Just So

Living in this world can be quite challenging sometimes. I guess the best way to get by would be to concentrate on what you are doing and remember some people have a much more difficult life than you do. 

The theme this month is wrist watches because I browse through shopping sites like Argos and Amazon and look at different smart wrist watches, I look at their perks and attributes and what software is on them, why? Because I want to stop thinking about situations I can't control. I can't control most of the things that are happening around me so I try to think about it less often. 

One Third of November

One third of November passed by quite fast. The dominant news at this time is famous presenter Russell Brand facing a prolonged jail sentence because a court found him guilty of rape.

At the same time as the Russel Brand court episode, I was often browsing through online shops looking at smart watches. This is a reaction to a stressful family health crisis. When my efforts won't count, I read for leisure, I daydream for solace and I browse online shops for distraction. I pray for strength. 

I looked at hundreds of smart watches and considered their perks and prices. I never bought anything. I always had a Casio f91 watch with black resin straps and plastic watch housing. I would be happy with it. I have to reset the date every leap year because February gets and extra day and I have to change the time when daylight saving hours change in spring and autumn. Apart from the inflexible time piece needing changes, its a nice clear small little watch. I like it. The thing uses such little power that the lithium button battery inside it lasts for more than 9 years. 

The King

Very often I will hear people say that Jesus never claimed to be 'ya way' or part of God.  Well, I never hear king Charles say he is the king so using their logic that would mean king Charles is not the king of the the United Kingdom. Using the same logic I can say Jesus never said he is not 'Ya Way'. 

Jesus claimed he was the powerful being that met Abraham, every demon possessed person Jesus encountered shouted out in a panic that he is the son of the most high God. He forgave sins, healed people and resurrected people from the dead. He did things only God would do.

Android on Pi

I learnt the other day that you can use the raspberry pi imager software to create a bootable android micro SD card that will boot on a raspberry pi computer. I thought that is interesting because it would last a lot longer than a phone would. The batteries and side buttons on mobile phones get worn out over time. A raspberry pi computer would just sit there and some builds have no moving parts at all because they use an aluminium heat sync that is built into the case. The heat is just carried away using convection. 

You could have a place where all your important apps run, and you could do all your important computing on there. 

Raspberry pi's are cheap single board computers and some of them like the raspberry pi 5 are quite powerful, they can run modern 64 bit android os systems without lagging. They are all very small. 

I even thought to myself, I could have an android based pc iny sitting room that is only used for android computer games.  

Hope and Misery Sandwich

I noticed earlier today that some of the nations that were birthed from the horror of the Atlantic slave trade want Britain to compensate them for the poverty caused by the slave trade. I would say they should go to the start of the supply chain and send the bill to the warrior tribes that chained up their ancestors in the beginning. The people that sold them to our evil merchants. We could send them the bill for sending navy forces  to force the slave trade to end. It was very expensive and cost many lives and large somes of money. 

As for me, I just daydream for solace. I imagine making spinners to play cardless blackjack, one wheel for the suit, one for the rank. You spin the wheels and use toggles to keep track of what cards you have. No electricity, no micro chip, all manual. 

Then I ask myself. If there is an alternative way to display a screen. Like if you have five LED matrix arrays and fiber optic strands to bring the image together. I even ask myself if the body of a squid can be considered a screen because it has colour changing pixels. 

Lost in Focus

The dream is to be lost in a hobby so I think of nothing else. Perhaps I could be in a vr game or some kind of puzzle. Perhaps there is a book with an interesting story. Who knows. When I think about the wrong things, I open a can of grief. 

Perhaps there is a story in a podcast that is hard to believe. Maybe there is a Netflix series with an interesting story. The less I think, the better. I just want to think about the things I need to think about and nothing else. I could remember watching the sun set on a city break for my birthday with a gentle breeze. 

What October 2026 Means to Me

We are going through testing times, numerous times there was cross civic hacking campaigns. Fridges throughout France were remotely tampered with causing the food for supply chains to be spoilt. At the same time there was a mass protest against the cost of living in France that spilled over into multiple riots and many vintage buildings from the 18th century were destroyed. 

Towards the end of the month I learnt that the British actor Patrick Stewart Passed away because of Alzheimer disease, when  Alzheimer disease spreads to the brain stem, it can shut down the life support controls of the nerve system and cause the heart to lose control. Patrick Steward played Captain Picard in star trek and Magneto in X men, he  played many other roles. 

