Intense and prolonged efforts over previous days have taken their toll in that throughout Saturday I struggled to break from an overwhelming tiredness. I did work immediately on rising for a couple of hours drafting one of those letters which are good but should not be sent, and did not do so. This may me feel worse.
I have not worked out what made the desk top crash last week but I have been suspicious about what and who but the event had led to some improvements and finding out the cause of a problem experienced before I went on line. There was a malicious code with the original set up programmes when the machine was first booted up or from the word processing programme which came for a disk from a previous desktop and which created an instability. I did not use the internet with this desktop because my existing broadband modem only worked with Windows XP and not with Vista. Mind you a lot of programme do not still work with Vista such. As earlier additions of the Adobe Reader. I then decided to use the lap top for the internet so I could undertake research as I went along with writing and this proved effective.
I only decided to change after the BBC i player was introduced and wanted to view on the larger screen and this also led to learning how to connect the lap top to TV, but I was limited because of the need for a cable connection, I took the plunge and decided on a wireless link modem and with much trepidation and much trial and error i sorted it out to the extent that I can now use a lap top and connect to the internet anywhere in the house going through solid walls and two floors, Now with wireless I have a multiplicity of options.
I also have a multiplicity of options between listen to CD, and digital radio on the TV, watching TV on the desktop scene, just caught up with Merlin from yesterday evening, or hundreds of USA local radio stations, so there is music or sound while I do work which does not involved intense concentration and quiet. There is no single pattern of use which I vary according to mood and current interest.
As soon as I became wireless and internet connect on the desktop Microsoft bombarded with updates including a programme to detect and eliminate malicious codes and the problem I had encountered was eliminated. I do not know why the computer last week but mention I have my suspicious and the individual is destined to rot in hell in the passage of time as such individuals always do however much they appear to prosper from outward appearance. The Catholicism in me still says, Lord Have Mercy on them, but it is sometimes more difficult than others.
The one positive aspect of the crash is that my understanding of the original problem was confirmed because immediately after rebooting the original problem was there and then disappeared once early the malicious code update was added. I only wish my edition of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Don't Panic also had a section about coping with old age and anxiety attacks about unexpected health problems.
Having mentioned the bright side of this particular form of crash, one of the many downsides is that my records of games played against the computer were also wiped out although I recorded progress in Blogs from time to time. However the upside of this is that with mastering how to play without losing most of the time I have maintained a 100% record so far with Chess, Hearts, Spider and Free cell although total plays for each game sp far is between 10 and 15 at the beginner level and 101 seems very distant although because of wanting to do catch up as well as continued to progress from where I was on other matters, I am not rushing or becoming engaged in long sessions and therefore making silly mistakes through momentary lapses of concentration.
This reminds of Titus Bramble, a Newcastle United Football Player who had lots of promise but always managed to have a concentration lapse a game with disastrous consequences. No one shed a tear when he moved to Wigan but yesterday he returned to haunt the Toon, scoring a goal which levelled the game in its final moments, and depriving the home side of two vital points. Sunderland had a brilliant win away from home although I fell asleep during Match of the Day. I am even tempted to go to see the next match next weekend as long as it is not be shown live.
Durham Cricket have sent membership renewals applications for the season which at £90 for an oldie £50 discount on the usual price is a great bargain. I will not take up an invitation to sit in the main members lounge veranda for £75 for the England V Australia one day match next year thought as it will be on the telly.
Another aspect the crash is that I thought I had lost my chronological record of 101.75 work completed sets from between 5000 to 10000-. It was not fundamentally serious as from time to time I print out completed pages, and a check confirmed that I had done so page 67 and had only lost the incomplete page 68; more over I had last saved the record to disk at the end of September. I must commence a weekly cycle of savings, although this kind of work house keeping is time consuming. The concerning aspect of typing out again the missing pages onto the system is that I detected errors. These were positive errors in that I had used the same set of numbers more than once and had therefore completed more work than recorded and I had not recorded some completed work although correctly numbered.
However this raised issues about the quality of earlier work but I decided that to start checking on top of everything else would take too much time. It was always my intention to create at least 1000 more sets than required to meet the original target of one for every hour of he day of my life between 0 and 65 to cover for such errors and that I had also undertaken research into the family history back to the 15th century, and included current information such as the new American President, visit to cricket and football, new films and theatre and so on, although always trying to relate this to the past.
