Really wet

  For once it is really properly raining in California today. As in you can't go flat out on the road windscreen wipers going at full speed. Of course this meant accidents galore as people tried to do 80 and spun out. Idiots. Add to that the fun that one road had flooded across 3 of the 4 lanes on the way to work (thank god I have a high riding car, I got through it with no problem unlike the steaming small cars beside me) and it was an interesting journey. Looking at the traffic stuff now and it is lit up, quite festively, like a Christmas tree. We even have mud slides it seems. Also why do I keep typing flodded when I mean to type flooded.

  So, on to nicer things. Like the dinner out my wife and I had last night. At our usual place where we are now close to getting a free meal after eating there enough times. Well $25 off a meal but that is enough for us to eat free considering the reasonable amount we eat between the two of us. Getting out every so often is good for us, it gets us out of the house and gives us time to be together, just the two of us. Even at home there are 4 cats so at one time or another at least one of them is with us. Not to mention going out means we don't have to cook or clean up :) . As an added bonus there is now left over pizza to eat.

  Finally I am in full swing of Christmas shopping. Gifts for me wife have been bought and should be here soon. I plan to have everything here very soon so that all the last minute crap that goes on and the busy times at shops are something I can avoid totally.

New TV

  Well the new TV turned up and was set up with no problems yesterday. It is a little weird, it is a larger screen but since the bulk of the TV is less it feels smaller. The screen is much better than the old one though and things really show their true colour and resolution well. Now we just need to get used to the higher refresh rate and motion smoothing. It makes things look a little too realistic sometimes but maybe we can fiddle with it and get the advanced settings down right. With it as it is though it should last us just as long if not longer than the last TV we had which actually we used for longer than any other TV we've ever had. Seems strange that we used it for 7 years.

  As an aside though, playing through the first chapter of Heretic more yesterday it was very obvious how games have improved graphical quality wise over the years. Even on a 15 inch laptop screen the resolution is so relatively low you can see every single pixel in the game. It can be a little jarring but the game plays wonderfully all these years later. Not to mention it loads up in less than a second since there is so little to actually load up. It makes it so much easier to use compared to when I first played it in the last millennium (another scary thought).

  Now I just need to play some of my old games on the new TV and see how they look. Especially if I can find the few that actually run in 1080p as opposed to 720p that most games drop down to in order to keep the frame rate up. I wonder though how standard definition TV is going to look on it, hopefully some of the newer signal processing technologies in the TV can make up for the severe lack in quality of an SD signal. That and the amazon prime streaming my wife and I use to watch some things.

  I was about to end this blog post like I do a lot of mine, some form of "anyway ...." but for now I think I'll just end it here and go look outside to see what the weather is doing. Meant to be lots of rain around here for the next few days although I did get to work before it really picked up this morning. I want to see how wet the drive home is going to be today so that I can prepare for the other California drivers on the road that seriously can't deal with water on the road.

All the p's

  Our new TV should be turning up soon and we finally will have a main TV that is capable of displaying all the p's currently available. All 1080 of them. We have other displays, one in the bedroom, one in the caravan, one laptop and 2 desktop computers that can do the same but none of them are quite as large as this new one. The old 720p TV that has served us well for the last 7 years is being retired until it can be used in the new house for something else.

  It is quite startling going from standard definition programs to HD ones. Even going to a 720p display the difference is quite profound, not just due to the resolution but also due to the better colour representation in HD signals than SD ones. I think going to 1080p won't be quite as much of a jump but it will be interesting to see if we can see the difference.

  So we will now have all the p's as I said. Now they just need to move on to 2k, 4k and 8k displays (yeah they've already defined the specifications for them and have displays available for extortionate prices) to arrive at some point in the next decade before we can all move on again. Although why would you since we are getting to the point where you can't see the extra resolution.

Our big boy

  Just thought I would share this picture I took this morning that gives some idea of how big our oldest and biggest cat Boots is. This is him sitting on my wife this morning.

  My wife is basically completely smothered by him, his body just about covers the entirety of my wife's torso. I don't think people realise how big cats can be without being fat until they see him. Admittedly he is one of the largest breeds but even then he is not as large as some ragdolls can get. His father weighed a good 6 lbs heavier than him. The contrast between him at 18 lbs and Daisy at barely 8 lbs is quite large (although I don't believe Daisy is 8 lbs, she is too skinny and small to be that much).

