Audience Participation

 I hate participation especially if I have paid good money to go and see something.  Pantomime is different of course.  No I mean concerts particularly.  I saw an artist complaining that their audience didn't sing along and I've never been a fan of this.  You pay a huge amount of money to hear a band play and the lead singer sing and they can't be arsed to do the chorus sticking the microphone towards the audience and I hate it.

I came to listen to them sing, end of.  The number of times someone behind me or to the side of me sings flat, doesn't know the words or is just making some sort of fill in noise is dreadful.  It spoils the whole thing and at one venue I had to ask that one person who sang loud and flat and wanted to talk their way through the rest of the performance be removed or let me be seated elsewhere.  It was atrocious and in the quiet bits where a sole was happening etc you could hear this drunken idiot above the music.

So that's my rant.  If you want me to help you sing your song, pay me!  I've paid to hear you and the band perform it isn't for me to provide your backing band or help you when you've forgotten the words to the chorus!  They charge a small fortune these days to attend a convert and you wouldn't do it during a classical concert! Rant over LOL! 

There's None So Blind

 I hate to say it but I despair at the "Blinkered Philistine Pig Ignorance" (Monty Python Architect Sketch) of the people you see on the TV, YouTube, Podcasts etc.  In complete denial even when faced with facts presented to them that are their very own facts! 

Last night they were all getting irate that someone had the temerity to point out acknowledged facts so much so that they were huffing and puffing and trying to interrupt the chaps who's turn it was to speak and not just one of them either.  Presented with facts gets these people angry and they then twist and weasel their way and think that we cannot see them or hear them or see their body language. I hope they are running scared but I doubt it.  I don't think they realise what is coming for them.  People are rightly fed up and the vast majority see through all of this and are demanding change.

It still, however, surprises me (perhaps it shouldn't) that people I thought were a bit brighter don't see it either.  Defending the indefensible and prattling on about stuff that a child would realise isn't true or even partly true.  I think because it doesn't happen to them (yet) they cannot see the societal change that has happened certainly in the past ten years but arguably longer and as it hasn't really affected them they continue on their socialist liberal value system.  We are poorer now than we were in the 90s and it perhaps is that boil the Frog approach, they just don't see or perhaps are not affected by these changes.

Locally we have had massive failures in our Water infrastructure depriving some areas for days on end and weeks of problems.  As a consumer we have seen around 30% increase in the past few years.  Food has almost doubled by my estimation in 5 or 6 years looking at my monthly expenditure,  Power bills probably doubled or tripled and people are silent or consider it OK.  It isn't sustainable and yet these smug arse politicians, regulators and businesses just spit in our faces and we don't do anything about it.  The reckoning will come I am sure, it needs to come quickly though and things need to be resolved.   

International Joke Festival

 I happened to catch the news this morning and beloved leader was commenting on how his meeting with China had gone.  I was expecting him to come out with something tangible given that China just about produce everything these days and talk about some huge trade deals but it sounded like our great leader had swapped his sweets with a lad in the playground only to find that the bag had broken and he'd lost the contents.  It was, to coin one of my oft used phrases "Utter Bollocks!"  He sounds pathetic and totally out of his depth in situations like this but I guess he will be flying home to some pretty heavy stuff.

Everywhere you look the sheer incompetence and fish out of water politicians are just screwing things up on a massive scale.  They have ideas that a twelve year old would find difficult to comprehend.  A five year old would make more sense too.  The level of stupidity is off the scale and the ideas factory is straight out of the Marxist play book with nothing thought through, no impact assessment and every time they turn around or come up with a policy it destroys people's livelihoods and businesses.  Where we need brave, strong leadership we have a rabble blown off course by every breeze.

A once great country is actually leaderless, rudderless and taking on water faster than it can be bailed out.  The economy is a Janet & John story and ideology out trumps proper fiscal management.  The way out to tackle our huge deficit appears to be to borrow more money until its paid off?  The only people who cannot appear to see all these problems are the very people nose diving us into third world status.  

