I am Alan Booth, an ordinary British Man . I'm not one of the famous people that have the same name as me, just an ordinary guy. Welcome to my main blog, a true reliable record of history from the perspective of an ordinary man, a place filled with my thoughts; perhaps my thoughts will persist longer on here than in my brain itself. My twitter I.D. is @alspresso.
The year 2016 has come to an end and it is now 2017. I leave the year saying thank you and with hope that my dreams will come true. I have learnt many things in 2016 and I am a lucky man.
My home was never robed. I still have my Job. I got married. My health seems OK. I have many good memories. My car didn't break down throughout the year. I wish everyone a happy new year. I think that 2017 is going to be a great year.
Today I started getting into a moody state. It started when I saw rich lobbyists trying to stop Brexit again. We were promised by the government that they would follow our vote. All I can say is that if the house of lords vote to stop article 50 then perhaps they should vote to remove the house of lords because they seem to be of no use to anyone. Then I got a headache just above my eyebrow again. Emotions can make your body feel sick I guess.
Today I learned that a very good way to clean glass is to use a newspaper because it smears less.
I am grateful that I can change and perhaps try to read news articles that don't make me feel angry and give me a headache. Interesting discoveries are much better. Perhaps I should comment on the news articles that are positive more often.
I have given myself a challenge of making a movie. If you add all the time of all my videos together then you will find that the time is longer than a movie anyway, they go on for hours. The movie would hopefully be available on YouTube for free and be about the Earth. Well lets see what happens.
Is this a hollow goal or a challenge I do in good time? Let's see.
My predictions for 2017 are...
The cost of heating your home will be less with electricity than gas before 2018 in many countries.
Virtual reality will dominate entertainment and media.
Small flying robots will put hundreds of people out of work.
There will be many terrorist attacks. Not just radical Muslims. All sorts of angry people will surface with angry agendas.
A new type of battery will emerge that can store high power and is very light and lasts a long time. It will transform the electric car industry.
China will attack another Asian country in the pacific rim over a dispute about a small island.
A very dangerous alien civilisation will learn that we exist because we send them messages. They will have a weapon that is very small but very dangerous but it will take many decades to reach us and their message to us will be "good bye."
Here is a hopeful one...
A medicine is created that can kill all cancer cells
Well, I wrote my end of year review a bit early this year because Carrie Fisher died. I guess the last few days of the year still have history to yield. Next time I will post my review on the last day of the year. I hope that the family of Carrie Fisher are OK.
I was never a big fan of star wars but must admit that it was a big movie franchise. It is still strange how so many VIP people died this year. I'd say it was fodder for conspiracy theorists. I just think it is a fluke. One of those years when stuff just happens.
This year has been the strangest year of my life. The early winter and spring of this Year saw the deaths of many celebrities, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and David Guest just to name a few. I particularly liked David Guest, I felt he was famous because he was a likeable person.
In the same spring my Granny passed away with them. I always thought she was a star and larger than life character. I promise to use her name in one way or another. Perhaps to name one of my future children or for an orphanage I may open when I am rich.
I went to Peru to visit my extended family soon after my granny died. I got so see some of peru. It is a very interesting country I must say and I am pleased that the family axcepted my as one of them.
In june I was summoned by my Government to vote in a referendum to choose our status in the EU. As a long term Eurosceptic I voted to leave, the main reason was because I saw the EU trading bloc as a tax evasion scheme for multinational corporations. Knowing Eurosceptics are a minority in Britain, I didn't expect the leave vote to win. But it Did! I guess many Remain voters were too lazy to pause their playstations and walk to the polling booths as they were mostly young people.
The weeks and months that followed were very tense. Remain voters and the mainstream press aggressively mocked the leave voters and categorised them as fools, haters and bigots. At the same time the currency devalued by over 10% because of a drop in investment and racists across the country surfaced and openly attacked foreign nationals. There was huge political upheaval and David Cameron quit as leader. Theresa May took the helm and become the UK's second female prime minister. She fired half the cabinet, I'm guessing because they didn't have vision for a non EU Britain.
The middle east was on fire with conflict as it has been for all 34 years of my life and the many years of my parents lives. This time it was Syria and Iraq at war and there was also conflict in Yemen and Libya. All I can ask is will there be one year when there is no war in the middle east? I stay hopeful. The North East and north West countries blamed each other for making the conflict worse. Somehow I feel the blame goes both ways.
In the Autumn of this year my Fiance came over to be with me and we got married in the winter on the 26th of November. I never married before and I hope this is the first and last time I marry. It is a new experience for me and for her. I was convinced that I would need to take a loan from the bank to pay for my wedding but my family stepped in and helped me greatly. My uncle Kola and Aunty Bola made a very big contribution and even brought in a cocktail maker to make cocktails for the guests. My other uncle flew her from Nigeria just to be at the wedding.
