#2446 Tuesday 6th January

 Well !!! The invasion of Venezuela was certainly a change that was NOT for the better.  The current version of "Pax Americana" is anything but!  Fortunately such events don't touch Kaylia's world.

#2445 Thursday 1st January 2026

 Best wishes for the new year.  The year promises significant changes in the world.  Let's hope that the  changes are for the better!

The Christmas/New Year break is hard for Kaylia.... with most services closing, her routine is thoroughly disrupted. This then flows on to me as we have to manage the disruption.  Long car drives are always welcome .... we had a drive to Bindoon yesterday and a drive to Fremantle today.

(Nothing special.... I just like this)

#2444 Monday 29th December

 We're home after our break in Busselton. I think the time could be counted as  was successful .... but the place we stayed in doesn't get a tick.  The main reason being that it only had one bathroom.  Kaylia is "chafing at the bit" for the next trip to Busselton.  In April we will stay at her favourite place - the Sebel.  She has a time-share that allows regular stays there and she loves it.  She constantly wants to look on Google Maps for the Sebel and she can feed her imagination.  (I must do a bit of research to see just how many times we have stayed there.)

She can identify her favourite rooms .... and they all have a similar layout .... she calls her favourite "the big room" and she looks forward to being able to sit under the waterfall in the swimming pool.

#2443 Tuesday 23rd December

In the background I can hear kaylia singing to herself.....  she is very pleasant to have around.  As long as she has her future scheduled ..... so she can relax.  

Isn't this amazing.... a photo of the ISS taken from another space station..... with a volcano below.  .....and to think that all this has become possible in our lifetime.

#2442 Monday 22nd December

Ha! A cousin in the northern hemisphere wished me a snowy Christmas..... that has only happened once in my life..... 1957 it snowed on Christmas day in West Australia. This Christmas is going to be the norm .... 40deg. We've all packed up and headed south to Busselton. It's  a good place for Christmas 

I'm gradually adjusting to the new world order. I feel that the all my life there has been a basic safeguard of the US..... that the US basically could be relied on for "goodness" in the world. That feeling has been ripped away and now we have to find a new source of sanity.

I think it will take many decades to undo the damage that the GOP has done to the US..... and I wonder if repairing the damage will even be possible.

(I've just been squashed by my 22 yo daughter..... she has severe autism and she will be our baby girl for the rest of my days with her! She is more like a 10yo in a grown up body.)

#2441 Saturday 20th December

Introspection..... we are in tragic times where our whole existence is threatened by two lunatics. I have been reading an analysis of the battle of Stalingrad in December 1942 .... accounts from the diaries of soldiers and officers.... the pointless deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers....  who were refused permission to live by a lunatic who required a symbolic - not victory because no victory was possible.... but the lunatic required an idea .....  and by February 1943 the lunatic had demanded that 300,000 men die to satisfy the idea.

And now we have a lunatic in the east who has demanded that 1,300,000 men die to satisfy his delusional fantasy.....  and we have a lunatic in the west who is incapable of grasping any reality that would allow the lunatic in the east to be confronted.

Our world is stumbling toward a catastrophic collision as we attempt to deal with two lunatics.

#2440 Wednesday 17th December