It has come

Cool morning didn’t spare us from having to venture out there… There was ice on the ground and the birds, those wonderful birds were asleep. So were Lili and Jen. The gang, still worn out from the evening party ending barely 24 hours before. The gang sleeping in the kitchen under the worktop was in no shape to… look like a gang. A blob. Only blue bird on the top of the fridge woke when I got some supplies for breakfast. He offered to come to work with me. Took a step outside then returned to the house wanting to look for gloves or ‘something’. That was the last of him I saw today although now I am at home. And it is warmer inside than outside.
The grit on the ice doesn’t stop one from falling over occasionally. Certainly doesn’t stop bike from trying out new tricks. I am prepared. I am always prepared. This year I have managed to get on my back only twice and once on my side. The rest of the time, countless of those I ended the tricks on feet. Sorry, that was technically last year. You see, for me the turn of the year still happens sometime in August or at the start of September. A year is a period of time between the start of a school year and the start of the next one.
Minus 15 shouldn’t be that cold! It should be just simply cold. Cool… and somehow it is. Just don’t stay out too long. It’s gonna get colder now, below 20 for a couple of days before easing up again. Then… then maybe I will get Tobi out of the house. Go for a walk. Maybe even as far as the nearest Sauna.
Two nights ago, when it was still 2008 there was some terrible wind. We thought it would be tricky to walk and wonders; it was on some corners and icy patches. We thought that we might get snowed in and unable to get home but we were wrong. Wind just blew and blew until it blew away everything. Or so it thought. But I have a disappointing bad feeling that there may be some stuff left behind. Quite a lot of stuff.
I appreciated the intent. Getting a clean slate, a fresh new dawn at 10:24.
I am not sure it has worked though. Maybe wind hasn’t blown enough. Started too late or finished too early. Somehow reading the news I see it hasn’t worked. It just seems to be all the same as before. And I sound soo soo soo dark and moody. Well, you got to sometimes.
I think my problem derives from events around 9 or eight days ago. I didn’t get to have some decent glög. Now I will have to wait a year for another one. And to realize this is a greater burden than anything I can imagine even in my darkest of hours…
Tomorrow… I will go to the shops before dawn. They open at 10. I will see if they have still maybe a carton left that I could mix with some water and drink, right there on the spot if I have to entering this new year of harsh winter mornings 3 days late. Exhausted from an odyssey of a nature I can’t quite manage to describe.
And finally a status report from the comments pages of Hungary’s biggest daily:
An article about a shanty town and how its inhabitants go to jail for stealing some electricity or being unable to pay for it without ever seeing a lawyer sparked some debates. Now it seems that there are five people debating upholding the principles and rights of equality and dignity. The rest, vastly outnumbering these five, about 12. They argue for things some of which shall not ever see print yet moderators will not kick them out.
And here comes the best part! The people about whom this article writes, the debate erupted for can only join the debate, comment on the article if they break the law and steal electricity – all meters and stuff like that have been removed from their houses. Especially on a day like the 1st January when the only place one could access the net is the home.
Yeah, happy new year and remember Tobi, at least he know when to remain joyfully ignorant