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SNAFU SNAFU SNAFU

The only good thing about events like yesterday's sudden breakdown of my internet connection is that it makes me laugh all the more at conspiracy theorists who think the current travails of humanity are planned by "the elite". There are so many SNAFUs that even if there were plans, they'd fall apart because of them--like the most famous conspiracy of all, Watergate, being exposed by a security guard noticing some tape or something like in on a door in the hotel.

My SNAFUs yesterday and today:

(1) Internet failing at my friend's place, irreparably so (at least by me). Technicians are supposed to fix it, but I haven't yet heard from them;

(2) I thought I'd go to the "Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security" (ISRS) offices at UCL instead today to record a podcast with Phil in 50 minutes' time--to find that the office has been shut down and their rooms are now occupied by academics I don't know;

(3) I managed to get into Carbon Tracker's office, which will cover the 3.30-4.30 podcast recording with Phil and Doyne Farmer, but;

(4) The whole building shuts down today at 5pm, so I'll be turfed out shortly afterwards with no viable internet option for tomorrow, when;

(5) I was supposed to give a workshop at 2.30pm tomorrow, but at the moment I have no idea how I'm going to do that; and

(6) I'm supposed to give a talk to US activists on Sunday--same story.

Pardon the French, but I don't know what the fuck to do over the weekend. I hope I have a functioning system by next Wednesday, but with my luck, the technicians won't turn up till Friday...

I'll sort something out. Love to you all. You're some of the few people who keep me sane.

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