Euphrosene Labon

Monday 5: Raring to finish a major task today, my actual start was bleeding the radiators. At least the snow thawed, but it is very cold indeed. A mundane observation in a mundane-ish life. So, as a writer and artist with delusions of divinity, should I restrict myself to more pertinent opinions? Naturally, I think not.

Our day to day experiences form the basis of our creative endeavours. My niche in both art and writing is mind body spirit. My brand of spiritual metaphysics encompasses the tangible with the highly esoteric. I believe my thoughts and actions are highly relevant in understanding my art as well as in how I write and what I write about.

I do not think my current incarnation was meant to be hermetically mystical. However, I do aim to involve the divine in each day. Even one that starts with bleeding radiators. Quite how it leaps to fine art of creation in the raw, or energy or soulmates, I don’t quite know. But it does.

Later: the promise of the day sort of got worse but only in a techy bad way. Firstly, I tried to load Copernic (with all my hundreds of pages of text in hundreds of different files across different disks, it is a slog finding exactly what I want) as a desktop search tool.

I gave up on that when it could not find something easy (God, yes G-O-D) despite there being gazillions of entries and the indexing already in process. So I then re-opted for Google Desktop, which I had used some while ago but got put off by the web page format. It made it look as if all my personal letters, files etc were available for the wider world to see as well!

A quick surf and there could still be issues but the enterprise version provides added security (I hope), plus I have set it up to only look within (I hope).

Moxilla Firefox may be a better browser than IE7, but it was a complete b to download the software. It kept opening multiple tabs and made the laptop chunder so loudly, I thought it was going to take off!

Back to IE7 and it was all done and dusted in a few minutes. As of typing this, the indexing is 23% complete. And then I spotted another annoyance: the language shown at the bottom of my Word doc showed Welsh. Argh. Initially, I could not get the Thesaurus to work but eventually sussed it was because of the default language. God alone knows how that got changed.

Unfortunately for my equilibrium, it still shows as Welsh on all new docs despite my deleting the normal.dot ….

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Monday 22: It’s beyond me how some cartoonists and artists use tablets. My efforts look as if I am writing or drawing with my left foot.

All the best plans… that was yesterday and today was meant to be preparing some merchandise to sell. Instead, I went to get flowers for Sr Clement’s funeral and took some Christmas cards to Ma which she asked me to write for her. Unlike the other day, when she was super annoying, she seemed fragile and accepting, her gentle humour returned. If only that aspect would remain!

Euge (my brother Eugene who died in 1974) seems to be more noticeably present in her thoughts, and she asked me to write him a card and ‘put a stamp on’. So I will. But, as I said to her, I can’t send it to Heaven. She never mentioned BC at all, and I said she’d see him soon enough.

That may sound unkind, or even a desire to be free of a burden - and, in all honesty, the latter is often on my mind. But, also honestly, to have her free from her mental trials cannot be unkind. I firmly believe in an afterlife (or, rather, continuing life) and she would at last be back with the loved ones she misses so much.

Got back home to missed deliveries and wrapping Christmas presents to give to the NandDs tomorrow, after the funeral.

Readers of Floreo News will probably remember me writing of nominative determinism (yet another reason why I am quite vehement about being called ‘Euphrosene‘). The papers are having a field day with that arch toerag, Bernard Madoff - who made off with, well I’m sure you know the rest.

Meanwhile, can it really be true that an 8-year old Saudi girl was married off to a man of 58? Not a good advert for Islam, if so, especially since some have mentioned paedophilia and a particular prophet in the same breath. What is worse, if true, is that girl wants out, but a Saudi court has vetoed divorce till she reaches puberty. What a terrible ‘prison sentence’ for her.

PS I hugely doubt there was a fix with the Strictly Come Dancing ‘phone lines, as I tried to vote for Tom and only managed once after umpteen attempts.

Why did I vote? Because Tom Chambers seems such a kind guy, as well as really enthusiastic about dancing-as opposed to trying to win-and that made him seem a much warmer person than the other finalists. Plus I found it fascinating how obviously difficult he found dancing intimately with a woman who was not his evidently much loved wife. After finishing each dance, his eyes invariably strayed to the audience rather than the judges.

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Tuesday 16: Should conspiracy theorists be treated like loonies? Where does the reasonable questioner begin and the paranoic nutter end? There are things we are told, which most of us believe blindly. Then, much further down the line, ‘facts’ emerge which contradict the official line.

The death of Dr David Kelly, for example. We are told it was suicide. However, Norman Baker has written a book questioning that, even suggesting it was murder.

If a conspiracy theory is a hypothesis alleging that a coordinated group works secretly to commit illegal or wrongful actions; that it attempts to hide its existence and activities, then most thinking people would be conspiracy theorists.

Thinking people have an instinctive understanding, or belief, which usually contradicts the given explanation. Yet we are bracketed with those who may have had esoteric experiences, without any obvious logic or any earthbound proof, and thus they appear rather outlandish. More anon.

Meanwhile, should we start a conspiracy about Google and Microsoft? I had the news on downstairs and had a panic moment when the newsreader advised changing browsers till Microsoft had sorted out a serious bug. Downloading Google Chrome (for the second time) was not an issue, but trying to get my bookmarks imported was a complete pain.

Google Chrome can import IE bookmarks but not apparently its own. Incredible.

Mild panic stations as I thought I would have to save them each manually - nearly 2,000 of them! But I then found a link that exported the html version so at least they are available. Somewhere. I have backed them up in various places, to be on the safe side. I also changed the default browser to Chrome. Another headache as it is not that particularly intuitive.

There are other browser alternatives that come highly recommended, like Firefox, Safari, Opera and Maxthon. However, they are likely to be virus-free because of the greater popularity of Internet Explorer. If the odds changed, no doubt I’d be wailing about them! Actually, I am contemplating using a different browser for different tasks!

And, back to theories of another kind. In my mind associations, delusions, well some of them, are unlimited goals which have yet to be manifested. To counteract one particular ‘delusion’, I write this blog. Then, should it manifest in this time and space, my failings will not be such a shock. I mention this (again) because we tend to have idealised views of gurus or celebrities.
Discovering that they have done daft things, or worse, invariably gives us an unpleasant jolt.

All that pfaffing meant I rang Ma later than normal and I am concerned that dementia may be setting in. She has always been as sharp as nails, despite the mental illness - or perhaps because of. Sure she always had a tendency to loop, but rarely to repeat herself in seconds. She also tires very quickly, just wanting to lie down, so I still feel it would be better to let her spend Christmas there and keep her company instead. Also concerns about Dad’s pension, given yet another cock up by those in power.

On the art front, I treated myself to a set of acrylic inks, although my favourites (if anyone is buying!) are definitely Dr Ph Martin’s watercolour inks.

PS Argh! Wordpress blog does not show the tags and other settings so will still have to use IE7 sometimes.

PPS I now have Google Chrome AND Firefox - and the latter shows my blog codes. Phew!

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

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