She wanted to make this personal, and I don’t have too much of an issue with that, but feel once again I need to use this forum to respond to personal attacks and lies. To the people who have sent me supportive messages thank you. It’s got to the point where I’ve installed an alarm system.

She feels she has the moral high ground, personally I feel that bringing her kids into this and using them against me and spinning a story full of lies about what went on kinda looses that high ground in a very big way.

A little while ago I received a comment to this site from the fat ugly troll that in part said “and physically abuse 10 year olds”. This is not the first time I’ve brought this up, but after what’s been said about me today I feel a further response is due as once again this accusation has been forwarded to me.

First, I’ve never lived with the young lady who claims I hurt her when she was 10, this could only have come from my ex as the kids 10th birthday was months after I left (and let me be clear here, I left and I filed the court documents). My first point is that as a mother she is willing to bring her daughters into this and use them against me.

This is the same mother that when the incident happened was clear that it did not happen, the father was clear it did not happen and the woman who looked after them during the day was clear it did not happen. Yet some time later when it suits the story about how big a shit I am (remember, I left and I filed with the courts) she drags out the story of me abusing he daughter and feels it’s OK to share with her so called “friends” at that time.

At the time I stated that I wanted it investigated by CPS, but she said no, that was not required and I have an e-mail that states that very clearly. Interestingly the same child had made accusations against her father prior to her previous divorce, CPS investigated and he was cleared. Again, I have the details of that if anyone is interested.

She knew this was my biggest issue around the whole parenting thing. I find it strange how it comes up now, rather than her dealing with it at the time. I would like to note that the accusation did not directly come from her, but clearly it came from her.

This child had some issues around anger management and acting out. In her bedroom there are multiple holes in the wall that she kicked or slammed door handles through the wall. The holes were generally hidden behind the door and who knows when they happened.

Since the accusation was leveled against me her behaviors escalated. Bicycle tires were slashed with a box cutter that I had in my tool box, both mine and her sisters. Yet my ex’s bike never got touched…

Car paint got badly scratched. An attempt, thankfully unsuccessful, was made at my car tire. There was two clear cut marks where someone tried to piece the tire carcass with the same box cutter. They were clearly recent and had she actually cut through then she could have been badly injured. She agreed that they were from the box cutter.

At one time some rather substantial damage was found in the kitchen. Someone, and my ex, like I did, assumed it was this daughter, took a large metal holder and broke a couple of tiles and cabinet fronts in the kitchen.

The list was substantial and went on. Electronics, lap top computers, walls in her sisters bedroom and so on. For me the final straw was a screwdriver blade being stuck through the soft top of my convertible. I was away in London at the time, I came back and there was the damage.

The escalation and methodical, planned nature of the damage was disturbing.

Another part of this that my ex has really spun her own version of events I around the girl going to live with her father for a while. It got to the point where we installed a number of door locks to keep her out of rooms. Again this was first suggested by her, a point she has conveniently left out in the past.

Something else that is rather important, but again was mysteriously forgotten when she was sharing the story with “friends” was that my ex first suggested her daughter go live with her dad, I said no. I did not feel I could work on that relationship if the kid was not with us. It was only after further damage that I agreed.

The next part of this, and again this an important addition to the story, is I had no idea it was to be permanent. The first time I knew that was two days later is when I called my ex and she told me she was just leaving a meeting with the kids new teacher. The moving of school and the permanence of the stay at her fathers had never been discussed with me. The first time I heard it was even on the table was after it had happened.

There are other points that are very, very relevant to the story and omissions that have been spun around this subject. I’ve been accused publicly by one of her friends of abusing her child, yet at no point has she felt the need to contact CPS, even though as someone who holds a teaching license in Washington she a mandatory reporter.

I’ve addressed this before, yet the story keeps on being repeated. Once again I stand by every word I’ve written here.

Fuck it, my ex and her friends want a fight I’ll give ‘em one. She clearly wants the end of this relationship to be played out in a public forum and today was the final straw.

I got an interesting email this morning that prompted me to run a few of my analytic macros today, first time I’ve done it since I got back last week and gosh was I surprised…

There are a couple of people trying to be clever about how they search, thinking it’s all quiet and under the radar so to speak.

First example is Ms A, someone who finds my site by searching for the name of the vicar who did the service for my mother. It’s really rather pathetic. You are a smart cookie, the site is “davekean.com”, it’s really not difficult to remember.

