23 October 2026….finally

I am so proud of myself. 

I got a new house about 18 months ago, and I have big plans that I want to work on. But it will be slow getting some things done. 

And to help me do some planning, I have been using AI, specifically ChatGPT, to help me design my yard.

 I want to use mostly native plants.

 Part of the reason is because, apparently, the sprinkler system here was trashed before I moved in, or before the people that lived here before me moved in.So I want to just get rid of all the sprinklers, grass, and I want to put down bricks and flagstone, and several different kinds of native plants that do not require tons of water.

I don't want to look for just "native Texas" plants, because Texas has too much variety. But I want to look for, specifically, native to Bexar County and San Antonio, where I live.

I can’t do everything very fast, plus I need to hire someone to do most of the work. If anyone wants to be a land scraper you are more than welcome to help. It's going to probably be a 5-year project for me to get trees and plants and rock and different things that I want, but that's how it goes. Plus since I can’t do the work by myself, I need to find someone who can help out of the goodness of their heart or pay someone who has the right skills.

 But back to the fact that the place has grass, and most of my neighbors have grass. I don't know who sold the idea for grass in south Texas, but that has got to be the most idiotic idea that has ever existed. Someone was a maniacal genius.

It is so damn hot here. And you spend so much money on water.

Plus, the water company has water restrictions.  I would rather have stuff that looks awesome and doesn't require a lot of water.

Plus, if I put rock and flagstone, it might help keep in a bunch of the water in the ground.

There are so many fun plants.

I went to the nursery the other day.

The specific nursery I went to has native Texas everything, and some of that stuff would not work for my yard because Far East Texas is so wet that you cannot  plant anything like that in San Antonio.

And the farther west you go, it's a lot more dry.

 There are plants that grow in east Texas that do not grow here in San Antonio and Bexar County.

But that is just a little bit of what I want to do.

I've thought maybe buying a couple trees before the end of the year and planting them so they will have a good start. But I really want to make sure I kill the grass and have all of it tilled out. I just can't get past the idea that people actually want or ever wanted lawns here in South Texas.

 Whoever decided they should have lawns in Texas, like people have in the Northeast or farther north. I know I said that already.

 And anyway, I do have the possibility of getting snow here, but it might only last a week if we get snow at all. The last time I had snow was probably 5 years ago.

And it did shut down the entire state of Texas.

 And in some ways, I did not mind, but it did get annoying because you weren't able to flush your toilet because the water got turned off.

 And I really appreciate a flush toilet.

That is part of why I want stuff to be native, because native plants, they can already handle the environment and they look pretty darn nice.

I would rather have water for things like toilets that really need water. I can live without lots of conveniences like light in our modern world, but plumbing is essential. And I do not want to think about a world that does not have plumbing.

But just to show you a few of the pictures that I designed for my yard using ChatGPT, I have a few ideas. For the most part, I'll probably keep my front yard very native to San Antonio and Bexar County. My backyard, I could play with a little bit more. I'll just find plants that can survive in Bexar County. I probably won't look for everything to be native back there.

 But it's a very strange thought about how I want t create my yard and my house.

4 October 2026…..and the winner is….

So people know, I went and did my colonoscopy the other day, and I am not going to die because of my colon any time soon.

 

I was kind of worried because I've been eating mostly a carnivore diet. I do eat other stuff on occasion, but I like to eat mostly carnivore diet. I was worried I might have some kind of really weird problem with my intestine, because of my diet.

 But that doesn't seem to be the case.

 I have a beautiful colon, for as much as a person can have, a beautiful colon. It looks pretty nice.

 

I will admit I've been worried because once upon a time my dad, he died of colon cancer. It started out in his appendix, which is a very odd place for stuff to start.

But I have a pretty beautiful colon.

 And afterwards, to celebrate, I ate some beef jerky. Then I ate when I got home. I can't remember what exactly I ate, but anyway, I'm not really too worried. 

The world needs people to eat more meat.

 

I will admit I like other things, because eating only meat can really gets old and tiring. Some things like bread, create pain, and so that's why I eat the way I do. 

I don't like being in pain.

 I'm going to have to live for a longer time, I guess. I hope I don't live as long as my grandparents. They both lived into their 90s. But then my dad, he died when he was 54. I'm 52 right now. So I could die anytime in between now and maybe 40 or 50 years from now. Who knows. 

I’m not dead yet. 

29 September 2026…. Oh what a day

I have been doing a mostly carnivore diet, so I guess it could be considered somewhat keto, since February.

 And I have to go in this next week for my colonoscopy. It's been 5 years since my last one, and I am a little bit curious about has been happening, because for the most part I've mostly eaten meat the past several months.

 But that said, I don't think I can keep up a pure carnivore diet.

