Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Influencers TOO Stupid for Words

Influencers TOO Stupid for Words

I was going through the Press, and I’m fed up to read about Influencers

Take this first sentence. What is Press?

Where you press your clothes?

Like an ironing machine.

Or the Newspapers, because of Printing Press.

Which spread Knowledge, because Books were mass produced.

And is mass a Mass, as in a Holy Service.

Or a kind of Weight, but let Physics people explain that

Now, I’m fed Up

Does that mean a very fat bastard, who ate all the pies?

Or does it mean I’ve had enough, so I’m fed up.

Like a mark inside my belly, an internal Plimsoll line

If I go over the line, I’ll fall over maybe?

Or does it mean, I’ve had enough BS from ignorant people

Talking about stuff they could not be bothered to do Research about

Quora , or Donald Trump’s mouth do not speak the Gospel Truth.

And that does not mean they are Preachers.

Though Social Justice does descend from Preachers.

Go back to the Marches and Bus Rides, for examples

And what is an Influencer?

Your mum, or the Virgin Mary who asked for more wine indirectly

So Jesus performed his first miracle

Do as HE says, she said

And the rest is History.

SO PLEASE IGNORANT INFLUENCERS

Read a book, do some research, and realise

Things aren’t what they appear.

Linguistics Matter, or are you just in it for the MONEY maybe

Michael Casey the Fat Silver Haired Writer in Shades from Birmingham. ENGLAND

And speak clearly,or Snoop Dog might start commenting in the most direct way

As only Snoop can, TRUMP man TRUMP man, Just TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP you TRUMP

which should be clear enough in Any Language

and YES Trump is the Worst Word in Any Language of the World

Or maybe I’m just an ignorant fat man from Birmingham England

Trying to use TRUMP as the newest word to cause OFFENCE

as TRUMP really is the record breaker for that

Man was not born in chains, so avoid TRUMPING TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

I am a SOB after all, a real SOB

Son of a Blacksmith, from County Kerry EIRE

Tororo my Ninja Cat

Published by michaelgcasey

I've updated this 18th March 2022 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 34years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 54 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 54 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 3700 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 90 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 100 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 3 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. 21 Door Keys, key to the door 21 on Bingo, hence title, 53,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm 

BIG PEAK IN USA

BIG PEAK IN USA

was it CIA reading me, or FSB on holiday

or Fox News making it all up

anything for MONEY

or some bored hotel worker

looking for porn and finding me instead

Quick Stories, is NOT about any hanky panky

its short stories that can be read in NO Time

so a guard or a worker on a short break 

can relax and read one

so anyway thanks to all of you

I continue to send short messages

to RUSSIA in the vain Hope I can corrupt

as in turn to back to HOPE and STOP

Putin's EVIL

I'm using Icons, because an Icon has Power

and I also send a few stories

To remind Russians what Family used to Mean

Before Putin corrupted that

So I'm using the Rosary as a Weapon

and Padre Pio himself said it was the best one

Him and his OPO. Saint Michael

So everybody swamp Moscow with

Holy Pictures and let Iconography

Do the Talking

May is the Month to sweep Putin away

His best bet is to catch a plane to the Hague

As for Russian I repeat

200,000 Russian boys dead

The Navy refused to join in 

and swim in the sea of blood

a Trillion USD wasted on WAR

Putin could have made every 

Russian Family Millionaires

Instead his Vanity Project

in Ukraine

has destroyed Russia

The Jigsaw is Broken

It cannot be put back together

and PUTIN is to blame





Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Exam Guidance Summer 2023

Exam Guidance Summer 2023 (c)

By Michael Casey

Well the big exams are here for my big daughter, who looks the image of me, when I was a kid.

Not now, luckily, now bushy eyebrows like a werewolf, and a mane of silver hair.

She did tell me to go to the barbers incidentally.

So what advice do I have for her, and any of yours doing Finals?

Well my dad said to me, "Michael, I have no education, do what you like, but do your best."

My dad was a clever man who went to work at 14, back in 1930s Ireland everybody did.

So what do I say to my 2 daughters.

I say take it steady, take it easy.

The questions should not make you afraid, you revise and you answer what comes up.