This also reminds that an excellent fellow on the Gibraltar Family History net work has been creating PDF files of information which is sending out free to anyone interested. This kind of public spirited endeavour is heartening.
Recently a new MySpace friend enquired about my main work activity and I could not resist staying up several hours longer that I should for someone my age to explain what I was doing and where I was at.
This reminds that lovers of historical art should spend some time looking at the My Space work of those creating dedicated sites to the work of historical artists. The latest added is that of Hieronymus Bosch who along with Peter Breughel the Elder created amazing fantasy and reality pictures of contemporary life. Most people with an interest in art know of Breughel but miss out on Bosch. Take a peek. If he does not blow your mind nothing will given that he was also a 15th century artist and where do you think Salvador Dali and the rest got their ideas from ? Original artists my hat! Gormenghast and Smallcreeps Day are exceptions
Although I was able to immediately regain my chronological record of completed work, it took more time to transfer the completed set information to the record according to categories.
For the record I have completed 2188 sets of what I describe as development work. Each set has an artman card written in glitter and a registration signature card which lists the number of each set and the numbering of each card. I established the numbering system at the outset so that the work begins with development card 1 and I have made 52146 cards so far and these exclude the glitter and signature cards which are numbered separately from set 4999 working backwards to set 4438 at present. Sets 2189-2198 are in the process of completion. These development sets tell the story of how the project came into being, contain drafts of creative work, information about ongoing events in my life and the world around such as sweet wrapping papers or cut outs from prepared food packages and fit into my belief that to qualify as a contemporary artist in this multi media global communicating world the process of making the art work is an important as the final output and that the process of creating the work should be available 24 hours a day to anyone anywhere with the technology.
This is not original an original concept as Tracey Emin did this for a couple of weeks at one point and also turned her home into an art house also at one point. I thought of this separately and then found out she had also not only had the same concept but put it into practice, and it was this and other similar discoveries that what I been thinking privately over several decades had been put into practice by others convinced me that in one sense I had been living in a parallel dimensions and also that we are more cloned and interconnected than most of us have realised. Obviously some people of known this for longer, but kept the info to themselves, knowledge is power as they say.
I use A4 size black lever arch files for the sets some holding 1-3 sets and the majority 6-7 with the start number of the set in gold or red glitter on the spine. Each card is housed in cases through punched pockets two to a pocket. If you take the cost of the Lever arch files, the cards, the pockets, the glitter, the glue to stick stuff on the card and the printing ink each volume involves significant expenditure an which is one reason why I reduced the pace of working. The main other is to continue to participate in life now.
I did work out once what all this cost excluding my creation time. It is worth at least £50000 but it does fill a large house. I now come to what is perhaps the core or soul of the project, The creative work component where all the sets are contained in either soft black cover expensive display books with quality pockets, and some with space for a DVD on the inside of the cover or more simple and inexpensive report files to which the pockets have to be added. Only 691 creative sets have been completed less than 17000 cards These are contained in three types of black boxes. A few sets of plastic boxes, and the majority divided between two styles of black cardboards boxes each costing between £4 and £6.There are also three small black metal filing boxes. There are between 50 and 60 of these boxes completed
The creative work is varied. It includes all my writings from the 100 editions of Parliament and Social Work to the 100 published articles predominantly about Politics and Social Work but also about other aspects of work as a child care officer and social services senior manager. There is the 1992/3 written mystery adventure involving the internet, young women and the secret services, set mainly in the South of France. There is the 2004 memoirs printed with 101 copies of 101 in Black and White for a contemporary artwork in black and white boxes together with 101 photographs and a 101 series of statements and descriptions. There are the 1001 Blogs written for AQL and the 501 and more written so far for My Space. There are creative photographical sets and a child's views of art using crayons and pastels with photos of some of these A4 cards included in the MySpace Photos and other creative set work experiments. There are film, theatres and sporting reviews and experiences.
Then there are the event sets in blue lever arch files and soft covers display folders and blue boxes. There are also thirty to forty boxes completed or in process and altogether there are something of the order of 1600 of these sets completed ranging photographic expeditions to homes and work places, and visit to Gibraltar. There are the photographic studies of places and activities, My space profiles of friends published public MySpace stuff such as the profiles of Friends Public access diary material, Holiday trips based on scrapbooks less confidential information and a visual description of the early work in progress. Only a small proportion of the 300000 photographs have been included in the development, creative and event sets work.
