Yes, I kept putting off posting until it was no longer a viable option yesterday.
Today, it appeared to happen again, I kept procrastinating, naps, lunch and beer o’clock took precedence.
Then, my evening students cancelled, which is why I managed to fit in a beer o’clock. I don’t normally drink before class, it’s not unheard of on a sweltering Rio day, but I don’t make a habit of it.
Yesterday, nothing happened. I blogged, but those of you who follow my various blogs already knew that, so why post and tell you?
The most exciting things I have done today, apart from my nap (naps are always exciting, you never know what you’ll dream about), ws to pay my bills and water the plants. The latter exercise was totally futile as it is now beginning to rain.
I see the Catholic church is about to get two more saints, personally I don’t see the point. Haven’t they got enough? There’s already 140 or so. What is the point of saints? It’s all a load of bollocks if you ask me. The saints are dead already, so isn’t communicating (praying) with the dead condemned by the church?
Football (soccer) referees in Brazil will be a lot more wary about red carding players after a game in Maranhão (north Brazil). The ref red carded a player, who then refused to leave the field, so the ref stabbed him and he died on the way to hospital. That wasn’t the end of the story, the spectators invaded the field and decapitated the ref. Why was the ref carrying a knife in the first place? Yes, we have to deal with some nuts.
First, the news that NSA were spying on Americans, then came the news that they were doing the same to Germans, it turned out that much of Europe was also being spied on. Over the weekend the story broke that they were spying on Brazilians.
The Brazilians are not happy. Dilma (president) has got her knickers thoroughly twisted and the ramifications will be serious. The Americans cannot placate Brazil as they have whitewashed the Europeans, particularly because the Brazilian Constitution makes spying on citizens a crime. Company’s like FaceBook, Google, etc who have collaborated with the Americans could find themselves in prison, and the companies expelled from the country. Expulsions could also happen at ambassadorial levels, just as Morales is considering in Bolivia after his affair last week.
Basically, the shit has hit the fan, and this time it is big time.
My blog ratings continue to plummet. My Nether Region blog which, prior to 26th Feb, was getting 200+ hits daily (highest daily 1,652), yesterday managed 3, the day before 4, and today an astounding 7 (aken from my Sats Counter, my WP stats are a little better). Something very fishy here, I have no doubt this is orchestrated because of my political views.
Watch this space.
Later
I love that quote about chocolate!
Also, hopefully the readership on your other blog picks up soon 🙂
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>Agata, the quote is great. As for readership, I hope so; this has been an on-going saga since February, and I must admit I am getting a little despondent over it.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, appreciated.
AV
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In communist Romania, when the local brand of ciansa called you in for a chat, the “invitation” post card handed you over by their closest operative (didn’t even bother to keep them undercover) kindly stated you should bring in your pyjamas, tooth brush, towel, just in case… Got them handy AV?:-D
And btw, about Benghazi… remember: “when the president does it, it’s legal”…
My friend, you have grown young enough to have understood by now, what I understood in 89 after Romania’s orchestrated coup. That power’s one goal is to maintain an internationally orchestrated, money dictated subsitential existence to a world population kept for breeding for taxation purposes only. That was the day when I turned from active to contemplative, from optimism to realism, from incisive to conclusive. I am sorry though, to have thought for two decades, that religion’s better…
No it ain’t, it’s just the transcendent arm of the same elite.
Life’s a worthless crap, made bearable only by those for whom I am responsible, ie my family.
And your beer, our pipes, the Holy Coffee, and a good plate of preferred food.
After all, we’re having every day the condemned to life’s last meals…
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>Rom, yes, a Romanian would understand repression. Maybe I should pack my pyjamas… I like that sentence, you have grown young enough… that’s how I feel, young. Maybe life would be better if I prayed to the Holy Coffee, instead of just drinking it. 🙂
AV
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I’ll write a “Coffee Noster” one day to make it easier:-D
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Maybe a Coffee prayer too… “Our Coffee which art divine… Hallowed be thy demitasse… Thy aroma wafts, thy roasting be done…In the kitchen as it is in the coffepot… Give us this day our Chocomints, and forgive us our deprivation… As we forgive those who would deprive us of caffeine… And deliver us from Tea… For thine is the cappuccino, and the mocha, and the cafe-au-lait… For ever and ever, abrew.”
🙂 Ah, that is, irreverently, original.
AV
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“Amazing cakes,
How sweet the sound
Of freshly brewing beans,
I once was lost
But now have found
What coffee truly means.”
Amen to that, Breverend:-D
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Yes, I can relate to that too. 🙂
AV
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Your nether region blog! If that’s what it sounds like, I’m very surprised that the hits are plummeting! Unless your audience is just going down. Ha ha. Yeah I know, weak. Obama is not looking very saintly right now. Maybe if he turns Catholic..
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>but, LOL, spilled my coffee… St Barak 🙂
I can’t imagine the audience going down. I haven’t changed the format, nor what I post there… maybe I need to. Really, it appears that the blogs have become invisible to search engines and that is the down turn.
AV
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