All Over the World

Happy New Year 2013
Its important for me to write the year as often as possible or else cheques and items will go out dated ' out-dated ' so to speak.

Folks on Xmas Island greeted the New Year first, then us here in Toronto and finally on America Samoa. I obviously, left out some places in between and I extend my apologies. Mea Culpa.
I heard this bit of trivia last night via NPR / CBC. the overnight feed.
Now, I immediately imagined Xmas Islanders looking across the water to the people in Amer. Samoa and saying Happy NY b/c except for the artificial nature of the time zones, these people would see the same thing - midnight - give or take a few minutes.

South of the border , before you get to Mexico - Hi guys - the ' fiscal cliff '  
a ) was  avoided  b ) was postponed  c) therefore got  longer   d) got higher.
What a crazy metaphor for looming tax increases and budget cuts
So, I read it this way. The House of Republicans didn't want to look like the bad guys thus they did something. The  Prez , on his watch , can't have the country fall apart in one day, thus he did something.
But according to the correspondent ( NPR ) the decision is put off to maybe March but could be tougher to deal with.
I think the Americans have cornered the market on phrases such as ' live for to-day ' or as the Chinese have always said ' to-morrow will take care of to-morrow '.

Up here where the wind chill not fiscal anything is problematic, the temperature will be 20 F but the wind chill effect could be 8 F. Our wind sock is horizontal and wind looks to be from the north. The sock is on a slightly sheltered edge so direction is dubious.

In Nova Scotia, one our Atlantic provinces, a move is afoot to raise the age of majority to 25. Voting and drinking. I always thought the legal age for marriage should be 47. I mean do all sorts of stupid things for 46 years and then settle down and do it right. 
No, no the standard seems to be get married early, re-marry, maybe figure it out and ruck up a whole bunch of lives in the process. One of the guys at work used to say  ' better to be from a broken home then live in one ' . I hope in years to come, historians won't call the time that I lived in the ' era of the temporary marriage - and its effects '.

Movie review for ' Conan '. I found this in the bargain bin at Canadian Tire or Walmart gone auto for you southerners. W/ out my glasses, I ended up getting a young lad holding a snowboard thingy to read the cast list to make sure that this version was sans the ' governator ' arnie dude.
For $ 10, a pretty good movie. Way better than the version with Arnold S. Nobody is a super-star or pretends to be. Action galore and an interesting story line ( for a sword and skin flick ). The production values were high and most scenes were realistic.

Blow off the bad news ---- 

What the hey, have a good day, y'all. Remember what Jack Burton always says ' dude, the beer is cold and the babes are hot, paradise '

P.S. Who is Jack Burton   ?????????????

JB is Kurt Russel in ' Big Trouble in Little China ' a John Carpenter semi-cultish movie from the 80's (? ). He didn't really say that but its what his whole attitude is.