Welcome, John...

Today, a new CEO steps into the Apple office, in that donut shaped building that is so iconic I wish I were there 3 times a week. However, and you can read more on my Medium, a bunch of us fans who are Asian and John, came to argue over the direction Apple's products are taking. I actually am a hands off person and thus let go all of the weird stuff like the cheese grater, the trash can, the cracked cube, all that. But lately, attacks have become more severe on Apple staff and I thought we should nip it in the bud with some positive direction. I don't want to work at Apple but their products are some of them un-feng-shui and these are my suggestions;

1. We like the new Mac Mini M4 and Mac Studio but there has to be an even more powerful-looking and impressive Mac 'Pro'.  
2. We also like the iPhones and those are pretty good already, so are the watch ultra, the airpods etc.
3. We don't like the iMac and the (leaked) idea that looks like the old sunflower G4. I recommend that the iMac be slimmed down, sitting flush with the desk / tabletop, with the option to attach 2 Homepod Mini speakers for AI, perhaps round the back. The chin of the machine could be perforated and maybe be used as an angle-adjuster.
4. We like all the iPads but want to see Mac OS 27 on an iPad M-series as soon as possible.
5. Bringing back an iPod style device in a limited run every year might be favorable. Perhaps it could go along with a slimmed down Vision Pro -serve as the main driver of it, while the headset is simplified to something sleeker and light.
6. As for the AI and smart car project, I would urge Apple to just let an AI API be released to developers, so many hungry ones want in. But to partition the App Store by AI and non-AI apps. And the car thing should really be go. I propose a small electric scooter instead of a full-blown vehicle. The vehicle could have technology to help it navigate as well as steer (just like the F-16 fighter jet), and be able to learn or be trained while going slow in a safe zone.

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Now past midnight. Brushed and showered. Need to work out soon but there is a war in my mindspace right now and I might get a stroke (a second one), so to wait a bit. Check out my Medium under the same name 'Chenkuang YAP' -it's free, and I have a new bow sight idea there for those of you who believe the dream that one can be auto-ranging yet non-electronic.

Past 3am and my head is still stuffed with warring people. I may need more sedative. Recorded my first soundcheck in Waveform free. It sounds pretty good. Worked out and my head is clearer. Rumors of a meltdown in the family. 'Many shall be offended (overburdened and irritable), and leave the faith (love thy neighbor)'. I guess it's what is happening.

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I got cleaned well on the third try. Am feeling comfortable. Was working on net4spice -seems it will wrap up late as my head has been foggy regarding circuit nodes for a lone time. Someone must be pressing on my thinking, maybe a baby or little child. But the software has to be completed nonetheless.

Folks approved of my roasted chicken at dinner earlier. I used garam masala and Chinese five spice powder along with salt and some butter. Trick is not to use too much masala and less even, the five spice.

Drew a new KoangDeLambe comic strip earlier. I have yet to begin my life's journey thru faith series. Maybe that would come up this weekend.

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Am making good progress on net4spice. There are now no wrong nodes but the integration between subsequent circuits needs to be added, then the simulation, begun. This will probably spill over into tomorrow.

3am and I am sleepless. Took my meds late. Not long till the weekend. Did my more challenging workout. May head to the mall tomorrow or buy something on Shopee as life is rather boring and sometimes painful. Thought of getting a laptop (used) but there's no point.

Am unable to get some nodes to fill up.

I decided to wear Dad's old chrono from RT, even as he prefers my G-Shock square tough solar. I am growing to love the RT. Puts to rest my watch crisis. Now I have too many watches. Maybe one day they'll profit me. Almost 5am, and time for bed. 

Merdeka...

It's past 1am on Merdeka morning. I did more stressful pushups and situps including raised legs push ups which were a little draining, and those Russian twists, also good. Lunges, twists, and stretches, shoulder rolls and neck bends.

Met a kind former military adviser on Quora and we had a brief discussion about the craft of writing. Dad thought otherwise as usual he's anti-West and pro-China whereas the rest of us want to be in the multitude with palm and olive branches, not a stuffed up armchair politician. 

It's 3am Monday. Still awake. We've taken the fight to the Liew witches, supported by braver Americans and British fighters, as well as our usual Chinese mind police. Gave them pneumonia and catalyzed it.

