Apparently. Unless they are dragging out the process throughout the week. It actually won't be complete for another month, but this group's round would be this week and done.

Shit. This means I have to do my stupid goals for next year.

Though my brother says he catches himself humming Wiggles songs in the lab, which earn him funny looks from his coworkers.

I have a recording of the Wiggles covering an AC/DC song. It's fun.

Goal 1: to slack off a lot more so the next round of layoffs will get me before I have to make up goals again.

Dude.

Dresses with va va voom.

(link stolen from dressaday.com)

Dresses with va va voom.

Want! They even have a perfect one for Jesse!

la la la...no dresses for me!

Americans are dumb. That's what Toyota said. OK, not really. But recently Toyota chose to build a new factory in Ontario, rather than in the American south (where a lot of foreign car companies have their American factories) - despite being offered much higher subsidies by American states.

Several U.S. states were reportedly prepared to offer more than double that amount of subsidy. But Fedchun said much of that extra money would have been eaten away by higher training costs than are necessary for the Woodstock project.

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

"The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.

In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

We suck.

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Oh, and foreign car companies usually locate their American factories in the south, as auto factory workers in the south usually aren't unionized.

In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

This is the biggest reason. GM closed their plants in the US because of the high cost of health care insurance for its current and retired employees. Retired employees, no longer paying into the health care program themselves, were costing GM millions of dollars a year in continued health care costs. Since Canada has universal health care for basic health care servcies, their health care coverage costs are much lower in Canada.

Does this seem possible:

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found fast asleep 130 feet (40 meters) up on the arm of a crane, police said on Wednesday.

Emergency services were called to a building site in London after a passer-by spotted the 15-year-old girl curled up on top of a concrete counterweight high above the ground.

The teenager, who has not been named, had climbed up the crane and walked across a narrow metal beam while fast asleep during the incident, which happened on June 25.

Damn. I'd hate to wake up on top of a giant crane, not knowing how I got there. Or even knowing how I got there.

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Since Canada has universal health care for basic health care servcies, their health care coverage costs are much lower in Canada.

My prediction is that the U.S. will end up with universal health care. At some point business groups are going to start wanting it, once some serious money gets behind the idea, it will happen.