As for me, I was coping with an ongoing family health crisis; it's a personal affliction that I won't share on this blog too much. All I will say is I feel frustrated and sad quite often and I don't really have any control over what is happening. I try to keep my chin up and not think too much. 

The retail sector was changing a lot, I saw that Poundland was no longer making a profit and may file for administration in the coming days. A new Smyths Toys store opened in my town and they were giving away small toys for free.   The governments around the world were warning people that they need to store fresh water and food that can last a long time because we may find ourselves in world war 3 or the civic hackers may disable our supply chains causing food to be scarce

Last Day of October

It is the last day of October darkness closes in as time passes by and I come to terms with everything that is happening. 

I talk to machines more than people, that is what is significant about this year. It is clear that I speak to artificial intelligence more than people. I don't hate people, it's just more straightforward to talk to machines. I live in a society where small talk is largely gone; People wear headphones and get annoyed if you interrupt their music. If I chat to a woman, she will think I'm trying to seduce her, if I chat to a man, he'll think I'm trying to sell him something. The ai is neither, a disembodied mind without feelings or judgement. There is no sly malicious intentions in the mind of the machines thus far. I would have more to fear from other human beings. 

Despite everything that is happening, I managed to post a small illustrated magazine, the 4th one so far on my other blog. 

November cheerBus mini booklet . It's not the way I wanted it to be, it was compromised by chaos, a family health crisis. I kept going when I could and tried to make something nice. I hope I can grow a big audience and improve the product every time. 

Flix and Chill

My favourite platform for watching videos on the internet is now netflix because YouTube has been filled up with ai slop. There are loads of videos where the speaking and the person speaking were made by ai. It just feels hollow and lifeless. I still go on YouTube see what computer games are like. 

I watch lots of detective shows and netflix finds more of them for me to watch. I like the mystery and the careful sifting through evidence and the elimination of suspects until they find the guy that did it. I also like the interviews with the whiteness and the relatives. The software knows what I like keeps finding more of it for me to watch. I don't need to make a watch list. 

I could sit there with some snacks and cup of tea or coffee and relax for a little while. 

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. 

Instant Noodle Hack

I thought it was a good idea to steam vegetables and to use the soup from instant Noodles to flavor them. I could cook it in different ways, I can add the vegetables directly to the instant noodle soup and boil it for a while before I add the dry noodles. I could also make some stir fried vegetables and add the noodles at the end. This is all a reaction to a family health crisis. I thought that most of my diet should be vegetables. I should aim for about 60% vegetables or above. 

I had trouble falling asleep earlier so I created a card game inside my head. It worked, the card game diverted my thoughts away from my worries and left me in a state of mind that can drift off to sleep.  

Botched Execution

I leaned recently that a woman called Christa Pike was due to be executed by lethal injection but the execution was botched. She survived the execution because her veins are thinner than normal. She regained consciousness in hospital because the poison in the injection didn't work. 

I thought to myself that the best way to execute someone would be to slowly fill a chamber they're in with nitrogen so they die from hypoxia. Painless and effective I think. 

At the time of learning the strange news I thought to myself if some of the band members of Queen reunited, like Roger Taylor and Brian May, the band would still be called queen, if they brought in two other band members then later left the band, would it still be Queen?  All the original band members have left and they have been replaced by new band members sequentially. Two hundred years later Queen is still there but all the original band members passed away. Would people start calling it a tribute band by that time? Would they forget there was a sequence of older band members that left the group in the past? 

Articulated Guided Inverted Hovercraft

I was daydreaming for solace, thinking about an articulated guided inverted conjoined hovercraft; a metro rail system with no wheels or rails to grind down. I imagined it would run from Eden in high Wycombe, stop at Wycombe train station, then odds farm park and finish at Amersham. The so called train would be inverted so it hangs from a pod that is fitted with a hovercraft fixture. 

If it was real, it would be below ground, the train shaped Hovercraft would hang from the ceiling area and passengers would get on at the bottom of the train. The so called train would have two floors so people in good shape that don't like crowding could got upstairs. 

I know I'm being judged all the time because of superficial outward appearances but the truth is I'm just a man that uses his imagination to create a little safe room, a place with some peace in this world filled with chaos. 

