I don't know where else to put this, so I'll just put it here.
London is turning into a miniature police state in preparation for the Olympics, and it is proper messing with my head. There are so many police around, not to mention the soldiers, transport police armed with machine guns, boats patrolling the river . . . now there are news reports they're going to put surface-to-air missiles all throughout my neighbourhood. And there are still two months before the Olympics start!!

None of this is making it easy to control my paranoia. Maybe I need to overcome my curmudgeonliness and buy some Olympics memorabilia - like maybe a rubber bracelet - so I can always be reminded of why everyone is armed to the teeth.