Well, the time has come for me to start writing

Maybe a little about me first. An introduction of sorts if you like.

I am a transplanted Australian living life in the USA. I am a citizen of this adopted country, and my wife is now a both a US citizen and a Permanent Resident of Australia. Even though we can’t travel there in these Covid Days

So, I have a background in corporate finance. Love red wines from around the world and love to travel to all these wine regions

Today I had to take a car to the repair shop. Someone backed into me in a parking lot last weekend. Have you ever tried to navigate an insurance companies phone maze? Press 1 for this, 2 for that etc. I think i went around in circles for at least 10 minutes before I finally stumbled on a real person.

I eventually had a rental car. A big Lincoln something. Who knew that gear shifts were buttons on the dash. What would anyone make such a cumbersome and counter intuitive system? Long story short, I drove away … wife’s on the phone..”pick me up a chicken cheese and pickle biscuit”. She is the mortgage consultant (see name of this blog). She is on her cell phone all day long. Working from home, and getting people into houses, or just refinancing them. Stress pours down the stairs from her home office, and into my domain, the kitchen!

The world is a crazy place in 2020. It used to be The Lone Ranger and bank robbers who wore masks. Now we all do. We have successfully defeated facial recognition software. I wonder what happens next?