Thoughtless Day

Jacob, my son. 

I think down-time is very important because we can overthink and become stressed. Do all the thinking you need to do when you're busy then chill out when you're off duty. 

I like to watch videos of computer simulations during my down time, fun vid, battle simulation

I also have a down time playlist that I set to public,

My down time playlist.

It's also nice to have a smart phone full of solo card games like solitaire and free cell. Stay happy son and keep your chin up until Jesus returns. 

Too Short

Life is very short, more short than we think. I sleep for about 6 to 8 hours per day. I think I'm unconscious for about 6 hours. That is one quarter of the day. This means I'm not aware of one quarter of my life. If I live to be 80 years old. I will only be awake for three quarters of that time. (Time × 0.75) 60 years. I would be unconscious for 20 years in total. 

I think about death every day because we can't avoid it but I try to make the thought brief. If you sleep with your hands on your chest, the heat from your hands would go back into your torso. The weight of my arms also helps with sleep. 

When I wake up, my mind and thoughts are restored in stages.  First I realise what I am, then I remember who I am. Then I remember where I live. Then I remember what day it is, then I regain control of my muscles and can move. All this happens in the space of about 25 seconds. 

Flaxseed oil and Dash

I'm a vegetarian so to me the most useful vitamin supplement would be flaxseed oil capsules because my diet has little omega 3 in it at all. I don't eat fish or meats. I feel like I have plenty of the other nutrients but not omega 3. Omega 3 is important for the heart and the brain health I think. They add vitamins b12, C and D  to processed food already. I like taking my flaxseed oil capsules. 

A common thought I had in my head this month is what a car dashboard would look like if I was in charge of the design. It would have a model of the car on the dash board. When you turn the headlights on in the car, the little model car's headlights come on. When you press the turning signals, the little model car would flash it's turning signals. If you opened a door, a door on the model would open. There would be a mirror behind the model so you can see the little brake lights come on when you press the brakes. 

Next to the model would be lane partition lines that are animated when the car is moving. It is actually a solid white line but LCD blocks cause it to be fragmented and animated as if they were moving. The windscreen of the model car would have a digital display of the the car's speed . 

When the car is placed into reverse, the mirror behind the model car becomes clear and reveals a screen showing the reverse camera. 

The other lane of the road the model car is sitting on would have a white dot matrix display of text data like what station you are listening to. 

I'm not a car designer but it doesn't matter, I'm allowed to have thoughts about designing cars in my head, it doesn't hurt anyone. 

Last Week of November

It is the last week of November, my head is empty. I don't know if it is because I was very sick at the start of the month or because I get nonplus when the days are short and dark. Perhaps I'm just fed up with the world being selectively polarized into supporting one group in a conflict and ignoring the other conflicts; selective outrage towards a conflict and ignoring others is lame. life is lame.  All I have is small talk. 

I thought to myself why do people drive faster and faster every month in car parks. When I approach a car park, I see the speed limit is 5mph so I put my car into first gear and let my car cruise at human walking speed, but the drivers behind me become very annoyed and start shouting at me and flashing their headlights. When I walk in the car park, I see cars going past as if they were on the road. I thought to myself I should buy a pepper spray gun as self defense incase someone becomes violent towards me. I think mace guns are illegal in Britain though. 

I also thought it would be a good design idea to put a small hot wheels type car in the dashboard of a car, the small car would show what the real car is doing. It would be angled at 45° and have a mirror behind it to show the break lights when the break is being pressed. Next to the little car would be instrument stats like engine revolution speed, actual speed, engine temperature and things like that. It's pointless for me to think about that because I'm not a car designer. Thinking doesn't need to have a point, it just happens. 

Apart from the limited small talk, there is nothing to write about. I feel like an empty box in a meadow. There are many things to discuss but nothing special in me that it should be written down. 

Lost in a game

Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down at a table and play card games with like minded people. I could play black jack, poker or cribbage without using any money, just playing for points. I like being lost in a game, when all my consentration is in my hand of cards. 

It is very hard to do that now. You have to find a day when you and your friends are both off duty from work and they would need to want to play the games. 

