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The phone rang. Bugger, I was in the middle of something. Even when that something is so close to nothing that it’d take a QC to argue otherwise, the phone ringing always catches me off guard. Call it experience. Call it a life lived close enough to the edge of legality and the corners of common-sense, that a bit of guilt occasionally creeps in.
As it turned out, the call did introduce me to content and concepts that I had every right to be leery of. No matter that it was from my old mate Watto. In fact, quite the opposite…
See, Watto and I go way back. He’s a Porsche fixer, I’m more of a Porsche wrecker. But between us, back in 2007 and 2008, we were Team Australia in the Transsyberia Rallye (in a Porsche. Now there’s symmetry in stupidity) that ran from Moscow to the Mongolian capital, Ulan Baator, over two weeks, 7500km and countless bowls of beetroot soup and cups of fermented mare’s milk. Oh how I wish I was making this up. Even just some of it.
“THERE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ANY OF THIS FOUR-TO-A-CAR, HUGE TEAM THING GOING ON”
The point being that
