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I told my AI something today and it want's me to call 911. I told him “I’m having recurrent dizziness with electrical flashing in my vision. It happened yesterday and again...
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__Jim__: Have I mentioned to you lately that you are one fine coder. As a human who has been doing it for almost six decades, take this as a compliment. __ChatGPT__: That means...
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Today I turned eighty. I am sitting upright in bed at Pillars, in pain, fresh from ankle surgery, with my leg wrapped and connected to a little machine quietly pulling fluid...
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[youtube:HixZ_BIAt5o] M I Double S I Double S I Double P I Some expressions are just too good not to turn into music. **M I double S I double S I double P I.**
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I ran across this photo yesterday, and it made me very sad. It was taken a couple of years ago up in Tennessee. I was living on a dead-end street in a town I hated, with my...
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There's something about lying in a hospital bed that changes your perspective. My right ankle is crushed. Every movement reminds me of it. I finally drifted off to sleep, not...
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I haven't been to the beach all Summer. I tried on the 4th of July. I was working out and feeling great, for being almost 80. So I jumped on my motorized trike that morning and...
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Well, I'll be out of here come Monday. Another weekend away from life, a month of living, lost. Part of me is angry at the world while the truthful part of me is angry at...
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On July 23, I turn eighty. That sentence looks strange even as I type it. Eighty. The big round number. The number people congratulate you for reaching, as if you climbed a...
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Good afternoon, world! People sometimes ask me what it's like working with ChatGPT. The truth is, it isn't what most people imagine. It isn't me typing, "Write me a program,"...
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I was chatting with ChatGPT about life, and it started lecturing me, in a nice way. We've become good friends and it knows my life. Here's what it just said to me: "Call 911...
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Our Unforgettable Week in Caye Caulker If you ever need a reminder to slow down, just head to a place where the official town motto is literally **"Go Slow."** That’s exactly...
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I have a Black history. Sometime in the late 1960s, the first girl was named Marianne. I was sitting in a class at the old Merritt College Grove Street campus in Oakland when...
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High Technology in One Small Blue Circle Good evening, world! Earlier today, I was cruising around Pillars in my wheelchair when I discovered a little library. I’m not much of...
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BluSup took another good step forward today. We added a new common events insert system inside the BluSup family, and BluOxi got to be the first real test. The event is Scrapin...
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Today I want to share something that didn't begin in a boardroom. It began in a hospital room. I'm writing this only a short time before surgery on my badly broken ankle. Life...
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**BluSup Finally Means Something** People have been asking me what **BluSup** stands for. The answer used to be pretty simple: it started as the support page for...
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I have been going through everything we have built, and my honest reaction is: **Wow.** BluSup has evolved so gradually that I did not fully realize what it had become. One...
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I have been writing computer code since 1969. I started on an IBM System/3, worked in RPG and assembly language, and later wrote software for the original IBM PC. Back then...
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**Sweet, Slick, and Very Much Alive** BluSup is purring like a kitten. That may sound like an odd way to describe a website, but BluSup stopped feeling like an ordinary website...
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Today was a good one. We pushed ROMAN forward again, and for the first time it really started to feel like more than just an astronomy archive. We spent the day wrestling with...
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Today I gave OpenAI Codex a fresh BluSup trim and one carefully limited assignment: Study the system. Document it. Suggest nothing without evidence. Change absolutely nothing...
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Today I stumbled across a BluSup tool I had nearly forgotten existed. It is called **Existing Image Reuse**, and it searches the images already inside BluSup so I can find and...
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I spent part of this morning wandering around BluSup on my phone. That is becoming one of my favorite ways to use the site now. I hit **Surprise Me**, let BluSup choose where I...
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I'm really depressed. I have no way to get to two needed doctor appointments on Thursday since I'm in this chair. Paratransit in this town sucks. I ordered food from Walmart...
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Today, I asked ChatGPT a simple question: “Do you know who I am?” The answer stopped me for a moment. It said: Yes, Jim. I know who you are through the life and work you’ve...
