let them live in their cars

'torments of my apartment. boundless. worked well a few evenings. if I had been able to work at night. today kept from sleep, from work, from everything by the noise.' -  franz kafka, diaries, 9th april 1915. 

no homes for the workers?

let them live in their cars.

(no we won't even do that)

meanwhile in the UK rents are predicted to rise more than wage growth for the next 3 years. pfft! wage growth says horsemouth, horsemouth hasn't seen any wage growth in the last decade and a half (only wage reduction in real terms). 

and in fact this goes back earlier - real wages have been on the slide since horsemouth entered the workforce back in about 1985. 

what's horsemouth's bet? collapse forever. (the forever collapse).

horsemouth had planned to be back in the wen for a flying visit this week but it looks like he's trapped in the wilderness. today he's due to make a visit to hereford (but he doesn't know if it will be possible yet). 

a friend has posted the first three digits of the barcode tells you where a product is from meme (with 729 being israel, but now it has been changed to 871 because er... illuminati conspiracy). according to this the barcode only tells you where the company is headquartered (not where it has been manufactured). and er. p.s.  871 is one of the possible barcodes for holland. 

so first three digits of the barcode 729 it would still be  if you wanted to boycott companies with their headquarters in israel (this wouldn't enable you to identify products that had merely been manufactured in israel). 

horsemouth is very tense and very angry and very fucked off. he just had a bottle of beer to try and self-medicate.  nothing is ever easy. nothing is ever properly organised. hopefully it will all work out and horsemouth will be able to fake being calm for the duration. 

last night roughly at sunset a partial eclipse - between 7.52pm and 8.51pm in the west probably a few percent at the edge - sunset 7:58 where horsemouth is (so right then if at all). total solar eclipse visible in montreal,  texas etc. . partial eclipse perhaps visible in ireland (44% on the north west coast). where horsemouth was it was cloudy (and he didn't fancy wallowing around in the mud whilst blinded by the remaining 99% of the sun. 

it's the morning. it's greyish, it's a bit rubbish. forward the day.