Here I am!

You guys would have seen a distinct lack of posts in the lasts few weeks. There are a number of factors that have contributed to this. The main culprits have been the World Cup, MySky (recordable TV), Mrs Finndego hogging the computer for her art school project,a few good books,that work thing, a general lack of motivation (not ideas) due to the onset of winter and reassessment of what The Finndego is. I realize I've been getting a bit preachy lately and I'm struggling between writing about what's going through my head but at the same time not putting people off. Like my old man commented a while back "I'm not seeing much entertainment value here." In the end my head will probably win out but I'll try and strike a balance, but some of you might have to get your cheap thrills somewhere else.
I've got a few projects I'd like to get started on. The one that is Finndego based is interviewing some persons of interest and finding out what churns their butter. Of the other two, one is art/science based and the other is music/community based. Those two are still in germination phase which just means I've had an idea but haven't done anything about it yet. I'm exited about the ideas just not so sure about the execution (not my strong point sometimes). As/if we progress, I'll keep you up to date and my even require some of your help.
I do need to dump some of the random shit that has been going through my head so let the dumping begin:

The World Cup: Except for New Zealand, pretty disappointing really. I did see that the goalies where complaining about the balls pre-cup (as they always do) but it seemed to me early on that it was the strikers who were struggling to keep the ball down. I think that there haven't been that many goals from distance nor any nice curled free kicks. Normally, by this stage, you already have a few goals that would be contenders for goal of the tournament but except for the goal of South Africa against Mexico in the opener I can't think of any. Feel free to comment if you think I missed one.
The first three games I watched live had USA, Holland and New Zealand playing on consecutive days. I thought there was a nice bit of symmetry there for me.
I used to support USA Soccer but I've gone off them since this tournament has started. I'd still like for them to do well, but at the same time I've found the supporters have become insufferable in a typical American sort of way. Having England first up probably didn't help and the build up was huge. All the American press I read was full of puffing out of chests on how we beat England back in 1950(!) or how we beat them in the Revolutionary War! Thank God we weren't playing Japan or Germany! It could have got ugly.

I've fallen in love with Tony Heyward, the head of BP. When I wake up in the morning I'm not sure what I want first. My cup of coffee or to go online and see Tony kick the people of the Gulf square in the nuts once again. It's like watching an old lady walk into a glass door. It's still funny no matter how many times you see it.
I briefly flirted with the idea of boycotting BP but the only other petrol station in Waihi is Mobil (as in Exxon/Mobil, as in Valdez) so there you are. That leaves me with biking to work then and that's just not going to happen. I had an ongoing discussion with a colleague at work where she felt we should support BP more. The logic being that BP only supplies us with a product that we require and that our outrage is pointed at the wrong person. If we didn't need this oil as much, BP wouldn't need to be in the Gulf of Mexico in the first place. I read a report that said that if Americans drove 4.5 miles less per day that would completely negate the requirement for deep sea drilling in the gulf. That may be true but I think the logic is a bit screwed. Oil companies drill this prehistoric goo from thousands of feet below the surface of the earth using highly specialised equipment in often remote locations. It is then shipped or piped to a refinery that starts a whole process of turning this into a usable product. That product is then shipped again to our shores where it is held until a truck takes it to my local BP. I can buy a liter of that product that started out thousands of feet below the surface of some desert or ocean thousands of miles away for about NZ$1.72 per liter. I can go into that same BP and buy a liter of Putararu tap water which is about a 150 kilometers from Waihi for NZ$3.00. I'm just sayin'.....