Day: March 1, 2026

So, this is a rant.

I tried playing NBA2k26… Not interesting enough. Nothing is! I am struggling with my gamer headspace lately. I cannot seem to find anything worth my time and I am desperately looking for something to do instead of writing… Maybe that is the problem there. I keep looking for distractions, but keep wandering back to the same central issue of needing to write and get me right. I suppose that means falling back into listening to fiction while I play Minecraft. That, or try another space explorer. We’ll see how I mix those two.

Rant over. Let’s talk about better stuff.

I want to do that now before I get into reading about this war we find ourselves in, and get to thinking about what that actually means in terms of what is going to be happening across the world in the coming weeks, months, and years. We truly live in dark times, so I need to find something light and energizing to balance that growing darkness. Today is was watching my dog see his mate for the first time in a long time. His mate lives with our daughter and we don’t bring them together very often because our dog is, well, spastically energetic. It’s fun to watch, but the aftermath and collateral damage tends to be a lot. They’re good together after a few days but for that first bit, he’s nuts. Still, seeing him like that has me thinking about the joy that creatures fall into when they are around what they love. The energy generated is so great to me. I love seeing it.

Didn’t hurt to see my kid either.

Some Thoughts:

1. Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Israel has closed Gaza crossings and Palestinians are scared” We all know where this is heading. Sadly, I’m pretty certain Israel is the bad guy in this one.
2. I ought to be recording this in real time. They’ll try to massage a new truth out of it shortly…
3. Locking in. Goal Journals out and ready. Let’s get good.

As I was walking back to the bathroom on my near-empty flight from New York City, I noticed one of the stewardesses using ChatGPT to write something. It resonated with what my brother had said earlier in the day. He reminded me that this is how things are now, and what we are really trying to figure out is if the masses are going to gravitate to one of the two main public models (Claude and ChatGPT) or if the price point is such that they’re going to go the way of Napster et al, and start using these freely available Chinese models. I know Americans. We want it free and fast. We’re going to use that free Chinese… until the government says we cannot.

Freedom. MAGA.

I realized something else too. MAGA doesn’t actually GAF, and a lot of the people who are “MAGA” are not political beyond this moment and the idea that they are attached to something so polarizing and scarily powerful. In other words, they’re fair-weather fans who can claim the winning team. I’m not saying this is everyone, but the least mature of the bunch are certainly of that flavor. This isn’t merely the rank-and-file voters that consume Fox News and lose all sense of perspective. Some of the people we voted in are mentally mean girls and bullies. Consider Lorena Boebert. Recently she snapped a photo during a closed hearing and sent it off to her influencer friend who immediately posted it. Illegally. Both of them were chasing clout. They wanted to look cool and connected and show off like, well, mean girls. This is the script for so many cyber-bullying commercials and after-school specials. Now the specific here are a bit more interesting—Boebert sided with the Republicans to keep the hearing private vs. public while the person being interviewed, Hillary Clinton, vocally clamored for it to be public. When the photo was snapped they complained she was trying to hide stuff and keep the haring out of the public eye. That’s the spin. Reality is meaningless in this regard. They just want to win and don’t care what the reality looks like after they take the victory photo.

This is why Iran is not going to end well. Everything since we screwed this up back in the 70’s tells us Iran isn’t going to end well.

Some Thoughts:

1. Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: I don’t even need to post it. Y’all know we invaded Iran and took out the entire leadership. Cool, huh? Maybe to the people who don’t realize we’ve done this stupid dance before…
2. Youngest ran his first meet of his JR season. Not bad. Near PR’s across the spectrum. Needs to get his lick back.
3.