Many celebrities continued to die throughout the year, Vidal Castro the iconic Cuban leader died a day before my wedding and George Michael's died on christmas day.
The English winter on both sides of the year was freakishly mild, there was hardly any snow or frost. I wonder what would happen if the giant warm under ocean river known as the gulf stream were to shift away from us. We would be in for some very cold winters if it did. It would be very nice if we could store heat from the summer and release it in the winter somehow.
The family vending machine business has doubled in size. But it was small to start with so I am hoping that it will grow very fast from now on.
I am grateful because my family are intact and in reasonable health. I am also happy that I have a chance for a better life and that I am married and with hope will have a new family of my own.
I also hope that we can kill every cancer cell and cure the disease for good. Along with aids and all other lethal diseases.
This year has been the strangest year of my life. The early winter and spring of this Year saw the deaths of many celebrities, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and David Guest just to name a few. I particularly liked David Guest, I felt he was famous because he was a likeable person.
In the same spring my Granny passed away with them. I always thought she was a star and larger than life character. I promise to use her name in one way or another. Perhaps to name one of my future children or for an orphanage I may open when I am rich.
I went to Peru to visit my extended family soon after my granny died. I got so see some of peru. It is a very interesting country I must say and I am pleased that the family axcepted my as one of them.
In june I was summoned by my Government to vote in a referendum to choose our status in the EU. As a long term Eurosceptic I voted to leave, the main reason was because I saw the EU trading bloc as a tax evasion scheme for multinational corporations. Knowing Eurosceptics are a minority in Britain, I didn't expect the leave vote to win. But it Did! I guess many Remain voters were too lazy to pause their playstations and walk to the polling booths as they were mostly young people.
The weeks and months that followed were very tense. Remain voters and the mainstream press aggressively mocked the leave voters and categorised them as fools, haters and bigots. At the same time the currency devalued by over 10% because of a drop in investment and racists across the country surfaced and openly attacked foreign nationals. There was huge political upheaval and David Cameron quit as leader. Theresa May took the helm and become the UK's second female prime minister. She fired half the cabinet, I'm guessing because they didn't have vision for a non EU Britain.
The middle east was on fire with conflict as it has been for all 34 years of my life and the many years of my parents lives. This time it was Syria and Iraq at war and there was also conflict in Yemen and Libya. All I can ask is will there be one year when there is no war in the middle east? I stay hopeful. The North East and north West countries blamed each other for making the conflict worse. Somehow I feel the blame goes both ways.
In the Autumn of this year my Fiance came over to be with me and we got married in the winter on the 26th of November. I never married before and I hope this is the first and last time I marry. It is a new experience for me and for her. I was convinced that I would need to take a loan from the bank to pay for my wedding but my family stepped in and helped me greatly. My uncle Kola and Aunty Bola made a very big contribution and even brought in a cocktail maker to make cocktails for the guests. My other uncle flew her from Nigeria just to be at the wedding.
Many celebrities continued to die throughout the year, Vidal Castro the iconic Cuban leader died a day before my wedding and George Michael's died on christmas day.
The English winter on both sides of the year was freakishly mild, there was hardly any snow or frost. I wonder what would happen if the giant warm under ocean river known as the gulf stream were to shift away from us. We would be in for some very cold winters if it did. It would be very nice if we could store heat from the summer and release it in the winter somehow.
The family vending machine business has doubled in size. But it was small to start with so I am hoping that it will grow very fast from now on.
I am grateful because my family are intact and in reasonable health. I am also happy that I have a chance for a better life and that I am married and with hope will have a new family of my own.
I also hope that we can kill every cancer cell and cure the disease for good. Along with aids and all other lethal diseases.
Today is Christmas day, the most important day of the year. The first six hours of this day I am working but the rest of the day and the following 4 days I am off. It is one of the few days of the year where I drink alcohol. I have saved some nice whiskey for when I get home. I will watch TV and be merry.
Today I will be more thankful than normal. I am thankful for life and all the good things that come with it. I am thankful that I am not afflicted with a terrible disease or illness. I am thankful for the creator for making everything. I am thankful that I am not forced by others to do violence. I am thankful for being able to read because reading books is so wonderful and there are so many wonderful books to read.
I have one wish for the year and that is to be rich, not because of greed but because I want to be free of worries and have time to do good deeds. I am not ashamed of wanting wealth because everyone wants it. There are so many things I want to do and so many things I want to accomplish and they all cost money.
If you have read this far then I am thankful to you because this is a part of history. History is not just about the big companies and people but all the people of the world and how they see the world around them and what happens in their lives.
Fibre-optic lamps are beautiful, I used small battery powered ones at my wedding. I would love to have a proper mains powered one some time. They work by distributing light through flexible glass fibres from a single light source. They fray and bend slightly creating the affect of a mushroom of floating dots.
