Decisions, decisions, decisions.

Mexico City is a great place to be, but there are too many painful memories there and I am now a foreigner whenever I go there. I don't know much about how things work, about politics, abut football.

OK, those are my excuses, in reality I really like it here in London, Mexico City is great but is not cosmopolitan, you are not spoiled for choice when it comes to the range of things you can see and do. And you don't have Paris a short train ride away. Don't know, will have to think hard about this before deciding something.

Got my Edinburgh race result, pretty much same time as last year, but this time I was not breathless when I finished. It gives me such an immense pleasure to finish ahead of some people that are clearly in great shape but that have not trained properly for a long race, the surprised look when I overtake them is worth the effort :-)

This time I flew from London City airport, it is the first time I do so and was a bit surreal. You arrive there by DLR (light train, proletariat means of transport) check in and then go to the waiting lounge, which is mostly filled with leather individual sofas! (pig capitalists terminal) One kind of understands why the comfy sofas: the types there are all City workers or business people, the guys sharp, wearing expensive suits and making phone calls I am sure are terribly important, the ladies sexy and professional looking, and I am sure cold and calculating :-) I was the only one wearing non business clothes in my flight!

The flight back from Edinburgh is great because we fly over central London all the way to the airport following the Thames, which means you have a great view of Westminster, St Pauls, Tower Bridge, the Gherkin, Canary Wharf and the Thames Barrier (depending on which side of the plane you are).

Be an spy:

http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page583.html

glad to be doing my bit to fight terrorism.

It surprises me the hostility in some quarters about the idea of stopping drinking of alcohol in the public transport in London. In Mexico City's metro, such an activity is plainly unthinkable, as it is in many other places. The drinking culture here is much more deeply ingrained that I imagined...

The dinosauric leader of the Tube workers Union said it was unenforceable (while throwing cheap jives at the new mayor). Well, I would say to him to enforce it exactly as they enforce non smoking, how difficult is that?

I understand that drunks are more difficult to handle, but Boris has it nailed down precisely: sometimes it is a very scary experience to ride the tube after 22:00 or thereabouts. I would go as far as to eject drunk people from the tube (you need only 2 big guys making the rounds with a breathalyser followed by tabloid media, the message would get out there quite quickly).

Burma, poor Burma. Those idiots in charge make the North Korean dude look like a shining example of statesmanship. I am torn about giving help, those bastards will steal much of the aid. What is one to do?

My diaries are so long (they are really weeklies) that Google ads always offer friendly advice about how to publish my work or become a writer...