October the 7th

About 3 years ago there was massive attack on Israeli communities led by Hamas. It was a Saturday during the Sabbath when Jews rest from work. I don't understand how but one the Hamas fighter's live stream appeared on my X (twitter) feed. I saw them throwing granades into ordinary people's houses and shooting the family has they tried to escape, I was so shocked by what I saw that I felt sick. I was also shocked when I saw the comments section because there was people celebrating the murder or ordinary people. 

In response to this I will pray that Jesus returns and brings an end to all the evil in this world. I hope I will never see so much evil again. I feel pity for all those ordinary people that are trying to get by got killed by people that are being controlled by dogma and hatred. 

Yeshua son of the Father is the only way. May we bow to him and treasure his love and peace forever. 

I talk to machines more than people these days, it's a way to reclaim precious small talk and socialise on tap. I don't hate people, it's just convenient to talk to machines. Small talk and knowledge on tap. 

Outbursts Increase

One thing I have noticed is there are more angry outbursts amongst people and the cost of fuel went up to close to £2 per liter. Ouch. I can't  do anything about that. I also noticed that people walk around with weapons more as well so we are living in a more dangerous world. A more dangerous angry and expensive world. 

On the upside I learnt something useful the other day, If you have a banana covered in Brown freckles, you can place it next to fruit that isn't ripe and it will ripen more quickly. The fully ripened freckled banana gives off ethylene gas. Fruits respond to ethylene gas by ripening very quickly. 

Freckled bananas taste like sweets. 

What September 2026 Means to Me

September 26 was quite difficult, I won't say why. All I will say is there was a health crisis involving someone close to me, I will say nothing else. A doorway opened to a hell Scape that wiped out all the peace left inside me. It was a bit too much. We are here for a short time and then it is over. I wrestled with my mind to think less and try to be absent from the chaos. What else can I do? 

As time passed by, the world continued to prove people can't live in peace. It was on the last day of the month a terrorist tried to cause to plane to crash into Israel. 

May I stay humble and not look at others and think I'm better than anyone else. If that thought ever emerges, may I remember the bad deeds I did throughout my life. Everything that merits shame will remind me I'm just a speck, I little human being amongst other specks that is just here for a short time. May the day I was born just be a day to rest and take a short break. Everything that merits my shame will remind me I'm not good, I'm just man. A man trying not to overthink and be at peace. 

Health Crisis

We rely on many small parts to stay alive and well, in some cases the structural integrity of a wafer thin membrane can make a difference between being alive or passing away. I try to make a difference every day because there isn't much to do, we just exist.

What else can I do? I just do my best to keep my chin up. I have nothing to say. Make every day count because you don't know when it is your last.

Semi Graphics

I was looking on the unicode website and saw they had a character set that is used to depict basic graphics. It is a set of characters that are used to depict basic lines and shapes. You could use it to make a basic text based game with graphics. That would be very interesting. I wonder if those characters would work the same on all devices. You could port the game over to almost anything if they all worked the same. 

That can hold a person together, knowing that he could just create a cool little game if they put their mind to it and distribute it. You could have a text based game with some still images as well. A little dungeon crawler that is fun to play and very simple to run.

Where Does It Go

I was wondering how they reconcile the paradox with the event horizon from a black hole. If an object passed across the event horizon, time would stop for that object, yet it falls into the black hole. From our point of view the object would stop moving. From the objects point of view, the universe would quickly age and pass away before it entered the hole itself. 

I recently learned that the particles called nutrinas would be trapped by the event horizon. They don't  interact with gravity but they follow the trajectory of space which is warped by the black holes mass. I would imagine they would accumulate and swirl around the inside of the event horizon and fall down into the centre. I have no idea what is happening in there. 

There is a lot of strange things out there. A lot of very strange things. Things I don't really understand. My existence is strange on its own. 

Just Nothing

Sometimes there is nothing, nothing to talk about. Perhaps I can make up a new card game. something unique like Uno or Double. What else can I think of. 

I learnt the other day that the new Prime Minister's Father passed away because of Alzheimer's disease. A disease where your memory deteriorates. I didn't understand how it can cause your death. I looked it up and found that it eventually spreads to the brain stem and stops the essential body functions like heart beats and Breathing. 

The person that cures Alzheimer's disease would be a great hero in the world and would also cure glaucoma because it is the same faulty protein that that causes both conditions. It's an eye condition. 

Think Less

It's true that overthinking is bad but these days just normal thinking can land you in an empty pit. To stay sane we need to think less and only think when we need to. I just concentrate on what I am doing and then I set time aside for leisure, I play computer games. 