Of course, it's not going to be easy to get out of the problems that successive governments have gotten us into - it's going to be horrendously tough as we look back at the wholesale destruction of our businesses and the wastelands caused through infantile dogma and rank stupidity.  Most people know that you cannot tax your way out of these problems and saying you are going for growth whilst punishing anyone who attempts to actually grow their business, better themselves etc is a disgusting stupid and pathetic.  How blind do you have to be to be told the serious impact that you are having on the economy only to double down and make it worse.  They hadn't even considered that their actions would have the massive impact they did because they hadn't thought about it.

A pox on all their houses! 

Right In Your Face - Do You Think We Don't Know?

 Today, The Labour Party published a clip of A Reform Candidate that was edited to the point of looking as if he was slating the very people he is a candidate for.  The very people who complained about how the BBC had done the same to President Trump I'd suggest.  The trend these days to use AI or to edit and put words into people's mouths has got to stop.

We all knew the pathological liar at school or work and no one took it seriously because they lied all the time but this IS serious.  These are allegedly our betters and they represent the country our current government and yet they stoop to lying and gas-lighting us and they, frankly, are not very good at it at all.  But no one will get sacked or lose their job over it and the BBC only had to fall on their swords after they were made to agree how unpleasant and thoroughly unprofessional it was and even then they sort of blamed us!  

What is it with people these days where lying and cheating are part of everything they say and everything they do.  I used to work with people of  similar attitude who when things started going wrong, instead of facing it head on and tackling the problem started a campaign of lying that dug them deeper and deeper into the sh1t.  I recall, being the Project Manager of a job that had taken a sudden and quite catastrophic turn for the worst I called the customer, told him there was a problem and that I would like to come and meet them.  I had to go into a big room with a AAA rated business, meet the sponsors and tell them that a major problem which no one could have foreseen had arisen and explain exactly what I was going to do about it.  I asked for a few days so I could work out a plan and get back to them "You've got 24 hours to solve this ...." well not quite LOL.

Unbeknown to me the salesman had picked up the problem and went into the customer without asking me (it was my job responsibility not his) and I got a call from the customer who told me that this imbecile had gone into the customer and promised him all sorts of actions (none of which were possible) and lied his socks off.  He incurred the customer's wrath, was reported to his boss and me.  We then had to read him the riot act as he just went off and unilaterally did this when we were already in a bad situation so I had to fight on two fronts.  All because he lied and I don't do that, never have, never will, no matter how difficult it gets.  

So why do people think it is acceptable for the people in high power to lie and cheat?  They already know they are in deep trouble but to hit the bottom and keep digging and make it obvious to everyone that they are propagating lies is shocking.  

I also had to have a laugh at the Green Party who had all their posters and flyers and these portable stands printed with the incorrect spelling of the constituency name that they hope will vote for them.  Probably not a good start. In trying to correct this they put out a tweet (sorry, a X) which managed to spell it wrongly again! :-)  Such is the calibre of the people wanting the locals to vote for them. 

It All Take Time And I Have Never Been Good With That

 I tend to want everything to be done "Right now!" but it never happens like that.  Things take time and during all my treatments it always took what time it took no matter if I wanted it to end sooner.  Today it is like that as Apple are implementing some changes and so my Ads aren't working properly.  So I have to wait until their servers sort themselves out and awake from their slumbers.

It's an interesting problem for me as I want to get sufficient data to make decisions about the business and so it's like an egg timer as the sands are running out - let's call it the money in the business for now and they aren't being replenished quickly enough to make it viable but without having undertaken this exercise to run the Ads I won't know what is the right area to target and if the audience will purchase the App.  It's moving slowly but you have to test each iteration out and see what the results are so you can logically dismiss or improve each part of the campaign. 

I just have to be patient and wait and it's generally a day or two at a time.  It means extending this trial and hoping the money doesn't run out in the interim!  

