Kindle and Echo

Two machines that I think are very nice are the Kindle paperwhite and the echo dot. I use those two machines every day. 

I think that my kindle paperwhite weighs less than 200 grams and the battery lasts for days and weeks because it uses very little power. I tend to read non fiction journal books like "90 minutes in heaven" by Don Piper or Isaac Copperfield's memoirs of the Holocaust. My kindle has a back light so I can read books in the dark, the screen doesn't fade in direct sunlight because it behaves like ink on paper. One book that stood out to me was "23 minutes in hell" by Bill Weise, he was a man that claimed he was taken to hell for 23 minutes and he wrote about everything he saw in that place. He also made videos on YouTube. I'm not convinced Hell is like that but I don't know, I like to listen anyway. There are a lot of people on YouTube that claim to have visited hell, the keyword to find those videos are "NDE Hell". Near death experiences of Hell. 

I bought an echo dot because my radio broke and I realized that it costs the same money as the broken radio. I could listen to my favourite radio stations through the internet and also ask the smart speaker questions. I often ask it logical questions like what day will it be on the 15th of July and how many days are left before the 15th of July. Or I would say "Alexa, what is 123 divided by 14", things like that. Maths questions. I often ask my smart speaker to set an alarm, I would ask it is set a timer for 25 minutes or set an alarm for a certain time. Sometimes I ask my smart speaker to tell me the news. 

Nice Day

Jacob, my son. 

You have reached a new phase of development, you are constantly trying to talk. You say words all the time and always try to get through to me at my level. We have a small footstool to reach high places, you pick up the footstool and move it to different parts of the room so you can reach things that are high up, you use it with confidence. I have to stop you using it, sometimes I just hide the footstool. 

It was father's Day yesterday but I didn't do much, I was too busy I guess. 

I am puzzled about a few things. Why wasn't China a part of the G7 summit? Is their economy not roughly the same size as America? They had the G7 meeting in the UK. I don't know. Sometimes I feel like the Earth is pulling itself apart East pulling east and west pulling west. 

What is it like now in your time? What is the 20s and 30s all about? 

Father's Day

It is father's Day now and my birthday in about 3 weeks. The UK recently hosted the G7 summit, I was left with even more questions in my head. 

What did the leaders think of that part of my country? Why wasn't China part of the meeting? Isn't their economy close to the size of America? Did they eat inside the Eden project greenhouse? Why did they choose that hotel? Is it because they could make the whole beach private? things like that. 

We later learned that the social restrictions will stay in place until the 19th so my birthday will just be a simple private party with my family. 

We also had the European football tournament. 

I will take a large glass of Whiskey on my birthday, the bottle lasts a long time because I only take two glasses of whiskey per year, on my birthday in the middle of Summer and Christmas in the middle of winter. The bottle lasts for about 2 and a half years so if it were a wine bottle it would be mulled by the oxygen in the air, even if it was closed back up. 

Perhaps whiskey also gets mulled by exposure to oxygen but I can't tell if it does. 

All that is left to do is be grateful that I have lived another year and I am still in one piece and avoided painful diseases. My health is still ok and I have a lovely little family and they are all ok. 

Media Renaissance

I have kept my dream alive of being a indi docu film maker (Independent documentary film maker). I make lots of short videos as often as I can, when there are half a million subscribers to my channel I will make a full length movie that is over 1 & ½ hours long. 

I have been doing lots of research on Jupiter and hope to add a short documentary vid about the Juno Probe before my birthday on the 15th of July. If successful it will be added to the alanasis play list. Like steps on a ladder, I learn from each video and improve the product slightly. 

When I have 100 subscribers, I will take a glass of whiskey, then when I have 200 subscribers, I will take another glass of whiskey, then 400, 800 and so on; at the moment I only take a glass of whiskey on Christmas and my birthday so if the bottle was wine it would be mulled by air exposure already. Mulled wine only tastes good when the weather is cold, I'm not sure why though. 

Washing machine soap drawer

I like the soap drawer on a clothes washing machine. Most washing machines that I know of have a soap drawer with three segments

If you pick a long wash cycle then it will flush soap into the washing drum from all three segments in sequence from left to right. The last segment is set up as a reservoir so I think they expect you to put a liquid in there. 

What I would do is put soap powder in the first two segments and fabric softener in the last one. 

But sometimes the skin soap in the bathroom is the size of a coin and hard to use, if the soap is like that I will put it in the first segment of the washing machine, then I will put powder in the second segment and I will put cheap perfume in the third segment. The £ shops sell perfume for £1, I would put that in the third segment to make the clothes smell nice. 

I don't like those all in one power pod things that you just put directly into the drum; I'm just set in my ways. I have my own way of doing things and don't like like changing my habits. 

Did I mention that most people find me very boring in this world, I'm not exaggerating. 

G7 Conference

This year the G7 meetings were held in Cornwall England. As an English person I was curious about what the G7 leaders thought of the place. 

I have never been to the Eden project myself but I have been to Devon and Cornwall. It is a very beautiful area, the soil is a reddish colour and there are lots of beautiful rolling hills with lots of hidden country parks that many people don't know about with lakes and beautiful gardens. It is a coastal area. 

I'm sure that one of the big topics that came up was climate change. In recent years it has become obvious that we are changing the climate. The air is warmer and drier than it was in the past. I was in denial myself for many years but I saw the evidence with my own eyes. I saw winters with hardly any snow or ice, I witnessed the wildernesses of the new world continents burning up, I saw record rainfall in winter and record high temperatures often. 

I thought of some ideas that may help like making a floating bridge with paddle wheels inside it. The bridge wouldn't disturb the fish because it floats on the surface of the water and the paddles only penetrate 10cm under the water. The fish would swim under it safely with no problem. 

People walking on the bridge would never see the paddle wheel because it is concealed under the bridge and only the paddles stick out in the middle on the underside of the bridge. 

I think flowing water is the future of energy production because it is persistent and contains a lot of kinetic energy. It can push many heavy duty water wheels. 

Grains of Dust

OldAlan,

did I take good care of your body? Is your health good so far? 

 I feel unhappy with the lack of progress, I feel like I'm not getting anywhere sometimes. Sometimes my patience is being put to the test. Will things get better? Sometimes all I can do is wait. I keep waiting and working. Just waiting for a decision, waiting for a breakthrough, waiting for my creations so shine, waiting for my world to change. 

I keep my eyes set on the goals ahead. I try to be greatful and remember that I still have good health for now and I have a means to change my world and the world around me. 

I started to share a window of my world to all the people just to give life some meaning, like I am leaving ripples in a pond that may help other people in ways I can't imagine.