Then there are the record information files. I have one series of sets of record of event and other information for every year of my life from 1938 through to when I became 65 There are something like 1100 completed sets of this work in blue lever arch files only as these do not merit boxes, These sets include receipts, bills, bank statements, football, cricket and other programmes and paraphernalia which go to make up a life. There is a series of mauve soft covered display books which just contains lists: List of books, lists of CD's DVD's Tapes and albums, list of lists.
Then there are the Confidential set work. There are housed either in the four drawer black filing cabinets which are to be completely sealed before this part of the work could be put on pubic display, but there are also red lever arch files which could be housed in transparent sealed unit which contain information such as current Household Records and here are also red boxes with soft display folders containing correspondence such on family history or with My Space Friends which I need to look at from time to time and which could become available to be examined say 100 years after the respective deaths of the contributors.
I have not yet worked out if or when to attempt to put the work on public display and have deferred consideration of this until reach half way and with only 7800 sets completed there is another couple of years work before the half way is reached. I did celebrate the reaching of 7777 sets in late October.
I shocked myself by waking up not as I first though at 11am but at 1pm. I had gone to bed around 2am and only remember rising twice. It was three before I sat down to a chunk of roast pork with crackling, apple sauce and roast potatoes, with half a glass of red wine.
Last night I watched about a road crash in which a much loved wife dies and strange things begin to happen with Richard Gere finding himself in a strange town in late night having been Close Encounters like. The Mothman is creature larger than a human being with moth like wings m often with no head, but red eyes within the torso seen by a number of people in West Virginia in the Charleston and Point Pleasant Areas over one year 1966 and 1967. The creature can take human form and when it takes the name of Indrid Cold, The spectre was first recorded as being sent neat a former World War 2 TNT factory. The creature is said to have been seen shortly before the Silver bridge collapsed between Point Pleasant and Kanuaga in which 46 people died. The collapse of the bridge is said to have been caused by a manufacturing flaw in a single eye bar in a suspension chain and the creature has been identified with predicting or associated with disasters since, or to have been the cause of them.
The Mothman Prophecies 2002 is an adaptation of a book of the same name by a parapsychologist. It is not a very good film lacking credibility which is essential. The X files covered the story in one episode in a much more convincing way. However it was enjoyable late night viewing on a Saturday and a great concept, especially it became a collective experiencing.
I have not worked out what made the desk top crash last week but I have been suspicious about what and who but the event had led to some improvements and finding out the cause of a problem experienced before I went on line. There was a malicious code with the original set up programmes when the machine was first booted up or from the word processing programme which came for a disk from a previous desktop and which created an instability. I did not use the internet with this desktop because my existing broadband modem only worked with Windows XP and not with Vista. Mind you a lot of programme do not still work with Vista such. As earlier additions of the Adobe Reader. I then decided to use the lap top for the internet so I could undertake research as I went along with writing and this proved effective.
I only decided to change after the BBC i player was introduced and wanted to view on the larger screen and this also led to learning how to connect the lap top to TV, but I was limited because of the need for a cable connection, I took the plunge and decided on a wireless link modem and with much trepidation and much trial and error i sorted it out to the extent that I can now use a lap top and connect to the internet anywhere in the house going through solid walls and two floors, Now with wireless I have a multiplicity of options.
I also have a multiplicity of options between listen to CD, and digital radio on the TV, watching TV on the desktop scene, just caught up with Merlin from yesterday evening, or hundreds of USA local radio stations, so there is music or sound while I do work which does not involved intense concentration and quiet. There is no single pattern of use which I vary according to mood and current interest.
As soon as I became wireless and internet connect on the desktop Microsoft bombarded with updates including a programme to detect and eliminate malicious codes and the problem I had encountered was eliminated. I do not know why the computer last week but mention I have my suspicious and the individual is destined to rot in hell in the passage of time as such individuals always do however much they appear to prosper from outward appearance. The Catholicism in me still says, Lord Have Mercy on them, but it is sometimes more difficult than others.
The one positive aspect of the crash is that my understanding of the original problem was confirmed because immediately after rebooting the original problem was there and then disappeared once early the malicious code update was added. I only wish my edition of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Don't Panic also had a section about coping with old age and anxiety attacks about unexpected health problems.
