I know that I’m doing a lot of these bonehead comments of the day lately, or at least a lot more of them than my regular entries, but it’s a good news, bad news kinda thing. The good news is that admin here in Not-Bielefeld and surroundings have gone relatively quiet again. The bad newsContinue reading “BCD 14.05.2023”
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Flying in the face of the pandemic
After a long, corona-induced abstinence, I recently had the necessity to take to the skies again. Which also meant that after a good six months of pretty much avoiding all forms of public transit, I also had to take a taxi, a streetcar, a train, and a bus all in short order. The last timeContinue reading “Flying in the face of the pandemic”
COST cutting
Right. If this blog is going to be about the absurdities of admin, might as well finally go after the granddaddy of them all: the European Union. You know, the entity of which the choking bureaucracy was part of the reason that an entire country decided to leave Europe? (Speaking of absurdities, let’s talk aboutContinue reading “COST cutting”