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At the moment I am still free and keeping busy, unfortunately I cut my finger doing my mum's garden but seems OK now considering how I did it. Suffice to say the wound closed which is the main thing so should be fine once healed. Otherwise it's a little list of housework to catch up on, the washing is in the machine, my video actually worked yesterday so uploaded the trip I made in full, and am considering setting up another climate website to deal with other aspects of the fight against politicians telling stories.
If and when I get up in time and feel like it I'll do my next photo trip, but the big one/s are set for a month's time and besides one I can do now will really open up the map. Meanwhile the climate data is coming in thick and fast, and each corroborates the other, showing the whole thing is cooling down. The projections are becoming more and more obsolete, and while the activists continue regardless hopefully one by one the neutrals will notice the climate is settling down (while CO2 rises incredibly) and the correlation is getting less and less every year. I am writing more and more as a result and spreading the word in more and more places.
The time ahead, so far, is mine. You already know the bigger plans, but there are no smaller ones at the moment besides starting to transfer my VHS videos onto DVD. But it's good to be free and always think of something. I've realised my role is letting people know what happens behind the scenes, as being a nosy bugger have always spent my life looking and learnt what's hiding behind all the curtains, and most people haven't and really all need to. Taking claims at face value just can't be done, as although some may be genuine they aren't all and that's why people think quantitative easing is adding more money when in fact all it is is creating more debt. It's not about science or economics but logic and evidence, something we can all learn the rules of equally and apply. And with those two tools every other discipline is yours. Those are the rules of hierarchy. Above teaching comes knowing and we can all know. |
Reply #881. Feb 29 12, 6:38 PM
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I am wondering if the current message to get is simply not to make plans at all. Today was the first completely unplanned day for weeks, and as I said intended to get round to copying videos to the computer after waiting a few weeks. I even had a spare VCR so no need to disconnect the one with the TV. Then I brought it in and said it needed a video output. Neither have one so now have to go looking for one, and make sure it has one, and have to store three of the bloody things when I've only got room for one and inherited the other from my late grandma. Plans, feh.
Otherwise I am being good and made two of my social phone calls this week, and although both are on my list of female friends I want more from but won't (that's about 85% of them all as nature made us that way and I'm sure the 15% where I didn't want more they usually did, friendship is just not enough between sexes with very few exceptions). Otherwise I've caught up with car maintenance (cleaning and petrol anyway) and found I'd cut through the brand new cable for the hedge cutters and had to buy a repair kit as they are ready for it to happen. I've got a few leftover meditation audios to catch up with as well so started on them, and was called earlier to watch a programme on demand (many are but not all) so didn't have no TV to watch at all as the schedule offered.
I think I've had a break long enough to do the next long trip next week- I have already on Sunday and the last two are fairly demanding as no others left closer. I can't set my whole life to revolve round driving for miles just to increase my collection, especially with 90% of the photos being of similar roads lined by trees or fields. And worst of all roundabouts. You go on a long road where there's nowhere to stop and hit a roundabout, take a photo and carry on. Each is a new map reference and they all look the bloody same. I didn't intend to use my photography to take photos of series of almost identical roundabouts, but it's the way the system there works and the number of identical photos of the same laybys on major roads reflect the small chances to stop in each area.
Other than that who knows. The video copying would have taken a week or more and then copying them to youtube and making some prints, nope. What's plan B? I don't always have a plan A so not a B as well. That's when the vacuum may open inspiration or an event, just as the call let me watch TV tonight after all. That is ahead and can't do more than book in Grace for our next not a date. It's really the best I have for the forseeable future. |
Reply #882. Mar 01 12, 6:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Hope your tetanus jabs are up to date!
Reply #883. Mar 01 12, 7:45 PM
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| First thing I though, as far as I know I think we need about 4 altogether and once you have the last one you don't need any more. The doctor gave me one when I joined in 1995 and hasn't called me back and had them regularly before then. Unless you know different? |
Reply #884. Mar 02 12, 9:30 AM
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Tetanus jabs need a booster evry ten years to the best of my knowledge. Maybe wrong will ask my doc next time i see her.
