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Not much excitement to report at the moment. Woke up to hear there is a recall notice for Toyota RAV4's - great (not) !! Nothing major but annoying to say the least. Will sort it out when we pick the car up on Saturday. 

Some people find religion, some find themselves, well I've found AMAZON. It's just fantastic now that we live here in the US of A. It's get here quicker than you can say billy-bob-joe-bonnie-sue-ray and usually free shipping. I am now a mailbox stalker to see when my parcels arrive and the desk clerk knows my name and apartment number very very well. Have bought things that we need, mainly appliances as we didn't bring our 240v stuff with us. The boxes are mounting in the apartment.

I got car insurance the other day. Rang online. This is hard to write funny but I'll try my best. I was on the phone going through the menus where they ask you to ‘say’ things. Well it went like this:

(me slowly) CAR insurance 

(robot slowly) I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you, options again (they say AUTO as an option).

(ok me again, slowly) A-U-T-O insurance

(robot again slowly) I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you, options again…

(bloody hell, me again)  ORR-DOE (with a US accent) and magic, it understood me.

Unbelievable !!

The weather has warmed and it's like a winter day at home. Apparently the freezing past week has been very unprecedented so lucky us I guess. 

The elections are keeping me entertained. Trump is whipping the Republicans and is saying all the right things to appeal to people who hate rich people and bureaucracy. He's funding his own campaign so he can say whatever he likes and suck up to nobody. It is interesting to follow although I have a long way to go in understanding the process. 

We both got over the jet lag this week - we noticeably feel a lot better and are sleeping better too. Getting into some regular exercise so that helps too. I think Deb's becoming a Starbucks regular on her way to work!! Flat whites are about the most we can manage there. I've been working my way through the TV series Blacklist on Netflix and trying to find a good news channel. I wish we could find something substantial like SBS or ABC - it's all too trivial but there must be something out there, maybe it's an X-file (...yes, I believe).

Most of the admin chores are done (for now) and I think I might be getting little bit of cabin fever so I will aim to visit a museum or some big shopping centres next week.