work to do today

The car started without the slightest problem after it's four or five weeks resting in place. And the radio starts at once too.

Now it is back to the routine as it had been.

Follow the streets through the town, turn the lights on for the tunnel.

There is so little traffic, it is strange.

The motorways are deserted, but for occasional fast cars passing. Just follow a flatbed on it's path down the Autobahn, it is going faster than it should too.

The parking space is deserted, there is nobody there.

Park under the tree, just exactly like weeks ago.

Check in to the building with the small chip on the keyring, and say good morning to a colleague who also has work to do today.

And the pendulum is swinging, still in perfect time, a magnetic jolt compensating the any resistance every time the bob passes the centre of the circular surface below.

The office is the same as it had been left earlier, there is no change.

Start the machinery, the computer,

There is no change, but for the fact that the building is deserted.

There are so few people at work.