Day Off, the first of 3

Day off, the first of 3; the various jangles of the working week jangle their way out of memory, off & into the unrecorded past. Fully gone.
Phones have been ringing from the Church but I can't always answer phones about religion. It is too personal a topic to be shared with priests.
I had a letter published in the Cairns Post again today, so that was nice. I like to see my thoughts printed out.
I stopped in on the way driving home from dropping Lisa at work at the fishing shop and bought a few jigs, a handline and some lead sinkers.
Goodness me, there must be a lot of lead sinkers in the sea.
I was going to buy an Alvey Rod and Reel for Lisa for $70 but I didn't , but I probably will. That's a good price for the best fish-catching machine known on Earth.
2 Days more off work away from the various machinations of private psychiatry...having left behind the profound burden of palliative care now. What to do?
Read a John Steinbeck novel, again, and go fishing...pick up Lisa's Alvey Rod and Reel on the way.
A few green prawns, look for a high tide and a quiet sea and just catch fish for awhile.
Life at 61. Not bad. Not bad at all.

News from North Korea November 2014

North Korean official: Russian investment in railways model for future
A joint North Korea and Russian project to upgrade the DPRK’s railways will become a model for future bilateral economic joint projects, a North Korean railways official said today.

S. Korea opens discussion for N. Korean human rights bill
South Korea’s National Assembly opened discussion on two human rights bills, nearly a week after the passage of a U.N. resolution condemning North Korea’s human rights violations.

CliC Spectacles: http://www.clicproducts.com.au/ Well worth the money

Good Product. Helpful Friendly People. Fast Service.
I've tried the CliC facsimile glasses available throughout SE Asia for about $5 but they don't last. The straight magnifying lenses are okay, but the magnetic clasp is weak and the whole body of the frame easily breaks.
These  genuine ones are about $99AU...made in China, and very good quality.

peng

CliC eyewear/glasses

I've been wearing Clic glasses (the ones with magnetic closing at the front) for about 8 years now and they have been very good.
They seem to last longer than most spectacles and I can always find them, and although the style of them doesn't really change much, the usefulness and practicality of them is very very good.

the Wang-Fitzpatricks in Australia

DPRK/North Korea

The fascinating thing about Western Commentary and Intelligent Insight into the Hermit Kingdom is that pretty well every expert is convinced that it is teetering on the brink of extinction and is the cause of great Instability in North Asia...the only place on Earth where a World War could actually happen.
The experts have been thinking this pretty well everyday for over 60 years now and every day the Regime of the North has demonstrated its stability, growing power and longevity as it is.
True, it is a horrible government, for sure, and indeed most likely the worst government on Earth, as indeed the Chinese call it, but it is also extremely stable and resilient and will abide, with the Un clan at its helm far longer than you or me on the Earth.
We can indeed make up our own opinions, but we can't manufacture our own facts.
DPRK is here to stay, pretty much as is, or better. Nothing will change that. Certainly not the rhetoric of ageing 'foreign devils'.