Remember this time in our collective history. Remember the pandemic and the voices who demanded cancellation, banning, demonetization. Remember the voices who demanded you be penalized for not conforming to their narrative. Remember the voices who demanded you put something into your body, whether you wanted to or not. Never forget their names, their persona’s,…
Never forget – Indulge my rant, I don’t do it often. — A Gen X Point of View
Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken;Doing more harm here than slander and lies;On it is many a strong spirit broken,And with it many a good purpose dies.It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morningAnd robs us of courage we need through the day:It rings in our ears like a timely-sent […]
Can’t : By Edgar Albert Guest — The daily addict
I’ve spent the last two weeks on holiday, having a grand time with the Wife & kids, while NZ has trembled over Omicron with the usual panic merchants screaming that the sky is falling.
This meant that I didn’t know what I was walking into when I went back to work today. Fortunately, it seems everyone is just over the whole covid thing, so it’s still (relatively) normal.
The Government is still pushing ahead with new covid laws and restrictions, and there is a lot of confusion over the present rules as I write this, resulting in a lot of confusion, especially since the school year is about to start.
It’s starting to look like the the government is getting out with step with the public’s thinking, and therefore the polls. It’s sometimes hard to gauge this accurately thou, because I am only reporting on what I see, and that is a reflection of the attitudes of those around me. Most people have complied with most things so far, because of the threat of fines, etc, but they are getting sick of the whole covid thing.
Our PM, Jacinda Adern has ‘cancelled’ her wedding amidst this ‘crisis’ and is now self isolating after a close contact tested positive for covid. It all seems just overly dramatic, and contrived.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/new-zealand/2022/01/29/jacinda-ardern-covid-isolation/
My wife and I have enrolled our kids at an online school this year. This means they are avoiding all the turmoil at the schools at the moment over masks, positive covid cases, lockdowns, closures, yadda, yadda, yadda.
We have also a joined a teen social group setup for the kids, so they don’t miss out on developing their social skills, etc
We took the kids to an offroad track with the new bike over the weekend, but both of them never managed a single lap of the track.
My youngest managed to launch the bike over some tyres after encountering a sand trap, and my oldest dropped the bike, putting her out of action for the day with a sprained ankle. It was all over in about 30 minutes.
The photo above is a rare photo that my wife took, before it all went pear shaped…..
So all this means is that I’ve got a lot of work to do on the bike, to make it easier for them to ride it.
Plans are to cut some foam out of the seat, to get the seat lower, get rid of as much weight off the bike as possible, and fit some better tyres.
Last year, we were stuck in a lockdown for a long 4 months.
The kids were stuck at home with nothing to do. The schools were closed and weren’t set up for online schooling.
The kids were getting a few hrs of school work per week.
The weeks dragged on and I could see that the kids were suffering from the isolation and a lack of motivation and structure in their lives.
To help resolve this, I brought some skateboards online.
We watched a few video’s on google, then we went out each day to a cul de sac and taught ourselves how to ride them.
As is always the way, the kids moved on to other things, but at least I had gotten them off the couch!
That left just me, and 3 skateboards to choose from.
I chose the longest board we had to learn on.
It should have been the easist to ride, but it didn’t work out that way.
I perservered with it for the last few months, and I was quite useless at riding, until I realised that that cheap skateboard I was using, was half the problem..
It turns out that it flexes a lot in the board itself, which makes it hard to control.
I swapped over to a more expensive board and then it all just sort of clicked for me.
I’m now able to ride quite reliably now and get to places, like a local pro-choice cafe.
P.S. I’m still jumping off it to stop thou, because I haven’t got the slowing down bit sorted yet..
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