Well it's been a week and a day since I last read or watched the news and though it's been difficult breaking the habit, it has done me good.  I still have to stop myself from pulling up my NPR web site as soon as I get up in the morning.  It goes so well with my coffee!  Any bits and pieces I'm hearing secondhand are disastrous so I'd rather play ignorant.  I do try to keep up with the Italian chronicle though as it's usually so ridiculous.  There are constant reports of robberies and crimes that make no sense.  The other day a guy held up a supermarket at gun point and demanded NUTELLA! You read that right folks!  There is the gang of Albanian's who installed a bunch of fake ATM's and stole CC and Debit card info from thousands of people before they were found out.  Then there is the long going scandal of trash removal.  The mafia runs the largest companies that dispose of non recyclable trash and hazardous waste.  For years, they have charged the industries in the north to haul off and "legally" handle the disposal of their waste and then dump and bury it illegally somewhere in the rural south.  Now there are thousands of cases of cancer, underground fires spuming noxious smoke, contaminated water all around Naples and various other southern cities and towns.  Poor people.  The American military has even created "no live zones" for it's staff and members. 

ARGH!  I just heard that Trump gave top secret clearance to his family members like some South American dictator!  "This is Jose my nephew.  He like pretty girls so I'm letting him run the women's prisons.  And my youngest son loves making paper airplanes so he gets the Air force."   Jesus!  Next it will be Sarah Palin as Foreign Secretary!  Oh, I forgot.  That goes to his pal Giulliani!!!!!  WTF?  OK.  THIS is why I'm not listening!  Blah, blah, blah, blah..I can't hear you!

Calmer now.  I'm off to pack a bag.  GP and I are going to London to see Grace and enjoy the rain.

  xxoo me