From the great beyond…
Hi everyone, I have no idea if this is the right way to do this, but wanted to update that Michael has passed. He was surrounded by his family when...
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💾 My Email Organization
After reading a bunch of awesome ideas on the Johnny.Decimal website, I decided to start with my email folders. I really think it turned out extremely well. Johnny Noble did an amazing...
💙 The Radiation Therapy Equipment
Wanted to share a few pictures of my first day in radiation therapy. The main unit is very interesting, and very open. The table is electronic and will rotate around...
🎬 Ella McCay
📺 2026 Winter Olympics
💙 My Life Rules
Years ago, I found the “Simple Life Rules” list on the Internet. I’ve tweaked it a bit since, and read it every morning. I’m still working on a lot of them…
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W08
Personal Weekly Roundup for February 21, 2026. Less clutter for a simpler life
🌐 Emojis in Blog Post Titles Instead of Using Tags
When I recently moved to the social.lol Mastodon server and had some problems, I did a complete review of all my EchoFeed Echos. Early on I had wrongly made everything way too complicated with tags. It’s a personal blog for goodness sake, not a business website. So in the end, I decided that I needed much fewer Echos; 6 instead of 16.
🎬 Shrek
🌐 My Big Tech Cleanup
I recently decided to get off some “Big Tech” services I used, to NOT give them my data. This is MY choice, and I make no judgement on what others...
🌐 Just YouTube Now
Like many in the early days, I used a ton of Google services over the years. But recently with all the news about what information Google has been giving to the Government, I decided to get rid of all of my other Google stuff and just keep YouTube. They didn’t make it easy.
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W07
Personal Weekly Roundup for February 15, 2026. Simplifying things with everything going on.
💙 Cancer Spread To My Brain
With all the good news I’ve had lately with my cancer treatment, I was extremely shocked at what I’m about to say.
💾 Apple Shortcut for ALT TXT
Currently, I don’t want to sign up for something like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini. But, one of the things that I thought LLMs would be useful for was creating alt text for photos I post online. While the current version of Mona has the ability to generate all text from an LLM, it has to be done when you’re posting in the app itself. I wanted to find a way that I could generate the text…
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W05
A roundup of things I found interesting, as well as my logbook for February 1, 2026. Just keep moving forward
📺 The Diplomat S1-3
🏠 Another Dead Coffee Maker
Well, my 2nd Ninja DualBrew XL Coffee Maker died after only 3 months. That’s 2 in 15 months. I’m done. It’s going back to Costco for a refund. Did some...
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W04
A roundup of things I found interesting, as well as my logbook for January 24, 2026. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
🌐 PIKA Wish List for 2026
While I absolutely adore PIKA as my blogging platform, there is always room for improvement. Here is my wishlist for 2026: 1. API for posting outside the web editor. I’m...
🗄️ Shorthand Symbols
Back before the stroke I was using a Bullet Journal, leveraging the traditional layout style. Nothing elaborate or fancy. My only exception was a set of symbols I created adding...
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W02
A roundup of things I found interesting, as well as my logbook for January 13, 2026. A day late and a dollar short
🎬 Atomic Blonde
📸 Jan26 - Home Screens
My Home Screens as we start 2026 #iPhone #iPad #MacBookAir #Apple
📝 Weekly Roundup 26-W01
A roundup of things I found interesting, as well as my logbook for January 4, 2026. Happy New Year!
📸 Jan 26 - Lock Screens
Feeling a bit rebellious this month. iPhone 16Pro Max & iPad 13Pro M4 https://whvn.cc/v9pejp MacBook Air 15 M2 https://whvn.cc/od3d3l #StarWars #iPhone #iPad #MacBookAir