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1: Man, Things Get Busier in January
I've always been told that employment and new contracts are busier in January. In line with this, I have two interviews tomorrow, another place where my CV is being pushed hard by a recruiter, and a fairly solid possibility of some freelance work coming up. Compared to the utter non-response from the employment market through most of last year, this is quite a difference. Hopefully something will arise from it.
2: The Uk Government Sucks
I give out a lot about the Irish government, but man, the comparison to the clowns next door is pretty stark. The latest shenanigans (which I'm writing about in Commonplace, coming soon to a mailbox near you, assuming you subscribe) concern replacing a £30 food voucher with a bag of badly chosen groceries worth about £5 as a substitute for school lunches. It is a telling thing that a lot of the notable, newsworthy, and generally bad crossovers between my areas of interest and governments are happening in the UK and US.
3: Weather
We had -6.5C last Saturday morning. It tipped 11C here yesterday afternoon. A 17.5C difference over a little more than 48 hours. There were some mad things in the long range weather forecasts over the last few days, too; the figure of -9C appeared in one of them. That is the outer edge of the forecast, where the models are flailing around, but still. We haven't had anything as cold as -6.5C in a decade; colder still would be pretty notable. We also got a little bit of snow last Thursday; I live in hope of a better fall within the month. Various places in Europe are getting heavy snow around now, so the hope isn't entirely pointless.
I've always been told that employment and new contracts are busier in January. In line with this, I have two interviews tomorrow, another place where my CV is being pushed hard by a recruiter, and a fairly solid possibility of some freelance work coming up. Compared to the utter non-response from the employment market through most of last year, this is quite a difference. Hopefully something will arise from it.
2: The Uk Government Sucks
I give out a lot about the Irish government, but man, the comparison to the clowns next door is pretty stark. The latest shenanigans (which I'm writing about in Commonplace, coming soon to a mailbox near you, assuming you subscribe) concern replacing a £30 food voucher with a bag of badly chosen groceries worth about £5 as a substitute for school lunches. It is a telling thing that a lot of the notable, newsworthy, and generally bad crossovers between my areas of interest and governments are happening in the UK and US.
3: Weather
We had -6.5C last Saturday morning. It tipped 11C here yesterday afternoon. A 17.5C difference over a little more than 48 hours. There were some mad things in the long range weather forecasts over the last few days, too; the figure of -9C appeared in one of them. That is the outer edge of the forecast, where the models are flailing around, but still. We haven't had anything as cold as -6.5C in a decade; colder still would be pretty notable. We also got a little bit of snow last Thursday; I live in hope of a better fall within the month. Various places in Europe are getting heavy snow around now, so the hope isn't entirely pointless.