I’m just going to give one more example, a Blackberry user we’ll call Ms B who is in Waterloo Canada (and before that New York) who keeps searching with the tag “dave kean abuse”. Really how many Blackberry 8530 users do I know? Especially someone who has searched 68 times in the last 5 weeks, they have not missed a day. For someone who thinks I’m a shit and is listening to a big steaming pile of BS, that’s a lot of time spent here.

Just remember there is no such thing as anonymous in the internet.

Lastly, a wonderful warm comment left by the big ugly fat troll Jeanette. “All of them are better off without fucks like you living in their house.” Actually, you are so wrong, it’s my house.

If you have ever heard an F1 car live you know the earth shattering noise they make. If you’ve only seen the races on TV then a large part of the experience is missing. One car being driven hard is loud, 24 on the opening lap of a grand prix is something else entirely.

You don’t so much hear the cars, as feel the noise. It’s a very visceral experience and in the sanitized safety-Nazi world we live in is possibly quite unique.

Today an F1 engine spin at about 18,000 RPM, that’s down from the 20,000 RPM redline of a couple of years ago. For comparison my Miata engine redlines at about 6500 RPM. This speed adds so much to the race going experience.

Starting in 2013 the 2.4 liter V8 screamers are history, to be replaced by a smaller 1.6 liter turbo engine that is limited to 10,000 RPM. Through use of the turbo and energy recovery systems that power will be about the same, but the noise will be very, very different.

F1 is following the trend of smaller, more efficient road cars. Small turbo (and diesel turbo) engines are seen by many manufacturers as the way forward, a trend more obvious in Europe where every manufacturer has small (1.3-1.8 liter) turbocharged engines. I’ve had a couple in rental cars over the last year and they were very good efficient cars, the Peugeot 207 was exceptionally nice to drive.

F1 as an industry needs all the help it can get when it comes to polishing it’s efficiency/green image (again something far more important in Europe than in the US). As sports go F1 is pretty up front about it’s conspicuous consumption, and I’ve been told this has scared off a couple of potential sponsors that see social responsibility as core to their image. I’m not sure adopting smaller turbo engines and going to a maximum fuel load for a race is going to help F1 adopt the same “we love the earth over money” image, but it’s a start.

It seems rather strange at a time teams and the FIA want costs reduced, such a substantial rule change will cause the manufacturers to spend significant resources to build a new generation of engines. Development bills will come to at least tens of millions of dollars, possibly a lot more. Mercedes and Ferrari have been against the change for this very reason. The current engines are reliable (mostly) and the big investments have been made (again mostly) and they are sound really good.

2010 was a great season, no only were five drivers and three teams competing at the sharp end of the championship, there were three different engine manufacturers too. Keeping the same competitiveness while pushing the envelope of turbo technology and maintaining reliability will be a tall order for the rule makes in Paris.

A lot of fans who have been around a while may remember the time turbocharged engines were around in F1, they were outlawed after the 1988 season. Living large from that time is the legend of the BMW 1.5 liter turbo engine. When I worked for Cosworth, Nelson Piquet was driving for Benetton in ’91 and one evening talked about driving the Brabham in the mid 80’s powered by the turbo BMW. In qualifying with the boost turned up he said it was like driving with a light switch, you either had everything or nothing. He claimed it was horrible to drive, but it had enough power to run the biggest wings and the stickiest tyres to give every piece of grip you could find.

The story goes that one is totally sure how much power it produced, because BMW never had a dyno that went high enough. It’s been said that the later models developed something like 1300 HP in qualifying trim, it was not good for much more than one or two flying laps in qualifying, but must have been impressive to watch.

The new engines will be nothing like that; the reliability rules requiring a driver to only use 8 engines a year are still there. It’s an interesting departure, but if you are the slightest petrol head, go experience a proper noisy F1 while you can.

A big day for football news, first the local story. Sounders signed Fredy Montero as the club’s third designated player yesterday. There is no transparency on the contract, but if they have signed him as a designated player then we must assume he is in the long term plans of the team. This is good news for the side, ownership, Fredy and the fans.

It shows they are not afraid to spend money on the right young players and are adopting a notably different strategy to the other two sides with three designated players signed. LA and New York signed big name players who are mostly on the downside of their career (Landon Donovan excepted) and seem to be aimed at driving ticket sales. And I’m not saying that’s a bad idea.

