Street performance is not work for the dole

Discuss.

Encounters

And no, I don't mean the kind with aliens or ghosts. I mean those moments you have which (for no apparent reason) stick in your memory for days. Particularly incidental conversations with randoms. For some reason these type of encounters are happening more and more for me recently.
I must need to get out more. Maybe I need to stop talking to randoms.

Cycling in Italy

I highly recommend it.

So many stories, but strangely I don't feel like detailing them in great length online. Instead I want to go out and experience more of it. I'm tryiing to plan a trip to NZ do do a little skiing and catch Rally NZ. We'll see how that pans out.
Also on my list are a trip to Japan and a trip touring around the south island in NZ. Both are on hold until I find a traveling partner, as while I do enjoy doing things on my own, it doesn't count unless you share experiences with others.

Also, I'd love to go back to Europe next year to see a few more rally events and being immersed in that culture again. Particularly Sardinia was just so good. Still makes me smile.

And no Morgan, I don't need puppies. I don't need them on multiple levels. :p

Nulla da scrivere

Is it that nothing's going on worth blogging about or that my brain hasn't been in the mood for the mental turmoil that usually provides entertaining reading? You know, if you type the word 'nothing' on its own, it looks weird. I'm convinced there's something missing, much like my life at the moment. I know things are going okay, but when I look at it, something doesn't seem right.

The Galindez Mystery

Put simply, The Galindez Mystery is a movie about the disappearance of a Basque Nationalist and the subsequent cover-up by the CIA. When someone becomes interested in the truth of what happened to Galindez, she is also killed. It's about the snowballing situation of the killing of anyone who becomes interested in the story. The intimidation is meant to make anyone else - with knowledge of what happened - turn the other way, but it ends up just resulting in more killing.

It's a story that's fairly common and the moral is the same: we must not be one to turn the other way, that we should endeavor to pursue the truth in spite of the dangers. However, I just came away with two messages:

1. Once you get involved in covering something up, there is no way out. You see it through or you face the consequences. This is similar to telling a lie that you then have to back up with more lies and in the end you are faced with a situation where you are left in a maze of deception and dishonesty.
So #1 is to never get in a situation where you have to cover something up. And if you do make a mistake that has consequences, get out of the situation as early as possible so it doesn't snowball.

2. If you find out about something that might get you into deep shit, let it slide. The original victim in this story said that he regretted trying to bring about change because in the end it cost him his life and it wasn't worth it.
The lady investigating his death was just trying to find the truth about his murder... so her death was worth it even less. In the end, those dying had such little to do with the original incident that there was just no point.
It's like deciding whether to save someone from the surf when it means you will also almost certainly die. It's all well and good to be courageous, but you have to weigh up the cost... is it worth it? Should you just look the other way? Or should you take everyone out Rambo-style?