is nice to know.

I don't understand hardware at all. It's one of those things I get someone else to deal with, like motor vehicles and electrical wiring.

I survived the week, but I'm not sure if I'm surviving the weekend. It was my ex-partner's birthday yesterday, and as a result I ended up in a nightclub, against my better judgement. Now I'm suffering. It's not a hangover, it's just extreme fatigue... Typing is hard, as my hands feel leaden. I really must stop pretending I can live as though I were 21, and admit that I need a good night's sleep every night.

On the bright side, it was all tremendous fun at the time. The ex and I are still close friends, which I think counts as an achievement to be proud of.