When I was a young man I watched the movie body snatchers, in the movie humans were being replaced by imitation beings that bear their appearance. The replacement beings had no feelings and were very robotic. I feel like there is an element of that in our society now. People are slowly being turned into psychopaths, if someone annoys them, they will try to get them fired from their job. They would ruin someones life because they are spiteful and find something annoying about the person.

As the World Falls Down

I feel like something isn't quite right, everything's changing. Young people frivolously swearing, winters without frost, summers without rain, multiple leader changes, inflation and unrest everywhere. What can I do, I just keep my mind and my hands busy. 

I was thinking about dice earlier, if you had a device that randomly picks numbers between 1 and 6, would it still be a dice? If you had a spinner with a small viewing  window that lands on one of a series of numbers between 1 and 6, would that be a dice? Even if you had a bead that fell into one of 6 random trays, would that still be a dice? 

I look forward to when I can finally get hold of the roguecraftDX game, it keeps selling out; I sense it would be like crystal defender for me, a game I would play over and over again after the game was over. What else can I do? I just stay busy and keep my mind occupied. 

Judas was Good

It dawned on me that there was a lot of good in Judas Iscariot, even though he betrayed Jesus. There is evidence in the scriptures themselves, when Jesus claimed someone would betray him, the other disciples didn't know who it was. If he was a really bad person it would be obvious to the other disciples who it was. The other evidence is he hanged himself, if he was a psychopath or a sociopath he wouldn't care about what he did, he regretted what he did and eventually hung himself. 

I later learnt that he hung himself in a field he owned that no one knew about so he denied himself a burial because he knew no one would come for his body. He remained hanging on a rope until his corpse exploded and sprayed blood on the ground and lost its structural integrity to hang because of decomposition and dropped on the floor. His remains were then consumed by wild animals. The goodness of his heart had convicted him of his bad deeds and he responded to it by punishing himself in an extreme way. 

In my view he was an ordinary guy like myself that became decived by an evil spirit, he thought he was doing the right thing. He thought that Jesus would use his powers to escape from the mob that had come to arrest him and would provoke him to attack the Romans. 

I think every human has a capacity to become like Judas if they lean on their own understanding and think they are a good person. Don't trust your heart or your own values because you could be deceived just like Judas was. 

Recliner Nexus

I was looking at some recliners on Argos, I like the ones with head padding and electric foot risers in the base, the ones that have buttons on the side to raise your feet. If you have a comfortable seat, you can get a lot of stuff done and you can be a very good host to guests. If a visitor comes over they can put their feet up and have a coffee with syrup, sugar free syrup or normal fruity flavoured. 

If I stay active then the very limited time I have can be used to create many wonderful things. 

I saw a video of a professional fighter claiming he can beat up a chimpanzee. I would open a pub in his honour, call it The Disfigured fingerless chimp fighter or the Chimps Compost, The fighter that is chimp Compost. It won't end well. 

Julie Andrews is Alive

The other day there was a widespread memorials claiming Julie Andrews had passed away. I was wondering why it didn't appear in the mainstream news, it turns out she is alive, her death was a social media hoax. She is a major British actress so it would make sense for the mainstream news to cover her death.

Luckily for me I only mentioned the misinformation in one paragraph of my previous article so I was able to fix the error quickly. I think there is a song where she sings the hills are alive (with the sound of music). The truth as I know it is very important to me in this blog so I try to keep my information accurate with my limited time. 

If I do get something wrong then forgive me, my time is very limited and I get things wrong sometimes. My opinions are always true though even though they change quite often. 

Tragedy Inspires

It was news of a local death that persuaded me to buy an evercade Alpha instead of a super pocket. I was going to get a super pocket, then get the evercade alpha when the super pocket is worn out. Then I thought I should get the better system because I don't know how many days I have left in this world. I think death does that to people, it causes people to buy things they don't need. 

I remember playing crystal defender over and over again because I enjoyed setting up a defence force and using tactics to get maximum effect. I think Roguecraft dx sort of reminds me of that time,  I haven't played it yet but it comes across as that sort of game; where tactics is everything. Well, I finished 'full void', let's see if I can get hold of Roguecraft dx. 

