Sleeping Dogs Lie (Culled)

Happy New Year everyone

Well, it has arrived, 2008 a little over 7 hours old here and quiet so far.

Unfortunately it never arrived for quite a few stray dogs in the neighbourhood, 'New Years Eve' is the last day on earth for so many of them. The afternoon was punctuated by 'small arms fire' as one by one the strays were culled, Most if not all had commited a terrible offence by being rejected by their old owners, getting hungry and moving around in the area in packs.

'Scamp' and Tigruta' could so easily been with them if we hadn't taken them in, as My 'Photovideos' show, they are lovely dogs enjoying life and doses of TLC (tender loving care) .

These strays start to be a problem at this time of year due to the cold and forming packs, domesticated dogs gone crazy with hunger and lonely as well. How many are now in doggie heaven? Who knows, the gun fire finally stopped around 23:50 last night.

The time now is 07:33 on the 1st of Jan 2008

A, B, Catch you later dear reader

I'm Sort of Rested Now

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I had quite a relaxing break over the last few days, plenty of most things, eating drinking, pressies and lots of cooking, have a lovely dish to cook for 'New Years day' here, had fun hunting for 'horse radish sauce, gave up in the end, am now making my own!

Noticed a nice increase in subscribers to my blog, many thanks to you all, most encouraging to see this happening, that is not all I have been doing, while resting. I have published 3 articles, have a 4th in editorial, wrote 7 lectures and found a brill host for my photovideos and filled a few more pages on my website (links are in the top right corner)

All in all a very relaxing break, trust this has been likewise for you as well, dear reader.

Take care and a 'Happy New Year'!

 A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Xmas Day Shorty

23:48 here, Carol Singers have just been round, lovely end to the day.

A lot of thought is given traditionally to those without transport, Taxi's are available within minutes right over the festive period + A Sunday 'Bus/Trolley' service as well, both Xmas and Boxing day, at the normal charge per passenger/ taxi rates! Believe it or not you money grabbing 'Only if you pay me triple time and a week in lieu' freaks!

Coming shortly, 21st Century 'MacBeth' is alive and well in Transylvania.

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

My Xmas Card to you.

Greetings dear reader, Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year To you...

Have A Lovely Day. May any problems be little ones (not the kids)

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Enforced Break

Grrrrrr.

Its been a day off for me, from near enough everything today, not by choice dear reader, some little bug floating around in the atmosphere clambered inside me recently, today it struck with a vengence, the only thing that has been consistent is the bathroom, gallons of water, dull boring bland nibbles and 1 minute miles to the first on this list.

So dear reader, watch out for this bug, its gentle for a couple of days, then Wham! I truly hope you don't catch it where you are.

Talking of miles, (was I?) I'm curious to know if 'The Great Escape' is on TV this festive period, it is most years, poor old 'Steve McQueen' vainly trys to leap the border wire on his motor bike (the nicked one) and fails every year, If he manages it this year, would you please let me know, thanks. (innocent emoticon should go here)

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

Xmas Present For My Reader

Well dear reader, in Xmas tradtion of gift giving, here is mine to you dear friend.

I have recently published 2 more Photovideos, they can be found at this address...

http://www.youtube.com/Boffin1157

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

Carol Singing - For Suffering Friends

Time to go 'Carol Singing', this is the season to be Jolly (let others know this, might cheer them up!)

C#... On that note, lets get started, below is the Carol Sheet for today, especially for all our disturbed friends out there. (the best kind really)

With the (very) odd addition here and there, a good sing-a-long is assured.

Schizophrenia -- Do I Hear What I Hear?

Multiple Personality Disorder - We Three Kings Disoriented Are...

Dementia - I Think I'll Be Home For Christmas...

Narcissistic - Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me...

Brain Dead - Silent Night, and Day, and Morning, and Afternoon, and Evening and...

Manic - Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Shops and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and....

Personality Disorder - You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, and I Don't Know Why

Attention Deficit Disorder - Silent Night, Holy oooh look at the Froggy - can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

Paranoid - Santa Claws is ComingTo Town To Get Me!...

Alcoholics - God rest you merry gentlemen, we've drunk the barrel dry...

Persecution Complex - I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In...

Borderline Personality Disorder - Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire...

For those of you who don't know the first verse of.. We three Kings Disorientated are, then relax dear reader, it goes like this... 'We three Kings Disorientated Are, one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a moped beeping his hooter, following yonder star.

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Roll on Next Year!

