Went to a friends 70th birthday party today for a while. Saw a few people we know and had a bit of a chat.
We got Christine an electronic photo frame for Xmas. It is quite good. Does more than I realised as in addition to showing photos in various random phases it can be an alarm clock, show a digital clock and various other things. She has loaded it up and it is now chugging away.
Wanted to upload some pictures of Xmas day, all taken by Sophia, Joe & Sarah's German student, but the Net is so slow tonight. (Tuesday - 20 to 10 PM) that I have given up. When will NZ get fast Broadband. No matter what the promises - Not this century.
Clive and June arrive from Aussie on Thursday. Talking Aussie and cricket - we were weren't we - Seth Effrica by 9 wickets. GREAT!!!
Have been trying to track down two songs - probably the last I would like - Big Jump, Sandy Nelson and Lonnie Donnegans The Party's Over. Now got them both thanks to people all over the world.
Leaders salaries. This was in the papers today. I looked at ours and compared it to the Australian PM. My immediate thought was that ours is overpaid. Reading the Oz papers they believe their guy (Kevin Rudd) is underpaid. I suppose that thinking is typical of a Kiwi - we want lower wages, the Australians higher.
If taking the US President as the benchmark then my take is that we are overpaying, the Irish are crazy, Russia underpaid as is Bolivia. In Bolivia's case Morales took a 50% pay cut when he took office. Singapore and Hong Kong are overpaid. A factor that is not allowed for is the 'perks'. The US President s not that well paid but while in office he has few expenses and after leaving office he can make a mint.
