Another new year

As the new approaches I took on the task of making dinner tonight, I did up my specialty, homemade burgers and proceeded to make the worst dinner I have ever done, the rave reviews around the table, the looks on everyone faces as they struggled down a dry and tasteless piece of meat served up with undercooked potatoes, pass the ketchup it's the only thing that can help this dish.  Too bad it didn't, my mother in law, can't eat it, so passes her half eaten burger on to my wife, who did her best to make me feel better about the crap I cooked up.  My first bite could very well have been my last if I weren't hungry.

Fail.

Hell behind the wheel panic behind the driver

So for the past week I have been in the car with my 80 year old mother-in-law, near sighted...far sighted...unsighted...oblivious to the lines on the road...the speed limit of the road...driving slower I would be happy with...having her pissed off because everyone else is driving too slow is different...colour blind to red tail lights...missing turn signals on other cars...changing lanes without looking...what's that sound...the horn coming from the guy running onto the shoulder to avoid a sideswipe...the curbs...designed to keep the car near the surface of the road...like the gutters in a bowling alley...to keep the ball from leaving the lane...sidewalks...people use them...so does she...when the curbs don't work.

Another week...I like sitting in the back...when the airbag goes off I will have a seat in front of me as well...in the mean time another drink to celebrate a round trip from the house to the shops and back again...and only a few shouts of encouragement from my wife...brake...brake...BRAKE.

The change of life

Why is that whenever you just get your computer settings all set the way you like someone comes along and introduces a "new and improved" system to make things easier, more simple and less complicated?  I just changed my password so I could get into the blog with the password I had set years ago, however they have determined that because I am in a different country I have to go through all the new steps to protect myself so that someone doesn't hack into my blog and say something stupid, racist, or politically incorrect, well that isn't likely to happen as I'm pretty sure that I have already stated all of these things as one point. I was asked to add a phone number so they could give me a call in Canada and pass along all the details, too bad I'm not in Canada.

I believe that it is done not to protect the user, but to just fuck with them...Kind of like China making barbeques and leaving out a couple of screws, or forgetting to drill a hole, it is just to fuck people up.