Seattle has a slightly different approach. Montero is only 23 and joins Alvaro Fernandez and Blaise Nkufo as designated players. Nkufo is a little older and a solid experienced player, but like Montero, Fernandez is an exciting young player with huge upside and are the sort of players that a team build arA big day for football news, first the local story. Sounders signed Fredy Montero as the club’s third designated player yesterday. There is no transparency on the contract, but if they have signed him as a designated player then we must assume he is in the long term plans of the team. This is good news for the side, ownership, Fredy and the fans.

It shows they are not afraid to spend money on the right young players and are adopting a notably different strategy to the other two sides with three designated players signed. LA and New York signed big name players who are mostly on the downside of their career (Landon Donovan excepted) and seem to be aimed at driving ticket sales. And I’m not saying that’s a bad idea for the league, I just like Seattles model better for the long term.

Seattle has a slightly different approach. Montero is only 23 and joins Alvaro Fernandez and Blaise Nkufo as designated players. Nkufo is a little older and a solid experienced player, but like Montero, Fernandez is an exciting young player with huge upside and are the sort of players that a team build around and can be competitive year after year.

Real Salt Lake has done the same thing by signing Álvaro Saborío as a DP. He’s a younger (28 in his case) player that’s proven he can score and after scoring 12 times in 27 league games last year, like Fredy Montero deserves the money and recognition that comes with the DP tag.

I think this is a great move for the Sounders, a young, proven scorer who is going to be here for a while, allied with a creative midfielder with some good speed and a big tough target man up front. Next on my Christmas wish list is to keep the Zakuani here for another year or two.

This is a team that today took a step forward.

The second big news today was the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. They went to Russia and Qatar respectively. The decision process largely takes place behind closed doors. Some time ago the head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, made it clear who he wanted these world cups to go to, and by a strange coincidence, he got what he wanted.

There are two ways of looking at what happened this morning. Either it was a bold decision based on developing the game worldwide. Or the decision was made months ago and the technical reports, lobbying and presentations were just for show.

Both Qatar and Russia scored rather poorly in the technical evaluations. Qatar got marked down for having to build nearly everything, questionable facilities for training and the heat. The stadiums are planned to be air conditioned, but the training grounds are not.

Qatar had some nice touches to the legacy of the event; some of the stadiums will be taken apart and donated to the developing world. A very interesting concept, but does it make up for the 105 degree weather?

Russia had some similar issues around infrastructure, there is a lot of building to be done and the distances are listed as a potentially huge issue for both fans and teams.

Blatter leaves a huge legacy from his time as FIFA president in developing the game world wide. He wanted a tournament in Africa and with the local organizing committee put together a great tournament last summer. He wanted the same for South America and has that in Brazil in 2014. Once he got that part of the wish list sorted he abandoned the “rotation” system for giving out World cups.

Giving the tournaments to Russia and Qatar is big step in the world wide development of the game. However you get the feeling that it was all sorted some time ago and today was just the FIFA committee rubber stamping the bosses decisions.

There were clearly technically better bids than these two and a in the last few weeks two committee members have been barred form taking part after a bribery scandal.

It’s difficult to have a lot of faith in FIFA right now, there needs to be some accountability and transparency in the process of handing out arguably the biggest prize in sports. At the end of the day it’s 22 men sitting in a room and surrounded by controversy deciding this behind closed doors with little accountability. I think the game deserves better at the top.

Real Salt Lake has done the same thing by signing Álvaro Saborío as a DP. He’s a younger (28 in his case) player that’s proven he can score and after scoring 12 times in 27 league games last year, like Fredy Montero deserves the money and recognition that comes with the DP tag.

I think this is a great move for the Sounders, a young, proven scorer who is going to be here for a while, allied with a creative midfielder with some good speed and a big tough target man up front. Next on my Christmas wish list is to keep the Zakuani here for another year or two.

This is a team that today took a step forward.

The second big news today was the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. They went to Russia and Qatar respectively. The decision process largely takes place behind closed doors. Some time ago the head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, made it clear who he wanted these world cups to go to, and by a strange coincidence, he got what he wanted.

There are two ways of looking at what happened this morning. Either it was a bold decision based on developing the game worldwide. Or the decision was made months ago and the technical reports, lobbying and presentations were just for show.

