Today was interesting, after completing all of my backups one of my backup drives failed. It looks like it was the network connection that went. Note to self – always make sure any new network drives also have a USB connection. One of the reasons is that there is an encryption chip built in to the interface, so it makes it hard to simply put the drive in a new box. Anyway, I think I have worked out how to do it. Good job I have 5 more copies of the data elsewhere. And when I move it to the new computer will have 7 copies.
Did a bit of video work today, thanks to Pete Banks I am a little bit better at youtube videos than I was before.
One video involved a toilet roll.
Did a little mask making today. I’ve been looking at on-line patterns and experience. One simple hint – put the material over your moth and try to breath through it. If you can’t then you probably have the wrong material. If you find you are blowing air past your eyes then you might as well use a cut away plastic bottle. I found that pockets from old jeans are good materials.
I remember Jeremy Corbyn made a statement that he would build houses and get rid of homelessness. It was a pretty big over-simplification of the response needed. This week we hear that the government have decided that they will eliminate rough sleeping, and at least they have said that it will be a multi-agency response.
I still think it is a bit on the naive side. Yes, we need to try, but I think we also need to accept that the best we can do is walk beside some of the rough sleepers, to be their friends as they struggle and often fail. To make their lives one little bit better.
We have just had May Day, and we have seen the call to stand with the poor workers against the rich oppressors. To the barricades comrades. I read the comments and wonder how many of the proletariat realise they are some of the richest in the world. They are actually the rich oppressors – and they do it by buying that cheap t-shirt.
Religious bit – stop reading here if you want to avoid it.
It struck me that there are a lot of people that say “I want to be like Jesus” or “What would Jesus do?”, who forget who he was. He was born in a country under brutal occupation, in a stable, not a house. He had no home – he was a rough sleeper.
The God we follow was a rough sleeper. And I get to thinking, maybe we need to do more to learn from the rough sleepers rather than “fix” them. Maybe they are closer to our God than we are. We speak well from our comfortable lives. Do we need to kick against a broken society with our whole life and not just our words?