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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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1:15 am
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"I'm a Maverick. I'm gonna get Mavericky with those gosh darn elitists. I'm gonna take a Maverick attitude and get Mavericky with the Washington folks and whip up America. John McCain and I are both Maverick's - and that's why we'd be good for the white house....because we'd Maverick it up and get all Mavericky."
You're a fucking retard Sarah.
Seriously. A fucking retard. Has anyone else noticed this? There was a period for a while where everyone seemed to acknowledge this fact. However, in recent times the media seems to have gotten off the topic. It puzzles me...because she's still a fucking retard. Is it that she has now started becoming a liability to the McCain campaign? Getting Mavericky with the party line. Disagreeing with the campaign strategy. Setting herself up to say that the Republicans failed because of McCain and that she had nothing to do with it so that she can fill Hilary Clinton's boots as the next most likely annoying woman for the White House.
Oh how they clamour. The Republican die hards....."she's the most popular governer in the country.....she runs a large budget...she has more experience than Barack Obama...etc...". Well fuck. I could run Alaska......hands up all those that work in the Oil industry or are in conservation....great...I represent you!!...no...of course not...there is no conflict of interest...we need to all pull together to meet the needs of the country in an environmentally friendly way....no of course I don't have any actuall ideas or policies....shit...I don't even know what the supreme court is! Mavericky!
I have become so frustrated by the Presidential campaign. It has become clear that actually no one has any idea what to do. The financial crisis is so fucked up that, honestly, I don't think that anyone can DO anything. It would be a breath of fresh air if the candidates would come out and say...."it's all fucked. We're just gonna have to sit tight and wait for this shit to blow over and then we can get back to the real world where bread, milk and cereal cost this much." Of course that would be political suicide....but that is exactly what they should be doing. I do not agree with the bail out plan. I believe that it is a massive waste of money that the banking industry will use to make acquisitions of lesser fish banks and create a huge conglomerate in corperate America...thus beginning the next up phase before the next crash in 20 years. All funded by you and me. Let's all hug and rejoice in being free. Free to have the people who fucked us, fuck us again in 20 years using our money.
Never mind...in between i'll make 5% on my pension fund...and then have that fucked when someone gets Mavericky with the money.
It's hard living in a republican state like Oklahoma. I hate listening to music radio...anywhere in the world...because "popular" music really sucks arse. As a consequence I like listening to Talk/news radio...but here it's all Republican/conservative propaganda. On the one hand it's kinda reassuring, on the other wildly annoying when I have to listen to the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. Mark Levin is perhaps the most disgraceful shit I have ever had the misfortune to cringe through. His particular line of narrow, bigotted vitriol makes me want to weep for the future of mankind. I say it's kinda reassuring because these Maverick champions have spent much of their time desperately trying to spread fear amongst the public and clinging to any/all small defect or chink that may be in Obama's armour. Rehashing any small tit bit...over and over and over again in the hope that people might be swayed away from the fact that Bush and the Republican administration has fucked things up over the last 8 years. They hope that by spreading fear they can make people forget the last 8 years and be scared of Obama.
It would seem that the public are not being fooled by them. I hope........living here in Oklahoma I have heard from people that they believe Obama is a sleeper cell for the terrorists.................................yep..............that's what they believe. Fuck. What can you do with that?....What can I do or say?.....other than busting a bottle over their stupid fucking heads. These people have the same vote as the next person. I just want to beat the shit out of them all. They don't deserve to vote.
Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh....you are a disgrace to this nation.
slim. x
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| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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12:30 am - My email to AA
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I just sent this to American Airlines:
My last 3 trips on AA have been a serious let down. I try to get home to England about twice a year and the 8-10+ hour flight allows me the opportunity to relax and not do anything for a change. Consequently it's very important to me that the entertainment on board be good and enjoyable. The movie selection on the last three trips (spanning a good year or so) was absolutely appauling. The magazine had a fairly good selection, but only in business and first. The rest of us hard working non rich folks are subjected to a piss poor selection of painful crap. I actually found myself watching "college road trip" as a highlight - that's not a good thing. That's the best that was on offer. It really was a testament to how desperately bored I was that I was able to make it to the end without vomiting blood. I spent the rest of the flight engaged in a pointless battle with Tetris which took 5 minutes to load up. On the previous flight the selection was just as bad...but we were spared because the system wasn't working and we had the same movie looped over and over and over again. 10 hours well spent. The food was also pretty desperate the last 2 years that I've flown AA but to be honest I don't expect much from it.."Chicken or Beef...Chicken or Beef.....Chicken Lips and Arseholes with some mushy Pasta substitute".."Brick hard bread roll anyone?"...oh please can I enjoy the light fluffiness. You really do suck when it comes to customer satisfaction. I'm flying Northwest from now on.
