Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "son"

Another week gone and it’s time for the weekend. It feels good. Still waiting for Calum to finish reading the new book, though I haven’t been nagging him this week. I can’t promise that I won’t this weekend so I can finally get it finished. Mind that is nothing to what is happening around the world when you think of it. Of course he’ll still treat it as if it was, after all he is only sixteen.
I am still working though this is four weeks. They haven’t said that I’m getting kept on but at the same time they haven’t given me a letter saying their letting me go, which is good. So I’ll be off to work come Monday anyways. It may not be my dream job it is a job though. It is great not having to be grill every two weeks like you were a criminal. That is how it feels sometimes when you sign on. And the government is continually making it harder for people yet seem to let the ones that have never worked off easy. Mind it is always greener in the other pasture isn’t it.
Well I’m going to relax this Saturday and Sunday. I’ll read my computer magazine and nag my son, hehehe. Other than that I haven’t really got much planned though I should start getting the plot to the next tale sorted. I just can’t seem to get the drive for it while I still have Banshee Fires of Revenge out there. I will just have to be patient.

My son Calum found that his bed was soaked last Saturday when he came home from work. Our roof has developed a leak and the water had found its way in over Calum's bed. He wasn't best pleased as you can guess. It only got worse as the landlord, the local council, took most of this week to getting around to fixing it. When I say fixing it though that has yet to be seen as they have said they will need to come back and check it on Monday. They think it was the flashing around the chimney. It is to be wet tomorrow so I'll go up into the loft to have a look myself. Magz said she though she heard water dripping into the bucket that the second council worker put up there to catch the water. When we first discovered the leak I tried to place a container under it up there but it wouldn't sit up or even catch it all. In the end we had to catch the water by leaving a bucket on Calum's bed. That left the sofa for my son to sleep on for a couple of nights to his added annoyance. With the leak has come a nasty smell of damp. It hangs in the air plus I'm sure I came still smell on my clothes at work. It makes you feel a bit like your unwashed. Not a nice feeling. Hopefully I find that it has been fixed tomorrow. If it isn't I think it will be me that gets upset about it this time. Not to say I wasn't unhappy with the council when it took them so long to do something in the first place. Mind it is always the same when it comes to landlords isn't it.

Work was a lot less stressful this week. The supervisor was taking all the pressure from his job and dumping it on the nearest person. Though he still did snap out at us a little it wasn't nearly as bad as it has been in the past few weeks. I have no idea if this will continue but do hope it does though in truth I think that it will depend on how much of a load he get from the office as well as how well things go work wise. As you can guess the labelling machine ran a lot smoother. I think this helped the supers mood as he did grumble when it did play up. Luckily we managed to get it working properly rather quickly so avoiding the explosive mood swings that have made things so bad of late. Sometimes you would believe that he thought we were responsible for it. Of course it is really down to the machine being old and so, as you would expect, it has its foibles. Try to run it as the supervisor does throws its setting off a little at a time till things start to go wrong in a big way. It doesn't help when we mention that things are starting to act up as that is when he begins to get in a tad most of all. Of course if we don't say anything he is worse. Yeah its a no win situation but as I said this week has been better.
On the home front my son is now looking for another job after losing the one he had. He didn't really enjoy it as he has also been facing the angry face of a supervisor. Unfortunately for him when he complained by going over the supers head he got the sack. It didn't help that he hadn't been there that long so it was easy for them to just let him go. He had been looking for another job sadly though he hasn't found anything before he bit the bullet. Still he is looking at going back to college which is a good way for him to broaden his appeal to future employers he might apply to in future. If it helps him back into work it is a good thing.

I was right about the job I still have to do for my son. He had a bit of a wild weekend with his friends. Though according to him it wasn't all that and he should have just stayed home. Yeah right, we really think that is true. I don't even think Calum really thinks that. I think he only said it in the hope it would make us feel good.
We had a surprise inspection this week. Usually we get a warning of when they are coming. Not this year though. As you might suspect the office staff were on tender hooks as we normally have a week or two to sort any issues around the factory. In the end though we passed. How well I don't know. The main thing though is that we are all still in a job thanks to getting the pass. But for two days things around the work were palpable as well as a little stressed. It was good to reach the weekend.
Talking of stress I really felt it last weekend when playing the game. I am still working to earn the cash for the Cobra Mk III but found it harder to earn the credits to do so. I just kept getting attacked in every system I visited making me late with deliveries. This led to fines and not getting paid plus my cargo hold being filled with a cargo I had difficulties in getting rid of. I would either jettison it or if I had access to the black-market sell it there. Not every station has one though hence why sometime I would just fire the cargo out the airlock. All of this did see my balance slowly decline till I finally just switched the computer off. I suppose I will need to do some personal trading which I haven't done to any great extent as yet to earn the cash for the Cobra. I just have to find a good trade route to exploit for a bit.

I finally got the work for my son out of the way. Though he was out with friends again last weekend it wasn't all night. I was surprised to see him coming home just after midnight but it did mean he wasn't catching up on sleep the next day. It wasn't a big job so I had his guitars hanging from his walls in no time. Well it is often the case the small jobs seem to be put off for ages then you wonder why when it took so little of your time in the end.
Elite has reached the Gamma stage of development today. I look forward to see how it plays after the failure, for me, of the last beta. I found beta 3.91 was unplayable due to not being able to leave Super Cruise which you need to traverse the large distances in a star system. That meant I had to quit and re-enter the game but had the adverse effect of leaving me up to half an hour of travelling before I reached the station I was heading to. That was half an hour of sitting doing nothing other than watching numbers on the screen descending as the distance closed. Not much fun. Hopefully I won't have that problem tonight.
Reading the paper at work this week I saw that the Westminster government is already preparing the way on going back on the pledge they made. That was where they promised more powers for the Scottish government if people voted no in the referendum on independence. It hasn't taken them to long to begin to set the ground work for breaking "the pledge." Well we can't say that we who supported independence did expect it. Sadly when we said that this would happen the media drowned us out. That was one of the sad parts of the whole debate that the media was almost completely for the status quo. It was so bad that I felt angered by some of the lies that were told in the tabloids of what would happen if the "yes" camp won. If I had believed the rubbish that was spouted I would have had visions of Scotland being thrown into a dark age. Our lights would have went out and we'd be left eating grass because we wouldn't have any money in the whole country. Yeah madness but many fell for this type of scare story that the "no" camp spread.
Strangely when we told people not to believe Westminster it was us that weren't believed. Well now we see who the real liars are.