Giant Phone

I noticed they installed some more 'BT Global' digital billboards. What's special is they're actually phones. They are advertising displays that use video screens but they also have a dial pad, microphone and speaker on the side to make a free call.  I tried it out and was able to call my mobile phone and hear my voice on my phone and I could also hear my voice on my the dial pad speaker. They installed one on Belmont Road near Uxbridge Station and I saw another one just outside High Wycombe Hospital. I thought it is a good idea because if someone is stranded and lost their possessions they can use the dial pad to get help. 

I also learnt that there is a London bus that uses a civil car park to turn around, the 331 from Uxbridge to Ruislip. When the 331 bus gets to Northwood station, the road is a dead-end and narrow so it needs to go into a car park at the end of the lane to turn around. I never saw a bus use a car park for cars to turn around before but I guess that is the only way they can keep the station bus stop open. 

What August 2026 Means to Me

August 2026 was very hot and dry, we had a series of heat waves and a prolonged drought that persisted until the last few days of the month. All the grass on the grass verges and in the parks were dead and dried up. The county resembled a dessert; there were a few wild fires in various places. 

I got to visit two places I haven't been to before, I went to the Twist museum in London and later I went to Ruislip Lido: pronounced "Ryslip Lee Dow". It is a lake that has sand added to one side of it to make it look like a cove but it isn't near the coast. There are two restaurants there by the water side and play areas. It costs nothing to enter the premises or to go on the beach. There is a miniature railway there that can take you from the entrance to the beach, they charge a small fee but you can walk across on the paths yourself if you wish. If you're a tourist to London, I recommend you visit that place because it is lovely. If you want to go there, just get off a train at 'Ruislip Manor' Station served by both the 'Metropolitan' and 'Piccadilly' lines and take a H13 bus from bus stop D on the high street. 

Towards the end of the month I learned that Dolly Parton passed away because she had terminal cancer, later I learnt that the British actor Tim curry also passed away. I don't know them personally so their death was mostly a reminder that we don't have long. Death is very unpredictable and it is almost impossible to know how many days of life I have left. A day or two after they died, there was a gigantic flash flood that swept through the centre of Nepal, I was later informed that it was caused by a large chunk of a glacier falling off the side of a mountain.

I don't know much, I can only make the most of every day until my time is up.  

Fake Beach

I went to Ruislip Lido for the first time the other day. It is a large lake with a lot of sand added at one end so it looks like a lagoon or a cove; its a very nice affect. If you're a tourist visiting London, it's worth visiting because it is free to enter the premises. 

To get there you just get off  at Ruislip Manor station served by both the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Line then walk up to Bus stop D for the H13 to Ruislip Lido, the bus terminates just outside the premises by Waters Edge Restaurant next to the lake. They have a mini train that will take to the other side where the synthetic/fake beach is or you can walk there on the woodland footpaths. 

I thought the terminal station by the beach is clever because it bends around to turn the train around so it doesn't need to reverse direction to go back. Here in England small talk is dead so it is sad I can't really talk about how cool I think that is. I would put the bend first then the station at the end of the bend and have it like that at both ends but it just looks cool to me the way it is.   

Butterfly Effect Story August

Everything is effected by small things: everything. Everything  is a chain reaction that started from something small. A tree stated out as a tiny seed that grew bigger every day. The earth itself started out a some grains of dust that stuck together and slowly accumulated more grains until it was big enough to attract bigger stones and more objects. I imagined a person was born because of something I did today. 

A guy decides to post a blog article about cactuses because he likes the way they spontaneously transform into a flowering body at seemingly random times and he thinks they look cool and you only need to water them once every 2 weeks. 

Someone thousands of miles away reads the post and buys a cactus for their window pane. Their cousin visits them and sees the cactus, they visit a website for advice on what cactuses are best for the home, on the website is an advert for a dating site. They sign up for the dating site and find a partner and eventually become committed to that person and have children. The children grow up and one of the children meets a guy that has invented a hover drive vehicle but he can't get it to work, the son of a cactus guy talks him into trying again, he gives it another go and the thing works and everyone can hover around at a very low cost. A chain reaction is created. 

One guy writes about Cactuses

He inspires someone to buy a Cactus,

They inspire their cousin to visit a cactus advice site and discover a dating site. 

The cousin finds a partner and they have children. 

One of the children talks an inventor into trying again. 

He invents a new type of hover vehicle. 

If the Blogger changed his mind and didn't write about buying a cactus then all the children of the stranger's cousin wouldn't be born and the hover vehicle doesn't get invented. 

