It seems to me like traffic is low on DU

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51. A couple of work weeks from hell here.

Over the weekend, I was looking at one all-day project near Rotterdam yestersay, and the rest of the week off. Fat chance!

Today, I had to get up at 4 AM to make my appointments in Paris that all materialized during the day Monday. This evening, I got a 5:22 PM train up to Utrecht (changing once). I will be picked up tomorrow morning to drive up north to some NL government installation that asked for my assistance with a project. Tomorrow evening, the drive back to Utrecht, where I’ll again spend the night and head down to Sprout City Friday morning for one project there, then home to Düsseldorf so I can see my wife for a change. Saturday, I have to run down the Rhein to southern Germany, where I have a conference that will last past noon on Sunday. Then back up to Düsseldorf, where I’m taking Monday off (for real this time!!) and seeing my cardiologist (also for real) on Tuesday just to make sure the vital equipment is not being overloaded with stress.

I had the time to write this post because my connection from Paris was on time to the minute, and I made a connection an hour earlier than expected. Anyone interested in a high-paying job with a lot of travel, six weeks paid vacation, and a fair degree of autonomy? Beyond a few specialty qualifications, all that is really required is a lack of a need for sleep, an EU residence and work permit, and written and oral skills in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. Catalan, Italian and Swedish would be helpful, but I guess I can’t be too demanding. The rest is just minor stuff.

I also welcome posts closely following outright lies by Gabbard and that other clown, as well as Hegseth’s unforgivable bungle—if he was drunk, he should get hounded from office. If he was sober, he should get life without parole for treason. The Trumputin trashing of our governmental infrastructure is numbing. I almost feel like I have been given a general anesthetic from the neck on down, and am being forced to watch while my limbs are being sawed off, one by one.

I just tune out the “Bernie said #67” of the day, or the “heroic” people protesting “on behalf of the Palestinians,” without ever a peep about the South Sudanese, Rohingya, etc. I fully get that there are people interested in nothing else, I just have no urge to join them.

I was pleased to see a post lauding Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia. He’s almost too good for America to deserve him. Pete/Jon in 2028? Naah, what have we done to deserve a ticket that good?

I mean, There IS plenty going with DU. If some of our lives beyond the computer screen take precedence now and then, well, attention to the real world can’t be entirely negative, can it?