Terror and goodbye

Last Wednesday I took my wife to the airport to say goodbye for a while. She went through the gate and I went on my way feeling sad.

I had trouble sleeping that night so when I got home I did a few errands and fell asleep for a while.

I woke up in the evening and was told that there was a terorist attack. I felt slightly angry. Then I found out that my wife's flight was cancelled and she was still here in the UK so I went to see her one last time. A bit surreal because I thought she was half way home.

The thing that dawned on me was realising that me and my wife were in the place where the attack took place the previous day, on Tuesday. And we walked on Westminster bridge at least twice before. We could have been killed on that day. We were lucky.
Her flight the next day was successful​ and she got home in time to see her Brother in law's birthday party.

Today I am grateful that we were not violently killed or injured because it could have happened.

Veranda house

One thing I mentioned earlier is that it is my deep dreams and mental games that keep me going in this world.

One such dream is a custom built house that exists in my head. The house has a veranda going all the way around it. A veranda is like a porch but it it is wide and has benches on it for sitting on. The house in my dream is a rich man's house but it is not for showing off. It is like that because it's a paradise. A sanctuary that brings joy.

If I didn't have these dreams and visions then my life would be more difficult because the grim realities of life would take a bigger grip on me.

Narrow news

Is it me or is the news very narrow these days.
I turn on the news and they are talking about article 50.

There is wide spread flooding in Peru, but my local news barely mentions it, they keep on covering the same topics.

I remember when 200 children were kidnapped in North Nigeria and the press never reported it until there was pressure from social media.

I hope the news corporations can bring themselves to cover more reports and keep us better informed.

Mot and simplicity hopes

Today I am having my car MOT test, an mot is a UK car safety test. Somehow I feel that MOT tests in the future will be much simpler because cars will be electric so they won't need emissions checks. I also believe that cars will do less milage because car trams would allow cars to be transported across a country or between cities.

My hopes are living in the future will be a lot simpler because as a year passes by there are tasks that that are undertaken and many responsibilities, almost always costing money.

Man cave

One of the things that keeps me going in this world is my dream of having a man cave.

In my man cave, the floor would be a resin buffed wood laminate surface. It would have a small bar in the corner with a counter. On the counter table would be small fridges with beer handle yolks stuck to them to make the bar look authentic. The fridges would be filled with can and bottle drinks. Above the counter would be shelving that holds decorations. Behind the bar would be artwork and unusual bottles for special celebrations. The bar counter would have stools with back rests.

In the middle of the room would be a pro quality pool table, foot ball table, table tennis table. On the side of the room would be a large screen with couches infront of it and games consoles.

The walls would be covered in shiny paper and gold strips with dots in them.
Perhaps there would be a bowling alley, perhaps not. There would also be fake window frames with TV screens behind them. The windows would display any place I liked.
There would also be a table for playing chess and card games on. This table would be sleek.

JRC Global Buffet

Yesterday, my wife and I went to a restaurant called JRC Global in Watford. It was an amazing restaurant.You pay once at the entrance and then you enter. Once inside you can eat and drink as much as you like.

The price is very good value. About £10 plus per person but the place is well designed and all the walls are covered in stone. The food is well made and there are many choices to choose from. There is a very long hall with many food tables. The buffet is divided up into Zones. Each zone is for a different region's food. They had Chinese, Indian, Thai, Brazillian, Japanese and various others.

The restaurant is very classy and very good value and the food tastes great. They had me at free hot drinks included but everything else is brilliant as well. I intend to go back there in the near future. I am not exaggerating, you pay once to go in and then that is it. You can eat and drink as much as you like and the selection is huge. The serving tables go on for tens of meters. The lighting is sophisticated and classy and so is the seating, floors, and walls.
It reminds me of a restaurant I used to go to inside the Oriental city mall in Colindale. It was bulldozed and replaced with a Morrisons supermarket. A part of my world was gone.  It is almost like a nice part of my world had been destroyed and replaced by a better one.

Wikipedia gorging

Well, I think I mentioned before that I have learned more from phones than I have from high school, this is not an exaggeration. Last night it was very apparent. I was reading through Wikipedia. I read through several articles on there about the brain and DNA and synapses and all sorts of things like that.

I also have a large collection of e-books on my phone and I will often listen to LBC radio and hear on the news, events as they happen. If there was an earthquake that measured 8 on the Richter scale, I would find out very quickly, when Japan had a tsunami and their nuclear power station was damaged, I was informed by internet radio on my phone the same day.

My phone is also teaching me Spanish using audio Lessons.
Last night I gorged on Wikipedia articles a lot because I have a lot on my mind and reading clears my mind. I am grateful for texts that I can read.because there are so many awesome things in this world for me to learn about. I will learn new things until the day I die.