  I have been eating this one kind of carnivore bread. It uses egg white powder, and it is so gross. Lots of carnivore recipes call for egg white powder. 

I have tried it. 

I hate it. 

It think it is like eating a sponge would be like. 

I have tried to make several other things that are pure carnivore, and they are just awful. 

So I will eat corn tortillas. Chips. Taco shells.

Rice noodles. 

Watermelon once in a while. 

There are things that are to good. 

So I eat things that will stay away from gluten, and I will make this one kind of "carnivore bread," which has no egg white powder.

It actually tastes good, and it seems to be more similar to a bread than other things. Some things are good and the other way carnivore recipes make life miserable.

But not meet.  

Yes, I love eating meat.  

I'm talking about beef.

Chicken does not agree with me, and it tastes chalky. 

Pork I could probably eat a little bit more, still not my favorite.

For the most part I eat beef.

  I have wanted to try lamb, bison and a few other things, but it is hard to get some places when you don’t drive and bus routes are not close to where you need to go. 

 If I didn't have my wife, there would be no way I could do carnivore, because it is too damn hard. If I had a toaster oven, maybe. I could make my own little steaks or hamburger patties.

  I ate so many hot pockets at one time in my life, but the gluten is not my friend.

 Hot pockets are not awful, but they're not the best either. 

 Meat is just a good thing.

So I guess that's about all I have to say at the moment.

 I'm supposed to go in for a colonoscopy. They'll tell me if my diet is going to kill me quicker. And I will say, “I can’t live forever.”  I don't care too much, because if I die, I die, and that's a simple thing. Everyone dies.

 It's not like any one of us is going to get out of dying, so. I guess that's about all I have to say about that.

10 September 2026…..what a year

 I noticed this morning that it has been 1 year since the death of Charlie Kirk, when he was assassinated at Utah Valley University.

 One thing that I really liked about him, I did not agree with every single thing he said, but he did have a very keen ability to break down, logically, almost every argument. And the biggest thing that he did was use his First Amendment right of free speech to offer other people that opposed his viewpoint the opportunity to use their First Amendment right of free speech, and they could debate/discuss for a few moments.

 Now, First Amendment is more than just free speech; it's also freedom of religion, and he had his own religious viewpoints. But most of his viewpoints that were, as you might want to say, "political," were also religious. You don't have to agree with everything that he said, but the simple fact is he had the right to say it. And you have the right to say something that other people don't like.

 As soon as it leaves the area of free speech and goes into physical violence or force, or heaven forbid,  using some kind of weapon to try to force or silence a person—that is not really okay.

I am glad we have the Second Amendment, and I think it should be allowed constitutional carry everywhere.

 But back to my point: Charlie Kirk, he was a person who wanted people to have the opportunity to speak.

 If you agree with the opportunity to speak and have your own point of view, you do agree with Charlie Kirk. Maybe not on everything, but on the most important thing, which is free speech and the right to think as you want to think.

The next thing that I have been thinking about is: why do I like President Trump?

He is not a perfect person, and I don't agree with everything that he tries to introduce. The simple fact, he gets things done, or he tries to get things done, that he wants to get done. 

I'll just give an example.

He declared that the capital of Israel should be Jerusalem and moved the US embassy there. 

There had been presidents all the way back to Bush who said they would do that, but none of them did it until President Trump. Now, you don't have to like the fact that he did it, but the simple fact that he did it is a much more pleasing aspect to me. He says he is going to do something, and the simple fact is he does it, or he tries to do it. The courts might say, "Oh, that's not  allowed to do that." And sometimes it goes all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they say "Oh, you're not allowed to do that." And that is that.

One thing I was very interested in was that they were talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and he said that despite the fact that he was suing Donald Trump, Donald Trump still offered to help his family with something.

The simple fact that they both work in a very litigious professions, one thing that is very easy to understand in many ways is that Donald Trump, if he gets sued, he doesn't care. It's just the way things work. If there are personal issues with the why he is getting sued, maybe that's different.

He does not worry too much about being sued because, in lots of ways, that's just how it works.

And so I will say I think that Donald Trump gets things done. I don't have to like everything, but I do like certain things. I will admit I like the fact that he is enforcing immigration. There are lots of people that are choosing to self-deport so they don't get arrested and deported. I think that's great.

I also thought it was funny that there's one conservative commentator, Milo Yiannopoulos, who was deported. He had let his visa lapse, and so he was here illegally. It was kind of funny that such a public figure would get deported like that, but his visa had lapsed. And if you do not have a visa, or if your visa has lapsed, you no longer have the right to be here in the US.