Having mentioned the bright side of this particular form of crash, one of the many downsides is that my records of games played against the computer were also wiped out although I recorded progress in Blogs from time to time. However the upside of this is that with mastering how to play without losing most of the time I have maintained a 100% record so far with Chess, Hearts, Spider and Free cell although total plays for each game sp far is between 10 and 15 at the beginner level and 101 seems very distant although because of wanting to do catch up as well as continued to progress from where I was on other matters, I am not rushing or becoming engaged in long sessions and therefore making silly mistakes through momentary lapses of concentration.
This reminds of Titus Bramble, a Newcastle United Football Player who had lots of promise but always managed to have a concentration lapse a game with disastrous consequences. No one shed a tear when he moved to Wigan but yesterday he returned to haunt the Toon, scoring a goal which levelled the game in its final moments, and depriving the home side of two vital points. Sunderland had a brilliant win away from home although I fell asleep during Match of the Day. I am even tempted to go to see the next match next weekend as long as it is not be shown live.
Durham Cricket have sent membership renewals applications for the season which at £90 for an oldie £50 discount on the usual price is a great bargain. I will not take up an invitation to sit in the main members lounge veranda for £75 for the England V Australia one day match next year thought as it will be on the telly.
Another aspect the crash is that I thought I had lost my chronological record of 101.75 work completed sets from between 5000 to 10000-. It was not fundamentally serious as from time to time I print out completed pages, and a check confirmed that I had done so page 67 and had only lost the incomplete page 68; more over I had last saved the record to disk at the end of September. I must commence a weekly cycle of savings, although this kind of work house keeping is time consuming. The concerning aspect of typing out again the missing pages onto the system is that I detected errors. These were positive errors in that I had used the same set of numbers more than once and had therefore completed more work than recorded and I had not recorded some completed work although correctly numbered.
However this raised issues about the quality of earlier work but I decided that to start checking on top of everything else would take too much time. It was always my intention to create at least 1000 more sets than required to meet the original target of one for every hour of he day of my life between 0 and 65 to cover for such errors and that I had also undertaken research into the family history back to the 15th century, and included current information such as the new American President, visit to cricket and football, new films and theatre and so on, although always trying to relate this to the past.
This also reminds that an excellent fellow on the Gibraltar Family History net work has been creating PDF files of information which is sending out free to anyone interested. This kind of public spirited endeavour is heartening.
Recently a new MySpace friend enquired about my main work activity and I could not resist staying up several hours longer that I should for someone my age to explain what I was doing and where I was at.
This reminds that lovers of historical art should spend some time looking at the My Space work of those creating dedicated sites to the work of historical artists. The latest added is that of Hieronymus Bosch who along with Peter Breughel the Elder created amazing fantasy and reality pictures of contemporary life. Most people with an interest in art know of Breughel but miss out on Bosch. Take a peek. If he does not blow your mind nothing will given that he was also a 15th century artist and where do you think Salvador Dali and the rest got their ideas from ? Original artists my hat! Gormenghast and Smallcreeps Day are exceptions
Although I was able to immediately regain my chronological record of completed work, it took more time to transfer the completed set information to the record according to categories.
For the record I have completed 2188 sets of what I describe as development work. Each set has an artman card written in glitter and a registration signature card which lists the number of each set and the numbering of each card. I established the numbering system at the outset so that the work begins with development card 1 and I have made 52146 cards so far and these exclude the glitter and signature cards which are numbered separately from set 4999 working backwards to set 4438 at present. Sets 2189-2198 are in the process of completion. These development sets tell the story of how the project came into being, contain drafts of creative work, information about ongoing events in my life and the world around such as sweet wrapping papers or cut outs from prepared food packages and fit into my belief that to qualify as a contemporary artist in this multi media global communicating world the process of making the art work is an important as the final output and that the process of creating the work should be available 24 hours a day to anyone anywhere with the technology.
This is not original an original concept as Tracey Emin did this for a couple of weeks at one point and also turned her home into an art house also at one point. I thought of this separately and then found out she had also not only had the same concept but put it into practice, and it was this and other similar discoveries that what I been thinking privately over several decades had been put into practice by others convinced me that in one sense I had been living in a parallel dimensions and also that we are more cloned and interconnected than most of us have realised. Obviously some people of known this for longer, but kept the info to themselves, knowledge is power as they say.
I use A4 size black lever arch files for the sets some holding 1-3 sets and the majority 6-7 with the start number of the set in gold or red glitter on the spine. Each card is housed in cases through punched pockets two to a pocket. If you take the cost of the Lever arch files, the cards, the pockets, the glitter, the glue to stick stuff on the card and the printing ink each volume involves significant expenditure an which is one reason why I reduced the pace of working. The main other is to continue to participate in life now.
I did work out once what all this cost excluding my creation time. It is worth at least £50000 but it does fill a large house. I now come to what is perhaps the core or soul of the project, The creative work component where all the sets are contained in either soft black cover expensive display books with quality pockets, and some with space for a DVD on the inside of the cover or more simple and inexpensive report files to which the pockets have to be added. Only 691 creative sets have been completed less than 17000 cards These are contained in three types of black boxes. A few sets of plastic boxes, and the majority divided between two styles of black cardboards boxes each costing between £4 and £6.There are also three small black metal filing boxes. There are between 50 and 60 of these boxes completed
The creative work is varied. It includes all my writings from the 100 editions of Parliament and Social Work to the 100 published articles predominantly about Politics and Social Work but also about other aspects of work as a child care officer and social services senior manager. There is the 1992/3 written mystery adventure involving the internet, young women and the secret services, set mainly in the South of France. There is the 2004 memoirs printed with 101 copies of 101 in Black and White for a contemporary artwork in black and white boxes together with 101 photographs and a 101 series of statements and descriptions. There are the 1001 Blogs written for AQL and the 501 and more written so far for My Space. There are creative photographical sets and a child's views of art using crayons and pastels with photos of some of these A4 cards included in the MySpace Photos and other creative set work experiments. There are film, theatres and sporting reviews and experiences.
Then there are the event sets in blue lever arch files and soft covers display folders and blue boxes. There are also thirty to forty boxes completed or in process and altogether there are something of the order of 1600 of these sets completed ranging photographic expeditions to homes and work places, and visit to Gibraltar. There are the photographic studies of places and activities, My space profiles of friends published public MySpace stuff such as the profiles of Friends Public access diary material, Holiday trips based on scrapbooks less confidential information and a visual description of the early work in progress. Only a small proportion of the 300000 photographs have been included in the development, creative and event sets work.
Then there are the record information files. I have one series of sets of record of event and other information for every year of my life from 1938 through to when I became 65 There are something like 1100 completed sets of this work in blue lever arch files only as these do not merit boxes, These sets include receipts, bills, bank statements, football, cricket and other programmes and paraphernalia which go to make up a life. There is a series of mauve soft covered display books which just contains lists: List of books, lists of CD's DVD's Tapes and albums, list of lists.
Then there are the Confidential set work. There are housed either in the four drawer black filing cabinets which are to be completely sealed before this part of the work could be put on pubic display, but there are also red lever arch files which could be housed in transparent sealed unit which contain information such as current Household Records and here are also red boxes with soft display folders containing correspondence such on family history or with My Space Friends which I need to look at from time to time and which could become available to be examined say 100 years after the respective deaths of the contributors.
I have not yet worked out if or when to attempt to put the work on public display and have deferred consideration of this until reach half way and with only 7800 sets completed there is another couple of years work before the half way is reached. I did celebrate the reaching of 7777 sets in late October.
I shocked myself by waking up not as I first though at 11am but at 1pm. I had gone to bed around 2am and only remember rising twice. It was three before I sat down to a chunk of roast pork with crackling, apple sauce and roast potatoes, with half a glass of red wine.
Last night I watched about a road crash in which a much loved wife dies and strange things begin to happen with Richard Gere finding himself in a strange town in late night having been Close Encounters like. The Mothman is creature larger than a human being with moth like wings m often with no head, but red eyes within the torso seen by a number of people in West Virginia in the Charleston and Point Pleasant Areas over one year 1966 and 1967. The creature can take human form and when it takes the name of Indrid Cold, The spectre was first recorded as being sent neat a former World War 2 TNT factory. The creature is said to have been seen shortly before the Silver bridge collapsed between Point Pleasant and Kanuaga in which 46 people died. The collapse of the bridge is said to have been caused by a manufacturing flaw in a single eye bar in a suspension chain and the creature has been identified with predicting or associated with disasters since, or to have been the cause of them.
The Mothman Prophecies 2002 is an adaptation of a book of the same name by a parapsychologist. It is not a very good film lacking credibility which is essential. The X files covered the story in one episode in a much more convincing way. However it was enjoyable late night viewing on a Saturday and a great concept, especially it became a collective experiencing.
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