slim
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| Monday, September 3rd, 2007
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1:06 am
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I miss home today. I know that doesn't seem like anything special...but it's weird for me. See..i've always been pretty content to have my home wherever I am. It's never bothered me much and it's important because I can honestly say that it is the first time since I moved to Texas that I truely miss England at all. I have said before that I miss people all the time...but never the place itself. I miss Craig daily...and all the friends and family 4000 miles away...little Megan growing up and not really knowing who her Unkle is...these are a daily sigh....but England as a place I have not missed. Until today. I'm not sure what it is really. It's strange but I miss things like fog, damp in the air...not humidity cos we have lots of that...more that clingy cold dankness that constitutes a Novemeber morning...seeing dew hanging from a spider's web as you can see your own breath...that crisp yet grey morning that only urban England can produce....a faint smell of car exhaust fumes mixed with a fresh winter morning not quite sure whether it depresses you or lifts you...cold. I guess that's it....I miss cold. Even cold over here isn't cold because even when it freezes you know it will gone before you know it...kinda like Summer in England!! I honestly don't remember the last time I wore anything other than a T-shirt outside....I think it must have been the week I returned blighty the last time (Jan). I must have worn a jumper since then (ha...american's have no idea what a jumper is!).....I don't know. I don't even know where they are...must be in the closet somewhere. I miss being at Birmingham airport and seeing the sun come up over the airfield and reveal a line of fog hanging 6ft above the runway and end about 20 ft up.....aircraft dusting through as they land looking like a belly land on water (without the whole crash evac deal!) I used to stand at the perimiter fence with a cup of tea and a cigarette frst thing through the door at work. I did nothing till I had my morning cup of tea and a smoke and watched the airport wake up.
Mostly I miss Football. God I miss football. I miss having it surround me. "well you can get football over there can't you?"....yes but it's not the same. Everyone in England is into football...or at least is aware of it....wive's might tssk but they knew that the man folk watched football....and no it's not just a game!....yes we will reschedule the lunch with your mother because the Villa are playing Moanchester Urinal and I want to be in the pub watching it on skysports. Yes I will be flying back in the summer to watch Euro 2008 in the homeland (provided we make the fucker!) so that I can be in the pubs with equally passionate people on a reasonable time zone so I can have a few beers and not feel like an alchy. SPORT OVER HERE IS WANK. I miss being able to listen to five live and hear Alan Greene and a live match.....over here it's fucking Baseball.....BASEBALL on the fucking radio!! what's all that about?.....it's fucking boring as shit to watch on the fucking TV....let alone having some old tosser describing the plays on the radio. most of the time it's "....Joey Spittaly up to the plate....digs his heels into the dirt....looks around...an interesting fact about the ground here in Chicago...they first sold hotdogs way back in 1922...the first vendor was a man by the name of Charles Coon......as that pitch goes by for a no hit....and Charles used to serve a hotdog for 5 cents....ha ha ha...can you believe that....wow...way back when....and that's gone by too.......Spittaly swings but misses...."
and on it goes. 4 hours of this shit. Oh and they don't know what fucking music is by the way. Rap, Hip Hop or Country. I'd rather bathe in a refreshing bath of Sulphuric Acid while anally violating myself with a broken vinegar bottle.....thanks anyway.
Proper Football is the only way.
And I really miss the BBC....God how I miss the BBC. I even try the listen live on Fivelive commentary thing every now and then just to see if they have stopped being complete bastards and changed the licensing laws. See...I don't know if you know this but if you are anywhere else but the UK you can't listen to the live streams online because of licensing laws....so you just get helpful BBC guy telling you that 'unfortunately the program that is currently playing is unavailable due to contractual restrictions....blah dy blah dy blah'.....bastards. So no football...no 6-0-6....no Alan Greene....however youcan get the rest of the stuff...so when I am at work I sometimes listen live....which is weird...because its like 5pm my time yet it's 11pm in England so you get the late night news and the phone in's for the alchoholic or socially devoid.
Maybe it's being away...but I noticed that the BBC have started acting like fucking ITV in the way they go about stuff. Don't get me wrong...they are still the finest news network in the World..CNN can kiss my pastey white arse...they have nothing but "tonight I'm going to suck America's balls and completely ignore the rest of the world....who with the what now?.....does that affect my gas price?....oh well fuck them then." However...tonight they led with a teaser...'tonight...does being a lesbian mean that you are less likely to get a job?'....intreagued I thought...I always felt that England was perhaps a little more tolerant in these kind of things.
The real story was...'A lesbian feels as though she can't wear what's she wants to for fear of not being successful in her job interview'. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! It's a fucking job interview!! NO-ONE wears what they want to to a job interview. You dress appropriately for the role. If i'm going for a job I'm not going to wear baggy jeans with a hole in the knee and a fucking T-Shirt!! I don't walk around in a suit....but I wear one for a job interview. It has nothing to do with sexuality. What was she planning on wearing? Men's clothes?....perhaps a dyke T-Shirt? I have no idea what is 'lesbian' in the fashion world...but i'll be honest...you can usually spot them!! and it's got nothing to do with the clothes they wear.....shaved head....back pack....sandals...new age colours....gruff......hatred of men...kinda dumpy....yep....you know........"oh pete..you are so Un-PC. You shouldn't stereotype like that...." Fuck off. What disappointed so much was that the BBC had tried to spin the story into a Lesbian Victim situation rather than the story it was.....which was......a slow news night. Wankers. Luckily the good old british public set it straight by calling in and saying "fuck off...it's got nothing to do with sexuality. She needs to stop being such a stupid bitch and trying to set up a reason for her own failings...i.e could it be that she is shit at getting a job?"
