This is the second time I have sat down in front of the computor to write this... early this morning the computor would not connect to the ISP so I went back to bed for a "moi'.. this is Maori for sleep.. I am just trying to think of an english word to give you an idea of the pronounciation it's sort of like... "more... ee" but say it really fast... as you are all probably aware Christmas has been and gone... which is how I like it being the christmas Grinch and all... I worked christmas and boxing day and over the four days eg sat, sun, mon, tues I ran four ten k runs to burn off the the extra food intake... Christmas for me usually means the onset of a black depression which makes it really hard to function as the Happy Christmas wanderer that most people expect at this time of year... I seemed to have avoided the dark cloud and functioned at the minimal level required this year... a big Woot as the Messican would say... We seem to be trapped as a society in this western capitalist greed loop where our economy must grow to provide the wealth and materials with which we can survive and find pleasure... the only other alternative is this communist penuary where the greedy find other means to gain the wealth and materials they require... the problem with continuous growth is when does it stop... you cannot have an annual 5% growth in population, housing, energy consumption, demand for food and any other 5% on 5% consumption year after year after year... when the water that we need to drink and the air we need to breath finally runs out... what then? death I spose and on a scale humankind has never experienced.. I fear that this will occur in our childrens lifetime and certainly in our grandchildrens time... what we need is a managed shrinking of the economy a reduction of population and demand on resources that will ensure a balanced ecological economy... this will not happen under our present system or under a communist system as quite frankly a system change means a loss of wealth and power that the rich and powerful will just not allow..... hmmm on a lighter note... twas the day before christmas and all about the house.. nothing was upsetting everything was grouse.. I went to the mailbox for the paper to read.. and there with the bills was a letter for me... Holy sweet weeping Jeebus... it was from Cranky you see... a card from the Crank I opened it with care... no fish hooks.. no white powder.. no strontium 14... It was a card.. a christmas card.. it brought a tear to my eye... then I looked over my shoulder...
Question girl... when did I give you my address ?
... does this mean you fancy me ?
... how come there was no money in it ? 
Uppie wishes you all a very merry Christmas.. (yea right I mean it) and a Happy New Year...
note to the rest of you.. take the hint about the money... and Jerk it's not so hard to send Uppie card is it... but then again do not expect one back... Cheers all.
