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| God forbid the goldfish were gone! No, I bought a bag of daphnia, which usually took mine a few days to hoover up, but these two (large as they may be) didn't leave many after a few hours. They looked happy for the first time I'd seen them though as they would usually catch their food live in the wild and had no trouble knowing what to do this time. Grace has the internet now for her studies but apart from email can't be bothered using it except for work. She liked youtube here but maybe I'll give her some encouragement next time I'm there. But to be fair she has a heck of a lot more social life than me so between the work and going out hasn't so much time to spend hours getting involved. I however have all the time in the world, more so since I lost my grandma as I spent so much time there in the last few years of her life. Without the internet I'd be stuck, although maybe my music and painting would have improved as those were the only other indoor activities besides the TV but unlike the internet you don't interact with other people which is half the reason I use it. |
Reply #821. Jan 12 12, 10:03 PM
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It's gone a bit quiet ideas and business wise. The week produced more than one has for ages altogether, but I've pretty well run out of ideas now and my work projects seem to have died a death which is basically the essence of working in the media, paid or free. I am hoping for some more inspiration now, something I've known about most of my life, and these ideas aren't directly obvious to me, or even from me at all at times, but just come to me as I'm sure they do to everyone. I saw my friend's cousin from America again tonight as she usually comes here every year so always a nice reunion. I didn't need to do any shopping this week as my cleaner brought one lunch for me (she's a cook so tends to help) and still had all my Christmas presents to finish before they started going off. Losing weight means suffering and as long as I'm not adding any more have pretty well given up on that as firstly I know how it feels for months and secondly it doesn't last very long and pretty much like gardening as a permanent mission.
So another instance of the vacuum and pretty much seeing if anything fills it. I've given up the idea of trying to think of new ideas and will rely on the passive method which tends to work more often than racking my brains. I played a little trick which worked in the past for tomorrow as the ex from the north is coming a second weekend, and the cleaner was coming tomorrow so made myself unavailable, and although now been and gone my excuse was so good I kept it. The ex is a pain of the highest proportions and I no longer have the energy for the automated orders as soon as I arrive where she's spent the time on the train deciding where I should take her. It's been the same now on and off for 20 years (sucker for punishment) and I don't have the strength for it nowadays. The couple of places I'd thought to take her (I can sometimes just say no and choose myself, and she always likes the places anyway) one has closed and the other closes on a saturday. Not tomorrow, I will do whatever else I like and although it may well be dull and predictable it will be relaxing. |
Reply #822. Jan 13 12, 8:11 PM
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I am a bit naughty as my cleaner was such a get out of jail card I had to use it today, the ex was quite happy shopping all day as she comes to London regularly and rarely comes north to see me nowadays, which is just how I like it. I know a few people can just say no I don't want to be dragged around all afternoon wherever you insist we go, but I did try that once and she just turned up anyway. As that's the sort of opposition I'm dealing with then any escape is better than getting trapped. And I was free last Saturday and only didn't see her as she'd left her phone behind so I couldn't get hold of her and I was on the phone when she called me. What a shame...
I spent today getting the paperwork out of the way and found I'd done no filing for about a year, mainly as I can't find either of my hole punches which get the bills in the folders. They should both be on my desk and may well be but I haven't seen them. My required form for an annual work renewal was finally tracked down in the drawer I keep my notes in, the last place left as it never reached its own file. That's done for another year now although I have two a year as rather than have a single official therapy qualification there are no national rules and many groups as a result make their own, and if you're not in them both then you won't get a lot of business.
Still not a single plan (besides tidying the paperwork now I've had to wade through a heap of it), I may go to Croydon if I get the chance next as can be reached in time and passed through last time with very few photos as going beyond it. But letting fate take its course has worked for weeks now, I've got the photo trips done by 4pm or so within the maximum possible distance you can get by then, and got the next one of the rarest road signs after finding it after about an hour online when I started looking again. Grace seems to be a bit more talkative at times, and even quite sensible (maybe its in contrast with the ex who is unfortunately a few sandwiches short of a picnic) and with reality being the opposite of fiction, is pretty much the best offer I have at the moment. I doubt it'll be withdrawn at any time and she says she's not even expecting to meet anyone else let alone looking, but going from friendship to marriage with no relationship in between is pretty much like jumping out of a plane with no reserve parachute. Being alone at maybe 55 or so may make the decision for me as I don't really find she gets on my nerves, and did try a few times to get her to stay over just to see what it's like over more time, but she wouldn't even do that, although she did want to be a lodger some time ago when I'd had enough of them. She really is like a very expensive jigsaw but with a bit missing, and you wouldn't buy one as a present or even for yourself however nice the picture is. As VM likes the Grace stories I may as well let my mind run off free as over time people can either grow on you or the opposite, and as she has everything else I want I really want her to grow on me as she is a good catch otherwise, a bit like the one I did want but so did her ex as soon as he heard I was seeing her. But marriage (as that is all that's offered) should be a positive not a negative act, as it's the best you can do rather than who you really want. But many marriages are who they both really want on day one and sooner or later they don't stay like it. Who knows.
