Another Day

In spite of the ridiculously early wake-up and the disturbingly late finish that tend to make Tuesdays weekly endurance races, today was a much less gloomy day.
I suppose this was mostly due to the two hours of kids classes just outside Prague.

Although the lengthy metro trip down there and back is nothing to look forward to, those 90 minutes in the company of grade-schoolers never fail to help one put things into perspective. Especially when one gets sweets on coming in.

With the adults, I've been fruitlessly trying to induce them to telling me their New Year's resolutions. Silly me; I should've known Czechs are much too realistic - not to say cynical :)- to do anything of the sort. Their foolproof explanation tends to be: "We wouldn't fulfill them anyway".

What they do believe in is the fulfillment following proverb: "What you do on New Year's Day, you'll do all year." Can't help but love the characteristically fatalistic worldview, bordering on Stoicism, that simmers through here once again.

Some more news considers a new favourite song of mine, courtesy of the 'Black Keys', whom I discovered while searching for the artist of the theme song for the HBO sitcom 'Hung', to which I was prompted by "the old man".

Here's a link to it. I cannot, however, be held responsible by the antics of the guy in the video, the explanation to which I can only wonder about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD64ruAb8vs