And in the time you took to write it, you could have cracked on with your homework

I can understand how you feel, though Loni. It sounds as though you have lot on your plate with music lessons. Can you not do your work in your bedroom, though, if people are watching TV. And instead of waiting outside of school, would the teachers not let you sit in the library for a while. Large projects and deadlines are things many people have to deal with. Part of getting them done, however, is planning on just how you are going to do it. In your case it is a matter of making arrangements whereby you can have somewhere quiet to do your work in.

As is trying to input data aboard a boat that's being tossed around a bit. Quite often I find myself hitting the wrong keys because everything is moving. When things get really bad I also find the drawers on my filing cabinet fly open and try to take my knee-caps off, while the printer and monitor migrate across the desk.

Mind you, I find my task easier than those who are trying to cook at the time.

Good job, Loni. I don't have any school to do for another month or so - I miss it but love the Summer season.
My brood is about a neighbor's cow who keeps coming here into our land including the back and front yard - chewing up our plants and trees, which isent the biggest worry but the fact that my dad's very expensive bulls are taking interest in her and will jump the fences once she comes into heat and we can't take the risk of them damaging themselfs in a way that would make it incapable for them to breed our cows. The owner of the reckless cow will not come and get her but wont allow his son to tranqeulize her (fearing that she'll die) so we had the deputy out to see what we could *legally* do about it. The deputy couldn't do anything about it until she entered a public highway and put another person's well being in danger... But it wouldn't be a criminal act to shoot the cow so that is exactly what my dad is going to do. *meh* It has to be done but I wish that poor old stupid cow didn't have to die. Oh well...

LadyFeawen: If your dad shoots her, then he will have to call the rendering truck to get rid of the carcass. Can you not catch the cow and tie her up to a fence post or something and then tell your neighbor if he wants her back he'll have to come and get her. It isn't rustling if you capture her on your property.

We used to stake our cow out in the waterway on a twenty foot chain and a steel bar pounded into the ground. I'd bring her back for a drink at noon and late afternoon. I'd move the stake every couple of days depending on the condition of grass and alfalfa. Of course this was after we got one good cutting of hay from the waterway. Ours was a dry land farm, so one cutting was all we could expect. Dad did the morning milking and I did the evening, except in the summer when I did both.

Poor cow. I suppose it is worse because you have seen the cow as a live animal whereas most of us don't see them until they end up on our plate.

My son tells me about the baby birds he has tried to save and it takes me right back to when I was his age and desperate to save these poor little things when they fell out of nests or were attacked by cats. It was so unfair that no matter what I did they still died. I am usually able now to accept that it is part of life but listening to him reminds me that at one time it was the saddest thing to see something helpless die.

I am glad he has the compassion within him to feel that way.

It's the same with your cow.... only bigger. You want to help but you can't.

Maybe the cow's owner should be shot instead of the cow. It is hardly the cow's fault is it but it is the cow that suffers in the end.

in some places there are laws set that if an animal is on your property for a certain amount of time it becomes legally yours (im not sure about this so dont just assume im right,as a matter of fact never assume anything)and you can do whatever you want with it.i would sell it and were i live i could probably get $200-300 dollars from the dumb animal.cows are one of the dumbest,ugliest animals ever, i can prove this i am around cows often,they smell awful too.if you shoot the cow and it causes alot of damage you should have enough proof it was destroying your property in any court of law.(might i recomend at least a 30-30 for cows,anything smaller will just cause it alot of pain)

Me,Vee? You mean good, kind hearted Stoney??

I can't imagine what gave you that idea.....

Ooo wow I'm sorry Grondy! That really sucks that that happened, and I'm sorry to hear about the cow Fea ;'(

Unbelievable Stony. I have had my car stolen before. Not a good feeling. It astounds me the way some people have no conscience!

Yeah, it is just really irritating. We have alarms and kill switches on our vehicles but that has not stopped them from being broken into. I think that we have had 9 total attempts to steal our trucks.

As well as, surely?

where i live it wont help having them on camera as here unless you put up a sigh to say your filming them it is unadmissable in court dont you think it is defeating the object if you tell them they are being filmed

Mankind never needed a lawyer until after we got our first one!

Not according to a report a heard on the radio a few weeks ago. It has now got so bad with doctors and hospitals being sued in lawsuits etc, many doctors are refusing to treat solicitors, their families and their associates.