Well 5 days to go and already better stuffed than the proverbial Turkey, (hopefully no Turkey left by 'New Years Day!) I blame the gas cooker and the very very tempting smells that constantly emit from it every where you go.

Been consuming the kilograms like crazy lately (or is it pounds?) Either way there seems more of me than last week, a bonus for er' indoors as she has more to cuddle now and vicer-versa. Personally I blame those who see Xmas as a binge time of year, they seem to forget the rest of the year exists (possibly due to a long hangover that finally clears 2 weeks before the next Xmas binge) Sweeping everyone before them and filling us up with food and drink, whilst emptying our pockets in fit of... 'We can throw a better do' than them anyday'. Blame the 'Advertisers' as well, the temptation to fill their pockets is high on our list of priorities as well it seems.

Can you dear reader, honestly say you haven't brought a single item you will never use in a month of Sundays? Consumed 2 weeks food and drink in the last week? Wondered where you left your head the next morning? Already saving for January Fuel bills etc as its been spent already? Planned how to avoid the 'Holiday 2008' programs on TV. I can admit to a couple of these, how about you?

Pressies, Where are they? Near enough impossible to hide 'Scamp' and 'Ralphies' their xmas bones etc have had to be moved several times now, the others? Your guess could be as good as mine, as one skillfully forgets all the hiding places the rest of the household use at this time of year, whilst they skillfully try to remember which hiding places you know and those you don't, this can be a quite amusing week and a bit on this front alone.

How about those 'friends'? You know the ones you only see at Xmas and vanish into the woodwork the rest of the year. Or the extra pressies one ends up buying because of the pressies received from the invisible 'Once a year friends'. These seem to (no matter how careful you are) double your pressie expenses overnight!

Got to go, the ovens calling me again, also the bottle of 'Tawny Port' is pleading to be opened (hic). Still has Jober has a Sudge at present.

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

 

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Roll on Next Year! (Hic!)

Well 5 days to go and already better stuffed than the proverbial Turkey, (hopefully no Turkey left by 'New Years Day!) I blame the gas cooker and the very very tempting smells that constantly emit from it every where you go.

Been consuming the kilograms like crazy lately (or is it pounds?) Either way there seems more of me than last week, a bonus for er' indoors as she has more to cuddle now and vicer-versa. Personally I blame those who see Xmas as a binge time of year, they seem to forget the rest of the year exists (possibly due to a long hangover that finally clears 2 weeks before the next Xmas binge) Sweeping everyone before them and filling us up with food and drink, whilst emptying our pockets in fit of... 'We can throw a better do' than them anyday'. Blame the 'Advertisers' as well, the temptation to fill their pockets is high on our list of priorities as well it seems.

Can you dear reader, honestly say you haven't brought a single item you will never use in a month of Sundays? Consumed 2 weeks food and drink in the last week? Wondered where you left your head the next morning? Already saving for January Fuel bills etc as its been spent already? Planned how to avoid the 'Holiday 2008' programs on TV. I can admit to a couple of these, how about you?

Pressies, Where are they? Near enough impossible to hide 'Scamp' and 'Ralphies' their xmas bones etc have had to be moved several times now, the others? Your guess could be as good as mine, as one skillfully forgets all the hiding places the rest of the household use at this time of year, whilst they skillfully try to remember which hiding places you know and those you don't, this can be a quite amusing week and a bit on this front alone.

How about those 'friends'? You know the ones you only see at Xmas and vanish into the woodwork the rest of the year. Or the extra pressies one ends up buying because of the pressies received from the invisible 'Once a year friends'. These seem to (no matter how careful you are) double your pressie expenses overnight!

Got to go, the ovens calling me again, also the bottle of 'Tawny Port' is pleading to be opened (hic). Still has Jober has a Sudge at present.

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

 

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Aim & Pray 'Taxi Drivers'

Well Once again home safe and sound, thanks due entirely to the wonderful 'Taxi Drivers' round here.

They are specialists in traffic evasion (Any Japanese readers will be envious of the number of succesful suicide missions they achieve every day!) Aim and pray is no flippant remark at all, The target is to get you from 'A' to 'B' asap and if it involves 'Z' on the way, this is not a problem to them.

Take todays journey for example... We set out to buy a few bits at the market + 6 dozen eggs for fantastic xmas dishes, cakes etc and for 'real home made mayo', the only eggs at this location would have been a credit to a 'Partridge' and an insult to a 'Chicken'.

