Minor work annoyances the first. People are running around clearly very busy. I offer to help and they say no, even though they are clearly swamped and I am as capable of putting pages into folders as anyone. It is not something affected by a crumbling language barrier. This makes me pissed off. Minor work annoyances the second. The reason I have time to help out is everyone I need to push my own work forward seems to have taken an early weekend. However, it is Friday, it is sunny, there will be beer by the lake so pissed off will not endure.

I am confused by an article I have seen appearing in the shops. They appear to be brightly coloured plastic sunglasses but instead of lenses, they have a grill of the same plastic as the frames across the eyes. They are clearly trendy, to judge by where they are found but I have yet to see someone actually wearing them, even in this fashion-victim of a city.