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That's helpful. How long has Grace been after your money for now?
My first reaction to warnings like that is that they say more about the person warning you that the person they say they're worried about. Generalisation, because I don't know them.
Well done getting to Farnham. Sounds like a one of your longest journeys.
"This way he'll end up in the Lords."
Or in Europe. Speaking of which, I cannot find the words to express my joy that Tony Blair is considering a return to politics here. Wonder where he sees himself. Snoozing in the house he wanted to abolish, perhaps.
Reply #961. May 12 12, 6:41 PM
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I thought the same as you about Grace, my other friend is extremely cynical and just because she knows plenty of other people like that I doubt Grace is one of them- I've got a house and enough to survive and that's about the lot. I know many people are actually in the red nowadays so comparitively successful, but hardly a catch in most parents' eyes I'm guessing. She is far more a product of her bossy sister's intentions than her own, and what her sister says tends to be what she does. I wonder how many older people get married by a process of elimination rather than positivity, weeding out the worst and seeing if you can tolerate the others for the long run? I'd say you've got to be practical as holding out for something from the films is fine maybe to 40, and if the 90% or so of people I know are truly living a storybook romance (besides the three or more now divorced) it is quite possible, but having met one person who told me he'd decided it was time to get married so he was going to ask his next girlfriend (he wasn't even 30 yet) I doubt he's the only one. She said no and he's still single now as well (after pulling someone I was after at my party once). I proposed to her and is on my A5 list (it doesn't happen that often for more) of failed attempts. She could be a right moody pain at times as well but limited to repeating herself endlessly and swearing which I hate to say is far from unique in the women I've met (maybe not so much the swearing, but she is French as well...), and something I wouldn't fail one on unless more than maybe 50% of the conversation (like my ex, 99%).
Farnham was actually for the road signs rather than map coverage, and quite an easy run along the A3. Admittedly I wasn't driving but we got to the south coast from my dad's place twice last year to bag two more 100km squares, plus Oxford and Alresford in Hants, but since he did his back in I have taken over such journeys and got 10 miles north of Portsmouth a couple of weeks ago which is probably my furthest for ages. I've been driving to Kent all spring as it had old signs all round the west side, which although not as far takes much longer as all on 30-40mph side roads. But as my energy returns so do my old activities, although this car struggles over 65mph on the flat and is really not designed for motorways. The Proton cruised at 80 (allegedly of course) up virtually any motorway gradient, so the same trips wouldn't take as long and were less effort as well. But I did the M3 and back last weekend with little ado, so it can do short stretches fine but not sure about the serious ones. In the good old days (I suppose I'd far rather trade driving power for that in the bedroom, if I can say that here) I've done 500 miles in a day, granted in a saloon rather than a hatchback, but didn't even think about it if I had something to collect there. But it's not a competition and as the other department is fine I won't complain too much.
So currently I'm mainly planning the next trip as I have little in the diary this week, and as long as one is done that's enough as I'm down to the last few and the most extended ones. Having spent a little money on meditation courses will then use the spare time to do it a lot more, as if you feel good anyway then it really doesn't matter so much what's happening outside. In fact it could cover the cracks in Grace's being, or others had there been any others. You can put up with a heck of a lot if you're permanently stoned, but naturally.
I'll finish my last essay as well, it's written in draft and just fill the gaps and references and print it and share. This will be a pass it on format, not for publication (unless someone wanted to) but for pure information purposes. I've spent nearly 40 years studying politics and the like, and now I've collected a complete picture of how it really works (the EU have begun water rationing, which is a perfect example of what we're up against) and if everyone knows then it can't happen as unless they take power by force (as many do) they won't be voted in any longer but the opposition. The system only exists now as no one knows what they're up to (only a handful anyway) so if the truth is exposed the holiday will be over.
