Late and largely boring, I would complain if I was you

LOCAL NEWS

We had a third traumatic toilet event, this time in Picton with a Canadian tourist.

On Wednesday there was no news other than the earthquake anniversary. And it just kept going.

An escaped prisoner was found hiding in the ceiling of a house. Perhaps there was no air conditioning ducting handy, that always works in the movies.

Lucy Lawless was true to her name, when she broke the law. Her daughter works at JB with Rory, but I think her surname is different. She looks a bit like her mother. Lawless was arrested today.

The woman who fought being fined for "parking" when she was giving way to a spy car, still has to pay the fine. Not fine, not at all.

Beer consumption is up, however I challenge that statistic based on the fact that purchase <> consumption. I have beer I bought last year. I am sure many people do.

The message this week from ACC was "never approach a goat from the front, a horse from behind or a shark from any side". I presume that next year we will get statistics on how effective that message was.

Jonah Lomu is back in hospital, I am guessing he needed to sell another exclusive story. Hope he gets enough money. Not.

The fact that fruit juice and honey are considered unhealthy seemed to surprise a lot of people. Just remember, if you are of average intelligence that half the population are not as clever as you. This would be where journalists come from. And Editors are from below them. And Publishers are below them. Then there is Rupert Murdoch.

WORLD NEWS

The leadership struggle in Australia got plenty of attention. Feels a bit like Witchy-poo versus Puf-n-stuf, not sure either of them are much use. Anyway, Julia kept the job, I reckon she's scarier than Auntie Helen. She's like Thatcher and Helen's bastard love child or something.

There are plans to sequester a million tonnes of CO2 under Illinois in sandstone. It got me wondering. What if one day we discover that all the oil we drill up came from sequestered CO2 that the intelligent dinosaurs pumped down there because they had a greenhouse problem, and they did too much and caused an ice age? Regardless, it doesn't seem like much of an answer to me.

Good grief, the Aussies are still going on about Azaria Chamberlain, the baby supposedly taken by a dingo waay back in 1980. I am guessing there is a good chance the dingo is long since dead.

I saw a thing about making factory farmed chickens brain dead for high density production. Interesting matrix-like connotations there. Hard to say whether it's better or worse. Kind of eliminates the whole suffering argument though.

The Sun doing a Sunday edition (basically News of the World in drag) made headlines. I really don't know why.

Things in Syria are still pretty rough.

There was quite a lot of coverage of the idea that humans should sleep 4 hours, wake up for one or two hours, then sleep another 4. I am not sure I want to try it.

The Oscars are happening today, I really don't care. Neither should you.

REAL SPORT

My junior water polo boys had their first game, B team versus A team, they lost 1-12. They actually did okay.

SPORT

The Super X started again (is it 15? I forget). The Crusaders just beat the Blues, the Highlanders just beat the Chiefs, Hurricanes lost to some South African team.

Arsenal beat Spurs 5-2, Man Utd staggered past Norwich 2-1, Chelsea won 3-0 over Bolton, WBA beat Sunderland 4-0, Man City beat Blackburn 3-0.

I think the Black Caps lost an ODI to SA.

MY SAD LIFE

After Diana's struggles with insurance, she wrote a letter. Believe it or not, it actually resulted in a response from a real person. It resulted in us getting a $100 bribe. Not sure what we will do with it. Probably nothing.

As we got close to the end of our internet billing cycle, we were averaging about 10gb per day. We did over 30Gb one day. Some people use 30Gb a month - noobs.

I saw Allan on day 3 after his upgrade, he was using crutches. I was thoroughly disappointed that he had no wifi or device to use wifi. I would have had the surgeons put one inside my leg, I think. They go in through the front, which seemed odd, but apparently it minimises disruption of tendons, veins, arteries, and stuff.

Koos came over on Thursday night, we assembled the electronics, cut a wire, soldered a wire, connected to the PC and actually got it talking. Can't actually print anything yet, have a software issue, but I will work on it.

Diana and I spent some money in the hope of organising various things better, and it did seem to help. I have learned that it's easier to organise crap if you get rid of a lot of it.

Hannah's life seems to be back to utterly full-on out of control-ness. Not sure how we feel about facing a year of that, because it's pretty hard for everyone in the fallout zone, which is quite a bit zone. Meanwhile, Rory seems to live in a world which goes by the following rule "I can't help because I am too busy at Uni, or I can't help because I am on holiday." The shortened version is "I can't help because I want to play LOL and browse Reddit". His back is still sore.

I offended Hannah by giving her key to the Falcon to the insurance company, who had actually bought the car. I didn't know it had meaning. I also got the number plates from the Falcon back this week. Now they are Falcon useless. I may put them on trademe, perhaps.

I better press send, I keep getting distracted.