I wonder if I can get a large one, hmmm.
The other thing that makes fibre optic lamps so special is that they often have more than one colour.
Today I am grateful for the gift of recognising beauty. When I see beautiful things I feel pleasure. When I see rainbows and snowflakes and fibre optic lamps there is something telling me they are beautiful. How wonderful it is to appreciate all the wonders.
To me it is lame for a company to play music at the work place because music to one person is noise to another. To me, most modern singing sounds like sea gulls flying over a river. Except these sea gulls belch out dirty innuendos in their lyrics. If they don't sound like sea gulls then they sound like people trying to turn into robots, repeating 3 words over and over again with a pixelated voice. Imagine having to listen to that all night long. Lame for the Brain...
One thing I know will happen is that they won't listen to me because no one listens to me. My government listens to the rich lobbyists, not me. They say I am angry and irrational but I tell you that I'm not angry, I don't want to waste my emotional energy on them and they are irrational, they dragged the UK into colossal dept despite having one of the largest economies in the world.
I wrote this blog now, how many people are reading it? Hardly anyone. I am so transparent in this world.
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year in the UK. The sun went down at around 15:30 and the little daylight that we did have was obscured by the clouds. There was very little light at all the whole day.
From this day forward until mid summer next year the days will slowly get longer than the previous day.
A few days ago there was a truck attack in Germany. A truck was driven into a crowded market place killing loads of people.
Not a good end of the year for them. I won't dwell on what happened but will say one thing. Peace.
At least something worse didn't happen. There was no dirty bomb or mass poisoning. People will do things like that if they have the means because they are convinced that destroying our civilisation is the right thing to do.
I think we shouldn't live in crowded cities. We should spread out and live in subterranean villages that are well space out.
Cities should not exist in this day and age there should be one giant suburban zone through a whole country. Is it just me that thinks this way?
Today a Russian diplomat was shot in Turkey. The guy that shot him shouted out Aleppo the name of the city that was attacked recently.
Many people here in the UK dislike Russia and see them as a very dangerous country with the ability to cause a global nuclear war. I see things differently, I see Russia as a country filled with people like me, people that want to live and learn more. People that wonder what the meaning of life is. People that are not interested in war and are without blame. To me the people of Russia are my brothers and sisters on the other side of the continent and for that reason I have no hard feelings towards them.
I feel that the whole planet is filled with blameless people that have no harmful intentions. It is the people at the top that play the cards.
With hope and good planning I think the people of Earth may avoid wars. There are many things to do on this planet. We need to cure our diseases and stop being a disease to the Earth. And we need the ability to leave Earth if it becomes a hazard zone.
There are so many discoveries to make and so many things to do that I wonder where we find the time to hate at all.
There are rich people in this world that are grumpy. If their money makes them sad then they should give it to me because I won't be sad with more money.
I would stop worrying about bills, I would nurture my hobbies and would have a large house built and would adopt many children and give them a good life and education and make sure they have a good start in life.
The more money I have the happier I become because I am easy to please and I value the simple things in this world. I am even happy to have a comfy chair to sit on to read interesting books. Even things like that are wonderful to me.
It would not get to my head because I am grateful for everything I receive that is good.
Last month I got married to my darling Cinthya. The winter has arrived in full force, the last 3 days have been foggy and quite cold. I have a pain in the head just above my left eyebrow for some days now and I'm not sure why, I'll blame the weather.
I am left handed and have never worn a ring before so it took some adjusting but I am wearing my ring every day now. My thinking is different now because it is not about me, it is about us as a pair.
There are some things that will never change, this blog is my blog and it is my history. All my media creations are still mine but everything else is about us and not me and her. Our time, our recreation, our life plan and our future.
This whole year has been very strange, many celebrities have died and the Eurosceptic community had their say and won the vote to leave the EU, the year is nearly over now. What will 2017 be like? I hope it will be the best year yet.
Last night I went to work but I was still slightly sick. I thought I was OK but I felt terrible. I felt dizzy and had a headache. I was weak and could not work freely.
I carried on working and just hoped it would go away but I didn't. I feel a bit better now, I hope that work will be smooth tonight.
Sometimes I feel like I have recovered when I haven't. The most important thing in this life is good health. If you are sick and tired all the time then your quality of life is reduced.
Last week on the morning of Saturday the 26th of November I got married to Cinthya. It was
day after the former Cuban leader Castro died of old age. Getting married is a life changing event and changes the way you interact with the world. I now think of myself as us and not me. I think me and her together with everything because we are one.
There was a time when I thought I would never get married. It seemed like something that would never happen. But it has, I will celebrate my wedding anniversary one month before Christmas.
This is a public blog so I won't say anymore.
Earlier this month on remembrance day, fifa enforced their rule not to wear anything other than the sports kit during a game.
