Random Post of Whiny Whining
#1
Despite this week being The Week for RPG I played only Wednesday - Thursday I fell asleep on my character sheet and today's game was canceled.
The latter might be a permanent thing, since the GM has been ...ehm..less than enthusiastic. Woe.
#2
I discovered yesterday that the local dumping ground has been closed, due to maltenance*. Which means that the waste produced by many, many thousands of people is now...without a dumping place? Fail, FAIL so more massive since there have been talks of an incinerator for, oh, about a decade, since we're terribly short of space.
#3
In case you didn't know, italian politics have reached new depths of FAIL!
For those (lucky ones!) not in the know, soon there will be local elections in a few key regions. One of the main political players, the PDL, failed to present its list of candidates by law term -out of the time-limit & not-compliant with law-terms- in two of them, probably the most important ones: Lazio (know where Rome lies?) & Lombardy (hello, Milan!).
The reasons for this delay are of no immediate interest**, the reactions, however, not so: they complained. Loudly. Mentioning conspiracies.
End result? They got a law approved which offers a "correct interpretation" of electoral laws, thus enabling the PDL to run for those elections.
Allow me to repeat it:
They got a law to get around electoral laws.
Here.
2010.
In a (supposedly) 1st world country.
The FAIL, it is beyond my speech-abilities to describe it.
In more personal whiny-ness, I've left the flat in Mestre for good - there are still many items to be retrieved, but I'm living in Prettyland for good.
I already miss the flat-mates. :(
*basically, the leachate was thrown back into the dumping grounds, while the grounds themselves were not impermeabilized/their impermeabilization degraded & wasn't re-made. There's contamination in a nearby stream, contamination of the groundwater is not confirmed.
**Backstabbing. In Lazio they re-worked the candidate list after the last-minute, in order to arrange better the "friends" and the "casual allies", whereas in Lombardy they dumped rearranged the positioning of influent allies, who reciprocated the favour with irregular signatures on a much-needed list.