I love this speach

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible -- Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die; and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate; only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers: Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written, "the kingdom of God is within man" -- not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite!! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise!! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

by Charlie chaplin.

and so true

R.I.P Mellisa

Today at round 10:30 Am, I had to make the most difficult desicion Iever.

Poor little Mellisa Had not been well for some time, she had developed a lump on her stomach.

It got worse over the space of time and we had to take her to the vets. 

We took her on the wednesday of this week, the vet at the time said that he thought he may be able to remove the lump and asked us to bring mellisa back on the friday, Which we did. 

So We drop her at the vets. Me and mom go to the city and have some breakfast.

We are doing some shopping and we get a call. I pass the phone to my mother. 

My mom breaks in to tears and passes the phone to me. 

I ask the vet what is happening and she told me the bad news.

It was a tumor on her stomach, and that it had grown very deep and that even if they was to try and remove it that the tumor would come back. and the said that they wanted to put her to sleep and needed permisson to do so. 

I said I needed a minute to decide , they said I needed to make the desicion very soon as she was asleep under drugs and it would be cruel to wake her up to put her back to sleep again.

I calmed my mother down, and Called back and gave permission for her to be put to sleep.

I have never had to make such a tough call in my life , Mellisa even though is a cat was one of my best friends and part of the family. 

I miss her so very much already and I am so sorry to her for making the desicion that I had to make. but it was for the best and she is pain free now. 

love you Mellisa 

2005-2013

See you again one day

No computer

I had my computer for about two or three years now, and untill a few months ago everything was fine.

I noticed that it was starting to slow down a little so I did the routine stuff...virus scans, defraggin and compressing and deleting files that might slow it down.

but still it was running slow, one day just a few weeks ago after work I turn on my computer and up comes a message saying that the hard drive is about to fail. I try everything I know to fix it but it was a loosing battle , my computer started to freeze almost every few hours and I would have to wait sometimes up to twenty minutes for my computer to start up. 

Eventually I took drastic measures, I restored my computer to factory settings, I saved as much as I could to my flashdrive and hit the button and restored to factory settings. 

it seemed to do the trick ...or atleast I thought it did. 

for about a day it seemed fine. then it started all over again, the slow down and freezing. time was running out. I had no choice , I had to either get a new computer or try to get this one repaired. I really didnt want to be without because my computer is my main way of talking to my Beautiful Jenn.

 I decided I would have to send my dying computer in for repairs. and a few small upgrades..Bigger hard drive.

I sent my computer in, and the man said all that he would do and said would take a few days. 

I had not been without a computer in years, I felt like a part of me was gone.

I know that there is a lot more to life than a computer screen, I work 40+ hours every week so the actual time I spend on my computer is around three hours a day.  but still felt a bit odd getting home and not having it there to go on.

I have my Galaxy s3 wich is more or less a computer in its self , so atleast I could speak with my Jenn through that. Without my computer to go on I started to wonder what to do in the time I would usually go on it.  

in total I was without my computer for a week, but now I have it back and can talk to my Jenn again with ease, and can book my next flight to go see my Jenn on the 25th of august. YAY!!!

One thing I did notice,, or should I say thought about while I was without my computer is Just how dependend people are becoming on technology, and while it is a good thing and can bring people together it is also doing the opposite at the same time and is taking the human part out of social interaction.

My Job   was recently not so sure as we went in to administration for a breif period.  due to alot of elements but one key element is online markets. and its not just my company that has been effected, but so many jobs have been lost due to people not going in to a store on the high street anymore but instead purchasing goods online.  

This in a way worries me because years from now it could be even worse...people wont go out anymore, the streets will be empty and there will be no markets or stores, all you will see is truks or vans delivering goods to houses that people have orderd ONLINE.  and people will just talk to eachother on their computers. 

I know that is a very extream case and I doubt...no I hope it will never get as bad as that. 

My mom says that she will not shop online because she likes to go to a store and feel and smell the freshness of the food and items she is buying. She is 64 and part of the older generation, but the newer generation is very dependant on the tech of today and while it is a amazing thing it could be a double edge sword and society must be carful how it is used or it could do more damage than good.

Rant over

Just something for us all to think about I guess.

