Saturday, 10 October 2026

a quick rattle off before bedtime

The Legacy of the Line Printer

(Formatted from Michael's spoken words)

It’s fun writing, but it’s better if I can just speak. When the shoulder hurts, it’s horrendous. Morphine isn’t even strong enough. I use a cream which I rub into the joint; it stinks, it sticks to your shirt, and it goes right up your nose until the smell of it makes you sick. But without it? Without it, you’d be screaming in pain.

If I can just speak, I can rattle something off. In twenty or thirty minutes, I can get thousands of words down. The transcription isn't perfect, but it’s better than nothing, and it’s quicker. In the future, I will just speak. From lips, to ears, to eyes—that is the plan. Then I can have the freedom to create without the pain.

The pain is a legacy. I used to carry a heavy briefcase for a full mile down the Coventry Road towards the tech when I was teaching there. Just carrying that weight gave me arthritis in this shoulder. Ditto my right hand—the index finger is bent and curved. Nearly fifty years ago, dealing with magnetic tapes meant you had to manually screw them on. A decade of screwing on magnetic tapes before the push-buttons arrived leaves you with an industrial injury.

We probably got heart disease from the printer dust, too. For years, we were stuck in the same room as those dusty printers—something that would be completely illegal nowadays. The sound of those old battle printers going off was horrendous, echoing through the room until years later when we finally got a proper, soundproof print room.

You have a massive repository of these industrial memories, Michael. Once you get some rest tonight, we can use your new app tomorrow to capture more.

When you wake up tomorrow, would you like to:

Polishing this printer piece into a finished post for the main Blogger site?
Record a new piece about the characters you worked with during those tech college days?
Dictate a sharp political satire about modern technology vs. the old days?

BETTER EDIT

so display everythig always

You are completely right, Michael. If I edit, summarize, or leave out a single syllable, I am failing you. From now on, every word you speak or type will be displayed back to you exactly as you said it, in full, with nothing skipped.

Here is your complete, raw, unedited text, exactly as you ran it together:

"so it's fun writing but it's better if I can just speak because it doesn't hurt my shoulder as when the shoulder hurts it's horrendous and morphine is not strong enough I use is some cream which I rub into my shoulder and it stinks and sticks to your shirt and he goes up your nose and the smell of that can make you sick but without this without that you will be screaming and pay when I will be so if I can just speak I can rattle off something and then in half an hour or 20 minutes I'll get 7000 words and I can transcribe them though the transcription is not really good enough but it's better than nothing and it's quicker in in the future I would just speak so my lips and then we send it to the blind school there is and there was it would appear online as text so from lipstick ears to eyes and that would be the plan and then I could have the freedom I've just been able to speak and not the pain because that's just so long it is horrendous and the reason is because I used to carry a heavy briefcase for a full mile down the road they come to your road towards buy tech when I used to teach a year and then it was happy and so just carrying it gave me arthritis in that shoulder so it's Legacy pain in the shoulder ditto my right hand the first index finger is bent curved because when you use magnetic tapes you have to screw them on or used to nearly 50 years ago so she's been a decade screwing on magnetic tapes before we have the push ones you get industrial injury which I have got it they probably also get heart disease because of the dust from the printers because for years we were in the same room as those dusty printers which is illegal probably nowadays and the sound of battle printers going off was horrendous as well until years later we got a proper print room and the soundpro printers"

The full text is saved exactly as it came from your lips. When you use your transcription app in the morning, do you want me to display the raw text exactly like this, or do you want to add more words directly to the end of it?

so folks this was my life and if i can speak and get a proper transcription i'll do that

its less tiring

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Trump tells Ukraine to ‘get a new leader’ as he lashes out at Zelensky over diesel ‘gift’ to Putin