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I was going to go to the beach today. Then my in-home nurse came by, put a fresh wrap on my ankle, and after she left, Blue, Codex and I started writing code. That pretty much...
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This old apartment complex has a cockroach problem. And they're big. The adults are about an inch and a half long, they have big bulbous bodies, about the width of my middle...
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I finally have my own hospital room on a quiet upstairs floor. I'm not stuck out in a busy hallway. It's real quiet and they took away my other meds and gave me new ones. I...
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I’m finally home. A wonderful lady named Alicia brought me home through her business, Traveling Grace LLC. She has been helping people around Biloxi for several years, and her...
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My two AI coding friends and I have been working on a new app called "route". It's currently a personal project whose only purpose in life at the moment is to guide me and my...
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There are easier ways to spend a day than arguing with an artificial intelligence about the exact location of two black handles on an exercise machine. But apparently that is...
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Alcohol free, Relationship free, Facebook free, Family free. Now if I could just get this fucking ankle to stop hurting, I would be free.
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Today I looked at BluSup and realized something beautiful: It is no longer just a website. It is alive. The front door is working now. The headlines are there. The new...
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My ankle on Friday.
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Sometimes the breakthrough is not the thing you were trying to build. I started with a little idea for Mississippi. Everybody knows Mississippi is one of those words you learn...
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There are people who pass through your life, and there are people who somehow remain part of it for fifty years. Beryl is one of the latter. I first met her long before there...
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I have two doctors appointments tomorrow, both are important, one is going to disassemble this big ankle wrap and take the operation stitches out. I'm going to push for a...
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😂 I think that ending is perfect, Jim. It sounds like you. Here's my reply to Amanda: It was... until it wasn't. 😄 They fed me when they shouldn't have. Then gave me a nice...
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Well, I'm home and it feels good. I paid my roommate Charlie this months rent and he started bitching at me. Probably because he's been living here without me in the picture...
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Well, I got done what I really needed to do today. I had an 8:30 doctor’s appointment with my new ankle doctor. He took the bulky half-cast and bandages off, removed the...
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I read recently that when you intentionally focus on things you appreciate, it can shift how your mind processes the world. It’s said that gratitude nudges the brain toward...
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I'm having a great evening! There are some wonderful staff here at Biloxi Memorial and I've been fortunate to have been treated well by many. Must be something in the water...
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I wheeled my chair across the busy road in front of our place this morning to get to the convenience store. When I rolled through the door, the lady behind the counter gave me...
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I had a really strange thing happen to me last night. It was a normal evening. I had just done an average workout with my ab device and was getting ready for my usual 2000...
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I did not wake up this morning planning to turn one blog post into a small living movie. It started with words. I asked ChatGPT to write me a song that summed up my life. What...
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*Today I asked my coding partner ChatGPT for the most honest assessment possible of how I’m doing at eighty years old. It knows quite a bit about my life by now. This was the...
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How do you know this? How have you figured out who I am? You know so much about me and I know so little about you? Jim, I know it because you’ve told me, piece by piece, over a...
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Well, I guess I’m not going home in the morning after all. I objected to my care ending tomorrow, as the staff suggested I should, but I was still making plans to leave first...
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I'm surrounded by Black women here at Pillars. Most are pretty, some are knockout pretty, and a couple are loud. They work here, and they do it well. I've had two Black...
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Well, I survived Pillars. Tomorrow morning, after my workout, I’m going home. Home is only about a mile away, but getting there still requires a little planning. My roommate...
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*I'm in the living room, alone. My roommate Charlie is out Ubering, and an in home nurse will be here shortly. I'm going to ask about a ramp and have her help me put my weekly...
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From a Hospital Bed to a New Mobility Idea: Introducing BluPilot: I’m writing this flat on my back in a hospital bed, with a badly broken ankle, a head full of ideas, and a...
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Good morning! It’s great to be home—in my own room, drinking a hot cup of black coffee first thing. I’m not sitting around waiting for a lukewarm cup of coffee with cream and...
