Gloom Rising

The Gloom rises all around me. Riots in France. A family health crisis, everywhere is full of chaos. I try to be the guy that keeps himself in order. No one notices that I'm there. It was so windy today and a bit cold. 

keep your head straight, keep your chin up. Don't over think things. What else is there to do. 

The place to go

I was thinking about how one could build an office and man-cave under a greenhouse if they had their own garden. No one would notice it is there because it would look like a box table sticking up from inside the greenhouse, they wouldn't see that half of it is sunken below the ground like a partial basement. 

The office could be a tiny box room partitioned on one side of the man-cave and it would be the place I sit quietly and get everything done. At the back of the man cave there would be a kind of bar but it would be a place I keep soft drinks and snacks. There would be a fridge with a clear door so you can see what is in there. There would also be a small heater, the heat would gather in the ceiling and heat up the greenhouse above so the tomato vines would survive the winter. The heat would be used twice, it would heat up the man-cave and seep out into the greenhouse above. 

If possible there would be four recliners in there with a projector that is hooked up to games consoles and a smart TV player. The bar at the back would have the projector and some stools that can swivel around. Up to 8 people could be in there watching a movie on the projector. 

Sunken Office Man-cave

I was thinking if you had your own garden, you could have an office and man-cave in the back yard partially sunken in the ground inside a greenhouse. 

You would dig a square trench that is 1 meter deep and add a wall that is 1 meter above ground and a wooden roof above it. The trench plus the wall adds up to just under 2 meters if you take into account the floor and roof thickness. Above that would be clear plastic panels so you would have a box within a clear box, the inner box would be a man-cave with a projector and recliners and a small partition for a tiny box office. The ceiling of the man-cave would have pot boxes on it to grow tomatoes. It would look more like a table than top portion of a room. 

I was looking at the raspberry pi zero version 2 and noticed it had a 64 bit processor and only half a gig of ram; I laughed because we switched to 64 processors so we could run more than 4 gigabytes of ram. I guess the 64 bit processor is for software compatibility so you can run the same OS system as the more advanced versions of raspberry pi. It is not bad for something that is roughly  £10 in value. You can have full working pc for a tenner. The thing is about the size of a credit card. It could be the  computer I use in the sunken office. 

My imagination never rests. 

Pope Cancer and French Riots

I learnt the other day that the pope had surgery on his left lung to remove some growths. We now know that he had cancer on his left lung, they have caught it early and we don't know yet it it is benign or the type that spreads. Shortly after his surgery he returned to his duties and took part on the Sunday mass shortly after that. He's a brave soul. 

While the Pope was recovering from his lung surgery, there was a riot in France. They caused destruction to several major landmarks. I felt like the far left were hijacking a genuine protest because they hate their country too much. There was a genuine protest for people that want something done about the increased cost of living. 

Middle of October

It is the middle of October, there is a smear on men once again because of a high profile court case involving suspected rape. Then I learnt of missiles flying all over the place. Lots of deaths everywhere. Houthis shooting a Saudi airports, suicide drone in East Europe. Hostile times. 

A man called William Chapman struggled with mental illness for a long time and finally got himself killed by a tiger in the north of England; it is sad because he must have been living in his own hell to finally do that. I feel pity for his family, they must be going through. It is almost as if Alti the tiger was granting dark sad wish. 

I try to bring my thoughts to life so people can see what many ordinary men are actually thinking about. I think  about things and computer games. Trains and train stations that only exist in my head. Lots of things that may never exist in the physical world. 

Inverted Guided Articulated Hovercraft

A famous celebrity has been taken to court and charged with suspected rape. I thought I should bring a common thought in my head to life to give ladies insight into truth, to show them what some men are really thinking about. 

I day dreamed about an inverted guided conjoined articulated hovercraft; you can call it a train I guess. 

It hangs from flanges attached to the ceiling. Jets of air flow onto the flanges to make it float like a hockey puck on a air hockey table. The train has two floors so passengers can go upstairs if they're in good shape and want to avoid crowding below. I could have day dreamed about a magnetic levitation train but I don't like how very long arrays of strong electric magnets along the whole track. 

The air jets tilt slightly to make the train move forward. There is also wheels inside the drive unit incase there is a power cut or engine failure. 

The beauty of the train like vehicle would be that there is no wheels grinding on rails. The track doesn't get worn down by metal wheels. 

Tiger Death

I learnt recently that a man called William Chapman climbed into a tiger enclosure in Yorkshire and was killed by one of the Tigers. I feel pity for him and his family. It is mystery why he went in there. Everyone wants to know why he did it but the witness himself is not with us so we may never know. 

While this happened, I learnt the Houthis had launched  missiles at an airport in Saudi Arabia. I don't understand what they're trying to do. 

I also learnt to that people are using AI to launch cyber attacks on companies. What a world we live in, a world where new problems exist every year. 

I distract myself with daydreams of machines that don't exist, I was thinking about and inverted articulated guided conjoined Hovercraft, you can call it a train I guess. It hangs from above and hovers on a pocket of air. Magnetic induction trains are better but they're expensive and the whole rail road needs to be lined with powerful computer controlled magnets.