The news is still nothing but speculation, besides a carbon trading fraud of billions just being convicted in France. Hopefully many more will now follow as really you can't do it without committing fraud, except it has been legalised, these guys just didn't include the taxes when they made their money from the air. The mafia is now officially Italy's biggest company (how do they get access to that information?), at 7% of GDP and now pretty much running the country. All I can say is I doubt it'll stop there but spread to others. The Euro non-crisis crawls on as slowly as watching a constipated cat wander around the flowerbeds hoping for a result (I studied Shakespeare you know, such flair does not come from the top of people's heads) and with the money ending up with the IMF then one way or another they'll bleed everyone dry to keep their dream together. Linguistic union is an essential of a federal state otherwise what's the point of sharing your resources and government? And taking the largest population and economy there's only one, isn't there. Think about it. Third time lucky maybe? Nein danke! (they've got me already!). |
Reply #823. Jan 14 12, 8:37 PM
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As often happens on Sunday the little sport still left on TV is on all afternoon so that kept me busy apart from going to the gym and a walk beforehand. Potential traffic tomorrow may limit the directions I can go in, and then the time the distance, and will just let nature take its course. I can't have the same freedom for another couple of months so just keep making the best of it. I will also be spending more time filing now I've realised how high the piles have become so when it gets dark I will get going.
I am thoroughly fed up with all the talk about the Euro. The EU have almost unlimited choices to fix it and each time a country gets a bit wobbly it works something out. Even if people there were to starve they'll make a sure as they can to save the currency whatever happens to the people. To the commissioners it's like oxygen and they'll act like drowning men to keep their oxygen flowing. If by a miracle it does all come undone we'll know within a few minutes. Till then I tell all the media to report news and we'll let the astrologers make predictions.
Otherwise I am aiming to get to Hertford next as a fairly easy route I should manage before 4pm, will see if Grace's family want me to install plants in the fish tank (and ctually I intend to check the prices of a new one altogether as the plastic one can't see through the sides now), so have plenty of excitement to distract me from the fact there isn't really any excitement. As far as winning prizes is concerned those old warning signs are so rare that's pretty well 2012 done for me and it's only half way through January. Another TV appearance of course is something other people will also know about rather than a personal collection, but can't expect too much on that as the opportunities are pretty limited in my area. Do people really think it's nicer not to tell you you won't be used than make it a certainty? It makes no difference to me as because they must have started already then it's pretty obvious so they've saved three minutes emailing me, or 5p on a phone call, and I worked out the message anyway. These guys are usually so nice to you when they may want you, and then you become dog mess on their shoe when they've eliminated you from the picture. Is the niceness all show? Maybe some of them are too busy to care about non-essentials, and nice as long as you're still alive to them, and after that you are simply history, which is quite ironic as it's for the History Channel. I'll even watch it when it comes out, although it'll probably be tabloid muck and no actual evidence (I investigate a lot, and sadly there hardly is any, only some radar tracks and received information not known by the subjects), and just thank goodness there are others I am in and are still being shown 5 years later. Interviewing a celebrity for the first time would have been a career step up, but we can only die with what we did do and not the misses. Who's done everything they could have done? It's too easy to look at a lump of cheese and focus on the holes, but although it's already been eaten I've had plenty of cheese as well. I even finished my Stilton before the use by date last week. |
Reply #824. Jan 15 12, 6:00 PM
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I did well today, and filled a large patch to and from Dorking which had been driven through but on the way elsewhere and only once stopped en route and took a few photos. Not now though. I posted the dodgy Italian watch back the day it arrived, the worst rain I'd seen for years and by coincidence caught my cold the very next day. Anyway, besides my usual writing in Britain if we just have the house number and postcode it will get there as they are all unique. The guy is just calling me an idiot and talking rubbish while for all I know it's there already and he's trying to punish me for setting up a dispute by mistake instead of asking him for a refund. First time, that's how trial and error works, get over it. It's really not a lot of money but this guy is a seller and won't get probably much more than he'll gain by a lost refund from my comments on his site. Here the customer is always right, if it was a car or a computer then fair enough, it's a watch which shouldn't ever have been offered for sale, it's a return and as such the manufacturers would have returned the cost automatically. Who would sell returns?
Anyway, I've never seen Paypal perform in a dispute as it's the first ever, except some weirdo who said I didn't pay him for a scam he was running (£1) and took him weeks to discover I had, but that wasn't a real dispute. I can't do anything, he says I should have sent it tracked, considering he sends things tracked as we pay for it, I trusted our postal system (any problems are almost guaranteed to be his end, remember now the biggest company in Italy is now officially the mafia, 7% of GDP) and if I was a member myself he'd be getting part of a horse tonight and I don't mean the head this time either, 'nuff said.
