englishmoon

After a long absence, I am going to see if I can remember how to use this blog. If I'm successful I'll start posting stuff again soon.

I've been busy. I'm always busy with teaching here at my school these days, but in addition to that, I've added a few more teaching jobs which means I have to teach somewhere else.

I have been busy making things ... and this is my problem ... I always get so absorbed in what I'm doing that I forget to take pics. I often think I should have taken pics of something I was doing. Well anyway, I'll try to remember that it's a good idea to post articles on things I'm doing because there are some people out there who might appreciate knowing how to do something - or getting new ideas on how to accomplish something practical.

I suppose I can be accurately considered as a cheapskate with a lot of the things I do. For example, I'll actually replace individual spokes of a bicycle rather than buy a new wheel. I'd rather make a part for a bike or machine rather than order a new part. I do my own air-conditioning work rather than pay some (alleged) professional to do it. I like to do things myself because it teaches me how it's done. If I do the same job twice then I might save a bit of money, but in actual fact, I generally spend more to repair something myself than it would cost if I hired someone to do it for me. Most of the extra money goes towards new tools I need for a specific task, and also, if I've never done a particular job before then there's a good chance I'll get it a bit wrong the first time and have to do it again - or sometimes I ruin something so in the end I have to go out and buy a new whatever-it-was that I tried to make or fix.

What's in the news recently? Good question. Well I can't remember everything that might be considered as newsworthy, but a few things are going on.

Greece is set to go bankrupt - poor Greeks! Their 'leadership' and the criminal leaders of the EU have between them completely fleeced the citizens - and wrecked things for the children in the future. All by design of course! The criminal elite are getting even more disgustingly rich, and the revolting peons are becoming further impoverished and in need of help - which comes from the criminal elite that made them poor in the first place - at a price, of course. So will the German-controlled Greek "government" get more bribes to kick the can down the road for a few more metres? (I expect so - especially if it means those EU bureaucrats can make even more cash).

Fukushima - the elephant in the living room is getting lied about, the truth ever-more obfuscated and basic physics pertaining to the triple meltdowns is continuing to be cherry-picked. I gather a million people are now dead due to Fukushima - but this of of course a very conservative estimate because it doesn't take into consideration the babies that were spontaneously aborted or the fetus' which were terminated at a clinic or the stillborn. The gamma radiation at ground level outside my kitchen door is 0.15uSv on most days, but can be as high as 0.18uSv after rain from the north. I only measure the radiation once a month or so these days. No one wants to know the horrible truth. Most people would rather be lied to and put their heads in the sand

Hey! why are so many previous dwellers of places such as Nishinari now nowhere to be found on this Earth? Where did they go? Can you guess? Or need I spell it out for you? Ahhh Fukushima! Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies. Normal operating procedure for the eternal incumbant political parasites here ... and elsewhere.