Moan of the year - I hope!

I have chickenpox. I'm hoping this is the worst thing that's going to give me cause to moan this year because I know there are worse things that could happen to me. I'm stuck at home, looking like a horror film extra, trying not to scratch and generally feeling like s***. I'm bored, tired and fed up. I never caught any of the childhood aliments as a kid. Can't believe it's finally caught up with me. Even though I know it won't last and in comparison to others I've got little to moan about I'm feeling very sorry for myself. F*** it.

An interesting article...

USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF (ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies.

He says:
"They're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel, he replied:

"So these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd 2007), the Associated Press reported: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed wire surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.
"This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches,is not one bit sympathetic.

"Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."
The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents:

"It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected as Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona

Moan of the day 02/02/09

Today London has almost ground to a halt because of the 'adverse weather condition' i.e. snow. This morning I looked out at a very pretty scene but was not looking forward to going out in it especially as there were no buses running (my usual mode of transport to work). But I wrapped up warm & set off for work, braving the slippery pavements and the horror that is the Northern line. Now I left early and the journey to Morning Crescent was not as bad as I thought it might be, even if the 7 minutes on the indicator board was actually more like 10. Unfortunately when I did reach by work-place I discovered it was closed (I work in a school. I am not a teacher).
Well that was a bit annoying but worse was to come. The journey back home took over an hour instead of the 40 minutes it took to get there, mainly because there was a lot of people at Euston & the trains were few. It's the behaviour of some of the people that gets me. One train was coming out of service at Euston and despite repeated pleas from the station staff people still wouldn't stand back to let the train empty, just making the situation worse. And when I did get on a train nearly everyone was wrapped up in their own selfishness that just made getting on and off horrible for all. Good news for me is I don't have to go the work tomorrow & when I do I hope I don't have to use the tube again!