The week ahead is free, the ex says she'll be early tomorrow, something will hold her up. Then Hertford is planned next, having done the two corners around the Essex border already. And after I get home that filing will be done, and otherwise pretty much unknown. But so has the last month been and besides the trips being shorter I've been busier than for ages. Plus the road sign.
Today's lesson (a good one, pay attention). Robert Monroe describes out of body experiences where he's put in the same situation over and over again till he learns how to deal with it properly. No teaching or even hints, he's on his own and as it's like a dream he can fail over and over again with no loss. I am getting the same things. One problem repeats over and over again, and until I spit on it and turn away as it is not worth caring about I seem to get them constantly until I do it properly. This is teaching from the satguru. An outer guru says 'Here's a difficult situation, these are the best ways to deal with it'. The satguru just creates a situation and has no one to rely on except itself. Unlike an exam it gets endless tries, and if it takes hundreds of lifetimes (if you're a Buddhist anyway), no one will help you, it's your problem and it's assumed you have the resources completely already and just have to use trial and error till one works. Like having a lock and a million keys or numbers. They all look the same so we don't even have a clue which may be wrong or better, we just have to try them all and hope we get lucky.
The one clue is within, intuition. If we just ask ourselves given two choices which feels better, we get an answer. The more we do the clearer it is. So instead of turning every key or number we think of them and soon start to feel which may be better than the other, they still look the same but something above our senses tells us what we need to know. No need to know how or why, it's the highest level of knowing and doesn't need Einstein to tell us the mechanism to use it.
So this is my guide ahead, my own intuition and trial and bloody error. I've broke quite a few things along the way but mostly seem to have healed up since, as far as I know. All ten fingers are present etc. And our minds are almost infinitely flexible. How can you feel so good at one point, so bad straight away for whatever reason, and then good again? It's not like our body that takes weeks to heal. It's actually chaotic, unless we're one of the few lucky enough to take it in hand and tame it. I'm not one of them though. But have to learn to let go of the rubbish collected from the past so I can have the energy flowing clearly in the future. |
Reply #825. Jan 16 12, 8:26 PM
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It's just minor irritations at the moment but with the absence of other activities is really all we see. The Italian job is going sideways, he's calling me all sorts of things when all that's happened is he promised me a refund, I sent a faulty watch back and he says it hasn't arrived. He would now wouldn't he. So I said he's in business and I'm the customer and as he's on Ebay wouldn't he rather have good feedback, so he accuses me of blackmail although if a customer posts something with a receipt then isn't it not our fault what happens next? This will clearly run the full length, anyone selling dodgy kit is hardly going to be the easiest to deal with after all.
I went to the camera shop a few days after the guarantee ran out on my card reader (I only just found it and didn't know) and found they'd gone. The nearest shop would cost me nearly as much to get to than the card reader so sent them an email and asked what I'm meant to do. You don't spend more to return something than it costs do you. At the moment I can use it most of the time but it's heading the way the old cable did and it only has two, the one I use now is moulded onto it so can't be swapped for a good one like the extension cable which died months ago. All good fun. I then drove on towards Hampstead Heath which was the nearest place for a walk in today's sun, took some nice photos and came home via the shops. The ex said she'd be early which I doubted, and came even later than usual. No surprises there.
So indoors my work is cut out for a while, although the two hole punchers appear not to be on the desk, in the cupboard or anywhere else so far. I'll just put the bills in the file without being clipped in for now as they've reached half way up the wall. Otherwise my mind is a blank besides the next photos and will just see what happens. |
Reply #826. Jan 17 12, 7:38 PM
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Why does one half of the population laugh at nanny state consumer protection laws, while the other half is laughing at how easy they are to break?
Reply #827. Jan 18 12, 8:43 AM
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Although I've never got the difference it's the old sheep and goats scenario, give everyone the same power and each will use it to different ends. The power is neutral but the people are a complete set of positive and negative. But everyone knows what cheating is whether they're doing it or it's done to them. Normal laws say not to cheat, nanny laws say not to sell things to people who may abuse them, that is the line governments cross from protection to moral laws.
I was given a day at home today, I couldn't get back at a normal time as the ex arrived and left even later than usual, and as it happened it rained anyway and I hadn't intended to go anywhere for photos as went to Surrey on Monday already. The next one will take some time and really need a longer day than January offers (or February really). I've just mostly been mopping up research and conversations I'd started online yesterday and quite a few on the phone. It's definite now the TV programme's filming tomorrow and without me, and the chance of them contacting any unsuccessful applicants is always around zero, however nice they are in advance. I just have to be thankful how many I've done already.
