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 +==== Thursday, October 15, 2026 ====
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 +It appears my desires to update the Krillion, Connections, and Wordle stats pages (linked in prev) have plummeted, so they may not resume updates for some time. 
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 +I found an interesting genetic testing site which can be requested/ordered without a doctor visit, and I curious about a few tests they offer. [[https://www.invitae.com/providers/test-catalog/test-434341|Invitae]] looks like it offers a wide range of possible genetic-condition tests which could be very helpful for diagnostic purposes, as I have several mystery conditions including some curious hypermobility concerns, kidney stone conditions, and general gut/bile maladies that would be lovely to at least rule out options for. 
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 +Started a new article I will call [[zeitvibe|Zeitvibe]] which will be a very loosely news-like log of news items which have hit my algos, mainly to keep a general log of events which correspond to dates, rather than details of those events, which will likely contain political events. I don't like dipping too much into politics, so I hope to keep it light. The article title is based on the concept of the "zeitgeist" of pop culture events on the collective mind of the populace, mixed with the vibes I'm picking up. There could be very niche subjects particular to me, such as Destiny 2 news or tiktokers I'm into. 
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 +==== Wednesday, October 7, 2026 ====
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 +I added a little link to the left column called [[https://destroy.spritefusion.com/?url=https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php|Destroy this website]] which is a cool little web link which lets you input any web address, the link will cache a rendering of the site, and then you can use arrows/WASD to move a little dude around which has around 10 weapons of varying destruction and grenades to destroy wherever the mouse is pointed and clicked, and can double jump and jetpack to wherever remaining you wish to land. Some sites like w3.org wont work on it, because of pre-load captchas, or like my own root doesn't work since mine redirects. I am tempted to make a different root redirect, just to give that site something to blow up =) 
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 +The summer is nearly over for my work, and the summer workload has so thoroughly occupied my patience for documenting game scores that I fell behind on basically everything I kept record of except for the [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=dailyjumbleanswers|Jumble]] (such as [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=wordlegrids|Wordle]], [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=connectionsdid|Connections]], and [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=krillionstats|Krillion]]). I did keep the screen-crop of the scores during that time, so I could update them someday, but the summer workload has blasted away such diligence for now. 
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 +Hopefully this weekend I can spend a goodly amount of time updating the [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=waitwaitbillvoice|Bill Kurtis]] and the [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=car_talk_hearsus|Car Talk]] lines I collect, as I now have NPR+ membership which lets me hear zillions of back episodes.
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 +Today I bowled my trios league game (161, 177, 180 scratch; 71 hdcp) and was pitted against the very-smiley retired-guy trio who are eager to laugh with at everything interpretable as a positive spin, as it were. For example, we scored higher than they did (+hdcp) on 2 out of 3 games, and the scorekeeper for our table reported our team had the best game of the season so far.. to which one of the smiley retired bunch spun it to be, "it sure seems like every team we come up against suddenly has their best games, and, laughing, "I guess our team really brings out the best in others." 
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 +My parents bought a Kia Carnival this week or so, and it is the first vehicle of the family to my knowledge which has screens for a dashboard instead of physical dials. I am not too fond of this trend, but there is little say in it.  Their last vehicle had miniature screens for certain parts of the dash, like to indicate doors open or tire pressures low, but still had physical dials for speedometer and a few others. 
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 +==== Wednesday, September 16, 2026 ====
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 +Have not been updating much due to heaviness of workload over the summer at my jorb, whereas I typically update from there. I've gotten out of the habit of updating all of the game scores except for the [[dailyjumbleanswers|Jumble]]s.
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 +I did make a few new entries randomly without mentioning them yet here, such as [[nprplusqueries|NPR Plus Asks]] which is a list of questions I want to ask Peter and guest/producer if I ever get picked to appear on the Wait Wait wayback episodes that I'd like to work the nerve up to participate in. Now that I'm an NPR Plus supporter, I have better access to back episodes to fill out the [[waitwaitstats|Wait Wait Stats]] page's Bill Kurtis voice line section, and the Car Talk [[car_talk_hearsus|Hears Us]] line list. 
