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A Growing Lifetime of Not Understanding

The older I get, the less I seem to understand, but I don't think its just me!
I rarely visit the UK, but the last time I did I confronted one of those new-fangled self-service tills in a shop for the first time. It confused the hell out of me! I had to get my niece to show me what to do. This was particularly embarrassing because I'm supposed to be a techie guy - Computer Steve - the dude who has been bothering microchips since the early seventies. The odd thing is that while this is factually correct, the world has progressed while my understanding of it has become ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, February 16, 2020 2:53:00 PM Categories: Emoji Psychology Tech Thinking
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Why I came to Spain

What am I doing here - well people do ask sometimes!
Python sketch comes to mind - Shopkeeper "Why are you here?" Customer "Why are any of us here, its all so meaningless really..." This might go back a bit further than you imagined. Europe was a mystery to me that revealed itself slowly over many years. I cherished home a little too much as a kid. I grew up in a working class cottage with dad the janitor, mum the cleaner, grandad the ex-sailor/bricklayer and sister the audio-typist. I didn't know anyone 'foreign' or... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:30:00 PM Categories: Brexit Spain
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Spanish Bureaucracy

Often cited as the least favorite thing about life as an ex-pat, bureaucracy is the bête noire of living in Spain
A viral video appeared on social media video a while back that took a humorous look at the nature of administration in Spanish offices. All the issues in the video, the plethora of documents, the need for copies, the importance and finality of the rubber stamp, will be familiar to those of us who live here and bear the scars of many battles in the offices of local and central government, utilities and even many commercial organisations such as car-hire companies (which... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, February 2, 2020 5:18:00 PM Categories: Spain
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