Local Melbourne wage for untrained staff in shops, expensive restaurants, and manufacturing industries...with all our amazing First World Advanced Democracy Status: $8AU per hour, no superannuation, no holidays, no sick leave, no entitlements...and sack you on the spot. This is Australia, 2017. For Fuck's sake. After all those years fighting by us baby Boomers. we are tired now. Where the fuck are the Millenials? What the fuck are they doing? Deconstructing coffee?

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS CONTINUE: As Mr Dylan noted decades ago..."you don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows". For now, the sun, climbing out of winter, late afternoon, tippling splayed gold over the tiled roof of the neighbour's tall house. The chirp of birds, resonating on old red brick through misted trees, much like bright leaks of troponin ...The sky, a late 1970s metal blue, with some parts of the clouds lit up to be white.

Probably after 39 days the cravings are more likely to just be existential angst, and we all have that a lot of the tme. Not drinking makes you healthier, gives you a clearer mind, and stops the see saw of emotional lability , anxiety and depression, even light drinkers have.

Australia's National Broadband Network: I think this is a big issue for the technology companies. they design and implement something that doesn't actually work well or often, and they know that, and charge a premium price anyway, and then it is up to the complainants to tell them what isnt working. They save millions in research and development this way. Millions handed out in quick pays to their CEOS. thats what they do. The NBN internet thing inAustralia is a glorious indicator...it often doesn't work but rather than spend the money or making it work, the national company gets everyone to join up and then tell them... what doesn't work...and they will, sometimes, eventually, get around to sending out a human being who they hate to employ because of the cost to their profits. So, we haven't joined up to the NBN as yet. The recent NBN ads say that the other methods for internet and phone are going to be turned off soon, so you better fucking join up. Miserable cunts who wont invest in their own technology because they know it is faulty and try to persuade people that we have no choice. Now, that is a Corporate Morality/ Ideology. very 21st Century Corporate Community ethics.

I see that America continues its telling of North Korea of what it can and cannot have, telling Iran what it can and cannot have, telling Russia what it can and cannot have...but very quiet about what China can and cannot have. I believe the irrepressible teenage culture of Real America may slowly be growing up. Give them a hundred years and they may make a good decision about something...if they have a hundred years. If they have invested in their own people and in their own country. Otherwise...well...a few fireworks...and the world gets on much better and much more peacefully without them.

My natural inclination to be at home when not at work was shaken yesterday by a trip to the local market at Box Hill. Exposure to the society in which I live. They say it is good for you. I bought some soft shoe inserts for work. $2. I really didn't like it, exposing myself to my society...and never have liked it... although, as always, the women looked nice.

I like all statues. In comparison with the people who wish to tear them down...the statues are so very quiet now. I like soviet statues, roman statues, catholic statues, emancipation statues, hero statues, especially flawed heroes. If the sculptors had made all statues, indeed, with feet of clay, we would have no statues at all...and I like statues, even of angels. I like their silence.