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  • Productive Saturday

    Today has been a good day. Stephanie took the boys out so that I could have some time to myself. I got some laundry done. I took a shower. I listened to my vinyl of Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. I listened to my 18 minute subliminal concentration program. My daily habits are done except…

    Mark

    August 8, 2026
    collaboration, rant, witness
    Good Times, Jesus Christ, laundry, Pluck ’em out, shower, Stephanie, vinyl
  • Learning by Repetition

    It is well established that the human mind learns best the ideas that are repeated to it. This is compounded when those ideas are repeated by the person whose mind is in question. Steven Covey taught that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. We go over the information coming…

    Mark

    August 7, 2026
    two cents
    80s kids, false memories, learning, repetition, Steven Covey, trauma, uncontroversial psychology
  • Points of View

    I grew up with situational comedies on television. Sit Coms usually ran on the premise that someone heard something out of context and the person they heard couldn’t properly correct the misunderstanding until the end of the 22 minute show. But there was a secondary shtick where something bad happened and was being investigated. Then…

    Mark

    August 6, 2026
    rant
    22 minutes, innocent heroes, objective assessment, point of view, resolved, Sit Coms, television
  • Coming Soon

    One of the lies I was told as a child is that we are in late stage capitalism. It’s been fifty years since the system was about to collapse. It’s coming soon and the people who believe it won’t hear otherwise. It comes from an older strain that communism is inevitable. It’s been almost a…

    Mark

    August 5, 2026
    rant
    believers, communism, Jesus Christ, late stage capitalism, lies, second coming, wishful thinking
  • Leave the Fat in the Fish

    One of the biggest selling points of fish is the fat. If you process it out then the fish isn’t as healthy. Today I was grocery shopping and looked at the fat content of imitation crab. The answer that came back was zero. That’s definitely not what I want. So I put Omega 3 into…

    Mark

    August 4, 2026
    rant, two cents
    diet, fat, fish, food, groceries, Omega 3, two cents
  • Cell Phone Switcheroo

    Up until very recently my cell phone was on Stephanie’s plan. In our efforts to separate from each other I got a new plan and so did she. I kept Cricket as my wireless provider. Today I got my first bill. The amount was what I agreed to, so that isn’t the issue. But the…

    Mark

    August 3, 2026
    rant
    AT&T, cell phone, Cricket, dislike, embedded, separate, switcheroo
  • Record Player

    Yesterday my mother gifted me a compact record player. I already had a few vinyl records to play on it. I have successfully listened to two of those records and am on my third. Glen Campbell this time. The last two were both Anne Murray. Ben slept on the couch through the first album. Ben…

    Mark

    August 2, 2026
    collaboration
    awesome, gift, Ben, record player, vinyls, my mother, gadget
  • Saturday “Fun”

    This morning there was an early knock on the door. It was the artist formerly named Raven (the homeless dude I sometimes talk about). I let him in and went upstairs to get dressed. He helped himself to Ben’s chicken nuggets which set Ben off. Raven/Rick/Ricky is going by the alias River now. He had…

    Mark

    August 1, 2026
    collaboration, rant
    Angel, birthday party, dysregulated, homeless dude, Jesus, meltdown, Stephanie
  • Land of the Lost

    I just finished the first season of Land of the Lost. In the final episode “Circle” the Marshalls make it home. I had no clear memory that they had escaped the Land of the Lost, and that’s probably because there were two more seasons which just ignored the true ending. That’s good business considering the…

    Mark

    July 31, 2026
    two cents
    awesome, escape, Land of the Lost, love, Marshalls, storytelling, weird
  • Heavy Hearts

    William came over to do his laundry. I made us Hawaiian bread mini hotdogs. We both enjoyed them and the box is gone. We also talked about the divorce. Stephanie assures him that our family is still “together.” I disagree and I can feel that as much as he wants things to go back to…

    Mark

    July 30, 2026
    collaboration, witness
    adult, divorce, feelings, Hawaiian bread mini hotdogs, heavy hearts, truth, William
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