pinkozcat
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Remember - pillage first, THEN burn.
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Post by pinkozcat on Nov 12, 2010 20:55:27 GMT -5
Welcome back, Wyndham. I am so glad that you have returned safe and sound.
Will you have to go back again at any time?
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 14, 2010 14:26:47 GMT -5
Auspicious date (11/11) that you posted about your return Young Man. Welcome back WL
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wordswordswords
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"There's no harm in hoping." - Voltaire
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Post by wordswordswords on Nov 22, 2010 1:29:26 GMT -5
Wyndham, welcome back!
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Post by Wyndham on Nov 23, 2010 22:43:24 GMT -5
No, I don't think I'll have to go back. I was there almost a year! Doesn't seem that way, but there you go. I've spent the past couple of weeks walking the dog and catching up on my beer drinking. You'd be amazed how long it takes before that goes stale. I wouldn't know, as it hasn't yet.
Interesting place, but my clinical impression is 'not much hope'. Issue isn't the insurgency, but the poverty. There just isn't anything there, other than maniacs and goats. Alas, with climate change, the goats are in decline, while with modern medicine, the maniacs are increasing. That's the sort of math from which there just isn't any escape.
Otherwise, a couple of scary moments, and alot of hard work, but none the worse for the wear.
Hope you're all well?
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Post by RobertGraves on Nov 27, 2010 0:55:30 GMT -5
*Laughing* Good to read your laconic wit has not been affected by the experience
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Post by Wyndham on Nov 29, 2010 16:37:31 GMT -5
Less tolerant I think generally, however. The Taliban have it half right, and I just wish there were more positive content in our culture to offer as replacement.
Just finished reading Chris Hedges 'Empire of Illusion'. A very depressing assessment, but probably more than half right.
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 17, 2010 23:44:45 GMT -5
Enjoying the first of 40 glorious days of summer holidays!
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Post by Wyndham on Dec 23, 2010 9:27:31 GMT -5
Summer holidays. We just had record snowfalls. More snow in two days, than fell all of last year. True. December is shaping to be the record month, ever. Global warming my butt.
Hope you're enjoying the holidays Robert.
Heah! What about the N. Korea eh? Somebody should put that whacky little place out of its misery. A good article in the recent issue of National Geographic on it.
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 28, 2010 23:55:57 GMT -5
Seems like everywhere North of here is snowing. It has been a wet and mild start to summer here, don't think we have had a day over 30 yet.
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Post by Wyndham on Dec 29, 2010 20:37:57 GMT -5
Read in the paper that there's lots of flooding, and that real estate prices are out of this world.
Please, Lord, can't we stop hosing funny money into the world economy, for speculators to rip people off most where the ripping off is best?
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pinkozcat
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Post by pinkozcat on Dec 29, 2010 22:54:32 GMT -5
Flooding everywhere but Perth and its surrounds where we are having the worst drought for years and temperatures up to 40 degrees. There is a sea breeze today, thank goodness, because I am washing windows and fly screens so I can't turn on the air conditioning. And I need the house prices to stay high for a few more weeks; my house is going onto the market an a couple of weeks and I need a good price to cover the cost of my new apartment which, thank goodness, I bought off the plan three years ago, so its price is fixed. I never thought that it would be this hard: I have lived here since 1964 and am hating the process of prettying the house up to sell, especially since I, the estate agent and the Chief Christmas Elf (in charge of fixing everything which needs fixing) know that the property is ripe for subdivision and the house will almost certainly be knocked down.
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 30, 2010 3:19:49 GMT -5
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Post by Wyndham on Jan 10, 2011 9:27:05 GMT -5
Good luck Pink! When you're playing musical chairs, best to have a seat before the music ends. Can't be too many verses left to play.
Papers here are full or worrisome financial news. Europeans are in trouble (again), and the US is masquing big trouble by thinking happy thoughts and printing a trillion whenever it finds itself short. We, meanwhile, never experienced the real estate correction the rest of the world went through two years ago, and apparently are ripe for it, worse for the fact that we've been fighting it off for two years. As Robert indicates, however, the good news is that the rich continue to get richer. Why do I suspect that when the crash does come, their money will somehow survive: that it will be my pension accounts, and personal savings, that run to zero? Oh, that's right. They also make the rules.
Amazing to me how quickly Pax Americana is disappearing. I expect to live long enough to see it gone. First Empire ever exchanged for junk made in the PRC, cheap gas, and kitchen remodels.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 11, 2011 23:52:00 GMT -5
We will all be washed away before the crash comes...
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pinkozcat
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Post by pinkozcat on Jan 12, 2011 2:06:22 GMT -5
If Perth has to wait for the flood before the economy goes bust then I should do OK selling my house. There is a probable cyclone heading for the Pilbara region so we might get a bit of spin-off rain [excuse the pun] but nothing like the rest of Australlia. We could do with a bit to keep us going until the second desalination plant comes online. We are having a serious drought here ...
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