John & Colette’s Adventures

An unexpected gift appeared in the mail today. We’re so thrilled! You’ll need QuickTime.

A fine Talk Like A Pirate day t’ye all! Arrrrr.

I finally got my last bit of money from Australia this week! Yay. My obligatory contributions to the government retirement plan (aka: Superannuation) has finally been refunded to me, less the 30% Aussie Tax, thank you very much. Now I have to convince my bank to cash a foreign check which will, no doubt, require [...]

I have never gotten wrapped up in a presidential election like this one. America has the opportunity to undo some of the damage done by 8 years of a corrupted Cheney/Bush regime and I’m quite nervous we’ll choose to follow the same course. This is a path of hatred, fascism and environmental irresponsibility. McCain’s latest [...]