The Good And Bad Of 2016

In fact, 2016 was a REALLY CRAPPY YEAR! I'll briefly recap on some of the crappy things that happened.
  Lots of famous people died. I actually felt quite sad about some of them passing. The most sobering (yep, strange is it may seem, I'm sober at the moment) thing about many of those who died is that they were around my age. I go to bed each night in trepidation.
  The fiasco in Syria continues, largely due to interference from Russia and the USA, who are using the tragedy as a show of power. We all know that's never going to stop anytime soon.
  Terrorism is spreading in Europe. They brought that on themselves with their open border policies. A quick note to Angela Merkel. Try and survive that one, baby!
  In Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is becoming more unpopular weekly. He has no control over the senate and is hanging on by his fingernails in a vain bid to be Australia's first President. A quick note to Tony Abbott, who Turnbull cowardly knifed in the back to get his job. In 2017, you need to show Turnbull that paybacks are a bitch and bury the bastard politically.
  Another major tragedy was that the Brisbane Broncos didn't win the NRL premiership. If you don't know what I'm referring to, Google it.
 
Now for the good things that happened in 2016......
Bugger! I can't think of any.

Happy 2017.

A magic Xmas

It was just one of those years. My lovely child bride had to go back to Vietnam for family reasons, leaving me alone for Xmas and New Year.

This may sound sad to many of you and in some ways it was. For five weeks I had to cook for myself, clean the house and water her ladyship's flowers and garden. In addition, I had to wash my clothes. I got quite inventive with that. I found that if I turned my under ware inside out, I could get two days out of them before washing. I was even more inventive with socks. I discovered that on day two I could put them on opposite feet to the previous day. Then, on day three I could turn them inside out, and on day four I could reverse the feet thing again. How good is that! Four days out of a pair of socks! Think of the water and washing powder I saved. I might tell my wife to keep doing that, so we can save money and go to MacDonalds once a year on the savings. Bloody genius!

As for cooking, I have become a connoisseur of $5 supermarket pizzas, $8 roast chickens and potato chips. Once again, I'm proud of the savings in food costs.

Now, as for Xmas. I saved money again. No decorations, no presents, no loud, boring friends and family. Absolutely perfect!

As you may have noticed, I made a fairly strong point about the savings.This was all to the good. Those wonderful savings allowed me spend Xmas with a rather copious supply of very good single malt Scotch whiskey, excellent Australian shiraz and ice cold Heineken beer. I used those to wash down a sumptuous Xmas dinner of pizza, ham and chicken while watching the new James Bond movie, Spectre. From what little I can remember, it wan't a bad movie.

Sadly, I had to work the next day. As I was grumpily going about my work with the worlds worst headache and eyes that resembled a pair of vultures arseholes in a power dive, I received zero sympathy from my co-workers. I was quite irked by this, until I realised the they were suffering too. I then thought to myself, "Who cares?", because there was no way they felt worse than me.

All in all, it was a wonderful Xmas. Thank God my wife will be here to rescue me next year.