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izmeinaSlinks in for a quick squiggle before a last lurk over at Nanoland
Hard to believe but it was way back on Friday 19th November 1993 that the serpent set paws in the Wild West of Oz to settle down and be a boring old fart
It seems so so long ago but also almost like yesterday. It's somewhat easier to remember the last Friday 19th November which was in 2004 and the last day at uni for Izzie. Done nothing at all with it since and spent $15,000 or so on books and fees for that degree.
Would have been better off paying it off the house but no education is ever really wasted
Other folks - Vernon and Petunia for instance would say that it was also a waste of five years. The serpent doe not see it that way for the simple reason that those five years would have gone by anyway regardless of doing any course or not. Sometimes it's being busy that keeps you efficient and out of trouble
No the real opportunity cost was the $15,000 silver sickles spent on the goblins
Izzie is no Zuckerberg or even a less glamorous rags to riches critter but did come here back in 1993 with nothing but a couple thousand silver sickles owing to the Dursleys for the plane ticket from Hamburg. Did pay them back much quicker than ever expected and within five years had became a property tycoon and stuck an old paw in the Lair
A dear friend from long ago gave the advice that when you make a decision always ask yourself how you will feel about it 5 years or 10 years from now
Bestest advice ever.
Knew that Oz was going to be the serpent lurking ground for some time to come so it would be make sense to get a nest to lurk in. Not like the old brother dearest Dudley who went to London way back in the mid 80s and always intended to move to Oz next year. Some 25 years later he is still there stuck in a rut. Only ended up with a house because the ma went over in 2001 and went looking for one for him
So within five years of Izzie testing the toes the mining boom started. Before long old Dursleyville had transformed from a place where the lowliest house elf working in McDonalds or your average supermarket could get a half decent house on one wage to a stage where two middle class yuppies are struggling to afford a tin shack some 20km out from the city centre
Been back to Europe and visited Middle Earth once since then and got introduced to the best tour guide to Cyberia
Izzie loves the internet and wonders how all the wierd wacko misfit freaks ever managed in the bad old days before it was possible to find like minded creatures
It does turn out that some 600 or more denizens of Dursleyville are strange enough to sign up for the nano nuttiness but without a Portkey to Cyberia would have never heard about it or them
It was a stinking sizzling 39 degrees today and looks like all the tomato and chili seeds planted two weeks ago got well and truly shriveled before even their first leaves emerged
There was also a feast of tasty morsels on Radio National today. Between the Book Show and Bush Telegraph, always a feast for the ears and more plot points to snatch for that nasty little novel
So since 1993 it is now possible to not only get real dark Lindt chocolate but it's even available in the supermarkets and often on sale for a mere two silver sickles. But the Green and Blacks 85% is much tastier and the best dark chocolate ever
Now there's aged gouda and the odd Appenzeller appearing in the shops and of course the portkey to Cyberia so we are not so much in the wild west wilderness as we used to be
Still missing old friends and the spooky old places in Europe but Oz has become a much more serpent friendly abode
The next Friday 19th November will not roll up until 2021 so it will be interesting to drop by with the latest gossip, assuming that Izzie is still interested or even alive to post about the latest serpent gossip
Back at work tomorrow. Two computer free days so lots more plotting and scheming so that Monday can be spent tossing another 3,000 or so words on the pile
This is proving to be much easier than last year. No big bad evil Google Docs black holes. What a difference
Hard to believe but it was way back on Friday 19th November 1993 that the serpent set paws in the Wild West of Oz to settle down and be a boring old fart
It seems so so long ago but also almost like yesterday. It's somewhat easier to remember the last Friday 19th November which was in 2004 and the last day at uni for Izzie. Done nothing at all with it since and spent $15,000 or so on books and fees for that degree.
Would have been better off paying it off the house but no education is ever really wasted
Other folks - Vernon and Petunia for instance would say that it was also a waste of five years. The serpent doe not see it that way for the simple reason that those five years would have gone by anyway regardless of doing any course or not. Sometimes it's being busy that keeps you efficient and out of trouble
No the real opportunity cost was the $15,000 silver sickles spent on the goblins
Izzie is no Zuckerberg or even a less glamorous rags to riches critter but did come here back in 1993 with nothing but a couple thousand silver sickles owing to the Dursleys for the plane ticket from Hamburg. Did pay them back much quicker than ever expected and within five years had became a property tycoon and stuck an old paw in the Lair
A dear friend from long ago gave the advice that when you make a decision always ask yourself how you will feel about it 5 years or 10 years from now
Bestest advice ever.
Knew that Oz was going to be the serpent lurking ground for some time to come so it would be make sense to get a nest to lurk in. Not like the old brother dearest Dudley who went to London way back in the mid 80s and always intended to move to Oz next year. Some 25 years later he is still there stuck in a rut. Only ended up with a house because the ma went over in 2001 and went looking for one for him
So within five years of Izzie testing the toes the mining boom started. Before long old Dursleyville had transformed from a place where the lowliest house elf working in McDonalds or your average supermarket could get a half decent house on one wage to a stage where two middle class yuppies are struggling to afford a tin shack some 20km out from the city centre
Been back to Europe and visited Middle Earth once since then and got introduced to the best tour guide to Cyberia
Izzie loves the internet and wonders how all the wierd wacko misfit freaks ever managed in the bad old days before it was possible to find like minded creatures
It does turn out that some 600 or more denizens of Dursleyville are strange enough to sign up for the nano nuttiness but without a Portkey to Cyberia would have never heard about it or them
It was a stinking sizzling 39 degrees today and looks like all the tomato and chili seeds planted two weeks ago got well and truly shriveled before even their first leaves emerged
There was also a feast of tasty morsels on Radio National today. Between the Book Show and Bush Telegraph, always a feast for the ears and more plot points to snatch for that nasty little novel
So since 1993 it is now possible to not only get real dark Lindt chocolate but it's even available in the supermarkets and often on sale for a mere two silver sickles. But the Green and Blacks 85% is much tastier and the best dark chocolate ever
Now there's aged gouda and the odd Appenzeller appearing in the shops and of course the portkey to Cyberia so we are not so much in the wild west wilderness as we used to be
Still missing old friends and the spooky old places in Europe but Oz has become a much more serpent friendly abode
The next Friday 19th November will not roll up until 2021 so it will be interesting to drop by with the latest gossip, assuming that Izzie is still interested or even alive to post about the latest serpent gossip
Back at work tomorrow. Two computer free days so lots more plotting and scheming so that Monday can be spent tossing another 3,000 or so words on the pile
This is proving to be much easier than last year. No big bad evil Google Docs black holes. What a difference