Reply #885. Mar 02 12, 11:19 AM
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I always did, but was told a few different times you only needed four, and wiki said if you've had three then they don't need to do it. I've had four I remember since about 1978 and one before probably at primary school so think I'm covered.
Apart from the finger incident (apparently mending nicely) it's been one of those totally unplanned weeks where I just got whatever needed doing at the time and nothing in particular. I did a video trip on Tuesday, had my mum's gardening the next day and just went for a walk in the park yesterday. The car's been washed, I've ordered a new front light to replace the fairly new one which rotted after a couple of years although the back part is still functioning you can't buy a cover for it alone. Having driven to Sussex on Sunday I didn't really feel like another one this week as only the big ones left and would have been a rush. Hopefully next week now I've had a break.
I'm still learning meditations online which can only help when I do them, I've found different ones do different things and don't replace old ways but try and add extra ones whichever seem to do something new. Otherwise I'm still writing and made the hour climate lecture, and after a final edit will be sending my article on what we call the loony left around the same places who ignore the rest, but without going to Oxbridge or knowing an editor personally I may as well be invisible. But it only takes one publisher and you're made. Like JK Rowling, although I won't stoop to using initials to look like a serious writer as you just end up looking like a pretentious berk. |
Reply #886. Mar 02 12, 6:38 PM
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The finger saga drones on, it's fine for now but discovered I could have got a butterfly suture straight away and made sure the cut was closed properly. I'll get some tomorrow and hope I didn't miss too much time.
Otherwise it's just been a normal weekend so far, the gym, a bit of work and collecting triathlon points and see if I win a round in the process. That's most likely in an unpopular topic other people avoid as can't see many not doing well in the others whatever I do. I'm wondering where to go next for photos as it's not quite light enough to do the ones on the list reliably and don't want to wait a week or more before the next. I'll keep checking the map and see the least demanding one.
I hope something else interesting turns up as well, I'll start checking the map for road signs again, the last found one of the best I have in around an hour and the last I found was less than a mile along a road I'd checked but not so far south. That always fills an afternoon nicely anyway. |
Reply #887. Mar 03 12, 5:52 PM
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Just been tweeting to the local radio on high taxes, and here's the full version:
Taxes begin by paying for a safety net- in the UK the benefit system and national health, plus free education. Give them more and then they can invade other countries, subsidise failing industries, pay foreign aid to places like Pakistan and others using the money to fund terrorism, bail out banks, give billions to the EU and fund the IMF.
The higher tax you pay the more bad things your country can do with it. |
Reply #888. Mar 03 12, 8:51 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Might want to check with the doctor. If you need a butterfly, you may need something more...Stitches. :)
Reply #889. Mar 03 12, 10:18 PM
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The reason I knew about the butterfly was the same thing happened many years ago and they did use a butterfly, so checked a few sites and seems adequate for the job. I got some today and put three strips across it and although it's a few days since it happened closed it reasonably well and hopefully won't have lost too much time healing properly. I also had another far worse injury on another finger where it obviously needed stitches, I waited a couple of hours, they looked at it and said they were busy for a couple more so I got in my van and finished my deliveries before going back. I think that only had one but sure needed it.
They forecast rain today and that's what we got, it's funny nowadays when they can get the weather exactly right the odd time and nothing like it for the rest. They got the last snow almost to the hour where they missed most of the last couple of years entirely which was many times worse. Not that I had anywhere special to go so am now back to looking on the map for more old road signs as that can carry on till I've covered it all. I haven't won triathlon yet but a few more top ten finishes so just need a game where I'm fast enough as well, although the mixed has now been raised to the level of the others which dropped me down last night.
I'll cover the whole route I was possibly going next online first now and if nothing there may go anyway for something to do, unless a new idea arrives. When I'd finally got used to doing a couple of long drives a week it seems I'm missing out when not doing any, but something new takes over sooner or later for every project. |
Reply #890. Mar 04 12, 12:28 PM
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OK, I am probably visiting the doctor tomorrow as I appear to have the full 5 boosters by 1995 but will ask them to confirm it assuming the staff have access on the computer. Waiting a week after the event may be fairly pointless anyway but at least I'll have checked.