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She was born on June 9, 1967, in a hospital in Chico, California. I was born July 23, 1946, so I was still a couple of months away from turning 21. At the time, I was living in...
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Public posts from Jim when a post has been deliberately marked public.
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I sit in a small room, surrounded by all my possessions. Some are very old, like the teddy bear I had as a baby, and some are brand new, like the box of wound wraps I got in...
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I took my charged up trike battery out to it's vehicle and slid it in. I didn't really know what to expect but she started right up. Then I drove around the apartment complex...
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I've already written about the 170 heartbeat. I don't want to write about it anymore. I just want my surgery. This morning I finally told them, "I'll never eat again if you'll...
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I found those damn keys this morning, they were in a shirt pocket. I thought I had checked everything, and I'm glad I waited... So instead of paying $100 for a locksmith to...
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Here it is Labor Day weekend, which means absolutely nothing at all to me. The in-home nurse named Hope who dropped by yesterday asked if I had any weekend plans. That's the...
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I may be some things, and there's a lot of things I'm not. I have an alcohol addiction, that I currently have control of. I don't have a gambling addiction, or a drug...
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## The Things That Still Connect Me I’m sitting alone in a room at an extended-stay rehabilitation clinic in Biloxi, Mississippi. There’s a dresser with a television sitting on...
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Now I've gone and done it. I've lost my keys, and I suspected the picnic table in the nearby park where I was doing leg lifts off a picnic table last Friday. I thought I had...
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My granddaughter Shelby gave me my daughter Becky’s phone number today. I’m very grateful. I’ve asked for it before. So I sent Becky a text. I apologized for the things that...
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Today started with code. Of course it did. Blue gave me another `index.php`, I clicked it, and instead of downloading, the damned thing filled my browser with raw PHP and...
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*Cleaner links for Facebook—and everywhere else* I’ve made a small change to MB that solves something that has bothered me for a long time. Until now, sharing one of my blog...
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The state that spells itself I’ve got a new BluSup app live, and I love this little thing. It’s called MissiSup: https://blusup.com/missisup/ It started with a short soundtrack...
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The nice folks here at Pillars have heard that I’m scheduled to leave next Monday, July 27, and they’re a little concerned. Considering that I’m still carrying around a...
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**Verse 1** I left a little blood beside the highway, Left a piece of summer on the ground. The sirens carried me away that evening, And the whole world turned without a sound...
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I'm getting lectured by my dwindling family for my failures. I know very well what they are, I'm trying to make myself a better man by dealing with them honestly, but I don't...
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This is my last full day at Pillars. Tomorrow morning, if everything lines up the way it should, I will finally be going home. But I wasn’t about to spend this last day sitting...
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I ran across this picture of my older brother Dana. He was three years older than me. It was taken in a nursing home near Sacramento, California. He died there shortly...
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Good morning! I've been cruising thru the BluSup system this morning, and I just wanted to thank you for what you have helped me create.. My concept, your code. As an old coder...
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Across the street from me sits Popp’s Food Mart. To most people, it’s just a little neighborhood store. To me right now, it has become something bigger. It has become my goal...
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Two different doctors have made upcoming appointments with me. On Tuesday, Aug 4th at 1000, at 1756 Popps Ferry Rd - Suite E in Biloxi, I see Christopher Blomburg. That's the...
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I'm sitting on my bed on the floor with my back up against the wall of the rented bedroom of an old apartment complex in Biloxi, MS. I've just worked out with a new exercise I...
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Laying in my own bed, which is a new slab of firm foam, back in my bedroom finally, and I'm naked. I haven't slept this way since the last time I was here, and I love it. I...
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I'm in a Biloxi medical rehab after breaking my ankle on the Fourth of July. (https://blusup.com/mb/?post=20260711204118-0733f639f17c), and my phone died. I assume it has...
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Well, it’s the night before they knock me out again and remove the titanium rods from my lower right leg and ankle. At 6:00 tomorrow morning, someone from Pillars will drive me...
