news from a home

I have received troubling word from Hattiesburg, Mississippi:

The End Zone is now charging $1.50 for a draft beer.

i heart letters to the editor

It must be fun to be on the letters staff of a large newspaper. In
the last two days Wellington's paper, the Dominion Post, has
published a letter from a man wondering why more attention wasn't
being given to smoking as a preventative step/cure for the Bird Flu,
because many of the front-line solders in World War I smoked and
dealt with victims of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, "and to
the best of my knowledge none of them died."
The day before, a rather irate reader wrote in to ask why the paper
perpetrated the myth of the American moon landing by publishing a
photo purportedly of the moon taken by the Apollo 17 crew.
"Such a myth might have been useful in protecting western
civilisation with Soviet technology might have been seen to be
superior, but those days are gone."

someday it'll happen

So I might have lost weight since being in New Zealand, but the other bad habit I expected to magically disappear here hasn't. Despite cigarettes costing NZ$11-12 a pack, I've still been smoking - but less than I did in Mississippi. The price and the smoking ban in bars contribute to an easing of the habit, but having a smoking flatmate and a number of smoking friends means I'm still just as much of a smoke mooch as ever.
Ah well.

it's my favorite kind of life

From a Morphine song:

Early to bed/early to rise

Makes a man or woman miss out on the nightlife.