Sunday, July 23, 2017

Final episode of #WestWing and moving on to #ER

I'm #NowWatching final episode of #WestWing lol finally got the Nancy and spend more time with your mother joke.
:)
https://www.facebook.com/NowWatching.tv/posts/1140141919421261

It was really weird watching the last ever episode of #WestWing last night eg thinking the next time we ever watch this series we'll probably be living back in Australia etc......

To cheer us up that we are done with the Bartlett administration and moving back into Trump reality we watched S1:E1 of ER last night as well....was awesome TV to watch.

So many people we knew and amazing 'story telling' not sure if its just the nostalgia sweeping over us that made it fun but really looking forward to watching this series end to end......lol though its a bit of an epic endurance eg 15 seasons with 330 episodes..... http://amzn.to/2eFz7Cz

Friday, July 21, 2017

Cash on sidelines at lowest levels ever......

Want to know why stocks are at all time highs..... I'll just leave this here.

- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-21/no-more-cash-sidelines-private-client-cash-levels-drop-record-low

All fun and games until the music stops (prob not until 2020.......but it WILL stop)


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-21/no-more-cash-sidelines-private-client-cash-levels-drop-record-low

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Australian super under performs yet again

Yet again Australian funds underperform USA market

- http://www.smh.com.au/money/super-returns-add-140b-to-national-retirement-savings-pot-20170719-gxe8t2.html

We're just lucky we are saving more as a percentage of income than most other countries.

We need more competiton for our Super in the Australian market as they currently arent delivering the results seen elsewhere.


Thursday, July 13, 2017

Tori Amos

Scored tickets to Tori Amos concert on Nov 8th at The Beacon
- http://www.toriamos.com

Ticking another one off the bucket list. Really looking forward to this one.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3B0052E7D36222B8#efeat4211

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Sydney public transport

Great advice around public transport, one of the things that Jodie and I have learnt about living in New York is that subways=smelly BUT awesome.

There is no faster way to get around and it makes me sad that Sydney isn't doing enough to increase its infrastructure investments.

https://www.domain.com.au/news/five-lessons-from-tokyo-a-city-of-38-million-people-for-australia-a-country-of-24-million-people-20170711-gx8t15/


Monday, July 10, 2017

Dockless bikes coming to NYC

Ugh just saw on NY1 this morning that they are talking about bringing "dockless bikes" to NYC in order to compete against CitiBike.

As much as I don't like some of the locations that CitiBike chose for their docks its been great for the city and one of the reasons it works is that everyone uses the same platform, If you have competing platforms......then you are duplicating the resources so less efficient.

My other real issue with dockless bikes is because they can be "locked by themselves" you can basically leave them anywhere.....so people end up leaving them..."anywhere" as once you've locked it up and walked away from it then its not your problem (similar issue to Car2Go cars that don't get parked in parking stations and instead are parked anywhere often causing issues with alternate side parking days here in Brooklyn heights).

lol don't think this is a problem.....check out whats happened in Beijing where there are a number of these companies competing - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2062595/more-500-rented-bikes-many-vandalised-left-dumped-piles-near


http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2062595/more-500-rented-bikes-many-vandalised-left-dumped-piles-near

Yo its Monday

"It goes a-1, 2, 3... Hey yo, it's just another bombtrack"
lol....awesome track to start a Monday with :)


I'm NowListening to Rage Against The Machine (1992)