My BioChem daughter showed me a chart, a start chart, a horoscope almost to my eyes.

It was about different Cancers

So I just looked at it over the internet and said

A horoscope can be an indicator, or a pointer, but it's not all in the stars

Unlike the comedy I wrote , It's all in the Stars, from 25 years ago, but I digress

So the cancer will not come if you mix this with that, or the length of exposure

A  virgo and an aquarius won't end in something fishy

Using mixed metaphors of how it seems to me

A totally uneducated in Science person

But if you think of things from a Writer's perspective 

Then I think it can give you insight into what you are doing

The answer will come out when the Paper is marked

And yes the only paper of mine marked, is toilet paper

Hopefully I hope my daughter can use some of what I say

Which reminds me in Czech in 1998 you have to pay for toilet paper

and a lady only gives a few sheets, and you are supposed to tip her

My only tip would be, my pile is radioactive in cubicle three

so fetch the Jeyes Fluid, and ventilate

Back to exams, have a supply of chocolate, or nuts or other treats ready

So as you study, you reward yourself

And go to bed and get enough fresh air

My girls study 10 hours a day, I have to hunt them to bed

But check in with your daughters and sons, if you have sons

Talk to your kids, some parents don't

Dad time is good,  if not for them exactly, but it distracts them

So they don't brain freeze

Tell them don't be afraid what may or may not come up

Hopefully, they have covered everything

and with daughters COVER EVERYTHING

But back to Studying

What will be, will be, so just think of it as another day at the office

Or wiping Granny's behind and wheeling her into the garden

Your kids have done all the studying

So now the Final exam even if it's 4 hours of BioChem

It's just a Banquet

READ THE QUESTION

then pick it apart, and stack up the evidence on your plate

ON you essay written on screen, or on paper

If you've ever worked in a hotel, and I did 3 years worth

Every day is a box of chocolate

So an exam is just the same, just pick your teeth as you go along

And PAUSE to think

Then you'll wipe the table clean

You have sampled and explained everything

Nothing to fear, the Rosary has been in Top Gear

while you do the paper, you dad and All Saints

have been there beside you, cheering you along

Besides, Padre Pio himself has been roped in

To mark all the questions for you

So Relax, just do it, and you won't go far wrong

And as for the Future, amazing happens

when you don't expect it

Smile, now brush those teeth

And do go to the toilet

after 4 hours doing a Paper

Explosions can happen, so bring your own Roll

and as you sit and pooh

Just think Dad, was right

If only this was in a room with a View

and not just a 4 hour Pooh on Matching Paper

SMILE



Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Exam Guidance Summer 2023

Exam Guidance Summer 2023 (c)

By Michael Casey

Well the big exams are here for my big daughter, who looks the image of me, when I was a kid.

Not now, luckily, now bushy eyebrows like a werewolf, and a mane of silver hair.

She did tell me to go to the barbers incidentally.

So what advice do I have for her, and any of yours doing Finals?

Well my dad said to me, "Michael, I have no education, do what you like, but do your best."

My dad was a clever man who went to work at 14, back in 1930s Ireland everybody did.

So what do I say to my 2 daughters.

I say take it steady, take it easy.

The questions should not make you afraid, you revise and you answer what comes up.

My BioChem daughter showed me a chart, a start chart, a horoscope almost to my eyes.

It was about different Cancers

So I just looked at it over the internet and said

A horoscope can be an indicator, or a pointer, but it's not all in the stars

Unlike the comedy I wrote , It's all in the Stars, from 25 years ago, but I digress