So really just tying up loose ends today, and been inspired to keep going with the spiritual work from a friend now abroad who has carried on hers since she left and has pretty well ended up finding out exactly the same as I have. Now my results are patchy but fairly certain, in that there's enough to go on to know more or less, but very rare in appearance. I'm not getting any younger and simply want to cash in my investment while I still have time to spend it. I've been working on this for 20 years and although always adding to the knowledge the actual changes or improvements are the rare crumbs along the path. Although the awareness alone that there is probably a total source of power I've discovered which is both real and available, I'm not certain yet and cannot yet get much satisfaction from the first level of discovery as I'm not that sure I still may be wrong. Spiritual work is basically the short cut to everything, dropping individual routes to achievement and putting them all in one at the top. If you get connected that way everything else comes with it, so rather than win a few battles and end up not much better off, this is pretty much like slaying the whole dragon and killing the enemy. No wonder it takes a long time and forms as slowly as a stalactite.
There's no rule which says this mind you, it can happen in any time and way, and without even knowing it's possible. There's no rule or guide to follow, no teacher has it all and in the end we look around and get pieces here and there until you end up with something you can use. One element I did notice today was my own train of thought was cut off so I could realise how much was coming from elsewhere. I have been explaining science and accounting to people and somehow although giving up at 16 was quoting laws of physics I hadn't done since and didn't even understand properly. I wrote a piece on financial accounting and was just about to write a final point when I was distracted and lost it. I have no idea what it was but the point for me was that it is possible that information wasn't mine in the first place. So many times I start answering a question and just know all the examples as if I'm reciting a script, and looking back on the accounts am at a total loss as what the part was I'd lost after following the rest through. I'd like to add it for purposes of completeness, but the demonstration of a possible higher source of information is the most important part.
I have written pages of scientific impossibilities after reading IPCC reports, and without any reading just wrote what seemed obvious to me and why, and later read exactly the same analyses on scientific sites. They were mainly based on basic principles, laws of conservation of energy, equilibrium and constant exchange of heat. All blindingly obvious and gave examples of each which were also obvious when I gave them. The scientists who dared to break them are the highest on the planet, and if they think they can get away with such cheating to further their careers in the name of criminal politics, while someone like me with O level science can see straight through it just like Penn and Teller at an amateur magician's performance amazes me. These sums don't exist, let alone add up. The sea is not a battery. Heat cannot be generated without an additional source. Heat leaves an object at an even rate to eventual temperature equilibrium. Water evaporates steadily in a constant environment. Every one of these is known by us all, yet all would need to be broken given one single theory from 1981 which guides world climate policy, all contained in a computer programme set up to break said laws and produce a scenario that 20 years later since it was created has overestimated the changes at around a factor of 10 yet is still used despite actual changes virtually being within error bands of measurement, ie significantly zero.
So like going to the gym the climate and related areas have worked my mind and expanded it to what are infinite potentials unlike the body. No memory limits there. I can see it happening but am right at the beginning of what is possible. |
Reply #828. Jan 18 12, 5:33 PM
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Thank goodness this place is free. A double post? Yes, if it's your own blog. Thank goodness for netiquette.
Anyway, I am just sending my pictures for online backup (20 hours). I don't really need to, many are on storage and I've got an external drive as well now, but my ISP offers 5gb so why not. I did actually want to finally use my free web space (it's a proper one so can't do wysiwig but need to learn FTP, god forbid) and seems all they did was swap the space from websites to storage. Peter and Paul situation apparently, unless I learn otherwise. Having hit the brick wall with my article plan B was to post it online as a PDF, and although I can probably bung it on my old site no one uses it and would get lost in the jumble. Otherwise it's the hassle of finding a free server and learning web design. I'd use a couple of short words now but just think of them.
The main reason I'm here is for inspiration, as my 24 hour rule has dried up as I've run out of plans for tomorrow. I have about an hour's shopping which may not be completed as if you look for specific items they often can't be found. I've tried four shops already to prove it. Yesterday one shop (two actually as they shared the space and I needed them both) weren't even there any more, and surprise surprise I've had no reply from the email yet. I can't go to another branch as they're not even in the same county, so will wait and see if they can offer any recompense. If I'm up early and feel like it I could take photos, having driven to Dorking on Monday am really pretty sorted for a week or so, and the remaining trips are all quite tough ones as I comnpleted the last easy one last week. I am heading to Ilford where my grandparents lived next, assuming the roads open long enough to get there in daylight (the last time was a record delay, but the alternative route was almost unusable and is not now), but if not then although I can do my filing (I was replying to comments today) the shopping and maybe another little walk will be pretty much it.
