driving back after a long hard day at work fixing up other peoples mistakes, catastrophe averted, i wish i got paid extra for this, it would come in handy. anyway's i'm good in crisis, and my job is like crisis management so i manage. 
it's a strange drive, no traffic, slight rainfall, a few minites to midnight on new years eve. i could be at a party with some french girls, smoking exotic weed and sipping colourful cocktails with classy looking fruity decorations but instead i am driving down the freeway looking at the strange landscape, washed out in faint rain and clouds, rock walls all dark and ominous. i play with the radio and people are talking about the last year, bits of news items pop up. politics and dramas, and then in all that shit a story that i really liked, a story about human beings that i think deserves more attention  and it involves an australian doctor. it's the thai soccer team cave rescue. 
if 2018 had anything good, this was it.
google it man, i know those caves, they are hell to navigate and it takes incredible bravery to even consider doing a cave dive. it's the most extreme of sports. 
a united effort by people from all over the planet helped save those boys, and they themselves were helped by a remarkable coach who stayed with them. it's a real story about real people, real heroes and real catastrophe averters. 
so humanity has a chance. a small one but at least it's there. 
come on people, lets see more of this stuff, lets see more heroic altruism and 2019 may be a good year.
happy new year people