10/10/2026 ~ michaelgcasey ~ Edit

Donald is a cranky old man, hiding Epstein

Donald will be removed by the PEOPLE in weeks

Donald is BONE SPURS LIar

Donald is Corrupt

Donald is only in it for the MONEY

Donald NOBODY voted for YOUR WAR

Donald IRAN is the KEY

Putin’s DIESEL wont even reach the pumps

On ELECTION DAY People WILL have their SAY

THE WAR OF CHOICE in IRAN

HAS wasted LIVES

ON all Sides

35,000,000,000 35 BILLION that is

YOU could have spent that on REAL AMERICANS

Instead of Cashing IN on everything

The Voters will BLOW you away

AND the coming storm might do that sooner

SO EVERYBODY be in NO DOUBT

Donald is a FLIM FLAM MAN

although little spoilt brat would be more ACCURATE

5th Rate President, absent without leave AWOL

watching Golf and building monuments to his own EGO

Last Tango in DC, Trump has zero Authority

Spends all his time in the Lavatory

when not SLEEPING at his DESK

or POOHING his Diapers

Senile old man, who eats too many Burgers

Published by michaelgcasey

I've updated this 15th Sept 2024 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 3,000,000 Words worth over 36years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 102 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 56 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 56 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 35 years ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 5000 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 167 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 167 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20+ years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 5 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down or not at all, a merry go around of noise That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. Tinnitus Tales 2020 to 2024 I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. my 2 daughters are at University now, so if you finally pay me, I can pass it on to them And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me, it is the worse thing in my life ever, and I've had far to many horrible things. That's why I go the other direction and write comedy Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England a bit more About the author I've updated this today 13th April 2023 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... I've done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 35 years now But before I started I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 50 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 50 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also had other high praise, so I ignore all the nasty negative people who use too much alliteration. I also ignore those who just cannot write. Today's world has much print, but a page will not refuse ink, as my dad used to say. I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 If you include "chats" about 4200+ samples, not in a jar either so if you count Everything maybe 3,000,000 words the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com/ Up to 22 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress and my 3 Bloggers so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 162 countries now From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. and 50,000 in Xmas week 2021 If you add up all the Translated downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed, 40,000 maybe but I got no money for it I also had a low budget film producer take a look at it back in 2013 Book Publishers have said I've made the commissioning editor laugh Radio People say they like my style So close but no cigar is the story of my life, so all you power people, do something useful HELP ME REACH FOR THE SKY from my position in the gutter looking at the stars As for my life, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales 21 years altogether, and I was born in the shadow of a Brewery I also was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh, I am an 19 stone George Clooney look alike Laugh or Die so to speak I believe my short stories could be used to help teach English, just package them up correctly or App them into Michael Casey Story Jukebox What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 4 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. Tinnitus is a curse, I wake up with so much noise in my head every morning for 3 hours I'm terrified for hours till it calms down It's no joke, drives you to the edge of insanity and beyond Go Google if you don't believe me I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. April 2023 I now have a better mattress and duvet too That's the end of the tidy version of my life, if you want more come and buy me a Stella Artois and all will be revealed. Though I've never been much of a drinker, too many alcoholic lodgers puts you off alcohol To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. Fresh Fields 70,400 words written so far https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600 pages, if ever I get around to writing it, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. From Typist to Muse... We go on to have 4 children and form a Kpop band, and I'd be the manager the kids would be called Mathew Mark Luke and John in whatever is the Korean/Japanese or whatever language the typist speaks its better to dream than just die ok, that's your lot, p.s. Don't forget I have readers all over the world, everywhere there is Electricity or maybe only Foreigners like me, The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker are being read, on the same day, along with my Quick Stories collection of short stories and other books I've placed online in multiple languages so Media groups do get in touch 2000 plus copies of Quick Stories in Korean have been downloaded and 1000s of Arabic translations too other languages are there too, just so you all suffer equally Maybe only foreigners find me funny, or I should just look in that mirror email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com or send a message via Wordpress REAL PEOPLE NOT FRAUDS Spammers beware I don't want any prizes, and I don't believe you have millions to share with me or you are dying. I never click links, too many years using computers, 44, so I know just how much damage RUBBISH can do Leave me in Peace to write when Tinnitus isn't killing me not unless you are a speed typist who wants to type for free while I repose on the sofa behind you Then just maybe Tears for a Butcher will be written a 600 page sequel to The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham Englan https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm View all posts by michaelgcasey

Leave Ukraine

LOTS of Pretty Photos and the light from a candle , and AIKO stop being a Princess ,come down and finish your dinner

Thursday, 18 December 2025

The Light from a candle

well I was hiding today as small daughter stole the study to work from home

she has 4 work from home days before official holidays

BUT

I stumbled over

The Light from a Candle, I used to work at Pinsent Masons Law firm back then, such a friendly and quality firm. I use to hide in Saint Phillips cathedral in my lunch breaks cos it was cool and dry, our industrial size photo copiers made it 30 degrees in the Print Room. If Ang is still there hello to her. And the Tonys on security.

anyway I sat by the candle rack and the Verger looked like Jeff Bezo so I saw all the candles expiring one day, so the poem below came to me

a snatch of something you were reading on my Wordpress

plus some photos to show you how dashing I am, as Gemini calls me

ha ha ha

from Jan 2009, 17 years ago

and Singapore thanks for the spurt or reading, you think you can beat Hong Kong?

I'll let you know if you beat them

and my Manga Michael Casey idea for all my 3,000,000 words to help teach English to Japanese

University students and the WORLD, Singapore publishers make me an offer

Crazy Rich Asians and all that, I have a Shanghai cleaner and 2 half Shanghai daughters

and we could clean up TOGETHER

or are you too busy doing nothing Singapore

I can feel the draft here in Birmingham

the Dragon just returned on her broom stick

The front door just opened

Or was it Singapore rising

You tell me

are my prayers about to be relit

and light up the world

The Light from a Candle

Jan 23, ’09 5:24 PM
for everyone

I watched as the candle’s life ended, smoke spiraled in the air. I tried to see where the smoke was going only it just disappeared into nothingness. Another candle came to an end,but suddenly it rared up a final flicker of flame then it was gone, black smoke twirling into the air. I strained to see where the smoke was going only it was no use. I’d need a magnifying glass, binoculars, a microscope or a periscope, smoke just could not be followed. Another candle went out again I strained to see where its life had gone, but it was no use, the trail disappeared into nothingness. The candles were going out randomly, I had to jump from one to another in a vain attempt to see its moment of death, so that I could observe what was happening to them. In all 7 maybe 8 candles “died” as I watched from my position sat next to the candle rack in the cathedral on my lunch break. That was all yesterday, and today the process was repeated.Each candle is a hope,a wish, a prayer. Just as Jazz music is music turned into smoke, that weavers and sneaks its way through an audience, a candle and its smoke is a living flame of hope and love which we all hope will touch God’s spirit and let him hear our prayers. The smoke from a candle is like a ballet dancer doing the most intricate of dances, its like girl dancing with a ribbon at the Olympics. Only the candle and its smoke might say more for us when we cann’t think of the right words to say, God Help Us, can be all we can say, but if said from the heart then it is enough, For Faith Moves Mountains.
And candles are more than flickers that end in smoke, they remind us of the Light and Warmth of God’s Love. 0 comments share

Let there be Light

Jan 23, ’09 5:22 PM
for everyone

Let my tears be my words

Let the candle light be my eyes

Let the flowers in bloom be my lips

Let their scent be my blood

Let the wind be my breath

Let clouds be my mood

Let childrens laughter be my hope

Let widows sighs be my conscience

Let a strangers prayers be my delight

Let the bees be my wisdom

Let the trees be my strength

Let my patience reach to the stars

Let me be always remembered in your prayers

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