Happy places

There are two happy places that I am thinking of right now. I don't want to be sad, I want to be happy. 

One Happy place is sitting Infront of my small TV in my room and playing Conduit on my Nintendo. Conduit reminds me of Halo. It is a very fun game and has a similar look and feel to Halo.  I would play the network part of the game so I would shoot people's avatar in first person mode and they would shoot me. I would pick a map and a game mode and weapon set and the other players would do the same then the computer would randomly pick which configuration to play with. I always choose explosive weapon set , Marathon mode and the streets map, the streets map was just one street with little buildings and ledges for people to stand on. The explosive weapon set was a Rocket propelled grenade (RPG) gun and Marathon mode was every man for himself for 10 minutes with unlimited respawns. The secondary gun on the explosive weapon set was a plasma gun. Many people had no use for that gun except for me. I found it worked well shooting up staircases and over ledges behind a wall. I would use the plasma gun to pick off people that were hiding at the top of a staircase in ambush. I would know they are there because of my radar screen. I was a good player in my own eyes because I always found a use for the secondary gun in each weapon set and would always take out people that were hiding in ambush. The network part of the game is gone now. 

Another place I am thinking of is Abbey Park in Torquay. When I first got my driving licence in my 20s, I went back to a favourite childhood holiday place for the booth family. The Hotel we would go to every year was gone. It had been demolished and turned into flats but there was a special park that is still there, abbey park. Abbey park in toquary is a hidden paradise. It has a river flowing through it and a small forest and several lakes. It had lots of hills and I felt it was a place of outstanding natural beauty that few people are aware of. Many people don't know that there is a place called Abbey park in Torquay Devon UK and many people never will. When they Visit Britain they go to London and never know there are little pockets of natural beauty throughout the island. 

Watching crafts

It is spring 2020 and I will call it the lockdown Spring because many countries around the planet have imposed a lockdown to stop covid19 spreading. People can't leave their homes freely. Here in Britain we are only allowed outside to work, get food and go to hospital, essential things like that. 

For me the best way to get through a lockdown is to go on youtube and watch people make things. I love to watch people make lamps and tables using Epoxy resin and to make clever little things out of plastic bottles, stuff like that. I also love to write blog entries and make my own drawings, I rarely share them but do like to draw pictures, by my own standards my artwork is in need of improvement but that is the wonder of having such a hobby, seeing how much better you can be. 

I will write out some lockdown keywords for youtube to help you my friend get through this pandemic. They are ...

Crafts 

Epoxy resin 

Epoxy resin project

Epoxy resin lamp 

Epoxy resin table 

Home made fountain

Cleaver home craft toys 

Home made game 

DIY project 

The beauty of this list is that you don't need sound. You can play it with the sound off if you have a baby sleeping nearby. 

Keep your chin up and try not to think about the chaos that is happening all around you. 

May God keep us safe. 

Personal flight

I was thinking about personal flight and how many small propeller cartridges would be needed to lift my weight. I weigh 95 killograms. If a small cartridge was able to lift about 500 grams then you would need over 190 of them to lift my weight. To be safe I would say about 200 would be good enough because you need to allow for the added net weight from all the devices plus anything you are carrying and you would need a little bit more power anyway for extra control. 

One propeller cartridge is two propellers that spin in opposite directions, they are both powered by the same electric motor. Although they spin in the opposite direction they both push the air in the same way. They are nested in a small grill to stop the little propellers from hitting anything around them. 

The device I have in my head would be a kind of rigid shirt that has propeller cartridges built into it that fold outward when flight mode it switched on. I dream of trying to make such a thing. Perhaps it could be a back pack with an umbrella type thing that folds out. 

After Violet

One thing I often wonder is what ultra violet light actually looks like. We can't see ultra violet light because it won't go through the lenses on our Eyes and we don't have cells that will detect that light directly. I was thinking that if ultra violet light was visible then it wouldn't be violet, it would be a completely different colour that we can't imagine. Ultra violet light is very thin, much thinner than the cells in your retina and Infra red light is thicker than the cells in the retina. 

Not only would we see an extra colour. We would see several because there would be different mixtures with ultra violet light present. Ultra violet and yellow mixed together would make yet another colour. 

Current state

If I were to describe the world today I would say it was very much like a woman in labour. Distressing events pulsate through the world and they are all coordinated as if they were connected by one body with one distress. This Year in winter it rained incessantly for 3 months until the rivers could no longer cope and overflowed in old world continents like Europe. At the same time in the new world continents like south America and Australia there was very large bush and forest fires. Then there was a vast locust swarm that consumed many people's crops and at the same time a virus called Covid19 emerged and spread around the world and caused companiess assets and stocks to be less valuable while killing many people.

The whole planet is connected in ways that I don't understand and everything seems to work together as one. 

It is like a big event is about to happen that will change the world forever. 

Atlantic Catamaran

I was wondering if it was feasible to travel to America by boat, by Catamaran boat to be more specific. Well. All you need is a few stats and the calculator app on your phone to see. (Or just a calculator) 

Anyway 

There are 5,585 km between London and New York, that is 3,470 Miles. It's probably a bit more than that by boat because you have to go around Kent. 

Very large  and modern Catamarans can travel at speeds of around 80 killometers per hour or 50 miles per hour. 

Is it feasible? 

Well, no. You would be at sea for more than 2 days and then more than 2 days coming back again. I think people wouldn't want to spend 5 days at sea to go on a trip. Plus the cost of paying the crew for more than 2 days would add up so it wouldn't be significantly cheaper than flying there. Unless you made them go faster so they did the trip overnight or inside one day. The large ones that would take passengers don't go anywhere near the speed needed to cross the Atlantic in one day. 

You would need to travel nearly 150miles or per hour , 230 killometers per hour constantly just to reach America , but you can't because you would be crossing busy shipping lanes. You would need to slow down and be prepared to stop at certain points. Perhaps if they went to Bristol instead of London they would fare better. 

That's my verdict. With today's technology it isn't feasible to travel to from Europe to America by boat. You won't save much money and there would be many costs that emerge to the company providing the service. 

stay humble

Jacob, my Son. 

For the last 6 days I have been sick with a fever and dry cough and all my strength was gone. It takes all my strength just to stand up to use the toilet. I gave the virus to you and your mum unintentionally, you were both sick. 

This is how your second spring has started. Your Dad was sick and your mum was sick and you were sick. The whole world was facing a pandemic. 

I would say always be humble because every day something small can destroy your glory, take every day as it comes and try to be happy. The most important thing in this world is good health. You need good health to live well in this world so take care of your body. Eat foods that fill you up, don't have too much salt or sugar. I have developed a taste for vegtable soup because that is the only thing I can eat fully right now, my throat is enflamed.