Otherwise the main thing I've been doing is research, and compiling my reports and had one accepted to be linked on a fairly major site yesterday so will see how the hits go in a while. Any writing is good practice so collecting material for possible use is all helpful as one day someone important may need it. I didn't really have anywhere to go this weekend mainly as it rained all of yesterday and hope that means will do tomorrow or ahead. It does seem that despite little events nothing else really happens, and whatever may be possible the chances are so remote that however much work you may or not put in the competition and chances of success are so small that in most cases they never happen. And although other people seem to have no problems finding women that is down the same carsey as well. The week will show either way. |
Reply #891. Mar 05 12, 4:07 PM
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Lesley will be glad to know after a week's gap the Puckeridge mission is both complete, and because of the road layout avoided it altogether and finished just before Buntingford in a place called Cherry Green. If you're doing a photography map and want to go in a compass direction to increase your coverage the roads don't always comply, and as in many other cases the only route north today was a wide but single track road, but unlike the ones I've had to negotiate recently were wide enough for a lorry as well as a small car so quite safe and easy to drive along. But it does mean you can't just drive north quickly as it goes all round the houses and then starts getting dark so I turned back while it was still safe. The due north trip became a major road but getting there through Luton (including a police cordon) added half an hour albeit a few added red map squares.
So I can relax a bit now. I'm working Thursday so couldn't plan a trip then, and as things go had another call today but haven't been able to get them back yet so should have more this week as well. So tomorrow is absolutely free and can happily do whatever I like, although No.1 on the list was watching a programme on demand I missed yesterday. Except they pick and choose and yet again this isn't on. I will probably find it elsewhere but no guarantees. The ex is here now so will have a late night but no plans to wreck tomorrow besides a quick dash to the doctor to do my questions among other things. The sutures will be finished with at the weekend and hope to see something looking more like a scar than an injury when I do. It's the third finger needing such treatment since my teens and the others were worse, one needing stitching and the other the butterfly. I'll never use my other hand when cutting plants again though. |
Reply #892. Mar 06 12, 7:18 PM
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After the advice here I decided to call the doctor about my immunisation, and was told straight away I was due for another although usually they let you know whenever you turn up there as it would have been on their screen. The nurse only comes on Mondays so decided to visit the walk in surgery and get it out of the way and not wait too long as the cut was a week ago now. Besides the fact it's been rebuilt since last time and a crowded typical waiting room now rather than a backwater no one else seemed to know about it was more convenient than messing about on Monday and waiting till more time had passed. After a fairly long and just tolerable wait (no magazines, first time that's happened) I was seen and the good news was the wound was not a tetanus risk, and had already healed. They said I didn't really need one but as the doctor said I did went ahead, and had a triple booster (diphtheria and polio on top) as that's what they do now although I thought you didn't need a refill. Apparently the reason the doctor thought I needed to go was I'd had one in the hospital and they don't pass it on, we have to, so it wasn't on my record. You have 4 days from the wound to get the injection so not applicable now, but got it done and can report back and tell them I've done it.
I was wondering when I'd get a bit more business as it's been pretty quiet, and had a booking for tomorrow, and two more this week although on the phone as one caught me a day after she'd gone somewhere else but I still did my thing on the phone as she needed it. Tomorrow has the cleaner and a client coming so no ambitious stuff wanted or needed, and can happily wait another week or so for the next photo trip planned to Hampshire. In a couple of weeks I can do a long one when it gets dark after 6 and make a real impression, and meanwhile can get on with business at home that certainly needs doing and see Grace sooner or later. That's enough for the next few days anyway. |
Reply #893. Mar 07 12, 6:25 PM
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Funny that, the business has now picked up and got one new regular but dealt with others as well over the phone. Then I've been asked to do other things already, so helping someone on a computer issue on saturday and taking someone out on wednesday to save them using a bus. So rather than make a few arrangements myself besides the next photo trips a couple have been made for me, as they did in the distant past but very rare nowadays. Not that I need them much as far happier making my own plans if only I can keep thinking of them.
