I had been sleeping
relatively well until a small dog jumped on me shortly before 5am.
Well, today was to be another early start; I had set the alarm, and
I was only woken half an hour or so earlier than I needed to be up.
Something of a result, really.
I was helped to eat my
toast my a dog who wouldn't be so hungry if he ate his tea. I have
been told that if cats are akin to teenagers then dogs are toddlers.
My one certainly fits the bill.
And I then set off to
work on a very dark morning. Again I nearly (but not quite)
mowed down a succession of cyclists who made a point of having
nothing bright or luminous about themselves.
As I drove I listened to
the radio. The pundits were discussing the role of banks in society.
Apparently control of the world's financial concerns is a very
important matter. Governments are now wondering if it is wise to have
handed over such control (in its entirety) to independent
commercial
institutions such as the banks.
Only a few years ago a
future controlled by international corporations rather than by
elected governments was firmly in the realms of science fiction. It
would seem that today's politicians are getting worried. As should we
all. I suppose I could do the rant about this being what you get when
you don't vote in a sensible and considered manner, but I've done
that to death over the years.
There was also concern
expressed over the fact that it hasn't stopped raining for weeks.
Parts of America are freezing, and the Australians are facing one of
the most serious heat waves ever. Apparently whilst human activity
has undeniably caused "global warming and climate change",
no one in the meteorological world was prepared to state whether or
not the current extremes were part of what we should expect in the
future, or just a
random one-off occurrence.
And so to work where I
really shouldn't have been today. In retrospect I should have phoned
in sick. Yesterday when I had my little episode in the flood I would
seem to have seriously bruised something in my back. It was
incredibly painful today. And as the day wore on so all the muscles
around my stomach began to ache more and more. It really hurt; and I
did play for sympathy. Not that any was forthcoming...
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