Being hassled

  There is something about actually physically being in the office that makes people seem to want to talk to me more than when I'm working from home. I'm not always talking about coming up to me in my cubicle but even over IM as well. I can spend an entire day working from home, get a few things done and have nobody else talk to me about anything. Half a day in the office though and all sorts of people want to talk to me about various things, more than a fair share of them pretty inane.

  It is amazing how much better it can be working from home. Not only do people rarely hassle me but most importantly I get to physically be with my wife all day. I may annoy her a bit but I know she prefers it as well. I don't have to commute, get a little bit more of a lay in in bed and can wear whatever I feel like rather than having to get work dressed as it were. I think for professions like mine more and more companies need to realise physical location doesn't mean much. The team of people I work with are split across three different locations in the US and we also interact with people in other countries. Despite this we are the most productive part of the company, achieving more with less than anybody else. It is frustrating to say the least.

  So to all my work colleagues out there wanting to hassle me, don't :P . I like my peace and quiet and getting on with what I have to do. Oh and don't complain when I hassle you, I always have a very good reason for it :) .

Annoying habits

  Apparently I have quite a few annoying habits. I tend to fiddle with something at all times, more often than not making noise of some kind of another. This doesn't bother me since it somehow keeps me occupied fiddling with whatever I am but my wife obviously gets distracted by this repetitive noise I make.

  Take Lucy our cat as another example. This morning she jumped up on to my lap in order to get a fuss. While she was sitting there I tried to use my computer and put my arms around her. Since she still wanted fuss she decided to nip at my arm until I started fussing her again. All the while she was purring her head off but was determined to get her own way since she wanted fussing.

  Boots has an annoying habit of demanding an audience when he wants to go eat. He knows where his biscuits are and can go and eat them at any time. However at some times he will walk up to my wife and I and meow at us until we follow him. He will then proceed to eat some biscuits, take a drink and go lay down somewhere. We are then safe to go back to whatever we were doing but if we don't wait for him to at least take a drink after eating then he will come back to us and meow at us until we follow him again.

  It is strange the habits people (and cats) pick up that can so annoy other people. It is just a matter of trying to break those habits that is hard so you don't end up annoying the person you are with so much.

Pain

  My wife doesn't really feel pain like most people. It has been scientifically proven, part of having red hair leads to pain receptors literally working differently. Because of this she really doesn't feel pain in situations that most people would go ow in. Therefore you can understand when I hear her scream in pain I know she is in real pain. I've only known her to do it when something really hurts or she has done herself a real injury.

  Yesterday was one of those days where I suddenly heard that out loud scream that didn't stop. It seems my wife had hurt her back somehow during the night and couldn't move properly or sit down. There was something causing nerves to scream bloody murder in her lower back.

  When this happens my heart sinks and I stop whatever I'm doing there and then to rush to her to see if there is anything I can do. When I find there is nothing I can do other than let her get better, since pain relievers don't do much for my wife (that redhead thing again), I feel so helpless. Here is the woman I love in severe pain and I can't relieve it.

  At least my wife knows when I go ow it isn't serious. Seriously, I go ow when she pokes me. Not sure what I would do if I got seriously injured since it really hasn't happened yet other than migraines I suppose and those go away.

"Old" games

  There was a big bit of videogame news this morning where it was announced that Grand Theft Auto Vice City (arguably the best GTA game due to it's 80s setting) is going to be released on iOS and Android platforms in 2 weeks. It feels weird that a game that I specifically went to a shop on release day to get since I was so looking forward to it is now going to be a $5 handheld game that can run on phones. I'm not sure how you can play a game like that on phones but still it is quite a fun thing to do.

  Then take the fact that even older games just got released on the PS3 online store last night. All the Doom and Doom 2 various levels and expansion packs on one 100Meg download. I've played most of those (although never actually paid for them :| ) but it speaks to their influence and being still relevant this much later, almost 20 years later in fact. It's weird to see for one of the longer term older gamers like me. Still at least it means newer generations can enjoy the games.

  I'm just glad I'm able to see quality when I do and hold on to it over the years. Take my wife for example, I found her quite a while ago now and am still with her since she is the best. Older things can be really good and get better with age. Not all that is new is the best.

