This is how I punish myself

Everyone who knows me even a little will know I'm a dreamer. They will also know most of my dreams revolve around an idealistic lifestyle constantly hopping between Australia, the Pacific and France (southern France or Corsica). Today has been a little quite at work and while I do have work to do I prefer to punish myself. I have found a new website and let me tell you if I somehow came into some serious cash I would be purchasing up a storm! Yes I know internet Real Estate is overpriced and unrealistic. It a fantasy people! Let me dream.

Some properties for your Consideration

Option 1. $6,500,000

Yes you may recognise this lovely vista if you've ever planned a surf trip to Fiji. Our first contender is the fabulous King Kong Island. Come on dooooown

Option 2. $3,600,000
A Little more remote and requiring a boat to get to local surf breaks is the Beautiful Ile Sauvage, part of Huahine Tahiti.

Option 3. $25,000,000
Complete with it's own airstrip, abandoned resort and movie sets is the historic Blue Lagoon island. That's right every young mans dream island is up for sale!

I think Ile Sauvage is my fav at the moment. I'm sure I can count on Kang and AY to chip in. We just need 33 others.

http://www.privateislandsonline.com

How good is heaven going to be if places like this exist here on earth??

The Glory of the Democratic Process

Last night I was delighted to take part in the democratic process as a proxy voter for Mr AJT who had been called away on family business. "I'm promised it will be a short one...Just a vote and then out" SB circa may 06. With the meeting starting at 8.00 Americas next top model (8.30) was always looking scetch but I held out hope.... Until the fun and games began. Even before the voting started people were up and down like jack-in-the-boxes. "Mr speaker I move this and that and I'm a very important part of this branch, blah blah blah" Roll of voters was read. 63 present and accounted for. Voting was underway, I might miss the first few minutes but still looking OK. The vote counter and scrutiners came back into the room to announce they had received 64 votes. Ah no. The culprit never fessed up and as a result rather then 63 people filling in the little slip and taking it up the front at the same time a role call was required for every vote (5 votes in total) extending what should have been a quick vote into an exciting night of role calling. Bardos starts singing "Time goes by so slowly" as the night began to drag on. I think many forms of government work relatively well on paper but all are affected to differing extents by fallen man. For some interesting reading check out Forms of Government on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government
I vote for a Benevolent dictatorship but who should the dictator be???

Maybe The member for Kingsford Smith?

If I was more IT savvy I would make a pole thingy. but I'm not, so I won't.

Vote 1 MB

Serendipity

- The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident

I used a serendipity bible in BS last night. This afternoon I had another serendipitous moment. I had a half day today thanks to the Saturday shift which so cruel prevented me from realising my Manyana dreams (see previous blog, Manyana Dreaming). On the way home I drove along the beach to see if it was worth a surf. Not much happening but I thought it prudent to pull over and check. A light offshore breeze gave some hope of good surf but alas no real swell. Disappointed with the less than desirable size I returned home to grab my mal. At least it's warm and I can get wet I thought. First half hour not much action a few nice ones but nothing spectacular. After a while I started getting better rides, the swell was picking up, the sets were marching in and for a brief hour everything clicked. If you have a look at MHL data for Wednesday (http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au/htbin/wave_data_plot.com?Location=Combined_Plot) you will see a little spike in the middle of the day. Not sure if I made the right board choice but at least I was getting the pick of the waves. I'm saying 3 feet, slightly full to start off with, long perfect barreling rides. Not huge waves but, like an epic boomerang surf we once had, it was hard not to get barreled. I think all up I got 11 waves with barrel potential. I can't be sure about all of them but on some of them there was no doubt, I was well inside. I also got the longest barrel I have ever had. Tucked in and just kept going and going. The only thing missing was mates.