Category: Philosophy

Those Dreaded words -Does this outfit look OK?

It’s the end of the school year and we are going to our daughters prizegiving ceremony.
It requires formal attire which means I’ll be wearing my suit that normally only comes out for weddings and funerals. -all sorted -no sweat

It’s a LOT more complicated when it comes to my wife and daughters though…
Several outfits are paraded in front of me with the dreaded words uttered each time..
‘How does this look?’

OH CRAP

This is a no win situation folks.

Compliments are good, but you can’t do this for every outfit, because obviously, ‘you arent paying attention’!
Honesty could have you sleeping on the couch.

Somehow, I bumbled my way through this minefield, relatively unscathed.

The prizegiving itself had some surprises for my wife and I.

Those who follow my blog will know we pulled our kids out of public school, because covid hysteria meant school closures and no classes for months on end last year.

Our kids now attend an online school, which is similar to home school.

It seems my oldest daughter is a quiet achiever. She got 5 excellence awards out of a possible seven, as well several other awards.

(and here we were thinking she was just doing the bear minimum to pass)

My wife and I are very pleased about it all. We have been doing our best to keep our kids in a good learning environment throughout the ongoing covid saga.

Some things have worked out for the better for us.

Setting up for the long haul

I’ve lost count of the number of protests and pop-ups I’ve done this year, and all this while working full time and spending that all important time with the family.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the average Kiwi doesn’t care about much unless it affects them directly, and even then they are likely to just persevere with any issue, and proudly tell everyone just how good they are at persevering. (virtue signalling).

That attitude doesn’t solve anything, it just makes you feel better about it.

It going to be interesting next year when both inflation and the Governments decisions against on farms, water services, and oil supplies start to take effect.

The majority of houses in New Zealand have a morgage on them, so any increase of inflation causes an increase of interest rates.
It could be a buyers market, especially if you are cashed up.

As for me and my family, we are all sorted and ready for the coming storm.

Covid round three for Xmas?

The media has been steadily ramping up the hysteria again, based on an increse of ‘covid deaths’.

A covid death in NZ is defined as anyone who dies within 28 days of having covid. These will be people with one foot in the grave already, and in their 70’s at least.

Given what I’ve written above, I guess you can predict the over reactions that are about to take place..

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/130610488/could-wearing-masks-in-the-workplace-be-brought-back-for-the-third-covid-wave

Basically this means I’ll be adopting a ‘Do it today before the Government bans it tomorrow’ attitude to life, at least for the next six months or so.

The trick is to just take life day by day. eg, I might be allowed to go to work today, but not nessessarily tomorrow.

There are many possibilities as to how this will pan out, because Government decisions are made on the spur of the moment according to how they feel and what the polls tell them.

It’s possible they will double down and lockdown the unvaccinated, in which case I’ve got lots of projects around the house to do.

It’s also possible people will simply disregard any ‘guidelines’ enmass, making enforcement impossible.

Anything is possible.

I let you know how it goes…..