Keeping a blog might be easier if and when I get some fancy phone that will allow me to post stuff on the go, by speaking into it and including photos and videos... And living a life interesting enough to blog about, of course ..read more

Gah, I just googled "at what temperature should a whole hen be baked?"  Then I came over to the couch and plugged my full sized keyboard into the phone using an, up to now handy adapter... It's pecking away one finger tap at a time, for me. The Lenovo Thinkpad that hung in there for like 9 years, the last 4 of which without ever being turned off, has finally crapped out with, I believe, a power supply issue being the straw that broke the back of an already burdened camel. It fails before even loading the operating system, which rules out everything else but the power supply, in my opinion ..read more

I can speak Above: As a sophomore... stuff in here but I cannot type stuff in here. Plugging my full sized keyboard into the phone isn't working, but I can speak the blog post in.  I've been practicing the guitar out of several method books, recently, having had a miniature eureka(!) moment, of sorts, after which I started to watch television and practice at the same time. There is an absolute benefit to being able to pay attention to an external stimuli, like a TV show about true crimes, and to be practicing the material simultaneously. It totally disengages the two orbs of the brain fr ..read more

There, on my “antenna” TV, after I’d pressed the red button on the remote Thursday night, appeared a telecast emanating from the St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Jackson Square. It was a “multi-faith” memorial type service, in observation of the 14 people killed in the “terrorist attack,” on Bourbon Street the other night.  OK, about 4 things to unpack here…? Cynicism Rising In My Throat  I found myself initially cynical, especially upon seeing acting president Joe Biden, and his wife, Doctor Jill, seated in the very first pew.  I was praying that the event wasn’t going to be “politic ..read more

A tumultuous Wednesday started. I decided I was going to try to avoid meeting Lilly to get the macha cookies that one of her girls had made. And the strawberry vanilla ones, I think it was. I hadn't slept all night, afraid I would drift off in the wee hours and oversleep my chance to go see Smokey Greenwell about a new harmonica. I hadn't been that hungry Tuesday. In fact, I looked at the entire chicken that I baked and only picked off of a little bit, sitting there in my fridge and thought it was going to go to waste, so not in the mood for eating I had been. Why did I go and bake a whole b ..read more

This will, I guess be the first blog post that I write in my room and will then take on a thumb drive to the computer room. I went through my 4 gigabytes of monthly data in something like 3 days. This happened through the streaming of videos.  I don’t know what kind of viruses or malware or spyware is on the Android government issued “Obama” phone I have.  I’m pretty sure the program was started, not because "it’s a basic human right to have the ability to call 911 in an emergency," as per the original rationale claimed by the Obama government, but as a way to keep track of people. M ..read more

 And someone left the computer room door open. I'm really not supposed to be here, so, more later I guess ..read more

 I may just come here meaning this blog to do my morning papers which are a facet of the artist's way program I guess you would call it based on a book written by Julia Cameron called the artist's way and it came out in the 90s and there are people now who have used it for like 20 years I think even like Neil Young perhaps and it unlocks your creativity I think it just pulls your dream world closer to the reality one or it makes reality more dreamlike but it's supposed to be handwritten in the long form as they call it cursive and three pages every morning as soon as you wake up before yo ..read more

40 days and 40 nights after the passing of  my 62nd birthday, the egg from social security was laid in my mailbox. They had made it sound like I really must open a bank account so the thing could be electronically delivered, as per law, even. But there it was; a paper check, It was almost an incidental occurrence, and I soon forgot about the thing, and was back to work on whatever, probably my Python script* and staying up most of the night. The Python script is going to learn me a few Python skills (does one even aspire towards landing a coding job that starts at $90K a year these days ..read more

I am under the throes of video addiction at a level that concerns me. I went to the blog of Alex Carter, something I do less and less of these days, as in maybe once a month, since the quality of his writing has diminished, commensurate with his having taken up drinking again. He has astounded me by being a text book, central casting version of the California progressive liberal, or whatever is the label stuck to "them." I am starting to think that some globalist actor, or at least some group of U-Cal Berkley drop outs whose job it is to maintain the code for the Google algorithm, has as a ..read more