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[SITE CHANGE] Ad for the Sister Site.

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Today’s header actually is done by me.
Because WordPress can’t draw a Jackalope to save it’s life…

Not a lot done today, which is the story of my life. Did rework the Current Review “ad” at the side of the page.

Originally it looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

The reason for the change is simple. A year or so ago I redrew the Jackalope characters I used on the Sister Site. I want to reflect that change here.

We might go into those characters tomorrow. Or we might not.

Anyways, that’s what happened today.

[ANNOYING AUTO] The State of Cull

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The header image is AI generated.

Last week a God damn mouse nibbled its way through one of my monitors’ power cable. One foot nudge later and I’m down to a single screen. As I’m used to two by this point, I found the situation less than optimal.

Thus the meager funds were depleted for a new one. As I was going spend happy, I bought a new printer. The monitor was to arrive Sunday, the printer near the end of the month.

To my delight, the monitor arrived Saturday. I spent the weekend fiddling with cables until I became sick of fiddling with cables. So I canceled my printer order from one place and made a new one at another. More expensive, but I pick it up tomorrow.

My intent is to hook up the printer and finish with messing with the cables. No doubt more headaches await on that score, but hey! My life.

Once that is done, I’m printing up what I have of the novel’s second draft for my Alpha readers. I’m working more on the second draft. I will finish this bad boy. Hopefully before Spring.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I have a buffer of two movies for the Sister Site. I have thoughts on one or two more. I need underscore italics bold all caps NEED to write at least one long review. I’m sick of the short ones.

And that’s today’s report. God, it’s good to give a full one.

[SITE] 26-0115

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Very little got done today (or yesterday for that matter.) I recently found notes for monsters for the fantasy world I’m making, so I’m working on them. Tomorrow my buffer of movies at the Sister Site grows one smaller. I’m probably not doing Anaconda after all.

Anyways, journal entry done.

Once again, the header was done with AI. Toke me a second to realize what inspired it.

[SITE RELATED] Happy New Year!

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With the start of 2026, I’m hoping to make changes with my life. Starting with this blog. I’m shooting for a post a day, or, failing that, once a week. I’m trying to get a backlog of reviews over at the sister site. I’d like to finish the second draft of my novel, as well as improving my writing career in some fashion.

I make a lot of plans, only to fall short. Here’s hoping for the future, though.

[The header above was done by AI on this site. Policy is, if I know it’s done my computer, I say it is.]

[SITE RELATED] Yay Milestone?

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So WordPress tells me today I’ve hit a milestone: I’ve past 10,000 all-time views for my main blog. That means, I assume 10,000 people have visited my site.

That’s a nice number… if I was starting out.

See, I’ve been doing this for twenty years. Now assume the number shows individual people and not the same person coming again and again, okay? Had at least one new person visiting this site every day since it’s creation, I would have reached this milestone earlier.

Say sometime before my tenth anniversary.

By this point I’d be at 21,900 views.

Not enough zeros, me thinks.

I’m glad I blog for my own personal pleasure, and not for money. Otherwise, I’d be seriously depressed right now.

Now as I was posting this, I did my usual checking what the AI thought about things. What title it thought I should have, how the post flow and so on. Nothing I planned on using, just curious.

Everything it did made this post more… upbeat. Like it was ignoring the sarcasm.

Best of all, I asked for a possible header image and got this:

I adored this. Not that it in anyway matched what I was saying, but still.

Being me, I thought I could do better. WordPress gave the prompt it used to create the above. And, with a few minor tweaks, I made this header, which I used:

Now to be fully transparent, the AI had two Views written on that sign before I altered it. But I think this suits the post more.

How about you?

[SISTER SITE] Can’t Stop Meddling in Coder’s Domain

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So I’m reformating the Sister Site. Again.

In fairness to me, I’m closer to being finished with the last reboot than last time. And the work involves looking at every GOD DAMN REVIEW I’VE WRITTEN to not only change formatting to the new style, but also correct and clarify the texts.

Get this. I somehow managed to transpose opening paragraphs. How? I dunno.

Oh! And the next review is unfinished. No image captures. I have them, just haven’t uploaded.

And that’s my post for the month!

[SITE INFORMATION] Twenty

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I have been blogging for twenty years.

It’s hard to think I’m still doing this.

In some ways I’ve stopped. This site, which I pay good money for every year, doesn’t get updated more than sporadically.

The sister site hasn’t missed an update for over a year. I’ve come close, and will no doubt come close again now that my buffer is gone. But it’s doing well.

No one reads it, but it’s doing well.

I don’t think anyone reads this. Maybe Mom every now and then. Maybe the occasional passersby. But regulars?

Not anymore.

Too niche, I’m afraid.

Google has becoming an AI nightmare. The chance for success as a blogger has no doubt dropped to nil. Wise man would quit and move on. Focusing more on the other site, or other things.

I’m not wise.

This was more about improving my craft. And my craft has improved because of it.

It is a tool I don’t use as often as I should.

I find what I said on my tenth anniversary to be a germane now as it was then. Alas, it’s in the archives and not on this site, but that’s an easy fix. I’ll make it a page an put it here.

Rereading that, I find little I disagree with. What I said then, holds now. I’m older than those two Past Cullens. Not wiser, as I just said. But it’s possible I’ve learned a little since then.

It makes me a little sad, even though it shouldn’t.

I have a friend now I didn’t have then. One I talk with every week. It could be more than that. It could be just what it is. But its more than I had.

That’s enough.

I have a novel now. An honest to God novel. One that I’m trying (and failing) to rewrite. It might not come to more than that.

That’s enough.

I write more now than I did. I finish little, but when I finish, I finish strong. I like what I write still. I am my own number one fan.

That’s enough.

Twenty years. Things have changed so much since then. I have driven 15 hours straight, by myself, and survived intact. I have seen Texas, the Gulf of Mexico. I have met famous people, even eaten at their house.

That’s enough.

I don’t know if there’s another ten years of blogging, in this blog or in me. But I suspected it would die, completely die, long, long ago.

It hasn’t.

God willing and the creek don’t rise, it won’t.

That’s enough.

Now let’s see if something fun happens.