The Good,The Bad and The Garbage

This week was my first week back at work after 2 weeks off on holidays. When I left there were various problems going on, both externally and internally. When I got back, bugger all had changed. You’d think that as an organization got bigger and earned more money, it would have the resources to cut out the people who were causing the problems or not providing evidence that they were trying to fix them. Anyway that’s my gripe about work and it’s only taken me a few days to become jaded and annoyed about stuff. Otherwise it’s still a good job.

In much better news, yesterday I finished the last subject of the course I was studying off-campus. Although off-campus study sounds good in theory, it is a real prick to manage while trying to balance work, family and staying sane with some socializing and hobbies. I now have to wait a few months in anxiety to see if I have passed this damn subject or not. I feel that I will just scrape by which I wouldn’t mind, but am terrified of the possibility I may not have had enough time to put in the quality. Time will tell.

We went to a place called Collingwood Children’s Farm the other week to show the baby some farmyard animals that she hadn’t seen before. I gotta say that it was a bit of a crap hole. Perhaps if you go with a school group or something, they give you an interesting tour, but otherwise you just wander around a fairly small farm type environment with dilapidated buildings, few animals – goats, pigs, few horses, couple of cows, some sheep, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and geese as well as a couple of peacocks. Oh, and two cats I think. I don’t really know what I expected, but perhaps more hands on opportunity or something like that. For $16 to get in, I like to think that I’d get more than what I could see from a drive through the country.

The other day I saw the Di Vinci Code on DVD. In 98% of books that get made into movies, the book is much better. As most people probably already know, this film demonstrates this fact to a high degree. The book is high paced and hard to put down, while the movie really drags in some parts and skips over some interesting details. If you want to see this type of movie, go rent National Treasure with Nicolas Cage instead. The Di Vinci Code only gets 5/10 in my opinion. And is it just me or does Tom Hanks act almost exactly the same, no matter what role he is playing? With some actors I really buy the character they are playing and forget ‘who’ they really are in a sense, but with Tom I can’t help but see him as just Tom Hanks.