25 January, 2006

A really slow day has seen me perusing the Web and generally ambling along. I ambled right into a news site with the headline “Oil companies defend price hike” and being somewhat concerned about peak oil etc I wandered in for a read. The opening stated “The latest petrol and diesel price hike has shocked motorists, but oil companies say they had no choice” and I caught myself wondering if many people are actually “shocked’ or whether it is just sensationalism. Surely by now even the most ignorant bastards out there have noticed increasing living costs, hell, just look at what has happened to the price of housing (idiot economics aside), food, clothing, electricity, education, health care …actually damn near anything. The only things I can think of that drop in price regularly are electrical consumer goods but that may simply because we’ve passed the buck on the costs to people poorer than us. It also occurred to me that having a large and affluent middle class is not all that normal in history. It’s usually a very small ruling class with a really large working class and bugger all in the middle. Makes you wonder where we’re headed…though possibly not in a shocking way.

Our kitten now sports a very fancy little sleeping cave thing that we made out of leftover material. I spent this morning hand sewing the base to the top bit while being attacked. We came to a truce when he bit me, I growled at him and he went off to play with a piece of foam rubber. I wish I had a little sleeping cave thing, it looks very comfortable.

School starts soon. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t feeling a little nervous. After the two hundredth “It’s going to be good” I start to sound a little less convincing.