I recall reading the Italian Benetton's fashion magazine in 1990 ...an important article about how life wasnt so much about 'lifestyle' at all, but rather about "The Style of Life Itself"...and i recall wondering when the Real Retards had taken over...in retrospect, it was about 1990 in Italy.

Recalling the last drive I took from Cairns to Sydney, about 2,500km...was that worth doing? No. No. Nope. Sell the Nissan. As Bob Dylan noted 'too much of nothin' makes a man ill at ease'

I'm guessing that, by Nissan Navara, the 1,900 mile, 3,000km drive from Cairns, Queensland to Melbourne, Victoria, could be an interesting way for Mrs Fitz to say she has seen a bit of Australia...

If anyone from Cooktown to Townsville tonight sees a bright luminescent splendiferous glow in the sky, dont be concerned...it will just be me testing the Nissan Navara's massive Grand Array of headlights etc in the car park at Earlville. I reckon they could cook a curlew at about a mile...which ISNT exactly what I wish to do. It is a safety issue for night driving between home and work, along those torturous 4 kilometres of dangerous 6 lane ultra smooth roads in Cairns going through such places as Manunda and Cairns North. This is why I also have the 4WD capacity, the bullbar, the UHF radio, and the snorkel. We tough all-terrain Aussie blokes like to feel secure in case of...well...moths, spiders...etc.

Early Planning: Mrs Fitz and I are very good at early planning and are now into our 3rd 5 year plan. I have just tookend the Nissan Dual Cab 4x4 Common Rail turbo diesel Ute (The Mahayana Diamond Vehicle) to Ultratune for them to reconnect the Grand Array of Spot / Flood and Led Light bars, for the Townsville trip in November, inoperative since the local irascible rascal broke in and stole my dash cam and broke the turn-on light switch for the Grand Array. I haven't missed the dash cam at all and it was a pretty silly thing to have and did run counter to the Nissanistic '1998 artistic retrospective aesthetic of the 2015 ute' in terms of its profound simplicity. As Melbourne beckons, although yet to be confirmed, I will be selling the ute I expect. I expect we will put the Honda Jazz (a far more Melbournish vehicle) on the train and go by plane.

I must admit daughter DJWAWA looks kind of happy with the news about getting into RMIT 2017/ Sound engineering/moving image design

Old Chinese saying in relation to claims in the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Taiwan: "If your neighbour steals your bicycle and gives it to his son, it is still your bicycle".