Mineral Green

Curse the National Council of Churches in Australia! They tricked me. In today's mail was a letter with a plain envelope and nothing but a PO Box as the return address, looking exactly like the letters I get from my superannuation fund. Only it wasn't from them. It was from Act for Peace, the charity of the aforementioned council of churches, an organisation I've never heard of before, let alone given money to. In the envelope was: a letter from the CEO, saying how vital my support would be; three Christmas cards I could send to people, spreading good cheer and the news that I support Act for Peace; a sheet of gift tags; a little cardboard booklet with a case study in it; and a donation form and reply paid envelope. Think of the good deeds they could have done with all that. They're not getting anything from me if that's what they do with their money.

I went to the library yesterday and found the Information is Beautiful book. This information is indeed beautiful. (Although incorrect on at least one page, in that it colours in Australia to show that it's one of the countries with free universal healthcare*, but doesn't colour in Tasmania. Grrrrr.) There's one spread that's a map, showing what many countries are number one in the world for. Australia is number one in the world for car thefts. I feel so proud. Do feel free to ask if you want to know what any other country is best at.

I've got a mysterious brown spot in the middle of my left index fingernail. It's obviously finger cancer and my finger will drop off and then I'll die. So that's something to look forward to.



* Also not entirely true, but true enough for the purposes of the graph.