Guessing by now some folks here may have been wondering what the heck happened to SeaGypsy?
Well some will recall my last posts months ago ranting a bit about Islamic extremists. The chickens on the horizon have come home to roost.
I have for the last few years been anticipating ELM based societal breakdown particularly in the MENA. When underground news sites started daily postings of the extreme behaviour of the early shoots of what has emerged as the New Caliphate, I became quite convinced these represented the new enemy unmasked.
My interest in base resource economics has waned substantially over the last year or more. I guess the old hands here would put it as I'm already in popcorn mode. I believe we are on the threshold of a drama of untold proportion.
On a personal note, I'm now 4 months out of my marriage, 4 months into a new career, from glass arts to aboriginal arts to nursing to transport to civil construction, maintenance scheduling, remote infrastructure. I haven't been online much at all lately and have mostly killed off my online presence.
I hope all the old hands here are well and prospering.
Cheers! SG
PS I'm back in the remote NT, where I was when I started here. I spend half the work day driving around checking installations & data logging, the other half
at the nearest spring, lake, waterfall. The life of Reilly as they say in Oz.