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Was up late. Managed to get cleaned well. Washed. Brushed. I may head out shortly, get some sun. Maybe at 3pm. Right now the ex-GF wants a new song written since we shared the last good one with Emily who liked it.

Wrote her one just now about a woman with honey bees who dreams of a lake home in the mountains. From a short story I did years ago. She was worried I'd have no more songs. A simple play on the AM chord.

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Circa 1am this Tuesday. Engaged in a discussion on the parables with my church who cannot accept that there are angels among us, and that men's hearts are not individually responsible and motivated. And that God sprinkles gospel into the hearts of men like salt onto a steak. There was a brief discussion wherein I discovered that they had no spiritual leadership for a long time, and were coasting on the standard protestant teachings without interpretation and application. They were run down by the way the world had become and taxed heavily by sorcery of modern day.

Nonetheless I loved them and as many as would listen to logic -knowing the things of this world are a reflection of heaven, I lifted them up to be in Spirit with the rest of the faithful and the elect.

Worked out and it felt good. Did the more demanding push ups and sit ups. Church is rebelling against my interpretations which I gave out in good faith with supporting logic. They have gone instead to consult an expert translator. 

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Tuesday morning. Managed to get cleaned well. Am heading to the mall with the folks soon.

Mall outing was okay. Dad got his long socks for gardening, and Mom got her mooncakes for a good discount. Partways thru, I was attacked pretty bad thru the mindspaces, and we had to go home. Just resting in air-conditioning right now, having finalized the design of my auto-ranging bow sight. Not sure when I will build it. Maybe this weekend.

Time for meds and workout at 1am. I need to start a new post as it seems John is being attacked over the design and the flow of chi of Apple products -weird but true. We talked in mindspace so I better write my opinion of where this feng-shui thing should ideally go and whether he wants to follow the Chinese advice, is up to the man himself.

Lost some weight...

I lost half a kilo in body weight. Not sure how. Maybe it's my new running routine and less snacking on bread and butter. 

We managed to push the troublemaker witches away and everyone is feeling better. 

I have figured out (Windows) Tiny11 -how to install it to my eSSD OTG. Runs smooth. Saves almost 2 gigs of RAM.

Managed to get cleaned well and showered. Chores start in an hour. Don't feel up to doing any writing or coding. 

Read a disturbing video on YouTube about the Noahide Laws which may be expanded throughout the world, which mean death to sinners. This is said to be scheduled for November -yea, religious rule.

Meanwhile, we erased all the Liew witches' memories down to the nerve, giving them amnesia. It was quite easy.

Digging thru, found numerous instances where they bullied the westerners, their women, and pinned the blame on me, saying it was my advice. Besides that, grandma reached out to me to save my uncle in Singapore who got roped into opening some upper class Brits on account of grandpa's cancer. In later stages, it was bad and he moaned to his relations in agony. Some harsh words were exchanged in the mind if not more and my uncle eventually got stage 4 cancer as well. There are some things better left alone even tho the heart breaks.

We bathed some cancer patients in iceberg water, taking care to gently acclimatize their bodies to the cold, also pain was removed as this impedes the recovery of the immune system which we were jump starting with the icy water.

Shifted my BOMGE interface to the Windows netbook, leaving the writing station free of clutter. Tonight, I will be expanding on project SDM. Want to finish the first 3 chapters (3k words).

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Got into a talk with Alyssa about using AI, and I admitted to testing my rhymes against Google Translate which was well before it used AI to deliver its translations, and right now has to be cited as 'I used GT'. Yea, back then it had a simpler model that dealt with Chinese. I am Chinese so I know if the translation is odd / not necessarily wrong but a little off as English and Mandarin use a different syntax and ideology of speaking.

But I did so, not to win any awards or to further my plot, not even as filler, just to introduce the West to the culture of the East -all in good fun / to know how we Chinese talk. As an Australian Chinese, my grasp of Mandarin is very poor and I too delighted in the rhymes, as they turned into pinyin, and I sculpted them to match the English poems more artistically.

I don't think AI is bad. Nor do I think it's the best thing that ever happened to us writers. For me, it is a convenience. Save me a day at the Library, reading up grammar guides, listening to tapes etc.

