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Nobody owes Mark Riley an explanation
Feb. 14th, 2011 05:30 pmI had a weekend in Sydney that involved:
The Warrior Dash. A full write up with pics will be up soon. I made it through and am a bit fatigued today but it looks like I'm all better from the 12 hour run. Which means I'm back to doing weights. HOO-RAH!
Some very good waves at the beach. It's not so much the size of the waves, but the shape. If they break the right way (like yesterday) they are so easy to catch.
A final visit to my parents before they leave. Mum made crepes, which she always does when I'm around. She knows I like them, but she thinks I like them more than I actually do. It's one of the things she likes doing for me so I'm happy to leave it at that.
Lunch and a nice chat with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minxyminou now that she's back.
The pleasant surprise that we now have season two of True Blood at home.
A wireless connection at home, though we haven't actually set it up properly yet. I don't really know how to do these things.
This article which sums up one of my key frustration with politics, namely, that people have unreasonable expectations of politicians. They are expected to know about everything, to have an opinion on everything, and to care about everything. If they don't, or if they do something that a vocal minority finds offensive, they catch hell as people go ballistic. The media has really aroused my ire this past week over their expectation that Tony Abbott had something to answer for in his "sh*t happens" remark (as if he was actually dismissing the death of a soldier while talking to survivors from that soldier's unit) and their criticism of Julia Gillard for expressing either too much or too little or too contrived levels of emotion over the recent natural disasters. Both are non stories that underline the over inflated sense of entitlement that far too many people have regarding politicians.
As an aside, Mark Riley's wikipedia page has been vandalised and is currently closed.
The Warrior Dash. A full write up with pics will be up soon. I made it through and am a bit fatigued today but it looks like I'm all better from the 12 hour run. Which means I'm back to doing weights. HOO-RAH!
Some very good waves at the beach. It's not so much the size of the waves, but the shape. If they break the right way (like yesterday) they are so easy to catch.
A final visit to my parents before they leave. Mum made crepes, which she always does when I'm around. She knows I like them, but she thinks I like them more than I actually do. It's one of the things she likes doing for me so I'm happy to leave it at that.
Lunch and a nice chat with
minxyminou now that she's back.The pleasant surprise that we now have season two of True Blood at home.
A wireless connection at home, though we haven't actually set it up properly yet. I don't really know how to do these things.
This article which sums up one of my key frustration with politics, namely, that people have unreasonable expectations of politicians. They are expected to know about everything, to have an opinion on everything, and to care about everything. If they don't, or if they do something that a vocal minority finds offensive, they catch hell as people go ballistic. The media has really aroused my ire this past week over their expectation that Tony Abbott had something to answer for in his "sh*t happens" remark (as if he was actually dismissing the death of a soldier while talking to survivors from that soldier's unit) and their criticism of Julia Gillard for expressing either too much or too little or too contrived levels of emotion over the recent natural disasters. Both are non stories that underline the over inflated sense of entitlement that far too many people have regarding politicians.
As an aside, Mark Riley's wikipedia page has been vandalised and is currently closed.