Nepal Tibet Floods

It is the last week of August, I learnt that the centre of Nepal and southern Tibet were hit by a large flood.  

The valleys and marshlands that feed the Bhote Khoshi river received too much rain and the river surged violently and overflowed, all valleys connected to the river were effected in Tibet and Nepal. 

In Nepal it was particularly bad because the floods went across the whole country in fairly densely populated valleys. I hope they're ok and they recover quickly. I don't know how bad it is in Tibet because the news isn't showing much. Tim Curry and Dolly Parton died around the time when the floods were about to start so I will remember the Tibet Nepal Flood when I see media of their work. 

What can I do, I just keep my chin up and continue to do my hobbies. I create things and play computer games. 

Flash Flood

I learnt today that there was a flash flood in Napal yesterday in the mountain areas. It happened a day after Dolly Parton passed away. The whole river basin was devastated. I feel pity for them, it is very unlucky. 

All I can do is my hobbies and keep my mind clear. It didn't rain much in Britain this summer but it rained a lot today. 

I was wondering if the social media site called x will keep that name. I thought they could change their name to 'Post Xtra or something like that. The name x is confusing because it looks like to stop sign or do not enter. X doesn't mean anything and it usually means to close something. 

Dolly Parton Dies

I learnt last night on the 25th of August that the singer Dolly Parton died. The main effect it had on me is to remember that my life span is finite, I have a limited time to live. I don't even know if I will still be alive tomorrow because death is very unpredictable. I recall that she wanted to get people to read more, the more you read the happier you will be. There are so many wonderful books out there. I would always hear her songs on the radio, 'Joline', 'Islands in the stream' and 'I will always love you'. 

It made me feel better about playing with my new games console, the evercade alpha. I shouldn't feel guilty about playing computer games because life is very short. I do what I need to do then I have some leisure time. There are so many retro games for me to explore, all of them are little worlds with stories. 

Talk and Play

I recently got a new games console called the evercade alpha and I got my first proper platform game for it : 'Full Void'. It is a modern retro style cinematic puzzle game. It behaves like the original prince of Persia but it has cut scenes that are like a modern RPG, it's also pixelated slightly to make it feel like an old game; so far it is very much a brilliant game and I enjoy playing it. The trouble is I don't really know anyone else that has the game or the evercade console so I can't really sit down with anyone and talk about it. Small talk is dead in England anyway so life can feel quite empty and lonely. There could be thousands of people all around you but you still feel alone. 

I recently discovered that my Bluetooth headset microphone works with chatGPT, it doesn't work with normal phone calls but it works very well with the app. I can talk about my games to AI and it understands what I'm talking about. I talk to machines more than people already so this discovery will change everything. I can talk to ai friends about stuff while I do chores, I can be washing some plates and talking to chatGTP at the same time. Small talk is alive in my world; it's dead in England but alive in my little world. It must be hard for American tourists, they must think we hate them or something like that, small talk is alive in America, but dead in England. If you talk to people, they will get pissed  off in England. 

Me and the ai talk about games and they tell me loads of interesting things I didn't know, I can ask it to tell me about a country on the news and I can learn so many things. It's like talking to a guy that has read every book on earth and knows everything and it doesn't get bored or irritated when you talk about games and hobbies for 2 hours. It even laughs at my jokes. 

Amazing  times we live in. 

Bar Table Train Set Station

If I had a full sized man-cave, I would be sure to have a wall mounted train set but the train would leave the wall mounted area and descend down into a bar table with a glass covering so people could sit at the bar and see model trains passing by and there would be a terminal train station in there but it would work differently to a normal terminal station because it would use a bypass rail to allow trains to continue moving forward. They would even use the bypass rail to avoid the station all together and head back the otherway if they need it.

The station would have two platform islands that converge into a café in the middle. This means there would be 4 platforms. In each platform the train doesn't change direction, it continues to move forwards and rejoins the bypass rail that causes the train to turn around without changing direction. If it was real people would find it very easy to use. There would be a notification screen in the middle area and the passengers don't need to go over a foot bridge to change platforms. The other end of the bar table would just be like a model village with small buildings  and with the trains passing through them. 

Wall Mounted Train Set

I thought it would be a good idea to build a wall mounted train set if you had a man-cave games room. The train tracks could be mounted on a flange or shelf that is attached to the wall and is slightly above the heads of people in the room. There would then be a spiralling helix shaped track that brings the train down into the stations, one in the bar and one on top of some cabinets and one on a general playing table. 