Thinking logically

  A lot of what I have to do at work is simply think logically. Take a known set of rules and requirements and make sure something does the right things at the right times in the right order. Pretty simple concept you would think. Given some of the questions I've had at work today I'm not sure that a lot of people can actually do that. I've had so much inane querying that given a minute of logical thought can easily be explained and whatever problem they are having can be resolved.

  It is frustrating since it gives me less time for the actual cases where something is not happening in the correct logical order. Trying to find where the logic breaks down and then find a solution for it is far more interesting than explaining how something happens or how it should happen.

  I'm just glad that I'm married to someone who can think logically. In fact she can see through things logically that I can't which is just one of the ways it is great being married to her. We can talk things through sensibly and come up with a logical plan of action and when we do it the end result is as we expected. It is frustrating that so many other people in my life are not like that.

Saying I love you

  Every morning when I get up I tell my wife I love her. She may be asleep still but I say it anyway. Then once I'm dressed and have all my stuff to go to work I crack open the bedroom door and tell here again that I love her and will see her later. I always want the last thing she hears from me before she sees me again being me telling her I love her. I do it if I'm going out to the shops for something, I do it via IM when I leave work to go home, it is something that is ingrained in me and automatic now.

  It is a simple thing I think but it is a way I can make sure my wife knows I love her. That I want her to always know and feel it. It is important to me and to her. Three simple words that express a huge amount of emotion and feelings. It encompasses my reason for living and my world. Soppy words maybe but they are at the top of the list in importance.

  So find someone to say those words to and mean it. Make sure they know and feel it. Let them know that there is someone out there who will always feel that way about them and be with them forever. It is amazing how something so simple can be so overwhelmingly important.

Andy palace

  Just did another of the regular rebuild of our littlest ones huge palace of a living quarters. For a member of the smallest species of hamster Andy has probably more habitat stuff than the vast majority of normal size hamsters. Despite that though she really seems to enjoy what she has, when she is awake she runs around the tunnels we build for her going to various places. Sure she uses her wheel for hours on end but she will also wander around doing whatever it is that hamsters do (eat, store food, pee and poop mostly it seems).

  The one consistent thing seems to be her nest. More often than not it is in some little covered den area where she can drag a ton of bedding in with her and have just an Andy size hole to sleep in. Some times she has made a bed in one of the tunnels which has been strange, you can see her sleeping, with bedding either side of her, in a coloured transparent tunnel. Although when she is sleeping she basically becomes a ball of hamster almost perfectly round, a literal hamster ball herself.

  Now if only someone could invent self cleaning hamster habitats then all the tedious washing and drying of so much hamster habitat could be so much easier. It seriously take an hour or two to get it all disassembled, washed, dried and reassembled. I'm just thankful we finally found a quiet wheel for her to run in, her first couple were bloody noisy once she got up to speed. She is fast for something so tiny so the amount of wobbling she can produce on her habitat is quite large with the velocity that the wheel reaches. Sleeping through that is hard.

Yay

  Just heard from the vets and our little girl is ok. No teeth extracted.

  As for today it has been nice warm shower with my wife in the morning, some work, some shopping, lunch date out where we both ate something with relatively few calories (finding something with less than 1000 was hard) and then back home to do some more work and stuff.

  I could get used to this kind of working from home. All that is left of today is for me to make sure the bit of work I did in the morning is working on my node, decide what to have for dinner (probably nice pate on good bread we bought). Considering later will be some TV watching and maybe game playing not a bad way to spend the day. All the while earning a bit of money as well.

  I pity those people who have to slog to a physically exhausting job every day for minimum wage and have nobody to go home to. I think I've managed to sort out a pretty decent life overall. Especially the being with my wife bit.

Little furry things

  Slightly strange day today of little things. I had to take our smallest cat to the vets this morning to get her teeth seen to. This meant she couldn't have any food since last night which meant keeping her away from everyone else in a bedroom which meant my wife had to sleep in there with her to keep her company and not have her locked away on her own. She is so tiny and afraid to be away it is kind of sad. We got her from a rescue place so she had been passed around various places after probably being abandoned as a kitten. Having her away from all of us is kind of sad. Even when my wife and I go away she has the other 3 cats as company.

  So it meant a very disturbed night of sleep for my wife. Daisy was all over the place in the bedroom and being a cat didn't really settle all night. Compare that to Boots at the moment. He is currently where he usually is, in one of the cat baskets literally snoring away while he sleeps. Just hearing him there is a great comfort. Fudge and Lucy are also dotted around the house fulfilling their lazy cat duties. Daisy though is down the road at the vets and we have no idea how she is doing. Weird that I only dropped her off less than 2 hours ago and her presence is really missed.