Thank you for reading 

Me and Jenn April 2013

I have been with my beautiful Jenn since April 21st this time round and have only just been able to get to my computer for long enough to write about it.
 
 I love to fly, but one major problem I have is I can never sleep, I close my eyes and can just never seem to drift off, I have tried every time. I even bought my self a big pillow this time.

It still didn't work.

But how can I sleep when I would miss some of the views.


I love every second I am here with my Jenn. 

We have already done so much this time round .

and I have lots of pictures of all the great time we have spent together and all the foods we have tried. me and Jenn love to try new foods, and are always looking for our next great adventure.

We also love some of the same things we always do. 

We always go and visit Dahlonega. we both love that place and I always say I would love to retire there.

If you have never been there and love those quiet little old towns I would highly recommend it, it has not changed much over the years that me and Jenn have been going there and according to history it hasn't changed much since it was first built.

while Jenn has been at work I have been taking my run, I always try to push my self a little further each time, I have set my best mile time of 7 minutes and 21 seconds here. mainly up hill so I am quite happy with that, I have always tried to go for distance but lately have wanted to work a little on my speed. I believe I can go faster but dont want to push it to much at a time. I am running on average 5 miles a day. If I try for speed on my first mile I am more tired on the last few miles. so I got to try and work the speed up slowly.

 

Me and my Jenn also love to go see movies together. we saw the movie called   42   the other day, its a great movie. we also saw the Croods and Big wedding.  

We visited the Mall of Georgia, that place is so big, I could easy spend a day in there and not be board.

We are already trying to work for July for my next visit when we are hoping to take part in the peach tree run in Atlanta. Jenn has done the run before, and she says its about 7 miles long. When I am in England I run about 3 miles a day, my longest run is about 10 miles. I am very confident that I can do the run and all been well me and Jenn will cross the line together in July.

While I have been here this time round I have been a little adventurous when it comes to food, I am usually quite play it safe and stick to the foods I know I like when I eat, but I am branching out and trying foods I would normally never look at .

I have tried buffalo wings , and I have tried a soup, I cant remember the name of it but Jenn said it's a Georgia thing, and if you eat this soup on new years day it will bring you fortune for the year ahead.

 

Each time I visit, me and Jenn try to plan a day where we both do something special.
This time we decided to go visit the world of Coca cola Atlanta.
We had talked about going there so many times but had actually never been . and with it been my last day we thought it was the ideal opportunity.

Every thing you could think of to do with Coca cola was there, including a volt with the recipe  for the drink. a room where it was a full 360 view TV and lots of information about how the drink was made.  I had no Idea it was a doctor who invented it as a medicine.

and there was a taste room that had all the flavors from around the world, and I tried every one of them, some were soo good, some not so good but I tried them all. I felt so bloated after and even had a little bit of a sugar rush. we looked around the official Coca cola store and bought each other gifts.

 

After the world of Coca Cola we found a cafe where I had a  Philly cheese stake sandwich.
   it was so good, I had one before , I wonder which way would be the proper way to have one, I have had the steak in chunks before and as a mince, so I may have to look in to that.

and for  the last hour before I had to go , me and Jenn walked around the Olympic park near the world of Coca Cola . there was a fair on in the park, with lots of different stores there and fun things to do.

Me and Jenn bought some cool stuff and tested our zombie killing skills on a shooting range.
before we knew it, time was up and I had to go, I always hate that point, its the one time i dread in all the time I am there.

time always goes so very fast, its like watching a hour glass , you know that last grain of sand will soon drop through the hole and all you can do is watch it fall. but the good thing is that you can turn it over and start it again.

 I love My beautiful Jenn more than anything every day 

I will be back with my beautiful Jenn soon and we will be having lots more fun and adventures .

Thank you so much to those of you who read this.

Strange but true.

Well hello every body and I have decided after so long that i have finally found a story worth writing about.

This may be one of the oddest story's I have ever told and it is completely true. but even now when I tell people of this story they look at me in disbelief and shock.

Well here goes.

 before I go to work I always get a sandwich to eat. I have a different one every day , sometimes its a bacon sausage and tomato, other times its a roast pork sandwich.

This day, I decided to have a hot roast pork sandwich with apple sauce and crackling, it was so yummi.

