Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Short Break Day

Jacob, My Son. 
I love to go on short breaks to the coast, especially on my birthday, that is the only time of the year I drink alcohol apart from Christmas. It is nice to go to the coast for a while. 
I like to stay out there for 3 or 4 days and relax for a while. 
I like planning a short break almost as much as I like going there. I like the satisfaction of finding a more efficient way to get there that uses less effort. I can spend hours looking at road and train maps and looking at different hotel tariffs as they change through the months. I like going by train as well because it is a careless journey, you just sit there and let the vehicle take you where it is going to. 

So many queries and so many dead ends. 


Monday, 27 May 2024

Glise 12b Snap Election

Once again Britain will face a snap election, they set the date of the election to the 4th of July. Rishi Seems like a he has a lot of metal in him, he managed to get the rewanda refugee plan through the house of lords. He managed to get inflation down to just a few percent, he's definitely a responsible leader. I think Kier Starma is similar in many ways as well, he wants to be responsible with public money. I will vote for my established MP because he responds to people when they have a problem. 

I was reading the NASA blogs and noticed that they discovered another planet recently that is very much like earth in size. It is called Glise 12b, they're very interested in that planet because it receives more light than earth but less than Venus. They could compare the 3 planets and work out why they're different. The star the planet goes around, Glise 12 is a red dwarf but it is about half as bright as the sun so you wouldn't need to be tidally locked to the star to have liquid water on the surface. They also discovered 3 galaxies that were 100% hydrogen that formed about 400 million years after the universe began to exist. 

There's a lot out there. 

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Just Light

Here's a thought, what if everything we are and everything in our world is just light, just waves. My body is made of cells, my cells are made of atoms, the atoms are made of subatomic particles, quarks. The quarks are  made of wave like particles. Everything between them is just empty space. 
A lot of atheists tell me Jesus couldn't raise himself if he was dead. They don't get it. He was a spirit being and left his body for 3 days.  He then fixed his dead body and went back into his body again. I imagined that it would start to smell like it was decaying at that point so it would have been a lot of work resurrecting it.  He referred to his body as a temple. A container for the spirit. I honestly think some people being up points just because they don't believe. 

If I ask a question about the bible it's to make a point, it's because I genuinely want to know the answer. I don't ask rhetorical questions. 

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Last Week of May

About a week ago a man was stabbed just a few hundred meters from my home on the next street and I was informed that he was on life support and they had already arrested the people involved. I don't know why the incident happened but I felt disappointed that it was so close to home. 
I started listening to NDE podcasts again, people talking about their near death experiences. It is very interesting. They don't just talk about the near death experience, they talk about the events that lead up to their brief death or cardiac arrest. 

It was while learning that one of my neighbours was stabbed that I also learnt that one of the bus operators in my town were leaving the area because they were making a loss. Carousel buses said they will take over all the abandoned routes. My home town is too small to have multiple bus operators anyway. 

There is so much malice in my country, I don't know why. It's like the Brits are infected with a virus that causes you to be filled with wrath. I see it everywhere. Something is making society itself more angry. 

Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Bus Day

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 will stop or be replaced by the other major operator in our area. I was surprised this is happening; they claim the depot was making a loss. I think the other company had the right idea. They would use small vans as buses during off peak times to save on fuel and stuff like that. They also ran an airport service so they would get customers from nearby towns and the edge of London in Uxbridge. 
I think we will have virtual reality in our home at some point this year. I have played  golf in virtual reality on other people's headsets. If they make a walking device that works with it, you go for a walk by the coast for a while without leaving your home. Perhaps when you're an adult, virtual reality would be a health product, something that promotes walking. You could walk through museums and other worlds while you're still in a room. 


Monday, 13 May 2024

Tomorrow Robins will sing

A famous song I can relate to is 'Tomorrow Robins Will Sing' by Steve Wonder, I think the song is trying to say things will improve in the near future. You can have a bad day or bad month but one day everything will be fine. 
A few thoughts come to mind this month are, If there was a cat in my house and I was suddenly paralysed, would the cat eat me while I'm still alive?

I was wondering what it would be like to build a large shed in the garden and turn the inside of the shed into a man-cave complete with bar, recliners and even projector.

