Iran and USA at War

There has been some exchange of missile strikes between America and Iran. I'm an ordinary man I don't think about it. All I will say is the world is filled with ordinary people like myself that are not interested in war. 

I sit down and make a nice cup of tea or coffee and turn on my Nintendo. I play computer games and read a bit and try not to think about it. It's good to be an ordinary man sometimes. No one gives me a second thought or considers me a target to be eliminated. I'm just there.  

I sit down and play computer games. Sports games like golf, adventure RPG games. Things like that. Then there's netflix. I can sit down and watch Netflix, a nice crime- mystery documentary. It is so easy to please an ordinary man, a TV connected to games console and access to netflix is enough for me. 

USA Open Air Dungeon

I thought I'd draw a sketch that describes the image I get of the United States of America in the present  day. I have the image of a dark open air dungeon full of chaos and disorder. I don't like this image but that is the image I'm given by social media and the news. 

I drew some smooth curves and arches because the USA is a mix a order and disorder together as one, good things are happening  there but mostly it is angry mobs outbursting violently and stressed out people trying to keep themselves together. There is a drug emergency, with whole communities of people completely stoned out of their head and frozen into a stupefied mess. 

I hope they can pull through and have a peaceful happy  existence. 

Lockdown countdown

The second lockdown to slow down the covid19 virus has started in the UK. No liesure, no recreation, only shopping for food, essential work and waiting. It is cold and dark and the frost reaches the ground where I live at night, the coastal areas don't have to worry yet because they are close to sea level so the frost can't reach them before it melts, although some costal areas are hilly so the hilltops would get smeared with frost. 

It was at the start of the UK lockdown that the American general election votes were being counted. The outcome is a knife edge result, very close, an almost 50 : 50 split. The American political map resembles the British Christmas snap election one in some way, you have one big clump supporting Republicans(Trump) in the centre of the country and the east and west coast supporting Democrats(Biden) except Florida and nearby states. 

Politics wasn't the only rivalry occuring, games companies were releasing their next generation games consoles. PlayStation is taking online payments for the PlayStation 5, XBox has the XBox X and S, PlayStation and Xbox were releasing 4k masterpieces. Then you have the Atari VCS, a 4k video gaming PC that is souped up as a retro flashback combo system. If I was loaded with cash I would get all three of them, the XBox, PlayStation and VCS. 

My head was buried in my own little world, dreaming of having a bigger home with a room just for liesure called the "happy zone", a "man cave" filled with arcade machines and gaming tables with a drinks & coffee bar. I watch videos of all the "arcade1up" compact arcade machines. One of my creations has to be outstanding in some way to lift me and my small family out of the grey(gray) zone. I keep trying and never give up. 

Pacific fire

I have noticed that north Korea are threatening USA with missile strikes in Guam. I sense that the outcome could be grim if there is a war.

I think that North Korea is not a threat to America but I think that going to war could lead to more tensions later in the decades ahead as shifts in agenda and control could lead to a much bigger conflict between world super powers.

I hope that things calm down soon. I think that if they are left alone they won't bother anyone. They don't come across as expansionists although the regime is very grim for those that live there.

I am grateful that so far there is no Pacific war in this decade. Will the waters calm down?