They didn't allow the players to wear poppies to show sorrow and respect for dead and injured soldiers around the world. The players ignored the rule and are facing disciplinary action. Soldiers around the world are used and abused for the sake of government agenda. They are sent to war and blown up or mentally tortured by the reality of war. Fifa have made a big mistake, very big.
I have now boycotted all products that are connected to fifa. I won't buy the fifa 2017 football game or fifa 2018 that will come out later in the year or any clothing associated with them. I hope others will do the same.
I am grateful for peace in my community and hope that the rules of soldiers will change strictly to rescuers from disasters and security in case of war and little else.
Never has there been a time in my life when my phone has worked so hard as it does now. There are so many things I do on my phone nearly every day.
I write this blog
Listen to radio via internet
I write e books
Record audio casts
Watch TV
Call people
Check where I am
Read e books
Control my tv smart box (roku)
Listen to music
Learn Spanish
Get quick answers
Read wikipedia
And much more.
My phone works very hard indeed. I have learned so many things from my phone and create so many things on my phone. In star trek it is called Tri-quarter and my phone works like one. My phone is more powerful than my first computer, my first computer had a dual core processor with 3.1 gigahertz processing power. My phone has more than that and more memory and more graphics. Yet I forget I am holding a computer in my hand.
Today I am grateful for this opportunity to have a powerful computer on the palm of my hand.
The UK government recently opted to upgrade their Nuclear deterrent. I don't know if that is good or bad. What I do know is that there is a bigger threat to everyone. The threat is deep space.
Large fast moving objects are moving through space. When one of them strikes the Earth it could destroy the food chain and cause the death of millions of people. It is also possible that mankind could become extinct.
I don't understand why we are prepared to shoot missiles at other countries and not to stop Asteroids and Comets from colliding with earth. Is the Deep space object collision not inevitable?
Today I am grateful that the disaster has not happened and I am also pleased that world war 3 has not started and may never start if we are wise.
Today I am grateful for the Earth because without it we're nothing. It is a space ship that flies in a circle around the sun and keeps us alive.
When I look at the Earth I see it differently, to me Antarctica and Australia are at the top of the Earth and Europe, North America and Russia are at the bottom. I live in England but I still see it that way, Why? Because the South is well defined, Antarctica is a land mass directly on the top and is surrounded by an unbroken expanse of ocean. This would make it the top of the planet. And the Earth emits magnetic particles from the south pole and they land on the North pole. It is like a Geyser spraying energy but the Geyser is on the other side. It is not spraying from the North but from the south.
I feel like all the maps in the world are upside down. In my version if the world I am living on the bottom portion of the planet. Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica are on the top of the planet. And there is one thing to remember, there is no up or down in space.
Today I am grateful for free news because I learn about the world around me at no cost.
Today Theresa May will take the helm in the uk and become the second female Prime Minister since our democracy began. A prime minister or PM is the UK title for political leader (The Queen is not a political leader). David Cameron will step down today.
I have high hopes for her and hope she keeps the uk in good shape. I don't care if she is boring or cold hearted. I just hope she can give us a smooth exit from the EU political union and lead us to prosperity.
Dear hater,
Most people that voted to leave at the referendum are not racists. We just hate the establishment and the way the EU is controlled.
We don't support what you are doing, remember that every person on this Island is an immigrant, even the English themselves came from the continent.
Let go of your hatred because it is a prison for the mind. Hatred usually comes from fear and it poisons creativity and growth. Shed all of that hate and set yourself free.
I voted to leave the EU because I saw the EU as another layer of government that I can't control and don't listen to ordinary people. I see the EU project as a bad idea that will lead to the misery of millions.
I am English but non English people are family to me. I see Polish people and Germans and Indians and French and remember that they are just like me. They are my brothers and sisters.
Today I am grateful for my mind because it creates instead of hating. It loves instead of fears. It is art and power together creating the present and until the day I die I will always be thankful.
Today I am so grateful for all the beasts in the oceans because they are amazing.
Isn't it amazing to think there are giant creatures living in the oceans. If they were extinct before we were here they would be looked on like the dinosaurs. People would wonder what they looked like if they were alive.
Today I am grateful for the end because it will bring peace of mind and a new chapter to creation.
The last 3 months have been very tough and pushed me to my own personal hell.
May the maker give me strength to get through this life.
Not just to survive but thrive.
Today I am grateful for my own determination.
My videos are here to stay, I will make many more but I am sad that very few people play them.
I hope that all the people in this world that like my videos finds them. Every person on earth is different. But there are people that are like me and like what I am doing but they haven't found me yet.
Today I am grateful for air travel. Last week I went to Peru to see my Fiance Cinthya. I had a great time and met her very kind and warm family. They treated me well and gave me loads of great tasting food.
