Sunday, January 2, 2011

Happy 2011

Get set for the barrage of questions about what you did on New Year's Eve.  Yes, that time has come and gone, and now we are bracing ourselves for the year ahead.  And what a bracing it has been.

Queensland is still in the grips of the worst floods in recorded history, and there are areas over that way that have yet to see the worst of it.  Over here on the west coast a cyclone is building on the north west coast, travelling parallel with the coast at present and working its way southward.

Cyclones up north of us quite often bring the benefits of summer rains, but the accompanying winds really do wind you up.  Strong easterly winds, dry days, increased risk of fire, and that incessant howling in your ears day and night.

But the up side of the new year is that we have more sport on television.  Oh joy of joys, just what we needed.  It's tennis time in Australia.  Bunch of nutters out there on the hot days, working up a sweat, bashing a ball backwards and forwards, earning millions.  Damn them.

And the sad news is that I did not win the thirty one million dollar lotto on Friday night.  Not even a look in.  As that draw was from last year, I can only hope that this year will bring with it a bit more luck on the Lotto front.  Not a penny, a pfenig, a baht, or a rupee in 2010.  Now that was a good year, wasn't it.  But hey, I only do it for the charity!

This year will be started on a positive note; work will be good, house hunting and sale of this one will go ahead, I might get something back off the Lotto, and I might even find someone to spend quality time with.  But if I have the same kind of year as I have in 2010, I won't complain, because it wasn't a bad year at all.  In fact, I survived it, sufficiently to be here writing this.

So, have a good one and..........

明けましておめでとうございます.