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I was rewinding a video yesterday and started randomly channel flipping while waiting, ans I stumbled across Question time in Parliment house. Did you know it opens with a prayer? I didn't. The chairman starts the session by praying to the Lord for wisdom and blessings upon the parliment. I was quite surprised... I wonder what percentage of politicians are practicing christians, and what percentage of the population for that matter, and I mean practicing christians, not just something you put on a census form by default.

And yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin during WW2. The one time in Australia's history since colonisation that australia was invaded by an enemy force. Now I've been reading a lot of history recently, and this was a very scary time in Australia's history, and had a huge impact on the way people thought. So it was the 60th anniversary, the prime minster did a little speech about it at the start of question time. Of course the top story in the media yesterday is that Australia won 2 gold medals in the winter olypmics. Its nice to see where most peoples priorities lie.

I seriously want to go back to uni and study history - I just have to convince my boss.

A thread in one of my mailing lists reads - 'What music would you stage a homicidal rampage too??'

Who wants to tell me their choices?

So I caught the tram to work this morning, I figured given I only needed a short trip ticket, I'd stop at the 7/11 and buy one. The Sev didn't have any. This means I needed to climb on board a tram, and stagger towards the ticket machine on a moving tram, and queue to buy a ticket. Aside from the fact that I have enough trouble walking to the tram stop, aside from the fact that walking around on a moving tram is dangerous, not to mention can be rather painful, not to mention that there is a good chance of me loosing my balence and falling on someone. The ticket inspector people tell me that I should have brought a ticket before boarding the tram in this case, because I'm reluctant to go to the ticket machine. I explain that i tried, they suggest I should have gone somewhere else to by a ticket - yup walk several more blocks to buy a ticket, but I have to have one - which means i have to walk to the machine and put myself and others at risk.

One of these days I'll get caught, either being too sore to try walking to the ticket machine, or deciding the tram is too crowded to walk safely, and I'm going to raise merry hell.

I watch old people, people on crutchs, people with prams trying to purchase tickets with great difficulty. The Met suggests buying tickets before boarding the trams, but i've been to lots of shops without certain tickets in stock, or they have run out, or cash only, no eftpos for ticket buying... How easy are they really making it? And with all these inspectors around recently trying to make a dent in the problem of ppl simply not bothering with tickets? Surely it would almost be cheaper to pay one conductor per tram, rather than 4 ticket inspectors per tram?

okay - I'll stop ranting now.

I brought a new drink this morning - its called 'defense' its got lemon and ginger and vitamin c and echinacea and ginseng and zinc and b vitamins - its got to be healthy right? it still lists sugar as its second ingrediant...