Day: January 22, 2026

The news is really too much. The latest Trumpism is this so-called Board of Peace, which if I understand it correctly, is a collection of countries and corporations who’ve bought in to the Gaza rebuild. I write cyberpunk. I didn’t think I would ever live it. Yet, that is where it feels like we are in this sprawling reality in which, on the one hand, we’ve reached a point in our technological growth where Solar Sails are actually a thing and planetside we are falling apart in real time. I am starting to think that the universe, as it were, is one giant organism and humans are the cancerous cells that have figured out how to replicate and push themselves towards other cells.

There’s some small logic to this theory when you consider the baseline of protons, neutrons, and quarks, and the even smaller electrons, which make up the building blocks of mass. Of course, theoretically, our entire galaxy could exist within an electron. Our Universe could. The entire thing could be a recursive loop…

Writer’s have tried to capture this concept before, most notably (to me) Stephen King’s Good Luck, Chuck. In which he argues that we “contain multitudes”. I don’t suspect we will ever know the truth of this in my lifetime, or if death will provide any larger answers. I strongly suspect not. Death to me feels like an off state or, as Charles Stross put it, a Halting State, in which all action and memory ceases… like the end of a tape or a record. Much like that concept, the record remains, giving me the belief that life, as it were, always exists and we live the timeline we are in as a solid structure–we are the recording.

I also believe in the concept of a multiverse in which there are many versions of our record, though I don’t know or am not sure if I even believe in the concept of crossover between such things… This got really philosophical fast. To think it started in Davos with now President Trump being a dumbass as usual. At least he’s triggering introspection and philosophy in my soul as opposed to anger. I cannot get mad at the doddering old fool anymore. He’s being exactly who I know and expect him to be. It is the people around him–the sycophants and those draped in greed who I suspect are the real problem, because they ought to know better. Yet they choose not to.

Some Thoughts:

1. Bonkers news post of the day: Former DEA agent sentenced to 5 years in prison for using badge to protect drug trafficking friends

So, the kid is back at the FCS level. He signed with University of Northern Iowa, following his old coach from his Freshman year, This will represent the first time he’s had the same head coach for more than a year since, well, me. I trust Stepsis entirely, and suspect his team will have a solid year two turn around, in spite of a daunting schedule that includes the University of Iowa and 5 of the 24 playoff teams from this past year. All but two competitors were ranked last year, which is one heck of a tough go of it for a team that lost many more games than they won with the then first year coach. Making matters more difficult is the fact that the school is in Iowa and flights there are expensive. I don’t know how many games we can attend, but I will support the best I can. His little brother will even attend a camp there this summer. It will be a wonderful chance to have them play together again should the younger one get signed.

I am happy to be turning away from football for a while. It is quite consuming. I’ve been fading out during these playoffs. I still support the Seahawks, but I didn’t really even watch any of the college playoff games. I’m due for a break. The Lady Talis is silently begging for one. It is hard to be the lady in a house full of boys. No, not men. I consider myself a man. The rest have work to do.

The work I am doing right now is barely treading water. I need to get back out ahead of this thing and start working harder and more hours. No more spacing off. That steals much time. It is time I no longer have. The deadlines are upon me, and the classes have (successfully) begun.

Some Thoughts:

1. Crazy political quote of the day: “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that,” Trump said earlier in the morning at the World Economic Forum. “Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh, good.’ That’s probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.” That is Trump talking about opportunity and possibilities of invading Greenland. We live in the worst timeline.
2. Coffeenerdness: I only rely on Italian coffee now. Down to my last two bags I am willing to pay the tarriffs to keep the java flowing.