I saw mountains and deserts and cactuses and terrain that I have never seen before. I took many pictures and admired their hospitality. They all treated me very well. I also saw the pacific ocean for the first time.
I was there for 2 weeks. And saw so many things and have so many experiences.
I hope to one day take them to the uk to show them what it is like here.
On my way back my plane was held up at the airport so I missed my connecting flight so the airline had to put me up in a hotel. That was also a nice experience. The hotel was very nice and cosy.
I took many picture from my holiday and hope to keep the memories with me till the end.
I am happy and grateful for granny because she was a very positive person in life. Just thinking about her makes me feel like I can do anything.
Granny always loved and admired business ventures because she felt that if you don't try you won't get what you want.
She taught me to be less timid because timid men have a hard life. She saw that I was a very quiet and timid person by default.
I remember that granny always taught me that the presence of God enters praise. She told me that when you praise the lord the lord inhabits your praise. She would sing a song called "this is the day that the lord has made".
Granny was a generous person that always looked out for other people and treated all people the same.
She was always very direct with people and told them off. I remember she told a doctor off once.
Although granny had a lot of pain in the past few years I think she is in a much better place now and is free of suffering.
Today I am grateful for life. A lot of people that I know of have died this spring including my Granny, David Guest, Paul Daniels, Victoria wood, David Bowie and Prince. This has inspired me to write my will.
This is my will...
When I die I want the funeral director to be dressed as a Gorilla and have all attendants to be dressed in movie themed outfits like bat man or superman. Each one differently dressed.
I want these two songs to be played..
1) who wants to live forever by Queen
And
2) I'm glad there is you by Randy Crawford.
I want all my possessions to be sold and placed together with any money I have and placed into a trust. One quarter of the trust will go to my family, One quarter will go to a cancer research charity. One quarter will pay for the funeral and go towards a party for all the people that attended my funeral and one quarter to space science and research.
I don't want preservative to be pumped into my body but for my body to be frozen until my funeral day.
I want my body to be placed into in a Hessian sack and buried in an unmarked grave in a public place like a country park and a tree to be planted just above my body. If it is winter then I want the tree to be planted in the following spring.
The tree is to be a fruit tree with it's natural roots or a redwood tree or an ash tree. If possible I would like my body to be buried in Devon in a public place under an olive tree but don't mind where it is or what the tree is.
I want this message to be read out at my funeral.
"Life is a journey and a gift" when you die your journey continues somewhere else so find strength and by happy. I Alan Booth am thankful for the life I had.
Today I am thankful for my allotment because it is a good hobby. You get organic fruit out of it.
I had my allotment for nearly 4 years I believe. If I had got my allotment now I would have managed it differently. I would have filled it with dwarf fig trees because they persist year after year and produce fruit with very little water. They get bigger every year.
I think every person should have at least one a dwarf fruit tree because they give you organic fruit for free and they reduce your carbon footprint and they don't grow very big because their roots have been modified.
Today I am grateful for the radio because it is free and I know what is happening in the world. I have tune in radio on my phone so I listen to it through my phone's internet.
Yesterday I learned that there was an explosion at Brussels airport and at a metro station in the city.
I felt angry at first but then I thought what is the point? Why be angry when it won't accomplish anything. There is no point doing that. I won't waste my energy anymore. Just hope for the best and keep my chin up and strive for better things.
I pity typical Muslims because they will be judged by some as the same as the terrorists. Most Muslim people are not interested in violence and terrorism. I'm sure most Muslims don't see the Isis terrorists as Muslims at all.
A time will come when people can just get by without feeling a need to attack others. The question should not be if but when.
That is all I have to say..
Until my next entry I give thanks for life and opportunities.
Today I am grateful for birds, spring is nearly here so we will see many of them in the coming weeks.
Yesterday I learned that there is one thing that is more stressful than waiting for a vehicle safety test, thinking your google account has been hacked. My google account has thousands of products attached to it including this blog, my 3 other blogs, YouTube videos and all the book pages that I have written and e mails. So many things are being guarded by that one little password. I changed the password but it turned out to be a false alarm, it's a long story so I won't divulge.
Well, when my car passed the vehicle safety test (with a few fault fixes) I was relieved twice because my google account is intact and so is my car. Isn't it ironic that a google self drive car crashed into a bus earlier this month.
Until next time, I am thankful for all the good things I will have in the near future.
Today I am grateful that I can drive and I have a car because I need it to run the vending business and to get about properly.
I have submitted my car for an M.O.T test today and a full service. I hope my car is in good enough condition to pass the test without any extra cost.
Today I am grateful for no war in my home land,
Today it is my mum's birthday and it is st Patrick's day. My Mum spent her birthday looking over granny in the hospital.
I still hope granny gets better very soon.
Today I am grateful that I have good memories and hope to create many more soon.
