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Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 729 of re-modified lockdown Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 357 days Today I can announce that my days as a semi-retired pensioner are about to come to an end.  Starting in April I will be joining the African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at theContinue reading “Ruminations on the Gas and Oil price and Ouija boards”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 722 of re-modified lockdown Level 1. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 350 days Tomorrow, we drive to Southbroom so yesterday I filled my car up and it was R1 361 ($91) for 63 litres. Today the Brent crude oil price is $101/bbl. In March 2020 itContinue reading “Ruminations on the Oil Price”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 715 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 and stage 4 load shedding. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 343 days My name is Bruce, and I am a coffeeholic. Both our boys were privileged to go to the Ridge School in Johannesburg for their primary school education. TheContinue reading “A Tribute to Snazzy Max and Ruminations on Lawlessness and Crime in South Africa”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 708 of re-modified lock down Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 337 As is befitting someone with self-diagnosed narcissistic personality disorder I will first talk about myself before getting around to PJ O’Rourke and myContinue reading “A Tribute to the Late PJ O’Rourke and Brett Stephen Cronje and Ruminations on Ukraine and Military Service”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 701 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 330 days Perhaps it reflects a lack of imagination that I provide a sequel to my Christmas hydrogen blog only two months after Christmas. https://ruminantpinkfriday.com/2021/12/24/christmas-eve-ruminations-regarding-a-christmas-grinch-innovation-green-hydrogen-and-the-next-financial-crisis/.Continue reading “Ruminations on the Christmas grinch sequel being a hydrogen party-pooper and dead cats”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 694 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 323 days I am one of those boring old farts who started accumulating assets with the goal of ultimately becoming financially independent during my twenties.Continue reading “Ruminations Regarding Politically Incorrect Financial Advice to Younger South Africans”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 687 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 316 days My name is Bruce, and I am an engineer. I have worked with numbers my whole life. I can recite the first 8Continue reading “Ruminations on leadership, numeracy, and transcending numeracy in the context of the journey to net-zero.”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 680 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 309 days Today’s rumination is about how different people deal with being wrong and how other people deal with the person in the wrong.  IfContinue reading “Ruminations about consensus, being wrong, shouting at each other, and no-platforming”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 673 of re-modified lockdown Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and very slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 302 days The opioid crisis is extremely topical now, and I have recently watched the two-part four-hour Netflix documentary, “Crime of the Century”. I doContinue reading “Ruminations regarding the classification of doctors and other professionals in the context of climate change”

Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies in day 667 of re-modified lock down Level 1 with Alcohol, no curfew, and slowly decreasing omicron hysteria. Period as a semi-retired pensioner: 295 days As those of you who know me are aware I am a grumpy, cis-gender male, oldish, technocratic fossil who has spent 30 yearsContinue reading “Ruminations of a Fossil Regarding the Just Energy Transition”