Yeah. I Don't Know How Anyone's Supposed To Get Anything Done.

https://news.sky.com/story/what-impact-is-the-blackout-in-spain-and-portugal-having-and-how-long-will-it-last-13357656

Now the insistence is that everyone's got to down tools for four days in every seven!

Normally I can use the time to do a bit of research and quietly plan out what I'm going to write. Not this weekend though. This weekend every time I've turned on a TV or looked at a computer there's been some ridiculous yappy noise coming out of it.

I'd down tools. Except that's hardly the way to get things done.

Although I don't think there's much mystery to the perspectives of the likes of Ben Stiller, Sebastian Stan, Sean Penn and George Clooney on attempts to eject the Freder class from the cockpit.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/1147757260/bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazil-congress-lula

Of course Pinochet used to disappear opponents by chucking them out of helicopters mid-flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K0N7nnLfFY&pp (High Flying, Adored, 2006, Audio, Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals).

And was considered one of the good Latin American Dictators. He was a Fascist Dictator, rather than a Communist Dictator.

A blessing from the (Catholic) Patron Saint of mariners/sailors, btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Z0Aq8VrN0&pp (St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers, Video, Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers).