2024 - what a crap year
Update #1 - started this on New Year's Eve last, first chance I've had to update it since. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, we're here at last.. last day of 2024. We made it !! I've been reflecting over the past few days on everything that has happened this year, good and bad, only to realise that the bad outnumbered the good by several orders of magnitude. Let's examine a few of them, shall we ? Car: Because my ex-wife had finally allowed the house to be sold (and then tried to make away with a more significant portion of the proceeds than she was entitled to), I decided to buy myself a Suzuki Jimmny 4WD, only to find that it was woefully underpowered and although economical fuel-wise, it was just a toy. Fortunately, I could sell it and only lost $1000 on it, so that wasn't all that bad. Jobs: Since being dismissed by Bendigo Bank in December 2022, basically for telling ...