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12-step recycling problem
So, following on from this previous post, my recycling bin officially has a drinking problem.
It’s been exactly one month since it got emptied. In that time, it drank 18 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of gin, 1 bottle of vodka and 1 bottle of Kahlúa.
I love my wifey
She leaves me random post it notes.
(Now to be fully transparent, she left me this weeks ago, when I really started working from home full time, and it’s been stuck to my desktop screen ever since)
Mighty hunters
A sparrow thumped into our patio door while two of our useless lumps were sunning themselves on the balcony. For the time it took me to walk from the living room to the balcony, both cats were just sitting there, looking at the poor confused bird. At one point, Tolstoy tried to attempt to poke it but stopped short of actually touching it.
Mighty hunters indeed. We shooed them inside and closed the door so that the bird could come to its senses in its own time. The cats became much braver, confident and vocal when they were behind the safety of the closed patio door.
Virtual wine tasting
A couple of weeks ago, I got an intriguing letter from Celliers de Sion. As a way to drum up business during the lockdown, they were offering “wine in tubes”-based sampling sets of 8 or 16 wines from their selection. The wines are tubed under controlled atmosphere so they don’t oxidize.
Given that all our wine tasting events have been put on hold or cancelled, I suggested this to the wine club at work and it proved to be a popular idea. We all got our kits delivered by post and we met up online tonight.
It was the best use of corporate communication channels I’ve made all week.
Tasty, too!
President Supervilain
This is the best twitter account ev4r: @PresVillain: I take real Trump quotes and photoshop them into comics. Created by D.M. Higgins.
Hold my calls!
Tolstoy was helping me review my meetings this morning.
Some things (and some people) don’t change
Had an impromptu video chat with an old (so old, so very very old) friend.
Hot agnostic buns
Made some chocolate & orange hot cross buns. But since Easter is passed and we’re heathens, they became hot agnostic buns. And they smell phenomenal!
The world has loved, hated and envied the U.S. Now, for the first time, we pity it.
Writing in the Irish Times, Fintan O’toole says:
“Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.”
“It is hard not to feel sorry for Americans,” he states. “Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
“It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time — willfully, malevolently, vindictively,” he added. “It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
“The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.”