THE EARTHQUAKE

Dammit ya'll ... I essay and exposay the minuet e of my pathetic life and all I get back is your concerns about the earthquake... let me remind you that the subject of the previous Uppiedate was "ME (of course)" It's by me about me and funnily enough FOR me... I do not even let family read this stuff...

Ok lets do the wrap on the quake... New Zealand is situated on, and I say right on the edge of the Pacific and Australasian tectonic plates... in fact the line of force or the "crack" for you ignorant fekkers neatly divides both Islands right up the middle... creating a string of dormant, inactive and active volcano's.... what this means is we get heaps of earth quakes of all sizes hence the nick name for the land of my birth "The Shaky Isles" ... I have experienced a few... mostly they give you a jolt and a laugh ... there have been a couple where I have been thinking... "If this does not stop soon I'm gunna get outa bed and do something" I do not know the hell what.. but maybe it is better to die running in panic than just lying there thinking about running in panic... anyway have not got out of bed yet... as for the Christchurch one it was a "get outa bed and run" quake... it was the same magnitude and proximity to life as the Haiti quake but you will notice it did not kill anyone... more luck than anything... but as I have lectured you people we are one lucky country... we have building standards etc which protect us... yes our local media are talking up the damage but quite frankly a few buildings fell down... only the old ones... and if your house happened to straddle the fault line it got split in two... the rest of us are fine and anyway it gives the government an excuse to spend money on real peoples physical needs instead of giving money to rich people who invested unwisely... (had to get that plug in there)

The real interesting thing is that we have a caldera... thats the big hole a volcano leaves when it explodes... called Lake Taupo... thats the water that filled it... that has erupted 29 times in the last 28,000 years... about every 700 years... the last time it went bang was 1700 years ago... even the Chinese noticed the glow in the sky and recorded it... (their civilization is way longer than ours) .. so it is overdue for it's next one...I think I live far enough away to avoid instant death.. but I am probably close enough to be pissed off by the ash cloud...

Fluffy as for the Financial stuff... do not get me started...

Diego... you are special.. you are one of the few male contacts I have that talks to me I appreciate that and enjoy your personality..

On that note I have pissed off most of the girls as well...

I remain seriously arrogant.... old bitter and unrepentant...

Uppie the faithless