Diary: October 2002

Bah

Fire fighters are going to strike, the government's saying it's dangerous and irresponsible. Thing is, fire-fighters earn between £16,941 and £21,531 per year. On average, nurses are on around £23k PA, as is a police constable who has been in the job for 5 years. Compare that to the tube drivers, who are always complaining about how they aren't being paid enough. They get £28,000 per year. Compare the training requirements and skills, strains and the risks of the two jobs... Thing is, tube drivers go on strike and the government says 'oh no ...

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Today, I Bought Stuff

Today, I bought a tumble dryer. This is important, because if you put clothes in a washing machine, they will come out wet. Almost as wet as outside, where our clothes line is. This is the interesting thing about our clothes line, that it's outside, since we're on the first floor, or, for those of you who are American (like this guy - NO! YOU DID NOT FIX OUR LANGUAGE, YOU STOLE IT, BROKE IT THEN TRIED TO PERSUADE THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT IT WAS BETTER!), the second floor. And for those of you english people I ...

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I'm so lazy

I just realised that I'll probably never actually get round to moving this site onto USML, so I'll probably never add features to this site. So I went and added a little 'Link' link to each diary entry. Now I can link back to old entries in my diary, and if you're one of those boring people who's jumped upon the blog bandwagon, you can link to my interesting diary (note: online diary, not blog, goddamit, I'm original. And stuff...) entries.

Yeh, I don't really know why I did it either.

Oh, and I ...

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