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@andywi11iams
Here’s my stats in the Euro’s fantasy leagues. Nothing special this time, I won my local league for £70 but that only has 28 players. In the National and Global I was outside the top 2k and top 200k. The World Cup is only 16 months away so I’ll try hard to improve then.
There’s more than a thousand players in the league and I’m 5th
Spring forward
My body clock is a mess and I’ve woke up at either 4am or 3am as this is the day the clocks change.
I think this is one of the best days of the year, but I don’t know if that’s a popular opinion, because most people lose an hour in bed.
I like it because of the feeling at 8pm when it’s still daylight, the first light night.
For years I’ve said I want to climb snowdon and nevis, and this summer im going to take on nevis. If I make it, I could probably go on to do the half marathon later in the summer, and if I make that I could probably play football again.
I’m optimistic for the summer, I think we are due nice weather.
This is also from 1992, the sample is Xena - On the Upside from 1983. There’s amazing bass on this track.
New Lockdown
Here we go again. To be honest, i don’t mind being locked down in winter, if it was late spring or summer I’d be gutted, so best to get it out the way now. I think the next three months til spring will be tough, perhaps the toughest, so i’m coping with a music project, making up a mix thing for soundcloud. I’ve always thought hobbies are a great thing at any time in life, especially when your in trouble.
It feels good to be into a new year, and i believe in the vaccination’s. I can see light at the end of the tunnel and i hope you can too.
This is actually world suicide prevention day. I knew it was September 10th, but had forgotten about it this year, with all the other trouble going on in the world.
I think it’s normal to feel a bit down just now, and it’s normal to have lost interest in old hobbies.
There’s also alot of cause to feel positive about the future. The Calvary is coming, once these vaccines start to roll out, things will start to go back to normal.
And it’s natural to lose interest in things as you get older. As long as you replace old interests for new, then you’ll always be interested in something.
I won the local league again, with 16 players, and I finished in the top 200k out of 7.6 million worldwide.
It gave me something to focus on and I threw myself into it towards the end.
The home countries are looking good now, but I think the rest of the world still has a long way to go.
The Highway of Tears
For fifty years there have been disappearances on the 16 highway in northern BC.
Police think a serial killer has been working the area, but it can’t be the same killer, he would be past 70 by now.
Some of the guys at the mission look like they might fit the profile. I definitely don’t want to be left alone with them.
I have that feeling again, like I had in the east end. I’m not safe, but what can i do? Life has changed and I’ve just got to get on with it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears
Highway of Tears - Wikipedia
travel insurance
ive been told to get travel insurance as im stopping over in a hostile country that has a viral outbreak.
ive honestly never had it before, my attitude was always to get to my flight on time no matter what, and if i fail to connect then its my fault. but this time is different, i could be detained at the stopover destination because of the political situation, then detained at my second and final destinations due to the outbreak. there’s also a chance my government will block travelling there and the flight could be cancelled. so plenty of reasons to get insured.
in a strange sort of way it adds a bit of adventure to the trip, and il write a sort of diary about it on here when the time comes.
proper winter
this is the time of year they call proper winter. november's not really cold, and neither is december. its the six or seven weeks from late january til early march, then all of a sudden it starts to warm up again. i remember a day it hit 17 degrees on the 5th of march. and i remember the hot halloween, 22 degrees on the 31st of october, there was even a warm february last year with two or three days around 18 to 20. its not a bad climate at all, id even say it's one of the better climates the world over. look at all the trouble in australia recently, and if things are going to keep getting warmer, then this is the place to be. for now, wrap up and enjoy what's about to be thrown at you, it won't last long.
dreams
i keep having dreams about a girl, from the early years after i moved away from home. the early years were 2012 to 2014, before i got lost in the east end. it's a strange experience, in that you can feel the happiness in the dream, in the same way you can feel terror if you dream about falling or drowning. i can feel happiness while i sleep, when you've cuddled into the girl, in the dream.
i wonder what the dreams mean. i hear they all mean something.
the good dreams are still very happy, but the bad dreams are not scary anymore.
twenty years ago i went on a backpack working holiday to australia and new zealand with a big mate i grew up with, who lived round the corner.
