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Over the last few days as the time draws closer to the day when we have to vote on whether to accept the Lisbon treaty or reject it.The treaty consists of amendments to the treaty of Rome,Nice and the Maastricht treaty. To fully understand what the changes mean in the grander scope I have started to read the treaties.

I must say that i will never fully understand the text in the treaties, its written in a real business language that I would imagine few people understand or spend months trying to figure it out. From what I can gather, i.e reading the lisbon treaty, Instead of having a constuition (one treaty there will be 2 treaties and the charter of human rights. which will become law binding in each member country.

1. Treaty on the European union.
2. Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
3. Charter of fundamental rights

From what I can tell so far ( I have not read that many pages) is that its suppose to streamline the functioning of the EU and allows enlargment past the 27 countries already in the EU.
I have not got to the text which describes the roles or the European council, European Parliament, European Commission or the role of foreign policy etc.
Over the next few day I hope to be able to try and understand what new powers will be given to each group.

I think it’s better to at least try and get informed about the treaty as my first instinct is to vote no. If i don’t understand it its better to leave what is known in place.(IMHO)

So I hope that i will have the time to be able to read the text fully and be at least able to understand if in the greater scope it is either a good thing or a bad thing !

See, I done proved it!

Well, As of next months I’m going to be unemployed I’m not getting fired! but a due to a lack of cold hard cash within the company. Its a pain in the ass but I see its as a good thing, I’ve not been a happy camper here for a while but didn’t quite know what to do, so I stuck it out… I’m going to try and take my CCNA part 1 as soon as possible, within the next few weeks or the next available exam period, and hopefully part 2 soon after, I’m self studying for it and it is tough going to sit down and read/take notes etc. I’m doing about 1-2 chapters per night. so I should be through the 17 odd chapters quite fast(fingers crossed).

I’m going to use RouterSim to study the parts i need access to H/W. The $229 it costs seems like a reasonable price. Virtual Box comes in handy for running windows

Now to fix my CV up…

Last weekend my sister, as part of her Art residency had to fire some “pinch pots” that were made by visitors. She spend all day out in a place called Thomastown at the Pottery Skills course Premises, Its run by a guy called Guss, who allows the used of the equipment free of charge.

About 15-20 people turned up to glaze their works of art. I never made a pinch pot put i did glaze one done by my sister I quite amazing the amount of work that goes into firing ceramics(pottery) The style of firing was called Raku which is quite impressive. Depending on the glaze chosen and the reaction to the sawdust it’s quite amazing the display of different colors that can be produced, alot of chemistry goes on.

In all about 8+ hours was spend preparing and firing the “pinch pots” and everyone that came out was impressed with the final result..
Can’t wait to do it again.

The Annual rhythm and root festival kicks off tomorrow, I will more than likely go and see are few gigs.
There is a good selection of gigs on and a lot of them are free which is good. The festival site isn’t all that well planned out and could have been better. A few pics of the bands with accompany music would be nice.
Y’all have fun, Ya hear!