Shopping in 2021

 

For the time of writing this piece, I am currently on my way home from a shopping centre .. the Trafford centre. It’s a place that has always had a place in my heart for good memories and just a nice feeling when I walk around, even if I don’t buy anything. 

"Neither The Life Of An Individual Nor The History Of A Society Can Be Understood Without Understanding Both" - C. Wright Mills

 

On the day of writing this (7th January 2021) I awoke to news of an attempted coup in America. That is literally the only word for it because that is what it was. Right wing Trump supporters stormed the capital to try and overturn the election result. A result that was decided by the people of America. It was democratic, it was fair and was done as other elections have been over the years, and yet, because they didn’t get the result they wanted, they rioted, primed and backed by Trump himself. It was heart-breaking to watch. Absolutely heart-breaking to see that instead of airing their frustrations in the correct societal way that almost every other country does, they decided to resort to violence, and it was literally an attempted coup.

 

Very First News Blog - June 2020

This will be the first blog devoted to geek news. The original plan was to make a video of me telling the news, how wet, after recording and attempting an edit, it was not to my standards and was not useable. 

I shall keep working on it and hopefully have videos to go with these blogs. So until then, I thought I might as well release this blog as I had put the work into the stories.

 

Jim's Geek News

Hi, and welcome to the very first, Jim’s geek news … I may change the name if I think of something better.

Life Update

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post. With the constant worry of coronavirus going around and trying to find my centre and calm during all of this, somethings got set to one side and unfortunately, the blog was one of them. Thankfully, I’m getting into a flow with things and adapting. I shall do a little update into what has been going on and start to say where I would like to go when things start returning to a form of normality. So, here goes nothing …

Corona Update

So, I haven’t been writing many blogs lately. I think with this global pandemic going on, I’ve not felt the urge to. Like, there are more important things I can be doing like looking after my family and maintaining my good mental health. For the most part, I’ve been doing the last part. I’ve kept myself busy, maintained SOME form of exercise and tried to limit my media consumption. I thought today to just give y’all an update as to where I’m at.

"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." - Shirley Chisholm

Hi, my name is James … most people call me Jim though and I have MANY addictions. Whether they’re healthy ones are not is up to Doctors who get paid a lot more than me. I don’t feel they are that bad, they’re not drugs or alcohol or anything but nice ones like coffee, Under Armour workout clothing, notebooks and a country. That country is the good old US of A. Ok, so coffee could be harmful depending on how much I consume, my notebooks addiction means I COULD be buried under them all, but my god, what a burial that would be … give me a pen and I would be happy and the under armour clothing one isn’t too bad. The thought of working out is there, obviously, because I buy the clothing (to be fair, I do actually work out … maybe not as often or hard as maybe I should but I do go for runs and eventually will go back to the gym to do weight/resistance workouts … but knowing me I’ll catch a cold whilst there, and right now, I DON’T want that).