Life

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Welcome to our category of life observation posts.

If there ever was a category where everything that didn’t have an obvious category got dumped, you found it! However, I do hope you find something of interest here. Just because a post has been categorised as “Life Observations” it doesn’t mean it’s boring.

 

Good News

Debbie and I are pleased to announce that we got engaged yesterday (8th April 2009).   We have known for a long time that we wanted to get engaged, and how […]

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The Trip From Hell

Welcome to my trip from hell, a trip from Florida to London where so much just went wrong. Fortunately, although it was painful and incredibly frustrating at the time, I […]

And so the frustration continues

Great.  After all the frustrations of the last few weeks… weeks?  Who am I kidding?  MONTHS… Tony is stranded at Atlanta airport due to a flight delay. When we planned […]

A Totally Wasted Frustrating Day

I have to admit that today started out ok, I knew I had to get certain things done today, since I am flying to England tomorrow morning, however no sooner […]

Six Weeks And Counting

So far I have been out of work for six weeks as of yesterday, and although I am trying to settle down into a routine, trying to generate work and […]

The Taxman Cometh

For the last 10 or so years I have always had a tax refund, however this year with living on my own and having to file single, even though I thought I was paying the correct amount of tax, it seems I got screwed, and so following a visit to H&R Block (a chain of tax accountants) on Wednesday, when I thought I might even get some money back, imagine my horror when I found out that I owe more than $4,000 in taxes. Indeed – SHOCK HORROR… http://delovesto.com/2009/03/the-taxman-comeththe-taxman-cometh/

STS-119 A Beautiful Launch

Having been postponed twice before, this evening’s launch of the Space Shuttle’s STS-119 mission was perfect. As launch time arrived, the sun had just gone down, but it was still […]

Message From Management

In these current economic crises, we are sorry but we see no other alternative but to reduce our staff. We have to lay off André. A friend, let’s call him […]

The Unemployed In The USA Suffer

It’s tough losing your job at any time, but as you get older and your skills maybe are older it gets harder to get another job, harder to retrain, and like so many others you could be in a position where the cost of being unemployed could affect the future of your family, not just yourself.