And I was thinking of the recent 'generate me a song' apps. I would not use those, as a songwriter, even to make a demo or to improve my lyrics. Music is all about nuance and genuine feeling. There is no room for AI in music except maybe dance / disco / muzak / prototyping jingles.

We just came home from having Indian food. It's 8pm and I haven't finished all  my chores. Maybe in 15 minutes. 

My desk feels more productive without the BOMGE interface box and mic, and I feel more like working on code, and writing my novel.

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Took my meds and showered. Nearing midnight. Will work out at 1am. All my music gear is connected to the Tiny11 netbook with the most RAM (12GB) and a new and fast eSSD. I installed Waveform from Traktion. It looks simple to use but is quite tricky. Said to be good and was free (add ons cost you).

Earlier, by request, western and eastern people asked about signs of the end. There were a few I related such as the 4 horsemen which I had some providence for, then we talked about the beast rule that Pastor Aaron ATL (YouTube) said was exactly the same as the Two Witnesses period in Jerusalem. It is also the exact time period of the sign of the woman in heaven / sky, taken care of in the desert. Whether John is one of the 2 witnesses is moot still.

And the prophecy of Paco Soccer still resonates. Numerous signs point to a Chinese involvement in the end times conflict even tho July is over and the World Cup with it.

I don't have time to write tonight, just to blog a bit more. Tim wants me to get the Macbook Neo which I fully agree will be great. Trouble is, it can only come on my birthday in November., 3 months away. Meanwhile our new Axia will be arriving within 2 weeks from now.

Someone downloaded SeTT from ckyap.itch.io/sett and I am just so happy. Almost 1am. Will wind down, watching some YouTube.

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Was re-reading my novella and there is a phrase I wrote; [love is] a mirage of jealousy in a desert of emotions. Being disabled, I can't remember what I meant. But the usual understand-in-reverse law should apply; there is wanting so bad, that even malicious attractivity seems like love (something welcome).

I think this is one of 4-5 other places where my writing seems convoluted. 

This is another one; Obviously the woman was correct, Tim? Obviously, Marsha... is passe for I don't care to find out. Care is familiarity. But as far as correctness goes, it never vexed me much. I've seen that in its singular context all too many times.

As usual, we analyze back to front, Tim has seen good judgment in all kinds of situations. Marsha's observation might be one such time. But he chides her for being too invested in [the Seth-Marjorie dynamic] to be critical with her judgment, trusting intuition which he thinks is behind the times for a modern woman.

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Managed to get cleaned fully (went twice), and should be go for a run tonight. Was almost locked out of my Tiny11 install after a security update. Scary. Still morning, just took a shower. May head out on a long walk instead of running, perhaps circa 3pm.

Realized I had not drawn a KoangDeLambe comic strip this Sunday. I tend to draw one every 3 days. Luckily I had an idea from the discussion last night on Revelations and the riders, the trumpets to come, etc.

I drew the comic strip and it went pretty well. We also sorted out some interpersonal problems brought up by the Liew witch. Finally linked the blog posts together and to the main index page.

Merdeka, 31/8/26 falls on ABY 3f which is 'Marsh'. And it concerns caging disrespectable people and picking on them until the fabric of society around the world is damaged. There will be a price to pay for this unruly and ugly behavior.

Tonight is special. An eye or sight has been given to the bow of the White Rider. The sight was made out of a bread tag (plastic), and card from a box I chose because it was brown but ended up purple (I fitted it inside out). The box is a Mr Beast Feastables box. Jimmy, being a popular philanthropist and entertainer, also a teacher of human nature and all round nice guy. All that's left is to apply the parallax curve cuts and glue it all tight in place. OK, we have the cuts made and they will be backed by plastic later on.

Bad luck, the prototype was unusable. I have come up with a weight and elastomer sight instead. I just need some plastic packing, some magnets (as weights) and maybe a rubber band. Genius friend told me that the band would deviate horizontally -true. Maybe an eyelet to hold back the band will help. I have some wire for that. Anyways, on Merdeka Day 1am, the thing is finalized at last. A sight you can make at home. 

I've been watching tech videos...