You can feel completely alone sometimes because you are surrounded by busy people that don't share your hobbies. 

Card Day

Jacob, my son. 

I was thinking about buying a cribbage board. I have a deck of cards already. Perhaps one day we can play cribbage or black jack. We would just play for points, not for money. I play card games on my phone sometimes. It clears my head a bit. 

I was looking online at different cribbage boards, they're very unique, some of them are strange looking. If I bought the cribbage board now, I would have no one to play with.

Playing cards has a similar affect to reading. It can clear your mind. 

Cabinet Reshuffle

I learned recently this week that Suella Braverman was sacked as the home secretary. She was removed from cabinet duty because she criticised  the handling of the protests by the police. Unfortunately you can't throw your weight around when there are 800,000 people protesting. Some of the people were using the Arabic word for war, it is illegal in Britain to teach others to go war or do violence. The police did eventually arrest people that were carrying signs that insighted violence. I don't know if she is right or wrong for her statements about the police but she lost her job over it. 

He moved James cleverly over to her persition and put James Cameron as the foreign secretary, he was the prime minister that resigned after the Brexit referendum in 2016. 

I'm in two minds about Rishi's decision. One part of me thinks it is a good idea to put a former Prime Minister as foreign secretary because he probably has a lot of connections and powerful friends. 

The other part of me was thinking he only wanted someone posh to do that job, he has hundreds of MPS but called Dave out of retirement, the Oxford educated posh man. The other MPs weren't posh enough I thought. 

The two thoughts were stuck in my head like two sumo wrestlers in Hikiwake. 

Hikiwake of the mind....

Water Day

Jacob, my son. 

I was thinking about water for a while. I recall watching a true life reconstruction of a disaster where two fishermen lost their boat and they were stranded in the ocean on a life raft. It wasn't long before they ran out of fresh water. They were surrounded by the ocean but they couldn't drink it because it would make them more dehydrated. The water was salty. One of the men gave up and drank the sea water, his organs shut down that night and he died. 

If you can purify water, you have an essential skill. Perhaps one day, the water won't be safe to drink. Perhaps a disaster would cause the water to be poisonous. 

When you're very thirsty, plain water tastes the best. Sometimes the only drink you need is water. 

Happy Days

When many Brits go on holiday, they drink a lot of alcohol. Why? Because they want to think less. They go to work and people are trying to get them fired from their job. Then they get blindsided by a selfish person that doesn't care about them. Sometimes there are people that show now respect on the road. After 3 months there are many incidents  that aren't fair. By the time they go on holiday, their brain is full of angry thoughts. 

I look forward to going to the coast again. Looking out at the sea and thinking about happy things. Happy times. 

Wouldn't it be nice if I got a virtual reality headset and played golf every day in virtual reality. That would be very nice. I wouldn't even need to walk to the ball, I would just teleport there. 

What October 27 Means to me

This post was delayed because I had a flu infection and was sick for a week. There is a virus going around and it is a nuisance. I couldn't do very much and my small family were sick. I think it's amazing that viruses can't move but they're transmitted by the infected body. Our bodies make antibodies that attach to the virus and disable them; it is like giving a disease to a disease. To me that is amazing. 

At the end of the first week of October, there was an attack on Israel by Hamas. Then Israel attacked parts of Gaza. Christianity is the only religion that is native to Israel. The Jewish religion started in the edge of Egypt where the Asian and African continents meet. Islam Started somewhere in the Arabian peninsula. Christianity started in Israel while it was occupied by Rome after Jesus was resurrected in the 1st century. Jesus taught us to love our enemies and to forgive everyone that wronged us. I hope that Jesus comes back and brings righteousness and peace to Earth. 

I was shocked by all the selective outrage throughout the month, people didn't seem to care much about the Ukraine and Russia conflict, they didn't care about Armenia losing land to Azerbaijan. They didn't care about the Sudan Civil war, they didn't care about the Myanmar military coup, I guess come conflicts are more important than others to some people. 

I tried to keep it all out of my mind, I would read blogs about space and try to keep my mind on Jesus. He will wipe away every tear and bring peace. I can't do anything, I'm just an ordinary man. No one listens to me.