Yup. Merry Christmas, all who read this (all three, and that drunk guy and his wet dog) and to the rest of the world too.
I´m back home surrounded by a meter of snow. More is promised.
Europe is 12 hours away from Christmas. In England, they got a little bit of snow, which paralyzed large amounts of the infrastructure and ways of travel. Heathrow – one of the largest airports in the world, if not the largest – was struck so hard by its inability to deal with snow and ice that incredible scenes took place in the airport. The negligence in dealing with passengers and flights seem to be continuing saga of travelling in the early part of the 21st century.
A happy passenger put together this phone-interview video with other stranded passengers at Heathrow, where the treatment of waiting passengers seems to have been very badly done throughout Heathrow Airport. Because the airport owners and parties aren´t paid to be prepared for stuff like this happening?..
I was stuck with the ash-cloud in the Spring of 2010, but got fairly good treatment from Easyjet who was my carrier at the time, something I´m still happy about.
Further Christmas news in these darkest days of winter 2010 are that Transport for London are shutting down the entire Tube network over Christmas Day. The entire network. On Christmas Day, the day that the UK really celebrates Christmas (the 24th, in Sweden). There are lots of snow, and all people will have to get to relatives and parties are buses, taxis and cars, objects which are often, well, a bit hampered by large amounts of snow.
The mounting tension in the Korean Peninsula looks just great right now, with the North starting to pump up their propaganda with words like getting ready for a holy war with South Korea and similar. Please don´t. Go for a coffee instead.
And I´m back home, studying for a test in Physiology and writing. And training. And doing more training. And studying Chinese medicine.
The university courses seem pleasantly far away right now, along with such things as being told that 2500 years of continous Chinese medicine research done by pretty smart people might be wrong about a particular organ connection since one Westerner published one article in a Western acupuncture magazine which said so; that qi is absolutely not to be called ”energy”, but vitality; that we aren´t really embarassed about Chinese medicine and absolutely not defending it to Western science but we kind of really are. Maybe.
It´s Christmas now. Never mind.