I hate Political Correctness. It has destroyed society as far as I'm concerned. It has diluted discussion and caused a rash of apathy. No one can say what everyone knows they want to say. People are afraid of offending someone so much that nothing ever gets said...and if someone dares to speak their mind they are instantly jumped on by the PC nazi's. A question is asked knowing that the person answering will never be able to answer due to the clipboard warriors noting the infraction of response. I call these people shits. and so should you.... lets call a spade a spade shall we....lets...good. We are all so busy trying not to offend everyone that nothing ever gets done. There is always a contrary position...there is always someone who opposes any given decision. That is what the appointed people are in place to do. We vote for those we feel can best represent US!!...our common goals.....the majority! There is always going to be elements of society that don't agree with any given decision....and it is their right to make their voices heard amongst us all. However....we should not be afraid of making our choices and saying what we think in the face of recrimination from the minority. People are so scared of being labelled a racist, sexist, bigot, zenephobe etc... that nothing ever gets said anymore. the truth is that most people (and I include myself in this) are none of these things. I'm just sick of people making excuses for shitty behaviour. Shit...my mind is meandering somewhat. It is said that a society is judged by the manner in which it treats the smallest voices within it....and this is completely right and should be upheld....but when the smallest voices see this and start to take the piss...should we forget the majority voice? Do we all go around whispering in small huddles for fear of being overheard and being labelled by the clipboard warriors? How many times have you had conversations with people where you have held back because you didn't know what the other person thought on a topic? Was it something you were passionate about? Let's all group together and rejoice in the mundane benality of our world where nothing ever gets addressed.
The weird thing is that I am the minority over here. I am not religious...yet over here pretty much everyone is. Most of the time people don't know that I am not religious, but equally I am not afraid to stand up for what I (don't) believe in! I'm not going to take offence or go and speak to my senator because 'people talk about God' around me. I'm passionate about what I don't believe in, but I chose to move here and I respect the fact that people can believe whatever they want to.
Fuck me.
I don't know.
fuck Chelsea. Come on you lions.
slim. xx
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| Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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12:45 am
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This post is sponsored by McDonalds. McDonalds...mmm I'm loving it.
I'm so pissed off by advertisments. Every thing in the world today is sponsored. This annoyance bought to you by Goody's.....hell of a pain...quick relief....that's Goody's country. Fuck you. This Fuck you bought to you by Durex....the only way to Fuck you safely. No really ...Fuck you....this Real Fuck you bought to you by Trojan....when only a real Fuck you will do.
God damn it....stop you fuckers.
This religious message bought to you by the Allied Church Alliance in conjunction with Durex....Jesus would if he could.
So, TV over here sucks arse. Every 5 minutes...literally....there is a commercial break. Even the breaks are sponsored...."these messages bought to you by Head-On....apply directly to the forehead". I'll apply something directly to your forehead you bereft moron...my fucking boot...and I hope your fucking eyes pop out. Bastards. Everything is now cheapened to a financial level. The worst thing is that people now expect to have a cost attached to everything. "well I need to know what the bottom line is". I can see the hospital room with the dying child in the bed and Dad asking how much it's going to cost to keep little Katy alive. What the hell has happened to the world. I believe that they are going to shoval this shit down peoples throats until someone gags and calls time. A 20 minute simpson episode takes 1 hour because of commercials. The shitter shows will have a 1 minute tease and then go to commercial...when they come back they reiterate the tease with a picture and then go to another commercial. They can string out an entire 1 hour show with 1 story because they never actually tell you the fucking story. I use the term 'story' loosely. I don't give a flying fuck how many beans Paris Hilton ate in Prison...please for the love of God drop it so we can move on....and I know all of you twats out there are saying "well change the channel if you don't like it".....EVERY FUCKING CHANNEL IS THE FUCKING SAME. Wall to wall bollocks. God I have never missed the BBC more than now. They are not perfect by any means...but at least they have News from outside the border of the UK. Over here you are lucky if you get any news at all. Occasionaly you get a story about Iraq depending on what the mood in the country is....but the rest of the world can go fuck itself.
This news broadcast bought to you by Coca Cola.....keeping our troops quenched in their time of need. "the president was asked for his reaction to the Resignation of Tony Blair. The president replied '...well who's going to keep my balls clean now? He had such a thorough tongue.'....Number 10 declined to comment. In other news Gordon Brown decided to set himself on fire at Trafalgar Square in an attempt to woo the hard line labour suppoters back after the previous disasterous years. The David Blaine like stunt was met with mixed reviews with many stating that it was too little too late. Mr Brown was said to be in good spirits when speaking to reporters through charred lips and gauze - "if only 1 sheep came back to the flock then my ordeal was not in vain". Many were left wondering what the fucking hell he was thinking...and whether 'the world had gone completely fucking doolally' One sceptic was later quoted as saying "perhaps the new prime minister might like to strap himself to the gun barrell of one of our tanks out in Iraq before being sent out to the front lines. That would send a message that the country is united and that our leaders are prepared to stand side by side with our troops, fighting evil in any shape or form." When asked for comment Mr Brown mumbled something about 'Morphine' and 'Churchill's legacy' and reporters were ushered out of the private hospital room.
Hilary Clinton attempted to make a point, but then changed her mind and lost all credibility.
mmmm...I think I'll just have a corona...relax responsibly.
