25 November 2025

Daycare is closed this week, so I’ve got the girls at home. There won’t be much writing this week and even dieting will be difficult. In my personal life I’ve been trying to figure out the best course of action with the ongoing genocide and the media being controlled on the topic, essentially all mainstream information has been corrupted in America for at least 50 years and around the world for hundreds. At that point it becomes the eternal battle between good and evil, it’s not my fight to win, but I am on the winning side. Different groups calling themselves or others woke lately, and this is my moment of Neo waking up from the Matrix. Of course all the stories are made up, like how Marie Antoinette never said, “Let them eat cake.” This is different, it’s more like what we’ve been told is right is wrong and what is wrong we’ve been told is right. We’ve always been told history is written by the victors, but that’s not exactly true. It’s more like history is written by the scribes and when most of the world is illiterate, there needs to be a special sect to read the history; that’s controlled production and distribution. So many ideas that seemed like natural ideas because of the belief that history unfolds, but it was manufactured and the rough edges get smoothed over the years that follow. I’ve now seen it enough in my lifetime to know it’s true. Still trying to figure out what to do now, for the time I live my life and ignore the digital.

20 November 2025

The first day of dieting is complete, only the rest of my life to go. A benefit from crashing last weekend is my stomach has already shrunk from eating near nothing for a couple of days and I have no desire for tasty food. After stabilizing, I first realized more fiber was necessary, so I’m eating my fruits and veggies. The last time I ate a celery stick for a meal might be close to 10 years ago, even food as sweet as an apple hasn’t been on my plate in years. My go to plan for meals in the past, and what I’m picking up again, is have a fruit and a plate of veggies with each meal. Vegetables and a big glass of water are the best way I know to deal with a calorie deficit. As I stared at the celery stick for my snack, it dawned that I used to be a great king with feasts, now resorting to eating food from the dirty ground. I will work to restore my former glory, just need to be patient and keep working. I don’t look at being overweight as poor me, but I was enjoying myself too much for too long. Now I have a debt of suffrage to balance the scales, literally! There’s no free lunches, if I continued on unhealthy path it isn’t a life of bliss. In the beginning of the year, I attempted to start running to lose weight and it resulted in heel pain I still have because my bones aren’t used to the impact of that weight. My body has already been feeling the consequences, but eating sugar makes everything feel better and I could ignore the problem.

19 November 2025

It’s been awhile since I’ve written, let’s recap what’s happened. First my queen was out of town for a weekend and I had the girls alone, so there was no writing. Then we had Veterans day which takes some energy, but was nice and we rolled into another long weekend of travel. We were in New Orleans this past weekend and on Saturday I drank so much that I’ve been recovering since then. Now I’m back home planning my future moves to get healthy again, with the changing of the times I’m planning to cut my hair at the end of the week. While we were in NOLA my elder princess kept saying she needed a haircut and I had already said I’d wait until she gets a cut. Once I started thinking about live with short hair, I couldn’t go back and am excited to get this tangly weight off my head. A little news from the little princess is she’s growing up nicely, crawling all over and even saying a couple words. In the past 24 hours I’ve heard the little princess say, “apple, up, and bye”, she even pointed while saying up. I had forgotten about toddler life after they can start getting into everything, thankfully our new house is on a level floor where for the elder princess we had a confusing three levels in two stories. We have lots of baby gates from when we had to cover lots of stairs. The plan as I recover is to start a diet by actually measuring my foods, then exercising and hopefully reading. There will be lots of challenges with a caloric deficit that need to be faced.

Veterans Day 2025

The 31st Infantry Regiment was formed at Fort William McKinley, Philippine Islands on 13 August 1916. In 1920, after a two year deployment protecting the Trans-Siberian railroad from Cossack bandits and Red revolutionaries, the regiment became known as the Polar Bears. In February 1932 when Japanese troops invaded China the Polar Bears deployed to protect Shanghai’s International Settlement. Before leaving Shanghai, officers collected 1,600 silver trade dollars and commissioned a silversmith to forge them into a punch bowl with ornamental cups to commemorate the mission. 

