nomadpete

Too late. Somebody already wote.. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

I don't expect the employer (taxpayers) to pay for family airfares, etc. When I spent 20yrs travelling for work, my wage was somewhat higher than city based equivalents. Sometimes I delayed my return at the end of a project. I paid my wife's airfare to join me for the weekend. I paid the extra couple of days at the hotel. I was a mere technician but I did this to maintain some work/life balance, to make up a bit for my absence from home. I didn't think it fair to expect my employer to pay for that. Many jobs put stress on home life. Politician or bureaucrat is just one such job.

Nev, we live in a capitalist world. Politicians are in it for the money, even the ones that start out with high ideals. Maybe excepting the rare few who are motivated primarily by ethics.

Having now read the first chapter of "Tall Tales and True from an Adventurous Life", I am singularly impressed by the great strides you have made. You really can type! We hope all future posts are as well typed! Darn. Took so long to read, my coffee went cold.

There has been mention of that from time to time. Sadly, I think it is to be expected.

Yeah. We had summer for a couple of days last week. Shorts & tee shirts. Sunday the grey came back with wet air. Four degrees this morning!

Hey I was only highlighting a product that USA has a surplus of. The could benefit from exporting their surplus porky arseholes.

More than that, I believe that Both Russia and USA presently aim to break up the EU. It would be far easier for them to intimidate or intimidate the disparate European countries if they can be separated.

Allegedly:- "Russia has attacked 4 Turkish ships over the past 48 hours. 3 of the ships were hit by Russian suicide drones in the port of Odesa yesterday while 1 ship was hit by a Russian drone out at open sea." This looks like a bold step - attacking vessels registered to a NATO country. https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1999960598248091839/photo/1

Haven't seen these in Woollies lately. Have you?

See what happens when you deport all your cheap workers? Clearly, the bloke who usually fitted the saw blade had been sent home

Yes. I think the donkey has yellow hair.

The frightening side of this is the alleged memo that outlines the scope of electronic searches. I believe there are phrases such as "anti American" and any content that is called "counter to accepted American family values" and not favoring christian values, etc. And authorising automated electronic trawling of phones, social media accounts and emails - over the past 5 years! Remember also that Australian telcos are required to store all our internet activity. And we have intelligence sharing agreements with USA. So glad that I have no intention to visit USA

He must have a really great paper run!

Troppo is no problem this far south. Cabin fever takes it's toll in winter though. And winter comes about 3 times a year.

I do wonder whether tRump has managed to get all the foil off his FIFI Peace medal, before he ate the chocolate.....

We had a lovely warm sunny day yesterday. Today was gloomy grey and rainy. Tonight is forecast to snow on Mt Wellington (Hobart). I blame BOM. They are doing this to us just to upset us.

Maybe you should send a stern letter to BOM?

There seems to be some folk in Yew Hess Hay, who seem somewhat disenchanted with the incumbent *resident of the White House. One such kind soul recently suggested their next election preference thus:- "Once again, if a 'Flaming Bag of Dog Poo on my Doorstep, that Someone Left after Ringing my Doorbell and Ran off' is on my ballot, and the only other choice is Trump or some other bullshitter MAGA tool who sees Americans as his enemy, I’ll vote for the bag of shit that doesn’t pretend to be something else." (American eloquence par excellence)

Maybe not today.... But let's see what tomorrow brings.

The Climate Change Debate.... I am pretty sure that there is no debate to be had about Climate Change. It is changing. - That debate is over - Further, it is pretty much universally agreed that anthropogenic climate change is real. - That Debate is over - There seems to still be some relatively minor uncertainty about how much of this climate change is caused by human activity suddenly adding significant amounts of greenhouse gasses. Is that really a debate? The media attention focuses on CO2, mostly from the burning of coal and oils. There is a big fuss over CO2. There is a negative side to that. I think this is distracting the public from noticing the other greenhouse gas emissions and the othe massive global pollution problems. The way I see it, the human animal has evolved to react when an immediate crisis threatens. In the case of the above complex poisoning of our environment, the threat, although ultimately catastrophic, is gradually occuring and seems distant. So we sit at home in a comfy armchair, doomscrolling & watching cat videos.

The new normal?

Statistics prove that people who live longer are more likely to say something stupid than people who don't.