While what happens on the other side of the world really isn’t my concern much, it is noteworthy to discuss Australia’s current situation. It seems that Australia is experiencing some difficulties with some fires. My secretary told me that the fires are spanning an area of nearly half the size of our United States. I am actually quite concerned as I have quite a few business ventures in that country, and I’m sure that the fires will affect the mining industry that I’ve invested in down under. My friend at the office, Mark, was talking to me yesterday during lunch about how he used to date some girl from Australia. I really wasn’t listening that closely as I was more concerned with his new suit, which I believe the others were also eyeing as well. Anyway, that’s a bit off topic. When the guys and I were talking about the whole Australia thing, we thought it would be pretty neat if we all took a little vacation away from the office and actually checked it out.
Mark’s dad owns the company so we didn’t have much issue getting some time off. We flew the company jet all the way down to Australia itself, and one of our other friends, James, was so hungover on the flight there we had to make him sit in a separate area because he was just puking everywhere. Anyway, when we got there we were really just looking to get wasted and party. We tried going to some clubs in Sydney but honestly, the music taste was just so terrible and they didn’t have my favorite type of wine, so we just decided to do some coke in the bathroom and hire some hookers back at our Airbnb. Even though it is a little ironic that we didn’t actually end up visiting any of the national parks or any part actually affected by the wildfire, we still had a great time.
One of my real concerns with this fire is actually my Australian portfolio. My secretary tells me that mining companies that I own shares in have had to nearly completely cease their operations in the wake of this fire, and I am not pleased. I had another vacation to Malibu scheduled for this Thursday, but it looks like I am going to have to cancel it on account of this fire, and will have to attend a board meeting with our CEO that day instead regarding our assets in the country. Oh well, I didn’t have anyone to go to Malibu with anyway and I probably wouldn’t have had that much fun alone.
Well, this was all a rather incoherent ramble, but these are my thoughts and experiences surrounding the Australian wildfires. I’ll be posting regularly for the next few weeks as I experiment with this “blog” idea.
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