While I was eating the sandwich a peace of crackling stabbed me in the inside of my gum , it hurt alot, but I just kept on chewing and finished my sandwich. the day went past as normal.

a few days later I notice a small ridged object on the inside of  my gum, right where I had cut it with the crackling from the sandwich, I could feel it with my tongue  and when I rubbed my finger against it, the object was very sharp, the first thing I thought was that the object was a piece of the crackling from the sandwich that had become lodged in my gum, so I tried to pull on it, what ever it was it was not budging .

I finally got to a mirror and looked as best I could. When I looked it was a small white line in my gum, and around the area was red and inflamed. 

what ever it was , it was actually stabbing in to my tongue. and was not so much painful but irritating.

after a few days had gone by, I was at work and I was eating a winegum. suddenly I feel a sharp pain right where this thing is, I feel with my tongue and I feel the object come loose and fall on to my tongue, I spit it in to my hand, 

It is a bone, yeah you read it right it was a bone from my inner gum, if you feel with your tongue on the inside of your mouth near the back  there is a small little ridge near the back , just below the teeth, 

the crackle from the sandwich had cut my gum and exposed the bone and it fell out a few days later, 

Strange.......

thanks for reading

A happy New year

To think that a whole 365 days have gone already, where as all that time gone?

It always gets me just how fast time can fly. every thing has gone so fast this year, and even Christmas day was over before I knew it. Time just keeps on going, but I have had so many fun times this year.

There have also been a few down hill moments. but I think every year has those. 

but it is the ups and downs of a year that makes us who we are. I always hope that at the end of a year I will have made a positive impact, not just on my own life but on the lives of the people who are important to me. 

I always make the  new years resolution to be a better man than I was the year before.  to try harder than I did the year before, and to have a better year than I did the year before. 

I also wish that every body I know will have a better year than the previous year. and that they will be safe and well. 

I also hope for the people who are not as fortunate as me , that they will be safe and have a better year than last year

and to any body who may read this, I hope you have a great new year .

Thank you for reading and have a great 2013. 

 

Merry Christmas a visit with Jenn

Wow has it really been so long since I last put something on here??. Well I had better write something and I cant think of anything better to write about than the adventure me and Jenn have had in November.

I really wanted to go see Jenn before Christmas and my Job dictates that I can not have the time of in December so I decided to head and see her for the last week in November.

I usually write about me getting ready to go see Jenn , but with it been so soon after the last time I had gone to see her I didn't really have to much time to do much of anything. I had last been in September.

While I was a rush and last minute kind of thing everything went well. I usually have at least 4 months to plan and save and get ready for such a journey so to do it in little over a month  was quite a accomplishment .

I could only manage to get 8 days of time so I had to make each day count. 

But every day , in fact every day second is so very precious. and I hat the fact of how no matter what , time slips by without stopping .

So I got to America  and Jenn came picked me up. we were so very happy to see each other. 

the first place we went to visit was Dahlonega to see the lights. I love to see the lights there and I have never seen a place to match when it comes to Christmas lights .

I do actually think that Dahlonega is one of my favorite places on this Earth , I feel calm there and without a problem in the world. 

We also tried many new places , one called Genghis , after Genghis Khan. it was pretty much a Chinese restaurant, but with one difference, in any other restaurant I have been to , they pass you a menu and you pick what you want . in this place, they gave us a bowl and we went and picked the food that we wanted while it was still uncooked and we passed it to the chief and they cooked it then brought it to the table.

we also visited a popcorn store, I never knew there could be so many different flavors of popcorn. I think it was 150 choices. 

with it been so close to Christmas , me and Jenn decorated a Christmas tree 

 

 

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the major trip of this visit was to Stone mountain. 

 Me and Jenn had been before on one of my previous visits. 

but never in November, it was all set up for Christmas . there were lights every where and all kinds of festivities there, I experienced my first 4d movie.  saw a parade with father Christmas and even went on a train that took us around the mountain . we took a ride on the sky lift that took us to the top of the mountain. From the top I could see the city of Atlanta, it looked very beautiful under the sunset.

we had green tickets which meant we could go on any ride

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we walked back down to the bottom of Stone mountain. and had some food.

 the next day it was the day I had to come back to England. but before I left me and Jenn did some last minute shopping for Christmas. but as always is the problem time soon ran out. and I had to go to the airport. I always hate that part of the trip to see My beautiful Jenn. 

