: I am sure Mike Savage would agree with me when I say that you guys
: that side are so lucky to have specialist suppliers of EVERY
: CONCEIVABLE THING. Id be even more jealous, but I am not sure I
: would be happy living in the States.

: I found my anarchic cynical self in the ballot booth yesterday
: pondering on who would be most effective at throwing a spanner
: in the works of the smug b@st@rds who are going to end up in
: office. I realized that I was not voting on the basis of
: positive affirmation but trying to mitigate by voting on the
: lesser of evils. Democracy is definitely a flawed system:
: millions of morons voting for other more ambitious morons who
: are about to rape us yet again.

: Oh well, I'll just have to escape to the workshop in denial.

: Sorry about the rant, but I needed to share. I feel safe here, and
: you guys are the sanest people I know. That just goes to show
: how absolutely nuts everyone else must be.

: Et

I'm in total disagreement there, Et. Oh wait, no, the other way round. :D Sorry, just heard the election count on radio, been trying to ignore it since voting yesterday.
Spent the rest of yeasterday at a friend's place, the two of us fiddling with a small boat engine. Grease, yucky stuff, oil, petrol, CO fumes, politics-free time. The engine now starts first time, every time, now. Sweet.

Mike Savage
South West Cork