Starting yet another notebook on how things are. Given yesterday’s news: all family is safe, all acquaintances are safe, we shop at our local centre…
Posted: 11 May 2021
Categories: Australia, COVID 19, New Zealand
Category: COVID 19
Posted: 10 May 2021
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19
Casa Kea is having a ton of work on it, and in the middle of it we swapped a car. We had taken our little…
Posted: 10 May 2021
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, Green Death Cult, Life
More memes, some funny, some pointed. As much as possible, listed by topics. They at least made me smile. Laughing is now politically inappropriate even…
Posted: 7 May 2021
Categories: COVID 19, Dollars and cents, New Zealand
The ANZ business survey notes that 80% of firms are expecting their costs to go up ant 58% are planning to raise costs. In NZ….
Posted: 4 May 2021
Categories: Australia, Black Swan, COVID 19, New Zealand
I really should not deal with political issues apart from when my employers request me to do so. But there is much going on right…
Posted: 30 April 2021
Categories: COVID 19, Green Death Cult, Writing
The Didact likes one of my favourite milSF books, which Ringo himself said was an experiment when he wrote it, The Last Centurion. RIngo said…
Posted: 22 April 2021
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19
Locally, the big news is that the government is removing the health reforms bought in under Helen Clarke, the mentor for our doofus PM, going…
Posted: 16 April 2021
Categories: COVID 19, Dollars and cents
The local housing bubble is peaking. Prices are slowly sinking. Kea looked at the houses we did not buy and noted that the prices they…
Posted: 13 April 2021
Categories: COVID 19, New Zealand
There is generally a right to refuse medical treatment, and the COVID vaccine is controversial. NZ only has the Pfizer vaccine, and our roll out…
Posted: 9 April 2021
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, Dollars and cents
This is from Peter Grant, who is a daily read around here, and it comes with a couple of observations. People in NZ are either…