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Finally got the new Textpattern based site completely operational. Now to comb back through my articles and notes and links and every other thing, and add categories. And actually try and write a paragraph and not just tinker.

There is a particular smell to paper that has sat in a room for thirty years. It is not quite dust, not quite vanilla, not quite decay. It is the smell of time having done its work quietly.

I opened a paperback this morning and was immediately ten years old again, reading on the floor of my grandmother’s house.

Some objects are memory machines.

Spent the afternoon configuring a completely clean installation of Textpattern 4.9. There is something profoundly satisfying about working with an engine that doesn’t try to dictate your presentation layer. No bloated block editors, no mess—just words, semantic tags, and database entries. Proudly boring and permanent indeed.

Trying to watch TV again. A show I’ve liked, Slow Horses. But TV, set beside a novel, feels so hollow—lacking tangible substance. So abrupt and all over the place. You can’t dwell on TV. And it doesn’t grab the soul.

Brunson is a gorgeous player to watch. Flowing gracefully through the lane, avoiding the contact, adjusting his angle to the rim, switching hands, to bounce the ball HIGH off the glass. Exciting Finals ahead, for 2026.

Students can sense the loss of power and prestige of “the instructor” — the ones who’ve held the keys have misplaced them — or have willingly left them on their bedside tables.

First day of an extended summer swimming session outdoors with the kids. Always a draining experience. Sitting with other parents in the heat. Overloaded on food.

Spurs vs OKC could be a great rivalry for years to come - which is good for someone like me, who just likes the game for itself.

Dear NBA and MLB and every other pro sports league: You are going to begin to lose families as viewers if you can't reign in the sheer overwhelming quantity of SPORTS BETTING advertisements in your content. It is getting ridiculous and out of hand. They are trying to hook the next generation on gambling, and you are all complicit. I want to help my kids appreciate sport - but not gambling.

I absolutely love that the URL for the Acme Brick corporate website is "www.brick.com"

Finally: successfully leverage all the chatbot friends, and an entire year's worth of tinkering experience to get MEH commenting up and running on my site. Leave me a note!

Trying out ground Pike Place coffee recently. More decent than I expected - especially in a pinch.