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Right, first things first.

My new job.

No doubt, none of you really care what the hell it is, so I'm going ot tell you anyway.

Print Finishing. Yep. Sounds fun, don't it?

What that basically is, is taking all those thousands of sheets of paper that come from the mopier/copiers (or the press...) and doin' stuff to them. Like binding, collating, gluing, folding, perferating and the like.

But, thankfully, I have the wonderful powers of the MechaStapler, the MechaFolder (and Perferator), and the MechaCollator!

These tools make my job oh so much easier. I shudder to think what I would be doing if it weren't for these lovely machines. And the gilloutine. Is not really mecha, 'cause you cant leave it to its job, but it has a very sharp blade, and a very powerful hydraulic system behind it. Cuts fingers off good.

Anyway, I really must find out how much I get paid one of these days, 'cause I really don't know when (or how much) I get paid. Worked for 3 days, and I don't know know the monetary reward...

intermission

-Cheesy Music-

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And now, at home. Due to the old one leaking so damn much that the carpet in the hall was getting wet, we now have a new toilet cistern. As the old one constantly leaked into the bowl, and lately, out the overflow pipe, which was broken too, water got all over the floor. So, in the past 2 days, I have been down to the gate to turn the water on and off 5 times. And the damn tap was sticky too. But now we have a nice, new, shiny cistern. And the lack of noise from the constant filling is disturbing, but I'll have to get used to it in time.

My lifestatus - Normal. Nothing too bad. Just had a minor breakdown about my helplessness against others, but it passed quickly.

However, now we are running out of food, and have $99.75 less to spend on it (thats how much a cistern costs). Which means less meat. Poo.

As you can see, this is a new layout.

And also as you can see, its by someone else. Because obviously I don't have this sort of talent.

I have obtained it from BlogSkins. A fine site for those... less able designers out there.

I have a job now!
Finally!
Wheeee!

Atmittidly, it is only part-time, but who the hell cares! And the part time, is half a week, so its even better, 'cause I get lots of time off!
Squehehehehe!

As you can tell from the previous post, I shall be doing the time-honoured tradition of doing a large, rambling post on a random word. In other words, improvising, like those oh-so-horrible speeches I had to give in school.

Word for the day: Communism

Perfect communism is possible, but only in a perfect world.

The inherent impossibility in the system lies in its greatest strength - All people are the same. Which, while being true on one level, is not on another. Why should a doctor work harder than a baker does, if both will receive the same amount of reward? The work/reward system is one of the bases of modern economics, as the human mind has been patterned to expect some sort of personal gain from an action performed.

Now, if this action is performed for the sole purpose of self-gratification, the reward has already been granted. Also, even though people seem to do work for little to no reward, the individuals involved (aid workers, social workers, and other 'community' based jobs) gain huge rewards, as their mind is attuned to gaining pleasure from helping others. The reward gained through actions need not be monetary in order to work.

Hence, if you could reward higher-skilled, or harder-working people for their input, communism could work, but in a different manner.

However, this is a lofty goal, and not easily established, as the human psyche has been conditioned, from the moment that a capitalist economy was developed, to regard reward in a monetary or material sense only, not considering the other opportunities allowed by the situation. This model breaks down in the face of large abhorrences in the standard flow of history, such as wars, depressions and the like. When these happen, the majority of the people views on life can change dramatically. In World War II, the USA, after Pearl Harbour, began a huge military build-up. This was enabled in no small part by the American people, who's large amounts of patriotism was used by the government to produce large amounts of war machines, and gather huge amounts of troops in order to go to war. Without the boost to the national morale provided by Pearl Harbour, this would of not been possible, as the people of the USA would of been unlikely to work in the war industry and the armed forces of their own accord, as the financial and material gains garnered by doing so are little, but the mental ones are vast.

The opportunities for utopias come and go, and it is usually a personal vision, into which others get sucked in, often allowing the other person's vision to get twisted and mauled into their own personal one, a ever-growing vicious cycle of pain.

Ultimately, if Communism were to work in this world, it would have to be in all the major counties, as they hold the power. And, as history shows, the Capitalist vs. Communist battle, whether on the battlefield, in the stockmarkets, or in the political arena has traditionally lost by the commies, as they have the distinct minority. The USSR fell apart, because of mismanagement, rampart inefficiency, bloated government, and dissatisfaction by the people. China is reverting to a State-Capitalist economy, because the rest of the world pressured them to do so. Now, if most of the world was a communist based system, and there was a few capitalist systems, the communist countries would most likely stay that was, as they are able to force their opinions onto the smaller nations, and impose restrictions upon them until they are forced to change.

But, as I have said before, that cannot happen, as the world has been conditioned towards greed, and it would take a large-scale event in order to alter that mind-view. As long as people lust towards material gain, perfect societies (from the view of perfect equality) cannot exist, as greater equality=greater inefficiency, which leads to an eventual breakdown of the system, and collapse of the government, and reversion to a class-based system, as exists in the capitalist-based countries today. It might not be apparent, but the world is definitely a class-based world, and always will be. Oh sure, now you can go from one class to the other, but the divisions are still there. Whether or not you have an education (and where you go it), how much money you have, where you live, the quality of your life, attractiveness, physical ability.... These and more all add as factors into deciding you status in life, which is unlikely to change, as most of the factors cannot be changed by today technology. However, some can. The main one is, of course, money.

Having it makes you a better person (if you can make it look that way, of course), not having it makes you just another poor person.

Shame, isn't it?

Y'know, life can be the most boring thing in the world.

Why? Because, if you don't do anything about it, it will stay boring, and although I want my life to be exciting and interesting, I just can't be bothered to do it.

Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday dear Michael,
Happy Birthday to me.

It's my birthday tomorrow, and I don't even think that anybody actually cares anymore about it. With Graeme, nobody seemed to care, so its only simple matter of extrapolation to infer that nobody will care about my one either. Shame. I only get one special day a year, and I seem to waste it, time after time after time.