Welcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.

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TechySatyrday

 I sorta recall why I quit chasing computer chips around,,,   I don’t enjoy the game of ‘keeping up’ when it comes to what the machines can do.   And I have never liked that as things move forward, much of what I did enjoy, no longer works.  

Like Mechwarrior,,, The ONLY game I was fanatic about.    Worked great up through XP and Vista, doesn’t work on any of the upgraded machines now.  

Have you tried making a machine run Vista lately?    Big reason why I gave up on WIndoze,,,,

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a look behind the curtains

here at the home of “The Cog Speaks”, that is.

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The Cog Speaks, Ep2

Fair warning, no excuses, this’un is more of a wild ride into my day to day thinks,,,,

Transcript ‘inside’

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Freeday!

its that time of year again, things are slowin’ up in the J.O.B.

So yesterday, Son of Bossman came by my site where I was with a crew putting up decorative fencing and let us know that ‘don’t worry about coming in tomorrow.  Text dad and let him know when you cut loose so he can cut your checks for you.”

sigh,,,   Was rather lookin’ forward to a full week, or nearly full week.

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Guts, starvation and the reality of poverty

Yah, that title is clickbait, LOL.

Lets face one fact though, POVERTY was the norm for millenia; our recent reality where even the poorest in our country get too much of the wrong foods is the outlier.    But that’s not the point of this missive,,,

Talking about my ‘Diet’ is more in line with what I intended with that title, at first.  I couldn’t resist the clickbait call,,,

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Humpday admin work

Not at the job,,, that was an easy-peasy day.  Nopes,,, just spent the last 2 hours playing on a computer screen, establishing ‘Ownership’ of my recent domain purchase across the various search engines of the world; logins, verification process, copy html code, track back to my admin page, insert code, REVERIFY,,, wash rinse repeat with next search engine,,,,,

Why?

SEO,,, you remember that word from earlier, when I asked all of y’uns to hit that ‘LIKE’ button,,,     Everything in attempt to drive my traffic up again.    I’ve been VERY lax on this since the 2012 Dramas that nearly drove me off the webs altogether.    Yah,,, 13 years of hiding under my rock.

About time I crawled back out.

Working on another podcast,,, Not really scripting this one: instead cribbing a ‘map’ of subjects I wanna talk about, to keep the thing flowing, shooting from the hip into a micrphone, much like I do my regular posts (and exactly like I am doing with this one, sans the mental map,,,)

If’n you like these posts, a little support would be most kind.

Now, I ain’t gonna lie to ya,,, some of the things I am doing here lately are not very comfortable for me.  Like that little linky above,,, I sorta feel icky posting that stuff, almost like I am one of those pan-handlers you see at the ends of the off-ramps in most major cities.  

ONLY, they aren’t showing up here at a website, that they pay for, plugging away at a keyboard or wrangling DAW’s to put up a podcast (which is still in the trial stages,,,  more on that in a minute)   THIS SHIT IS WORK, and so far has been a leech, not an asset.   Not that I am looking at making a living doing this or anything,,,   I’d rather sell books instead, but that means I need to get off my duff and WRITE THEM,,,    Yes, I already wrote and published two, and one needs a re-write to get rid of that funky  cliff hanger, AND needs a sequel to round it off.  BUT, I put far more effort into showing up here everyday and if I can get a little love for that, well, I’ll suck up the anxiety of feeling like a pan-handler.

FYI,,, the link there is totally secure, goes straight to my Credit Union, not some middleman account services like PP or Venmo (same-same under different names.).   And you can determine if you or I pay the transaction fees.   You cover them, I get the full amount,,, if I do, they take a percentage (3% I think) out of the donation.

There ain’t gonna be any dealings with a banking service where they don’t make a dime.    Thats just a fact of life since long before Yeashuah tossed the tables and money lenders out of the temple.

Side note.   Pharisee: a person who pretends or decieves.     I found this interesting as I had always thought the Pharisees were a tribe of Judaism,,,  I’ll leave that thought right there to stew a bit longer,,,,

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as for what’s going on in the great wide world,,,, Government shutdown, (hadn’t noticed it myself, but I can imagine some that are supposed to get a check may find things slower than usual,,,) supposed 100000 Fed emps resigning as they established early in the year with DOGE.   Have you noticed that particular entity hasn’t been making the news so much of late?   Especially now that Elon has stepped out of it and back into rocketry and electric ‘hicles…

Starship 11 is slotted for launch in early October.   don’t know the exact date, and hadn’t done a dive into it.  Only that this one is the last of the 3rd Gens to boost.   Here’s hoping that this one is as successful as the last where they pulled all of the launch goals off. 

The space race is still on, and there is just as much techrobbery going on now as there was when it was USA vs USSR.   only now, its the Chinese vs US Private companies.    I find that funny in some ways.    Even NASA is finding it easier and cheaper to hire others to boost their stuff to orbit.    Thats Free Market Capitalism at its finest.   Get the GOV out of the frellin’ way and let the guys willing to risk thier money and property do thier thing.  

I wanna see a small base in operation, on the moon, before I slip this mortal coil.   It would be even nicer if such were to be AND a start up on Mars, before I jettison this reality.  

Time will tell.   Fingers crossed.

Hit that “Like” if ya liked this,

I’ll have more up tomorrow.  Look for another session of my spoken word this weekend,,,   Oh,,, slipped my range finders, that did.    Interestingly enough, that last little ‘cast, has over 100 downloads since its creation.   I didn’t expect to see more than 20-30.  SO, y’all gave me a pat on the back even though only one of y’uns gave written feedback.    I guess I didn’t do too bad since no one came back and said “Quit while you are ahead.”  LOL

More laters,,,

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  Twosday afternooner,,,

Came home, not early, managed to get a full day in,,, Kennel builds and clean up from a Hack,,, LOL,,,  New guy told Son of Bossman he was an excellent mechanic and was tasked with changing out a bearing on a boat trailer,,,,

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