 And honestly, if you want the illegal aliens to stay in the US, I would dare say you should use your First Amendment right and talk to the people in charge and say you want a certain number of illegal aliens at your house, or you will sponsor them and be responsible for everything that they do. If the government accepts your offer—then the people can maybe live in your house or under your supervision. But if they do something—if the illegal aliens do something wrong—you will be held responsible also. The Government could take your money or put you in jail or something.

But that's just my idea.

Do I like everything that President Trump does? No.

Like any politician, I think there are lots of questionable things that most politicians do. And I do not think that any politician can keep himself clean.

If a person is going to wrestle with pigs, they're going to get muddy.

One of the interesting things I saw or understood was that when Mitt Romney was senator for Utah, some people thought he was pretty awesome. I will admit I, in many ways, at one time thought he was pretty great—but the moment he started calling people treasonous I lost respect for his ability to think and govern. I don't know why he decided to call someone a traitor. But I will admit, I'm glad he was never my senator, since I live in Texas and he was a senator for Utah.

Thank you Charlie. 

Thank you Mr. President. 

16 July 2026…..damn rain

I am not a fan of Ted Turner for many reasons, I think CNN, the news station he created, is nothing but a  propaganda machine, but I love one thing he did. He bought a ranch and got rid of all the cows, all the fences, and let buffalo (bison) roam free and help transform the land. He let the ranch do its own thing for a few years and eventually wolves settled in the area by themselves, and Mr. Turner said to leave the wolves alone. Finally he set up legal structures to insure that the land could never be used for anything but a land for bison. If I could, I would love to go hunting there. 

My telling of the story is very simplistic. I watched several videos on YouTube about bison. In Texas, Utah, Montana, Catalina Island. There have been lots of things done with bison over the past century. 

But going back to Mr. Turner, I love what he did for his ranch, but it got me thinking. How was he able to do what he did, I would love to create a preserve than could reintroduce native species, back into the environment.

Money. 

Money is not the root of all evil. Money is a gift from God. 

Money allows all humans to help other humans, the earth, or animals. 

That could be, and probably is, practically impossible for me now days. If I had started thirty years ago. Maybe. Now, almost impossible. But to do what Mr. Turner did you need to have lots of money. 

I remember I cursed myself about 30 years ago. I was sick when I was on my mission in Brazil. I had run out of the local money, so I wanted to sell some dollars so I could get some medicine and juice. So I got the few dollars I had and went to try and sell them. If I had $20, I had a lot. I probably only had $10. But me and my companion at the time had to go to several different places. One place ask how much I wanted to sell. I said $10 or something. The one man said no. I was pretty upset because I felt awful. But that got the idea stuck in my head, “money sucks.”

I eventually came back home, but I never really understood the concept of money. I still hated money and didn’t understand it, even though I didn’t have much. I understand it better now, but I’m sure not as well as others. 

Money is not my favorite thing to think about. I have learned to manage it better over the years but in many ways it’s a constant confusion for me. 

Since I had my stroke everything is more expensive. Don’t recommend having a stroke. 

So my mind was wandering around thinking of all the things I would like to do, have done in the past and stuff I do now, and most require money. Most people want money but not everyone is willing to do what needs to be done for money. That said some luck might be involved. 

I remember I was in my twenties and talking with my cousin about what I wanted to do. He suggested I go into business of some kind. At the time I hated that idea partly because I didn’t have a good idea about what business is and does. At the time I thought everything business was boring. Business is the life blood of society. I would recommend to anyone going to college, major in whatever you want. But minor in business or marketing. 

 Every aspect of society requires business in some form. 

High School clubs. 

Dances. 

Cars. 

Gas. 

Health care. 

Construction. 

Yard work. 

Pest control. 

YouTube. 

Groceries. 

Cleaning. 

Amazon. 

Veterinarian. 

Missionary Work. 

Restaurants. 

Fundraising. 

Science. 

Sports. 

Everyone gets paid in money. If you don’t get paid in money, hmmm. 

 

If money is involved, business is involved. 

Money is a gift from God. He allows each person to demonstrate how he/she will help other people and the planet with what we my have or my not have. 

It makes me think of the widows mite. Jesus Christ said the widows mite was important because she was giving the little she had, and it was a larger percentage of her entire donation compared to her income. But he didn’t not say that other peoples offerings were not important. 

If I want to help build a temple and would say I need the people that have a talent of gold (75-78 pounds) almost 4.5 million dollars. Not everyone can help with such a great amount, not everyone has that much money, but hopefully everyone can contribute the mite. One mite is said to be about 1/8 cent or maybe more, maybe a dollar depending on the mite. If I am trying to to help build a church, temple, or anything. The mites are important but if there is one donor that can share a talent of gold, things can get done faster. 

I would love to be someone that has money that can help fund all kinds of wonderful projects. I would love to create a ranch for bison and occasionally bison hunting. But I need to learn to be content with what I have. I still have more than many people.