Spot the dot.
With the little dot map thingy , you can see who has visited your site - well more where they come from, geographically. I'd reckon I can 'see' a few regular commenters. So who are the "other dots" that show up large and don't comment?

Come on, say gooday - I might even be nice to you and not be a sarcastic cunt. (Then again I might not.)

Seems that a few folks out there are having a generally shitty year so far. I've had a few of them,(shitty years, living on the bones of my arse and wits), myself. I have eaten one meal a day for extended periods due to circumstances at times. I have drooled over a not so fresh road kill full of maggots - it tasted ok and the maggots were just more protein (though best to think of as soft rice). I have given my last dollar to another that has needed it more and have had people help me out at times.

I've found that the best way to deal with it is to view it all in perspective. I realised that there is always someone worse off than you are. I remember of seeing a photo once of a fella in some third world shithole, walking through floodwater to his ankles, carrying his 20l plastic food ( the type mayo and stuff comes in). The bucket was split up the side and had been fixed with string, it appeared to carry his wordly possessions. It was probably his best asset and made him rich compared to the fellas walking with him, as they had no buckets and carried thier few ragged possesions in their arms, while he was able to have a free hand and carry more.

I mostly try to look on the positive side of things and think big. I have been to subsidised conferences and had dinner with chairpersons of goverment and private enterprise while not having the price of a coffee in my pocket. A common term I heard was "buckets of money". Do a websearch on government funding available, I did. It was an eye opener, especially if you are, or can, create a not-for-profit organisation.

Over here we have the rock an roll to help out if you are between jobs, sometimes you are expected to work on projects to continue to get payments. Fair enough. Mostly the projects involve exciting shit like painting posts or pulling weeds. I got selected for one once, so rang the head of the organisation organising the work project and laid my idea on him, "yeah i can paint a fucken post or dig a hole, but if you give me a work team I have this idea for a historical preservation project. It should last for about three years and will generate ongoing project work and generate significant local revenue for the local community, hence creating employment in a low employment area. I'll write a comprehensive plan for you as fulfillment of my obligation to the rock an roll. If you decide to go ahead with it and give me a budget, $50 000 pa and a car, I will manage the work groups and get the project completed as per the attached timelines."
Well I wrote the plan but the funding went elsewhere and to date it has not happened. Fucken good practice though and a worthwhile exercise. Or I could of just picked up the shovel or brush.

So anyway, after all that, here are my tips for happiness;

• be yourself
• be honest
• live by your moral code. Allow others to live by theirs.
  
• tell it like you see it. if people don't like it, too fucken bad, harden up you soft cunt.
• tell dickheads to fuck off
  
• look folks in the eye
• unless they are traditional idegenous folks (it'd be bad manners)
  
• give a bonecrushing handshake, unless it's a sheila
  
• do not trust those who have a limp handshake - fucken dead fish hand cunts, fuck off!!!
• only do what you want to do
• try to be nice to other people - unless they are cunts or dickheads
  
• if someone malicously accuses you falsly, give them an opportunity to retract
• if they do not, punch them in the head, hard, and give them the offer again. (repeat as required)
  
• have good, true, mates (most of my mates are not what you would call rich, but we all help each other, any time of the day or night)
• stand by your mates
• stick up for other cunts as required
  
• tell bullshit stories to gossipy cunts and follow the yarn as it does its rounds
• be extra nice to your neighbors, unless they are cunts.
• if your neighbors are cunts, make their life miserable till they fuck off or pull their heads in (i once told a neighbor that I was going to rent my house to coons and tell them that the cunt next door hated all black folks, but if they wanted to put him right good on em an here's a flagon of plonk for your housewarming party, invite all your mates - then buy his house cheap and move them out of my house with a demolition order - then build a new one. hehehe)
  
• catch the odd surfy (squeal you cunt)
  
• and the odd fish
• or two
• listen to the sound of the wind, and nothing else, in the remotest of places
• watch the dawn
• listen to birds
• watch the animals
• study whatever interest takes me at the time
• shoot cats, pigs, goats and other feral shit
• watch kangaroos fight, then shoot the loser for tucker. Now that would be a bad day! (for the roo)
  

So there ya go.