Torch memory

When I was a young boy in the 90s, I was in the Cubs, I decided later that I didn't want to stay on into the scouts but that is another story. To cut a long story short, I'm not a people person so I should never be in social clubs.

One day we were taken camping, we slept in tents. There was communal toilets in the next field. At night when we needed to go to the toilet, we would get our torches out and navigate our way in the dark to the toilets. I really enjoyed doing that because the torch light was just bright enough to let me see where I am. In that place it was very dark at night, everywhere was pitch black. It is nice to walk around in a dark field with just a torch to guide you. It is hard to explain how joy can come from such a thing but it did.

I'm guessing that it is the simplicity of the darkness and the effect of the torch light on the ground that made it a joy for me.

My torch had a lense on it so it would slightly shimmer the light in the middle away from white and into the different colours when it wasn't level.

Jacob's Spring

I will remember April 2019 as Jacob's spring because my son Jacob was born in the middle of the month in the middle of spring shortly before Easter in the middle of the day in the middle of Buckinghamshire . He will most likely live most of his childhood in the 2020s. I hope that Jacob will have a healthy and happy youth with wonderful memories.

I ask Jacob, what does it mean to spend most of your childhood in the 2020s decade? What does it mean to be a 20s boy in the home of the Booths? Do you have happy memories? At the end of the 20s decade, Jacob will be 11 years old. All I can say is that I will listen.

Bad and Good

Two bad things happened recently that have a good side.

We were slow to get places for all the machines. But the three machines left all have coin mechs so when I change the coin plates over with those machines, I can take them from the machines that are not out and change the places 3 or 4 at a time. In other words, I can use the parts to the unused machines to make the coin change smooth.

I also had a virus and felt very sick and lost all my strength but that inspired me to change my video template for my radio show because I had time to think about things. I usually don't give myself much time to think about the present but I was forced to because I was too weak to do anything else. If I didn't get sick then I would not change the template.

There are two sides to a coin and every cloud has a silver lining. sometimes the silver lining is not visible, sometimes it is.

Also

When a car pushes in front of me on the road I imagine that it is money going into my bank account because road rage is good for no one. There is no point being angry. A jerk is not going to stop being a jerk. Literally, every car that shoots past me at 15 miles an hour above the speed limit is like a pound coin flying into my account. I am a slow driver so I get many imaginary pounds.