Jenn drove me back to the Airport. I watched her  drive away.

I miss her so very much every day and love her so very much.

I do have a interesting story to finish of this post.

So I get in to the airport , I get my ticket for gate E36. 

so I get through security and I check my ticket to find that my flight starts boarding at 620pm and leaves and 715pm. 

I am in a rush because by the time I get to the E gates its 625, I see the Delta plane and it seems that it hasn't even started loading the passengers yet, so I decide to make a quick call to Jenn to let her know my flight is delayed . I sit and wait , I look at the time and it is now 730pm. I look at my ticket, and it says leaves at 715pm, I look at the gate on the ticket it says gate E36. I look where I am....I am at the wrong gate, I am at gate E32. I run as fast as I can to gate E36. there is no one there and even worse there is no plane at the gate. 

I walk back to the gate I was at, I look at the board, maybe what I should have done in the first place. it said Manchester England.

What I think had happened is that my original flight had pulled up to gate E36, however it had broken down and they had replaced the flight but had parked it at Gate E36. Talk about been in the wrong place at the right time ha ha . guess luck was on my side.

Well than you for reading my post , and me and Jennifer wish you all a very happy Christmas and the very best for the coming year.

Thanks for reading

My time With Jenn

So I have been back in England about a week now and I feel I still have a little Jet lag.

I have decided to write about our time together now, while it is still fresh in my mind.

So I got to the airport in Atlanta at about 2:30 pm in the afternoon.

The flight was pretty smooth, I have learn't over my many times of flying to America though that turbulence is a sure thing on a flight that last that long.

When I got to Atlanta, I landed for the first time in the new international terminal, from the inside it looks exactly the same as the good old Atlanta north south terminals. 

I really thought I was in those and that I would walk outside and Jenn would be there waiting, but when I got outside I saw that this was not where I would normally land.

I had to catch a shuttle bus that took me to the main part of the airport. 

I think it was about 2 miles before we pulled up at the main building.

I got out of the airport and up to the top level of the car park where Jenn was waiting for me.
 We got in the car and went through the check point and got to Suwanee about a hour and a half later.

one of the first things that always hits me when I get to America is the heat, well compared to England it is really warm. and when I am coming from England where it is colder I dress for the English weather but when I get to America its so much warmer.

So any way , one of the first things me and Jenn did was go to the fair.
it was my first American fair that I had been to and I have to say it was a lot of fun.
when we got to the fair we decided that it would be best to have some food before going near any of the rides. so we had something, I cant remember the name but it was some kind of pastry.
It had icing on it and it looked like a very long worm all wrapped around its self, it looked really good but I just don't know how els to describe it .

So after that and a soda , we took a walk around. we went on the big wheel, well the smaller of the two big wheels , and just for good measure we went on the bigger one too. now at this point I felt fine. but then we went on a spinning ride that went round backwards first and then went the right way round , and its then when I started to feel a little sick. So I just tried to shake it off. then we went on another spinning ride and it got worse. I just managed to hold it down. 

We also saw some of the exhibitions they had on show.
The first one we saw was a lady who was just 29 inches tall. I walked in with Jennifer expecting to see some kind of gimic , but she was real, she was sat on a sofa and she was so small, and so what did I , a great mind  say to her?? I said   " your small" . and she just looked at me and said, " Yep"
we leave that one and Jennifer is laughing at what I said. it made me laugh too.
I also had a argument with a lady who had a snakes body. and we saw a real live mermaid made out of real plastic WOW. We really had fun at the fair.

later in the week me and my Jenn went to a apple farm, another first for me. apparently its a really big thing and I never knew that there was so many things could be done with apples. 

There was apple pie's apple puddings , apple cakes. dried apples, apple juice , apple sponge, and apples. lots of apples of every kind you could think of, at that was just at one of the many places we went to that day.

more than anything I think it's amazing just how much time can really fly when your having fun.  

but I always in a way see time as the enemy when I see Jenn. simply because its always slipping away

 we  visited a place that grew  punkins, every size and every kind.
and they even had wheelbarrows to shop around with.

Now Jenn isn't the biggest person 5ft tall. but these punkins were huge. I don't know how heavy they were but I think I might have had to put some effort in to lift one

 these were the smallest punkins, I had no Idea that they could be so small

I guess that punkin shopping was just to much for some people.