People saying they like the Macbook Neo, or spent $150 on a Linux ThinkPad from 2013. I spent 1.1kRM on my IPS screen TP x250 with Core i5 CPU and 8 GB RAM. It has dedicated trackpad buttons which is great for running Linux's select-middle click, and a comfortable backlit keyboard. The build quality is great and it doesn't mind being left on overnight.

I use Ubuntu Sway as its OS. And with a 19" NEC 1990FX I bought used for 50RM as a second display, overhead, manage to get a lot done. It's a budget setup but I think, an intelligent choice of old but durable and top of the line constructed hardware, mated to industrial grade GNU / Linux.

Currently, I manage my website, KoangDeLambe, process its graphics, write my novel(s), and code Python scripts all on this setup. Sometimes, I record simple songs via a BOMGE USB interface and Shure mic.

I have always preferred gaming mice for their smoothness and accuracy. I use a Logitech G102 with toned down deep red LED lighting, circa 60RM, albeit wired. It operates well despite the cable which I have neatly coiled and tied.

My other computer which I use all the time is an iPad 10 I got 4 years ago. It is my go to machine for posting on social media, taking photos / videos, online purchasing, watching YouTube before bed etc. Can't live without it. I paid over 2kRM for it, new, which is okay because Steve, then Tim were my friends.

More later... 

I got pushed together with some musicians and we were feasted on by a demon woman. It ought to have generated some songs, and sure enough I had one. Joe was right about whipping Michael. Just not too hard which I'm sure he obeyed. After all, everyone has a mother too.

So we had to break up for being used to prey on one another's weak points and career directions. Kurt couldn't take it. He was a beautiful mind and they tend to like growing in the same bucket they always knew. Those who moved or tried to were poured in salt water. 

I have my fingers in many pies so I get burnt often. Hey, Beeb, you'll shine again very soon and Paul, so many great songs. I'm just cobbling together my simple melodies in my 50 years on the blue marble. Not quite competition to anyone. But I do enjoy the chords when they fit. And the words, if they do too.

I guess I just want to say, I read the suicide letter. Can we say 'suicide', and every time we see the thing, it's always got some element of east vs west. So we know, tho they throw it into the margins where it blurs somewhat, that the person is a racist, inhuman predator, chipping away at the delicate sanity of those with open hearts. Why don't you lizards feel love? It's the greatest feeling you've never known.

And the corrupt souls you drag behind a kindly smile that twitches. And the bustle that never stops that has become your heartbeat. So you don't remember that guilt and pain are different, which one comes before or after and who was the one it came from.

In the end, the winners are those on the stage playing the parts wrote out. Sure you know easily, evil will lose so why be good? Then drag the good down so evil will win a hollow victory that means nothing. And the meaningless lives you live, pushing and pulling on stale air, there's no sense in taking another breath of your corruption. The lines blur when you scrub out the markings so you can win and then smile to the wind as it takes your prize. It will come again. Maybe someway the wicked will find rest. Maybe the Bible will be wrong. And God not come again. Dream it if you like then turn to check the shadows, drag in another Christian to feast on in your rituals of feuding.

I ran my new novel’s 1st chapter thru DeepSeek…

DS is pretty well balanced in critiquing my works. I remember it absolutely trashing the Wa language and being very strict about the Wa2 language. I invented the languages for quickly learnable communications.

In the case of my fiction, it has been getting pickier and bolder overall, as if it knows what I’m doing wrong and why. I think it is learning my style, its weaknesses.

Of course, I never take its advice as that would be wrong, but I am always curious about the balance between; should I scrap the book, or carry on? What does the world think?

Even if I had a beta reader, it would be wrong to use him or her to read my unfinished chapters, even for fee. People can only eat up so much of your self-inflated trash. But a machine, no problem. I would love beta readers to read my final work, after I edit it twice, myself.

DeepSeek loved my central character which I expected. One robot sticking up for another. It caught on that I was insinuating an interface and code of morality between bio and non-bio organisms or parts thereof. Please don’t steal my idea wholesale… yet. Maybe in October. And no, it is not quite Asimovian but in the spirit of the master himself.