  Lunch out today since I'm at home which will be nice. Spend some time out with my wife during the day and get a little bit of work done from home. Just looking forward to when we can pick Daisy up again and make sure she feels safe and happy back with us and the other cats.

Wandering around

  A new trailer for GTA5 came out today and it reminded me a lot of why I enjoy those games. The big sprawling open world games like GTA3/Vice City/San Andres, like Red Dead Redemption, also Oblivion and Skyrim, Fallout 3, I could go on with a large list. They are the kind of games where you can just go see what is around. Sure there are fixed missions with places to go but the act of just looking around and finding what is in this world that has been created is immensely fun.

  Sure I play games that are linear and have fixed paths. They can be fun too but more often than not they don't last long enough. For real time spent give me the big world to poke around in. GTA4 fell down in that department. I didn't play the main game just the side stories released separately. They were apparently much more interesting than the main game story so it seems I got the good side out of that game. Its failures though were that it restricted you to where you could go too much until late in to the game and a lot of the gameplay mechanisms of traveling around where just not fun.

  So here's hoping there are more games that get the formula right. With a game like that I can play it for months on end getting everything done and seeing all there is in the world. Far more game for the money than some other games for sure.

  On that thought lets see how long before I give up with work and moving us to somewhere that my wife and I can poke around in and not bump in to other people. Not long now I think.

Icky things

  Manged to totally gross out my wife and make her shriek like a girl yesterday afternoon. It was totally accidental and just shows that sometimes things happen that you don't see coming. Getting home from work I brought in the rubbish bins as I do every Monday. The garden rubbish bin goes around the side of the house and getting there involves going through a small path with a bush to one side. The bush kind of sticks in to the path so you sometimes brush against it when going past it.

  So after having done this, gone inside, put the shopping away and then went in to the bedroom where my wife was reading and saying hello it had been a good 5 to 10 minutes. At one point my wife then saw something on my shirt and tried to brush it off. It was then she realised it was icky and moving. Looking at it we noticed it to be a caterpillar and it was then that my wife shrieked. I managed to get it off of me, it being just behind my left shoulder, and put it outside. Since I had been sitting on the bed with my wife we then quickly checked the bed to make sure no more where there and satisfied there were none thought it was all over.

  But no. A minute later I noticed yet another caterpillar walking up the front of my shirt. Another quick dash outside to remove it was required and I then went inside and removed my shirt to make sure no more of the little buggers were about. Satisfied I was all clear, including the trousers I had been wearing, a trip outside was required to see where these so and sos had come from. Looking at the bush I suspected they came from confirmed my suspicion. It was covered in them, I saw a dozen of them immediately all just sitting there not doing much. A little internet searching later showed them to be genista caterpillars that like to eat that particular type of bush so we will need to get some pesticide to deal with them.

  Still it shows what random icky things you just come across when you are totally not expecting it. They even freaked me out a little since I was totally not aware two of them were on my shirt and god knows where they would have gone if not stopped. Thankfully we can deal with them even if the pest exterminate won't.

No more Midsomer

  After watching untold hours of Midsomer Murders we finally reached the end of the free episodes we got with our amazon prime subscription. 10 series in all although there are 13 available. I can't remember when we first started watching but it had become a habit when we had nothing on the Tivo to watch. There were mostly enjoyable, a few iffy ones but overall nice to watch some British TV again compared to a lot of the drivel in the US.

  I suppose it gave us a link back to our origin, even though the depiction of British country life is really no longer valid. The general style and attitude of the people as compared to how it is here. We do miss that some just not the chavs that inevitably come along with it in most of British society. I think if we can find somewhere reasonably out of the way in the US, without being in bumfuck nowhere, we can finally escape the chavs.

  That is what it comes down to really, getting away from all the idiot people and through watching that TV program we had a bit of that. In our own world ignoring the world outside and just being together seeing what happened in this little bit of very high death count countryside.

  Now the only problem is to find something else to fill the time like Midsomer did. We tried a short lived series of only 6 episodes yesterday and got through all of it. Something more substantial might have to be found.