So we picked a 'Taxi' of our choice from a rank (an option most nations cannot exercise) and clambered in, stated our destination and sat back. Minutes later we arrived a few kilometres away at another market, seemingly before we had left, clambered out and paid the driver his fee (£1.25).

During this journey we encountered umpteen 'could be' drivers, most likely those with 'cereal pkt licenses' and not a mark on us or the 'Taxi' that seemed at times to be on its side, avoiding the suicide jockeys around us.

Respect and credit to them, we arrived safely, not even shaken or stirred. Thankyou Mr Taxi driver, this blogger has lived to 'Blog' again!

The eggs we got at the second market by the way, would have been a 'credit' to an 'Emu'

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Give Us A Clu Pleeze - Yaws Faithfully Mr Policeman

Pleeze Mr/Mrs Badguy, can yew be good enuff to leave us some 'Obvious' clues in future, cos we are only humble low paid Ocifers of the law. (fink thats right, my partner who can rite proper haz a day of 2day)

We sigreosly need yaw help, yesterday 8 of us went to thined clues as two a stolen car, all we could concluesively agree on waz it had gone and it had been driven away. So you see we are a bit puzzled with no concrete clews to werk on.

Last weak a whole appeared in the road near here, we are still looking into it.

last weekend, a lorie load of wig and toupee materials (cud bee human hair) overturned, this seamed to have bin an accident, butt we r not sure, so wee r still combing the area.

A week and a half ago 5 ov us attended a crime seen with a photo bloke, he left his camera ekwipment about 4 metres away from us, it woz stolen. if you know anything that mite help, can you ring us and let us know... (a) where we are. (b) our phone number and (c) where yaw next crime will be, it will help us an aweful lott.

Thankyew four your time, its knot true that 3 ov us including a dog as interpreter, make a foursome. hopfully my partner will be bac twomarrow so wee can right a ploper report on toodazes hevents.

A,B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Give Us A Clue Please - Yours Faithfully Mr Policeman

Pleeze Mr/Mrs Badguy, can you be good enough to leave us some 'Obvious' clues in future, cos we are only humble low paid Ocifers of the law. (fink thats right, my partner who can rite proper haz a day of 2day)

We sigreosly need yaw help, yesterday 8 of us went to thined clues as two a stolen car, all we could concluesively agree on waz it had gone and it had been driven away. So you see we are a bit puzzled with no concrete clews to werk on.

Last weak a whole appeared in the road near here, we are still looking into it.

last weekend, a lorie load of wig and toupee materials (cud bee human hair) overturned, this seamed to have bin an accident, butt we r not sure, so wee r still combing the area.

A week and a half ago 5 ov us attended a crime seen with a photo bloke, he left his camera ekwipment about 4 metres away from us, it woz stolen. if you know anything that mite help, can you ring us and let us know... (a) where we are. (b) our phone number and (c) where yaw next crime will be, it will help us an aweful lott.

Thankyew four your time, its knot true that 3 ov us including a dog as interpreter, make a foursome. hopfully my partner will be bac twomarrow so wee can right a ploper report on toodazes hevents.

A, B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Not A Nuffer One!

Greetings dear reader, I'm truly sorry but 'Yes' Monday is here again!

(hearing muffled screams of rage emitting from pillow covered faces, curtains vainly being stapled shut to hide what lies ahead, moans of anguish saying... "We had 7 Mondays last week!" "Why do we need a nuffer this week?"

Due to popularity we have become used to having a 'Monday' every week, so this week, this 'Monday' is 'A Nuffer' rather than another. (Won't say that word again, "Twice on Mondays" is enuff.)

Make this one special in some way, do sumthin crazy n'd enjoy it for a change! (Typo's can be funn as well)

Suggestions like...

Buy your Mother-in-Law a chair with a longer lead on it this year. Change the hosepipes round in the drinks machine at work. Tell your Bank manager you love him/her and wish him a 'Happy Xmas' paid for out of your 'Bank Charges'. Quit your job this morning - then change your mind every 20 minutes for the next few hours. (Let your imagination have a holiday, give that neuron a day off)

Routine steadily chokes our daily life, tradition and regulations do this as well. Try to varie your life and allow a 'sense of humour in to it'. Interesting fact is that you will learn more about anything with it present, than you will if it is absent from it.

Have a great day where ever you are today. Impulsive what-evers that amuse and make others happy, rather than hurting them will always go down well.

A,B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Not A Nuffer One!

Greetings dear reader, I'm truly sorry but 'Yes' Monday is here again!

