So if I seem somewhat distracted in my blog entries over the next week or so, in the 'honeymoon' period with a new site or game or whatever that I seem to have, apologies now LOL.
The Canuck election coming up on Monday, North America time - looks like the Tories are just losing a bit of their momentum, and may have to make do with a minority government. But that is just what the polls are saying, one of the elections back home they were forecasting a National massacre and Bolger kept the Prime Ministership - in his immortal words, 'bugger the pollsters'. Ick, there's a thought, we elected Bolger to be PM three times.
But then again, when was the last inspiring Kiwi leader? Heck, we elected Holyoake for about twenty years, and from my history lessons the country was pretty dull back then...
World stock markets have been stuttering this week - the Nikkei lost a few hundred points because of possible Live Door company fraud, and the Dow tanked overnight, Aussie time. Of course, does this have any use in the real world? I keep hearing how more and more people are doing the stock market and such, but apart from my super fund, which is compulsory in this neck of the woods, it doesn't impact me at all... no, not even oil costs, since I don't have a car.
What's that you say, transport costs mean more expense to get goods to shops. Eh, you know what I mean when I say it doesn't personally effect me.
I never make, and therefore never break, New Year's resolutions, but am thinking of getting some ideas together for this upcoming thirtieth birthday of mine. Should I go to the gym - I enjoyed it, from hindsight, when I went with SWI for those trial times in Wellington.
Should I perhaps start planning for my retirement - have avoided it in the time since I have joined the workforce, but everybody is supposed to be responsible for their own retirement nowadays, not like in the twenty or thirty years past when you got to retirement and the taxpayers bailed you out totally. Damned baby boomers and oncoming drop in workers to pensioners ratio LOL.
Any other ideas for a thirtieth resolution would gladly be taken on the back of an envelope or email perhaps :)
The Iraqi election results were released today - the Iranian leaning Shia coalition won the most seats, but not an outright election. Now, the difficult question, is it better to have a government of national unity where everyone agrees to everything but hardly anything changes, or to have a proper opposition, where things could change more quickly, more disagreements, but hopefully settled in a political rather than a civil war sense.
More later
Pauly
The Canuck election coming up on Monday, North America time - looks like the Tories are just losing a bit of their momentum, and may have to make do with a minority government. But that is just what the polls are saying, one of the elections back home they were forecasting a National massacre and Bolger kept the Prime Ministership - in his immortal words, 'bugger the pollsters'. Ick, there's a thought, we elected Bolger to be PM three times.
But then again, when was the last inspiring Kiwi leader? Heck, we elected Holyoake for about twenty years, and from my history lessons the country was pretty dull back then...
World stock markets have been stuttering this week - the Nikkei lost a few hundred points because of possible Live Door company fraud, and the Dow tanked overnight, Aussie time. Of course, does this have any use in the real world? I keep hearing how more and more people are doing the stock market and such, but apart from my super fund, which is compulsory in this neck of the woods, it doesn't impact me at all... no, not even oil costs, since I don't have a car.
What's that you say, transport costs mean more expense to get goods to shops. Eh, you know what I mean when I say it doesn't personally effect me.
I never make, and therefore never break, New Year's resolutions, but am thinking of getting some ideas together for this upcoming thirtieth birthday of mine. Should I go to the gym - I enjoyed it, from hindsight, when I went with SWI for those trial times in Wellington.
Should I perhaps start planning for my retirement - have avoided it in the time since I have joined the workforce, but everybody is supposed to be responsible for their own retirement nowadays, not like in the twenty or thirty years past when you got to retirement and the taxpayers bailed you out totally. Damned baby boomers and oncoming drop in workers to pensioners ratio LOL.
Any other ideas for a thirtieth resolution would gladly be taken on the back of an envelope or email perhaps :)
The Iraqi election results were released today - the Iranian leaning Shia coalition won the most seats, but not an outright election. Now, the difficult question, is it better to have a government of national unity where everyone agrees to everything but hardly anything changes, or to have a proper opposition, where things could change more quickly, more disagreements, but hopefully settled in a political rather than a civil war sense.
More later
Pauly
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