Me and my Jenn also went and visited a old cemetery in Suwanee. the graves there were from the American civil war. it was very interesting to  and we even found a grave from the   American Revolutionary War. I hope he didn't mind me been there. 

 there were quite a few graves there. and after we went and for a pizza and a walk round the historical city center. we saw the court house and apparently, they would have hanged people from the trees that surrounded the court house.

Jenn took me to a restaurant  that did the best biscuits I think I may have ever had while in the USA

 The biscuit  was a lot bigger that the ones you get from MacDonalds or Chick-fil-A

I had bacon and egg and it was so tasty . Thank you my Jenn for taking me there.

 When I was in the USA, I would run every day, to try and keep the pounds off. I tried to run a little more every day, until I went for the big challenge, I ended up running 7 miles in one run, I was really tired but I made it, I had never run the route I ran before , but I had been given directions so I had a rough idea where I was going. I always try to keep my self motivated when I run, but some times the motivation comes from things that are around us.

near the end of our time we decided to go to a ranch with lots of animals that we cold feed and pet.
first thing I noticed was the squirrels, I love squirrels but they were not part of the ranch they were just running around.

 there were lots of animals , Chickens and roosters that never shut up, but were still cute and fun to watch

Fluffy bunny rabbits. they were very cute but seemed to be sleepy when we saw them.

now these were very greedy and were jumping over each other to get to the food and I bet they would have eaten every piece of food we had if we would have let them.

 There were quite a few deer, they were very shy and took some tempting to come to the fence to eat the food.

the Donkeys were a lot of fun and I think Jenn liked them the best. 

 there was one  enclosure that we was allowed to go in that has some baby bunny rabbits in there. when we went in  we had to wait around for a while till the rabbits ventured near us . it was worth it, they were very small and funny at the same time.

I think my favorite was the bears. this one in the picture was so funny, he was sat at the other end of the enclosure, I threw a peanut for him, he got up and  munched it right up, I managed to throw them so they would trail right up to our end of the fence. when he got to the last one he was right next to us. we was looking down at him from a stand. He sat down and looked at us as if to say "So you gonna feed me or what ?". I threw a peanut and rather than him let it land on the ground he just caught it in his mouth. so it was a game of throw and catch, but with peanuts, and a bear.

 So on our last day,  it was quite sad, I always hate having to leave Jenn.

Morgan our dear friend took some pictures of us

Thank you so much Morgan for taking the pictures of us, you really take the best pictures.

 We got to the Airport and I checked in for the flight back to England, we gave each other a big hug and a kiss. and I waved Jenn off in her car.

When Jenn has gone I always take a few minutes to take a walk around outside the airport, it some how just makes me feel close to her for those few last minutes


Now my plane was due to board at 620 pm, it was now 5:50. I took a deep breath swallowed my sadness and stepped in to the airport. I had to run to get to the security gate. and then through security.  I got to the gate at about 29 minutes past, but the passengers were only just lining up to get on the plane. I took the few minutes I had to find a phone and call Jenn. the last thing I do before I board the outgoing flight is to call her, its tradition.

So after the call to Jenn , I board the flight and we pull away from the gate.
we are rolling towards the runway, and the safety video is playing.
Suddenly very thing goes black, the plane completely shuts down, even the emergency exit lights are not on and the plane slows to a stop.

the stewardesses look around and I can see a few passengers looking a little worried. I must admit I was a little unnerved by it. about 5 minutes later the lights start to come back on, and the engines roar back in to life. and the captain announces on the speakers that one of the generators had failed, but  they had done their check and everything was "A okay" . we rolled up to the runway and up and away we went .

while I was in the sky I always look down over America, who knows maybe some where I would be able to see Jenn's car driving back home. I managed to get some amazing in flight pictures and some great sunset ones so here they are

I hope you have enjoyed mine and Jenn's adventures this time round.
I would like to thank the Blakes for been so kind to me, they are a true example of how good and kind and loving people can be and I love them all, and I hope to see them again soon.

and a big thank you form me and Jenn to any body who reads our adventures. and we hope to bring you more of our adventures soon.

I love you and miss you lots my Jennifer.