Genius

  I've just experienced the genius that is Llamatron again thanks to the genius of my wife. If you have never played that game you've never tried something that is truly nutty and fun and fast and frenetic and addictive and just downright silly. Mind you if you've played any other games from Jeff Minter you know exactly what I'm talking about but his take on Robotron is downright surreal sometimes. I literally died in 2 seconds some times it moves so fast.

  Still my wife knew exactly what I needed to take me back to my childhood. She certainly listened to me playing that game an awful lot when she first met me. It was something I played over and over until I got good enough to finish it, once without even using a continue I believe. She really does know how to take me back and put a huge smile on my face.

  Oh and a quick edit to update something I forgot. I'm now at 17 Platinum PS3 trophies :) .

Feel like being a kid

  Filled out the health insurance selections for next year today. Another of those things where you really don't have too much choice. Just pick the option that makes sure that my wife and I don't have to worry about being sick. In the end it is just money being used for it. Still it is another of those things in life that is serious and needs dealing with properly. Just making sure it is all correct and stopping from worrying is worrying in of itself. A small bit of worry and decision for a longer term period of not having to worry.

  It does make me want to just be a kid for a while though. No real responsibility and more time than you realise to do things you enjoy and not things you have to do simply because they won't get done any other way. That or lots of slaves to do your bidding I suppose. With me though the amount of time I enjoy just lazing around playing games and generally losing myself in what I'm doing is something I did a huge amount of as a kid. Now that I'm an adult, in body at least, all the problems and decisions that need to be made drag me down. I try to get them over and done with with the least hassle possible but some really drag on with no resolution for far too long. Usually it is someone else just not getting their end of the job done but sometimes it is my own indecision or reticence to do something difficult.

  Those times are when I really wish I could act like a kid again. I never worried about what was coming up in the next week/month/year and just lived in the moment of what I could do there and then. I know with my relatively well off job and lifestyle I don't worry about the basics but making sure I can stay in that position can be worrying. I'm looking at how much longer I need to work before I can retire and get back to a life of leisure all the time.

  It's just a shame so much of childhood is spent dealing with the other idiots you are forced to be with at school. Other than teaching me things I really didn't come out of school with much. Close to bugger all friends, very few actual good experiences and in the end knowledge that I have zero use for in my actual life. Can I get a dozen or so years back and use them more productively please?

A lot of money

  Saw an interesting link this morning showing how much debt the USA has. It also has a link to various other country debts as well but it shows some very large numbers. Even though the USA has a huge GDP, trillions of dollars worth, it still pays over 258 billion dollars on interest payments on its debt. Holy crap. That isn't even the largest single item in the budget either.

  Even though the USA debt is quite large the debt of some other countries is astounding. Obviously troubled economies like Greece and Ireland have ratio of GDP to debt in the 150 to 250 percent range. To think that even if you took every bit of money the economy in your country produced in a year it would still not pay off your debt is scary. The only debt item I have that large is my mortgage. Even then it isn't something that goes up over time like most countries debts. Scary.

  So, who wants to give me a few million dollars. When you look at the bigger picture its not that much really.

Glad thats over

  To nobodies surprise (except maybe rich old white men) Obama got reelected last night. It also seems most of the country didn't go mad and was actually sensible in their voting. The rape idiots lost, Maine and Maryland legalised gay marriage, Minnesota voted against a gay marriage ban (take note idiot Californians) and the US Senate has its first lesbian member, its first disabled female member and first Asian American female member. It seems that women voters held a lot of sway this election, there are more of them overall, and the results speak to the downright hideousness of the republican position.

  What strikes me as silly though is all the media who called this as a close election. The electoral college makes sure it is not close. Even if each state was won by a single vote it is possible to win all of the electoral college votes and win by a landslide. The final result now shows this to be the case, a sizable win even though the total number of votes for each candidate only just favours Obama. There really wasn't much doubt about the outcome as long as Obama won a few marginal states which he did handily.

  In other important news I got my 16th platinum trophy on my PS3 last night. Seems strange to have that many given how hard some of them are to obtain. Oh and I also started reading another book last night. A sequel to a series of books I read when I was younger and that was written almost 20 years after the first 6 books. Interesting so far but we shall see how the author links it back to the original ones considering the "hero" died at the end of the 6th book.

Finished a book

  I actually finished reading a book last night, one that I started reading this year. When I was younger I read a lot of books, so much so that part of our family weekly routine was to go to the library on the weekend. Even through university I was reading a lot although by that time it was more buying cheap second hand books than the local library. At my age now though I would rather spend my time playing a game than reading. Seeing the story visualised in front of me rather than having to picture it all in my head helps me concentrate on the actual story more I think.

