Well, I am continuing my task of deleting facebook items and am back to March 2016. Quite fascinating, really, from all of that stuff written and received, how few you want to keep, and just for a little while.

A hard rain's a-gonna fall

WIKILEAKS & JULIAN ASSANGE: After 200 years we actually have one real legitimate blue eyed, blonde haired world hero! Julian Assange, and not a sports player. That someone so remarkably bright and insightful, and deeply intellectually non-aligned, could come from this small town in the Dry Tropics of Australia, lost and gone and so far far away...this is just so wonderful! To have not only overcome Townsville, per se, and grovelling Australianity, per se, but to be out there, destabilising the destructive megalomaniacal world-state-corruption of Hillary Clinton and the whole awful world order...way over there where you live. Wow! What a boy! Well done! Jaiyo/Chaiyo! as the Chinese and the Thais say...More Fuel to You! Where have you been, my blue eyed son? Where have you been my darling young one?

WIKILEAKS & JULIAN ASSANGE:

After 200 years we actually have one real legitimate blue eyed, blonde haired world hero! Julian Assange, and not a sports player.

That someone so remarkably bright and insightful, and deeply intellectually non-aligned, could come from this small town in the Dry Tropics of Australia, lost and gone and so far far away...this is just so wonderful!

To have not only overcome Townsville, per se, and grovelling Australianity, per se, but to be out there, destabilising the destructive megalomaniacal world-state-corruption of Hillary Clinton and the whole awful world order...way over there where you live. Wow! What a boy! Well done! Jaiyo/Chaiyo! as the Chinese and the Thais say...More Fuel to You!

Where have you been, my blue eyed son? Where have you been my darling young one?

Actually, just thinking about the mindless 5 hour drive to Townsville makes me happy, just to arrive in the town that grew up Julian Assange...it's a pilgrimage...it's like the Haj to me.

After 200 years we actually have one real legitimate blue eyed, blonde haired world hero!
That someone so remarkably bright and insightful, and deeply non-aligned, could come from this small town in the Dry Tropics of Australia, lost and gone and so far far away...this is just so wonderful!
To have not only overcome Townsville, per se, but to be out there, destabilising the destructive megalomaniacal state-corruption of Hillary Clinton...way over there where you live. Wow! What a boy! Well done!

I've arranged to have the Ute put in to Ultratune Cairns for the guy there to fix the Grand Array of LED Light bars for the drive to Townsville in November. He did a good job fitting the gear but then some rascal broke into the car, pinched something and broke the Light Bar switch and I don't know how to fix that. Anyway I told the guy from Ultra Tune Cairns about it and he said..'sure, drop it in, parts and labour, twenty minutes, twenty ducks'. Ultratune Cairns and Raymond Plumbers Cairns get my Award for Really Great People this month.

On Nursing: When I was 17 I went to a career aptitude testing centre and the result came out that I should be a Judge. Personally, i have never been interested in judgment. I tend to think that they laws are somewhat grey obstacles throughout life without any particular meaning at all. I investigated Journalism because I like to write things but the problem with Journalism is that you are always writing for an Owner, a newspaper, or whatever...and that didn't interest me. Anyway, leaving school at 18 I became an editor for a multi-cultural multi-lingual publisher for ten years and that was quite good. The publishing world changed, some colleagues had died, and so I went and did Nursing...and specialised in terminal care pain pathways and potent therapies...and did that for 30 years...and did it well enough...two years out of College, I was a DON, then a DON somewhere else etc..then senior project writer etc...contributor to the Government on Health etc...then set up systems of care etc and it was kind of worthwhile to me, but I was never interested in management at all. It was and is just tedious and repetitive and boring.. Now I'm doing some Mental Health nursing, and it is ok. On the whole, looking back I think I have contributed more to Care than care has given back...and I don't mind that.That's the Old Philosophy of it anyway. Would I do it all again? None of it...maybe the Editing for a decade, sure, but beyond that I think I would have preferred a late apprenticeship in Welding. True. I like welding. Lighting up an arc in a crowded underground room, fixing something permanently, then drifting from trade into sculptures, then gold smithing...that kind of thing. As the best writer of the English language living, Kazuo Ishiguro noted "I could have had another life, but I am having this one." I agree.

Raymond Plumbing of Manoora, Cairns

Well the plumber has been and gone. 15 minutes to fix the blocked drain in the bathtub. He said it was all the long hair...i said, well, that would have been me then...so we laughed. Excellent service, fast and efficient and friendly.