One question for today, one book I'm reading says we can do anything we like as we are part of God. If you actually believe in God then this is almost a given, as you can't be not God as God is everything. Unlike rocks or animals we can communicate, so if told we are God will then play around and see what we can do. I don't know if in the end it would become boring like King Midas or maybe Casanova (did he ever get bored?) or despite discovering how easy it was to have everything we want (as God has no limits, if you get any you get it all) would always enjoy it regardless? To me, just the memory and awareness of not having it at will would prove it wasn't ever taken for granted afterwards, and no God would provide a free ticket if you didn't enjoy it or there'd be no point. It's got me loads more road signs since I found the last known one, they've just kept turning up without me doing a thing, but can't yet think of anything else. It hasn't yet got me more than my first (unpaid) published article, any change out of Grace or anyone more suitable (I have to admit that is also a given otherwise I'd have taken her offer without query), any more results from my meditation, lower prices/more money (not that I need them, but if paying for two may be different), another TV appearance (last interview failed), just for starters. Of course without lessons (we are meant to remember how to do it as it's our true nature) it's a bit like being thrown in the deep end and just using an oxygen mask so you may sink but don't actually drown. Anyway, I may open it up as a separate thread as it will get hidden tucked away in here. I probably have already but new readers every year. |
Reply #962. May 13 12, 5:43 PM
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On a bit of a break at the moment, after a medium size trip on Saturday I worked out the final practical trip south (my weekend location) but as I'd done half of it already and was planning a much longer one this week didn't want to overdo it and saving it till next weekend. I always find other things to do but do like to get on with the trips when I still feel like it. Of course that includes more blogging, but you can't blog without material so have to report something new.
I'm hoping my investigative work will finally pay off now it's nearly all ready. I have zero contacts and most emails of links or articles will be ignored the same as sending book plans to a publisher without an agent. And agents only take established authors (I spent a year trying) so stuff that for a bad job. I will spread it far and wide though, and do know when it's working when I see other people quoting it. It's almost definitely mine as I'm not aware of many other people who publish it.
So I'm keeping reasonably busy regardless, and after collecting every known direction sign (minus one I found later in Harlow, they can keep it) had two new ones turn up in as many weeks entirely from elsewhere. If only it was so easy with women... |
Reply #963. May 14 12, 2:45 PM
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No, I haven't stopped blogging, my computer blew up (no smoke but major heat) and lost the entry I was in the middle of. I won't repeat it all as I don't have the heart to, suffice to say a road which has been clear every time I've used it for 50 years had a 10 mile tailback on Tuesday and ended up leaving half way and not adding my new 100km map square, and do not intend to again. I ended up using the only road not the one I left, although I wanted to go east left at the same place I'd already been and went north, and besides finding an old road sign with the end fallen off (which turned out to possibly only be a local issue having found its partner online) only found I'd gone 7 miles beyond a previous visit in that area. It was a profit but 7 miles for a 116 mile drive is a little minor.
I've now completed around 60 pages of the political teaching material I've put together, and just about to edit the last piece I finished yesterday, then I'm sending it as far and wide as possible as one by one when people learn this information they'll be fully informed to vote in the future. I want the terms to be as familiar as the X Factor and Princess Diana, and once enough people repeat them they'll become common knowledge, as the internet is free.
I've got the next two trips planned now, and making sure they are beyond a minimum distance from before, and that is my current aim, and am also waiting to see if my data and computer are saveable, the data is the main thing although I've got spares of most things, and if I need to buy a new one it certainly won't be the first time. It's just been housework, friends, doing my mum's garden and shopping since Tuesday, so catching up on some of the little jobs that have been stacking up for weeks. |
Reply #964. May 18 12, 6:43 PM
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Back again. It seems the power supply blew and once replaced the remainder of the computer appears to be intact. That will certainly be a relief if so. I have put the disastrous photo trip behind me, I still made a profit, just nothing close to what was planned, but traffic is not within our means to allow for. I'll keep going and just given up on that one.
Grace is half way through her first set of exams, I really hope she does well as she's worried this will be beyond her limits, but won't know without trying. I've been doing some research of my own to see the level of my diploma, as I learnt there are various levels and didn't know what mine was 20 years on, so asked a few places and discovered it was like part of another degree rather than postgraduate. Reasonable enough, and have now asked how much of a degree, and how many more years would it take to convert it? Not that I relish the idea but better to know just in case.
It's been some time at least, but pretty much anything that could go wrong has this week, and seen it as a test to see how I deal with it. In the end I've carried on regardless and just got on with things. There's nothing else you can do really, and hopefully I've dealt with it the right way. I don't think I've lost anything and just had a lot of aggravation to deal with which I hope has now passed. Life can be a dirty job but someone has to do it... |
Reply #965. May 19 12, 4:51 PM
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It's interesting when the spiritual teachings and real life appear to clash. However much you develop personally crap still happens, and like everything else all at the same time. The spiritual edge though is that you mustn't take it personally. Learn from any mistakes and fix them if they were made, otherwise always be aware you did your best. That is really the final lesson I can take from the week, it was poo but it really wasn't my own work.
