tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36283712024-03-08T12:34:06.431+00:00Not Waving But DrowningThe Life of a Chaos ValkyrieRathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-81385616540442043272009-01-04T18:51:00.002+00:002009-01-04T20:42:14.901+00:00I confess to having been exceptionally quiet. Most of my posts related to my former employment and have been kept private.Regular readers (that is if there still are any after this long hiatus) will be aware that I am a motor-racing fan of long standing. I love my motor sport. I am the nut who sits in front of the TV but spends most of the time looking at the live timing on the laptop and Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-23570310247591401122008-12-15T18:06:00.003+00:002009-11-02T19:49:36.342+00:00Blog titleMost of the bits I've been posting lately are not being made public for various reasons so it may have given the appearance that I had abandoned this blog. It's not the case.This post is quite brief as it is giving a reply to an email I received asking about the blog title.It's the title of a poem by Stevie Smith published in the 1950s and which is reproduced below.Nobody heard him, the dead manRathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-24499511566261779422008-03-08T05:08:00.003+00:002008-04-19T19:45:42.807+00:00Things that make you go hmmm!If, as a company, you find that you have a department that has had 5 of the 18 administrative staff leave in a period of about six months (three of whom left within a six week period of each other) wouldn't you be asking hard questions of the management? Yes?I know of a business where this has happened (see post below) but they are not looking to see if there are problems with the management, butRathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-20721733732238755182008-01-28T18:53:00.003+00:002011-11-01T12:04:23.249+00:00Not Quite the End of an Era!Well that is it! I have finally had enough of the bullying from my employer. Even when a new person was brought in to add another layer of management, the person chosen was someone who clearly has the same ethos. It was only on Friday that the new person decided that it was completely appropriate to admonish me for being late to a meeting in a public stairwell, during a period of high Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16628885847560404582007-08-12T05:41:00.000+00:002007-08-13T19:59:23.216+00:00Casa di Giulietta , VeronaPerhaps the strangest thing we encountered on our recent visit to Italy was La Casa di Giulietta in Verona. The house originally dates back to the 13th century but has been modified over the years including a 1930's reconstruction of a renaissance balcony. The original owners of the house were the Dal Cappella family and their coat of arms is over the arched entrance to the courtyard. The Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-47012426390957610772007-08-08T00:50:00.000+00:002007-08-08T01:00:50.488+00:00Password thief aboutIt seems that someone is making a concerted effort to break into my blogs. Three alerts from blogger in the last hour that someone has been requesting the password for the various blogs. Now it could be someone who has got the name of their blog wrong, but given that I have three blog accounts and there has been an attempt on all of them makes that unlikely. The other alternative is that Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16350802968328222992007-08-06T17:31:00.000+00:002007-08-06T17:50:36.494+00:00I'm almost officially a student!Today I received my offer of a place on the Edinburgh MBA, which I am very pleased about. What I'm not please about is the mess up with funding, so I might have to defer a year because of that, which is not a very pleasing prospect. Hopefully I'll be able to work something out but having just had the expense of a long break in Italy there isn't much left in the way of savings.Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-25119308718543668282007-08-01T09:45:00.000+00:002007-08-01T15:02:51.445+00:00Sorry doesn't cut it anymore.I'm getting to the point where I am ready to give up on humanity. Just as I think that I've got rid of the scheming, mixing, sickos out of my life, they reappear, don't accept being blanked and then play at being innocent and wounded that you would think badly of them. If that's not enough they start putting the blame onto the very people that they have gone out of their way to hurt.Honestly, Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-3500170771594330852007-06-06T17:30:00.000+00:002007-06-06T15:53:17.252+00:00Last.fm - The replacement for MOG and the nature of friendsI've just added a link in the sidebar to my last.fm radio station. So now you can get an idea of the type of music I like. If you follow the link to my profile you can also see what music I've been playing in the last week on iTunes and if I can get the plugin working there will also be information about the stuff I pay on my iPod (there isn't that much difference). If you like last.fm and Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-56680375939617361622007-06-03T19:38:00.001+00:002007-06-03T19:39:41.824+00:00So much for thatMOG is a disaster! The software doesn't work, the website is a mess and the staff don't seem to be able to keep things running. I've got an alternative piece of software that I'm testing right now so that will be added soon (ish).Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-948695826863205022007-06-01T13:48:00.000+00:002007-06-01T13:50:02.028+00:00MOGI've just added MOG into the side bar so you can see what music I'm playing in iTunes. Rather you will be able to see what I'm playing when I can get it verify my account, a task that is proving harder than it should.Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16769390273866012842007-01-07T19:04:00.000+00:002007-01-08T03:18:37.041+00:00New Start?The new year started with wimper, many of the firework displays and associated events being cancelled due to gale force winds and torrential rain.I thought I would use this time to review last year's resolutions and start on the new ones for this year.So here are the resolutions and how well I did.I will lose weight. I did okay on this one though I have to admit that much of it was from the Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-64197415108380550542006-12-23T06:11:00.000+00:002006-12-23T06:55:02.717+00:00Open message to friends of the whore who tried to steal my husband.Dear low lifesYou may think that you are helping the whore by trying to split me up from hubby but it isn't working. Even if we do split up he does not want contact with her at all. You are actually making him hate her and if anything are making our relationship stronger. I know it takes time to keep setting up these new hotmail (and yahoo mail, etc) accounts in order to have an "anonymous" Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-16389690292754862272006-12-21T03:05:00.000+00:002006-12-23T15:02:35.773+00:00Happy Hogswatch!It seems as though half the good stuff for the Christmas period has already been shown on TV, including Terry Pratchett's Hogfather which was broadcast on Sunday and Monday. Given that there was some good stuff on the box, that our existing TV was beginning to show it's age and a friend was most disparaging about it's (lack of) size in our huge living room, hubby and I decided that we would Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1163288884458106832006-11-11T22:55:00.000+00:002006-11-12T11:53:13.046+00:00Long time no blogThere has been nothing much to say or, to be more accurate, there is nothing that I can safely say in this forum due to not so veiled threats. There is of course the closed forum where I can speak freely and name names and should the suggestion that getting someone to hack into the account to see what is being said is followed through, then the authorities WILL be notified and prosecutions for Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1160099550892224232006-10-06T01:46:00.000+00:002006-10-10T09:50:56.556+00:00To the sick bastard who keeps messaging meNo I will not kill myself to please you or Charlotte. If and when I kill myself it will be for my reasons, on my terms, and one thing is for certain even if I'm out of the way my husband would never go back to that psychotic bitch. After all when he had to make a decision as to who he was staying with, knowing that whoever he chose the other was likely to try to kill herself, he chose to stay Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1159446330739466132006-09-28T12:22:00.000+00:002006-10-17T02:35:26.023+00:00HumourI found a web site with some challenging humour. Some of the cartoons like this one are very clever.EnjoyRathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1159281485955630792006-09-26T13:48:00.000+00:002006-10-10T09:52:45.256+00:00I've had an interesting email asking how I can be suicidal when I'm not depressed. The answer is that it's quite easy. It all depends on your attitude to death and the replacement of the word suicide with euthenasia.Let me explain. Most people in this country are brought up to follow a Christian ideology, even if they don't practice the religion. Within this ideology there are a few aspects Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158975002322403632006-09-23T01:22:00.000+00:002006-09-23T04:14:43.536+00:00Chaos AboundsI've started a new blog called Chaos Abounds. It's not really a blog but a place where I can play with the blogger templates to get the look and feel I want without messing around with the main blog and completely wrecking everything. I've left the comments on the new blog open so I can get feedback on the look of the layout, please don't comment on anything else there. I've also stopped Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158796166138410462006-09-20T23:36:00.000+00:002006-09-21T00:06:19.490+00:00Hamster seriously injured in high speed crashThe speed freaks out there will have no doubt already heard this. Richard "Hamster" Hammond has been seriously injured whilst filming a piece for Top Gear. Apparently he was attempting to break the British land speed record at the former RAF base at Elvington nr York when the jet powered car crashed at high speed (in the order of 300 mph). Early news indicated that the vehicle was upside downRathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158608670544824182006-09-18T19:06:00.000+00:002006-09-20T14:01:44.916+00:00Blog changesI've made a couple of changes to the blog. The main title and about from the sidebar have been swapped as it didn't make much sense the way it was. I'm also looking at changing the template as I really don't like the existing blogger template, but it was, as they say, the best of a bad bunch. I'm not guaranteeing that the changes will be any time soon. I'm notoriously bad at design so the Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158283275994342992006-09-15T01:17:00.000+00:002006-09-17T02:47:56.886+00:00Insomniac bluesIt's just past 2 am. I'm sitting at the computer trying to find something that acts as a soporific.I'm bored, lonely and depressed.The worst thing about the current situation is that I'm stuck at home with nobody wanting to speak with me, and the delusional, psychotic, slut of an ex-mistress is getting lots of attention. Anyone would think she was the victim in all of this.Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158188487166775252006-09-13T22:51:00.000+00:002006-09-13T23:01:27.256+00:00John LewisA few years ago, after the store was refurbished, John Lewis in Edinburgh decided that, for some reason, they were no longer going to supply dressmaking patterns and fabric. Imagine my surprise when I went in today to find that they have reversed this decision and the fabrics are back. No more trips to Glasgow to get decent fabric and current patterns. I think I did freak out the assistant Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158092070836981492006-09-12T20:07:00.000+00:002006-09-12T20:14:30.970+00:00OrkutSome time ago I was invited to join Orkut, which in principle is an idea that I quite like. A closed community where access is gained by invitation only thus, in theory, removing the weirder elements of the net and reducing the amount of spam that people are subjected to. However, this does not seem to work, very quickly there is a market for invitations and the undesirable elements that most Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628371.post-1158019936207073262006-09-12T00:09:00.000+00:002006-09-12T00:56:42.106+00:00I should be ashamed of myselfI don't normally do memes, quizzes and the like but every once in a while one gets past the barricade like this one, which I offer as a perfect example as to why these things are stupid.You Are a Pundit Blogger!Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a fewWhat Kind of Blogger Are You?Rathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17868779637675073660noreply@blogger.com0