http://leeabennett.com By Lee A Bennett Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the return daily commute today, my partner had a rant. She ranted on for at least 25 minutes. Today she [her business www.vaultconsulting.co.nz] received a bill from the lovely guys at the IRD for money she might make in the future based on what the business has earned so far. ... http://leeabennett.com/oh-thanks-you-we-do-sirefor-leaving-us-a-sheep-from-our-flock Having been a "like yeah man, 3 times a week" gym bunny for about 2 years and thinking I had been doing pretty well, treadmill, pushups, pullups rah, rah, rah....it dawned on me that I have more or less been wasting my time as I probably have only trained to ... http://leeabennett.com/eating-for-england Resolve from Yahoo! Read on for the exciting game of ping-pong which resulted in a conclusion which I already knew ;-) After receiving an email advising me that I had infringed their TOS agreement and that my account with Yahoo! would be terminated, dot dot dot "Hi there, I don't believe this ... http://leeabennett.com/communication I have just received an email from my Yahoo! big brothers letting me know that they will be terminating [maybe, maybe not] my account if I don't stop violating their TOS [their choice odf words not mine]... I don't even know what I have done to be rewarded by such effecient ... http://leeabennett.com/back-now-phew I really didn't want to go today. ...but as part of my MKP committment I made to do some community giveaway-type work - I arrived at Island Bay beach for a cleanup, tired after a 10hr day. [All pat Lee on the back now and say ah]. ;-) This isn't about ... http://leeabennett.com/what-a-load-of-garbage I want a dog. I need a licence. I want to go fishing for trout. I need a licence. I want a gun. I need a licence. I want to run my car on a public road. I need a licence. You get the picture here right? How about the most massively World impacting thing ... http://leeabennett.com/im-on-a-restricted-one-officer Today I witnessed a big tough guy take an hour off work to rescue a fledgling chick that had fallen from it's nest... He put some cloths in a box, phoned the SPCA, took an hour off work [thus losing pay] and drove across town to deliver this bird to possible ... http://leeabennett.com/a-little-gem This is sometimes how I feel when I talk to people about new concepts that may not mesh with their reality right away. I almost feel as though they might at any minute point and shout "witch....burn him" [do guys qualify as witches?]... An outcast, nutter, paranoid, conspirator are some suggestions ... http://leeabennett.com/are-you-a-witch-discuss Or shouldn't at any least. Having parked the car at the marina on a high note from an awesome days being and doing, I hear a sound. Can't make it out at first - is it a seagull or boat? Nope it sounds like a cat crying. MC runs in ... http://leeabennett.com/cats-dont-swim Today was a day when I thought myself better than I actually was. The wind was about a 5 knot Nor'wester and my boat [small ship of 45tons] was sitting by the dockway having been inserted into the drink the day before by crane... [caption id="attachment_45" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Along side wharf ... http://leeabennett.com/confusing-inadequacy-with-risk-aversion