The Global Financial Crisis' silver lining

As you may know, God is in control of everything. Which is why I’m not particularly unhappy about losing my job. Check back with me in a few months on that front.

I’m also rather enjoying the stress-free nature on not having a job. I feel very relaxed, even creative.

Plus, I’ve been enjoying more time with the children, been getting lots of fix-up jobs done around the house, and getting up later.

Of course it may all change when the money runs out, but for now…

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Unmarked

It’s nice to see the Australian Federal Police getting in on the whole black, unmarked SUV thing. And their weapon of choice? Ford Territory Turbo . Mmmmm … Territory Turbo. Updated: They also have white ones.

Pink rules!

When I told my little girls (aged 8 and 3) that there was a campaign to stop pink for girls there were howls of dismay. Noo!", "We love pink!", "Pink is the bestest colour for girls!" I would have much preferred that our girls didn't wear pink. I'm not that fond of it as a colour and I thought other colours suited them much better. My favourite dress for our little girls was a smart navy-blue dress with a silver star on the front which I thought looked very nice. They didn't. Given the choice they'd wear almost anything pink. Or with ribbons. Or pink with ribbons. I gave up and let them be girls. Which is exactly the point. As I see it, part of my job as a parent is to let our children make their own choices and to be confident with their decisions. My job is to make sure that those choices are safe, appropriate to their age and right, according to God, everything else is not important. So if they want to wear pink, they can wear pink. If ...

The new dunny door*

Since I haven’t blogged much lately—I completely missed July—and need quick entry to make, I thought I’d fill up a bit of space with the a subject I can go on about ad nauseum—cars. Specifically I thought I’d briefly analyse the all-new Holden Commodore . This is a Falcon. I’m not putting a picture of no steenking Holden on this blog The Commodore is an Australian car previously based on the Opel Senator but, for the first time with this VE model, designed in Australia. It is exported to the Middle East and Asia. It will also, as Wheels reports , form the basis for the new Chevrolet Camaro and presumably the next Pontiac GTO, (since the old VT Commodore is the basis for the current “best ever” GTO ). Naturally, since my chosen tribe in the great Australian musclehead ...sorry ... muscle car divide is Ford, I should cast scorn on the Commodore from a great height—it is after all a Holden. However I think the new Holden...

I Wish I Was Ern Malley

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