Rebellion

Its been a while but I am still alive

November 22nd, 2008 by rebellion

yes, Blogging for me has been akin to root canal work of late. Lots of pain before you finally accept that something must be done. Then you procrastinate for a month or so hoping that it will sort itself out and finally sit down, lift your feet up and disgorge something on to the bloody tray. Yes, I may be guilty of stretching the metaphor just a tad, but there you go.

I have had excuses. Oh yes, I am a great lover of the casual and entirely plausible excuse. The kids are screaming, the bills need to be paid, the lawn needs to be mown, the tooth needs to be extracted, the wife will leave me if I don’t get off the bloody computer and give her a hand with the screaming kids/mow the lawn/get out and work to bring in money to pay the bills etc etc etc.

So I guess I am back and taking a look around the blogs I can see that life as we know it is a-jumbled. A bloke that wouldn’t get elected dog catcher if he were white has been elected President of the United States. Petty you may say, but undoubtedly true. Closer to home over the ditch, Mr Helen Clarke has succumbed to the National party led by a millionaire investment banker. Maybe it was just the fact that there were a lot more Helen Clarke billboards around and the Kiwis finally realised what she looked like. Maybe it was simply the fact that Kiwis are a bit slower than you’re average bear and realised that all their talent was comprising the Kiwi cricket team. The same Kiwi cricket team that struggled to beat the unassuming might of Bangladesh in a test match.

Once again I digress. Canada, Oh Canada, gave their fascist right wing dictatorial Tory Party an election win. Sorry, just reading the banner headline from the Sydney Morning Herald.

And our own national embarrasment K Rudd is more than living up to expectations. Normally it takes the ALP at least three years to destroy an economy. K Rudd is going to blitz that in under 18 months. Luckily for him, he can always fall back and say that at least he isn’t as bad as the NSW ALP, or the Victorian ALP, or the QLD ALP, or the …….

All in all it has been a turbulent and tumultuous couple of months. There have been a few changes in the Rebellion Household, not all for the good, but there nevertheless.

And then came the Storms.

For those living under a rock, there has been a little bit of meteorological activity in the fine borough of Queensland of late. Peronally, we lost a big screen TV, our DVD player, the pay TV box and the garage door controller. Additionally, the internet died along with the computer and we lost most of the carefully horded supply of frozen dead animal flesh in our freezer when the power went off for too long.

For all those that think that we puny humans cn influence the weather one iota.

This little example is what plain old fashioned wind can do to a thirty metre gum tree that it takes an exception to.

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting another little doozie tonight. That will be four in 6 days. Starting to get a little annoying to tell you the truth. Though at least the dams are looking a damn site bteer and should almost crack the 50% if this keeps up for much longer.