Fuck me.
slim. x
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| Sunday, October 15th, 2006
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12:44 am
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well. It's time I posted. Shit...so much has happened since I last made a pathetic effort to keep things up. My mom read my last few posts and commented that I swear too much. I agreed and have kept my tongue recently...however....I realise that I'm chopping myself off and must embrace my usual crass manner! I will not be silenced! Fuck that. All i'll say is this....don't read what I have to say if a few cuss words offend you. You'll find no sympathy to your "oh Biscuits" outbursts here. Take yourselves off and bake a cake or something. Everyone swears....i'm not going to pretend that folks don't. Of course it has its place and I don't turn the air blue in an inappropriate environment - but here you all know what you're getting - so be it.
I'm not sure where to start. Do I go with the facts or the feelings? Facts I think. My job is going great. I love being back in the airport environment, working on the planes and stinking of jet fuel at the end of the day. I've lost the weight that I gained after we first arrived and I'm regaining a bit of muscle tone that I lost after leaving my job in the UK. It's hard work but I love it and everyone that I work with is pretty cool. I think I've already figured out the heirarchy and demographics of my work environment - the submissives and aggressives - the ones to lead and be lead by. Bernie is the token idiot. He puts a "huh?" at the end of every sentence. Not a "huh?" in a gruff way...but a high pitched squark "huh?" which isn't a question. He just can't help himself. "I put the cart on the plane...*squark*huh?" at first I would reply to his squark by repeating myself or just saying yes. Since then I have noticed that everyone just ignores his squarks and acts like he hasn't said anything. His favourite phrases are "I treat my dog like a dog *squark*", "i've got to go home..I'm drunk" (he's not drunk..he just thinks it's funny)*squark*, and "ooooooohhhh......this is nothin' maaaannn...we used to have to push the carts for miles...you have it eeeeeasy maaaannnn.........*squark*" Thing is he's a very clever bloke. Dude's fucking loaded from a business he ran in Chicago...he's just one of those people who feel like they have to keep reminding you of stuff you already know. It gets annoying after a while and you can't help but take the piss...and then feel bad as soon as you have because he's just a nice guy. He takes it in good humour though and he gives it out too so it's not all bad.
We're in the process of moving again. Laura got a promotion at work and is going to be based in Addison (north Dallas). It makes sense for us to move as we are paying a premium to live where we live being so close to downtown. The commute is going to be too far for Laura and it'll be closer for my work too. We have looked at all the options. Buying or renting and all that that entails. Can you believe that we have been approved for a mortgage!!!.......a fucking mortgage!! I have no credit history in the states (good job!!)...and laura has been abroad for 2 years and has a somewhat iffy credit history before that!...."yeah we'll lend you $95,000".....hmmmm.....fuck. Our opportunities in the states are so much better. In the UK there was no way we would be anywhere close to being able to buy a house....we didn't earn enough and lets be honest that kind of money would buy you absolutely fuck all. In the UK even an interest only mortgage for that amount would just about buy you a shit smelling cardboard box in smithswood with complimentary burglars and no insurance. I think back to it and I hate how restrictive living in the UK had become by the time we left. I think it says it all about a society when the up and coming foundation can no longer afford to enjoy the basic needs of living that the previous generation had enjoyed. It vexes me quite considerably. In the UK we couldn't afford to buy a house. Here we can. In the UK we spent every penny we had (and then some) just paying our bills so that we didn't have to live in a seedy slum hell hole and get robbed every 3 days. Here we have money left over at the end of the month, and that's even with paying back about $800 every month to our credit card and Laura's parents which we used after we first landed........when everything is squared we'll have about $1500 EVERY MONTH left over after bills. What's all that about? Is it so different to live here than in the UK? Don't get me wrong...I understand that there are places in the USA that are just as expensive....and that Texas isn't the most desirable place to live as it's a fucking desert...but you get my point. What is it that is so different? We have so much more for our money here. Why would anyone want to struggle so fucking hard in the UK if they had the opportunity to be elsewhere? why is it so shit in the UK?................why hasn't anyone said anything?..............why doesn't anyone do something?...........and that's just it. I don't know what the answer is. But surely.....eventually....its all going to come crashing down when the majority can no longer afford to live. I wonder how long....before someone pipes up with a ....."hang on............fuck that...it's not worth that you stupid twat...i'll give you what it's worth" and the whole thing comes tumbling down because everyone realises that all they have is a few bricks and a post box. They don't even own the land (check it you'll be surprised). " oh can I...can I really?...oh that's just wonderful....I always wanted to live like a sardine...packed in close next to 10 other people and have the illusion of solitude. Of course I want to hear Mr Rogers taking a shit and his delightful daughter taking violin lessons..the screeching soothes me so. Oh and what I really like is that when I really need to sleep because I have to be up for work...jonny next door is having a party because it's his weekend and he has all his mates round...that's just fabulous....I love being free." Free to spend rediculous amounts of money to be packed in like a sardine and live everyone elses life with them. Those who don't rent at high rates, or live with their parents. Tell me i'm wrong fishy.
Blair should say he's very very sorry for letting the country get so shit. And then Thatcher should hang herslf in public. Is she dead yet? wheel her out at christmas for the usual tirade about capitalism and free market - the irony being that she knows nothing of either seeing as she is Hitler in a blue dress.
