Comparisons: Melbourne and Cairns Rent in Melbourne is double what it is in Cairns, in general. Pay, per hour nursing, is less. Food in Melbourne is cheaper, unless you eat out. then the cost goes up dramatically. Cars: Melbourne driving costs are higher for Registration and the Tollways cost a fair bit over a month if you need them. Apart from the highways and tollways the roads in Melbourne are a bit choppy due to the trams and their infrastructure. Utilities: Gas is reasonably priced in Melbourne so if you don't need a huge fire or heat in the winter, and don't shower every 3 hours, or cook every hour, then its better. You need big heat for about 2 months. Electricity is cheaper than Cairns and you don't need air conditioners much at all, or only rarely, because most of the houses are brick and tend towards being cold rather than hot by nature. House Buying: In Melbourne this is a bit silly. a Cairns $400,000 house around here would cost about $2million but in Ballarat or the outer West,the cost would be about the same as Cairns. Public Transport: Is very good in Melbourne, bus, train and tram...but it only takes one road accident or crossing accident, or train computer glitch, to stuff things up for half a day. Lifestyle: Melbourne is great if you don't have to work or go far to work, otherwise the travelling time eats well into living time. Police: Police are great. Very risk averse when dealing with felons and mad folk, very good, very good indeed. Ambulance: You have to pay for it here, it isnt covered under the Federal State Medicare agreement as it is in Queensland. Quite a primitive system of joining up or having private insurance. Very primitive. Summary: Cairns has its virtues, as does Melbourne. To start up here in Melbourne, without $2million in the bank, well, you can't really own a house, per se, or you live so far out of Melbourne that it is not Melbourne. For those young and making sufficient wages in the tropics, it would be silly to move to Melbourne.

My dad, the financial adviser's, advice in 1968. "save your money, save your pay and verily, you will be rich, oneday... and don't go down to banks today. Share your trust with those you love, they are not bankers, hand in glove. Don't believe who says you must invest your life in those you trust. bankers are just unmade men...and these are greedy made un-wholly men who profit by the now and then and it makes them fat and bad and then and...well...it is really bad for them. it is your work it is your pay have nothing to do with banks today."

My dad, the financial adviser's, advice in 1968.
"save your money, save your pay
and verily, you will be rich, oneday...
and don't go down to banks today.
Share your trust with those you love,
they are not bankers, hand in glove.
Don't believe who says you must
invest your life in those you trust.
bankers are
just unmade men...and
these are greedy made un-wholly men
who profit by the now and then
and it makes them fat and bad and then
and...well...it is really bad for them.
it is your work
it is your pay
have nothing to do
with banks today."

be of good cheer all those who fear who find the future to be mined and break to war for no good reason's sake. it is those who bend who win the end.

NURSING HANDOVER:Nursing Hand Over. "I'm sorry, but the nurses are having hand-over now, so your requirements may need to wait for a little while. I would suggest to you that it is not a wise thing to do, to disturb the coven in the midst of their various incantations. Many beings, over the eons, by seeking to do so, have been, unfortunately, smote to their very ruin."

Lots of advertisements from Australia's Special Police, lately, noting civilian vigilance as ​being ​critically important. Ads with ​cute ​little boats with Huge red flags on them, and gaunt ​rock ​fishermen phoning in​ their deepest​ ​strangest ​suspicions​ about little boats with Huge red flags on them​. Must be a snap federal election in the wind. Ssssh.

Important Weather/Australia:Weather Prediction Specialist Teams reviewing new high tech weather algorithms from satellites and edge-of-space high velocity jets have noted that the expected Autumn Period for Melbourne will be, in general, Autumnal in nature.

Talking with patient, a brilliant OCD eye surgeon who tried to commit Japanese ritual suicide, with a big sword, although he was born in Sydney. He failed. I said 'well, Seppuku, is, like the many severe arts of Shinto Nippon, a true art where the self is forgotten, obliterated by real pain' . 'The driving meaning of seppuku is that the death should be much more thought about and more ritualised, and mistake-proofed, than the whole life. It must be much more painful and much more horrific than anything ever experienced in life, or otherwise, the death serves no purpose in terms of the quite honourable value system. it must be excruciatingly painful, and it must take a fairly long time, to have meaning. 'If you fail at Seppuku, it is probably because you are some Westerner who, by failing Seppuku death, achieves a normal life afterwards. It is a personal trial. 'To fail at Sepukku is quite honourable, in the way we see life. To succeed at Sepukku, well, if we did that, we would all be up there with the True Saints of Shinto. This is why we need to honour them, rather than seek to impersonate them. 'One of the most important things with ritual Sepukku, is to make absolutely sure, that whilst you are disembowelling yourself causing you horrific pain, with one hand guiding the bright sword, the other hand must be useful to you in covering up your body with a blanket or mat so that you do not traumatise the person who must find you. This is simple human respect. We are not here to traumatise those we leave behind. Seppuku is not for everyone. To fail at Seppuku is basically good for us. Imagine just how evil it is for buddhists monks to set fire to themselves in a public spectacle...I mean, just all the poor people who must see it...witness it...traumatised for the rest of their lives...and the poor bastards who have to clean it all up and wash down the street afterwards...paid less than minimal wages to have to do that...where is the human self-respect in that kind of death? Where is the human respect for others in that? I'm not into buddhism at all, you know, but I do respect Seppuku, and I do respect Shinto...it's just not for everyone...but I still know what it is and what it means...and I respect that. I respect our human condition. Of course, it's all too much sometimes to bear. It always has been. Lesson from Old Pain Control Palliation and Mental Health Nurse John Katana Fitz.