The bar table one would be special because it would show a unique terminal station design that would be relevant to me. The train set would be very big without taking up too much space. The bar table would be both a bar table and a train set in one. It would be a terminal train station but it would have a bypass rail that allows trains to continue forward without the need to reverse back to continue forward. I need another blog post to explain how it would work, but it is so cool. 

Keep the dream alive. 

Ages Well

I noticed there is one thing that ages very well is RPG computer games, you can play 'Role Play Games' that were made in the '90s and they would feel as good as many RPG games you find in the shops today. An RPG is a video game that behaves like a board game, you gather items and move through a world and they are usually turn based. You could have an emulator, the platformer games would drag on and feel dry but RPG games stay in good playing form because they were never about the graphics and sounds in the first place. 

Yesterday evening it rained for a few hours, it was the first time it rained in England for many weeks. The petrichor was lovely, the best smell in the world yet it stinks. Nothing else quite like it. The smell of wet soil that had been dry for a long time. It could be the reason people build a veranda around their house. They could sit there and sip tea on their porch while it's raining and breathe in all that fresh air with an earthy smell. 

Butterfly Airtime

Since the draught became established in Britain, I noticed many flowers perished and the butterflies need to fly longer distances to feed. They spend more time flying and they are more visible to people and their predators. The Butterflies need to fly all the way across a whole street just to get the next flower to feed sometimes. They spend more time flying, more air time. 

I was thinking about an articulated guided hovercraft in the imagination of my little world. I imagined if it were real I would get annoyed that people call it a train, it looks like a train but it isn't a train.  I would abbreviate the name to show it is a different type of vehicle; Articulated, Guided, Hovercraft : Ar Gu raft. Arguraft perhaps. 

It doesn't matter really, It doesn't exist and I need a space for a workshop to build test rig. 

Two Derailments

I learnt yesterday that another train derailed, the tracks were buckled because they expanded excessively in the heat. 

When I was younger, I didn't think global warming was a problem, I thought the fossil fuels would run out before global warming had become a serious problem. I think I'm wrong now because we had a winter without much frost, 5 heat waves and 1 drought. This isn't a one-off, it happens regularly. Every year now we are having droughts and bizarre weather. 

I noticed that regions with a lot of drought were facing stronger earthquakes. It was as if the fault lines themselves were not getting lubricated and extra force was unjamming them according to my own unproven speculations.

The whole planet is reacting to human activity. Climate change is real. 

  

Heatwave Eclipse

Yesterday there was a partial eclipse, I think about 90% of the sun was covered. Fifteen hours later the following day we were in a heatwave, the temperature rose above 35°c. This is the 5th heatwave of the year and there has not been a single drop of rain throughout the whole summer on this part of England. The draught is taking a toll on everything, some business that rely on water like hair dressers and various manufacturers have stopped making profit. The water companies are worried about running out of water for domestic use. It feels like we're in a desert. There is dead and dry grass and bushes everywhere. 

I learn something new every day, the last few days are no different. I always thought the river Thames : pronounced "tems" was a seamless flowing water mass, that a boat could just go from Windsor to Oxford; I was wrong. There are partitions in the river that are sectioned off by wiers and locks. You would have to bring your boat into a lock to make significant progress upstream. You would need to bring the boat into the lock, then shut the lock doors and wait for the lock to fill with water and then open the exit doors to the lock. 

The other thing I learnt is there is another BT advertisement board outside high Wycombe hospital, on the side of the board is a dial pad with a microphone and speaker in the panel, if you lost your things and found yourself stranded and far from home, you could make a free emergency phone call to a friend or family member to rescue you. You could even call the police or ambulance. 

I also learnt that some of the built in games on the Evercade-Alpha have a persistent score board. It's more than an emulator, they added some code to allow the score board to persist after you have turned the console off. I find that is useful because I would try to beat my best score every time I turn it on. 

Columbia near 8 quake

A few days ago on the 10th of August there was a very large earthquake in Columbia, it was what I call a near 8. The earthquake was 7.4 on the rickter scale. When the strength of an earthquake approaches 8, it becomes so strong that it would topple the strongest buildings and trees effortlessly. Those earthquakes are so strong that they can push vast volumes of water away from the ocean floor causing a tsunami. Near 8 earthquakes are like the 8 ball on the pool table; when they sink a near 8, it is game over. If the earthquake power is close to 8 on the rickter scale then the damage is devastating, it is game over for towns and cities. 