But looking back you count your fingers and money and if it's all still there you've probably got away with it. If the worst feature of an event is you didn't make a profit but haven't lost anything nothing's really wrong. And then you look to see if you didn't get what you wanted what else did you get? Things are rarely black or white, so what were the good things? I did add a huge amount to my photo map when I went out, and extended it 7 miles more than zero, and completed a long political education project which is now up and running sharing as far and wide as possible. Sometimes it's actually better not to concentrate on what you're doing, as while you're trying to do something else you can get the important stuff done without even noticing. Like when I have a friend over and start doing housework as I'm distracted talking to them so makes it easier.
So I have actually done OK regardless, just difficult to corroborate with actual plans but if you don't do what you plan you always do something else, even if sitting at home watching TV. Just because 80% of my trips have been as intended recently doesn't mean they all will be, I remember driving to Southend airport in the early 70s only to be told we were too late and had to go back home and do the whole megillah again the next day. We still got there and did really lose the petrol and time but nothing permanent. I missed being on the radio and going to Denmark when I had my appendix out, but went to Denmark in the summer and due to my host getting the flu ended up going to Sweden as well as my grandpa came to allow me to stay there and finish the holiday. So a delay actually made a real profit as that's 10% of all my countries visited. Had the US counted states as countries I'd have doubled that as they are all the size of our countries here, but they all count separately. Collecting is what I do when I'm not working on my spiritual development and writing. I have either open ended collections like my train tickets, which stopped only when they didn't make them any more, or closed ones like the photo map as I'm not really bothered going over 100 miles just to take photos. I've already covered Britain (except Wales for some reason) with my film camera, and only because I started again on digital am I beginning from scratch. Plus with a huge film camera I either didn't take it everywhere or only took a few photos as you saved them for something special with film which you don't need to on digital.
I have the two trips planned now, and once the first is done will be back to my normal miserable self instead of the extreme version. You can't please all the people all the time...
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Reply #966. May 20 12, 12:38 PM
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It seems the most response I get here is when I talk about my absent love life. Of course if I just say nothing's happening that's not going to do it, but when it's arranged around an individual or two, who make offers they can't fulfil (or I won't) then it is. But talk is no more use than imagination, as either way nothing's still happened. The fact I've considered a possible offer of marriage is as much due to time passing and providing nothing else than the offer itself, in the end the longer time passes the more realistic you must be. It reminds me of the times I waited for the same train from work every day just after 6 when every train went to Edgware and I wanted the one to Barnet, and by just before half past the platform was solid with everyone else returning from work not wanting to go to Edgware either. There was an option of getting it, changing and waiting for the next train to Barnet, but presumably if I or they had tried that presumably they'd find no more trains going there up the line as where we were so didn't try it again. So there might be a more suitable train if we change trains but no guarantee. And sometimes there is only the one train so no choice at all.
I had a nice trip to Hampshire on Monday, no hassles, and even when I thought I'd taken the wrong road it went to the same place and more directly. One by one they're getting done, and Colchester can stay where it is without my presence another time. It's been summer since yesterday, really hot and sunny, and started the worst of the gardening yesterday and did my shopping today although very few people (including the manufacturers) seem to have a basic plastic watchstrap which don't last more than two years and therefore need a regular replacement. As much as the watch itself now actually. I need that one as it has my alarms on it and may miss TV programmes and phone calls without it. I'm wearing my late grandpa's best watch instead now anyway which is a nice change.
I'm unexpectedly free tomorrow, and if I feel like it will do the next trip, but one a week is quite enough when it's well over 100 miles per visit in total. It won't go on much longer as I'll have covered the lot, but still like to get them done. I'm getting there anyway. |
Reply #967. May 23 12, 11:32 AM
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Well I not just took some lemons and made lemonade but made some chocolate biscuits as well. My client shifted days so I could go away yesterday and although the route east was rush hour (4pm?) it meant I didn't need to make any effort to stop the car to take photos as it was stopping every now and then anyhow, so covered as much of the approach to the seaside as needed, and besides not having the change for the parking meter so I couldn't go on the beach (it was free last time I went, nothing is now here) I got an old sign first I knew was there and covered a circular route to get as much area as possible. The return was non stop so did the whole thing in around an hour as I only stopped after the Southend Road entered London for the traffic lights beyond. The map is divided into lettered 100km squares (the only appropriate time as they divide exactly into 1km small squares) and I've visited 6 with the digital camera since I got it, and although the trip for a 7th was thwarted due to an unprecedented snarlup I got 9km short of the border yesterday, as that route doesn't go any further before you fall in the sea. I have however found a nodal point at the meeting of four squares just to the north meaning I can add two more in one go next time I go.
