Aaaaaah!
Good.
Five restarts didn’t help. Switching it off, going to get a dose of Cocacola and switching it back on, did. I think it was the threat of the Cocacola, this is the laptop which got bathed on it months ago. But today’s problems can’t have been because of that bath, since it was months ago… maybe it’s allergic to pollen?
Jah, I haven’t actually read the law, but the exact sentence seems to be “toda la publicidad,” i.e., anything that can be taken as being any kind of advertisement. I wonder, do those people realize that one of our regions is named like a wine? The name was famous for the wine centuries before the political region was created. They’d probably forbid strawberries in wine reduction or stew al whisky from being served in restaurants that allow kids, too, my guess is it simply hasn’t occurred to them - yet.
Back in… must’a been '99, a social-dem government crafted a new temp labor law closing a huge loophole the socialist-created law had, which allowed companies to keep someone as a temp forever. I was taking an ISO14000 course at the time and the teacher (a communist who refuses to join the communist party because he considers them a gang of leeches) was saying “this is Spain for you! It’s the fucking Worker’s Parties who screw the workers and the damn RIGHT who fixes things! Did you know it was a right-wing general who created Social Security? It was! And every time it’s been extended, it’s been by a right-wing party! Aaaaaargh! Bloody Frank Frog and his Vertical Syndicate did more for this country’s workers than Communists and Anarchists ever have!”
Our “right-wingers” might not be so worried about taking care of the workers if it wasn’t for the “left-wingers” (although the non-cynical explanation is “we do it because it’s the right thing to do” and the cynical one is “hey, if the workers break down, who works the machines?”), but every time I look at what any of our left-wing governments do, they seem to be the ones that come up with the harebrained monkeyschemes and the laws that hurt workers the most. Don’t get me started on what I think of the previous socialist government’s youth-employment laws: it’s one of my reasons to vote soc-dem (regionalist branch).
swampy, there was a tornado in Spain a couple years back that damaged a “toolshed”, so it was all over the news. The reason I’ve used “” is that it was one of those toolsheds that have a fully-equipped kitchen, fireplace and two bedrooms. The metereologists had a lot of fun explaining that tornados are actually very common in Spain, it’s only that they’re usually tiny and take place in unpopulated areas. We used to think tornados only happened in the movies, people were joking that they’d always thought being caught by one would bring you to the land of Oz for free, which beats Iberia’s prices any day of the week. We don’t have tornado sirens or anything like that, though.
tarragon, don’t you just love bad public transportation? I suspect it may be a device to get people to knit, but I can’t knit to save my life, d’oh. So I avoid bad public transportation. Have I ever mentioned I always thing of the Spanish town Tarragona, when I see your name, rather than of the herb? I’m not even sure what the herb is called in Spanish. My aunt used to live in Tarragona “town”, now she still lives in Tarragona province but not in the capital any more.
gt, I’m staying in the job; the conditions for the next 6 months are similar to what I have now but instead of CH+D it’s CH+F and I’m up-to-here of living in a place where getting information implies playing 20 questions and where you get things like official forms in Spanish with the instructions in German (?). So I’m moving to France, which just means to a part of town where official forms are written in French, swimming pools are indicated by street signs and supermarkets sell paté de foie gras. They also sell foie gras, but that’s un-patified, it’s just the liver.
My bosses still don’t know how many days I’ll be working in each place, but it looks like I should start writing the next awfully bad spanish novel or something, if I’m going to spend more than 4h/week in the CH office. I’m not supposed to 'net, there.