Why do I still get so wound up by this?...seriously. Why? I think it's because...and this is just my opinion....I think that 'class' has cheapened us all. what used to 'belong' to people is now leased. there are those who can afford to own things and then they rent it out to folks so that they can feel as though they have something close to what there parents had. Either you rent it from the government or you rent it from a private individual. The gap widens and we all pat ourselves on the back because we live in a shoebox and decorate it the way we want. It's 'ours'...except it's not. We have to give it back....or find ourselves in court when we can't afford to pay for 'our house'. What a heinous crime it is when wanting a life for you and your family is priced out of reach. I think we are going through a time of globalisation and we are feeling a natural clinging to nationalism...the UK is a tiny place and there isn't enough to go around.....more and more people are leaving the beautiful shores and going elsewhere in the world...and the trend will continue until it's no longer about countries.....but about the world. People will go where the land will support them and no longer migrate to these tiny pockets of wealth...but to where a life can be gleaned....and the wealth will follow them because that is where the market is.
Shit.....hello comrade.
But life here is good. I miss my friends and family terribly. I miss Craig real bad. You see.....the previous few paragraphs would have been talked over with Craig before ever being aired and I would have been much more lucid!...but it is as it is. The weather is cooling off..(I have to talk about the weather - I'm british)...to a gentle breeze and its finally started raining a bit which is great. I never thought that I'd miss a cold October day from the UK...but I do...and it's nice to see overcast skies and a few rain drops coming in.
it's late. God I love my wife. I love what we have have created.....Laura and I went through a tough time when we moved over here...a rocky patch filled with bumps and bruises....but I'm feeling more like me again....I lied for a while about not smoking (yes...I'm smoking again)..and there was a period where we just weren't communicating...but we seem to have come out the otherside. I miss her when she isn't here....and we now have an addition to our family...Luke the dog. He's just the best little Beagle in the world! I love his little face and the way he is just so fucking excited about us just being near him. He makes you understand what's important. No matter what happens in the day you can guarantee that Luke will still be jumping up at you when you walk through the door because he's just that happy to see you! People could learn a few things by wearing their heart on their paw like Luke does!
I love my wife and puppy child. I just want to make a safe place. I guess I'm no different to anyone else in the world - except that I now live somewhere that that's possible.
sleep tight.
slim. x
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| Thursday, July 20th, 2006
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9:40 pm - YES!!
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Thank goodness......David O'Leary has finally gone from Aston Villa!! Tactically inept tosspot. Good ridance.
now all we need is to get rid of this fucking clown as well.
nite.
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| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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8:57 pm
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Ok..so I feel its time to update with something of substance.....here goes:
has anyone else noticed that the tortoise on the Comcast internet advert - the slowsky's - looks like a big, grey, veiny cock? I noticed it for the first time the other night - and now I just can't look at the advert in the same light. Ha, now I guess you are all the same too!!:) Here...judge for yourself!!....
see.
of course this will mean nothing to those who live outside Comcast range....but still I felt I had to share that. The next thing that has me totally amazed is the new Burger King burgers. Stackers. Fucking hell. Is it any wonder that everyone is such a fat bastard! You can actually go and buy a burger with 4.....quite....4 slabs of meat and 4 slices of cheese. Who are these people who need that kinda burger? first off they must shit with great difficulty...second they have to be very very fat.....third I'm thinking they probably don't get out much other than to wheeze their way to Burger King, lean on the counter for a moment to catch what little breath they have, and then stuff another cheek shakingly bowel firming burger down their flabby necks. Of course i'm making assumptions....but really...come on....I wonder if these are in the UK yet? Someone please enlighten me. I'm betting that they're probably not as Nanny Blair would be quick to point out how bad they are for us all and that we need to be more responsible....and that as we are all incapable of being more resposible with our lives that he must make the choice for us all. It's for the good of the country.....look can we just drop the Iraq thing....gawd...it was a long time ago just let it go....legality? tax payers money?.........look behind you...no seriously..look behind you..........sucker.
Sorry...did I get off the point again!!? I don't know how that happens......so yeah...burger king! Fucking huge burgers. The scary thing is that when you live here.....you actually find yourself needing more food. Before, there was no way that I would have been able to eat a supersize meal from McDonald's...now I can nail one and be thinking to myself.."hmmm....shall I have an apple pie too"!! fat boy. Gotta cut that shit out!
Anyways, aside from advertising icons that look like cocks and gut creaking burgers....what else has been going on? Well....I have been looking for a new job in ernest. Kitty Hawk has really reached the end for me now. The work is fine...just the hours and with no prospect of that changing...I gotta leave. I had an interview last week with a flight services company. The job would be great...just have to wait and see whether they want me or not. i called today and they said they would make their decision next week. hmmm.....we'll see. Tomorrow I have an interview with Erikkson. The job looks boring as hell and a piece of piss........but the money is outrageous!!...so I thought I'd go along to the interview for a laugh and see if they can wow me. lol. I just turned down a job with AirBP fueling the planes. The job looked great..but the pay was shit...$11.25 an hour....I simply can't take that kinda pay cut.