Breaking The Work Habits

Everyday, there's this feeling that I should be "doing something" it is strange and it only really crossed my mind yesterday that it's missing the habit of getting up and going to work.  That ritual of waking up, getting ready and then heading off to work whether walking to the station (in all weathers) or jumping in the car and travelling to a customer's location or wherever I was working at the time.

More than that is the ritual of work itself all planned out and laid out in front of you and I, for one, normally knew what I was doing weeks in advance.  Train travel meant a switch off reading a book or a newspaper, grabbing some breakfast on the way in.  Only on a very few occasions was I bored and twiddling my thumbs.

So there's this feeling of being beholden to someone and I get the inner feeling that I should be doing something.  Currently I am working on this business App and I feel that I have to do my best to get a result one way or the other.  It's more that I have attempted everything possible to get it to work.  If it works great, if it fails well I've given it a try and can shut it down.  

Getting this out of the way would actually give me the break I feel I need and then there are only a few demands on my time and so I wouldn't feel this ghostly obligation to do things that no longer exist.  I need to claim my time back.

Toxic People

 I find the world of social media to be quite toxic and divisive and more so recently.  Twitter which I use to promote both my business and my Lodge is such a place.  It is contrived, abusive and full of the most awful content.  I couldn't quite work out why I was seeing some pretty unpleasant stuff until I realised that it had switched my viewing away from those people I had chosen to follow.   So now I have switched back it is a bit more palatable but yet again I have had to mute or un-follow people who are just downright nasty.

As I need these tools for advertising and promotion I am stuck with them but the bottom line is that you need to prune out the dead wood and diseased growth.  Better still, just narrow it down to only what you are prepared to watch or listen to.  So I was out with my pruners and got rid of the disrespectful and abusive people.  

I plan to review all of this social media activity as I hope that it will only be an occasional need to get involved and not a daily, nay, hourly activity as it seems to be now.  Ideally it would be great to reduce it right down to a few minutes a day or even a week.

A lot depends on whether the business survives this next few months - I have a time limit of March to sort it out.  In sorting it out, I need to either close it or if I run it, it only need take up a few hours a week or it's not worth doing.  That is the upcoming decision and having done just about everything I can on it, the final outcome is now neither here nor there.

I've had enough of it all the truth be told and it either stands or falls based on the next few week's exercise.  And now, I don't mind one way or the other what the outcome is as I will have carried out all the possible routes to complete the product, market it and so on.  Given it every chance to live and thrive.

The chap who has made my life hell now reminds me that it isn't that important and whilst he probably doesn't realise it, his behaviour has made me not care less about it all now.  It will be what it will be and if it does all fold up then I can see my freedom ahead.

I've felt beholden to the idea and the company - it's a shame that he didn't fully commit but this happens more often than you might realise. I am trying to get away from the feeling that I must do something or that I am expected to do something it is strange as if it is some sort of work commitment that I am obliged to fulfil and yet no such contract or commitment exists.  I need to work on this as it is something that I cannot get used to.  I am meant to be retired but I am far from that and I am not enjoying my retirement as I am sorting out this business that I have been left with. 

Rodent Trouble! Again

Last year (or maybe the year before) over 40 mice in the house and I got a chap to come and fix the holes in the house and additionally do some pointing and tidying up at the same time.  Up until perhaps a week ago it seemed to have done the trick and no mice in my traps so much so that I moved the traps for a few days - I keep them active from around October to March.  I was pleased as there didn't appear to be any around.

Last week though I noticed the tell-tale signs of a few mouse droppings, set the traps and had two on two mornings.  Then we though we saw one in the living room so I set a trap and that went off within half an hour and this morning I was greeted by two and on resetting them a further one so it's looking as if we have a nest of them somewhere.  I dislike having to trap them and kill them but all the humane traps I've used do not seem humane at all and so I've gone back to the tried and tested method.  I'm not happy about it but there you are, needs must and having been ill through injecting a mouse dropping (I can't even tell you how awful that was I had to have an ambulance and crew out to me) I'm convinced that a swift dispatch is better in their terms and indeed mine.  

