I started to work… Did I?

After a 3-week break due to ‘unexpected ‘circumstances’ …I started to work. I started to work? Not really.

In the last three days I started to sit in front of the PC letting my eyes getting used again to the screen. It’s not easy and I kind of struggle to concentrated longer than half an hour or so.

I spent the holidays watching all possible and impossible Christmas movies on TV but also some great films and biographies. And eating a lot. Tons of protein.

I refrained from watching news programs, and to tell you the truth nothing was worth reporting about. News were mostly on festive shopping and food prices and the Greeks’ tradition to gather around the table with family and friends, with 1000+1 dishes and mountains of Christmas cookies, cakes and whatever pastry comes in one’s mind.

The rest of the news was mostly about about holidays traffic jams, shootings and stabbings and burglaries and arrests. Same old, same old.

A ‘sunshine’ in this boring reporting was that the Municipality of Athens and a few other cities used noiseless fireworks in their celebrations to welcome the New Year.

On the political landscape it’s worth noting the sudden death of former Prime Minister and PASOK leader Costas Simitis. He passed away in his sleep at the age of 88 on January 5.

Simitis has been a controversial Premier, with supporters praising the “reformer” as the Best PM ever walked in Greece’s soil and his critics recalling that he pushed the country into the euro-zone with “false data”, the overspending for the Olympic Games of 2004, the flop of the Stock Exchange in the last 1990’s where average Greeks lost their savings, and that his cabinet ministers made kickbacks a normal practice while he declared he had no idea, both in his first and second term.

But we have to acknowledge his smart strategic move to have Cyprus joining the European Union.

Costas Simitis is buried today with honors of an “acting Prime Minister.”

Anyway, to tell you the truth what woke me up and revived my interest in news again is the horrifying press conference of US president-elect Donald Trump and his threats to Canada, Greenland, Panama Channel and his ambitions to modify the world map as soon as possible.

Trump’s announcements came just hours after billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to torpedo the government of UK and clearly and repeatedly supports the rise of far-right parties in Germany, Norway and other European countries.

Progressive democrats across the world are highly concerned about the aggressive policies of the duet Trump/Musk that will assume office on January 21.

PS Thank Goodness, Greece did not become the “Denmark of the South” as ex PM Giorgos Papandreou had heralded in 2011, otherwise we should have started to worry about the fate of the island of Crete or something…

Having written 470 words, I must admit I may get inspired to write more later today or tomorrow?