And Breathe.

Over the weekend my father has been down to Wales for a family christening. Due to my track record with things like weddings we've been trying to keep this low key. However my father couldn't avoid parading through town on Friday (24/4/15) dragging a suspicious looking suitcase.

Perhaps by coincidence or perhaps by design this overlapped with a precursor meeting intended to negotiate the next phase of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. In the jargon this type of meeting are often referred to as "Sherpa meetings" because they're attended by the civil servants and negotiators that do the heavy lifting to carry the tourists - sorry, heads of government - to the peak of summits.

Following the Lausanne round of talks the US was very keen for issues relating to my personal safety and security to be high on the agenda. So on Thursday (23/4/15) night injuries were sustained at the Westfield High School in Indiana when a stage collapsed. Following some financial issues the property developers who've been causing me so many problems have been trying to sell up to the Westfield shopping mall chain. Therefore hearing that "The Westfield stage has collapsed" was likely to annoying them and raise the tension.

Although I've not been following it Indiana also recently passed laws allowing for discrimination against gay people. The fact they tried to drum up support for the measure by declaring a local HIV/AIDS epidemic though makes them appear more then a little bigoted. It provides plenty to talk about though.

On Friday itself the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on which it stands in New York City had to be evacuated following the discovery of a suspicious suitcase. Ellis Island is actually designated as a national park and the Obama administration has long used national parks as a coded way to encourage people to attack me. Ellis Island is of course also synonymous with immigration into the US so a terrorism scare at an immigration centre was intended to get people talking about irregular migration across the Mediterranean being used by Islamist terrorists to attack the EU.

Finally the Statue of Liberty is famously a woman holding a torch. On Friday evening millions of Armenians - both men and women - held torchlit processions to mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. Prior to his election Obama promised to formally recognise the genocide but now appears to have changed his mind.

On Saturday (25/4/15) the US staged a confrontation/mini-riot between Black Lives Matter protesters and the police outside the Camden Yards stadium in Baltimore. I must say that I didn't see the point of this because in this era of smartphones everywhere along with the large contingent of traditional media there to cover both the protest and the baseball game rather then sparking a worrying rumour the first most people heard about this was by watching footage of the confrontation which very clearly wasn't taking place at my house.

For their part on Friday evening the UK discovered the dismembered body of a woman in a flat in an entirely different part of South Wales. Although discussions about dismembered corpses are always a little unsettling I think this was mainly a device to allow the UK to announce that "A large police presence has the situation under control." However that could also be interpreted as the far more sensible Welsh police giving a hint to the London police. Containment after all is still proving hard work.

Anyway my father returned this afternoon, the christening went well and I actually kind of enjoyed not having to speak to another human being for the best part of four days.

19:00 on 27/4/15 (UK date).