Back from the brum. I bought numerous exciting things on my visit to the magic chocolate factory in bournville, but I've nearly eaten them all now, so the excitement is wearing off.
And for the first time ever, I just went and hung up washing on my washing line.
I worked out today that it's costing about £6000 a year for me to live in this house, and that's just rent and bills. It's probably going to be a lot higher than that with food etc. The really really scary thing is that I haven't got a job yet. Oh well.
The election. It happened. Someone gave up somewhere along the way.
I really love the way that Americans are practically forced to choose between a right-wing politician and a slightly less right-wing politician, and then try to cling onto the timeless concept of "democracy". It's not a democracy. It's not a democracy if there's not middle ground. In this case, there isn't any ground at all. It turns out that 97% of the population is either fiercely democrat, or republican, and they hate each other. None of this discussion of issues crap that bogs down the rest of the world's politics, it's how many people they can piss off and win over at the same time.
I seem to be getting way too worked up over this. Still, it does serve a purpose, and that's to make the UK election seem less farcical.
And so I shall embrace my newly discovered caffeine addiction, I shall not go on holiday, and I shall now attempt to go and find some direction in my life. With coffee.
I feel I should rant some more. I had a little bit of a rant in my previous entry a few hours back, but I feel that I'm not done yet.
I have nothing to do. This is a result mainly of the fact that I don't have an income, not having a job. The reason I don't have a job is that no-one wants to employ me. On a temping basis, it appears that just no-one wants to hire someone with a degree, and on a permanent basis, I don't have a good enough degree. So I sit here and occupy this middle ground whilst at the same time wonder where the money for rent is going to come from.
So I have a plan.
I'm going to create some sort of random decision making process whereby it is randomly decided what occupation I should try and have. I think that my main problem is that I don't care enough about any particular area in which I might want to get a job. So I should pick an area, and just work on that. I'll let the world know which particular career path I've decided to fling myself at as soon as I decide. Or god decides, depending on what you believe.
I think I'm just waffling now just for the sake of not having to make this decision. It's an excuse thingie whereby I just extend whatever I happen to be doing at the moment just to prevent myself moving onto the next thing in my life, just because I might not like what's going to happen next. That's pretty much what's happening here - I'm just typing words, because I can't type and decide what job to do. That would be silly. If I'm going to decide this, then I need to be free from distractions. However, I know this and create distractions like typing waffle to the rest of the world for as long as possible. Hang on, someone spoke to me on icq.
Wow, that was profound. I just applied for 6 jobs which I don't understand but I'm apparently qualified for, as well as applying to be a techie at the local theatre for the upcoming christmas period. Anyway, I'm bored of typing, so I'm going to stop now.
About 3-4 months ago I started writing a website that was to be the shop front for an online business. After a lot of work, making mistakes and fixing them, I'm half finished. Then I discover osCommerce, a free, open source shopping cart website package which is infinately better than anything I could have every thought of. So I ditched 3 months of work and used that instead. Needless to say it's a lot better.
Right, I'd just thought I'd make a post to show that I'm still alive and nothing is happening. I'm still unemployed, I'm down to my last 39p. But thanks to all those of you who phoned me up to make sure I still existed. :)
It is a sad day for democracy when the government forces through a law based entirely on emotion and opinion. What compounds this is the use of an act designed to get extremely important legislation through quickly.Fox hunting. The most important thing this country should worry about. (Apparently).
It is done. I finally sorted out the christmas theme for the site. It should be coming up the moment the clock ticks into december. We'll see...I also took the time to center the site in IE. It's always meant to have been centered, but IE doesn't know what margin:auto; means, so I had to hack it. Oh well.