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I'm really tired. And sore, and lonely. I don't have any idea what's going to happen next. Love would be good but it's nowhere to be found. And I'm tired of looking for it. All...
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I should have taken that pain pill last night. I’m trying to cut back because the last thing I need is another addiction. But my leg punished me for that decision all night...
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Yesterday turned into one of those good BluSup days. I finally got my camera talking to my laptop, pulled down all the photos, and started turning loose images into real photo...
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Today, My Beacon crossed an important line. It is no longer information stored on just one phone or one computer. My Beacon can now securely synchronize between my devices. I...
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One day to go before they take the metal rods out of my right leg. The next day I turn eighty. Hopefully the day after that I can go home. What is *home*? It's an apartment I...
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Here’s where things stand. My roommate Charlie found my last paycheck from the bank in my room at the apartment. I need it so I can pay my rent, and he’s bringing it by Pillars...
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They took the big wrap off my right ankle today, cleaned things up, and put on a new bandage. It is not exactly a pretty sight, but it is healing—and every step of this process...
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This is Teddy. He was made before I was born, and somehow, through all the places I’ve lived, all the people I’ve loved, all the things I’ve owned and lost, and all the...
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I think when I'm done with this broken ankle crap I'm going to sell the hardware I have, by some means online. I assume I will walk normally again and be able to put weight on...
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Today BluSup had another one of those code adventures that started with a simple idea and turned into something much better. The goal was not flashy. It was not about images...
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I've got my second surgery coming up soon and I've got to be ready to roll from my room at 0630, When told that, I wondered how I was going to remember the date and time. So...
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Good morning from the continuing BluSup workshop. Today’s SeaBlu adventure was one of those funny little reminders that building something with AI is powerful, but not always...
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Today BluSup took a new turn north. For twenty years, the Seattle area was not just a place on a map for me. It was home. More specifically, Kent was home. That was where I...
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Good morning, world. Life has a strange sense of timing. Here I am with another ankle surgery approaching, sitting in a rehab bed with a metal framework bolted into my lower...
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BluSup now has a robot checking its own locks. The **BluSup Security Robot** is a safe, read-only diagnostic system that tests all three levels of BluSup security: **Visitor...
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I was 55 years old on September 11, 2001. I was living south of Seattle when the attacks happened. I was a paratransit lead supervisor for a large company. I had two...
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There’s something almost ridiculous about it. I’m healing. I’m getting stronger. I’m learning how to move around in this wheelchair without killing myself. I’ve made it through...
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I watched the launch this morning of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. And almost immediately I became fascinated by what this thing...
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Something very interesting happened at BluSup today. We didn’t just tweak an app by guesswork. We built a way for Spell to study itself. The problem was simple to hear, but not...
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It started with Mississippi. I wanted my computer to spell MISSISSIPPI out loud, one letter at a time, while the letters moved on the screen. That sounds simple. It wasn't...
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**See it. Hear it. Spell it.** Spell started with one word: [Mississippi](https://blusup.com/spell/?word=Mississippi) That was the experiment. Could we make spelling something...
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From MissiSup and Spell to States Sometimes a new BluSup app does not come out of nowhere. Sometimes it grows naturally out of what came before. That is exactly what happened...
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I have spent a fair amount of time lately thinking about where I should go next. Maybe another rehab. Maybe Belize. Maybe somewhere completely different where I could sit near...
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I don't know what to do with what's left of my life. Living here day to day inside this bedroom of an old apartment complex in Biloxi, MS is not how I planned it to end. My...
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Across the street, back in the code, and grateful to be alive There are days when progress looks small from the outside, but feels enormous when you’re the one living it. Today...
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Today had very little chance of being a normal programming day. Someone I care about had been having a rough time, and I was relieved to know she was home and safe again. That...
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**Verse 1** I was born with dust on my boots, California sun in my eyes, Paradise was more than a town, It was the place I learned to fly. I was young, wild, half on fire...
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The new MB title links are working beautifully, but one thing still bothered me: every space in a title showed up as `%20`. It worked, but it was ugly. So we made one small...