I cannot tell you how many times with the humane versions I found the mice dead.  If they weren't you needed to take them a number of miles away and release them into an environment they were unfamiliar with.  In one case a local cat got one of the released mice.  I was then told that moving a wild animal or relocating it was illegal!  You can't win can you?

So just another "thing to do" and an unwelcome return of a nuisance I thought I'd solved but, as I often say, we live in the country, when it's cold or food is available readily this is going to happen.

Hopefully it won't be up to the numbers of a year or two ago that was just mental and you'd get a short time with none and the next day you'd have about 4 or 5.

Concentration Or Rather The Lack Of It

 I hate being a Treasurer.  I find it one of the most difficult things because my programme and project logic is at odds with financial logic.  Whilst I grasp the concepts of a balance sheet it doesn't come naturally to me so things like in arrears and in advance payments and accruals somehow hit an invisible mental roadblock in me.

A task that an Accountant could take a few minutes doing takes me hours as I have to work out how I treat any entry that is out of the ordinary.  If it was straight income and expenses it would be easy of course because that is how most of us run our home accounts but because if the precise nature of the balance sheet and not always understanding whether an entry should or shouldn't be there is another thing.  

An advance payment made in the previous year for example was shown in the bank last year but needs to be accounted for in this year when that payment should rightly have been made.

Anyway, sat here for a few hours and all the figures are merging into one now so time for a rest and I will have to renew the efforts again tomorrow or maybe this afternoon if I feel up to it!  Such an annoying thing because really I shouldn't have problems grasping this at all but somehow my mind doesn't work the way it does on other problems that are not financial in nature albeit project accounting is no problem at all!!!

The harder I look at the figures the worse it gets and it is easier to just stop for a while and come back than making a rushed decision and then having to un-knit the work I've done.

What A Time To Be Alive?

 There's lots going on in the world and so many interesting things happening and I, like many others I imagine, watch on as our "elders & betters" make decisions based on school playground logic and turn around endlessly as their ill thought out ideas get challenged.  It does remind me of school though, the stupid unscientific assertions and I'm just waiting for one of the Cabinet members to state "My dad's bigger than your dad!" or some such unqualified statement.

When you are a Director or a Manager you actually have to be good at your job.  I think I had to be more than that, I had to be outstanding in it as I dealt with so many numpties and Muppets.  If you weren't good you got found out and those small chinks in your armour became gaping chasms and that's what we see with this government.  No one seems to actually do any real investigation before coming up with these stupid ideas, there's no foundational premise to start with either.  No coherent strategy and no integration or leadership.  It's like sailing a ship without any Captain, no Navigator and all the crew are inexperienced have a go sailors who've never sailed a ship before. But worse!

My old boss used to come in to work on any given day and like Michael Caine in the Italian Job state "I've got a great idea"  - he may well have done but generally you could drive a bus through his ideas and theories and that idea would be superseded by the next idea.  None of them had any chance at being successful as he didn't realise that having an idea and making it happen are quite different things.  Driven by ideology these imbeciles come up with ideas that turn out to be faulty and built on sand.  Rudderless, they pitch and toss around in the wild seas and become overwhelmed by the waters.

Our old work saying went along the lines of "His men would follow him anywhere...... But only out of curiosity!"  "Somewhere a village is missing it's idiot!" "Like a six pack without the plastic bit that hods it together!" and so on.  If it wasn't so serious it would be funny.  Watching us (the UK) and the rest of Europe getting roasted by President Trump was an education.  Let's hope it shocks these weak lily-livered excuses for human beings into doing the right thing.  I can only imagine the fallout from the resent WEF meeting.  Although many won't understand that the criticism was justifiably about them such is their cognitive dissonance.   

