The irony of it all

A colleague just arrived back from San Francisco where he attended a conference. Unfortunately he was caught in the uproar and fallout from the British terrorist scare.

Interestingly it seems, currently passengers are no longer able to carry a plastic bottle of water on an aircraft, however they are able to carry on a flammable liquid in a glass bottle. I wonder if anyone has tried smuggling water on board in a vodka bottle?

Can no one recognise by causing all this upheaval to the general public, it is only furthering the cause of the "evil-doers" by causing us to alter our behaviour? So the answer from the government is a general environment of mistrust and fear...

Ploughing along

Our kitchen appliances arrived yesterday -- nice new oven, cooktop and rangehood. They're all sitting out in the garage just waiting to be installed. So, motivated by this, we actually put some time into the kitchen and got a few things happening.

Today the sink will be installed, and we'll be putting a number of door handles on, so the vast majority of what was left over to do will be finished. At the very least, the fact the door handles are on will make it look finished! :)

We're still yet to purchase a dishwasher -- the initial reason we chose to renovate the kitchen!

Also, for any of you using ecto to write & publish your blogs -- don't switch over to Blogger Beta just yet. Authors of ecto don't have Blogger Beta supported at the moment, and have no timeframes as to when it will be.

Drivers and their like

I've noticed over the past 15+ years of driving that some motorists fall into some interesting categories. Or perhaps I have just made all this up to pass the time...

• Creeps - The ones who can't resist creeping forward when stopped at the traffic lights. You can toy with these motorists when they're behind you at the lights, seeing how little they will move forward at a time.
• Drifters - These guys can be downright dangerous. They drift inside, and sometimes outside their lane, perhaps due to a number of reasons, one being a hard night on the turps the night before, or a mobile phone inserted on their orifice.
• Leadfoots (for want of a better term) - These just have to get past you, no matter what speed you are doing or where they are going.
• Pull-outs - These guys misjudge (or don't care about) the speed of oncoming traffic and pull out into it, causing the traffic to slow or make erratic collision avoidance maneuvers. These drivers are oblivious to the world around them.
• Beamers - No, not the car. These guys, oblivious to the world around them (detect a continuing theme?), drive with their high-beams on, thus blinding everyone else on the road. Either that or they are oblivious to their own instrumentation, especially the BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT in the centre of their dashboard.
• One-eyed beamers - These drivers deem that if one of their lights is out, they should drive with the remaining light on high beam as it makes up for the inadequacy.
• UCD (unhealthy car disorder) - Ever seen those cars with the blue led's on their windscreen wiper jets? Or the ones with the personalised plates? Not only do these motorists pay an annual fee for the right to have the personalised plate, but their originality astounds with "RX7" or "GTS".
• Brakers - The drivers who sit on their brakes, or touch them all the time, even when driving on a flat surface. This includes the drivers who simply MUST brake from 80 to 60 right at the road sign.

I'm sure there are more than these and I may return to revise the list from time to time.