Anyway, from having absolutely no ideas I now have at least one little one and one big one, that's why I came back here, and had I someone here to talk to it wouldn't be so necessary to work out what to do as there's no time to spend in conversation between or including other activities. Plus if I didn't say so already my friends in America are now apparently set for at least three more years there so have bent over and kissed my social life goodbye on that one. The inertia principle seems to apply yet again, once something's happened it's more likely to persist than change. They intended to go until 2009 so had already applied, and now appears to have taken over altogether. Some you win... My friend's wife is now fed up and wants to come back but without some kind of divine inspiration hasn't a way of doing it (I know some reasons but not all of them). I can only join her in her wish. |
Reply #829. Jan 18 12, 8:43 PM
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Not because I needed a lot, but something hard to find I spent more time shopping today than I have for years. First the length of Finchley Road NW11 looking for a replacement 10 colour ballpoint (I always use one as looks nicer than the usual colours), and just went to the bank and got a free paper there after trying goodness knows how many shops. The discount chemist has gone so not sure where my cheap electric toothbrushes are going to come from now as that was on the list as well.
Then back via Golders Green where I got the food I needed, and the last possible likely shop in Hendon came up with a winner, over 10 shops since Monday and finally got one although usually they are in most suitable ones. And it was a good quality one as the colours vary in every make. I got a new mousemat as well (each lasts maybe five years and was overdue for another), and then more picture hooks, and as from an art shop were half the usual price as they came one at a time and not in a pack. So I actually finally got everything on the list and seems to be a new free carpark in Hendon, right next to the meters, which is definitely a surprise. And most of the meters were empty, serves the grasping buggers right.
My next photo trip is worked out, when I'm up in time and feel like it. No rush anyway, at least it's all planned anyway. The next job is my first investment has to be rehomed as finished today, either there'll be an obvious replacement or it'll just sit there and earn nothing for a while. So today a little shopping got dragged out and filled half the afternoon. All sorted anyway. |
Reply #830. Jan 19 12, 4:10 PM
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The week has been pretty busy regardless, a reasonable photo trip on Monday basically followed by shopping and longish walks. The filing began today when the better of the hole punches turned up more or less where it should be, and can shred a good deal of old bills having put most of the new ones away. So not too many loose ends left, and a specific photo trip next which needs me to have the energy and light available to do it, possible next week but easier beyond. I really need more inspiration, the first step is catching up on my phone calls to various old friends which will begin the next time I have a chance, one (the one I can't remember ever smiling since 1984) will be moving back locally this year and if she wants to see me will rather see her than the other women as although she is a bit odd is far better than the extremely odd ones now. The fact my friend's wife didn't like her when I took her round there means I'd never dare for more as women know better than us, and as the relationship never got off the ground then it's going to take some doing to this time round.
I am also getting understandably impatient the way the revelations I read most days online barely reach the news, let alone cause any criminal and professional investigations. I know, the authorities can't investigate themselves, including the British government who just posted false accounts on what they refer to as 'renewable energy'. As windmills petered out after a 3000 year history till this millenium they pretty well speak for themselves,and solar panels are like trying to get a calculator battery to power your house. Unless they find a new material for them they convert a small amount of light to power and the rest of the time do absolutely nothing while you've already paid the bill. But the tables of costs show a modest 100% increase per kilowatt for the least useless method (wood I think, highly advanced) to a 1,200% increase for offshore wind and solar water heaters. This is because their fuel isn't constant or their output, and never can be. Anyway, back to the point, our wonderful government made up figures to persuade we the people that our bills won't be increasing when switching from fossil fuel power stations to whatever else they've got in store for us (I hear twisted rubber bands are on the drawing board next) while the figures have been known and public for years by every single energy website pro or anti. If a private company (Enron in particular) had falsified their prices in their advertising they'd be down for false accounting and fraud, but if the government does it who can enforce the law against them? They are the bloody law. So currently the best we can do is learn the information so they are not working in the shadows but everyone knows they are lying to us. |
Reply #831. Jan 20 12, 5:31 PM
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Well well, how time passes. The good news was after pretty much using up the reasonable journeys until the spring I returned to Streetview looking for old road signs- I've covered a lot but always fringes plus some roads they hadn't done till recently, and Saturday night found one which was all brown and illegible, but in the sort of place an old sign would be. It wasn't too hard to get to so went along yesterday and it was a pre-war traffic prohibition sign in almost perfect condition, the photographic quality being down to the camera they used and fog. It got me some more map coverage just south of the A25 as well so two jobs in one. The A25 runs underneath London pretty well to the east coast and anywhere south is holiday territory as beyond the urban area and all countryside till the coast besides some godawful places like Crawley and Burgess Hill on the way (I think Burgess Hill was pretty rough, I certainly planned never to return).
