I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan years ago; He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, just on spec, addressed as follows, "Clancy, of The Overflow". 

And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected. And I think the same, was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar. Twas his shearing mate who wrote it and verbatim I will quote it, "Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.

In my wild erratic fancy, visions come to me of Clancy gone a droving "down the Cooper" where the western drovers go; with the cattle slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing, for the drover's life is pleasures that the towns folk never know.

And the bush has friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him in the murmer of the gum trees and the river on its bars, and he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, and at night the wonderous glory of the everlasting stars.

I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall, and the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city, through the open window floating spreads its foulness over all. And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street; and the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me as they shoulder one another in their rush and vervous haste, with their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy, for the townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy, like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go, while he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal--but I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of The Overflow. 

-Banjo Paterson-

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Alles uber mich. Ich bin Dan. Ich bin 23. Ich sprecke English und eine wenig deutch. Ich habe eina familia. Ein fatter, Stuart, eine mutter, Kate, eine shwester, Jessi, und ein bruder, Josh. Ich mag Beir und Pfiefen Tobak. Ich spiele die guitarre, und sackpfifen, und die "fiddle". I liebe meine frau. Sie ist wundeshern. Ich liebe mein Jesus. Sprecken Sie deutch?  Ich kann nicht buchstabieren auf deutch.  haha.

I was just thinking of my life in AUSTRALIA.  I still remember it well. i had to wear a uniform to school. meat pies and pasties.....Vegimite..i love that stuff...ever had it?...you really should try it...the little bottle says: "concentrated autolyzed yeast extract"......its basically like Guinness stout boiled down to a thick tar.....ummmm.......i still eat it all the time...i put it on toast with butter most mornings for breakfast...my grandparents house and my grandpa's garden.....the volkswagan bus...haha...brittish bulldog which is a game that all the boys played at resese..is that how you spell that?..resese...we had 2 reseses and a lunch break at that school...do kids even get resese here...or there anymore......going to the fish and chips shop with my dad and getting flake (fried shark) and chips (big fat fried potato wedges).....my friend mike..we always played footy( australian rules football)....that tall kid who always picked on me and pushed me around coz i was an AMERICAN...I'm actually a 2nd generation Australian, German, American come to think of it!..hmm......my surname has only been in the U.S for one generation. My mom (German) grew up all over Europe and Australia and America too...but my dad was born and raised in AU. So i really don't have taht much "American" in me at all.  Hmmm.  U know what...when we moved to Australia i got picked on because of my american accent...but when we moved back..i got picked on even worse because i had an Aussie accent...what the flipp!   kids are mosters...

Something else i would like to address....there are some people... Christian people, that really have a problem with my love of beer and pipe tobacco...it frustrates me. To drink beer as a beverage at a meal or for whatever reason isn't wrong! Its getting drunk that is wrong...i HATE drunkeness. Beer in and of its self is not evil, its the abuse of it that is...Jesus drank wine..alcoholic wine.....he turned water into wine at a party. The Bible warns many times to not be led astray by wine or don't be drawn into drunkeness but it doesn't say that to drink a beer at dinner is wrong. Someone said to me that "well, it can lead to being drunk...therefore you shouldn't do it".  Well...I have self control and a conviction that won't allow me to get drunk. Besides...i also love guns...does that mean people shouldn't have them because they can lead to someone getting shot...you can use anything to show that argument isn't very stable.  "A bad witness"....why...why is it a bad witness....i'm at a resturant and have a pint of Guinness (ummmm) with dinner.  Oh no, someone from church saw me...now he might go out and get drunk and do something bad. Hey...i wasn't drunk...i was a responsible 23 year old adult who had some stout with my dinner. it goes back to the argument above. Now Tobacco: cigarettes are disgusting. They have so much added fillers and tars and nicotine added to them that not very much of it is actually tobacco. Say what you want about them...i don't smoke cigarettes and don't think anybody should when there are clearner things out there. However, if someone does smoke cigarettes, I don't look down on them for it...i think it unwise..but not wrong or bad. I smoke pipes and cigars...what I smoke is 100% tobacco. You might think "whats the difference." No fillers. no tar...no gungk...no nastyness. "They cause cancer"...guess what.. so does 100,000,000 other things. And even there, the whole cancer thing is a joke as well.  Yes there have been reported cases of cancer from pipes and cigars, but very few. Seriously.  On some of my pipe tins there is an inscription on the back that reads:" This product contains/produces chemicals known in the State of California to cause cancer."....hahaha....what the flip is that.  In Cali?...rrriiigghhttt!  I have looked on some various items around the appartment and you will be surprised what things say that same inscription on the back.  We have a little propane grill...the propane container has that on it....oh no looks like i'm gonna die of cancer....rrriiiggghhhtttt.....The leading cause of death in this country by a long shot is heart attacks and heart disease.  Most people have terrible diets. Filled with highly proccessed boxed junk from the supermarked.  High fat high colesterol very very high sugar and low veggies and fruit and whole grains...SO...if your argument is the body is the Lords temple....then why don't legalistic christians point their finger at someone from church who's eating a big mac?.....or someone who is overweight.................because the whole argument about smoking and drinking in the Christian world is all about what Christians are better that other Christians because they have something in their church doctrine or personal doctrine that in there minds makes them more holy than everybody else. I think that if we christians put aside all that stupid squabbling about stuff that doesn't matter....we will be a lot better off. I have met many people who arn't Christians. Atheists. Some of them friends.  A lot of these people's problem with the whole church thing is that they think Christians are a bunch of legalistic, hypocritical, holier than thou snobbs that think the littilest things are the biggest of deals. AKA beer. Isn't it kind of ridiculas how we have a bazzilion different denominations and a lot of the reasons for different denominations is little crap like beer.  The college my wife goes to is really against alcohol. Its Nazarene.  She could be in big trouble if she is even around it like at a resturant or if i drink a beer when we have dinner....thats considered wrong....what the flip is up with that.  retarded.

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Ok well...2 days ago my lovely wife and I went to pizza hut and this guy came up and asked if laura was in college...she said yes of course and he slapped a $20 bill on the table, said here you go u 2 enjoy, and walked away. ......what the flipp is that...it was awsome...second time its happened to laura and I...hmm....We are thinking he saw laura's mount vernon nazarene university hoodie...cool guy...

My first posty thing.  First of all i'm a really bad speller so just know that.  Yeah! taxes are done fricken finally.  All taxes in this country should come from consumables.  No income tax.  It would be so much simpler and less stressfull.  Things would be more expensive but no taxes would be taken away from your income.  That would be nice.  More later.