Your car being stolen.
So you ring up the police, and say. "Hey my car appears not to be where I left" to which they ask "Where might that be young man" to whence I reply "Out side my house" to Wither they reply "O Rly?, have you checked with TrackingGaMacking Jenkins" to Womble I reply, "Yes and it was not there yet" and so on, until after various phone calling all day I find out by mid afternoon that my car was towed.
This is why the lazy never prosper.
So it resulted in me getting a taxi. Because I hadn't learnt from my laziness, and because it was 3 miles away and not near public transport, to the Inpound Lot. I then filled out various forms, hacked up someones face, blah blah blah, paid £250, got my car back, and ended up where I started. Except 250 smackers down and my car halfway to West Ham, which is wear the nearest parking space of freedom is. I need a permit.
Plus the ticket machine outside doesn't work.
Here are some things that aren't great:
*remembers why he wanted to get out of the country in the first place*
Everything is so complicated, and ridiculous. Nothing works correctly, everything costs money and takes more paper work than a french frog quiz. Yes I am going to get a job. No I'm not going to become a permanent bum. Yes I will do this and that, and whatever. Please don't worry, things tend to go alright for me, it's all good, ease off. For now I am focusing on getting my car legal, and moving into our new lovely house. And looking forward to an awesome weekend at D&Ts.
shh. Humour later.
I'll tell you what's stressfull
"Stressful?" I hear you cry with somewhat trepid lunacy "How can you be stressed on a 6 month holiday, why I ort to come down there and give you what for". To which I would reply "what for five, haw haw haw" and then proceed to explain how I can't organise my life of meeting people when I get back because I only have a few weekends and I already have like 3 of them booked up with either moving into my own house/celebrating I'm alive and in england, celebrating Danu and Tracey's moving into their house (which they have kindly delayed till I get back, well I'm telling myself that, they may just have been covering everything in a thin layer of plastic to protect it from the ensuing carnage) and the Twits birthday shinanigans which I am sure will involve some form of intoxicating substance. Possibly poppers if Adam's record is anything to go by. Relax....
Anyway, my point is, ARGH. But now pete is going away or something in September, I need to meet up with countless other people, especially a variety of travel reunions, and all in the mean time I need to find a good job, not piss off my mum by only seeing her for 1 night (and what a night it'll be, nudge nudge wink wink, ew ew) in 6 months AND at some point visit exeter as I miss it so much. And Stu smells of cat rape in a vice factory. Furthermore, I had another interesting and rambling point to say, but I got distracted by the farce that is Facebook, oh yeah, all this trouble is because the rest of you lazy ass mofos have jobs, which I don't appreiciate in the slightest. Except maybe Rex and Russ, so we can be some form of rambling/hiking trio, that cross the countryside with nothing but a headscarf and a pocket of beer change between us. Maybe a costa coffee as well. And a llama. Plus an xbox. And some other comical and seemingly random paraphinallia.
Who else thinks I need some form of non Japanese human contact? Yes me to. Or food before I drink strong coffee in the morning. Yes me to. Hush.
P.S. I also need to get down to Brighton and bash out some gigs with Icelandic Dan, for he is the king of all things Icelandicly cool. (yes yes I know I need to see YOU as well, please don't comment and whine, if I mentioned everyone I need to see this post would already be longer, more rambling and far more hilarious than it already is)
Life Observations
The above photo shows the pricing of "The TechGuys" at PC World. I was looking at this and VOMITING at the shocking pricing of everything. Memory installation costs 14.99. You may think "ooh that's not much", it takes like zero time and effort, take off the case, shove the memory in a slot. Job done. No software or anything. Software Installation 29.99. WTF? that's how much software costs and they're charging you that much to stick a CD in the drive and hammer the next button!? I would go on, but I don't want to fill my blog with ranting. Basically befriend someone who knows about computers, then swap some good old fashion lovin' for computer help. Apparently it's worth it.
This may look like an average paper recycling bin, but you'd be mistaken. If we look at the items that are wanted, and the items that are not wanted we see a worrying pattern. Every single piece of "wanted" paper contains personal/private/delicate information, while all other paper is generic paper waste that will be unlikely to contain such details. Man, Cory Doctorow would be all over this....
Don't Read This
Just had a great conversation with Dave and Louis lasting like 2 hours or more about religion, belief, good evil and moral, below is not directly related to what we talked about, but mainly my exasperation with humans. Its quite rambling as well, mainly due to the alcohol that I consumed earlier, tho at the moment has lost all effect. maybe.
In the end everything seems like nothing gets anywhere, I've seen so many arguements/discussions, so little resolution or conclusion. For instance I take every comment on slashdot as an example, especially in relation to Google or Microsoft and ethical issues, everything continually bounces around. Its fair duos that people share their views and opinions and I'm not saying they shouldn't express them or whatever, but no one ever has an answer that anyone can believe in and so much effort is spent in this continual circle of arguments and conflicting views that it really does seem like our existence loses some sort of progress due to everything that occurs. Again even this comment is useless and just a view and not useful in the slightest, it won't change anything, it won't put anything in particular perspective. Most people either believe or don't believe something, people are naturally stubborn, along with stupid and good, but still stubborn. And in the end its all in context, lets take the example of "Do no evil" the apparent slogan of Google. No one can really define Evil in itself, and in the end its probably just in retrospect.
Dilemmas whether ethical, moral, religious, or just basically humane can't be black and white, and its that very fact that make every decision, every factor or experience in life difficult. No one ever said life was easy, no one ever claimed that beliefs, views and solutions were simple, even though people expect or hope them to be.
I sometimes worry whether I should be out there throwing views around. "Making a difference", but also it seems easier to just take everything as it comes and do what I do. I'm sure this is the easiest way out, but I've noticed it involves less arguements and conflicts, but thats just on the micro scale. In the large context of things I'm not only a hypocrite, and completely complacent not to mention ignorant and neive beyond my comprehension. Though perhaps this realisation is a revalation in itself. Though probably not. Also I can't help but feel this post is everything that its arguing against, but hey I'm not perfect.
I'm going to stop now before I say something that makes even less sense that what I just said and is just the work of my busy typing hands. Once more regular readers can strike this post off the record. More humourous shinanigans to follow.
Just adding this for interest this is google china (censored) and this is google ameriland (uncensored as such). The search is tiananmen. Don't sue me.