This always makes me laugh out loud

NZ Budget coming...

The top top tax break is being revised down.

So now the various people who get to pay proportionately the smallest amount of tax are complaining that the "rich" are gaining too much.  No matter that they have been paying more of their earnings in tax than anyone else, and they consume more therefore pay more in GST etc.

When those who earn more pay more in tax, then its an "Envy Tax" regime.  The socialists amongst you consider this the redistribution of wealth.

However the social problems create an even bigger disproportionate problem.  Those who pay the least in tax, usually consume the most in government services (health, education, policing, justice, prisons, welfare benefits).  In other words, those who pay the most do not get a fair share of that contribution to the centralised services of the country!!!

Now I don't mind helping out our fellow "man" when they are down or invalided.  And if the wealthier amongst us (btw, this isn't me, I have my own tax issues...) can afford to contribute more then fine, but not so much that they would rather live in, say, Australia.  Its these wealthier people who create businesses that employ people, and spend money.  WE NEED THEM, so don't piss them off too much, because they can afford to go somewhere else

Another week begins

A quick note while I try to fire up my motivation.  Pissing down with rain, just cranked up the Air con in the office, so should start feeling warmer soon

Reading Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene.  Not used to reading stuff like this (documentary/non-fiction/knowledge style books) .  Interesting stuff.  I'll post some quotes from it later - things that have resonated with me.

btw:  writing here is helping me cope, so...

Makes me laugh...

TGIF

End of another week.
Tiredness seems to accumulate.
I need a big nights sleep, but will I get it.

I'm tapping away at the keyboard trying to work my way through a client job and my eyelids close and the head jerks forward, and then the sudden jolt up as the brain realises that I had just fallen asleep... so far this has happened three times in the last 30 minutes.

Maybe I should finish this job tomorrow and go home now...

So this is the end, ... or is it a beginning

Well, she said don't call, don't text, don't email, don't anything, it was fun but now its over.

Speechless, I was. And then the phone went dead.

Its been nearly 6 days since we fought. She was cross, I was tired, she said I didn't communicate, I said I didn't need to (it was only 2 days), she said I hadn't placed her high enough on my priorities, and around and around we went.

I feel like a huge hole exists inside me, not sure what to do to fill it. Have done some big runs. A run of over an hour immediately after. A 2.25 hour run the next day, and staying up late so that I sleep.

I suppose it will take a few weeks to find myself again

Much rather read other blogs...

Well - It seems that this only my second blog post so...

Cooking dinner for my girlfriend tonight. A variation that I cooked for her last Sunday night.

Last time she did the roast veges - which she does so well, and I did the Eye Fillet with a Mushroom sauce - FANTASTIC (I had the eye fillets cut especially for me - nearly 1.5 inches)

OK - This time I'm using Ribeye steaks - Yes a lower cut of meat and not cut as thick (hmm) but the mushroom sauce was so good I'm going to make more of it. Plus I'm doing the vege - which will be mash potatoes and kumara (sweet potato) and carrots, brocolli, and peas. She does like mash potato and doesn't have it very often because her don't eat it!!

Anyway - I know all this cuz I just went and purchased it all

Ciao tutto