Political or Peer Pressure – or PPP. Anyway, if I wouldn’t try to keep the political stuff out of the blog for the next months, actually I would have liked to have ranted on for several pages now about the local chaos experienced here. May the force be with you!

Anyway, after having signed the contract with the telephone, internet and digital television company they have let me down. On several levels. Should somebody say that privatisation would improve things. In my experience it doesn’t. Let’s nationalize all the electricity, telephone, water and transport companies again, it can only be better, and would take loads of worries out of the population, I am sure the mental health status of the population would also improve tremendously! So these workers came to install the telephone line and the digital television, and instead of working within the arranged hours 4pm- 7pm, they came at 6 pm and stayed till 9.

First I got addicted to blogging, and now I try desperately to wean myself off again. So here is again an unimportant summary of the last days. Firstly my face is full of pimples, and am so happy that Indymedia allows me to hide behind the computer; however, its going to be blamed on the senseless nights awake to cover events in Venezuela about the referendum, which are powered by Cola, coffee, excitement, adrenalin and fast food. Though the excitement/adrenalin level was lower as usual, this might have had something to do with the lack of Spanish language knowledge, which made reporting events for me more a guessing game.

So, the hamster is back to his 5 year old owner. I was away the weekend for a course, about Community Radio, my friend was baby-sitting and luckily for him, he got sponsored a ticket for a pirate theatre comedy play, which he thoroughly enjoyed, too. The good thing about baby-sitting is, that all the fun things are possible to do again without getting too embarrassed. (and also a good opportunity to escape political pure-ism: wanting to go into the zoo? having an urge to go to McDonalds to piss off environmentalists? Wanting to drink coke? like to see the new Walt Disney film?

Lost the hamster in my sofa tonight. Guess it was a bit pissed off as I cleaned his house of all the rotten food it saved during the last weeks. Apart from the food starting to rot some of it is also going mouldy, and also it has its hamster shit in between its nuts and veggies. It should be happy that its house is now tidy. But instead, it tried to grab as much food as possible for moving out of its fairly modern one hamster apartment with house, garden and garage into the dark and depth of the sofa, where it got lost.