It is so fucking hot. over 100º EVERY day. I'm sweating my tits off...even at night it's 90º....what's all that about!? I wish it would rain some.....don't get me wrong...I like the weather...its better to have wall to wall sunshine than drizzle and rain with the occasional sunny day....but good lord......its bastard boiling all the time. Our electricity bill is going to be huge this month cos of the air conditioning...i can feel it in my wallet.....still...can't be helped...there's no way I'm sitting in 100º heat.....kiss my burnt arse.
anyways. I'm going to stop now.
cheer up.
love
slim xx
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| Saturday, July 15th, 2006
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6:37 am
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Has anyone seen any weather lately?
fuck me. Oh for a wet October day.
as Bill Hicks once said.."Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and fucking sunny....what am I.... a fucking lizard?"
quite.
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| Monday, July 10th, 2006
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12:36 am
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Taken from jedthehumanoid
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| ✓ I miss somebody right now. |
✓ I don't watch much TV these days. |
× I own lots of books. |
| × I wear glasses or contact lenses. |
✓ I love to play video games. (there's something wrong with you if you don't.) |
✓ I've tried marijuana. (a long time ago.) |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. (of course - I was a teenager once you know!) |
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. |
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (most of the time.) |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (ALL the fucking time - fuckity fucksticks.) |
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (probably.) |
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
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| Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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11:45 pm
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All my life I have looked at web sites and magazines with funny pictures in them. Of these pictures some were of funny signs - some unwittingly funny, some just funny - and some, those humourous few of altered signs that are funny. I have waited - never dared dream that one day i might see one of those signs....but last night on the drive back from Outback Steakhouse I happened to catch a glipse of a sign as we drove by - I had to turn around and drive back to it to make sure i hadn't dreamed it. Last night was the night - MY night...to see a funny sign. And so I share it with you - and what makes it all the funnier is where and in what context it was posted. Mischievous teenagers, drunk and with too much time on your hands.....I salute you.
The mexicans who moved in above us are starting to get right on my tits. They insist on playing crappy music at all times of day or night....which is a real problem at the moment what with me working nights and all. They are also waking Laura up too...so we have complained....quite strongly to the complex manager who assures us that he will deal with the problem - yeah right!! When we viewed this apartment we stated very clearly that there were 2 main things that concerned us. 1) that it was proffessionals and that we would not be bothered by screaming kids, and 2) that we would not be destrurbed by other peoples noise. We were told that 1) "no no...we have you on the other side of the complex from the children so they won't bother you"....and 2) "we have a very strict policy on noise..1 strike and you're out. No no it's a very quiet complex". So far we have been woken up at 7.30am every weekday when school is in by screaming kids...they even knocked on our apartment door and then ran away....(trust me..if they try that again and I'm awake enough I will strangle the little fuckers) - and now the mexicans with the shit music tastes. Hmmm....let me just check that.....yep...yep.....that's both things that we were concerned about and were told wouldn't happen. The manager had better sort this out or we are going to demand to be let out of our lease - I can't take this for long....I have to be able to sleep.
Other than that...the apartment is great. Having the pool is fabulous and now that both laura and I are working we are able to pay back everything we have borrowed in the last 3 months. We owe Laura's mum for Bertha the boat and we have the credit card to pay off which we have been using whilst I have been waiting to get paid. We should have all of the card paid off in 3 months if not sooner. Laura managed to find a couch and chair for $65 which is alot cheaper than I was budgeting so its all good. I'm paying quite a lot in taxes too....so they will probably rebate a fair chunk when the time rolls around which will be nice. Luckily we have a brother in law who is a tax lawyer...so he keeps an eye over things!!
The other good thing about the apartment is the characters who live around here!! Like the lady and her amazing non-shitting dog! She walks this rediculous black cocker spaniel (already its at a disadvantage considering its normally mid 90's outside) and the hound stops every few yards and squats to shit.....except it never takes a shit!! We first noticed it soon after we moved here...and we thought ' hey...its obviously constipated..give it a bit of bran in its food and it'llbe fine"...but no...every time we see them the dog can't shit!! It's hilarious....the poor pooch must either have bricks in its guts or takes a huge crap on the lady's carpet before leaving for a walk!!...I kinda hope its the latter because she's just odd..kinda polyester homely with a psycho lonely aunt mixed in...you know the type. Also there is a guy who is so fat that he has to have a chair on wheels to get around....not an electric buggy...but a standard chair.....with wheels!! He pulls himself along with 2 sticks......dude...you have to see it to believe it!!
anyways, I need to get a new job. Nights are killing me. On the plus side my boss pulled me to one side and told me that they are going to be splitting the truck and air sides and that he wants me on the air side. Great. Its more of what I want to do....no more tracking shitty trucks across the USA...and I won't be working weekends anymore...I'd still be working nights probably...but at least I'd get the weekends back with my wife! That's been the hardest thing about working nights....i don't sleep very well when laura isn't there...and she doesn't sleep well when I'm not there.....we like spending time together and with our schedules the way that they are we just haven't been able to.
so there it is.
slim xx
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| Friday, June 16th, 2006
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10:11 pm
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So here I sit once more - nights. They really do suck. The work is fine...just not happy about being away from my wife. I miss not being able to share my life with Laura at the moment....like ships in the night....I see her for a few hours a day if i'm lucky. Crap on a stick.
