Todays spiel

Sicko: Just watched the Michael Moore documnetary Sicko. There is only one bit of Sicko and it is the madness of the US in persevering with its stupid disregard for human life. The problem is, I don't think it will ever change as the companies are too rich and powerful. On other things US, Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I think it is a reaction to the end of G W Bush and far too early in his Presidency.

RIO: The Olympics are to go to Rio and why not they have never been held in South America before (Mexico is the closest) and other maybe good news is the Rugby 7's will be there. A side effect could be that $$$ will come in from places like China which will spoil the sport.

Weather: Has been awful - snow and an earthquake 4.8 last night.

Quiz: We went to a Rotary Charity Quiz lasty night and were pretty confident coming off a win the previous Wednesday at the PWMC. It was a professional affair and we were incredulous when the questions were the same as we had when we visited the Cossie Club in Upper Hutt several weeks ago!!!

But - it didn't matter much as we couldn't remember the answers; in fact in Round 1 we only got 3 points while I am sure the last t time we got around 6-8 points!!

But we did improve and ended up second and the winners only got a bottle of wine each.The problem I have with these Charity Quizzes is that if you don't know the answer you can buy them. But all was not lost as out of 7 raffle prizes I won one and Sarah won another. Probably $80 plus worth each so it was a worthwhile evening and they raised about $5000.