  So me actually finishing a book is a big deal to me. My wife still reads a hell of a lot of books, not physical books anymore obviously, and her collection in our library shows her years long habit of being able to read through a book in a day or two. It is amazing to me the rate at which she can absorb words and retell all the pertinent details later. Me I just can tell you the rough story of what happened whereas my wife can give you details about the who/what/why/where etc. Switch that to a videogame though and I could probably tell you various excruciating details that very few people I know actually care about. Yay differences in people.

  Still wherever you get your entertainment there is something about it that sticks in your mind. I can still recall details of games I played where the story was actually decent and I had fun playing the game. Other ones which weren't that fun I tend to not remember the details so much even if the story is halfway decent. Same thing goes for books, I could probably tell you more about the stories of some I enjoyed reading that others that supposedly had better story telling. If they are boring or poorly told then you just won't recall them. Being traumatised by a book is not a way to get you to remember what happened. It needs to be interesting and entertaining to you. There is a reason "pulp fiction" as it were is popular. It is fun to read and you more often than not actually remember the overall story arc. Bet you not many people can actually tell you what happens in War and Peace.

  So, more random waffling about something that popped in to my head today after realising I actually read a book this year. And yes I did say year, quite a few years of the last decade I've not actually read a book. Played lots and lots of games though.

Don't know

  Not sure what to write. I like putting something here most days if not always every day. Today though I'm not sure. I could talk about all the good food my wife and I had this weekend a lot of it being slightly fattening (cookies and creamy pasta). I could write about all the TV murder we are still watching or the game playing I got done in the evening. In the end though I'm not sure it is all that to write about and so sit here pondering what to express.

  One thing on my mind though is this freaking election. I've already voted but it would be nice to get it over and done with. Then the media could stop pretending it is a close race when it isn't. It is only a close race if Romney can win over 85% of the close races. That isn't going to happen despite various attempts to fiddle the election by Republican state officials in various places (hello Florida and Ohio). It is especially telling when the rest of the world doesn't want Romney to win and would vote for Obama. That would tell you something you would think.

  I'm going to go sulk about not getting any fucking news about moving, which had better happen soon, and chase up the few people who are meant to be doing something about it. I might not make it to 20 years at this company at this rate. Some things in life are more important.

Nothing to see here

  Just one of those days where nothing is really happening. Nothing much on my mind other than the usual stuff. Lunch yesterday was alright buffet style fajitas and I did get home a little earlier than usual which was nice. My wife and I went out for a date night meal and only shared an appetizer and one main course between us. We are so light weight when it comes to food sometimes, being older we really don't eat much.

  It's good thinking about it how much my wife and I just enjoy being together out doing stuff. It feels right being with each other doing whatever we do. We know each other so well you never have to really ask WTF are you doing to the other person. Occasionally I may be really naff in expressing what I am saying but that is just me and my wife has learned to interpret what I say and/or take the mickey out of how I say things :-P .

  Anyway I'm off to do boring stuff that it isn't even worth writing about on here. Maybe I'll post again if something actually interesting happens today.

Weird day

  A slightly weird day today. Lots of traffic this morning due to rain and an accident not even half way to work so it turned my 50 minutes morning commute to an hour. Not that bothersome just had to be careful due to California drivers losing their brains once there is a little water on the road.

  Now add to that the fact that my company is actually giving us a lunch and afternoon out at a local Dave and Busters to celebrate the successful latest release of the software for our product which hasn't happened for years and there are good and bad things about today. Not that I suspect I'll partake much in the celebration, the food their is way bad for you and the "games" there are kind of crappy.

  A good thing though is that if I can get away from this celebration early enough I can get home early to my wife. More time at home with her is top of my list of ways to spend my time. Not much longer left at work before heading off to lunch so looking forward to getting that over with and going home.

  In other weird news there seems to be a sudden rash of Nissan Leaf breeding here at work. After one guy got one last month two more have turned up this week. All in the same colour. So of course they all decide to park near to each other in their little collection so we have 3 identical electric cars out in the car park. Really weird and seems to be something to do with the rebates possible from the state and the federal government at the moment. Shame they don't have the range for me to use where we currently live since they seem fairly decent.