Baton down the Hatches
April 29, 2004
It's nearly May Day weekend, it's really crept up this time, not 2 weeks after Easter. Apologies for not being more prolific with the blog, I got taken to task about not writing enough by a reader recently. It's not through laziness, or lack of something to write about, it's just that I've been extremely busy. This blog is a supplement to the business of internet marketing - work always comes first.
Wow, I would make a great Goldman Sachs employee with that kind of attitude!
I probably mentioned that I had a load of proposals on the go just before Easter, I was a bit worried that they'd all land at the same time (image of me frantically juggling everything) - but it's all worked out rather nicely actually. One is starting in mid May, another next week, and another as soon as they get their IT equipment updated, probably mid-end May.
I'm staying in Dublin this weekend. I like the city on bank holidays because there's less traffic than usual and people are prepared to move at a slightly slower pace. It reminds me of how Dublin used to be pre-Celtic Tiger.
This weekend there will be even less traffic as, according to the Gardai, Europe's leading anarchists are converging on this city to protest against globalisation and other gripes, while the world looks on as we welcome the 10 new accession states. Between the protesters and the EU leaders, it looks like most of the centre of the city will be closed to traffic - but open to pedestrians like me!
Actually the protesting mood was set earlier this week when an accountant friend of mine mentioned that he and a group of other accountants were converging on the Revenue this week to protest at the lack of service we (small business) receive.
Wow - when accountants take to the protesting game, you know society is in freefall!!
The only other thing to say, on this pre-May Day is: welcome to the people of 10 new EU member states - we know you're not out to steal our jobs, in fact we know that you are looking forward to getting roads built with EU money just like we did. Please forgive any of my countrymen if they are not as warm as our tourist board makes us out to be - they're the ones who are the bottom of our society, they've never had anyone to look down on before, so just ignore their misconception.
Failte mor romhaibh!
(And thanks to Mrs O'Farrell my Irish teacher who drummed those Irish prepositions into me. I knew it'd come in handy some day)