Both Qatar and Russia scored rather poorly in the technical evaluations. Qatar got marked down for having to build nearly everything, questionable facilities for training and the heat. The stadiums are planned to be air conditioned, but the training grounds are not.

Qatar had some nice touches to the legacy of the event; some of the stadiums will be taken apart and donated to the developing world. A very interesting concept, but does it make up for the 105 degree weather? One last thing about Qatar, in places like England and Germany having a drink is part of the football culture. While Qatar is not totally dry, it’s difficult to get a casual drink and there is absolutely no alcohol outside the big hotel bars. It would be interesting to see what 25,000 sober England fans look like, let alone a dry Tartan Army should Scotland make it.

Russia had some similar issues around infrastructure, there is a lot of building to be done and the distances are listed as a potentially huge issue for both fans and teams.

Blatter leaves a huge legacy from his time as FIFA president in developing the game world wide. He wanted a tournament in Africa and with the local organizing committee put together a great tournament last summer. He wanted the same for South America and has that in Brazil in 2014. Once he got that part of the wish list sorted he abandoned the “rotation” system for giving out World cups.

Giving the tournaments to Russia and Qatar is big step in the world wide development of the game. However you get the feeling that it was all sorted some time ago and today was just the FIFA committee rubber stamping the bosses decisions.

There were clearly technically better bids than these two and a in the last few weeks two committee members have been barred form taking part after a bribery scandal.

It’s difficult to have a lot of faith in FIFA right now, there needs to be some accountability and transparency in the process of handing out arguably the biggest prize in sports. At the end of the day it’s 22 men sitting in a room and surrounded by controversy deciding this behind closed doors with little accountability. I think the game deserves better at the top.

Before today I knew a little about agile project management. It’s not a new model, especially if you’ve been involved in software development. On the surface it looks like another form of incremental and iterative development, but it’s actually a little more than that. It’s certainly got some interesting ideas that on first glance look like they will transition to the hardware manager role.

I’m in the process of developing a couple of complex tracking tools that if it goes well will allow me to lean out my job and automate a couple of the more time consuming functions. The idea has a lot of potential, but will blow up the way things have been done for a while and start over again. Not always a popular more.

My proposal involves a lot of process changes in addition to the development of the tools. It’s a huge project and I’ve been given some resources and buy in to create a pilot over the next couple of months. One of the aspects of agile that separates it from regular incremental/iterative spiral PM is the speed of the release cycle and role of managers in enabling the rapid turns.

One of the issues I’ve come across outside of my home org is managers that have vast experience and knowledge of the product, I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but they are really the very definition of “anti-agile”.  They don’t so much just coach people, as direct them. As a result, the people are not empowered to do what’s needed and with that comes a certain level of frustration from those in the trenches. The managers are not doing management work.

In my org Managers may have lived with the product for a long time, but have never lost focus of who is in the offices and cubes everyday dealing with the issues close up. I think they have done a good job of getting the right people and putting where they are needed. Let people do their best and lead out teams and we will move heaven and hell to deliver a good product. I’ve yet to have my actions second-guessed in this org, and that’s quite the testament to my managers and the freedom they give the leads.

I spent a little time today talking about “agile PM” today with an experienced practitioner, it’s gained quite a lot of exposure in the PM world recently. As I’m getting back into that role figured I should learn a little more about it. Some of the idea fit rather well with my proposal. I’ve got to pitch it next week to the peer review group, which is always a tough audience. Once I’m through that and my idea is not totally shredded, I get to rebuild and present it to the program managers. That’s not as hard, but way more nerve racking.

Back to agile, as I said it’s got some very interesting concepts, especially on the difference between iterative and incremental releases that at first glance look like they will apply rather well to hardware and configuration control.

It seems that an important aspect of lean is the role of managers. They are there to support and empower, rather than direct, from what I got today managers have a couple of major tasks in agile.

First as program managers whose main responsibility is to directing a multi-project portfolio in their org. They are interested in more than a straight cost/benefit business case; they also want me to show where we will leverage the work into complementary projects in the future.

Second is creating an environment for success. This can mean ensuring resources are available, of making sure the minutia of day-to-day in a big org are taken care of and finally running interference with other groups. My group is lucky we have someone who takes care of the minutia part rather efficiently, but seemingly trivial things like signing up for training or booking travel takes significant chunks of time. The final part, running interference and allowing us to concentrate on the projects is becoming more and more important, and I work for a manager who is very good at it.