This does mean my main photo trips are pretty well complete now besides one to the north, plus this new one and an optional one to the Cotswolds when I get a chance sooner or later. But I can relax now and not feel guilty lounging around Golders Green (as I did on Wednesday) or local parks (especially in this weather we've had since Monday) as I've pretty well done my bit. I will keep sending my article far and wide, not this time to be published, but to be spread virally. The mission is to make the material so familiar no one can be fooled any more, and it has to start somewhere.
Grace had her last exam today so presumably will be at a daily loose end, so have a few daytime places to take her. It's the nearest I can get to a trial (no, not a criminal one) as she won't move in here for one. And weirdly the road I took yesterday was jammed for many miles around today after the parallel motorway was closed all day after an accident, and the fallout (30 miles away) extended all the way to Brent Cross when I went out just after it had been opened this evening. Just think, these sort of things hardly ever happen and it was in exactly the place I went to but a day later. It does pretty well even out I suppose, and finding a missing end of a road sign which had been deliberately removed when a right turn was blocked just turning up on top of it decades later so I could go back and put it on to take its photo is close to a miracle. It's all evidence of something as it's happening too much and too far beyond normal to be much less I think. |
Reply #968. May 25 12, 5:39 PM
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So do you think you might be edging towards matrimony? And you've found more signs and gone to the seaside. Exciting times. :)
Reply #969. May 25 12, 6:39 PM
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It's funny how completing one job just leads to more, having done Southend now learnt there's a little road off the one there which can actually get me both new squares I need in one go, so have a single day free next week and hope to knock it off then. After that every single new trip is optional. I noticed a couple of old signs last night I'd missed, on an area without full online coverage so had to go there and check in person, both were ones I had before, but got another road number near there and a few more squares on my personal map so not a pointless trip.
Otherwise I've got a little local one on Tuesday including a possible exchange of my old lounge chairs for replacements after about 45 years as the bottoms have fallen out of them and would cost too much to repair. It's more important they take them away than what replaces them as they're huge and would normally cost as much for that than buying more. And with Grace free for the summer may end up taking her somewhere to celebrate the end of her first set of exams, I have a list of places depending if daytime or not. And I won't be proposing by the way, not just yet. |
Reply #970. May 27 12, 3:53 PM
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Southend - how exciting!
Not proposing yet? Probably very wise. :)
Reply #971. May 27 12, 6:12 PM
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Half the week ahead is planned already, not like me at all nowadays, but if I get the final official photo trip done that's all I'm really concerned about. Tomorrow's planned from start to finish and doing my mum's garden on wednesday. The hot weather isn't expected to last beyond tomorrow but doesn't affect the photography. The news has continued to disappoint, so I simply hear it and let it go. Unlike most people I have managed to do something on the political front, having written around 60 pages of A4 (enough for a book I think) and condensed the lot to 6 pages anyone can read in minutes, and done two talks online for people who prefer to listen as well so far. My work now is to pass it on, and keep spreading it until I start hearing the material come back to me.
There is nothing better for running the world than knowledge, as how can you vote on an issue you don't understand? Before the internet only insiders knew the information required to beat the system, and not shared as they were the system. Now it's all online and free for all to read, but few do, so I am not waiting for people to read my website but posting it in excerpts wherever I can. There is nothing else required, and can simply roll on the same way indefinitely until enough people know and start voting accordingly. No one would really vote for policies they are if they realised what they were really about.
Ideally of course a media report would do it all for me, but they are pretty well working for the same system, so hardly likely to want to destroy it while it makes them so much money. The very fact alone a wind turbine uses as much power as it creates is known by everyone in the industry (paid for by my taxes) and hardly anyone outside, but all freely available. The nature of a wind turbine makes it impossible to generate electricity beyond that which it requires, as well as the expenses in building and maintaining them (can you work out the cost of fixing one offshore for example?). They represent the clearest error in people's knowledge, as they can simply be described as impotent. The example is setting them up to the electricity system to make them turn, except that is almost exactly how they do work. Would you vote for them knowing that?
