Well my house hasn't settled. It was meant to happen on Friday and I was hoping to be loaded with cash today. But there has been a glitch. Something to do with the buyer waiting for his place to settle and the bank not having the right paperwork and the moon rising in the wrong zodiacal sign and the chicken innards not auguring well. I think that was the explaination, I may have faded out when they started to explain about accounting and financial requirements.
So it should happen this week sometime. If not I'll have to decide what to do. Keep it, resell it etc. etc. etc.
Also found out that Georgia and Paul are off from Kalgoorlie as well. In the past this has always been the problem living here. You get to know cool people then they bugger off and you have to make new friends. However this time I get to bugger off too, so it's not so bad (well not for me anyway, everyone left behind may disagree).
Did you know that 2008 is the International Year of the Potato? Now that's exciting. That has to be the best url ever "www.potato2008.org" only slightly less brilliant than "www.pencils.com", possibly the greatest pencil sharpening information site on the web. Really, check it out.
They've just had footage of World Youth Who Seem To Think An 81 Year Old Bloke In A White Dress Is Worth Screaming Over Like The Beatles Day on the telly. What is that all about? I genuinely don't understand why anyone gets so excited about spending a week with the Catholic Church. Apart from the fact that groups of "youth" singing happy-clappy songs at the airport seems very un-catholic. More what you expect to see at Hillsong. All very evangelical. There'll be Catholic Rock bands next.
However the Pope's white frock and red shoes were an interesting fashion choice. That's what comes of being infallible; no-one is going to criticise your dress sense.
What amazes me is that the news programs have give World Youth Day so much coverage. Sure it is a big deal someone with as much power as the pope coming to Australia but one has to wonder over the motives of these "pilgrims".
ReplyDeleteAnd what the hell is WYD? It seems to exclude some fairly large numbers of youths.
Did you see the controversy over the discussion about distributing condoms to the pilgrims? Finally it was decided that they wouldn't but how devout are the people who they imagine might need them? And how out of touch is a church that imagines that young people won't want to have sex?