I believe that Granny is a little better and hope she will leave the hospital feeling fine.
The life we live is short so every day we need to create one good memory and try to happy. I know in winter that is tricky. I go on holiday once a year and try to make the most of the time.
I try to make one thing every day and a part of one thing every day also in the hope that I will leave behind a river of light.
I am thankful my future wealth and a world the will heal itself.
Today I am grateful for my fingers because they make things.
Today while I was half asleep I made and edited a video for YouTube while I was lying down in my bed. It is called alan's log | who's the wise guy?
I am more reflective when I lie down in my bed so the topic was historic.
I give thanks in advance for all my future possessions.
Today I am grateful that my granny has survived.
She is very ill but I have faith that she will recover and walk out of the hospital feeling much better.
I want my Granny to see my future children and I am writing down here now that she will be ok. She will see some more years of good health and the pain she has now will evaporate.
I feel very stressed but I have vision for her good health. She will be ok. She will be ok. She will be ok.
I have a vision of her issue melting away. Not only will she be well but free of pain.
Today I am so happy and grateful that I am still alive and well.
Today I have decided not to hide any of my blog material from my main feed on Facebook but to post to my main feed and blog page together.
If I annoy people then they can hide my posts from their newsfeed by clicking on the top right corner of the post and selecting hide or don't follow button. The "Alan's log" Facebook page will have the same content as my main feed but the posts will be public and contain hash tags. The main feed will be friends only privacy and just headings with no hash tags.
I had issues this week with the internet so I could not stay online long enough to buy my flight tickets to Peru in may, I will try again today.
Today I am grateful for my phone because I create things with it and use it to call people.
One thing I have learnt today is there was once a time when the Earth shined brightly. If you were on the moon you would see two glowing balls, the sun and the earth.
There was also a time when the moon had volcanoes on it.
There are so many things that happened in the cosmos that people will never see.
I am thankful that I have a chin because I can keep it up and stay happy regardless of what happens around me.
I have decided to keep my alan's log videos on the alan's log page on my facebook along with the blogs.
With twitter I will post it as normal. The only video I will put on my main feed on facebook is my analysis videos that I make once a week.
I am so happy and grateful for my computer because I can use my computer to create videos on you tube.
I have created a new family of videos that are intended to be used as a virtual radio platform. How it works is simple, I made a video frame work. Then I just talk into a microphone for a few minutes and add the sound to the video.
The Amazing thing about you tube is you can reach more people than TV and radio does. If 20 million people watch or listen to your videos then you have more viewers than some of the established TV shows.
That is amazing to me for 2 reasons. 1 you could be famous and 2 your message could reach many people.
I am thankful for my computer and my hands because I was able to make a video on you tube.
I posted many videos on you tube in the past but this time it is different because I am now making documentaries about the world.
I hope to make many documentaries in the near future.
I can only hope that many people will watch them.
Today I am grateful for all the cheap pasta and rice in the world because they taste very good and cost very little.
Today I have learnt that you can reduce the power level of your microwave to maintain a gentle heat level that would cook pasta or rice evenly without heating one part of the food and leaving the other cold.
If you reduce the power level of an 800 watt microwave to 30% and cook the food 3 times longer then you get a nice even cooking time. I put pasta and water in the microwave for 15 minutes at 30% power level and the heat has time to spread evenly through the food. Before I would put the microwave on full power for 5 minutes. The heating would be uneven when I did that so one part of the food would be very hot and the other warm.
I am also thankful in advance for all the wealth that I will have in the near future.
Today I am happy and grateful for all the wonderful things in this world. May I have good memories all the days of my life.
Today my sd drive or my sd card malfunctioned. I didn't backup my work, a video documentary for you tube.
I hope that it is the reader that malfunctioned and not the card. If it is then I will replace the reader still have the nearly complete video ready to finish.
If the card malfunctioned then I will have to recreate my video again.
Today I am grateful for clean water and a peaceful existence.
I was wondering why people are worried about Isis, north Korea and Russia. But they are not worried about the real threat; the Earth itself.
We are living on a planet that changes all the time. It's immense gravity attracts space rocks to fall on it from space. Our planet is harbouring microbes that change every day and can kill many people. There are giant underground volcanoes that can cause winter to linger for years and cause crop failures.
Islands can slide into the ocean and cause tsunamis on a grand scale. The list goes on but it is very grim.
I want to forget about conflicts in this world because the earth will do one of those things I mentioned in the near future and that is the real threat to mankind.
I am thankful in advance for all the good gifts that will come my way in the near future.
I am so grateful for all my good memories. When I was a young boy everything was special. I was easy to please and amaze. It was so easy to make me say wow. Now it is much more difficult.
Most of my childhood memories are attached to my home town of Burnt Oak in Edgware where I grew up.
In recent years my home town and nearby area has transformed a lot.