They say many people are experts in one area, but few are able to see the big picture. That is where I operate, and it all fits together, and am also able to communicate that as I see it. Just being able to do both means I am under a duty to do so, and will never give up unless someone stops me physically. But as I'd probably need to be famous for that I don't really see that happening. The information speaks for itself, and is the same whoever spreads it. I'm just starting the ball rolling and hope it spreads from each new owner of it until enough people know what is really happening. |
Reply #972. May 28 12, 3:18 PM
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Another day another story. I'm currently waiting for the ex who complained I was working as her arrangement earlier was cancelled so she wanted to come early. Hard luck. So now it's way past arrival time and still waiting, but if she ate first as she considered that will save the time later. I mopped up a few jobs at once today, I first checked out what did turn out to be an extremely dodgy sign (and plastic, which is like a fake Rolex), took some photos around the area, checked the furniture recycling centre who turn out no longer to have a repair option so I am stuck with my old broken chairs, and then took some photos down the road in the only map square I needed locally.
Then I stopped for a walk in the usual area on the way home, got some food and went home for my booking. I really need to get to bed at a decent time as I'm out gardening again tomorrow and means a certain person is dictating the terms as she leaves when she wants to whatever else happens. It reminds me a bit of Billy Connolly's wee jobbie, you keep flushing but it just won't go away. Grace thinks she messed up her exams but can only wait and see now, at least she's had a go and only hope some sort of connection between studying and recalling can provide enough marks to pass, but she isn't confident.
I get impatient when a job's waiting ahead as I want to get things out of the way, but not long now for my first attempt to go east beyond the previous limits. It won't go away at least. |
Reply #973. May 29 12, 4:34 PM
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I didn't know the food labelling rules, and if they really had to be totally honest it would probably have to include many of these:
Does not contain bogies *
*To the best of our abilities
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Not tested on animals (unless the factory cat got it during production)
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Our recycled toilet paper does not contain toilet paper (think about it)
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Food only contains safe EU levels of pesticides (this unfortunately is a real one, and I should trust them to decide how much is safe?)
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Milk may contain dairy products (I hope so!)
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None of our staff have an infectious virus (as far as we know)
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And finally, all water has been passed by the management. |
Reply #974. May 29 12, 4:45 PM
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Peanuts (may contain nuts)
Lard (not suitable for vegetarians)
And an instruction on the bottom of a box containing a fresh trifle: "Do not turn upside down."
What would happen if you decided your terms mattered too?
Reply #975. May 29 12, 6:38 PM
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Water 'passed' by the management...Ewww! The whole system needs a new look!
I hope Grace did well on her exams.
Try not to be so impatient...at work and play...:)
Reply #976. May 29 12, 8:46 PM
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If we could all take advice as easily as give it we'd hardly have any problems left.
The instructions however, besides the pesticide and possibly the dairy products were only if I was making the orders. Mad magazine did something very similar in the 60s so I can't really take all the credit. Like the underpants which come with the message across them 'may contain nuts'. Some may be new but a few are always very old... |
Reply #977. May 29 12, 9:09 PM
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| Not that I'm asking you to stop the advice, it can't stick if not offered in the first place! |
Reply #978. May 29 12, 9:10 PM
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Another day's passed, the gardening has been done and the TV watched, and am hoping to do the big trip asap, if the cleaner comes first I should be able to manage it anyway, and won't go unless I feel like it as whether or not I only have a single day free this week it won't be gone next week. I've done some of my washing up, easier than carrying it all in 15 instalments into the conservatory to wash it for me (and that's getting old and unreliable now) and may go for a walk soon before I go to bed.
So far the week's gone exactly to plan, and will find out if I can afford to have the chairs fixed or not soon now I can't have them removed. I will try and get the old sign back in its frame somehow as well, as once I'd found the arrow and put it back for a photo the whole lot came free and is hanging by one rivet. I can only tie it up, better under cover of dark, but may save it as a result. I will just trust the system now and whatever happens will be part of the plan, whether or not it's my own... |
Reply #979. May 30 12, 5:23 PM
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Where's the big trip?
Here's a nice little collection of Stupid Labels. Best one is the warning not to drink, drive or operate machinery, on a packet of pills for dogs, and the reminder that the set of precision screwdrivers is not for insertion into the penis.
 http://listoftheday.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/stupid-product-labels-of-day.html
I have no advice: only questions. When does Grace get her results?
Reply #980. May 30 12, 5:56 PM
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