he upcoming matches for ManCity are a mixed bag as very soon there will be a hard match against Napoli (is KDB still there?), then an away game against Arsenal 5 days later.

We didn’t go to the ManCity stadium as we typically do on Thursdays. Instead, as planned for days already, Rianne and I went to City Council to study the state of affairs.

I will have a lot more articles than I originally planned.

I now have a notebook full of notes. I wrote many things today. It’s for articles about local authorities failing to provide very basic services. I am told by people in other countries that it’s the same there. One told me “hold their feet to the fire” and another (in the US) urged me to contact local newspapers to increase pressure. From pressure comes change/reform.

One also joked (partly): “I presume that some surrogate to service is available for those who are active customers of hostile foreign entities?”

Well, I assume very rich people don’t need to go through the same channels/routes, but I don’t know enough about this to report on it.

o me it is genuinely hard to understand why people use experimental injections (and risky needles) in an effort to lose weight. There are natural and beneficial ways to lose weight (even gain muscle mass in the process). They don’t cost much, either.

2 months ago somebody wrote: “That was my first reaction when I received an email letting me know that my attempt to buy Mounjaro from MedExpress had been approved – despite entering false details to meet their weight criteria.”

They only try to sell more and more of the stuff (Mounjaro), irrespective of health.

This is an industry. It’s a money-making thing, not a health thing.

There are known negative interactions with other drugs, it is widely known that the weight may come back when the drug is no longer taken, and there are various very serious side effects, even blindness (allegedly).

Obesity is not an illness and there are ways to tackle excess fat which don’t involve pills, injections etc.

he coming “Birthday” or “Anniversary” of Techrights is only days away and I didn’t prepare anything special because the team at Techrights still believes that it’s better to spend a year building as a form of celebration.

Birthdays are typically a “kids’ thing” – a special day for a child to feel special or the “centre of attention”.

Birthdays are more important at numbers like 10 or 20…

Techrights is turning 20. Birthday? No.

oday we are meant to go to the park, as usual, but various chores might make this a bit challenging, plus the fact that it gets rather dark around 4PM and almost fully dark at around 5PM.

I am starting to think we might visit the park to feed the birds only on Sundays.

Winters suck. They are worse when one lives near the poles.

I know people to whom winter doesn’t mean short days. It means no days. At all. For several weeks if not months.

oday is the day. The weather is fairly mild and I plan to go investigate why Manchester City Council is unable to provide the services taxpayers are paying for.

In this case, voting is not the solution. The Council is an organ not tied to any political party.

If necessary, I’ll raise the issue further up the chain.

he match went (in the second half) as well as the first, but I can’t get past the fact fans now dress up as bananas, at least in this away match.

Here are the highlights in two minutes. Some stunning saves by Donnarumma, but also serious mistakes again.

he local Arndale Centre has changed a lot in recent decades. I remember how it was several decades back and how it made the city (or City Centre) as a whole look or feel. I purchased clothes and CDs, I bought some fresh foods there, but it was still considered a poor people’s “mall” or shopping centre.

Manchester has come a long way since then, not just because of the skyscrapers.

Today I follow some football (ManCity) and tomorrow I’ll go to the City (Town) to study why the City Council is so incompetent. I’ll bring Rianne and a notebook with me. I’ll report the outcomes here.

I love Manchester, I really do, so when something doesn’t work right I will try to fix it.

he term “own goal” has been used here a lot in recent years. We got told that people who were trying to censor us had scored giant own goals.

That prediction or explanation has aged well.

Today, in the away Champions League match, an own goal was scored. It’s ManCity’s first shot on target and it wasn’t even a shot by a ManCity player.

Let’s see if ManCity can hang on like this for another half.

Lately there have been some struggles at ManCity after a splendid start.

he INTC (Intel) shares fell from $140 (about 4 months ago) to just $57 today.

Intel is worthless junk and relying on the slop bubble would further worsen its market position in the long run.

Intel has nothing special to offer anymore.

When I grew up in the 90s INTC was growing; the sky was the limit.

lmost a year ago, after a trial, I said that when I married Rianne I promised to protect her, as any good husband should and would.

When Rianne was abused online it was very important for me to step in and do the right thing. I believe that I have and I still have no regrets. Principles matter and the cost of them doesn’t matter. It had to be done.

There’s further work left to be done – holding accountable the culprits.

People out there often choose what’s easy and convenient, not what’s moral.

If more people did the moral thing, evil people would perish quickly (or faster) and the world would be a better place for everybody.