In other news...I just discovered that Kitty Hawks fuel bill for 1 WEEK is...wait for it....$1,250,000!!! Fucking hell!! and we only fly 12 aircraft at any one time! Can you imagine what the cost of fuel is to American Airlines when they fly HUNDREDS of aircarft everyday! The mind boggles. It's no wonder that no one is making any money in the airline business anymore!
anyways...just a quick note. I'm fine - How are you?
slim xx
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| Saturday, June 10th, 2006
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1:53 am
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Working nights both sucks and blows and the same time.
It's not even like I'm doing anything fun.
At least I can't say I don't get paid well!
Boo.
current mood:  blah
current music: tossing telephones
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| Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
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10:59 pm
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Hello everyone!! Its been a while I know - I've been kinda busy!
So - I have started my new job!! It's not quite what I had pictured.
Basically my job is sitting in an air conditioned glasshouse, working at a computer station with 2 screens. I track the movement of trucks across the USA making sure that they are on time to meet flights and customers etc. I have to call them up if they are late to find out why - and I have to organise additional trucks if a new load or surplus frieght emerges - I take calls from our stations across the USA advising me that a truck has arrived and I enter it into the system. It's a lot of information to keep track of and sometimes its a brain fry - but on the whole it is pretty easy.
I have nothing to do with the aircraft. shit. I turn up to work in the morning - the building is on the perimeter fence of DFW - I can see the planes so close I can almost touch them - I can smell the jet fuel - and then I enter the glass building and I don't have anything more to do with them. Really shit.
But that's not the largest turd in the water pipe - I am on mon to fri for the first couple of weeks - and then - wait for it.....I'm on weekends........nights...... You know that moment when you get a really shit gift and you try and keep a straight face while you thank them for the thoughtful offering......well...that was me when they informed me of my schedule. I said that "of course i'll do whatever needs to be done, but that I hoped I wouldn't be doing nights for too long." My boss replied.."oh no...you'll only be doing them for 6 months or so". 6 months. Well let me just say right now i'll be buggered if i'm doing nights for 6 months. I don't mind doing the odd few shifts of nights in rotation with everyone else...but bollox am I being the bum boy taking one up the arse for the team on permanent nights. Kiss it. I don't care if 'everyone else had to do it when they started out' - 'everyone else' was a fucking moron - either that or they had no life to speak of and spent their free hours playing Xbox and thrashing away at the contents of their trousers wondering why they didn't have a girlfriend. - sorry but no - I shall not be doing nights for long.
However, I cannot just quit. For the sake of our finances and my sanity this is not an option. I don't want to quit anyway - the job is not too bad, easy really, and the money's good. Also I get free food to a $8 value everyday!!! so it'll save a bit more money and I get to expand my Texan belly!! Its just the hours that suck - and I really really miss the planes. I watch them come and go everyday and I get so sad that I'm not a part of that process anymore, or at least able to take a stroll on one - give one a pat on the leading edge of the wing or engine and wish her a safe flight. I never really realised that I used to do that until I stopped working at BHX!! The little rituals we all undertake without really realising! God, you must think i'm a right fucking geek huh!!:) Laura already teases me about being an 'aircraft spotter'!! - I am not by the way - I just like them that s'all!!
So here is the plan. I am going to continue working at Kitty Hawk with my glasshouse geeky chums, eating free cheeseburgers, for a while. I will work my nights and take my paycheck and make the most of the little time I will have with my wife and life! - in the meantime I shall be looking around trying to find another job - I job that I will ask a few more questions for!! To be fair to me I didn't really have much choice with this job - I had to start work or we were going to go broke and I was going to go insane. I have been such a grouch kicking around the apartment these past 6 weeks I don't think I could take much more of not working! So working gives me the opportunity to look around whilst not having the financial presures to find something ASAP - the irony is also that by working nights I also have all my days free so that if I need to go and interview for another job I can without having to blag a day off from work! I've got a couple of things in the pipeline - know what I mean!!:)
anyways, on brighter notes I have a new car. Origionally we went shopping for a car for Laura - but we couldn't find one that matched our price to needs - so we decided that we should get a compact for me!! Laura doesn't like compacts so she will drive the Boat while I drive the new one! It makes sense as my comute is about 30 mins everyday so it saves on the gas etc... its a sporty little Dodge Neon SXT and I think that she's great!! 2005 model with only 29,000 on the clock!! take a look!!
nice!!
anyways. toodle pip. I'll catch you again soon.
love
Slim.
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| Monday, May 8th, 2006
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9:49 pm - WOOO HOOO!!!!
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So....I have been offered a job!! hooray!!
On Friday I went for a job interview with KITTY HAWK. It's funny, but it was a job that I didn't really find myself! I applied for another job through careerbuilder and once I had finished it popped up with that whole "people who applied for this also applied for this" kinda bits. Well I thought that I may as well apply seeing as I was there - I didn't really think I was qualified for it - and they are the only company that called me back! The interview went well and then they called me today to offer me a position! Coolio! It's salaried and its more than I was on in the UK - so i'm happy! also the prospects look good in the company. I can't wait to start. They have said that they have to conduct the security backround check - which is standard for airport jobs - and it normally takes 5 days (although they think it might take a bit longer as I come from the UK) They are going to call me on Friday with a progress update. Hopefully it shouldn't be long now - I could even be starting next week. They want me to do Mon-Fri to start with until I get up to speed on things and then after that they will be putting me on the weekend shift to see how I get on. I can't complain about the shifts at the moment - I am just starting out. I said that I was happy to do whatever they needed me to and then when I get established and further down the road we could talk about more friendly shifts. They said that I would not be stuck doing weekends all the time. I guess they just need people on the weekend at the moment. I don't mind - its just nice to have a job finally!!
So, laura and I are once more in the market for a car as we are both going to need one to get to work and back - we'll see what we can find!! but things are definately looking up. Our combined incomes should be plenty for a nice life and we can start saving towards a down payment on a house and wot not.
I love and miss you all.
Pete xx
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| Thursday, May 4th, 2006
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11:39 pm
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| Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
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10:01 pm - BIG PICTURE POST!!
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| Friday, April 21st, 2006
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12:34 am
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it's all good when you have friends in all 4 corners of the earth.
I still miss them though.
slim. xx
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| Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
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1:08 am - Hello Folk!!...USA begin!
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So...here I am. We are up and running in Dallas!!!
I guess this is the start of a new chapter....and so the beginning of a new journal. I'm going to try and keep this one honest and free from clutter. I don't know if I ever explained properly why I dropped out of livejournal the first time with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) goldseal. Maybe I never will. I had a lot of fun and it guided me through a time in my life (along with my best friend) - not to mention it introduced me to my wife!!:)
Ha ha...that sounds like a "bobby Ewing" cliff hanger!!...lol...think i'll leave it there!!:) It could only happen in real life people!:)
So here I sit. Finally....Internet, TV, and telephone are all connected up. We are back running again. It feels like ages since we left the UK and moved over here. However...it's only been 2 ½ weeks!! I guess I'm quite an impatient person and I forget that we've only been here a short time! We have achieved so much! Uprooted our whole lives, flew over, got Laura interviewed and sorted for her job, settled back in in Oklahoma, found an apartment in Dallas, interviewed for a Job at LSG, moved in in Dallas, set everything up, travelled back to Oklahoma for my Wife's sister's birthday, etc....
You get the picture! we've been busy. However, I'm left at a loose end! I can not do anything until I have my Social Security Number. It seems to me that the Social Security Number is the Holy Grail...the total identity number in the USA! If you do not have one...you pretty much do not exist in the states! I can't work, open a bank account, get a new driving license, apply for a job, apply for electricity/tv/internet!! I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have Laura to walk with me! I guess this is kinda similar to what she must have felt when she moved over to the UK to be with me....except she couldn't work for 5 months!!! I can't imagine HAVING to sit and wait for 5 months. My admiration and love for laura grows even further knowing that she managed to accept that...and keep her spirit. I know that I am finding it difficult not being able to work and contribute to our house...and it's only been 2 ½ weeks!! Laura keeps telling me that I took care of her for all those months and that now its her turn to shoulder the burden....I just can't wait to be able to get back working and all!.....I miss the airport too!.......
It's a strange thing that I don't know if I can explain. When you think of people who like airplanes, you automatically think of some strange fat, horn rimmed glasses freak, aircraft spotting at the end of Heathrow! but its more than that. That is the visable end of aviation enthusiasm. When you scratch the surface there are so many people out there who enjoy and take an interest in aircraft. Once you have worked on/in/around planes/airports nothing else is similar! (be that good or bad!!) An airport is familiar to me. And I think that there are many more who wouldn't admit it but enjoy looking out of the window at the airport to watch the planes land! I don't know. It's hard to describe......a 737 on approach is familiar and a taste of home for me.....a 757 taking off is familiar and a taste of home to me......a 777 turning into the pattern is familiar and a taste of home to me. I still find it fascinating. I still turn my head when I hear one go over...I still like knowing what they are doing and where they are coming from. I'm sure that there are those who might sit and think that I am a right wanker!.....but I can be anywhere in the world and feel/see/smell a taste of home.....and a piece of home is anywhere in the world.
And that draws into the whole thing of 'home'. I'm sure there are some who might be sitting thinking that i'm "homesick"...that I miss the UK. Well...let me set your mind at rest. I don't miss the UK. I miss my family...I miss my friends.....but I don't miss the UK. I'm in a strange place where I can see the failings of both the UK and the USA. The states is a place of capitalism and greed...seeking the next opportunity to make a quick buck....but at least they are brazen in their ambitions...they want your business!!....however...the UK is all about being told what is good for you. and then being taxed for it and told that you don't have a choice. I think that I have lived in a unique time...a time when the UK and the USA have enjoyed a period of close union and that common goals have alligned!
The UK seems to think that it has a right to democracy! that it makes its own choices and that the rest of the world should fall into line with its way of thinking (please don't make me reel out the wars etc...!!). However, we have had a prime minister who has sucked more corporate/government spunk than any that I can think of!...even Thatcher...the bigot of all war whores.....got put in her place and was reminded that people play out the plans of the few! Without effective opposition Blair has managed to blag his way through war, buget crisis, education fuckup and health service disgruntlement. Shit face. Well...you could read more about all that kinda love in Goldseal!!
sorry. Here's a few pictures to sooth your souls!
It's all good!! I Love you.
slim xxx
EDIT : I have removed the cow picture as it was a little too crass!!!:)....however you can still enjoy it in all its glory as my icon!!
current mood:  calm
current music: CNN
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