about half way through he met a girl and decided to bin the backpack, and now lives there with his wife and kids.
out of all the pals growing up, i think he did the best in life, and i always wish i'd had the time over the years to go and see them. i more or less missed his kids grow up, except for a few times he brought them here.
i found cheap flights on that sky scanner app: £390 to travel 24,000 miles. it's even cheaper than it cost twenty years ago, so im going to make up for lost time and spend a whole month there. all i need to do is sub-let my accommodation so i don't come back to arrears.
i describe travelling as being like a jigsaw puzzle, it's not difficult, it just needs planning. and life is a bit like that too. after this trip i need to plan the next chapter in life, and it needs to be a right good plan.
Christmas time
I like the build up to Christmas but often find the day itself a bit depressing, and I dislike the week after where every day feels like a Sunday.
It can be a sad time for many people. I was speaking to someone this week who told me that even preparing the Christmas day dinner made her feel down, because there's not as many people to feed anymore.
My best Christmas day's were in the 1980's and my best New Years were in the late 90's to the late 2000's, so I often try to replicate those periods.
On Christmas day I'll watch old episodes of Only Fools and horses, which was the primetime 80s Christmas day show. And on New year's eve I'll try to go out for drinks and a dance.
It won't guarantee happiness, but it might help if you find yourself alone this Christmas. I work away from home and often have to improvise to make the holidays enjoyable.
This year i'm lucky, I have friends staying for Christmas and were going home for New Year, so i'll not be on my own at all, but if you do find yourself alone these holidays, and you don't want to be, then don't be afraid to improvise or even make new friends. People are kindest at this time of year.
Holidays
It's not been a bad year for me. One tumble off my bike and one terror attack are about the worst of it. Mostly things have been settled.
My friend is over from New Zealand and it's the first I've seen him in five years. I always get a lift in mood when he's over, like we're young again. In the spring i'm going there, for the first time in 20 years. I'm putting the peices of the jigsaw together at the moment. 2020 Nz, then Oz in 2021, is the plan, and after that I'll have been everywhere I wanted to go.
The last time I was home I saw a girl I went to school with, and she looked so unwell that I didn't hold her up with a conversation, just a quick hello. We're all getting on a bit now, so I'm just counting my blessings and feeling quite positive about the future. The election didn't phase me, it was the result I expected.
That's my message for the holidays, be positive and count your blessings.
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Im gutted about Friday and it's brought back awful memories of a bad year. I remember getting to 2016, and thinking 4 years was enough, id been there and done it, so the plan was to finish off the five years and head home. Then it all kicked off in 2017 and i decided I couldn't just go when the going got tough, I knew I could get great experience at a time like that, and to be fair I did learn alot, but it was some slog. 2018 and I'm thinking I've weathered the storm and I might as well stick it out. But by then I was burned out and in quite a dark place in my mind. I knew going back wasn't the right thing then, I had the feeling something bad would happen. I think I turned things around, and got on my feet again. Then Friday at the bridge, and it's all deja vu in my head. There's not the same sense of shock like last time. I don't know anyone involved, but i feel frustration that there is no solution, like it's something that will go on and on. It's about a week to the election and it can't come quick enough, it's gonna be a tense few days.
Dangerous
I was working somewhere in the middle of nowhere with a mud road leading to the office. From a distance it looks like it could be a farm, and as i looked ahead at the place i missed a puddle and skidded in the mud.
Whatever way you land, one leg gets trapped, and the ankle gets twisted, because the thing is still moving a little. If I'd been going any faster it would have twisted right round, which is a terrible thought.
For the first time, I'm glad I'm on a smaller 500, instead of the 650, as i was able to lift it off a bit to free myself.
When you stand up you're in pain, and shock for a second, til you compose yourself, then you have to pick the bike up to get going again.
I'm very lucky, landing on soft ground has left me only limping, and that will heal. There might be a bit of ligament damage in the ankle, but it doesn't feel like it. I've had worse at football.
So that's four, in ten and a half years, and although that's not bad, it's still four too many.
I need to get a different licence, and a different type of vehicle.
We got a bumper of a day for the remembrance parade. The weather has been wild and I wouldn't be surprised if this autumn sets some kind of record.