So it's Monday and I can relax a bit already. If I get up in time I've got another trip planned but a pretty ambitious one which may need to wait. There are very few closer ones left as I've done them all since the clocks went back already. So I've done my little bit of looking and the system has delivered by providing. Maybe the same could happen for the women next but that was never such a rich vein of material, more like a booby trap. |
Reply #832. Jan 23 12, 12:25 PM
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I'd call the current situation potential. Many things could happen (three at least) if I do them, only depending on when I wake up and partly the weather. Grace's sister arrived from America today so will be seeing her some time in the next week or so since she went there with her new husband god knows how long ago, but no idea which day or even week. I am hoping the mechanic working next door will finally service my car before I wake up as well as it's over a week since he had the key, there is little or no shopping for a while so pretty much an open book.
I am certainly not impatient with the news, as some stories have been knocking around for up to a year now while life and business worldwide carries on as usual. Iran has not blown anyone up (that's a good thing when it comes to speculating incorrectly), while Greece appears to have sealed its debt issues (as someone on this very blog predicted although I'd celebrate if it fell apart) and no one's been hauled up over Climategate as it involves the highest level of government corruption so impossible to allow it to be exposed in court or otherwise. I have been trained to allow my investigative abilities, and once you have opened that set of eyes then you can see it all, as people can't really lie to you for very long or carry out a fraud without the signs being as clear as when you shine a black light on fluorescent paint. It's a very limited scope, the same situation reworked in a few ways but basically a 360 degree system of mutual protection and blackmail, ensuring all the chains remain linked as if you get someone else into trouble you get everyone into trouble. Above that is they who must be obeyed, the top tier which can't be touched or removed as they are the law, so are happy to announce every now and then what they are doing as they know perfectly well they've done it already and there is no authority above them to hold them to account. Who could prosecute the UN for treason? Good question, answer, no one.
So basically the mafia now run most of the world. Not local mafias any more, as now they have joined together much like the previously isolated band of obscure climate departments in universities, so each now makes the laws in their own country while being fed the script from above. Is it a coincidence that the interest rates and bank bailouts have been almost identical around the world (except for Iceland) while no new regulations have been introduced to stop the banks continuing 40 times leveraged deals, short selling, structured derivatives etc, which are basically the same as mock auctions and ponzi schemes but legal if carried out by a bank or government.
Once you learn the mafia ways it's dead simple, they are no different to the internet scam emails except they are authorised by law. Invent profits for a company based on non-existent assets and quite rightly you will go down for fraud, but call them carbon credits and tell the public they will save the planets and they become a way to slice portions of wealth from every company and individual not in on the game on earth. Nothing is complicated, it's all based on legalised and justified wealth removal, and the cruder the method the larger the sum. This latest and largest of all is the equivalent of walking through a train, clubbing each passenger on the head, stealing their wallets and walking off with the guards tipping their hats to you. Not subtle or complicated, a basic primitive raid no different to the Vikings or Huns. Rape and pillage, but with suits and calculators. If you imagine and see your taxes as being a Viking raid then all but the decapitations and fields of burning shells of buildings will have occurred, much like the neutron bomb which kills the people but saves the buildings for occupation by the enemy.
Once you see this fraud as if watching Penn and Teller without the screens and camera angles the magic goes and it's like being bound and gagged while the police look for the person who did it in front of you. You make a sound but no one can understand you. But that lovely man Barack Obama could never be working for anyone else, he's the president. George Soros gives millions to charity, how could he want to sell arms to both sides so they can wipe out thousands of people while he takes the money and turns his back. How could Chris Huhne lie to the police to save his driving licence? How could FIFA officials ask for bribes to get countries to host the world cup? You see, half these scams were proved, others are under investigation while others may never be made public. But I see them all regardless if convicted, accused or ignored. They are all the same, but only those whose eyes have opened are able to see them for what they are. Maybe by writing this it may open a few more eyes, I can only hope and teach. |
Reply #833. Jan 24 12, 10:28 PM
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I'm writing another article based on the last piece, I didn't plan a single word of it, I was writing about the news then all the material followed. If I hadn't had this blog I may well never have written it. There you go.
Besides it getting dark today earlier as it was overcast I need energy to drive further and further for new areas to cover. I must find activities locally as well as I collect obsessively and only tend to stop when the material does or something new comes along. I was up in time today but really didn't feel like it so went for a walk in the fields and did my shopping on the way back. Otherwise I will hopefully do a trip south over the weekend, and if I'm up in time and feel like it hope to go east sooner or later as that's the least covered direction.
So otherwise it's pretty much down to inspiration. It often comes just when I need it, sometimes I just start off in a direction and the rest follows on its own. If I'm lucky. |
Reply #834. Jan 25 12, 11:35 AM
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Last night I wrote a 10 page article on organised fraud which I am now editing before printing. It overlaps a little of my 18 page climate change fraud piece, but ideally want to add it as a preview as all part of the same area. I am fascinated by fraud and as studied it for my degree have some familiarity with the legal process and love to see the real examples to draw parallels and possibly with luck alert more people to the signs so they can be checked sooner than they currently are.
