It's the last day of the school holidays ... back into madness next week. I'm actually kind of looking forward to it.
What I'm not looking forward to is hearing how the Government has run out of money, and rather than aiming it's guns at all the layabouts, it's instead saying they're going to keep their promises to them (to not cut "entitlements") and break the promise of a tax-cut (ie sorry guys, we still need you to be putting in just as much as if we were a socialist government, oh wait, I think we are ...) to the poor slobs who work and work and work and end up paying for everything.
Maybe it's all a bad dream and I'll wake up soon.
What I'm not looking forward to is hearing how the Government has run out of money, and rather than aiming it's guns at all the layabouts, it's instead saying they're going to keep their promises to them (to not cut "entitlements") and break the promise of a tax-cut (ie sorry guys, we still need you to be putting in just as much as if we were a socialist government, oh wait, I think we are ...) to the poor slobs who work and work and work and end up paying for everything.
Maybe it's all a bad dream and I'll wake up soon.
Good evening Lucyna. We're off to work for the last night shift before a fortnight's holiday--if tearing out internal walls to fit insulation can be so described!
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't even want to think about the fact that a third of this shift will go to those who refuse to work....
Hi KG!
ReplyDeleteA holiday is when you get to do what you want - no matter what that is.
Well, that's true. And we get the reward of knowing the job's done at last.
ReplyDeleteI never could relax by doing nothing--that's exhausting!
My holidays finished last Friday. Uni started back this week so everthing has been go. We homeschool around my holidays as that makes more sense to me.
ReplyDeleteStill, I hear you on the tax cut front.
Hi kg. Hope your holiday is fruitful. With the nights getting cooler, your timing will be good.
ReplyDeleteMake sure there is no asbestos in the walls..although I have no idea how one would tell.
Hmm..hi there Zen. I sent you a mail about a book, by the way.
ReplyDeleteAsbestos? Bah--we eat the stuff around here. :-)
Seriously, years ago when I was building some fibreglass boats we used blue asbestos by the sackful, without benefit of masks or any other protective gear as a filler for 'bog', a mixture of asbestos and polyester resin.
So if if mesothelioma is in my future, it'd better hurry up, at my age!
Inhaled deeply and then see if you are dead in 20 years time.
ReplyDeleteHi Madeleine.
ReplyDeleteIt IS 20+ year's time. Right now. And it was certainly inhaled deeply, since we were working hard.
Sounds like there's no problem then LOL!
ReplyDeletePerhaps vast amounts of salt, cigarettes and saturated fats and red meat will do the job? I'm working on it.;-)
ReplyDeleteSaturated fats and red meat is PC crap unsupported by science - consume them with a clear conscience. Try trans fat.
ReplyDeleteGood evening all and sundry.
ReplyDeleteIt is mighty cold down here this PM.
There will be ice on the path tomorrow morning - sigh.
My little Nadezhda has bailed out and moved to Queensland. I miss her already but she has itchy feet just like her Dad did at her age.
Howdy folks! Hey kg, I'll check my mail. Don't think I have looked at it all week. Hope I didn't win lotto - I could have retired earlier.
ReplyDeleteJust up the salt content, sounds like you'll be preserved to a fine old age, which at that point the wine will kick in well matured...
And red meat is very healthy. I hope.
How old is she Andrei?
ReplyDeleteAndrei did you see that Farrar edited your comment under HC's doctorate to remove the lecturer's name? PC madness!
ReplyDeleteSaturated fats and red meat is PC crap unsupported by scienceTheir supported by 'political' science or should I say politicized science.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness the crap that is passed off as scholarship these days never ceases to amaze me.
Madeline;
ReplyDeleteShe is nineteen and has already been to Europe (with her Grandma) and Japan twice (with school) as well as Australia twice by herself.
She has always been extremely independent.
And yes I did see the editing but between you, me and the doorpost he left the link (containing the title of a paper as text) so if anybody really wants to know the name - well its not going to be that hard is it.
But we should keep that - shhhh
Whhaaat? Nah, can't have heard anything. All quiet.
ReplyDeleteFarrar won't delete it.
ReplyDeleteBetween me, you and everyone else reading, I was pretty confident that Farrar would not delete the entire comment as Paul requested and would do precisely that so that anyone wanting to know who or what I was on about could do so.
Farrar knows I wouldn't make something like that up. Besides, I am not the only person or the first person to claim such things. Dr Robert White, who studied law along with me and Paul at Waikato, wrote a massive expose in the Free Radical some years back claiming very similar things.
Farrar and White were both members of Student Choice at the time, as was I.
Its the vegetarian movement trying to gain dominance.
ReplyDeleteI think I feel a post centred on my T-shirt coming on.
ReplyDeleteOur daughter is very independant too and Matt is in discussions about a job that will take us to the Bay of Plenty. Our daughter has indicated that if he gets it, she won't come with us. Her friends are in Auckland, and she really wants to do archaeology and ancient history papers for her undergrad degree. Auckland offers these papers, Waikato does not.
ReplyDeleteIts really hard for me at the moment as I feel like I have to choose between Matt's career and keeping my daughter at home. Silly really as she is very independant, but she has not yet come to her own faith, she believes but she doesn't it has not clicked into place, I worry it won't - especiall if she is out on her own.
It may not happen yet of course.
How old is she Madeline?
ReplyDeleteSooner or later the birds must leave the nest - it a poignant thing. You can't help but worry and feel a sense of loss but at the same time you are glad they are achieving independence.
As for her faith - well Christianity is a personal religion. We each have to find our Faith for ourselves. All we can do is point our kids in the right direction and hopefully set good examples for them.
I know. She is 17 in a few weeks. If Matt lands this job we are not talking about taking it up until Christmas/New Years so she will be coming up towards 18.
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