Ready for Distraction!

So, it's back to work tomorrow after two weeks off. It was meant to be holidays, but with a great deal of time spent decorating and very poor weather in general preventing me going hill-walking, it hasn't really felt like a holiday at all. Also, there is a great deal of uncertainty over the work situation. I can't really say what's happening, but of course if it goes badly I'll spill my guts... heh he he!

I've decided to try and sell my photos online. I don't know how well that will actually work in reality, but it seems worth a try. I'm using Photobox. I'm still in the process of setting things up, but needless to say, links will be added here later on. I have no idea what to charge though and I am assuming that ownership still belongs to me should someone decide to use one of my images for any type of commercial venture.

It seems that Winter has arrived here in the North-East of Scotland. We had large hail-stones yesterday and it's getting colder all of the time. Last Winter was the worst in many years, so I do wonder what's in store for us this time. Given government and council cutbacks it may well be a Winter of discontent regardless of what the weather brings.

Lottery Swindle!

For today's post I was planning to write a follow up to yesterday's post on the Illuminati plot to depopulate the planet, by expanding on the possible ways by which human life might cease to exist. Unfortunately, I will have to put this on the back-burner until tomorrow, because last night something inadvertently came to my attention, which I believe needs to be expounded upon herein.

I was washing the dishes (yes, I'm a 21st Century man) and the T.V. was on, although nobody was watching it as far as I'm aware. So, although I couldn't see the telly, I could hear it. The Lottery show was on, something which I would normally avoid like the plague, because it's so cheesy and... it's just awful really! Anyway, it's going on and I catch the presenter saying something very much like;

"Remember, all your money going to the good cause fund will be paying for the Olympic and Paralympic games!"

And, I'm thinking to myself "Did I just hear him correctly?" because he said "all your money". I know the Olympics are going to cost a fortune, but surely the Government should be paying for it. Well, it's obvious really, I'd already heard that the government was using lottery funds to pay for government sponsored projects under the guise of being "good causes", but this takes the biscuit! Firstly, all the good cause money is being channeled into London, when it's supposed to be distributed across the UK, and secondly it's now even more transparent why Richard Branson's Virgin company were turned down the opportunity of running the lottery.

Branson offered to run it for free with even more money going to good causes, but clearly such enterprises are only intended to operate as some sort of gigantic money laundering scam. There's no point coming up with an idea where the public are eager to pour in their cash for virtually no return, if you can't abuse it completely.

A second thing that was said on the show, once again made my thinking travel off on a tangent. The host said;

"I know it's going to be a busy night, but can you give me a time-check please?"

A omnipresent being responds;

"Yes, the time is almost 11 minutes past..." whatever, 8 I think he said.

I thought to myself "Why would they do that? Do they feel the need to demonstrate that the show is live, because in reality it isn't?" It just seemed like such a bizarre thing to do. Surely, if the show is in fact live, they wouldn't feel the need to prove it. Highly suspicious, I'm being to think the whole thing is run by mobsters!

Eco-friendly Travel In the 21st Century!

The car has always been a must have luxury since the very first model hit the roads... and yet I continually find myself asking, why? My current sardine tin with wheels is a 1997 Vauxhall Vectra 1.8 LS, which I've had for just over 3 years and I've replaced virtually every part of it. Today, with my father's assistance, I had to replace the petrol tank. It took us from 9:30am till after 8pm, because you can't simply remove the petrol tank, first the exhaust has to come off, then the suspension has to be dropped.

Surely, in the 21st Century, a better mode of transport can be devised. Ideally, I want to be able to step into a pod outside my front gate and instantly reappear at the location of my choice, because:

• Travelling takes too long
• Travelling is uncomfortable
• Travelling alone is boring
• Travelling with others is annoying
• Cars are unreliable, costly and non-eco-friendly
• Roads are unreliable, costly and un-eco-friendly

They should scrap cars altogether and introduce a new form of transport, something that's free, green, fast and comfortable. I'm sure it could be done, and I'm sure I know why it won't be done, because the greater good doesn't interest oil companies or the government, only money interests them, and their eco-friendly pretence is so transparent. For starters, any form of free or cheap energy will mean a loss in income for oil companies, that's not going to happen. Any form of free or cheap energy will mean a loss in income for the goverment, from the huge amount they gather from both crude oil and at the pumps. Not going to happen. They call for cheaper and cleaner fuels, then tell us we'll have to pay more for that, it's ridiculous. Aeroplanes are bad for the planet, but if you give us more money, that should fix the problem.