He probably shot a big load on the back of someone's head in the theater when Zac Efron came on screen in High School Musical 3.
Damnit! My car needs its MOT before the 20th August but I got in it on Tuesday and the windscreen washer wasn't working (it had been temperamental for a little while) and you couldn't even hear the noise of the pump trying to work then I pulled the lever. It did come back to life after the car was running for 10 minutes but if this doesn't work at the MOT it is a failure so it needs to be fixed. I also think one of my door/window seals has gone as the car seems to have an excesive amount of moisture in it so I may as well get them to look at that while it is there. Tried a parts place and they can't get it so had to go to Toyota direct. Price with Toyota so far... £133 for part and fitting £63 to find out where the leak is £54.85 for MOT, if it fails on anything added cost there to put right. £250.85 Total before parts and labour to repair leak! And my car insurance is due next month so its going to be a very expensive month. I hate cars!
Someone hit my car. Again. Insurance is going to pick it up though which is good since the repair is $1000. I also bought a tonno cover for my truck which was way too expensive but I needed one that was relatively bear proof.
My brother has apparently put down a deposit today on a 3 series BMW, wouldn't want to pay his insurance!!!!
I bought map tacks at Office Depot the other day and now I'm getting an advertising banner on Amazon for them. Odd.
I thought this was an excellent commentary on the debt deal, and how our government is now comprised entirely of hypocritical career politicians who only represent corporations and the extremely wealthy.
This debt limit bullshit is a manufactured "crisis" being used as an excuse to further gouge the working and middle classes to further redistribute wealth to the rich. The debt limit was raised under Reagan around 18 times without incident. Yet they've made this particular issue into a national crisis. The debt pertains to money that has already been spent, not new spending. The "solution" our government has developed sounds like a complete disaster. Fortunately, America has a roadmap demonstrating what to do in times of financial disaster. President Franklin Roosevelt developed social safety nets with the New Deal, which included the establishment of Social Security in 1935. He raised taxes on the rich to help those who were struggling most, and we ended up with a growth of over 14% in GNP, record breaking growth. The government has to spend and invest in order to get out of this economic mess. Roosevelt made the mistake early in his time in office to attempt to balance the budget simultaneously, but as he increased spending and investment, unemployment fell and the situation improved. If we need further proof, in the late 30s, conservative opposition attempted to roll back his policies, and the recovery rate dramatically slowed, creating another recession as a result. So we're in luck that we know just what needs to be done. Unfortunately Obama, conservatives, and candyasses like Harry Reid have decided to do the exact opposite of everything I just described. I'm afraid I don't have much confidence in their corporate puppeteered plan.
Got woken up at quarter past 8 but my flatmates work saying the job center rang them about me doing work experience and the boss guy wants me to come in for some training or what not. I told him about going to the doctors today and my anxiety and he said come in for a bit for training then will get a lift home by a mate who also works there for a lift home for it. Not good as not prepared, had only a few hours sleep and feeling very anxious because of the lack of sleep. The job center suck. Its for safestyle btw, not my type of work s door-to-door canvassing especially with my problems. Although they do phone jobs part of it too. I'll still humour the job center as the boss said he would pay me for doing it and not tell them. I'll see how it goes.
Grim I would scrap the car if its definatly a failure - you should get a min of 100 quid for the scrap value and then go buy yourself a cheap shitter with 6mnths tax and ticket. I say this assuming that what you currently have is a bucket anyway....if not then your gonna have to suck it up I'm afraid. This month I just had to cough up 260 quid for a years tax and another 75quid for a front tire on my 960 estate, the bastard!
The car is only 9 years old and I can still get £3000 for it so not going to scrap it The pump seems to have come back to life (might have just been a blocked pipe) so I am going to cancel that part of the job and just have them MOT it and find the leak, that will take £130 off the job total. Been using it everyday to test it and it comes out fine now so all is good again. My Tax is only £150 as its only a 1.4 litre and I one of my buddies works at a tyre place so they don't cost me much at all if that ever comes up. Saying that I only do 1500-2000 miles a year so I don't get through that many and my current tyres are 2 years old this month. The only other job I could get done is one of my alloys refurbished, scratched the damn thing which annoys the hell out of me, think its about £60 per wheel.
Have to book the other half of my A+ exams this week, really nervous about it as I want to do well - if I can get qualified then I can get the hell out of this dockyard and start doing something I'm interested in. Any of you guys here have any advice, hints, tips etc? A new career at 34 is daunting enough but exiting at the same time......
CompTia A+ essentials 701/702. I scraped a pass on the 701 in may and now I've got the 702 to take which I want to get done soon. I've paid for the course through the home learning college, I'm fully aware that should I qualify then ill be at a disadvantage as I'm supposed to have a min of 150 + hrs experience on the job, so any position I do get will be rather poorly paid but I'm willing to learn and start at the bottom.
Just hunt around and see what you can find. I fell into my job in the industry 10 1/2 years ago doing some admin stuff to pay off my courses at a time when IT became important in the world of solicitors and ended up getting a full time job as the IT manager. When I joint we had a Windows NT4 network with network printers and a single box connected to the internet recieving email via ISDN, how times have changed as we now run a fully virtualised environment with a load of blade servers and iSCSI storage. A lot of the weekly mags I get such as computer weekly seem to be saying that a lot of people are leaving the IT industry and there is a 'lack of skilled people'. Not sure how true this is but if it is true it might be a good time for you to be looking. I know a chap who works for HP and they layed off a lot of people earlier in the year so I personally don't think there will be 1000's of jobs out there but there should always be something around, everyone runs computers and servers these days and they always need something doing. Do you have any particular interest or are you looking for a generalised job? Some people work in one area such as networking, virtualisation, storage, exchange etc while others (myself included) do a bit of everything while never really specialising in one thing. Personally I don't think it would keep my interest to do one thing all day every day but that's a decision for you to make. To be honest things are easier now than they were even 10 years ago, the internet is your best friend and google usually has the answers to anything you don't know. I find more and more its not always about what you know anymore its about how fast you can google the answer.
No I have been too busy both at work and at home, Mrs Grim is demanding we do things while the weather is nice and as a result I am being forced to go out nearly all the time
I agree. I always thought the whole thing was just a big dog and pony show to act like there was some opposition to extending the Bush tax cuts and destroying what little bit of a social safety net we have left for the poor and middle class. In reality, there never was any opposition. Both parties are just looking out for the rich and their corporate overlords. It's too bad that almost everyone who was alive during the Great Depression is either dead or their brain is mush, because they could tell you that the way to get out of our current predicament is for the government to spend and redistribute wealth. This debt deal is probably going to turn this recession into a full blow depression if it wasn't one already. It puts even more wealth into the hands of the wealthiest 1%, while snubbing the rest of us.
Out of interest what rate are your 'wealthy' taxed at? Anyone who earns more than £150,000/year here now pays 50% tax on anything above that. Our income tax bands are. £0 - £35,000 = 20% £35,001 - £150,000 = 40% £150,001+ = 50% Just to clarify you pay the percentage on anyting after that amount, so if you earn £36,000 in a year you only pay 40% on £999 of it because the rest comes under the 20% rule. We also pay national insurance each month on top but this is just a tax question.