jun 23 2005

bits

last night was cool and crazy. we played our best game of volleyball ever, we still lost but as a team we rocked... then we stayed for some drinks and headed on home.

almost home and the back tyre disintergrates. 11pm at night. we call home to see if anyone is there and if they can give us a hand, nope. the (long) walk begins. we try hitching, but no-one's really interested, until we get to about 2-3 kilometres from the house and a really tired looking guy gives us a ride.

quickly grab my keys, some juice and head on back to the combi. what a mission to get the spare tyre out and change it, my jack is made for a tiny hatch-back not a big combi. put rocks under the other tyres so it won't roll off again... change the wheel and head off home, by the time we get there the spare has gone pretty flat, yay! head on out to the garage to put some air in and by the time we get there, that tyre is finished too. double yay! leave the combi at the garage and finally go home to get some sleep, it's well after midnight when we hit the bed.

mission around this morning trying to get some new tyres for ed, he's working from home until my dad comes around with some new (old) tyres for the car. i'm a little tired...

billy corgan has released his solo album. he's been keeping a secret for about a year now though, he wants to reform the smashing pumpkins... i liked the pumpkins, so hopefully it happens.

so we have our first woman deputy president. nice for the woman's rights, bad because it's like shuffling a bad deck of cards. what am i on about? well, the president replaced a person suspected of corruption with some-one else who's suspected of some questionable dealings... we'll see how this pans out, it seems dodgy in so many ways.

i was watching the news on tuesday evening and spotted a piece on patricia de lille naming names and still questioning the arms deal shenigans. i thought she had a valid point, in point form below a brief summary of what when down in the news piece (in parliament):
- de lille asks why we paid more than the market price for various arms
- trevor manuel yells that they only bought the best for the country

what do i think? well, why did we pay millions more than the market price for the weapons? she never asked "why didn't we buy the cheaper version?", she asked "why did we paid millions more than the market value?" well, why did we? i would like some-one to answer that question. i have no doubt that we would want only the best, but why at a cost of millions / billions when we have people starving, unemployed and without a roof over their heads?

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Posted by sarah | personal, music, politics