It's about time I started writing on here as I intended as a diary as well as a repository of random thoughts and rants and post for myself and not some imaginary audience. Far too much exposition is unnecessary relating who's who - even if thousands of people were reading this how many would actually care about the minuteae of my life or even my radio phone in style rants. This is supposed to be something for me to look back on and remember and if anybody else happens to be bored enough to find it a distraction then so be it.
    Quick change of pace with an oddly moving day watching the Chilean miners being evacuated - as of this moment just over half of the 33 have safely been brought to the surface to be greeted by a beaming President Sebastien Pinera. While it is undoubtedly good PR for him and he has seen his approval rating improve, though not as much as that of his Mining Minister, I find it rather uncomfortable. It is right for him to be there and he know doubt is genuinely pleased to see each man safely rescued only he is far too prominent hugging each man on his appearance when the human drama of each man is far more important. The images that have impressed me so far are Mario Sepulveda, the second to be rescued, who broght a bag of rocks with him as souvenirs then proceeded to hand them to the rescue workers and the president before running around high fiving his rescuers. Other stories such as how Victor Zamora was unlucky to be involved as he was a mechanic repairing a vehicle and not a miner and Omar Reygadas who had been trapped underground a couple of times before highlighting that such events are actually above politics.