The stock market gyration has me pulling out my hair this week

| March 14, 2025

The manic markets and crazy movement down and up (today) are enough to have investors pulling their hair out. Thankfully there was a reprieve from the steady down movement over the tariff dispute between President Trump and many of our trading partners (more on that this weekend).  Consumer sentiment is not positive and will likely […]

Tech Friday: Testing Gemini Deep Research Artificial Intelligence

| March 14, 2025

Since I’ve not truly committed to using artificial intelligence tools from one company, I’ve been attempting to put each of the leading AI tools through their paces. Earlier this week I tested Otter.AI to transcript from an audio recording … and now for Tech Friday this week it’s Google’s Gemini and the “Deep Research” tool […]

Thinking the same thing already this year … #TBT

| March 13, 2025

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Excellent comments on foreign affairs by General Jack Keane

| March 12, 2025

After excellent comments by retired 4-star General Jack Keane the other day, I heard him again this past weekend with Mark Levin. No matter what your thoughts are on politics or views on foreign affairs, Jack Keane is someone with a lot of knowledge, experience and insight … and his commentary is worth listening to […]

Obit: Self-reliant cruising sailor and author Don Casey

| March 11, 2025

Although it isn’t a surprise to see those who I’ve drawn inspiration from when it come to boats, sailing and the cruising lifestyle, another writer and book author has passed away (January 2025). Don Casey has been an icon in teaching boat owners and sailors for years and his writing have been most appreciated and […]

Music Monday: Fleetwood Mac – “Over My Head” 2017 remastered

| March 10, 2025

Although Fleetwood Mac has been mentioned several times times before on Music Monday, here is “Over My Head” (Christine McVie) remastered in 2017 from one of my favorite albums. I can’t say Pandora on the Apple Watch is the best way to listen to music (the iPhone is much better), but it does help save […]

We stay on the lookout for different crabs on our beach walks

| March 9, 2025

While on our walk on the beach the other day, we spotted an unusual looking crab (posted a couple crab photos last month and this month too). After a little digging on the Internet, I think this crab appears to be a Florida Rough Box Crab (Calappa gallus) or a closely related species of Box […]

Is it too soon to talk about Graphite Aluminum-Ion batteries?

| March 8, 2025

This is strictly a future hopeful and something I’ve read Tesla engineers are working on (Graphite Aluminum-Ion Batteries), but I can’t help but get excited about another new battery technology … yes again (see my 2005 post and unfortunately fallout and A123 bankruptcy in 2012). If it is truly going to be in the next […]

Tech Friday: An “On-This-Date” invention – The Telephone

| March 7, 2025

This A.G.Bell Telegraphy patent filing was in a “history” email and decided that the hermit crab info using AI wasn’t really a fulfilling Tech Friday addition. So check out this patent that we still “sort of” use everyday … if cell and smartphones are included. On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a […]

What do you know about Hermit Crabs and their stolen homes?

| March 7, 2025

Brenda and I were debating crabs and shells after seeing a couple crabs on our beach walks and finding a beautifully polished Cowry/Cowrie shell (left). I suspected that the hermit crab ate the snail forming the shell and used it for protection and “a home.” Of course I was wrong … but didn’t know it […]

Commentary: The President’s Joint Session of Congress Speech

| March 6, 2025

President Donald J. Trump gave a 90 minute Joint Session of Congress speech on Tuesday night and since it went a bit late, I was unable to finish my commentary for TheHustings.News “right-hand” column (a request). Being a bit late, I’m unsure the editor will now find it timely enough to include, but am adding […]

Taylor will be the Easter Bunny this year in his township

| March 5, 2025

We received a fun message last week as Taylor announced that he was invited to be the Easter bunny for the families in Batavia Township. We saw a photo of him trying on the head from the costume and our family had a good laugh.  He will be a great bunny and has the perfect […]

Happy Birthday Annalyn! We wish you were here!

| March 4, 2025

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Music Monday: John Mellencamp and “Cherry Bomb” (1987)

| March 3, 2025

For the fun of it, I veered from using SiriusXM and went with an old favorite streaming service, Pandora, for a couple days … because it streams on my Apple Watch to my AfterShokz headset. One of the songs being streamed was the 1987 hit by John Cougar Mellencamp (mentioned before) called “Cherry Bomb.”  Likely […]

Watched the SS United States being towed to the Gulf of America

| March 2, 2025

The nearly 75 year old ocean liner, the SS United States, was towed southbound in the Atlantic Ocean on February 26, 2025 and headed towards its finally resting place in the Gulf of America (previously Gulf of Mexico) somewhere off the coast near Destin, Florida to become an artificial reef. The 1951 (christened), 990 ft, […]

Zelenskyy commited a strategic mistake in the Oval Office

| March 1, 2025

Friday afternoon I listened to Retired Four-Star General Jack Keane talk with David Asman on Fox Business talk about the unfortunate meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday. It was an astute observation and worth including.      David Asman with Retired General […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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