Wondering where life will carry me from here. Haven’t heard from any of the jobs I have applied for or the interveiw I had so I can safely assume my services are not required. Back to thinking Self Employment again, I need to re-apply to get back on the GasSafe Register and a couple of modules need to be covered at college, another big problem is I don’t have any transport and I need a Flue Analyser, that adds up to about two grand. A little tricky with a credit score so bad I am barred from the local soup kitchen and I resort to licking the inside of my fridge for dinner before having a cold bath so as to stretch out the emergency credit on my pre-payment meter. It’s another rut but strangely I’m quite happy, how did I get out the last one? A radical change! I must admit, day by day working away is becoming more appealing as people’s trust in me pours through my idle fingers, the irony being of course, I have first to convince somebody that I am worthy of employment.
So my plan… Get a nice easy job to get first a van then my gas certs, only then can I begin to earn what I’m worth. The enslavery of employment and the control it holds over your life does not appeal to me, I would rather nurture my own business but at the moment I have little choice in the matter… God I Abhor Capitalism!
Hmmm… It’s 5.25am and I’ve been up since 1am, but I’ve found time to test the UPS and determine that the battery (12V 12Ah SLA) is totally knackered, looking around online they are reasonably cheap @ ~20quid… so mees wont be geddin one of dem den… being a little short of the old spondoolies so to speak. I did connect it to a 13.8V PSU to test it and got some odd results, can’t think why right now. Radio’s next, first off the handie I blew up while repairing the battery pack, not sure what is wrong, I believe I over volted it at about 22V so could be something simple like a regulator or supervision device I’m hoping, just don’t want to have blown up the uP coz that’ll mean binning the whole thing. And of course the Yaesu 2/70, can’t remember how that stopped operating. Oh look, sunlight, will be drinking more coffee and finding more random stuff to keep me occupied before I inevitably pass out.
Alcohol has caused me enough trouble in the past and there is one thing that irritates me, and thats the constant talk in the news about charging more for alcoholic drinks to tackle problem drinking. Drinking in the UK is a culture, much as smoking was in the 40’s and 50’s, if you charge more for alcohol, you will make the problem drinkers use money from other sources to fund their habit, such as child benefit or bill payments thus fuelling social deprivation. One way of tackling the situation would be to prevent the glorification of drinking by peers of the young such as Chris Moyles and the like, constantly on TV and radio (Radio 1 in particular) people brag about excessive consumption of alcohol as if were cool. Take a look at Eastenders and ask the question, while the soap can get good press for tackling various social and controversial issues, what are they (the writers) trying to instill in the minds of it’s millions of viewers? The entire cast frequenting the jolly old Queen Victoria on a daily basis where often a few of them are already at the bar tanked up as if they have been there all day dabbling in the consistent hearsay often condescending into argument, purile rivalry and inevitable violence. This is the BBC, there is a level of responsibilty there at the top, but I tend to wonder whether it is their purpose to proliferate habitual alcohol abuse. Most decision making behind closed doors in the past few decades let’s face it, hasn’t exactly been in the best social or economic interest of this country.
This is an awe inspiring picture. It was taken by the Planck telescope and it is the first ever full sky map of the cosmic microwave background. The satellite was launched by the European Space Agency in May last year and sent nearly a million miles into space to record the origins of the universe. It began taking data in August 2009, by the end of its mission in 2012, Planck will have made four maps of the universe.
The bright horizontal band through the centre shows the Milky Way with streamers of cold dust extending above and below. But the interesting part to researchers is the scattering of yellow flecks in the red background. These are the oldest photons in the universe and are thought to have been generated about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when matter was finally cool enough to start forming atoms. It is hoped data from here will help scientists seek out some signature radiating from a period fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
It may also confirm the existence of the “axis of evil” – a weird alignment of hot and cold spots in the emptier regions of space. Planck will also stare into an ominous hole in space that some physicists suggest is evidence that our universe is not the only one… Now hold that thought and look again at that photo…
“From the closest portions of the Milky Way to the furthest reaches of space and time, the new all-sky image offers an extraordinary treasure chest of new data for astronomers.” – Professor Peter Ade, Cardiff University
Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, GPS, MEMS, WiFi, google map/earth, google search, image search… all in one device. This way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot.