In December 1941, Japanese planes attacked US military installations in the Philippines. The 31st Infantry covered the withdrawal of American and Philippine forces to the Bataan Peninsula. Despite starvation, disease, and no supplies, Polar Bears fought the Japanese for four months. When Major General King announced he would surrender the Bataan Defense Force on 9 April 1942, the 31st Infantry buried its colors and the cherished Shanghai Bowl to keep them out of enemy hands. Approximately 9,000 men from the 31st were captured and forced to participate in the infamous Bataan Death March, traveling a distance of roughly 65 miles. Prisoners marched during the day in tropical heat with no food, water, or rest. Anyone who fell behind was beaten or killed. More than half the regiment died during the march and from subsequent captivity.

In 1945, Captain Earl R. Short led a recovery team under orders to recover the bowl and after two months of digging, they succeeded. The Shanghai bowl can now be found in the 4th Battalion 31st Infantry Headquarters as part of the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum, New York. From the Bataan Death March to the Triangle of Death, hot or cold, Polar Bears have done it all, and I’m thankful to all who served a role in America’s history. Happy Veterans Day. Happy 250!

6 November 2025

My queen and I are learning our committed two parent relationship is less common than we thought. We’re constantly hearing stories of divorce and broken family, yesterday we heard another interesting one. A friend of a friend is married with three kids, ages ranging from like 5-10 years old. Most recently the mom acted as a surrogate delivering a baby for a homosexual couple. After the birth the dad came out as homosexual and the mom said, “If you get a boyfriend, then I want a boyfriend.” This couple isn’t like everyone else though, they’re smart, they’ve stayed married with an open relationship. The story I heard was this couple was having a birthday party for one of their biological kids when the mom was kissing with her new boyfriend at the party and kids had a reaction. I guess the parents then explained the situation even though in my opinion that wouldn’t be possible because the parents don’t know what they’re doing and the kids are too young to understand any sexual concepts. The best part about making mistakes is learning from them and my experience predicts that relationship while already broken, will be shattered in a year with three or four kids tangled up by these confused adults. It was obvious to me that covid was going to be a long term mess because the concept of a two week lockdown had never been done before. New actions produce new results, while these people are welcome to experiment, the results are already in. Anyone can say they’re happy and will perform mental gymnastics to confirm it. I got nothing to say to this people, but be assured they live in a major metropolitan area, this is significant to my perspective because the protection of cities allows bad ideas to survive. Nature is relentless and would quickly have those people starving if they were responsible for their own food.

5 November 2025

There were a couple changes to different streaming services recently, because of that we canceled everything. We only use YouTube kids for the girls and that’s ad free. A couple new programs came on our radar, some that should have been on Disney+, which we had but couldn’t find anything good. Inside the company’s streaming service they want people to watch the new show allowing producers to talk about how successful it is. The audience’s view is restricted to what the company chooses to put on the front page of any search. A business telling its customers what is valuable is bad for business, it’s anti-free market. All this got me thinking there is going to be a streaming bubble like there was a dotcom bubble. When Netflix first switched from physical to digital they created something new in the world. Binge watching wasn’t the thing it became. There were commercials, rewinding tapes, one season of a T.V. show would be four DVDs, when houses could digitally transfer “content” was a big step toward the internet of things. Netflix became a huge success which led greedy corporations to take a slice of that pie, they owned the rights. Today there are countless streaming platforms and none of them are good. The real crime I see is the streaming platforms themselves have poor user interface. Streaming is a technological breakthrough and just because a company produced a network sitcom in the 90’s or animated movies in the 50’s, it doesn’t qualify them to create a streaming service. The best art is worthless if no one can find it.

