I still don't get it though. Even if this is true, why would GM care if two dealers try and take each other's business? Who cares which dealer puts in the production orders, it's still the same amount of cars sold? It would make more sense if the dealers themselves were looking for a way out so that they could try and sell decent cars from a different manufacturer, but that's not the case here.

Strange.

I picked up* "Grateful" by Carpark North, a Danish rock/electronics band that probably no one has heard of. I have their other CDs too, it's really quite good.

* when I write "picked up" I obviously mean "shamelessly STOLE it from the internet for free, wanker that I am" (which, incidently, is still legal here)

I live in the Kingdom of Taxes, so I share your pain. If I think too much about how wrong it all is and how we all have to bend over,  I might as well jump from the tallest building. Luckily there aren't any 

I second that! In my eyes, Dwight is not only the greatest character but he's also played by the best actor of the show. Not that the others are doing bad at all, clearly they enjoy what they do.

How about the time Dwight set the building on fire because no one seemed to pay any attention to his fire drills?

I do try Linux from time to time... I've even ditched Windows for a few months and went Linux completely (Fedora back then I think). But as much as I hate Windows wasting my time/patience, I will NOT accept a Linux alternative where I must turn to the terminal and type in silly commands for anything but the most idiot-proof tasks. And I know we still have to. It's the 21st century and that's just sad. So a move to the Mac seems 100x more likely.

Actually that was just my typo: NOW instead of NOT

Don't you worry bananaskittles, The Office has been renewed for another year
The current season has of course ended, as it turned out the last episode was aired on my birthday!

You know what, I'll just catch up on the episodes I've missed and hope I was wrong and you were both right! I want to laugh damnit!!

It is a nice ass though. Why can't he just be happy, having landed such a beauty? F**k credit. She's worth it

Hey Willis, nice to meet you! Nintendo fanboy huh? See ya around, greetings from across the Channel (more or less).

I'm with the British dame, I really have no idea what this is about... but I share your anger, let's take to the streets and riot in protest! 
(note to self: do not spout nonsense in public)

Hey Sofia, welcome to the forum!

Nice one Semiotica, I'm also much in favour of picking your own working hours. Unfortunately I don't see that happening if your work involves any kind of interaction with clients... you can't just change the world that easily and people expect to be able to reach you between certain hours.

I've had a bad period where I suffered from some kind of insomnia, the contradictary one: I felt tired pretty much all the time, yet when I took my time to sleep, it wouldn't come or it would be extremely light. Can't explain it, it's gone now and I don't understand that either. I can't recall any major changes I've made. Or actually, changed too many parameters at once and back again, I can't know which one or ones did the trick. Or even if it was just a coincidence.

Nowadays I get up early (5.30) and meditate of sorts for about 20 minutes. Laugh all you want, it seems to work for me. It's basically more like a bit of timed/conscious day dreaming. It really helps to start the day fresh, calm & focussed for me and that's why I take the time and keep doing it most days. The downside to starting work relatively early is that you ought to get to bed early as well (22.00) and that I don't like: evenings/early nights are for leisure time! Practically I get by with 6 1/2 - 7 hours of sleep, although I do sometimes take a power nap early in the evening... that could be 'old' age though

At work my peak hours seem to be early mornings, I try to get the tough stuff done before lunch because I dip off slightly in the afternoon.

I've also noticed that, despite what you might expect (or again for me anyway), caffeine is not helpful at all. It merely makes the peaks slightly higher and the lows a LOT lower. If you drink a lot of coffee it may be difficult at first, but I found my overall focus to be quite good and consistent without any caffeine at all. God I sound like a health guru now!! To make amends for it, I am very lazy with sports. I prefer to prevent getting fat over working hard to get it off again, that's really my only motivation to watch what I stuff in my body

The key basically is... take care of your body. You can only ignore it for so long before your crash and burn or at least take on a zombie-like appearance.