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 +Also made the [[muchiness]] article (how similar things are), the Redivvyry spin-off [[Reduddyry]] of mostly FB video shares my dad sends me (altho they are mostly maga-political, but some of them are silly), and [[subjectswondered|Subjects Wondered]] about and what I found out. 
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 +==== Thursday, August 27, 2026 ====
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 +Launched a new bigger project here called [[redivvyry|Redivvyry]] to be a kind of Fark/Wimp/Waxy-inspired link blog of a date, a where, and a headline link. 
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 +Also added [[krillionstats|Krillion Stats]] to track my scores for the silly daily trivia game [[https://krillion.io/|Krillion.io]] which asks you category-type questions which have multiple answers, and it rates you on a scale of obscurity of answer, around an underwater krill/plankton theme. 
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 +August is one of my most common kidney stone months, and I have done OK so far without any incidents, and need to maintain my hydration. Some time ago, I made a few different kinds of ways to track them, but the one I have kept up with the most is trying to tick off as many boxes as I can on a 1.5L per day goal, [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-tablespoons2.htm|here]] whereas drinking a 28oz container checks 55 boxes (55%), 20oz for 40%, and 12oz for 25%. I also have a little cup that I marked off which grants a 10% progress on knocking that back, to push me over the 100% mark if needed. That tracker as stuck with me the longest.
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 +If you ever want to quickly remove all of the parts of a web address starting at (and including) the ? mark, like YouTube links which tack on a share-ID, just paste it into [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-QABscrub.htm|this tool]] (QAB means Question And Beyond) and click the convert button. Just tapping the URL below that will copy to clipboard, but also has a separate copy-to-clipboard button if desired, and tested to work on Windows and iOS' Safari just fine. 
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 +
 +==== Thursday, August 20, 2026 ====
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 +Had a lightning-bolt thought on the [[wordlegrids|Wordle Grids]] concept, now that I know how to do a carriage return within a table cell, so I experimented a bit a redesigned it. I was reluctant to just delete the entire grid system I had from the old way, so I preserved it on a new article [[wordlegridold|Wordle Grids of Old]] to be automatically shuffled into the won't-update category. I am slowly converting all of my old results and many more I have stowed.
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 +I still pay most of my bills by check and snail mail, and I often buy the little $1 sheet of stickers you might see on a retail sidecap somewhere, to add a pinch of flair to the return address portion of the envelope. I also ran out of the freebie address labels companies used to send to you for being a customer, so I've decided I would buy packs of tiny blank stickers (such as the colored dots used in garage sales) and hand-write my return addr including a [[https://what3words.com/clip.apples.leap|what3words]] phrase that is absolutely perfect for me and happens to land on my property, as an extra dose of silliness.  It's a bummer I can't share the phrase without doxing myself =)
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 +==== Sunday, August 16, 2026 ====
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 +I feel like I have added a few more wiki entries without mentioning them, but what I can remember is today, I updated the [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=gpt_converters_tools|GPT Coverters/Tools]] page with a highly obscure method of [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-primes-5to3.htm|altering]] a cut-pasted list of prime numbers to a differently-sorted list, and a [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-QABscrub.htm|way to scrub links]] of all characters inclusive-and-after the first question mark, to ensure associated ?ref= type info doesn't get included when sharing links to videos like tiktok or instagram. 
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 +According to my [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=mostrecent|Recent Entries]] list, I also made a page that helped me to [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=membib|memorize]] the non-Catholic order of the 66 books of the judeochristian bible. I wanted to do so in order to join a certain church bragging-rights mini-"club" of being able to recite them. Using the listed mnemonics, I was indeed able to do so. 
  
 ==== Wednesday, July 29, 2026 ==== ==== Wednesday, July 29, 2026 ====

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