An interesting week

I am reminded of the curse "May you live in interesting times" and decided to Google it.  After all, a chap needs to maintain his education in these interesting times.  Its supposed Chinese origins seem to be a bit of an urban myth from the "Confucius say" camp, and its real source may be much more Western. 
It has some sister phrases of "May you come to the attention of the authorities" and "May you find what you are looking for".  I guess it is all in the telling. If you can inflect a slight psycho lilt as you utter them then maybe they can work.

"May you come to the attention of the authorities" seems apposite in these current interesting times, where Starfleet is once again looking for volunteers to step in to the air-lock and attend to matters on another craft, and maybe the second one is both curse and advice in such troubling times.

Now, a chap must refrain from hysteria at all times since it can unsettle the staff, but there does seem to be a grain of truth in these three phrases.  Maybe I have a future as a horoscope writer if I can find meaning in the meaningless.  But then us Librans are often sceptical but open to new ideas.

Anyhow, enough of the froth, show us some substance. 

We have survived the roof fire and all traces of said fire are now buried in the skip under the remains of the roof gravel (the balance of which was used to bury the new soil and water pipes which is, apparently, needed to give the pipe space to move).  Indeed, the building inspector visited to inspect the drains and was none the wiser that there had been any fire damage, assuming the beams had been replaced due to subsidence as part of the process of inserting the final two steels, which was achieved by cutting away the beams so the steels could be lowered in from above.  His assumption being the cut ends had sagged and were thus replaced.  Phew.
Work is work, and is definitely living in interesting times.  We are slowly getting more troopers and as they come up to speed, we should start to see the benefits.  The only cloud on a chap's horizon are the number of internal and transformation projects looming, all of which require assistance from my team, resource that I simply cannot spare at the moment without breaking something.  Either more troopers will arrive, or big bosses will need to make priority calls on what gets dropped, which then tips us back in to "interesting times" territory. 

So why, you may be asking (and if you are not, then you have definitely not been paying attention), are troopers being asked to volunteer for other duties if we are suffering so for lack of troopers.  Damned if I know, and the stars are telling me nothing, however if a dark stranger offers me millions of pounds to help free funds from an African country, apparently a chap is advised to politely decline.