A Quiet Day Coming Up

 I've done a little every day on the business and gradually working towards seeing if it has any potential.  Quite a lot of activity yesterday means that things are now in approval and so nothing is happening until that has been done.

So I can get on with other things today.  My other accounts for example will need to be sorted and a review of finances too as I may need to support the business for a month or two whilst this work is ongoing.  I am comfortable that I've given it every chance so far - what is needed is to get it in front of enough people to see whether or not it will be a success.

At least I get the day off today as it is quite intense when you get the previous results and then have to adapt to it.  Not today though so that's good.

The Waiting Game - It Will Happen In Its Own Good Time

 I hate waiting, I like action this day and getting stuff done.  This latest iterative work really doesn't suit that approach at all.  Mainly the market is in the US and so I cannot see any results on something I do now until tomorrow!  Also waiting for approval can be 24 to 48 hours between submissions and so once again, it just means you have to wait and measure your responses..

I used to have this problem when I first wrote this blog about how you'd wait around for ever waiting to be seen or waiting to go home and concluded that it was just the speed that they worked at no matter how much I wanted it.

So it is now, I think I want an answer to my business question so I can make decisions but in reality I need to just let it work its own way out.  I am learning to live with it, I can't make it speed up and so just have to ride with the shots and then get my answers when they do their bit not when I want it.

It is giving me the opportunity to use the waiting time to do other tasks and to reflect too so it isn't a problem.  Maybe I am finally calming down?

Slowly Paying Dividends

 Last year was a bit sh1t for me and whilst things are better, there's still some of the left over disappointment and a little anger at the way I was treated.  This year I am moving slightly differently and taking stuff as it happens.  My testing of the App is going not so well these last two days but went brilliantly the previous two days.  Why's that?  Well it;s an iterative process and I need to know what works and indeed what doesn't and it doesn't matter if a day goes past without some positive result.  A negative result is just as good when you analyse it.

So I cannot do anything about it until tomorrow and that's it.  So rather than worry about it like I would have done last year, I am getting on with something that I would normally put off and rather than doing that in an intense way, I am taking my time and taking short breaks in between.  Accounts are notoriously difficult for me I really do not enjoy them at all but they need to be done and as I have to do some other work on the figures, why not tackle it and get it done?

I am also prepared now for things to go wrong with the business as well as (if I can work it out) for them to go right.  A decision point needs to come in the near future and I am comfortable with either of the outcomes, in fact I'd probably prefer the failure of the business so I can walk away from it once and for all but if there is life in it, I need to see it through and determine that commercially it is (or is not) viable.

But it is no longer the be all and end all, far from it, it's what will be will be and that is the way I am treating such things from now on.  I'd far rather be enjoying my time like some of my friends who are retired in going on holidays and trips - they are in sunnier climes and good luck to them.  I think that I would prefer to do that with my time but let's see how this short period of market testing goes and we can decide from then.

Cutting Through The Static & Gloom

 With all that is unfolding around us both at home and abroad you can be forgiven for feeling the weight of it all.  I know that I do if not for me, for my children and grandchildren.  In many ways it appears the world has gone mad and perhaps it has?  The tail wagging the dog must soon stop before the dog bites that tail clean off.

The vast majority of us live in a consensus way and I think we still have the British tolerance and spirit of fair play but, by heck, it's beginning to wear very thin indeed.  The pathetic politicians, the "be kind" brigade who are so full of tolerance only as long as you think and act like them.  If you don't you will quickly see that veil fall and a diametrically different attitude come into play.   Witness their inability to logically and calmly discuss any subject that goes against their narrative and you will soon see that you are dealing with cult like opinions and scratch beneath that surface and you will fine the worst in humanity posing as sweetness and goodness.  

I think that people have had quite enough of this, have stretched to try and meet these ignorant low IQ individuals halfway.  Remember never argue with an idiot because they will bring you down to their level and beat you with their experience! and more memorable perhaps is to "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it!"