So the cancer will not come if you mix this with that, or the length of exposure

A  virgo and an aquarius won't end in something fishy

Using mixed metaphors of how it seems to me

A totally uneducated in Science person

But if you think of things from a Writer's perspective 

Then I think it can give you insight into what you are doing

The answer will come out when the Paper is marked

And yes the only paper of mine marked, is toilet paper

Hopefully I hope my daughter can use some of what I say

Which reminds me in Czech in 1998 you have to pay for toilet paper

and a lady only gives a few sheets, and you are supposed to tip her

My only tip would be, my pile is radioactive in cubicle three

so fetch the Jeyes Fluid, and ventilate

Back to exams, have a supply of chocolate, or nuts or other treats ready

So as you study, you reward yourself

And go to bed and get enough fresh air

My girls study 10 hours a day, I have to hunt them to bed

But check in with your daughters and sons, if you have sons

Talk to your kids, some parents don't

Dad time is good,  if not for them exactly, but it distracts them

So they don't brain freeze

Tell them don't be afraid what may or may not come up

Hopefully, they have covered everything

and with daughters COVER EVERYTHING

But back to Studying

What will be, will be, so just think of it as another day at the office

Or wiping Granny's behind and wheeling her into the garden

Your kids have done all the studying

So now the Final exam even if it's 4 hours of BioChem

It's just a Banquet

READ THE QUESTION

then pick it apart, and stack up the evidence on your plate

ON you essay written on screen, or on paper

If you've ever worked in a hotel, and I did 3 years worth

Every day is a box of chocolate

So an exam is just the same, just pick your teeth as you go along

And PAUSE to think

Then you'll wipe the table clean

You have sampled and explained everything

Nothing to fear, the Rosary has been in Top Gear

while you do the paper, you dad and All Saints

have been there beside you, cheering you along

Besides, Padre Pio himself has been roped in

To mark all the questions for you

So Relax, just do it, and you won't go far wrong

And as for the Future, amazing happens

when you don't expect it

Smile, now brush those teeth

And do go to the toilet

after 4 hours doing a Paper

Explosions can happen, so bring your own Roll

and as you sit and pooh

Just think Dad, was right

If only this was in a room with a View

and not just a 4 hour Pooh on Matching Paper

SMILE






2nd May 2023


I've put this image on my Wordpress for the Month of May 2023

not because I am holy, but because Putin's madness will fail this month

but will he try to nuke us all on the way out?

That's why all faiths need to pray


https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com/

Translations Galore over there in maybe 40 languages

or if you want my Original English

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

to give pennies to the Writer, me


My small daughter had her online French exam a few minutes ago

she has to go back to University to finish her exams

Social Anthropology is her main subject by the way

Meanwhile my big daughter is doing her Finals this month

BioChemistry

the only biochem I do is down the toilet

What more news

The Russians were having a big read of me, so maybe I can influence somebody

To Remove PUTIN

I send a daily email to Moscow and their Embassy here

reminding them what LOVE is

maybe I can influence enough people

So they take to the streets and remove PUTIN

200,000 Russian boys DEAD

Russian navy asked to join

To swim in a sea of blood in Ukraine

$1,000,000,000,000 USD WASTED

a Trillion DOLLARS WASTED

and for what?

How many hospitals, schools, and fixed roads, and raised Pensions etc

How much real good could have been done in RUSSIA

Instead of a SEA of BLOOD and a Generation of Russians LOST

all for Putin's Vanity in Ukraine

So Just STOP Putin

Insanity has to be STOPPED not Paraded in Red Square

and by the way that's been cancelled

just cancel Putin

and finally

I write comedy/humour for years and years since 1987

BUT I want to resume it

Instead of writing about death

But Tinnitus and Chronic pain prevent this

as does sadness which breaks mine and every heart

I want to return to writing happy things again

A year of Putin darkness is enough

So let's hope he just disappears

in a flash, like an exploding FART

then we can clear the AIRwaves of him







Monday, 1 May 2023

May is the Month of Mary, so all faiths join in, and just say NO to Putin's Evil

May is Month of Mary so all faiths join in and just say NO to Putin’s Evil

Let There Be Light ©

By Michael Casey

Let my tears be my words

Let the candle light be my eyes

Let the flowers in bloom be my lips

Let their scent be my blood

Let the wind be my breath

Let clouds be my mood

Let children’s laughter be my hope

Let widows’ sighs be my conscience

Let a stranger’s prayers be my delight

Let the bees be my wisdom

Let the trees be my strength

Let my patience reach to the stars

Let me be always remembered in your prayers

Published by michaelgcasey

I've updated this 18th March 2022 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 34years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 54 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 54 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 3700 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 90 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 100 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 3 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. 21 Door Keys, key to the door 21 on Bingo, hence title, 53,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm 

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