(hearing muffled screams of rage emitting from pillow covered faces, curtains vainly being stapled shut to hide what lies ahead, moans of anguish saying... "We had 7 Mondays last week!" "Why do we need a nuffer this week?"

Due to popularity we have become used to having a 'Monday' every week, so this week, this 'Monday' is 'A Nuffer' rather than another. (Won't say that word again, "Twice on Mondays" is enuff.)

Make this one special in some way, do sumthin crazy n'd enjoy it for a change! (Typo's can be funn as well)

Suggestions like...

Buy your Mother-in-Law a chair with a longer lead on it this year. Change the hosepipes round in the drinks machine at work. Tell your Bank manager you love him/her and wish him a 'Happy Xmas' paid for out of your 'Bank Charges'. Quit your job this morning - then change your mind every 20 minutes for the next few hours. (Let your imagination have a holiday, give that neuron a day off)

Routine steadily chokes our daily life, tradition and regulations do this as well. Try to varie your life and allow a 'sense of humour in to it'. Interesting fact is that you will learn more about anything with it present, than you will if it is absent from it.

Have a great day where ever you are today. Impulsive what-evers that amuse and make others happy, rather than hurting them will always go down well.

A,B, Catch you later dear reader.

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Up The Revolution!

Up The Revolution!

We don’t have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institute of the universe.

Yes, there are quite a few who will say words like...

"Right up it!" / "It was years ago, so it doesn't affect me now." / "You oldies should grow up and forget it." / "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"

So, lets have a brief look at each in turn dear reader.

"Right up it!" - "It didn't affect me then, it isn't affecting me now, I lost the odd friend here and there to it, but their families are fine, so stop wasting my time with this annual history lesson, it is really boring." --- Sorry dear reader, it has affected you in all sorts of ways that you refuse to see at this time, losing friends has made a deep impact on you today. Their families still live it for real, Put yourself in the widow/widowers position for a moment... Each month they receive a token pittance from the state, the equivalent of 2/4 packets of cigarettes, a heavy jolt, reminding them of their loss and no-one to share their very personal grief. Stop the 'I'm all right syndrome', they aren't Ok at all, stop profiting from the grief of others, go out of your way and take your Ostrich head out of the sand help them live again!

"It was years ago, so it doesn't affect me now." - But it does and it is really affecting you now my dear reader, every day you and others like you, are and have been living and reliving it everyday! How long ago did you stop yourself buying a xmas or birthday present for a lost loved one? How long ago did you stop laying a place for them at the table? How long ago did you stop getting ready to greet them at their usual time for arriving back from work/school etc? How long ago did the flashbacks stop happening concerning the tragic dayof your loss, or memories of friends in asimilar/same situation? Why are you still training your 4 year olds to be terrified of dogs today, this crazy training is simply going to result in them being bitten umpteen times. Instead of helping them with love, you are killing them with kindness!

"You oldies should grow up and forget it!" - So you know it all do you, why don't you grow up yourselves, only a fool believes they know it all, about everything, instead of this inane silly remark, ask yourself why. ask yourself what you can do to help ease the 'real pain' in others around you. It is affecting you just as much today, so your wearing blinkers is helping to reinforce the pain in those around you. It is not helping you or them in any way at all today.

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" - One day when you wake up for real, you will realise that not only has the lives of others stopped because of a 'very painful past' it has not started properly for you either, in a 'nutshell' all you are doing (besides profiting from the pain of others) is buying yourself a false happiness, making sure that this painful period in history can happen again, next time you will / could be a life long victim if you are (dubiously) lucky to survive.

Carve their names with pride, the dead died to make a free life for you, don't be total blockheads, say thankyou to them, every day. They wanted you to 'Live in freedom', so start doing so, 'TODAY'

A,B Catch you later, dear reader.

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Let Sleeping Dogs - Walk themselves?

Couple of inches of snow here last night (5cm in foreign)

Our two dogs love it, in fact to be precise they really love it! But due to yours truly over sleeping slightly, (only an hour, honest) my day usual starts at 05:30. Both Scamp and Ralphie had got themselves ready for a play in the snow.

Sitting together in their basket, along with a scarf, rucksack, both leads, 2 pairs of gloves, small change for the bus and some doggy treats as well, they soon (tails wagging like demented metronomes) delivered the message they wished to impart.

Needless to say, we had a good laugh at this and obliged by taking out and played in the falling snow with them.

A, B, Catch you later, dear reader.