When things don't go their way watch the way they react.  For us, the sensible normal people we accept if we have been out voted or perhaps well argued in a discussion with facts and logic.  Not them, a loss is greeted with screaming insults and behaviour you'd expect from a small toddler.  Gradually they are being exposed for the lunatic fringe they really are and it will be delicious to watch them as the world turns against them and their woke, cultist, non reality stances.  They obviously didn't go to the right schools as their sort of behaviour was beaten out of them by the time they were 16 and if not, by the end of their first week or working in the wider world.

Sit back, grab your popcorn and enjoy the bottom falling out of their world in the next 5 to 10 years.  

Patience - Not My Best Trait

 Honing in on advertising keywords and the like is an iterative process and you cannot rush it.  Sometimes it yields great results and other (like today) zero results.  You have to logically go about it and you then learn from the results and then adjust and wait again.  It's only been 6 days and I'm half way through my budget spend and results have been mixed but that's the way it is.  If you knew the right way of going about it in the first place, you'd not need to hone in this way and of course I am dealing or competing with large well funded businesses with years of experience.

I am having to learn all over again the slow and methodical process of having a plan and following it.  Follow the process as I am wont to say.  I have to wait between 6 and 12 hours after each iteration to see the results, analyse them and tweak the settings.  Only 6 days (5 and a bit to be exact) and I have had more downloads in those days than in the 3 months previous so it is doing something.  It's getting the volume that is the next step and quality and quantity too.

You cannot rush it I have to continually remind myself and the USA / UK time difference is also a determining factor. 

Twenty Years Coming Up

 How utterly crazy is that?  It will be 20 years this July that I presented with Bladder Cancer and so close to 30% of my life I've lived with that although of course, in reality it was probably 2 or 3 years of treatment and operations followed with regular check ups until about three or four years ago when I finally got the nod and was discharged.

I find my mind turning to mortality more these days.  I suppose as you start losing your friends more often and your Christmas and Birthday card lists get smaller you tend to reflect on it.  I've got my Lasting Power of Attorneys sorted out and I must sit down and finish the wishes sections which are missing some final in depth details that I need to add.  This to make it easy to erase me from Social Media and to close down my civilian and social media lives!  

I might get wobbly around July it's always bad as so many things happened at the same time and in the same year and across the years it's been a funny old period of time.  My friend and I diagnosed around the same time,. certainly in Hospital around the same time might grab our traditional breakfast meeting and perhaps react like Samuel Pepys may have done when he yearly celebrated the "Cutting of Ye Stone"

Samuel Pepys' "cutting of the stone" refers to his successful, but agonizing, bladder stone surgery (lithotomy) in 1658, performed without anaesthetic by barber-surgeon Thomas Hollier, a notoriously risky procedure where he was strapped down as a surgeon made an incision in the perineum to remove the stone, a deeply traumatic event he celebrated annually for the rest of his life. 

I believe the stone itself was displayed during the festivities!  This was the surgeon who operated on my ancestor for the same problem.  We think that by the time he was operated on the surgeon's operating tools were septic and it eventually killed our man.  You cannot even begin to imagine the painful procedure - thank goodness most of my procedures were with anaesthetic (not all).

Anyway, not that I kept any souvenirs of my procedures so they will not be produced at the breakfast in question.

Now That's Interesting

 I've been working with AI on this Advertisement campaign.  It's been very interesting and I'm massively impressed with this "teamwork" as within 4 days trying various iterative keywords we have nailed it to getting really decent hits and downloads.  Because the sales data is disconnected by two days I cannot see if we have actually sold anything yet but the download rate is now excellent and interestingly yesterday alone I had more downloads in a day than I have had in three months!

What I like about this working with AI is that I can ask stupid questions and interact with it in such a ways as to have built what looks to be a successful campaign in just a few days adjusting and refining as we have gone along I am very impressed with the results so far.  If it converts to people buying then I will be happy but also I will be in a quandary as to what to do next.  I really didn't think that it would be this successful an exercise and so maybe, just maybe, it will bear some fruit 9 years after planting the seed!  Nice.

