I am not fat, I am proportionally challenged ;-)Get to work you say?Work has been interfering with life, and FlightSim, for too long for too many people...I have a dream: the need to work 80% of our waking lives, and the pursuit of money at the expense of our humanity can be removed from this proletarian stew we lovingly call society. We can still enjoy our standard of living without having to forego what makes us all human. We are living to work, not working to live. It's all out of whack. Working your fingers to the bone, or working in a sterile glass tower, plus the commute, plus the work related stress and and anxiety while you are not actually working...it's killing us all, mentally and physically. The present requirement for "Work", and the sacrifices it entails - is a cancer on society in general, a destroyer of lives families and freindships. ....It's time for a revolution, and I am not talking about some socialist/utopian state controlled nightmare either....I am talking about a re-org, re-think, ramp-up, and roll out in the human non-corporate buisness plan of life. We gave up a lot in the last 100 years for the sake of a job...life, libery, and freedom have been replaced with.....I'll shut up now because everyone will start calling me a bleeding heart commi whatever. To those people I say go home and remember what your family looks like instead of worrying about what the boss or the shareholders might think. ACA856 - aka...Vox Populi.

Nice Rob.I have forwarded your post to Employment Insurance. DSCVA3339Interim President Capitalists R Usaka George Dubya Bush

Good, EI can F off as well...the mere pitance they call "insurance" is not even enough to feed my cat, forget about nice things like rent. I have only had to use EI once for two months after my second lay off (the company felt it could make more money with less people if everyone worked harder, the shareholders agreed, funny that)...it was insulting to know that the thousands of dolars I had paid in to it resulted in me having to borrow money to make rent until I found a new job.

Okay, now you've gotten just plain depressing.I have forwarded your most recent post to my analyst.Anger management is needed. DSCVA3339

If you find my words of truth depressing, then something needs to change, right? Why put a positive spin on the way things are when for many people, they are not positive at all. We eek out a meager living, and are spared little precious time to do what keeps us human. I have had this debate on here before...see "Call it a Day...", Bevington referenced some very interesting studies/literature speaking to the decreasing leisure time we enjoy despite the technology that was intended to increase out leisure time. "Spinning" positive stories / policies is something I did for companies and still do to some degree. It's all becoming one big farce...and yes, it is getting to me I suppose.Ok, I'll shut up now, this is a PIC forum, not a raving ranting anarco-syndicalist commune forum. In anticipation of the pig dogs (not DS) replies, if you don't know the difference between Marxism, Socialism, Communism, and the variants in-between, then shut up 'cus none of them apply to my particular set of political ideology. Rob.Vox Populi, leader of the Common People's Front, Power to the People and all that ;-)PS - I really am a happy person in general, just some things in life are really starting to get up my nose and everyone thinks it's "normal" and "ok"...I don't, that's all.Over and out!

Lord ##### a duck - sorry to hear that the lithium treatment is not working Rob! ;)DSCVA3339

You crack me up you silly bar-sted.Thanks for returning the smile to my face ;-)The kid is real cute despite the less than perfect genes on her Father's side.See you Friday night in sheep land.Rob.

You know I love you Rob.Putting life into perspective...The birth of our daughter has reminded me of what - as those hipsters say: "What it is, brother!". Of course, me quoting that has made it immediately "unhip", but I think you know what I mean.Richard Harvey's final message at AVSIM... reminds me of how life and death really is a miracle, and in many ways a DREAM.I hear you my friend. Life and its attendant "things" can be so close to overwhelming.Stop. Look. Listen.Cripes I think that message was brought to you by my Buddhist side!

Yes,Mr. Harvey's message I read late last night...as I watch people battling the traffic into work this morning, fingers waiving in the air as they rush to their desk and chain, I began to feel "those" feelings about why the hell we spend so much time and energy doing what we do whe there is so much else life has to offer. We too often do not realise the value of 'things' until they, or we, are gone.Ok, enough.Happy Happy, joy joy thoughts only until I hear your morbid droan on Vatsim again ;-)Bhuddism...the classic minimalists/conservationists...there's a lot of good in Bhuddism....now if we could blend all the good 'isms together and force that on everyone with me as the benevolent dictator of the world...hmmm...the Tao of Rob....I think I am on to something....Rob.

The Tao of Rob. Yeah.BEATUmm, what would the cost index be, and would you use a yaw damper?DSCVA3339

Daryl,Wonderful! Congratulations!

Very sweet looking baby Daryl. You guys done good!Another "Day In The Life of Rob" documented here. Always interesting to read his view of the world.It's great to call you guys friends, "We Band of Brothers"

Daryl,A big congrats m8. You are quite correct; she doesn't take after you at all; she is a real cutie.Do you know the Mailman well? :-lolI succumbed and took over as MD of our old VA. Hence my absence from online flying the last week. Will do my best to do fly the HNL - SFO leg so hope to catch up with you sometime over the weekend.

great lookin daughter. All the best darylRob, you could be the next Budda, you have the jolly shape et al. Bill

That is a very cute name for a very cute baby D!! :)reminds me(a 17year old) of all those lil babies my mum keeps everyday (daycare kinda thingy)the youngest we have are about 2 weeks old, and they're sooo cool, they don't even cry, all they do is ly in ther 'maxi-cosi' and sleep, sometimes when you look at them they open their eyes. But at this time: no babies, only young toddlers. they are nice but dont have that divine innocense babies doo have.Cheers