Whilst I do the night
shift I have the radio on as company. I did smile when I heard an
article last night about Soveriegn
Wealth Funds. Basically these are a triumph of the capitalist
society in which many countries invest money overseas, and the
American government is worried about them. To simplify political
theory to its most basic level there are two ways to run a nation.
You can either have
"those in charge" actually running and organising
everything. Or you can have "those in charge"
abdicating all responsibility by selling off absolutely every public
service and resource to anyone who claims they can make money out of
it.
The second scheme is what
is commonly known as "The American Dream"; and for
many years it's been fundamental in making America what it is today.
However the pundits on the radio last night were raising the point
that most of America's infrastructure is now wholly owned and
operated by foreign countries. It would seem that the White House is
getting rather concerned that having spent many years going round the
world bombing "Johnny Foreigner" left, right and
centre; most of their national assets now belong to those that
they've been bombing.
Did no one see that
coming...
I came home, went to bed
and slept for an hour until "Daddies Little Angel TM"
sent me a frankly incomprehensible text about Mrs Brown's Boys. I
have no idea what she was on about. I tried to get back to sleep,
failed, so got up and checked emails. Yesterday I mentioned some of
the geo-emails I get from people who can't find the caches I've
hidden. I get so many emails along the lines of "I can't fnd
it therefore it's not there". I also get complaints about
the puzzles I've set. I had one such missive today.
Most of the geo-puzzles I
set have a checker; the idea being that once you've solved the puzzle
you can see if you have the right answer by using the checker
website. And before you start, the checker tells you how many right
and wrong answers have already been tried in that checker. In the
case in point you can see that twenty five other people have
already come up with the correct solution.
Bearing this in mind,
what am I supposed to say to someone who announces that they've spent
time on that puzzle and can't get the right answer therefore I have
obviously made a mistake in my setting the puzzle because it can't be
done?
Whilst it was still cold,
the sun had come out. So I took "Furry Face TM"
for a little walk. We went out to Great Chart and back. A walk of
about two miles. As we went my dog was mostly well behaved (apart
from when he tried to fight with two juggernauts). As we walked
we saw someone else walking her dog. She shouted and waved to us from
across the field. I couldn't hear what she was saying so I walked
over to her. She told me that she couldn't speak to us because she
was talking to someone else on her mobile phone. I did wonder why
she'd called me over, but didn't like to ask.
We came home, and being
rather tired I didn't really do much with the afternoon except play
silly on-line Facebook games. I did have a little sax practice, but
it is rather difficult to do so when accompanied by a small dog. As I
set up my music stand so Fudge came over, sat down and was clearly
making himself comfortable in readiness to start howling.
And with "er
indoors TM" off bowling I dozed in front
of the telly until "Gotham" came on. I didn't doze
through that; I'm quite liking that show...
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