Some observations. Well, 2 in fact.

Isn't it ironic when you're listening to your local radio station in the morning, on which taxi drivers announce the morning traffic jams and snarlups, and the taxi drivers tell everyone to "drive safely now"?

And isn't it a little bit, inhuman maybe, to think that a car overturned on the M50 yesterday morning, and in the news reports I've heard and read in regards to the horrific traffic that ensued, nobody mentioned whether somebody might have been hurt or not?

I've had no response. That's absolutely no response from our friends in Tullamore.

At least Eircom responded to my email. Not very constructively, and not since to my own response, but there you go.


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7 days to go....

I am assured that Broad band services will be available and ready for me by the end of the month. I would appreciate, so long as it doesn't appreciate with your work, leisure or any other activity, if you would oblige by crossing any crossable appendages you may be in possession of. This will assist in the more regular update of this blog.

I am also assured that the NYC trip journal is now almost fully up to date and is almost ready for transcription to digital format. Hopefully I'll be able to do a bit more in that line shortly! In the meantime, please enjoy these short jokes:

What's brown and sticky? - A brown stick! :)
What do you call a fish with no eyes? - A fsh, of course.
Why are pirates called pirates? - Because they "yarr!"

Now that you have recovered from that hilarity, a short rant at the expense of Tullamore Town Council.

On visiting Tullamore, I went to park my vehicle. Rather than leave it in the middle of the road, I decided to park legally, at a designated zone. I found a space. Signage above the spaces alerted me to a maximum of 2 hours parking. Fine, says I to myself. Parked up. 2 euro (the advertised fee for 2 hours, being at a rate of 1 euro per hour) went into the machine. Green button was depressed in the standard fashion to allow printing of parking voucher...Out comes an hour's parking! A maximum parking period of 1 hour according to the machine!!!!! But my other euro (you remember, it's only a euro an hour) was not returned. Grrr.

I have prepared an email of complaint. Should I send it?

Answers on a comment please...