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The Past Has Gone... Its Still Here Today

Take a look around you today, tomorrow and the next day etc, etc, etc

Life goes on for us all, or does it?

For so many it stopped years ago and now these people (Humans just like you and me, dear reader) they simply exist! Victims of Ignorance. Victims of Bullies. Victims of Regimes. Victims of Greed. Victims of Hate. Victims who don't know when to stop persecuting those around them today, who have done them no harm at all. Victims of the victims, who are being taught to be scared of something that is no longer present, but will be by instilling the fear into them today. Victims who take solace by picking on victims.

Unfortunately this list is endless and also unfortunately there are always those who will take advantage. (Making the victims pay yet again and again for something they had no control over) Manipulating others for their own ends, growing richer and unhappier from the suffering of others, they can't spend all their ill-gotten gains, they certainly can't take it to the next world with them! (Unless they have a very large 'Asbestos Suitcase')

By exasperating the victims misfortunes, the greed and manipulation of said, is certain to continue, no question about it at all.

Are they such narrow minded individuals that they fail to see they and every victim could all gain and profit far more from pulling/working together?

The policy of making the most out of 'Hero Worship' of the 'Forces of Darkness' will stop one day, just as the 'Regime' here ended in 1989, but still lives on in the victims as if it was yesterday, as fresh today due to those who blatantly take advantage of the suffering inflicted in the darkest days, lets see a growing end towards the 'Storm Ripples' that still spread across this pond of nearly humanity!

No, this is not simply a problem here, it is all over, everywhere people are who are affected by people who take great joy in causing mental and physical pain on others and taking advantage of this pain and suffering afterwards. Be it 'Nation against Nation', or individual against individual.

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Thankyou My Unknown Ally

It seems I have an unknown ally out there, it is interesting to note that those we see around us to day, love themselves in a lot of cases more than others. 

It certainly seems sometimes that the ones who died in the name of 'Freedom' happened to be the wrong people.

The crowing individuals that love to say lines like...   'I know it better than you'. 'So this gives me the right to inflict my stupidity and greed on those around me today'. These pathetic individuals should have been there on memorials to idiocy  due to their love of being nothing or no-one, 

Not the names of heroes and heroines we see around the world today, many unfortunately have no names, our (now very) silent heroes and heroines.

Not the names of those that we are aware of, not the bare stones that should bear names of the silent majority, they gallantly gave their lives and died in the 'Name of freedom' 'For free speech' and other wonderful tenets in our lives.

Your stupidity for inflicting your ignorance on those around you today, means you are killing more people today, than the forces of darkness ever did! This means that every single person who died in the dark days, so you can breath 'Free Air' has died in vain. I would have loved to have met them, instead, the dross is left, eating away at the lives of the decent, respecting individuals today, like a 'Cancer'!  

                    Lest We Forget

                                         Author Unknown

                         Lest We Forget These men and women Soldiers all;

They served us proud Their duty call.

They gave their lives For us to be

Safe from harm And living free.

Don't ignore peace; Lest we forget

The greatest gift From each honored Vet.

Keep their spirit close In memory; They died protecting

OUR LIBERTY.

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My Post-Script...

Don't finish the 'Old Enemies' job.

They died for 'Our' Peace,

Let them not have died in vain!

Signing off

This dear reader, is my last entry for who knows how long. This is due to censorship and editing being imposed on me, (conditions I refuse to accept) before an entry can be made on this 'Blog'.

So long

'WHAT!' 7 Billion Housecalls This Year, In 'ONE' Night *@$"(*@)!*%

TAXI! Safest 'Nutters' on the Roads Here

Coming later today...   'Watch This Space'

23:28 here now.

Anyone got a few spare hours I can have please? I seem to have run out of hours today, if not this article will have to be carried forward. A couple more would do me nicely.

Ps, Xmas sweeties are building up nicely, re my earlier blog last week (yummy)

TTFN

How To Legally Charge For Sunlight - Part 3

*** STOP PRESS ***  SIEMENS have responded very quickly, they have allocated me a Representative and 'WOW' can call them anytime.

You can be sure I will be filling their request for more info very soon , this week for sure!

