The joys of a good election.

I, like all Australians of voting age have to vote in the federal election tomorrow, and the burden weighs heavily on my broad, masculine shoulders…well they are shoulders at least. We have the great democratic choice between one of two guys running the country. That’s what it boils down to. Who really cares about those local nobodies you see posters for all over the place. I’ve never heard of any of them before, so why should I vote for them, they all seem to be cut from the same mold if you ask me.

As you might be able to tell by now, I’m not much into politics, or politicians for that matter. If someone starts talking to me about parliaments, houses, back benchers, etc, my eyes glaze over faster that a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut. But stupid analogies aside, I’m just totally cynical of politics cause there is nothing keeping politicians or their parties from breaking, forgetting or rephrasing their campaign promises. Apart from the peoples ability to get rid of them after their term!

My favourite part of the campaign trail is over now and that’s the tv and radio ads. The methods used to promote one party and put down the other are nothing short of school yard thinking. Here’s an example I just made up which bares a similarity with many of the ads I’ve heard recently: “Mr X’s party believes your family deserves job security and financial security. (Said in a deep sleazy voice)--> Mr Y’s party eats babies, pisses on your job and steals money from your bank account while you sleep. (back to cheery voiceover) Vote Mr X’s party.”

So it’s off to some crowded polling station I go tomorrow to see if the government of this country will change, or be stuck with the same lot we’ve had for the last 11 years.

What the hell?

Now I don't normally post youtube clips, but I saw this and thought to myself, "Now there's something you don't see every day." And OJ Simpson doing a magic routine certainly falls under that category. Enjoy.

Nice driving a**hole!

It’s been a while since I’ve made any social commentaries, so I’ll start with something simple. Driving. How some people managed to get a drivers license, is beyond me. I realize that some road rules can be confusing and difficult to follow, but F.F.S. driving is not rocket science. Let me share with you some of my favourite peeves….

1. You are sitting in your car at a red traffic light and have maybe 3 or 4 cars in front of you. Surely the second the light goes green, everyone in the lane can put their foot on the accelerator and start to move forwards. Apparently not. In most cases you see the light go green and have time to ponder to yourself why some people’s neural impulses take 30-40 seconds to travel from their brain to their foot! The formula is simple, when your light is green, move your fricken car forwards!!

2. Even if there is no one particularly close to my car, I’ll indicate that I am going to change lanes. I DO NOT just suddenly, and without warning, start to drift into another lane. Apparently there are many people whoever fail to recognize that the roads were not build for them and will happily glide in front of your car without a single blink of their indicator. These same people also occasionally decide that driving on the white lines separating lanes is the way to go. I oughta nunchaku their arses!

3. People who have sound systems that cost as much as their car should realize that not everyone appreciates their taste in music.
I was sitting in my office at work the other day that is probably 15 metres or so, back from the road, when some genius drives by on the main road with his speakers up so loud that I could clearly hear the song in the building I was in. And worse still, I could actually feel the reverberations of the bass from where I was sitting. I could only wonder to myself, how bad that driver’s hearing must be to have to have his music up so loud.

There is a game on the Xbox called Full Auto, where you have cars with weapons such as rocket launchers and machine guns attached to them. I like to play it and imagine the other drivers are some of the people who exhibit the above tendencies.

Random news

My sister has gone to work in the US (in LA I believe). Originally she was going to the states for training to help set up an office in France, but for some reason they must have liked her in the States and have decided to keep her there for now. She's coming back to OZ this week to go to a friend's wedding and we'll get to catch up with her then. It's a shame that the kids won't get to see one of their aunties very often, as she's back to the US by the end of the week.

I have to admit that I've gone back to facebook. I still don't like it and spend very little time there (less than I do here). I don't have a problem with people looking up some old friend to see if they want to catch up, etc, but it's a bit silly when you see people adding more friends everyday than anyone could possibly ever communicate with. (end rant)

I can't believe it's already nearly the end of another year! It's true that time seems to go faster as you get older. The only consolation about this for me is family. It's good to watch your kids learn more every day and enjoying things such as Christmas more each year. This Christmas will be the first our 2 year old really understands what's going on. She gets the idea of gift giving and loves having the extended family around so there are others to lavish attention on her (typical woman), so it should be a good Christmas. I really know I'm getting older, now that I'm starting to sound like a Hallmark card!!