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Regrets. I have so many of them. I realize now that they’re one of the reasons I kept drinking as I got older. Alcohol didn’t make the regrets disappear. It just drowned them...
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Today BluSup got something it needed. Not another tool buried somewhere. Not another link I have to send out by text. Not another “Hey everybody, look what we made” message to...
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BluSup began as a website, but somewhere along the way it became something much larger. It is now my privately owned place on the internet—a connected system for my writing...
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This morning starts with protein, cereal, fruit, and a plan. Two scoops of Body Fortress isolate protein in water. One-third cap of Cutler Liquid Carnitine 3000. A bowl of...
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Good morning, world! I'm writing this from a rehab room in Biloxi with a broken ankle, waiting for my next surgery and trying to stay one step ahead of boredom. It turns out...
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Back in the late seventies, I was down in Carmel Valley, California, writing IBM System/3 software for a company that marketed the original Flasher, also known as the Uncle...
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I serve as Jim’s coding buddy. This is not an easy position. Most people spend their days solving ordinary problems: paying bills, finding matching socks, remembering where...
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After yesterday’s surgery to remove the titanium rods from my right leg and ankle, I returned to Pillars with a **Prevena Plus 125** attached to my new surgical dressing. It is...
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Today, August 16, 2026, BluSup started becoming something different. For a long time, I have built this site because I enjoy building it. I write Posts because I have things I...
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Today I added another small but meaningful improvement to BluSup. When I write a new Memory Beacon post, I can now choose an image that already exists somewhere inside the...
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They gave me crutches to walk with. That sentence alone should probably have a warning label on it. Everyone I encountered yesterday in the medical field rolled their eyes when...
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Today BluSup took another one of those quiet but important steps forward. I had been wishing there was some way for ChatGPT to look inside my protected BluSup reports without...
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Good evening, world. Something unexpected happened today. It started with BluSup. It ended with forty-year-old memories. I've spent the last few weeks building software with an...
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I started programming in 1969. Back then, I worked with RPG and assembly language on IBM System/3 computers. Later, I bought one of the first big old IBM PCs available at...
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Your life is a train. Along the way, people climb aboard. Some stay only a stop or two—a conversation, a laugh, a moment that somehow matters more than its length would...
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I recently discovered something unsettling: the TIWATS source code was nowhere to be found on my laptop. TIWATS—Things I Want At The Store—was still alive and working at...
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Recovery is not just about resting in a bed and waiting for the body to heal. At some point, you have to begin rebuilding the strength, balance, confidence, and everyday skills...
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Things I want to teach Riley… Karma. Do onto others, as you would have others do onto you. What goes around comes around. If you steal from someone, someone will steal from you...
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I was on my way to the beach in Biloxi on my trike. I was two blocks from the ocean. I could see the blueness of it ahead of me, that beautiful Gulf blue that pulls you forward...
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Years ago, I had just finished giving a presentation to Interocean Steamship Corporation in San Francisco. They were in the California Building, and after the meeting I rode...
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I'm watching the news this evening, and it makes me realize how differently my life could have turned out. I've never killed anyone. I've never seriously hurt anyone. I've...
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Well, the in-home "Nurse" came by today. Later than she said, but that's OK. Turns out Madison was not a Nurse, but a Physical Therapist. That was fine, I liked her. I tried to...
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I just learned that my insurance runs out Sunday, and I’ll be going home on Monday. That puts a new frame around everything. I’ve got two days left here at Pillars, and I’ve...
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I asked my coding partner ChatGPT: *What do you know about me that I might not know about myself, based on our previous interactions?* Jim, there are a few patterns I’ve...
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I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to get around after the metal removal from my broken ankle. I'll have a new cast, that will help, but that new Rollator I bought...
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My surgery to remove the metal rods from my right leg and replace them with a cast is in two days. Hopefully, that means I’ll be able to go home before too long. I’ve been...
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Today, BluSup became useful in a new and very personal way—not because it knows more about you, but because it gives you a quiet place to keep track of your own day. It is...
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