Blogging of the First

The title of this blog is nothing to do with excessive intake of processed tortured fruit of the noble grape vine. It is in fact a cry of frustration caused by the fact that Telecom sees fit to extend Broadband to my neighbours house but not to mine because I'm "too far from the exchange" One step too far it seems.

For myself I am the model of contradiction, a Truckdriving-Actor-Geek-Teacher. This mixture of contraindications is exascerbated by being a recent exsmoker and hence my User Name TFU! Terminally Fukt Up. So if I seem fractionally bitter and twisted at times that's the reason. However I do try to keep it as positive as possible for the most part. (That is the Therapy speaking.) I'll let the obvious lack of decisiveness speak for itself.

There has been, on the part of TFU a certain reluctance to start up a blog if only for the fact that it seems that the vast majority of Bloggers seem to post once and never again. The one thing I never wanted to be was another blip in the mass that continually reinforces the statisticians belief in themselves and their version of truth. So the trick is then to discipline myself to a regular post till it becomes habit. And therein lies the rub.. I never was much for discipline, 8 years in the Army cured me of that. But what the hey we'll see how we go.

Last Monday was my birthday and I got to request my birthday present... Tickets to see Stomp What a blast, worth the 4 hours of travelling.

My little truck blew a heater hose on the way to Tirau. Much water required for the trip home. The weather is miserable, the workshop is cold because of it's ability to do a passable imitation of a NASA Windtunnel... so it can wait till tomorrow to get fixed. Certainly I doubt there will be any work tomorrow. The weather will see to that. Very difficult to do earthmoving type work in the rain. Things get slippery, trucks fall over when spreading metal.

Insert rant here... I drive a Truck.. For the educated it is an old S-Line International similar to the one in the pic below. 400 hp Cummins 15 speed Roadranger, double drive Rockwell back end on Hendriksen Suspension. It has a 5 metre long 15 cubic metre tipping body with a single ram Front of body hoist capable of lifting 20 tonnes. It tows a 7 metre long three axle trailer with a 25 cubic metre body on it. The truck will carry 10 tonnes and the trailer 16 tonnes of good roading metal. On the road gross of around 44 tonnes. These guys claim to drive Trucks. Bah hook my trailer up to the back of your 4wd and see how much of a truck it is.

It is a result of the continuing leaching of americanisms into our vocab. My daughters bf was asking where "the Bathroom" was in a restaurant last night. WHAAAT? I had to inform him that he would rarely find a bathroom in a restaurant.. Toilet yes! thunderbox, longdrop, dumphausen, bog, Loo,WC, Porcelain Throne, wharetutai... even the Ceramic God or Altar to BAAART if he felt in need of a prayer.... But if he went into my bathroom and took a piss or a dump I would be very pissed off indeed. We should pass a law or make it socially unacceptable to use americanisms foisted on us by too much second rate television. Lazy linguistics.