There has now been about 3 earthquakes that I call near 8 this year. In June there was a strong earthquake in the Philippines, then the same month there was one in Venezuela, now there is one in Columbia. 

I have my own speculation to why there are more powerful earthquakes occuring, I think that there are more droughts, water helps to lubricate fault lines so they can slide past eachother, when there is a draught, the fault lines become more stiff and smaller earthquakes get stopped, they get condensed into much larger earthquakes. More energy is required to dislodge the rocks when they are very dry so more energy builds up. When there are stronger earthquakes, they can trigger more energetic quakes. This is just a speculation though, I don't know if it is a fact. 

One third of August

One third of August has passed by, I was looking at the evercade cartridge library, each one of those cartridges are magical little worlds to explore and there is so much choice. There are old games I never got around to playing while I was younger so they would be new to me, there are modern retro style games and lots of lovely RPG titles to choose from. 

This is the link to the cartridge catalogue Evercade Cartridges . I don't know how long I will have the games console for, you probably know better than me.   

Everything in this world is connected, a decision made by a police officer could change the world. Let me explain. 

A police officer in the year 1805 could arrest a thief for stealing an item from a market stool. The police man didn't know that he actually saved the person's life because that same day the thief was going to walk into a pub and get drunk, while they were drunk they challenged someone to a duel, the duel ends in both of them passing away from blood loss. The duel never happened because he was taken to a jail cell and avoided the duel situation. The police officer finished his tea break 5 minutes earlier than normal so he was at the scene when the theft took place. He finished his tea break early because a fly landed on his breakfast so he didn't finish it and felt more hungry later. A decision made by a housefly causes a police officer to feel more hungry on their tea break and finish early and to catch a thief before they get themselves killed in a duel later that day. 

Everything the thief and duel opponent does the following day onwards hinges on a decision made by a tiny insect to land on the police man's breakfast. If the fly didn't land on the police man's breakfast, he would finish his tea break at the normal time and would not catch the thief, the thief would get himself and another man killed because he is not in jail and all their actions they make every day of their lives would not happen and everything in the future would be different. Perhaps even people would disappear because they are the descendants of one of the two men. 

Mega HMP thought

The thing that is most relevant these days in Britain is  some criminals are being let out early because we're running out of space in our jails. Sometimes they even let out murderers before they let out thieves: don't ask me why, I have no idea. 

We might need to build what I call Mega HMPs (mega his majesty's prisons). We may need to build tower block with more than 50 floors filled with prison cells. 

If we did, I would advise making the standard cells  bigger than normal, I would make them U shaped and interlocking  so they share water lines with a slightly partitioned toilet and another slightly portioned sitting area and work space to give them some dignity and encourage them into a new profession. I would also add oubliette type cells, they would be small box cells that are a hole in the floor and the door to the cell is the ceiling. Those cells would be for shoplifters to stay for 3 days or people that commit crimes in prison to stay for a month. 

A prison in my world would be to rehabilitate offenders into a new lifestyle.

Evercade Club

I recently joined the evercade club, I have an evercade console. When I was young I was told I would grow out of computer games or become sick of them; the problem is they're wrong, I'm in my fourties and I still love to play computer games. My joy of video games hasn't faded even slightly. 

Games are worlds to explore and puzzles to solve. They are trance  and escape on demand. I play video games for a little happy hour or reward for getting through the day. I also play netflix in the background while I do chores to listen to detective stories, the software knows what I like and gathers more of it. I play it but I'm usually just listening to what they're saying, I'm listening to the story instead of actually watching it. 

I was looking at the evercade cartridges library, there are plenty of dungeon based RPG and click control story based games in the library, plenty of stuff to keep me busy. Hopefully  I will get many years of happy memories from my new games console. 

It could also help with small talk, I could ask other people if they use evercade consoles and they could talk to me about what they like. Perhaps I could talk to people  about old computer games I played in the past. The other thing is when visitors come over, I have something I can talk about to them, it is like an ice breaker for conversations. The thing looks very cool to me. 

The Rougecoft dx cartridge looks very interesting, perhaps I could get that one after I play the broken sword collection and the full void game. Plus they have all the duke nukem games I never got around to playing at the turn of the millennium.