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I’ve used an abbreviated, modified version of a bullet journals for several years. It’s helped immensely. In part, it’s a single page, day diary, but I tend to eschew verbiage and use quick sketches, notations, and doodles. I make sure, in one of several locations, that I mark a single day/date and I ensure that I get something down. Been at this a while, and here’s what seems to be…

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2.2.186) Horoscopes for 2-3-2026 Mercury into Pisces 2/6 Venus square Uranus 2/7 Horoscopes for 2-3-2026 Last week’s news. Aquarius It’s a very old story, and there might be references elsewhere in my canon. But as a reminder to this week’s Aquarius? My maternal grandmother passed a half-dozen years before my…

Cloud Note Current cloud computing investing. The real story? Myth busted(ten years back). Cloud Note

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Is this a cry for help? From a sales list, or e–book recommendation list. Not sure. Palate cleanser between thrillers? Existential angst in our post-modern world? Take a generation that has survived three or four “end-of-the-world” scenarios in a lifetime, what does that foment? “Gay women know something, this secret, that dissolves some of the toxic, oppressive lens girls are taught to see the…

From Henry V “Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children, Have lost, or do not learn for want of time, The sciences that should become our country, But grow like savages—as soldiers will That nothing do but meditate on blood⁠— To swearing and stern looks, defus’d attire, And every thing that seems unnatural.” Duke of Burgundy in Shakespeare’s Henry V (V.ii.56-62) Shakespeare’s Henry V, as…

“The plainer dealer, the sooner lost; yet he loseth it in a kind of jollity.” Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors (II.ii.68) Horoscopes for 1-27-2026 • 1/27 Mars conjunct Pluto 3° Aquarius • 1/27 Sun conjunct Vesta 7° Aquarius • 1/28 Mercury conjunct Venus 14° Aquarius • 2/1 Full Moon 5:09 PM 13° Aquarius/Leo Horoscopes for 1-27-2026 Last week’s news. Aquarius Happy birthday,…

Winter Reminiscing Long-etched in my memory, there was a time, anyway, I chased a girlfriend up to North Austin, and wound up in an apartment that was over a drug den and backed up to a church-school playing field. Gently sloping, usually green, some afternoons there were little kids running, screaming, playing soccer, I don’t know. Sort of distant, but it also offered an illusion of being next…

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The Proving Ground Lincoln Lawyer 8 From number eight in the series? “It made me think of a Dave Alvin song I had heard a long time ago. I couldn’t remember the tune anymore but the lyrics I could never forget.” Page 75. If you know, then you know. Street cred. I give it to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, but it is far more universal, “No plan survives the first contact with the enemy.” Same for a…

Filler and Fluff An “online magazine for makers and creatives” reached out to me, asking for an interview. Usual puff piece, but a single question, made me pause and think after I filled out the brief questionnaire. There are two components. First, when I was in school, I partially supported myself as a “computer consultant,” doing odd bits of digital work, plus some typesetting, as a form of…

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us Edgar in Shakespeare’s King Lear (V.iii.167) Horoscopes for 1-20-2026 1/20 Sun into Aquarius 1/21 Mercury into Aquarius 1/23 Mars into Aquarius 1/26 Neptune into Aries (How to use these horoscopes.) Horoscopes for 1-20-2026 Year overview, in short: the long form. Aquarius Seen this before, a point wherein all the Aquarius…

Calliope’s Dream Calliope? Seen here, Callie. “It’s angry, feminist poetry,” explained to me. A fair amount of my early poetical reading was this genre of “modernist, angry feminist poetry.” From what I sampled? Just personal, maybe not angry. Perceptions. Calliope’s Dream Also available at The Eagles Nest in San Antonio. Calliope’s Dream Calliope’s Dream

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No Exit Strategy Jack Reacher, no middle name. “He figured he would take a refill of coffee or two—maybe three—then when the quantity of caffeine in his system was restored to a satisfactory level he would move on.” Page 11. Good start. Jack Reacher. Back at it. No Exit Strategy

The Tin Men Spin-off from previous Nelson DeMille novels. Looks like his son continued the work. Got to the halfway point then stayed up way past my bedtime to finish reading the novel. Much to think about, too. Action, adventure, corporate malfeasance, and the rest of the plot. Killer robots. Brings up questions about “AI,” doesn’t it? The Tin Men