The news makes painful reading, Greece have just shared their misery with everyone by insuring against default (so we all suffer instead of taking responsibility) and our interest rates are set to remain at a negative rate for years, earning less on savings than inflation, ie the banks are stealing our money. So the banks are winning the war against the people, making good their earlier losses by pulling it back from every possible source by force of law. They can borrow at base rate or so and then invest the same money elsewhere for a % or two above, and on millions imagine how much the banks can make by doing nothing. Low interest rates also force house prices up, meaning people buy to let and can rent them out for more than they pay as rentals are not set centrally and rise as the population does and competition grows for space. It's all set up for the parasites and nothing for the people who work or worked and saved. This is a true worldwide kleptocracy as the west has finally caught up the third world in fleecing the citizens dry. Well done Cameron and Obama, we are now truly in the third world. |
Reply #894. Mar 08 12, 4:52 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Hope the 'butterflies' did the job. Stitches are not much fun...:)
Reply #895. Mar 08 12, 5:55 PM
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| They seemed happy with the result and if it's healed without an infection everything's ended well. I did the same thing on another finger years ago so knew what needed doing, except this time I waited a few days as it seemed to manage on its own and didn't realise I could buy them and do it myself. The other one which did need stitches was totally obvious and is fine as a result as it was done almost straight away. |
Reply #896. Mar 08 12, 6:57 PM
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It's been a busy week again, and more ahead in bits and bobs, but no more than I can handle so far so should be ok. The photo trip did manage to extend my map rather than fill bits in, which gets harder and harder especially before the clocks go forward. I've got two more planned and one or two next week will be fine.
Grace didn't call this week so must have been busy as well, I owe her a call and have planned the next two evenings out so they shouldn't put too much stress on me either. Most of the places I can go to are good enough for most people, including the Mill Hill garden centre cafe I used from when it opened in the 90s till it closed last year, and even met friends and family sometimes when I did as everyone liked it. One less place to go during the day now. I should now have time to get my new sunglasses as well as the spring is coming and the lenses need a bit of help and won't cost much more for the new ones I want than changing the old ones.
I think I can pretty well stop reading the news from now on, I'll keep adding climate data as the reality is now coming in replacing the models almost every week, and having to update everything in my files. The rest of the news is so clearly the result of a script which has been planned for years, and if they set Greece up to fail to allow a greater integration overall in the EU, and pick a dipstick like Mitt Romney over two better candidates as he has a nice suit and haircut we may as well pack up and let the dictators in as they have in Italy as they will anyway. Learning just enough economics to get it I can say the whole crisis has been engineered, as no money is ever lost unless physically destroyed, it just changes its ownership. The banks didn't exactly lose the money, their depositors did and were bailed out by the taxpayers. And where did it go? From the institutions, ie the companies, to the individuals working for them and their friends the hedge funds and the like. They are now in receipt of our losses while Iceland did the same but kept the money without paying the depositors outside their own citizens who were protected by their own laws. So our money has partially gone to Icelandic bankers while the rest has gone to our own. Nobody's lost it, we can trace every single penny and see where it went, plus the fiat currency means banks can issue originally 7 times their deposits in loans, which raised to over 40 before the crash as they believed property values would rise and pay it back.
Such equations, now allowed as the banks have been fully deregulated, leaving them with the responsibility of deciding what is a safe risk or not, has led to what you'd expect giving any child their father's gold card. It's human nature and as there are no sanctions for not breaking any law or changes to change the actions to break the law in future then our money continues to be siphoned to the financial institutions and away from everyone else. I don't want to read that any more so if I stop commenting on the news it's because there isn't any. |
Reply #897. Mar 09 12, 7:26 PM
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Another day, I visited our old au pair today as she needed some help on her computer and has become part of our family now since she joined in 1968. I hardly saw her for years as she returned home for a long time and worked in various other countries till basing herself back in London recently. She's single again and besides her height would be very happy trying myself, not that the height bothers me but would do to her. The age difference isn't massive so nothing on that front, but as she would remember me as 8 years old and looking after me then that image is probably set life long. And she'd still try and tell me what to do I'm guessing as that was part of the deal. Shame though.