4 November 2025

The elder princess is home sick today. As of writing this, she’s doing better, but she can use the rest. While I have the girls today, I’m also going to have them to myself this weekend while my queen goes on a trip. They’re good kids and I’m getting almost full nights of sleep, so I’m not complaining. Logistical issues arise with two kids, three animals and one me, the biggest issue being no one will let me go to the bathroom alone. Mostly I need to go from fixing one thing to another and sometimes while solving one problem, a mess is being created elsewhere. Outnumbered by kids or living the rest of my life, that’s how things go and there’s always more work than we have time for. Then we also need to balance fun and appreciating the moment, they won’t be little forever. All that’s exhausting, you know some people will go the whole day with only a couple of thoughts in their head while I need to be in the past, present, and future. It’s only a need as part of a bigger plan. As said these lessons apply to life in general that I’m trying to build a future, meaning I have to retain the plan. Using the lessons I’ve learned from the past, I take actions in the present. What does it mean to live in the moment? Is it artsy nonsense? Largely it is, but art touches on emotion. Living in the moment is taking time to observe our surrounding to aid our emotions. The process is grounding, confirming physical reality to the spirit in our head to give a more realistic picture of the future ahead.

3 November 2025

This year Halloween did in fact fall on Halloween and the person who said it wasn’t was a trouble maker. The weekend went well starting off with trunk or treat at the elder princess’ daycare. That was one of the first times for me handing out candy, at first I handed out a single candy and could see on the kid’s faces that wasn’t going to fly. From one to three pieces, I ended up passing out handfuls of candy. As the sun was setting, we were trick or treating around our own neighborhood. Houses are spread out enough that we drove the car around, maybe in the future we’ll have a golf cart. I knew people would have golf cart, but thought we would stick out driving a car until it came time for us to hand out candy and there were so many cars they were waiting in line. The visitors to the neighborhood seemed respectful, there didn’t seem to be any damage or lot of trash left around. Through this even we got to meet some more neighbors we haven’t yet and learned about a Facebook group for community events like next there will be some sort of candle vigil where everyone puts out paper bags with tea candles in them by the side of the road. The pictures I’ve seen from the past look great and we’re happy to live in a place that brings people together with fun events.

30 October 2025

Today might be Halloween, yesterday we got word our neighborhood would be doing trick or treat tonight. Apparently there is a highschool football game tomorrow and there isn’t enough police to be at our neighborhood and the game. I had mentioned before that people bus in to trick or treat here and apparently a lot of people bring their golf carts. We’ll see what actually happens, changing the date the last week from the actual date on a Friday to an arbitrary date on a work day seems like a bad idea. We live here and didn’t get a memo, my queen heard it at work, no one told me personally. That leaves the question if the bus drivers are available today, maybe they’re sharing with the high school. This also touches on another annoyance I’ve had my whole life, towns and cities revolving around sport. In my opinion these positions are celebrated above all else and that creates a ceiling for the citizens who grow up thinking that’s the top. Sports have a lot to offer kids in developing physically and mentally. For 99% of athletes, serious competition is finished before they start adult life. I’d argue the professional athletes don’t live adult lives like washing their clothes and cooking their food, but that’s another topic. Kids and adults need to be championing behavior and people that want society to grow towards. Treating high school football as the biggest event growing up will leave kids confused as to what they should be after high school.

29 October 2025

I’m getting some life back, the little princess was growing four teeth at once, so there was a lot of crying and little sleep. Things seem to be improving with her sleeping until 4 AM last night, big win! I know I talk about my sleep too much, but it’s probably the biggest issue in my life. It’s been so long since I knew normal sleep that it consumes my brain, all I want. A new topic on the board is Japan, on the heels of the president’s successful trip we’re planning a visit for next year and I think now will be a good time. For years we’ve talked about visiting Paris, maybe some French countryside and beaches, but from what I see on the internet now is not the time. The 2010’s were plagues with emotional thinking and most of Europe opened up to refugees. An expression I’ve seen is, “Import the third world, become the third world.” Now the last statistic I saw on Paris grape is up something like %6,000. The U.S. has it’s own immigration crisis, as does the world, people that live in bad places want to live in good places. Japan, with it’s first female prime minister has taken a “Japan first” policy and keeping invaders out. Watching the world change is fascinating, countries come and go, science that was championed is found to be wrong, heroes become villains and vice versa. A Tale of Two Cities was vital in my understanding of how the world handles time. The two cities are Paris and London, an Englishmen is in Paris when the Bourbon’s, French Royalty, was overthrown by Napoleon. Napoleon then gets over thrown, later he gets back in power and finally removed. During the book, the Englishmen and others like him are being captured as political prisoners and trying to get out before the pendulum swings again.