I’ve got some reading to do when I get some quiet time next week, probably while sitting on an airplane.

I made it the full month! Through the itching, ridicule and looking like this on a couple of business trips in the last month. I really don’t think this form of facial hair suits me. On the bright side, I was not the only one growing it for the month, thanks to Keith and Rob for keeping me company and not making me feel totally self conscious.

However, it’s come in rather full and I’ve actually had to trim the furry caterpillar under my lip a couple of times. It comes off tomorrow, I’ve raised a little money (and a 100% match from work, thank you) and had some fun tonight at the Movember Beer tasting in Kirkland.

I think I look pretty stupid at the best of times, and this was not helping. In proper Movember style (so I’m told), it goes in the morning. One last reminder, if you are over 40 and have not have 15 foot of hose pipe shoved up your arse in a few years, go make an appointment with your favorite proctologist. It’s really not as bad as all that.

I was listening to a BBC podcast today and they had an excerpt from Thatcher’s 1980 Conference speech, the rather influential “this lady is not for turning” speech.

Here we are thirty years later and last month was David Cameron’s first Tory conference as PM and the most significant theme of his election campaign was carried through to the conference. Big Society and what it means. I’m not a natural Tory and did not vote for them last spring.

It’s difficult to imagine Thatcher using the same words and discussing “new politics” while telling her base that’s she is cutting child benefits for the middle class. The PM said “I know how anxious people are. I wish there was an easier way, but I have to tell you there is no other responsible way.” His first speech as PM was not rewarded with cheers and endless ovations.

I think most people understand what Cameron is talking about in his “big society”, getting rid of the huge central bureaucracy put in place by Labour over the last 13 years and giving power to local authorities and empowering local people to run things as they see fit.

Cameron did not face his critics during his speech, the child benefit cuts are seen as exactly what they are, an attack on the middle classes. The PM and the senior members of the coalition, to a certain extent have to sell the British people the financial pain, hundreds of thousands of public job losses and shrinking public services are going to be worth it. We understand there is little choice, that the road of the last few years is unsustainable and get the doom and gloom both the current and previous governments were very vocal about.

It’s not so much the elimination of child benefit that’s important, it’s that the chancellor announced it at the party conference. He was letting the public know that the conservative base that gave Cameron and the Tories Number 10, will be suffering alongside the rest of us.

The spending review cut some 80 billion pounds of spending, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and at the party conference a few weeks ago the PM and chancellor made it clear everyone is going to take some of the pain. In theory the austerity that is going to go along with the reduction of the bloated, centralized government that emerged during the good times under Blair has been applauded by most. However this was the first contact the Troy faithful have had, and like everyone else, they don’t like it

He said most of the right things, content was fine, but the delivery poor. He lacked the humanity, the down to earthness that he was known for on the opposition benches. Critics have been very vocal about Cameron and Osborne not understanding the British middle class. They come from a place of privilege and don’t get the aspirations people have to move forward.

The main point of Cameron’s speech was his much talked about his vision of “Big Society”.

‘Let’s pull together,’ he said. ‘Let’s work together in the national interest_… The Big Society needs you to give it life… More power to local government and your neighborhood and you… It is a revolution. We are the radicals now.’

All very noble and rather compelling TV in the moment, but I think most people are pretty apathetic about the whole idea. No one has shown how it will help them day-to-day. It’s just politics as usual. Snow, North Korea and England’s performance are far more pressing to most.

There was nothing in the speech to make the electorate sit up and think “he may be onto something here…” The cynical see it as a distraction from the theme of cuts, cuts and more cuts.

You know there is discontent in the party when the leader that gave them government after 13 years in opposition is compared to Thatcher, and the Tory right are not happy. They feel Cameron is making a critical mistake by hitting the people who voted for him. They say (rightly, BTW) Margaret Thatcher would never have done that. Like Blair, she always looked after the people that put her there.

Most people have a number of very separate careers through their lives. I have, I started off life as an aircraft mechanic, which led to a fairly logical step of working on racecars before I finally got round to going to college.

Today I spend most of my working day sitting in a cube and working on a computer or going to meetings. A significant amount of the time it’s not the most stimulating job in the world, but I have been lucky to work for some exceptional managers.

Turning up the right conference room with a working pen is considered a successful day by some.