There was a place called yohan plaza on the Edgware road. This was a small oriental shopping mall. The first floor of the building was largely restaurants, there was a large buffet in the shopping mall that I remember very well, a favourite for the Booth family for eating out. The last time I was there was when I graduated in 2006, the building was demolished shortly after that. Downstairs there was an arcade and even a show room for Japanese cars. It is gone now and just a memory but what a sweet memory it was. The site that was once a love for me is now being turned into a supermarket.
The B & Q retail park opposite the colindale ASDA supermarket has been turned into a large block of flats.
Burnt Oak library has also been changed and has a refaced entrance. I loved my library and loved reading the books in there. I wonder how long libraries will still be around for.
The burger king where my younger cousin once had his birthday party is now an opticians.
The stone grove housing estate in Edgware has been knocked down and rebuilt with a new modern finish.
The street I lived in had a small green next to it, there was two oak trees and one giant ash tree. They are all gone now. All that remains is grass.
Edgware hospital has been largely rebuilt and is unrecognisable from what it was in the 80s and 90s.
Now it is time to create new memories. Last year I went to the Netherlands several times to see my fiance. I met the family she was staying with and loved them all. I loved the Dutch towns and trains. I will never forget my time there. It was like I was a child again, being amazed by new things.
When I move further away from London to live with my fiance I hope to have many wonderful memories and be very happy.
The most important thing in this world is happiness. If you are not happy that being alive is worthless.
I am grateful for TV because it is a big part of my life.
Smart TVs and smart TV boxes are great but there is one thing that is missing from them and that is reading app.
I love to read e books and it would be nice to be able to read through them on my tv.
I am thankful that I have working eyes to read.
I have started reading a book about the paranormal. It is a book about people that have memories from a past life. It is a book about reincarnation.
Today I am grateful for the ability to think for myself and that I'm not a slave to someone else's paradigm.
I was wondering about other stars and thought that perhaps there is a star that is yet to form in the future and planets are yet to form around it. This new star and planet system would harbour life and the planet would have a similar history to our own.
I was wondering if a planet that has not formed yet orbiting a star that does not exist yet eventually has people living on it that are similar to humans.
If such a place exists then perhaps humans would visit that planet and we would be the aliens.
Or humans could find an earth like planet in the future and settle on it and start a long history on that planet.
Today I am grateful for access to tools like PC and cameras and the microphone on my phone I use all of them as much as I can.
I love creating things and I am making videos right now as I speak.
I want to create a whole family of video documentaries on you tube that can change peoples perspective about the world around us.
Lets see how far we can go.
Today I am grateful for whales because they are awesome creatures.
Whales are bigger than dinosaurs, they are absolutely huge.
Sometimes whales get beached. I think the reason is that they underestimate the tide get stuck just like people they make mistakes.
I am grateful for my computer and camera because together I can create a long documentary video seen by many people on you tube.
I hope to crate a video that raises awareness of all the different ways that power can be generated.
Let's see if I can go through with it to the end shall we.
Today I am grateful for snakes because if they disappeared, food would become very expensive because the rodents that are in their belly would consume rice and grains on farms.
After watching an entire box set of Australian wild life over a week I have noticed that sharks and snakes are beautiful creatures and actually do a lot of good.
Sharks are shaped like torpedoes and their mouths fold away to keep their body hydro dynamic, much of their diet is rotting carcasses that would fill the ocean with toxins if they were not eaten.
Sharks also eat animals that are sick and suffering so in a way they are like a euthanasia dispenser putting down animals that are already dying.
Snakes are super efficient because they don't waste energy holding up their body mass and crawl on the floor. They only bite people when they step on them or disturb them and don't look for trouble. Most the food that snakes eat are a nuisance to people and cause diseases.
I would never keep a snake or shark as a pet but I admire them from a distance and hope that people leave them alone and let them do their job.
When you look at animals carefully you will see that they are beautiful. Even animals you see every day like crows have a charm to them. I am thankful every time I see creatures.
Today I am grateful that YouTube allows me to upload videos that can be seen or listened to by millions of people around the world yet I pay nothing.
Today after a long time I put a video on YouTube. It was intended to be mostly audio only, like a podcast. This means that I will just talk on the video and occasionally show pictures and clips within the video as supporting material.
Once again I am a vlogger and not just a blogger. I wonder if this new hobby will last.
Let us see.
Today I am grateful for not having an injured back or neck because back and neck injuries are terrible. People with back and neck injuries are prisoners in their own body. They can't move around freely
I believe the creator is real and wonder what was his intentions. It is very cold and dark right now and it is gloomy. The days are still short and the sky is cloudy. It has been raining a lot this week. It could be a lot worse. I remember times when it would be snowing during January.
I look forward to a time when people make temperatures around the world the same. I think I react badly to this weather and sleep more than normal. When I am off duty I sleep a lot.
