the greatest show on earth..

Well not many of us wanted the Olympics here, it was an obscene
waste of money and was just for London and the great and the good,
but feckin' hell, wasn't it brilliant?
Apart from a few mates on STB, no-one knows that some of my
work was centre stage in the "greatest show on earth,"  (I made the
 inflatables for Voldemort, he's the 70' evil guy in a black hooded
 cloak and the fat ugly Queen of hearts in a bed) Have to say I wasn't
impressed with what I made but then I never am, however now it's
it's all over and, to know that I was part of such a huge event well,
it's not a bad feeling.... did anybody get a ticket?

.. just one more ...

Parkinson's law ...

So...Not to be confused with Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson's law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as part of the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955:[1][2] Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It was later reprinted together with other essays in the book Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London, John Murray, 1958). He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service. The current form of the law is not that which Parkinson refers to by that name in the article. Rather, he assigns to the term a mathematical equation describing the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time. Much of the essay is dedicated to a summary of purportedly scientific observations supporting his law, such as the increase in the number of employees at the Colonial Office while Great Britain's overseas empire declined (indeed, he shows that the Colonial Office had its greatest number of staff at the point when it was folded into the Foreign Office because of a lack of colonies to administer). He explains this growth by two forces: (1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and (2) "Officials make work for each other." He notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5-7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done". In 1986, Alessandro Natta complained about the swelling bureaucracy in Italy. Mikhail Gorbachev responded that "Parkinson's Law works everywhere".[3]

Me? I have no work right now, so how much time have I got?
Who cares, here's the timeless, ageless, magical Cyndi....