(Since I'm still here, the salt mines must be closed for re-decorating)

How To Legally Charge For Sunlight - Pt 2

Thought you'd like to read this email sent to SIEMENS seems this device is a mystery to the production line today, but it can be read about on a Ukraine web site (thanks Google, an interesting read)

Sir,
I am trying to find out as much as possible about the SIEMENS WHE 30S (2004)
Can you please supply me with its operating parameters as I and quite a few others here in Cluj have noticed Sky high heating bills in the summer when the communal heating is off (this is turned off in April and back on in October) In every case the summer bill is around 140Lei.
Our only conclusion to date is the device is recording the sunlight heating the rooms, (ie for March this year my sons room used/recorded 1 unit, April this year (only 2 week bill) 13 units and the first two weeks of October this year 130 units.
Similar readings can be found at umpteen locations here, all have 2 things in common, compass bearings and radiator settings, never set above the frost setting on the thermostat in the late spring/summer/early autumn.
This is the second year running that we seem to be being charged for sunlight and more people are noticing this high heating bill for the summer months. Fluid Group Hagen (S.A.) are not/refusing to do anything about this at all.

I mentioned plausible neuron degenerative responses yesterday, (ROFL event due) "Even if you turn the radiator thermostat off and open the window, the meter will still record and your radiator will get hotter with it off, save money by keeping your thermostat open and window closed". OK stop larfing, joke over (titter).

This is getting to be annoyingly funny peculiar, lets see what SIEMENS have to say about the WHE 30S. As is said by some - "Watch this space" - It seems part 3 of this saga is now due as well!

Got it, response in in your mail box Sabrina

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How To Legally Charge For Sunlight

Ok, here we go, how to charge for sunlight legally, first, make sure you live within the howls of werewolves and flutter of bats, failing this instill fear into the inhabitants of Transylvania (Horror-Nation Street, would be a good name for the soap opera) Then engage in a ludicrous contract with SIEMENS for their super dooper WHE 30S (2004) model meter for heating measurements. So whilst SIEMENS struggle to produce nearly 6 digit quantities for you, instill rage into your victims by charging for something they can't see or measure at all.

The invisible charge is - Take into account miles of communal heating and water pipes that are made from now old rusting steel, losing heat and water into the ground on a daily 24 hours a day basis, charge the earth for this gross negligence and make no effort to repair or replace them. (there are hidden cash in pocket benefits here, healthy worms all year round for the birds, also lots of large snails for selling to the French restaurants, yes folks, large numbers of edible snails come from Romania to be enjoyed by the French.) Not to mention green plants (flowers as well) were they shouldn't be in the winter months and fresh grass all year round. (I'll probably get -50 out of 10 for noticing and pointing that out!)

Pocket all this ripped of cash and give nothing in return, even today no effort has been made to fix these pipes at all, there's plenty of cashspare after all these 'SIEMENS' WHE 30S (2004 model) devices have been purchased and installed (no choice in the matter for residents) This in turn, cheers the residents up who are led to believe that the 'Powers-that-be' are now playing fair! This way after 10 plus years of rip-offs and no replaced pipework, the general public forgets the years of being charged for nothing at all.

Sound good to you so far? Next feed plausible verbal garbage to your minions under your control that can in turn feed it to anyone who shows any sign of having more than one active neuron and 'Hey Presto' a nearly fool proof legal rip-off is now taking place!

Quite a nice little earner, problem is as more people are waking up to huge Summer heating bills for the last two years, (the heating goes off in April and is turned back on in October) the first heating bill is delivered 3rd week of October and is (so far, several comparative bills from umpteen locations here in Cluj-Napoca have been seen, more this year than last and 'Ouch' it was similar last year as well)

It gets even better, at around 140 Lei per customer for heat they haven't used, (more if unfortunate enough to face South, multiplied by the heated addresses who have no choice what-so-ever to be connected to communal heating and 'WOW' "quick open several Swiss bank accounts, we can't fit it in our pockets fast enough!"

More tomorrow, see the meter readings from examples and read some of the lame excuses that are used to fob the over active neurons from growing further, plus what isn't being done to improve the situation or why refunds are not even being made for blatant overcharging. (failure of tomorrows blog appearing, probably means I'm at the 3rd salt mine on the left)

 

1 more photovideos to come on the 'Festivalul Luminii' (The Festival of Lights)

Pt 1 - The Candle Walk,    Pt 2 - Ice Sculpture    Pt 3 - Fire Juggling

Part 2 - Ice Sculpture published this morning

Part 3 - Fire Juggling was published a few mins ago. 

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How To Eat Well With No Change To Spend

Wish to eat well for next to nothing? Of course you do, here's how to do it, first select a shop that is always out of or low on small change, quite easy to do round here, small change is rarer than gold-dust.

Bearing in mind that Xmas is round the bend (sorry corner) and has been since last March. That the young devils (sorry children) love sweets, so buying for said festive period puts a strain (or is it drain?) on resources, their stockings, pillow cases, even quilt covers in some cases can be padded with free sweets, by deliberately under spending.

Confectionary is an extra form of currency, so by deliberately under spending by no more than 20 Bani will steadily fill their xmas present receptacles, lots of  "Sorry I don't have ..." will produce a steady supply of sweets. leaving more for 'real presents' such as the dreaded 'socks', 'undies' and 'hankies' loved by us all (Nooooooooooo) As well as food stuffs designed to take 2 days to cook and 20 minutes to demolish after serving the 'Gannets' and 'Vultures' that descend for Xmas Dinner.

So dear reader, no rush needed, this secret will be available for a long time yet, the powers that be, don't have a mint to spend at the mint. They have been given away and eaten by customers such as I and umpteen others! (chuckle)

Ps, anybody know where to buy a working mirror in this country? I think mines out of order again. (full moon possibly caused it this time)

 

Coming Tomorrow...    How to Charge For Sunlight Legally!

 

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Shoe Leather Steaks

Have you ever wondered why there are so many odd 'Boots' and 'Shoes' all missing the leather soles but heels intact, littering various alley ways and the river here in Cluj? Well dear reader, I can know (after a lot of sole destroying pavement work) reveal the real reasons for this strange littering.

After marking said finds on a tourist map, it showed a pattern. Every dead piece of footware was with hopping distance of a 'Restaurant'. It turns out that the footware does not actually belong to customers who have fled without paying for their meals, rather the opposite! They did leave with help, after eating steak dinners.

These wonderful 'Steaks'? are served well done, (charcoal scraped off) and to help disguise the origin of the meat? One is expected to dissect it into chewable bits, with the help of A Butter Knife! Yes, a crafty move to distract you from recognising it as genuine leather, you are so busy attempting to hack it into 'edible bits' that the first indication all is not right, is your stomach tells you things like - "I prefer it when you don't eat" or "I think I'll practice my knots now".

Don't, repeat don't ever eat a steak dinner in the town centre, unless it is for insurance purposes, it is not worth a ruined brake, have a healthy side-salad instead! As I mentioned earlier, you do leave with help, Paramedic and Ambulance especially for you.

Yes, after lots of hunting, there is a good restaurant on the outskirts of town that serves excellent steaks. highly recommended by me and other steak lovers, to protect the chef from execution, this venue is a closely guarded secret.

A, B, C you tomorrow dear reader, take care till then.

Coming Tomorrow...   How to eat well with no change to spend.

I understand your thrice entered comment Sabrina, not being a chatterbox user anymore explains all, perhaps you need a whiteknight to help this stutter, or even an orange to distract you from keyboard jitters :-)

 

Laundry Communications Banned!

I am sorry to point out that communication with the neighbours has been 'Offically' banned, using the years old method of...  'Washing Line Semaphore' Yes folks, in the local rag last weekend, the shaking of blankets out of the window and placing washing on an external line is no longer allowed or legal.

The powers that be have sussed out two disadvantages to them. The first is no-one can decode the secret messages passed from neighbour to neighbour (sometimes several blocks away) and since being hard to monitor, they lose money and ease of monitoring us, since we are not using the telephone network!

So for those that wondered if there was any messages in the washing line layout, here is a sample of messages sent by 'Laundry Post' - 'Coming round for coffee?' = odd sock, skirt, T-shirt, and blue jeans. - 'The caretaker is on a rampage' = black trousers, red blouse, green shirt, leggings and 3 odd socks. - 'In bed with my lover- let me know when husband gets near' = coloured sheet, patterned tablecloth and blue slacks'. As to the shaking of bedding out the window, the simple message was... 'Coast is clear, my lover has gone now'

Just a sample of the coded Laundry messages, forever assigned to memory lane now, decades of secret messages, now destined to the phone lines and monitoring equipment.

Sorry, can't decode the undies and stockings message for you - it isn't clean (chuckle)

 

Coming tomorrow... 'Shoe Leather Steaks'

Flying Pedestrians

Flying Pedestrians What wonderful drivers you aren't, so good at being self-centered arrogant and impatient, But before you get upset, there is one thing you are all incredibly good at - Being Impatient - yes, you know who you are, (at this point it is only fair to point out, there are some excellent drivers here in Cluj-Napoca, I counted them earlier today and still had a few spare fingers on my hand) As for the pedestrians among us, how dare you attempt to cross the road at a pedestrian crossing, it is upsetting the jokers in their killing machines (sorry cars) that must get to their destinations before they have even left home several minutes earlier. One such pedestrian (RIP) had the gall to do such an anti-social act, result - I will never have the pleasure of meeting them, or sharing a beer sometime in the future - Another result was, No more Birthday's for them - No more Birthday's to share with their children. - No more Birthday's to share with their wife. - No more Birthday's to share with anyone they know. No more Christmas Celebrations with anyone else either.

