GM, short week this week.

Is there a NOSTR/Umbrel native storefront app for selling things? I have a few guitars and some studio equipment I want to put up for sale.

I got stung by a rogue Yellowjacket on the back of my head. It hurts.

GM. Really starting to dig into the Alberta/Saskatchewan separatist movement. Wondering which is more likely to be supported, statehood in the USA or independence. Any of my followers a part of this discussion?

GM. First day of school for my daughter. She is so stoked:)

GM. I love the fact that I start waking up around 5 am once Fall starts falling.

You all should follow Everyday Astronaut (on X @everydayastronaut) and his Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/live/04-mfJavLT0 He has created an entire system of watching the SpaceX launches down in Texas. He has spent tens of thousands streaming this, he has interviewed Elon multiple times, and he creates super-detailed videos about space history and technology. I'll see if I can get him over to the free place:)

GM. What a day.

Was that the most shit Man City performance of all time in the modern era? Up the Spurs:)

Im so glad I got up for this.

If I have to get up, you have to get up.

Fuck yes. VAR goal.

GM. Tottenham started this morning at 4:30ish on the West Coast.

GM. An old person said something, and the market rips.

Adding to the beef inflation discussion. Top: 8/17/25, 17.99$/lb. Bottom: 9/01/24, 14.99$/lb. 20% increase in less than a year. Remember, this is a tenderloin primal, so it hasn't been processed other than removal from the animal.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxb_UelPx89070LcVAYeodi3w7CefTCE2s?si=Jvm5PSrF23WHmlf- I want you all to watch this. Van Halen at full power in 1984, doing the walk out at the Monsters of Rock festival in Donnington, England. Look at the nerves on Dave's face as he fidgets with his hat. Watch the camera pan behind him onto the crowd, 65,000 strong. No banners, no cameras, no selfie sticks. Absolute bedlam. Have we lost something? Probably. This came up on my feed yesterday and I almost lost it. Van Halen was a massive part of my early teens, and to see this priceless video (that https://youtube.com/@shitsandgiggles1377 upscaled and uploaded) launched be back to that period in my life. I'm very much a "be in the present" guy. But very occasionally something like this will jerk me out of the present and those emotions flow back in. Feelings I forgot, or maybe ignore.

GM, prepping Intro to Marketing class that starts tomorrow. Going to be very interesting...

When I was on my job interviews 25ish years ago, I happened to be at an airport bar where a very tan 60-something with a very expensive watch was next to me. A bit of talking, and he was a America-to-Europe commercial pilot. Great guy. He tells me a story: "At the old airports, go look at the tarmac. You will see two big dark spots on the ground where the ass-end of the plane is. Why? Because when everyone smoked on flights, and when the air in the plane circulated through the plane and went out the back, once we got close to landing, that shit would condense and drip out of the ventilation shafts". The tar/nicotine was so thick in those planes they would drip on to the tarmac.

GM. Youtube promotes channels that rip off the visual look of other successful channels. This is stupid.

GM. Heat advisory today. Classes start in one week:)