Month End

So May is almost over and I thought this would be a good time to look back on the short life of my blog and to say that I am enjoying writing it and intend to continue doing so. I do realise, however, that not all the posts are to do with politics, but this is because I am not a one man band.

So the first thing to point out to my readers is that, thanks to my best friend, I now have a site meter which shows how many hits my blog has had and where they are from. Having worked out how to use it I can see that my best mate is an avid reader of my musings, that the google spider has passsed by, and that someone in Virginia has been reading the blog to. So hi there to the reader in Virginia.

This week has been something of a blur. I drank a tad too much over the weekend, and have had two days of training at work. Useful training, but it meant that I worked late two days in a row and am already exhausted. However, the big project is only two weeks away from completion and then I can relax slightly. But only slightly, as I have four things my boss wants done before end Q1.

It would appear I spoke too soon in my earlier post about there not being too many political developments. The Deputy PM, two shags, has got himself in trouble over playing croquet at 4pm with his officials. A complete non story, but the PM might make him give up his grace and favour home. Am sure he will still shag his secretaries, just it won't be in as plush surroundings. Ho hum - poor chap.

More interestingly is the choice for new US Treasury Secretary. At last W seems to have appointed someone to the post who is respected in the financial community. Timing could have been better though, given that the new Fed Chairman is not yet a year in post.

Outside of work life is going well. I need to chase up progress on my apartment purchase as I would really want to be moved in by the end of July. Things are going well with S, and we are having lunch together tomorrow. One of the perks of having worked 30 hours over my contractual obligation last month is that I can take a two hour lunch tomorrow - hoorah!

On the literature front, I just finished my first Terry Gillingham fantasty novel - Going Postal - so J will be mightly pleased to hear that I have got in to them.

And to close this post, and provide a link to the next one, I just want to say that it is almost five years to the day that I first visited the world's capital and Fifee is about to go over for a week. Hooah!