Sunday, 12 May 2024

Northern Lights and Stuff

The Arora borealis was visible in Britain a few days ago. There was a purple and green smears in the sky, it looked out of place and a bit bizarre. 
Shortly before we had the northern lights, Mc Donald's were adding miniature Uno playing card decks to their happy meals. My 5 year old isn't interested in that game but it's fun for all ages, even adults; I thought it was a good idea. Uno is a straight forward game to play, you are given 5 cards from a shuffled deck, one card is placed facing up on the table and each player has to find a card  that is related to the card on the table, the number, colour or icon can be used. The goal of the game is to lose all your cards before the other players. It's a bit like dominos. Your card becomes the card on the table if it is related to the target card. 
These days I order my food with an app on my phone and I can use a table number as a reference. One thing all fast food restaurants have in common is their ice cream machine stops working often.  I don't know why. Perhaps the moving parts overheat or something like that. 

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

The Billy-of-Time

I imagined being the captain and sole crew member of a solar blimp air ship thing called the Billy-of-Time. The world is full of tosh these days. There is loads of dogma spurting out of collages and protesting  and the world is at loggerheads but the Billy-of-Time is off the grid and away from it all floating above the Pacific ocean in the middle of nowhere. 

The hot air blimp would work by using mirrors that focus the sun's rays onto black pipes, the pipes would get hot and vent out hot air that flows into balloon canopies. The trouble is it would go down at night. The captain wants to stay airborne indefinitely. He would get water from clouds and irrigate fruiting plants on his ship. He would sleep in a hammock because it is light. The net weight of the whole vehicle would be an issue. The captain of the ship would try and see if different sand particles can store heat during the night. He would also dry out his poop at he far end of the blimp and burn the poop to get more time in the air. Plus the mirror arms would have flaps below them that tilt when there is a gust of wind. After all those innovations, there is no hope of staying airborne, every morning he would wake up and the vehicle is floating on the ocean, then it it would start to rise again as the sun heats up the vents. The crew man captain never quits, he tries to figure out a way to stay in the air. Perhaps he could sand down the shacks below deck to make the vehicle  lighter. 

There would be some solar panels on the blimp to get electricity, he has a games console and plays computer games. At night before the blimp goes down he would lay down on the top deck and look at the stars in the sky and wonder what is happening out there in deep space.  

Floating in the air away from it all. No dogma, no anger, no disrespect. Just a drive to float away.  The Billy-of-Time, a ship in the sky that will never be. Only in the mind of blogger with a time for a day dream as he waits to sleep. 


Sunday, 5 May 2024

Day Dream : Billy of Time

If you lay in bed and can't sleep just day dream. I was day dreaming about a giant hot air Balloon called Billy of time. 

It has many mirrors that focus sunlight onto tanks , the tanks get very hot and cause an envelope to inflate. The 3 inflated balloons would lift the vehicle up. The vehicle would have some shacks suspended by ropes. 
Is it a village, a blimp, a balloon or a plane? no it is Billy of time, a happy hot air balloon that is powered by solar energy. The captain of the vehicle wants to keep it airborne indefinitely because he is sick of society. He wants to live off the grid and grow his own food up there in the sky. 

Thursday, 2 May 2024

What April 2024 Means To Me

Throughout April I thought this may was going to be a general election but I was wrong because they had a snap election in December 5 years ago so the new general election will be later this year. There are still elections on may but they're for the mayors and commissioners. 

It was always cloudy this month and very dark. The Israelis are still trying to rescue their hostages and people are still protesting about the conflict. They're ignoring all the other conflicts in the world, even the ones that have more casualties, lots of selective outrage. In the middle of the month there was a direct exchange of missile fire between Israel and Iran. It started when Israel accidentally hit the Iranian embassy in Damascus city in Syria. 

I managed to get a good deal on a Nintendo switch and was playing Red Dead Redemption throughout the month. It is an old game and they ported it over to the console the way it is; to me it is a new game because I never played it. I missed out on playing a lot of the 3rd person open world quest type games from the previous decade. I have no regrets with the way I use my down time, life is too short to care. A young boy was killed by a maniac with a sword the other day.  I feel pity for the boy and his family. Life is short and it can be shorter than you think. That is why I try to enjoy my down time. 

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