As for the killing machine (sorry car) driver, they were more concerned with the damage to their precious machine, than the death's they had caused - 'Yes' deaths, they had ended several lives in a few seconds - physical death for 1 and multiple mental deaths for others at the same time.

This wonderful driver, will have the car repaired, pay the fine, spend a short time in prison, a few points on the license (if it hasn't come from the back of a cereal packet) and go home. Loads of birthdays for them, lots more christmas presents as well, this mass murderer won't give a second thought to the carnage they have caused to several unknown to them people, human beings much better than the killer driver - The multiple victims are now doing a life sentence for them. NO they won't get over it - smart alec remarks like that, will not solve anything in the lives of the victims. Nor the mental impact of the Emergency Service Crews in attendence, or the Police Officer who has to inform the Next-of-kin of your 'Oh' so big brave act you have executed (literally)

I genuinely hope you never loose a loved one and suffer as you have made umpteen family members suffer, getting somewhere before you have even left home, is downright stupid! The Flying Pedestrian also wished to get somewhere as well, their home has been moved by you, from loved ones - to the Cemetary over looking the Town.

Next time you go out in your killing machine (sorry car) drive safer than you do now, it could be a family member of yours that's absent from the meal table tonight!

Passive Smoking

Passive Smoking! Grrrrrr, these do gooders get on my goat! Some naive silly twits conducted a pathetic survey on 'childrens' smoking habits here in Cluj-Napoca and 'if' they smoked or 'not'. The interest was to look at 'passive smoking' affecting the poor little darlings lungs. The general outcome was yes it did and these poor mites ingested the equivalent of 20 cigarettes a day. (At this point, please take a bow and rest on your laurels) Now here is the good point you in all your wisdom and good intentions, including your own stupidity missed completely!

Exhaust Fumes! Yes, exhaust fumes, every time you get near a main road the smell is worse, the smell of them, plus unburnt petrol, are doing more damage to young lungs (as well  as yours) than all the passive smoking is doing. Next time you go out in the early evening, take a look at the traffic, especially in the beam of the headlights, FOG but it isn't, in fact it is something much worse than fog, much worse than passive smoking, it is SMOG! Our poor suffering children, (if not already, will be in the coming few years) are breathing it in everyday, so this pathetically stupid idea they are smoking 20 a day passively is a load of (unprintable) So add that 20 a day (cigs) to 20 a day (smog in the morning going to school) and 20 a day (smog in the afternoon coming home from school) and the unmeasureable gap when they have the gall to socialise in the world, brings the smoking habit (passive) to no less than 60 a day Next time you conduct a survey, please do it properly, involve those who don't wear blinkers, then you will be able to publish far more accurate results.

Public Transport

Next time you clamber/climb/push/shove even use a can-opener (a can-opener is compulsory for every person using this wonderful mode of transport) to get onto one of Cluj-Napoca's wonderful 'Cattle Trucks' (sorry buses) Spare a thought for the poor bus/tram/trolley driver, not only does he have the humiliation of occupying a space 3 of his cattle (sorry, human passengers) will stand in, but also has space beside him for another 9 cattle (sorry human passengers) To be totally fair to him, at certain times of the day, he is responsible for over 100 passengers, as well as negotiating his way through traffic, driven by........  well, lets say owners of driving licenses, obtained with a pair of scissors, from the back of cereal packets! Travelling on these cattle trucks is an experience, once you have prised your way on, 3 sometimes 4 stops before you get off, you are looking for away off it! Planning your escape is a must, otherwise you end up doing a long long long mystery tour without seeing a single thing. The poor old driver (young when he started his shift) suffering at the hands of the cereal packet license toting drivers on the roads in front, beside and worse behind him as well. Thanks Mr Bus Driver whoever you are, you do a great job.

Launch Day - 02/12/2007

Day won, here it is, first (or thirst) entry is mine, (since it's my blog, why not!) Good frame of mind, only a minor sanity attack so far today. Back soon, shooting the chef for accusing me of killing the meal (said I was a 'cereal killer')

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