Let my efforts not be in vein but prosper and bring good things.
I say thank you in advance to the universe for making all these wonderful chances to change my life for the better and hope to be a very happy man in the near future.
Today I am grateful for not having cancer because it is a nasty killer and many people are working hard to cure it.
A famous British musician called David Bowie died recently from Cancer. There are two memories of him that stick in my head, one was when he stared in a movie called the Labyrinth, he was the prince of the goblins. The other memory I have of him is when he sang at Christmas with Bing Cosby a song about a drummer. I think everyone has been affected by David Bowie at some point in their life by listening to his music.
When David Bowie died I thought about what happens after you die. The afterlife is the unknown and the biggest mystery in this world. I wonder if the Bowie family are thinking of the same thing. I wish the Bowie family peace and long life.
I give thanks for wealth and good fortune for now and forever.
Today I am thankful for vehicles. Machines that get you where you need to go and for all wealth that is due to me.
The metro train network in London gets very crowded. Many people cram into the limited space in a train.
Perhaps they should spread the load, instead of having one big train have many small self driving trains that come more often.
That way there are people in every part of the route and they are less crowded. If the trains only carried one person each then the train could skip stations and there could be 2 tracks where there is one. One for skipping stations and the other to bring cars onto the platform.
Such a network would have far more cars and far less crowding.
Today I am happy and grateful for new discoveries and wonders that every man can learn of.
I often wonder if there would ever be a time when everyone is free from the system and society. Such a person would live in a small floating bubble island that grows it's own food using power that is extracted from the environment. Little floating self contained islands everywhere.
In these islands one could walk around in a virtual reality room and explore lots of places without ever leaving their home. They would not need to work because all of their food would come from their home for free via self growing technology; A bit like if you had window boxes that grew cherry tomatoes but it would be 100 times more efficient, perhaps a few hundred cupboards that soaked fruit baring plants in ultra violet light.
All the water would be extracted from moisture on the air.
All their clothes would be made out of thin air using self repairing machines that print the fabric out of thin air using carbon dioxide molecules in the air.
What a dream I have, such a wonderful life with no stress and lots of leisure.
This is one world I would not mind living in.
Today I am so happy and grateful for all things that are new and for window shopping and e shop browsing because I like to see new products
There is one product that I does not exist quite yet that I would like to have. I would love to have a robotic gaming crew. A robotic gaming crew is a group of humanoid robots that are able to participate in physical games like golf and bowling and tennis.
If i had four or five such robots then we could go out as a crew and take part in court games. We could play pool then play golf then play tennis then go bowling. Then we could play vr games and even vr war games. Being part of a robot gaming crew is something cool to do.
Would that not be nice? And... The robots would be able to converse and talk to you. That would be very nice indeed.
Today I am grateful for life because it can end very quickly, I am reminded every day that life can quickly end through seeing dead animals and seeing the news
The other day I was driving on Kingsbury road and noticed that there was a dead fox in the road, it looked out of place because it is a relatively large animal to die on the road, i wonder if it died because a car hit it? They are usually agile creatures, I guess even foxes can miss judge crossings.
Today I took down the Christmas tree and put it in a plastic box. Looking forward to the year ahead. It is a wonderful tree. We have had it for 3 years now. It snows polystyrene snow on itself using an air pump. Once again I was accompanied by LBC radio on my mobile phone. Somehow listening to the radio and doing manual work is very relaxing.
I wonder if it is just me that enjoys giving more than receiving. I love giving gifts to my family members because that is one way of showing them that i think of them every day during the year.
Today I am grateful for my radio because it talks to me and tells me what is happening in the world, it costs me less than £30 yet the comfort it brings is priceless. I always thought that in this time period machine to human conversations would have taken a big leap.
When I was a young boy I would to watch a TV show called Night rider. It is about a car with artificial intelligence that can talk and drive itself. The talking car would often have deep and meaningful conversions with the driver and even had a name, KIT.
Now it is around 30 years later and cars don't really talk much, some cars have built in Sat-nav that speaks out directions to the diver but this is far from a conversation.
My image of the 2000s was always that everything talks; When you open your front door the house itself greets you and asks how your journey was. You would ask the TV to turn on and it would say yes sir and turn on and your wallet would say "hi mate how are you? " Then you would talk to the house again and ask it if it could play your favourite music and change the colour of the lights.
To be fair you can talk to your phone but it doesn't really understand what you are saying in a way that would be adequate for conversation.
When machines can converse with people the way they do in Night Rider and Star Trek then that would be very interesting because a person could have many artificial friends and get loads of counselling.
I wonder if there are machines that are made that don't do anything but converse with people? I will keep a look out for such a product.
Jacob, my son. I recently learned that one of the bus companies where we live will close down their depot. This means the routes they run w...
