Dear Diary, page 66

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The winds are changing direction… The universities are not for the wise anymore… Time is wasted in useless things and smart phones seem to be making people rather stupid… People are changing too… Girls will be boys and boys will be girls (as Ray Davis sang)… The price of electricity is skyrocketing in Europe as is the price of natural gas and heating oil… Climate change has created a never-ending summer (it’s still 24 degrees C. here)… Torrential rains seem to now destroy bridges, houses and everything… Rivers flow with mud and rocks and lay waste to towns… Violence is on the rise… Now they have started to scare people again with new strains of COVID and even with the regular flu… So if Putin doesn’t get us, something will… But tourists are flocking to our city because it’s warm, and those from the far north can swim in the Mediterranean, whose waters are at 21 degrees C and quite nice… Barça is out of the Champions League and who knows what they’ll do in La Liga… so…

The only thing I can say is that the situation in the world today reminds me of this story that was told to me by someone a long time ago in a place far, far away…

A drunk showed up at an Alcoholics Annonymous group and the group leader asked him, «Are you here to sign in?» And in a drunken slurry speech the drunk replied, «No, to sign out.»