Day: January 19, 2026

Organization is the thing. I need to be organized and diligent and have a plan to peel away the layers of what is destroying my ability to be an effective human being. Each day is a new step forward. Each day is a way I am changing in the relatively short time I have left in this life. No, I am not dying any faster than anyone else, but I’m already halfway or more through what is a possible lifespan, and I’ve done little to make it so I get to go longer. I don’t have much time to make it so I get to go longer either. There is a ton of work to do, and I need to be organized and ruthless in said organization for things to happen as I wish.

One of the things that I find important is the concept of a touchstone. So, as I continue to write the book on getting right, I want you, dear reader, to consider the touchstones in your life and how those are helpful, harmful, or merely just opportunities to feel progress (not sure if that last is either end of the spectrum). Waking up and going to bed with my wife is probably the most important two touchstones, with the third being this blog and the fourth being our daily cup of java. The fifth, as it were, is my playing a video game of some nature. If I extend to six, it is gaming with the wife in some nature. So, games are 1/3 of the listed activities, and writing is 1/6th. Therein lies the problem with the priorities. Getting that cleaned up could help. For example, if you are a fan of the 100 block time management concept, then feasibly, there ought to be 10 touchstones in that 100. I am going to spend 2026 using this strategy and building from that… unless it doesn’t work and then I will merely flip to another style.

One thing I need to develop is consistency. I don’t have it and I certainly need it. Perhaps the place to start is with how I run this blog. Perhaps the place to start within that is with…

Some Thoughts:

1. The US is batshit quote of the day (from the AP) “The president also pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in a bribery and conspiracy case. He later expressed regret and frustration for having done so, however, when Cuellar announced he was seeking reelection without switching parties to become a Republican.”
2. Sports note of the day: Kid officially signed with UNI. He’s a Panther for life. This means he will play for the team, feasibly, for the next two years and then be off to see if he can go pro or merely move on to a professional light outside of the spotlight. He wants to be in it at the highest level he can before he gets out of it all together. Not exactly what I thought the plan was, but it turns out he’s more me than I thought he was.
3. I’ll be finding more standard daily thoughts to share in this space.

I wonder if this is how people in Germany and or Japan (and Italy) felt when World War II was about to pop off. It feels a little like we are sliding towards full crazy and the spin (as seen from Fox News) is simply acting like everyone not on board is crazy. Spin works like that. The people on your side make all that you do okay. Either they don’t broadcast your crazy or they make it seem like the opposition is the crazy ones. Apparently anyone protesting the thing the group in power wants to do is an agitator. Also, Greenland. Let’s be serious for a minute, folks. This one makes absolutely no sense. We are legitimately going to destroy NATO in order to own Greenland? Come on, man. We’ve already levied Tarriffs to the countries who oppose this. We’ve already threatened litigation or pulled funding from the states that oppose our great and powerful Orange.

This is getting out of control. Sadly, we’ve broken the breaks and now the only thing that can stop it is the end of the line–2028. At least, that is the rumor. Just today 1,500 soldiers were placed on the ready to be deployed to Minnesota as part of the Insurrection Act. We invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their president, only to leave the country in the hands of someone who has a DEA file as long as War and Peace.

When history looks back at what has happened over the past four years they will point to the weakness of the American mind and the power of the American media to sway those who are so driven by fear and vengeance. However, its the people who don’t really care all that much and don’t think things will get bad who were the voters who changed it all. Do we really thing four years of Kamala Harris would have been this bad, or were we just so exhausted by hearing the screaming and yelling in the feed that we were all just like, “fine, do whatever. It doesn’t matter anyway”?

That latter feels like the truth–a sick sad reality that tells me this country isn’t built for another 250 years.