Another Example:
Travellers? Students?
This technology is here now and there is a million other applications this could encompass.
It’s belief and I believe I’m not far off track, things are beginning to funnel into a positive leap forward and my attitude couldn’t be better, tomorrow is a big day in the realms of letter writing and organising, step by step I will tackle life and strike it in the heart. I have a lot to gain from after my years of perturbation and procrastination and there’s about to be a release; there is no time like the present. By Christmas I will be in a different world!
NASA have forewarned of huge solar storms 2012/2013, interesting eh? It’s not just the National Grid in the line of fire, I wrote a post not long ago detailing the fragility of a society so heavily reliant on technology, Clicky Here to have read.
Would like to say those darn tablets were almost definately the cause of all the shit that’s happened. Just wandered down the shop for the paper and bought some fresh apple juice with ginger, very scrummy. Not sure what I will be doing today, have had the offer of some help towards a van so might start throwing my number about for some work.
Had a phone call last night from my daughter, she had a right go at me for god knows what, maybe I am a little selfish and maybe it was a case of the old pot calling the kettle black, I guess it’s that time of the month.
That path, or should I say those paths. They are directions to the future, but the future doesn’t exist does it, not yet, and when it does it is no longer the future it is the present. And the past is just a fragment of my imagination, a memory, a dwindling thread of a past reality. Past, gone, done and dusted, no more. So what is left?
It’s a nice cool breezy day with all the foliage out in it’s full vigour and a spot or two of rain to feed the runners and tomatoes. I feel my mood has begun to stabalise over the past week having packed in the medication, I have done some study of my past and have come to the conclusion that I go off the rails only when taking these particular type of pills so they are now in the bin. So now it’s low protein diet only, let’s see how differently this helps.
Was up in the smoke on Wednesday and spoke to my consultant, he seemed more interested in telling me all about these new tests they are doing and persuaded me to join in, which I did, basically involving watching laser points on a wall that flick about and a device that measures your eye’s response, determining brain function (???) more about that when I get some results.
A little confused about which path to walk but basically happy
Hmmm… It’s 5.25am and I’ve been up since 1am, but I’ve found time to test the UPS and determine that the battery (12V 12Ah SLA) is totally knackered, looking around online they are reasonably cheap @ ~20quid… so mees wont be geddin one of dem den… being a little short of the old spondoolies so to speak. I did connect it to a 13.8V PSU to test it and got some odd results, can’t think why right now. Radio’s next, first off the handie I blew up while repairing the battery pack, not sure what is wrong, I believe I over volted it at about 22V so could be something simple like a regulator or supervision device I’m hoping, just don’t want to have blown up the uP coz that’ll mean binning the whole thing. And of course the Yaesu 2/70, can’t remember how that stopped operating. Oh look, sunlight, will be drinking more coffee and finding more random stuff to keep me occupied before I inevitably pass out.
Alcohol has caused me enough trouble in the past and there is one thing that irritates me, and thats the constant talk in the news about charging more for alcoholic drinks to tackle problem drinking. Drinking in the UK is a culture, much as smoking was in the 40’s and 50’s, if you charge more for alcohol, you will make the problem drinkers use money from other sources to fund their habit, such as child benefit or bill payments thus fuelling social deprivation. One way of tackling the situation would be to prevent the glorification of drinking by peers of the young such as Chris Moyles and the like, constantly on TV and radio (Radio 1 in particular) people brag about excessive consumption of alcohol as if were cool. Take a look at Eastenders and ask the question, while the soap can get good press for tackling various social and controversial issues, what are they (the writers) trying to instill in the minds of it’s millions of viewers? The entire cast frequenting the jolly old Queen Victoria on a daily basis where often a few of them are already at the bar tanked up as if they have been there all day dabbling in the consistent hearsay often condescending into argument, purile rivalry and inevitable violence. This is the BBC, there is a level of responsibilty there at the top, but I tend to wonder whether it is their purpose to proliferate habitual alcohol abuse. Most decision making behind closed doors in the past few decades let’s face it, hasn’t exactly been in the best social or economic interest of this country.
Image: ESA,HFI and LFI consortia
