It's been a busy start to the year and I haven't had much time to post anything on here.
So what's been happening.
Well I had a minor car accident, one of those freak things that could happen to anyone. It just happened to me. I learned that it's not easier or quicker to resolve when you are a completely innocent party to an accident. Enough about that.
I also learned that driving safety and temperature seem to have an inverse relationship. As it gets colder people seem to abandon the basics of driving safely. I have never seen so many road accidents as I have in recent days around Dublin. "Crazy madness" is what my old Irish Teacher used to say about things like that.
What else? I learned about Emos. I had heard previously about Goths (not the kind that rampaged across Europe in the 2nd century) and Chavs but Emos were new to me. I came across a wonderful podcast talking about the challenges of keeping the goths and chavs from fighting and urinating on cathedrals and so forth. You need to subscribe to the Radio 4 Choice podcast to get access to the cast but it is worth it in my view.
We seem to have escaped the worst of the extreme weather. In fact where the heck is the extreme weather especially the snow and cold. Everyone I spoke with in recent days has been telling me that there is no snow back home where they come from in Europe, be it Italy, France, Sweden and so on. Then on a call with a colleague in the US this week he was telling me that there was no snow in Wisconsin either and that it's pretty weird not to have snow.
Ah well. Looks like Al Gore might have been right after all.
Gotta go. Bed is beckoning and the day is done.
Take care.
Slán.
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