Iceland? Greenland? What about it?
The Orange One has decided he maybe doesn’t need it. Or he’s forgotten. Who knows?
Meanwhile his minions have taken to arresting children and killing people. No, they haven’t got involved in a war or anything, they’re going after Americans.
Meanwhile, the final treaty between Russia and the USA on limiting nuclear weapons expired. Ah well. Nothing important, then. I could probably help here - I had a similar experience with my car tax one year. Todoist, Omnifocus or Things will be of great help. What they need is a recurring notification. Maybe ask regime-buddy Tim Apple.
In the UK, everyone is claiming that the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the United States was horrific.
Don’t get me wrong, it was. The guy has been slung out of public life more than once. He’s had more comebacks than Lazarus; he was a slime bucket, is a slime bucket, and always will be a slime bucket. He was removed from post...for being a slime bucket.
Now people suggest the the Prime minister should resign for the appointing of a slime bucket, particularly as he knew (as did the entire world) that he was a slime bucket. (If anybody ever does an internet search for slime bucket, this post is going to top the rankings.)
The Prime Minister strikes me a quite a decent sort of chap. I neither like nor dislike him. He got elected by not being the other lot, which is fine. I had assumed that with a huge majority, he would shrug off caution and get stuck into making whatever change he felt the country needed. Instead, he’s looked bemused and blundered about with the communication skills of a brick. Never has a Prime Minister with a majority been so spectacularly inept. The Other Lot chose someone literally called Bad Enoch as their leader, and Kermit (or Nigel to his friends) is the current favourite to lead “the right”. Good grief.
Here, in sunny Cyprus, there is finally a glimmer of hope. Remember that guy who decided to grandstand in front of his mates and bully my wife? His name was Phedonas Phedonos.
Karma, huh?
Reading
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I had considered this a hole in my knowledge. Umm...it was alright.
It perhaps suffers from having been assimilated into much of the thought and writing that followed. The patriarchal style grated on me. The edition that I have includes notes from Sean Covey, son of Stephen which didn’t add anything for me. I kept found myself thinking “yep, I understood it the first five times you made the point.”
Nietzsche. Human, All Too Human. Boring, all too boring. It’s hard going. However, it is structured as 350 aphorisms, so I am going to have another go - one aphorism a day.
Talking of one a day, I have been reading Robert Greene’s Daily Laws. There’s a theme emerging here. I'm not enjoying it. I have not read his earlier work, out of which this tome grew. That may colour my judgement. The writing is categoric, and provokes me to disagree. The writer does not have a bank of credibility with me against which to draw. Oh No! That’s a metaphor from the Seven Habits. Dang it. I’ll give Greene a little longer before shelving it.
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