I have a number of equally demanding photo ideas, including catching the final old signs the other side of London as all within a mile of each other once you get there. That's a sunday trip as besides charging also avoids the traffic otherwise. It would be nice to complete London at last but not forcing myself. I also may go to football again on Tuesday, under a little pressure as the ex lives opposite and wants a lift if I do go there, but want to decide for myself and not because it saves her getting on a bus. But nowadays I take each day as it comes and please myself unless something gets in the way. But I am now almost able to say no to most nowadays as life's too short and have to make the most of it for myself rather than pleasing others.
But I am free to make my own decisions at the moment and still need to please myself and not miss too many things I do want however inconvenient they may be. I don't decide where the road signs are, only how far I will go to get the photos. |
Reply #898. Mar 10 12, 5:42 PM
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The system is working well at the moment. After someone found a couple of old signs I had already locally just off a road I'd passed once the other side of London made me decide to catch the remaining four direction signs left here and got them this afternoon. The bonus was that one pair of arrows had another on the back, these were usually two signs bolted together for each side of the junction but double sided have the same effect and to me still counts as two each.
I then had two phone clients in a row and work has finally picked up a bit now I felt like a bit more after a break doing other things. I am now entering every photo (I haven't counted but probably about 80) on the road map so will keep me occupied for a while yet and can do whatever I want tomorrow without feeling I ought to be doing something else. |
Reply #899. Mar 11 12, 7:26 PM
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Luckily all the demands have been manageable, as I did need to at least visit more friends let alone more demanding things like sitting over an hour in a waiting room without losing it. There's a football match on tomorrow I'd like to go to (first in a few years) and have a visitor on Wednesday after taking a friend somewhere in the afternoon to save him getting a cab (he could well afford...). Come Thursday I think it's quiet and may see Grace there if we can both get it together as it's been a few weeks. The next photo trip planned (one more for Lesley) is Milton Keynes, having knocked off Abbey Wood yesterday which was for road signs mainly but was new ground as well. The plaster will be off soon (I don't need it medically but hard to eat with the finger pressing on a fork so may as well cover it up) but also looks better every few days than having to see it heal over slowly.
I also should get the daily game mastery tomorrow which ought to mean playing the top divisions instead which will make it interesting. I didn't make so much effort after finally getting the champ badge and missed winning a couple more days with silly mistakes usually on the final question. There are plenty more new ones left though so one by one I'll have a go, but hardcore seems outside my range as I haven't played enough of the newer games to know many answers after trying after a few year's gap last time. I would have like to have added some photos from the weekend now but can't have it all.
Meanwhile although I could probably spend an hour or so a day meditating instead, I feel unable to stop reading the new climate data as it comes in, as the rules and regulations are continuing regardless, and with the time to do so it is not being responsible just to stop working on it because I have other things I'd rather be doing for myself. If everyone on the fringes did that there would simply be no fringes and everyone else would assume there were no doubts whatsoever. Doubts are the essence of science and law, and in both cases scupper any certainty and decision making. You can't disprove a new theory unless they have simply reversed a known one, unlike some crimes where you can get a photo of you somewhere else with a known date. So a legal case can be easier to win than a scientific one, as if you are accused of a scientific crime you can argue the doubts all you like but there is no court let alone the chance of a trial. They say what they want, everyone accepts it without question, and 50 years later everyone looks back and laughs at how everyone could believe such a ridiculous idea with so much evidence against it. Well if that evidence is nearly all hidden on the internet and the rest of the material is on the news without it what are people expected to believe? I spend hours a day sometimes having to plough through technical data and file it, and it's because someone has to. If the authorities won't police it (as they are running the show of course) then there's no one else but you and me. And I don't know about you but I know I do have the time so can't just turn my back. |
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