Will The Veil Fall From The Eyes Of The Masses?

 The unbelievable erosion of our way of life continues and the writing is on the wall for those who can lift their eyes from their doom scrolling mobiles long enough to read it and moreover understand it.

This morning's ONS stats showed a 0.3 or 0.1 % growth in GDP and was once again hailed as things aren't so bad it's all going to be OK.  Of course, look a little deeper and one part is showing a recovery from the JLR hack and so that is a correction but what disturbed me was the loss of construction contribution of 1.3%!  That's huge news.  We always used to say that you could work out how economically good or bad things were by the number of cranes over London.  Coming in on the train you could see it and working in that industry you knew things were tough or booming.  

It was also telling that you can feel something boiling under now.  More elections have been delayed, things are getting progressively bad in terms of free speech yet again.  The "be nice brigade" are being anything but nice and in many ways there are things going on that should not be happening in the UK.  Banning people coming into the country because they hold a differing opinion to the Government.  Our local water company has seen massive infrastructure issues lack or no water, treatment systems gone wrong, tens of thousands affected and questions asked whether they can provide new provision for the thousands of new homes proposed. 

It's all gone to hell in a handcart and it's no wonder that the people are beginning to stir.  These people have one job and they fail utterly to do it.  Keep the people safe and deliver services to protect and grow the nation.  They keep failing miserably, trying to fix stuff that isn't broken and then when they screw that up double down and screw it up further.  Utter shambles the lot of them.  They are so out of the depth on just about everything and incompetent doesn't even go part of the way in describing what it is like.  No plans, no clue, no vision, no ideas, no leadership just nothing an abyss of low IQ mediocrity.

But I still hear people coming out with their BBC headlines completely missing the point.  Follow the money, scratch the surface, chip away the thin already cracked veneer and gasp in horror at what these people have done and where they want to lead us. Dinosaurs led by Donkeys.  It's getting worse by the day and somewhere it has to be halted when the Emperor's New Clothes are exposed for what they are.  I feel a number of us are there before the remaining citizens.  We just need to drop our gaze from our TVs, mobile phones and devices to actually see what these people are doing destroying our once great country. 

More Evidence, If Any Were Required

 In a few areas.  Initially the Digital ID about turn from the Government and this wishy washy Prime Minister who wanted to turn us in to a "Ihre Papiere, bitte!"  state.  I think someone said it was the 11th about turn and he just doesn't appear to get it does he - or his amateur school ground MPs either.  Rather than fix the problems the country has, you've bought a bloody great digger and are trying to get to the bottom as fast as you can.  Total destruction and not one thing you can look to that matches their mantra of growth!

Secondly, my App isn't performing well either and so a decision will need to be made on that.  Perhaps a few more tweaks today and see how we go?  It's all data points for whether we go forward or shut down the business (I say we in the business sense in reality it is only me).

Edit - it is 13 U turns now and perhaps some more coming in.  His back benchers can see the writing on the wall and they must be getting furious correspondence from their constituents!  

Tuesday A Blues Day?

No, not this Tuesday it isn't although it is a quiet sort of morning.  The advert I set up yesterday doesn't appear to have done much at all really so it has been tweaked to see if any traction can be had from that.  It's important as it is an experiment on the App and whether it can be seen, downloaded and more overly bought by some of the people who download it.

It's the acid test really to see if it is going to be viable.  I need to have given it every chance to succeed before pursuing it or closing it down.  There aren't that many options left open to the business if no one sees it or buys it.

It's one of those things isn't it? It is out of my hands at the moment until the results arrive and frankly the overnight results were - well - nothing at all! So a few tweaks to see if the system needed a few more dollars spent to get it to activate.

I feel that I have given it enough in the past 9 years and so it only really remains to give it the final acid test and if people buy it, great and if they don't well I tried.