We wouldn't have got away with it now days, but 20 years ago when us and several other fishermen were having new steel boats built in a local yard we were having a lot of problems with thefts in the night. One fisherman was so annoyed when he lost a ’500 propellor, he left the ladder up to his boat wired up to a three-phase welder all night. The next day we found the ladder on the floor and a lot of scuff marks in the ground all around that area. It did the trick though.
I wouldn't recommend doing it now days though, because you might finish up getting some quite serious charges thrown at you.

Onewiththechainsaw Posted the following on Tuesday 2nd November 2004 (02:35am) in Guess the Heavymetal/Rock song!!

Does anyone have any helpful suggestions?

Grondy said 'helpful'.

Prozac helps, Vee. Makes the dark thoughts go away.

That's true, perhaps Edronax is safer. But anything is better than Adapin.

I don't really have any advice on how to get out of this one, except to say often a series of problems have one common denominator. Falling grades, for example, can be the result of you having a tough time because you no longer feel able to concentrate on your studies. A knock on effect of falling grades then means you perhaps feel bad about them, which extenuates your whole "feeling down". In the end, as things become worse, you feel as though you are in a spiral.

What you really need to do is try to sit and down and think what could be at the root of all of your recent problems. It could be anything; family issues, school, relationship problems, boredom etc. If you can isolate the main issue, however, and then solve it, you should find the other problems will seem so much lighter.

I'm not sure of your age, but if you are in your mid teens, you will find you are not alone in how you feel. The majority of people go through similar problems at that age, and generally these problems miraculously improve (generally with the leaving of school) towards the end of your teens. It is a natural transition time in one's life, when your world is changing from being a child to an adult.

Often the symptoms you describe are caused by the frustration of being caught in a rut. You may feel as though your life is going nowhere, and you are bored with everything. If this is the case, try to break your rut. Do something dramatically different. Do something you have never done before. Go to places you don't normally visit. Try to meet some different people. Try a new hobby. It's like giving your life a spring clean.

Good luck

My life is a complete mess. I'm a waste. Kill me!!

Cheer up it might never happen. Optimism is the nicest thing that ever hapened to me.

PLASTIC!!!!! Why are you invading this thread with your optimism!!!!! THIS IS FOR DEPRESSED PEOPLE!!!!!! PEOPLE WHO LIKE WHINGING!!!!! TEENAGERS!!!!!!!! OLD PEOPLE ACTING LIKE TEENAGERS!!!!!!! But by the way, good point. GO AWAY!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!!!!!!

Again, I shall whinge about homework. I have Science to do, Social Studies, Music, and Drama. And you'd think for Drama dn Music it'd be easy. No. It's written stuff. EEEEW!!!!!!! DOWN WITH HOMEWORK!!!!

I don't often have a lot to brood about, but something did bug me the other day....

In the past year we have formed a new team at the top of our organisation, in which myself and my boss have tried very hard to adopt new practices with the fishing industry. We still have the same problems managing a sustainable fishery, and have a lot of Conservation issues to contend with, but our attitude to the fishermen and the industry has been totally different to the management teams of the past. Using my own experiences from when I was a fisherman myself, we now consult with them a lot more in the decision making, take into account their opinions a lot more, give them far mor e information than before so we cannot be accused of springing things on them. In a nutshell we are trying to form a working relationship with them. We all want to see a successful fishery.

What really get's my goat, then, is when at a meeting we get fingers pointed at us by someone accusing us of trying to put him out of work because we want to see him on the dole. Who then tells everyone we have stopped him having a mussel fishery for twelve years (how things get twisted.... one bed was closed 12 years ago for conservation purposes, not the whole fishery. And ironically it was me that opened that bed for the first time earlier this year as one of the first decisions I was empowered to make.) This person points out that there was a wonderful fishery until we began managing it and since then, there's been nothing (when the reality was we were given management of it when it reached rock bottom in the early 90's after being fished to death, and have had to use some pretty draconian measures to see it recover).

I'm not asking for a medal for what I do, and I can understand their distrust after some of what has occurred in the past, but it bugs me that some of them are so blind to the changes that have occurred in the past year. We are bending over backwards to help these people have not just a living this year, but also in the future too, and some of them just don't see it. I can spend an hour demonstrating to them why we need sustainability, only to have them strive for quotas that would take the stock recovery back ten years if we let them.

Oh well, it's only a few of them, and maybe time will tell, but it does bug when they blindly give this critism in front of a room full of people.

Life still treating me great thanks Val.

Problems are only problems if you let them become problems. Really, it';s true