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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Years ago, it used to said there was not much of a market for antidepressants in the countries of southern Europe. Things may well have changed but I doubt levels have yet reached those of northern Europe or the USA. I mention this after reading the following paragraph today - Learning to keep our attention in the present moment allows us to live at peak efficiency and without the distraction of negative thinking. The present moment in where we find happiness and inner peace. Herein, perhaps, lies the reason for lower levels of depression here. As I’ve said more than once, the Spanish specialise in living in the ‘here and now’. What matters is today and tomorrow can take care of itself. Planning is, literally it now seems, for sad idiots. But I’m not sure about the ‘peak efficiency’ bit, unless it’s an existential reflection.

Here’s another of those affable but useless ‘customer relations’ chats one has here:-
I don’t think the blocking function works on this mobile phone.
What do you mean?
Well, the keys still work when it’s on.
Yes but you have a lid on your phone so you don’t need to deactivate the keys. In fact, you can’t; the block is to stop people inserting another SIM card if your phone is stolen.
OK but the camera key is on the side and, if there’s no way to block it, it’s going to keep taking pictures in my pocket.
Yes, I know. I had the same problem when I had that model. It took lots of photos of my handbag. It’s a bloody nuisance, isn’t it? . . .

And here’s a new Spanish word I’ve just struggled a few seconds with – deuvedĂ©. Or DVD to you and me.

I don’t now how your Friday 13th went but mine started with the complete collapse of my Firefox browser and the need to spend an hour re-establishing all my Favourites and shortcuts. Wonderful.

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