Otherwise Grace's sister just called having arrived back in England this week, she's running around this week but hope to see her next week before she goes back. She's my third friend to move abroad since 2000 and although didn't see her much since we had our falling out she suddenly decided she liked me when she left and is now a good friend. She also happens to be the best looking woman I've ever met, let alone been out with. Carol was the previous, the one I used as a photographic model, and Vivienne probably equal before then, but when I met this one the others, however perfect, were knocked into second place. Everything about her was right and the only problem was she wasn't offering it to me. I was taken on trial only and dropped before any actual testing took place, enough said.
So I'm free for now, I was too tired to do a long trip today (I'm up to a 25 mile minimum now from home so feeling a bit old and worn to do that like I used to all the time to collect train tickets, plus my car's half the speed of the others as it costs so much to run them now) so took a large filing drawer to the charity shop I bought from one years ago and didn't need, went for a walk in the nearby park and came home. I am now editing the essay for printing and checking by my parents, and working my way through little requests people have made for legal and technical help online. I am not qualified to do paid legal work but always nice to do voluntary as besides teaching I may as well use my training to deal with the cases I can sort out.
I will either go near Crawley next or one of two long ones NE or NW. Bearing in mind I have around an hour or so to get to somewhere before it gets dark, as I need to get up, eat, get ready etc and do prefer to relax a bit after lunch before going out. But my collecting instinct is so strong it is hard to have plans lined up and not carry them out. I only did the last one on Sunday and still seems like I should do another when I have a day free and it's dry. But I took some of my usual artistic photos today instead, which is what I did before but ran out of ideas, and get far more views and comments.
I have a full quota tonight as I have online tasks with a two hour TV break, so no need to wonder what to do for the rest of today at least. |
Reply #835. Jan 26 12, 1:00 PM
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It is interesting, although I'm not qualified to charge for legal advice I can do it for nothing, and as well as teach it is nice to actually use my legal knowledge for real cases, and after beginning helping a friend with a traffic case which I was continuing on yesterday I had two other calls from people with their own legal problems. It happens occasionally but just like so many other areas in my life I had three in one day. The third required delivering a printed document to Grace/sister combination, as she is here for a couple of weeks, so spent the rest of the evening there catching up on the last couple of years and receiving personal remarks by her daughter who is far too clever for her age.
I caught up with half the other jobs today, and hope the ice and snow expected doesn't wreck the weekend plans as I an due for a trip if possible and little else on the cards if not. My article is now edited and printed and ready to distribute absolutely nowhere as if the places who ignored my first were not interested this is part two (a prequel actually, so part one by default), and not a clue where to put it. Sounds familiar to me in so many other ways as well. The rest is a mystery so can only watch these spaces. |
Reply #836. Jan 27 12, 6:48 PM
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It's interesting to see some of the arguments about playing quizzes. Feedback about changes is one thing, but people who simply take the results so seriously it seems to take their life over have lost their priorities. I'd always rather my life was going well and my quiz results here don't matter, if I get good results but my life isn't then I sure know the difference. It really is as simple as that. It's nice when I do well as well, but besides the team games am only scoring for myself so take no notice what other people are doing unless they may be cheating or there could be a loophole being exploited. But if there is I don't criticise the players for using it, and just report it in case it can be fixed.
In the absence of any new activity I can reflect on the plans ahead for the year or so. Last year my only plan was the new trips to cover the photo map and the main mission was completed in the summer (there are grid squares so can measure the progress exactly when complete) and now just seeing how much further I can extend it without killing myself. I've always found ambitions tend to be outside our control anyway- I wanted to get married after I graduated in 1984 and that's never happened, I would like to be famous and have managed to take the first step at 46 but not yet gone further. I'd like to afford to move back to where I lived with my parents, but unless someone wants to hand me about £300,000 I can't plan for that. Even spiritual development can't be done directly, you practice as much as you can and the results, like exams, are outside our control.
So however much I'd like the same things I always have, I can't do anything else to make them happen. I create when I have a reason, collect the results and then spread them as widely as I can in case anyone wants to use them. I don't even charge but the competition is extreme. In a way our plans are only a step away from wanting the news to be the way we want it. That is entirely out of our control, much like watching a film. Someone else is writing the script and even when people protest or otherwise try and change the system it changes as and when it wants to. The Republican candidates seem to be favouring presentation over policies, as they usually do. So with four survivors anyone with a personal interest and understanding of political history can see two of them are career politicians with no interest in anything except power, while two are honest and genuine (as far as a politician ever can be). And who's ahead, the two who know how to talk and look good. When will people learn? Never. I'd go even further and say if Obama gets in then they should go back to kindergarten and go through school again from the start. Do those debt figures look promising? Do the energy prices look affordable? Do the attempts to curb freedom of speech and publication look democratic? And what about Solyndra? That's half a billion gone right down the sewer pipe. And a few more to follow he's lent to similar companies heading the same way.
