Here's another advert spotted in the subway. The last one of these was remarkable just because of its sheer absurdity, but this one gives completely the wrong message to me.

The caption off to the side, which I couldn't get in the picture for fear of falling on to the subway line, happily declares "Good thing he has health insurance". So rather than being an encouragement to get health insurance so you don't end up paying more out of your taxes (which, while I'm on the subject, is a pretty stupid idea)... it says that it's a good thing because if you knock down one of those annoying cyclists with your giant monstrosity from Bloody Enormous Motors Ltd. with enough force to dent your number plate and front bumper, at least he can pay for the repairs to the remains of his knees and bicycle!

We've almost abandoned office now. The minute we managed to get someone to agree to buy our furniture in preparation for moving out on May the 16th, the building we work in decided to do something about the lifts, and sent all the office managers an email about how fantastic they were going to be. However, I came in from one of my 11 possible remaining visits to the sushi place across the road to find that they'd missed the point by several hundred thousand miles.

Rather than operating any more quickly, or having any of the grinding noises or worrying bouncing removed, the big change is that they have wood panelling on the sides. The change is comical - they've only stuck these bits of decorated plywood on to three of the walls, and left the scratched doors and intermittently working button panels completely intact (in the same state that they look like they've been since the Cold War). In fact, the only effect of this is to make the lifts slightly smaller - and also slightly heavier, so if the cable can't keep up this might just be enough to finish them off for good.

This illustrates quite a large reason why we're moving out. I don't think anyone here's going to survive for much longer.