Weird dreams

 

 I get some really weird dreams, now I know it's a side effect of my medication, but they can be really strange.  

 To be fair it's not nightmares, just odd dreams, one strange effect is I can have what sxeems like a LONG   dream , then wake up to find I've only been asleep a short while.

 Sometimes I can remember the dreams in the morning, mostly I can only remember having them, but not the content.

 Still on the plus side it could be worse, one of my meds is famous for causing "night terrors"  Something I only get whan I look in a mirror....

Aviation accidents yesterday

 

 Yesterday was a bad day aviation wise.  A passenger plane had a mid air with a helicopter over Washington.  64 people on the plane and 3 in the helicopter are dead.

 In the Sudan another aircraft carrying oil workers crashed on take off, 20 are claimed dead, with 1 survivor.

Wheels black and white.

 

 Got a few funny looks taking this shot.  Canon 6d2 and Yongnuo 50mm

 

 

Black and white beach.

 

 A reworking of a picture I took a little while ago. Canon 7d

 

 

Nothing is forever.

 

 While walking the other night I got to thinking about life, the universe, and everything (and no it's not 42) Douglas Adams fans will understand that bit.

 But being serious life is fairly fleeting, oh we think living toll 80 or 90 is a good age, and it is.  Indeed in the early 1800's the average life expectany was around 40, and in the middle ages it was closer to 30.  So yes, 80 or 90 is a good innings.

 Yet when you look at it more long term, it's a bit crap. Man as we know him/her Homo Sapiens have only been around for about a 190.000 years.  Even the oldest spieces of human has been around for 7 million years, yet earth have been here about 4.5 billion years.  Our puny 190.000 looks small by comparrison.

 The earth as we know it was very different just a 180 millon years ago, the continents were mostly all joined up.  This makes you think.  In another 180 million years what will it look like?  Remember the continets are still moving, ok it's jolly slow, but move they do.

 So the things we take as fixed points, America, Everest, the North pole, whatever, wont always be there.  In about 400 million years there will be no trace of mankind if we died out now.   (the earth crust recycles itself over time) Thats a sobering thought.  With wars, pandemics and climate changes (the last ice age was only about 100.000 years ago) who know how long we might last.

 Then the  REALLY long term.  Earth will cease to exist in around 4.3 billion years, experts expect our sun to expand as it dies and become a red giant, swallowing earth. 

 Ok, thats a bloody long time away, so no need to rehome the cat and cancel the milk and window cleaner.  But maybe investing in some factor 40 million sun cream?  Maybe not.

  But on a closer to home note, think of your friends, family and neighbours.  They wont always be around.  Yes they may seem solid and permenent, but sadly one day they will be gone.  Often without warning.  So make sure the people you care about know, that you care about them.

 Give them a hug, ring them and say I was mising you, whatever.  Maybe when they do go you will feel that bit better for knowing they had nice thoughts of you.  And whan your time comes, you'll know people cared about you too.  As the old saying goes never part on an argument.

 Who knows, maybe it'll make the world a better place now.

Health update

 

 Those who follow this blog know I have had some health issues, some for years.  Last year was a bad one for me health wise.  I had a few nasty infections/viruses.  Well some good news and some maybe not.

 The good news is one of my problems has inproved a lot.  The bad news is some of the tests I had done have shown up other problems, I have a doctors appointment on monday when I'll know more.

 That said I'm still here and taking pictures, when I can get out.

Will killer robots take over the world?

 

 Will killer robots take over the world?  I have my doubts!

 From what I've seen of computers, as clever as they are, they are buggered without us puny humans to work them.

 For example, today I asked my computer to copy over 850mb of images to a zip drive.  No problems you say, well, not quite.  You see it worked fine while I sat there watching it, the second I went to make a cuppa it had a hissy fit and stopped.

 Oh, it worked fine when I came back and sat by the bastard, but do a simple job on it's own, no hope.

 Thats why I'm not worried by killer robots.  You see as soon as the bloke on the computer desk gets up to make a cup of tea, the bloody robots will all stop work and go on strike.  Will they kill anybody, like fuck they will if theres no bugger sitting at the keyboard.  It's down tool and have a meeting.