Well unless work REALLY slows down this arvo, this will be my last post for awhile. Tomorrow the bucks drive to Broome begins and I may well turn up looking like the geeza in the picture there. Our wedding is on Wednesday 27th so we're just a week away now!
I tried to think of some magical clever name for this posting but what could be better than just 'The Bucks Drive'. For those that don't know, Kylie and I are getting married in Broome in 13 days time (eeeep) and instead of a bucks night, 10 of us are driving up the coast in a dual motorhome convoy.
US fast-food giant McDonald's is hoping to offer PhDs after receiving approval to award its own nationally recognised qualifications in Britain, the company's "chief people officer" said. Speaking to the Financial Times, David Fairhurst said the company's new power to award qualifications made it "a university in its own right", and added that the company wanted to award qualifications equivalent to university degrees.
"One day, I'd love to see us doing a PhD - I definitely think we should go as far as we can," he said.
He cautioned, however, that the company wanted to perfect its current training regimen, which includes courses in shift management that are equivalent in level to A-levels or high school courses, before putting together a post-graduate qualification.
McDonald's was one of nine employers or employer groups last year that received the power to award qualifications, which Britain wants to encourage so that more workers will have recognised certificates to increase their employability.
The company has long sought to challenge the perception that it only creates low-level, poorly-paid "McJobs".
Yesterday was a dark day in my TV Town as it saw the end of the show Scrubs. I knew it was on its last season but ending on episode 18 instead of the usual 24, floored me! The little couch potato in my brain screamed out NOOOOOOOOO, take meeeeeeeeeeeee!.
A Kenyan man is seeking damages for anguish sustained during a week-long sex ban called by women's groups in a bid to force political leaders to put their rivalry aside to work for the common good.James Kimondo is suing the leaders of G10, a coalition of women's groups that called for a national boycott to push the men into resolving the east African country's political woes.
"Since the women called for the sex boycott, my wife has denied me my conjugal rights. This has caused me anxiety and sleepless night," Kimondo said.
"I have been suffering mental anguish, stress, backaches, lack of concentration," he told reporters outside the Nairobi High Court, where he lodged his petition for damages.
The group even urged prostitutes to join the strike. The strike ended on Wednesday with the organisers claiming it had been a success. They argued that the country's egocentric male leaders should not have time for matters of the flesh when the country is ensnared in economic and political trouble.
Soundtrack of the Day : No Sex For Ben - The Rapture ; how could it be anything else?
For those that don't know, I've been working on an old skool arcade cocktail machine for the last couple of weeks and today I finally received a monitor worthy of installing into it. Cocktail machines are the ones that look like flat Pacman arcade tables that you'll remember from the back corner of the local fish and chip shop or similar dodgy establishment.
Become bored with just powering down drinks for the sake of it? Need a more accurate way to measure manliness and therefore increase testosterone to attract the opposite sex?
The figurehead of all bimbo women has well and truly sold out to the masses.