So if you vote for a presenter and not results the smart talkers will always win, and like all the best crooks can always talk a good talk and take in enough people to win the deal. And four years later they thank him and ask him to come back and do it again. I do my best but...
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Reply #837. Jan 28 12, 12:15 PM
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"... people who simply take the results so seriously it seems to take their life over have lost their priorities."
Yes - yes - YES! I'm a bit taken aback when people want new statistics. The site is already awash with statistics - there may come a time when the statistics will drown the site.
The biggest, saddest loophole I can think of it is logging out to play games then logging in to get a perfect score.
Happy birthday, David. Are you awake? Hope you're having a jolly day. :)
Reply #838. Jan 29 12, 8:31 AM
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Thanks Lesley, you're on FT time so no idea when you posted this, but I was in Croydon and thereabouts this afternoon and then the gym, then adding the 60 or so photos to my map requiring an exact location for each before I do.
The logging out and in to win quizzes is pointless where untimed and cheating if timed, I thought that had been altered so when you do you get a different one for them. One said if you do it enough times it goes in a circle, but all I will say is you can read the logs so not recommended. It's not as if it'll get you a better job or in the case of those with them already a government grant. I like to see a badge or win as all my own work and never dreamed of doing anything else, and if it's untimed and needs a high or perfect score then we have to google and part of the rules.
I'm hoping to get to the edge of Crawley tomorrow, I timed today perfectly and did a circle from Croydon to West Wickham, Beckenham and back to Croydon exactly as it got too dark for photos at the end. I timed the point yesterday and with no traffic besides roadworks was almost minute perfect. My next little job will be asking people to read the new article which has gained approval from my toughest critics again, as well as phoning Virgin to allow me to upload them to their new website. I honestly believe the main reason no one's used them is it'll shift work away from them if new people are brought on board. Maybe I should remind them if you have a bloody law degree it puts you a step above them for writing about it. I shall plough on.
My friend expecting a birthday visit (his and mine) was sadly disappointed when I decided not to cause work for myself, so will come whenever he wants to instead. His girlfriend lives a couple of miles away anyway so it's not as if he hasn't had hundreds of chances already. Although she's the one I missed out on when he took her back from me in 1993 when he found I had picked her up after he'd dropped her. If I hadn't then he probably would never have bothered and could be married with children by now, as he said he wouldn't with this one but that was a personal thing. I however probably would have as there's a 50-50 chance I'd have married her a year or two later as after a few months there wasn't a single reason not to I'd found and still haven't since.
So it was a good birthday, an easy and productive photo trip and even a crystal ball win in the final hour just to add a bit extra. I hope it continues. |
Reply #839. Jan 29 12, 6:42 PM
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The success has continued- I did the trip towards Crawley on Monday, it wasn't a specific road but just due south, and turned out the preferred road was to the east of the one we took, and coming back on a parallel road to get more photos on the map found a very rare old sign I'd probably not have passed had I gone the original route. That was the most important thing of all as places don't go anywhere but the signs vanish constantly. And yesterday I was up in time and sailed along the North Circular to Ilford in no time at all. I came back on the parallel road until I saw two miles or so of solid traffic and made a detour. Today they said on the radio a building had just collapsed off the High Road where I was sitting looking at a solid static line of traffic, but as I wasn't going that way anyhow the detour was completely clear.
I then returned the laptop cable to the company who should know better, it was £15, the wrong size and when I took it back turned out the main reason they sold it to me was they don't have the other ones. There was no attitude or stalling but gave me a refund straight off, and the ironmongers up the road had the full range and mine was £5. The Italian bugger however claims he hasn't received the watch I returned and won't refund it. I didn't think I needed to spend 8 times more on tracking it as would have spent a quarter of the total value on top, and that is the result. The Post Office should refund something but not as much as I've lost. But wait till I leave feedback. Hopefully the crook will be out of business when I've finished. It's not revenge (I don't do that) but a genuine warning to others, plus an attempt to discourage shoddy business practice.
I want to stay in tonight for a 2 hour detective programme, and hope to goodness Grace/sister don't want to see me today, as tomorrow is probably the last free day for us before she goes back to America. I'm not bothered as I saw her already and as not into me anyway and no chance of it changing (one sad rule of life I learnt has never been broken) so can take it or leave a second visit this time. So I managed three days on the road in a row, the light lasts till just after 4.30 now which means I can go over an hour and back so limited to 20-30 miles till the spring. Worthing will follow and hopefully the Cotswolds where I used to go regularly, on holiday and for the day as well. There are a few others I should get before then so going well for now. |
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