What March 2020 means to me

It is the last day of March and it is true Spring. I called it Spring when I saw Daisies in the grass after the first week of March, you know what I'm like. 

It was in March 2020 when the whole world recognised the Covid 19 virus outbreak as a Pandemic infection and many countries enforced a lockdown on social activities. They put pressure on people to stay at home and only leave your home for essential things like work and buying food. 

I looked into the faces and eyes of my fellow Brits and saw anxiety. They were afraid of their monetary well being; they were worried about loosing their income.  I spent a lot of time at home myself because I fell sick and self isolated myself to protect vulnerable people from being infected. I wish everyone a good outcome and good health. 

One thing I have learned from the Pandemic is that the world economy is very brittle. A small thing like a virus can put the health of the economy in jeopardy. 

We came from a Mind

About 5 years ago I came to the conclusion that DNA and all the protein machines in our cells that interact with it came from a conscious mind. We are here because of the thoughts of a Being. 

A few years ago I downloaded an E book about how DNA works written partly by the man that discovered it. DNA is a molecule that is used to instruct Cells how to build themselves and how to make proteins from Amino acids. 

What I learned was that the DNA molecule is a code and each rung on the code can have one of 4 values using just 4 base molecules, Thymine, Cytosine, Ademine and Glytocine. The code is read by a protein machine, it reads 3 base codes at a time to form an instruction character with 64 possible combinations and that there was one character that starts a gene sequence another that finishes it. This blew my mind because it showed that our cells are like machines and every living thing on this planet has DNA that follows the same code and rules. The protein machines in my cells only read one side of the DNA rung and only in one direction and they work the same as cells in every other living thing on Earth. The nano machines in my cells read DNA the same way as plant cells, Bacteria cells and even Fungus cells. The Ribosomes are biological micro robots that work the same way in all living things. All DNA reading machines read 3 base codes at a time and follow the same codes to start and finish. They Ride the DNA like a zip and even use the instructions in the DNA to make more of them. 

This caused me to think that DNA and all the micro protein machines that interacts with it came from a Mind. Life on Earth came from thoughts of a conscious Mind because the simplest part of it is precise and extremely complicated. Every part of the protein machines that interact with our DNA molecules are extremely complicated and won't work if they are incomplete. 

We came from a mind of a being, we came from thought, all life. At least that is what I think. 

Do a Winslow

The movie franchise police academy was very popular in the 80s and 90s. There is one character on there that stands out, Lourel Jones played by Michael Winslow. He was the guy that would make sound effects with his mouth, he was able to initiate any machine or device with his mouth. 

I think that everyone has a bit of Michael Winslow inside them and they do a Winslow, they try to make a beep sound or try to imitate the sound of their kettle boiling. 

Mental health pandemic

One thing I have noticed is that many Brits seem to be stressed and suffering their own mental hell. They are afraid of the outcome of this Lockdown and feel helpless, they don't know what is going to happen to them. All I can do for my fellow Brits is try to give you some comfort. 

You are not free to go outside so try to play computer games and read about things that have nothing to do with the virus and watch videos of people making things on youtube and perhaps a few mystery shows on Netflix about solving crimes. Some favourite books of mine are Holocaust Memoirs, paranormal books and back stories to sci fi movies. The Bible book of Daniel is also very interesting. 

Keep your chin up and try not to think about the chaos that is happening all around you. If this blog gives you comfort then feel welcome to read it and if does nothing for you then don't read it, it is just a blog and I won't feel sad if no one reads it. 

Remember to pray my friend. Tell God how you feel and get it all off your chest. 

Noisy cars

If there is one thing that really gets on my nerves it is when people modify their cars to be noisy and they make as much noise as possible as late as possible. 

It can be very difficult to get a baby to sleep. You have to rock the baby on your shoulder for more than 20 minutes and gently sing a lullaby. When you finally get your infant child to sleep you don't want to hear the sound of a noisy car outside waking the baby up. 

What people do is they remove the exhaust pipe on their car and put a bigger one on the car that has fewer mufflers, you can hear the cylinders in the car burning and sputtering because the sound is no longer being muffled. They also put very loud speakers in the car because everyone wants to hear their shitty music blasting out. Then they add a turbo charger but it doesn't fit engine area so they change the hood door so it has a dent to fit the turbo charger, so now the noisy cylinders have a more compressed fuel mix to make even more noise with. Finally they over rev the engine while they are waiting at the lights so every person can hear their cylinders sputtering and their noisy drum music playing. 

Some people only think about themselves, they don't think about other people. They don't care that they are disturbing people's infants so they have to work harder to get their child to sleep again. or maybe someone is just watching something on TV and they don't want to hear their horrible noises. They don't care, they disturb everyone. 

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.