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[patentdragon]

In Today's Episode... "The Secret Adventures of Brighthawk, Volume 1" continue, as Brighthawk starts to relate the tale of her first big adventure, and how that adventure brings her into contact with Charybdis...

Release notes... It's nice to write something with different "stars", particularly characters who're "related" but are so very different in personal style. We'll be seeing how this relationship works out as things progress. Stay tuned!

In today's headline news... ...and before I even got up, half my week's hassle just melted away.

Some teachers are on strike today in England and Wales, so some other public sector employees decided to have a strike too. I can't see any logic in Scottish workers striking when Scottish teachers already have an agreed pay-deal, but I did get an unexpected lie-in, so I can't really complain. Hey, they even phoned to let me know I didn't have to show up this morning - but I do still have a different appointment tomorrow, which I now feel a good deal better about.

As far as the teachers go, I have to agree with their position, and not just because of family connections to that profession. It's shocking to see how many of the general public have reacted to the strike, complaining about how they've been inconvenienced by having to take time off or hurriedly make childcare arrangements - these complainers are the people who are so quick to pass the responsibility for bringing up their children to schools and teachers at the earliest opportunity! Horror of horrors, the teachers earn more than you? Could that perhaps be because they do YOUR parental job too, instilling these little darlings with a sense of right and wrong, an understanding of respect for others or some other form of social responsibility, as well as teaching them to read, write, add up, speak other languages...?

Oh, so teachers have the easiest job in the world, with loads more time off than everyone else? I guess the lessons just leap fully formed from the text-books, do they? Marking your children's work is just a matter of randomly picking a number or a colour of pen, maybe? Don't be so bloody stupid - teachers can be sworn at, bullied, spat at, even physically or sexually assaulted by their "students", and if the teachers so much as raise their voices these days, poor little Liam or Chantelle can go running home to mummy and daddy and get the teacher and the school sued for infringing their "human rights". Pathetic.

/rant

And finally... Glad I taped Heroes, 'cause I'm definitely going to need to see that again...