Avoid the killer 48A tram!

I have been getting a lot of Migraines lately and have worked out that most of them appear to be related to food allergies.

I have always been allergic to many things but lately I have been getting very bad reactions to bread and a few other foods.

Kristin has had a lot of success with her program so I thought it was time I made a serious attempt to nail my Migraines for all time.

I saw Doctor Mordor and told him of my diagnosis and he seemed to think it was a good idea to have tests. I find it is always best to go to Doctor Mordor with my own diagnosis ready otherwise he is usually completely nonplussed and at a loss for the next step. He seems to be uncomfortable around sick people.

So on Friday I will go the Allergie Ambulatorium in the Rennweg where they will discover that I am allergic to many thing including many foods, reality TV and Republicans. I will then plan a course of action and bounce this off the Doctor.

Muffin has also been to the vet for a checkup. She started peeing on the bathroom floor and we thought it may have been a sign that she was on the way out. This is what happened to Karl Rove so we are always on the lookout for the signs.

She is, however, in excellent condition (for an 18 year old cat) and requires no treatment - other than the payment of an extraordinary amount of money for her blood tests and X-rays.

And the peeing on the floor? I think she was unhappy that we left her for a long weekend and she could not sleep on my head for three days. She often thinks of novel punishments for us when we go away and this was just a very mild one in the long string of atrocities she has perpetrated throughout the years.

Apparently the payment of money to the vet cured her and she is fully recovered.

I checked the speed of my Internet connection.I have a download speed of about 25 Mps and an upload speed of about 1.3 Mps. This is pretty good compared to what I had in Sydney - and in Sydney I had a very restrictive download limit. My costs here are less - and I have unlimited downloads.

I was prompted to check by the news that if the Liberal Coalition if elected to government they say they will cancel the proposed national Broadband rollout. This was the only chance that we ever had of getting cost effective high speed Internet in Australia - which lags far, far behind many Asian and European countries.

We will instead - as we have done for very many years - be held to ransom by Telstra which is the Gorilla in the market place, owns the infrastructure and is entirely focused on screwing the asses off its customers - and does so with a high degree of success.

This will not bother the Liberal party as all their policies come from the pre-Internet era and they are more than happy with pens and ink or - for the girls outside - an IBM Selectric.

And incidentally, I see with some degree of amusement and alarm that our current crop of god bothering friends in Parliament have changed the regulations for incoming passengers to Australia. You now have to say if you are carrying pornography and the customs people have the power to search you and all your electronic devices for evidence.

Cunningly - they do not define what pornography is so you have to guess. Hm....are the pics from the office Christmas party pornography? What about the photo of Auntie Madge with Fang the Doberman?

WTF?

It is particular interesting because the people searching you are the ones who decide whether or not what you have is pornography - and they have no rules so make it up as they go along. This should make for some interesting encounters at the airport in in the courts.

This is really weird. I mean - I understand this behavior from any government that is stupid enough to think it can censor the Internet - but where did this bizarre notion come from?

Do they really think in this day and age that people who have illicit material - are going to carry it with them? Perhaps they do - they certainly to date have shown no understanding of how the Internet works.

I have not brought you up to date recently with what’s happening in our town. Well -it has been a big week as this story from the Austrian Independent will show: (OK it’s not Bangkok but we work with what we’ve got).

“A rowdy woman kicked a Vienna policeman several times after he responded to a call for help from a passenger on a line 48A tram she was riding on.

The caller said the woman, 25, had been molesting and insulting passengers.

Police arrested the woman after her attack. The policeman she kicked took the rest of the day off to nurse his injuries”.

I sure am going to avoid that 48A tram! It’s a death trap!