After a long day of sitting on my arse I like to do something that makes me feel I’ve contributed or achieved something during the day. If not at work, then at home is a great substitution.

Messing around with the car, setting the gears on my bike or perhaps a little DIY is a little like therapy after a day in cubeville. I’m convinced a little manual labour, especially something that needs a little thought or precision, stimulates something deep down in the reptilian-man brain.

Take the last few months; I finally finished rebuilding the back end of my Miata. It got backed into by an SUV a little while ago, the rear end, the diff mount and rear suspension got tweaked rather badly. It turned out to be a bigger job than I expected, in total almost two hundred hours to strip, repair, rebuild and finally tweak the rear end straight. As big a pain in the arse as the job was, working with my hands is rather theaputic.

Today it all paid off when not only did the Miata turn a wheel for the first time in 5 months, but drove in a straight line down the road with none of the clunking from the back end. Rather pleased with all the hard work.

I love mechanical things, stuff I can study or look at and see how it works. Understand the principals and how the parts interact to make it all go. The cam followers or the rear diff on the Miata, Calculating how to trim the laminate flooring to make it all fit around a series of 45 degree corners in a room where nothing is square.

I love my digital camera, I can’t conceive of using a film camera any more, it’s the poster child for instant gratification. But I can’t take it apart and see how it works. Many years ago a friend game me an Olympus manual SLR camera that he broke. I stripped it down, fixed the winder mechanism and I had a perfectly functioning camera.

However, should my digital camera break, all I’m going to be able to do is bang it a couple of times to see if percussive maintenance is going to work, check the batteries and if it’s still not working then throw it away. There is nothing I can fix or play with to get it working again.

Then there is DIY, a friend is so incompetent around the house that he called someone to install a few shelves. This as embarrassing to males in general, not just him.

How long does it take to drill a few holes, install some plugs and screw everything together? 10 or 15 minutes tops, yet he calls in a guy to do it for him.

I’m buying him “Sex in the City – Series 1” for Christmas, it seems fitting for someone that emasculated.

He sees a big job and does not have the knowledge to break it down into the required steps (this is even worse, because he’s a manufacturing engineer in real life) to make the job more manageable.

I grew up generally fiddling and playing with mechanical things. I get it from both dad and granddad, neither would dream of paying someone to do anything for them short of putting a new roof on the house. Both worked in different ways with their hands and brains. By the time I was 12 or 13 I knew what all the tools in dads garage or my grandfathers shed did, and how to use them. By 15 my uncle had shown me how to weld and granddad taught me how to change a head gasket on an Austin A-series engine (a skill that was much used on my Allegro a few years later), set the timing and set up the rockers on an OHV engine.

Growing up this was normal stuff, I did not consider it to be anything special, but I now know it’s maybe a little unusual. Both my brother and I learned trades when we left school, he became an electrician and I ended up with my aircraft mechanics licenses.

I get that now things have changed and that Britain does not actually make much now. In the 80’s at Bishop Reindorp School, I along with every other boy did four years of Craft Design Technology. It consisted of some woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing and learning how to make things from plastic. All great practical skills to have.

The idea of making stuff with your hands seemed normal, in part because when I grew up the UK still had a significant manufacturing base, My dad worked with his hands, as did most of my friends fathers, it’s just what they did. The manufacturing industry has shrunk so much over the last generation. With that reduction (in 1970 manufacturing employed 28% of the workforce, today it’s 9%) the need for, and teaching of the skills like metalworking and reading engineering drawings, skills that’s needed to make stuff has followed the same trend down.

And that’s rather sad. Yes I’ve had my failures, I’ve broken engines, sent myself flying across one of mums friends kitchens because when I discovered that I’d not switched off the power before installing a new light fixture. But I had a go at it. I used my experience to break a seeming complex task down into a number of steps and carefully worked along them. Occasionally I find a gap in my knowledge and learn the hard way (or hit the floor in a hard way).

And next time I installed a light fixture, that hard won experience taught me to switch off power at the breaker coming into the house…

A friend sent me this video today, he also sent it to a couple of Manchester United supporting friends (buy the shirt, bask in the glory and struggle to find Manchester on a map). United have a front line of Best, Law and Charlton.

It’s always fun to watch United (the champions from the previous season) get hammered, even if it is from 1965-66, but there are a couple of very well taken goals. The third goal by Jimmy Greaves is just wonderful. Enjoy the video Rob.