I was just flipping around the net, reading about and Irish author with a new book, JK Rowling publishing a new book of fairy tales [oh I bet those will be original], Hamas NOT being like the IRA, shit like that, trying to get past this nausea and dread I have inside me--and I decide to look up some self-help articles for depression. First one I see has steps to make yourself happier:

1.Tell a good friend or family member how you feel-ask them if they have some time to listen to you. Tell them not to interrupt with any advice, criticism or judgments. Assure them that you can discuss what to do about the situation after you get done talking, but that just talking with no interruptions will help you feel better.

Now dun you think if you had a good friend or helpful family member, you might have already enlisted them to helping you? I know I would. I have no family who gives a rat's ass and my supposed friends are all busy with their 'A' lists of people they like to socialise with.

The list goes on and on. Some of the things are general good sense like eating well and exercising and not drinking alcohol or caffeine. Some things I question like making your house as bright as possible. I suppose it might be better than living like a mole, but still...

I just think when you are depressed, you haven't the energy to do all these wonderful things, and sometimes not the means.

Civil servants had their telephone calls bugged by the Government during the Second World War amid fears they were carelessly revealing wartime secrets during their conversations, newly released files show.

By Ben Farmer
Telegraph.co.uk
01 Aug 2008

Dozens of Whitehall lines and calls to large armament contractors were eavesdropped for signs of careless talk following a request from MI5 during World War 2.

But records released under the Freedom of Information Act also offer a portrait of wartime Britain straining under the pressure of the war effort and air raids.

As well as conversations about shipments and plans, the Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information recorded tense conversations between family members as German bombs fell on London.

Mark Dunton, contemporary history specialist at the National Archives in Kew, south London, said: "You get some sense of Whitehall working at full tilt and people working under pressure and some of the conversations are very tense to say the least.

"It's the sort of dialogue you are used to seeing on films, but this is it for real."

On January 20, 1943, the phone tappers recorded worried relatives calling each other during and after a heavy bombing raid.

One man called a woman in Sanderstead saying: "Hope you are not frightened darling, now the raids have started.

"They came over the house just now – people dived into shops – frightening business," she replied. ( >>Read on )

By Vicky Shaw
Scotsman
01 August 2008

A REEL-to-reel tape of a Beatles recording, during which group members crack jokes and break into giggles, is going under the hammer this month.

The half-hour tape, believed to have been recorded in 1964, contains John Lennon and Paul McCartney-composed songs as well as versions of other artists’ compositions, Berkshire-based auction house Cameo said.

The tape, to be auctioned in a music and entertainment sale on Tuesday, is expected to raise between £8,000 and £12,000.

A track which starts on the first side of the tape and goes into the second called I’ll Follow The Sun is broken by false starts, conversation and banter.

Lennon and Sir Paul are clearly audible on a number of occasions during their attempt to record this track, the auction house said. ( >>Continued )

My email:

On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...that any frustration you have is simply the result of wrong thinking.

If you were thinking rightly you could not possibly imagine that anything was going 'wrong.' You would know that nothing in the Universe is working against you. By definition, given Who You Are, this is impossible.

hahahahaha! I knew it!! Wrong thinking...

Damnit!