Living la vida loca

OK, so strange week it's been. Done something I never thought I'd do, and bought a house. I'm either growing older and wiser or, more likely, older and dumber. It's been good weather too, which just prompts me to think that we're going to be in debt to a bank for a piece of land sunk under rising waters within 20 years.
Of course, that's the cynical view. The optimistic view is, frankly, selfish as all hell. When we moved up here, out of Amsterdam, we said that we had taken a small place, because in two years we would buy a house here. And we're buying a house here because it makes it much easier in 5 years' time to buy a place on La Gomera.
And on La Gomera, we're not gonna worry so much about climate change and rising sea levels . We're not gonna worry so much about hell and high water!
It's a nice place that we've got. Big, by standards of what we can afford right now anyway. It'll be nice to be able to sit in a garden this summer, to have space for us all. Even if it means my holiday is blown out again :-(
So, we're basically on track. A few years of work and bullshit, of playing the game. But no fucking way I'm getting caught in this shit for the rest of my life. It's just not fucking worth it - frankly, revolution is nearer than ever, because where's the fucking attraction of the working lifestyle? (And I've got a pretty good job!)
Someday, us sleepers are gonna wake...

In praise of a president?

OK, so it would be virtually impossible for me to praise a president unconditionally. After all, anyone who wants to run for power is by definition probably a dick.
But any guy who tours the heads of state of a few different countries wearing an old jumper - and doesn't even bother changing it! - is a trustworthy man in my humble opinion.
And now, Evo Morales of Bolivia has done something even more remarkable - he's kept an election promise! He said he would renationalise control of Bolivia's energy reserves. And today, he's taken back control of, especially, the gas reserves. Not only announced it, but simultaneously ordered the troops into the gas fields. To make the point, as it were :-0
I guess Chavez is looking and just *has* to follow the example!
And somehow, I don't think that this being International Workers' Day was a coincidence.
"The time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources "
What a fucking cracker. I wouldn't give shit for his life expectancy, mind you!
Isn't it kind of ironic that whilst the mad Neo-Cons of Washington are obsessed with the Mid-East, the revolutionaries are back in their own back-yard...
I like him. Morales still dresses like he doesn't give a shit for the pretensions of office. He still says what he thinks, but seems a hell of a lot smarter than he's being taken for by the Western media. He hasn't got the party shit of Lula or the military shit of Chavez. OK, I'm not too familiar with Bolivian politics, but for now, till I know better...Viva Morales!