This time, I may not be releasing any chapters for you guys to read unless Tribulation occurs suddenly and we begin dying. Liew witches still trying to push me to suicide. I put a thorn in the corner of their eye, and they’re crying over the prevalence of cruelty in these end times. It wasn’t me who started this fight or who wakes up angry every morning.

 

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Back from a brief run. It really sets my organs functioning better and only takes 5 minutes. Great thing is that at this time of the night, it's fairly dark and I do like the privacy and quietness. I will be trying to install Tiny11 (a form of Windows 11) tonight but its script seems slow generating the ISO. I couldn't run as fast as I liked due to a stiff, sore right knee and  a weakened left leg. Liew witchy forces piling the hurt on my friends and family who need me. They don't know or care how much power people possess naturally that we've been leniently doling out.

Tiny11 is taking all night to make the ISO. Don't feel much like writing yet. Maybe stay up late tonight and write at 1am.

3am and wide awake -again...

I managed to work out at 2am+ and am feeling good. Ate up some leftover yogurt. We did a session of analysis in which I tried to prove God's existence, the universe's creation, the possibilities of a multiverse, what exactly is Allah who is not Jesus' father, nor the Father, nor YHWH etc. We talked a lot about basic physics, e=mc^2 and v = f.lambda, and how gravity is really magneto-gravity (dark) which contrasts with electo-magnetism (light). We talked about meaningful reality, how we don't see beyond horizons thus assuming a flat earth, likewise we don't see beyond magneto-gravity so we cannot know more of Heaven than Allah. Allah is the gate of heaven. There may be many gates, but we know and experience just one. Every universe has its god -and ours was evil until YHWH intervened thru the opportune entry of Iblees the cowardly angel of truth / light.

To any religious person, I do apologize for offending anyone. It was a lively discussion in which we discussed the very big and very small physics effects and how the observer theory is mostly correct (quantum mechanics). Many returned from this short sermon full of the love of the Divine One. May all your religions bring you peace! Happy birthday to Mohammed, peace be upon him. We talked a lot on his birthday, like it was blessed.

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There is peace for now and I am doing some light coding -think I got things mixed up tho the code is simple and neat. It is the indices of ccT -the component node list of lists.

Drank lotsa Coke. Am feeling good. People seem more optimistic. I machined them together, both loving one another for dear life, now are partners in Gospel exploration and beyond -unto heaven.

British made me promise to advocate the proof of God so I will KoangDeLambe it maybe tomorrow. Should be fun to do. We also talked on psychology and now everyone's mental health is more hopeful -there are cures for most things. Wait for KDL's comic strip.

I am still coding n4s. It looks to be close to success as soon as I properly index the ccT list of lists.

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Today I should get my $100 in. Managed to get cleaned well and showered. Ate roti telur for brunch, now almost 11am. Cola cleaned my teeth, but always rinse it off after a brief time as it is acidic. Am still coding. Rumblings of writing another novel / novella. Not sure I have one in me.

I think it shall be an extension of my flash piece, The Secrets of the Dimension Masters. It will be character driven as the repetitive plot turns over the same frustrations, then reveals a few twists along the way.

I wrote one page and will carry on later tonight. Solved the syntax bugs in n4s but am faced with odd node values. Something gone wrong somewhere. Probably the index assignments. But the algorithm structure seems still to be okay and non-complex.

Finding some odd quirks about the example circuit I'm using. Could be the reason my nodes are wrong. Needs further investigation, how to code quirks like these. Meanwhile I wanna work on my story, SDM. Mom has asked me to make dinner. We'll be having tofu drizzled with garlic oil and soy and baked beans with mince. Dad insisted we get her a coffee so I got the Zus mulberry matcha 3 layer tea.

Things are looking up.

I wrote 1k words of SDM. It's going well so far. Now to switch back to coding. Will write/edit 1k words a day consistently, to finish in 2 months. I usually edit on the fly and sometimes step back after a paragraph and rewrite it. Of course, I also do a once over read thru and edit, plus a final spellcheck and gremlin removal via AI (I rent MS Office for a month). OSC doesn't need these, he's a cut above, just as I am a cut above re-drafters and shufflers. I sometimes wonder how both types of writers exist.

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By request, how to avoid tooth decay. There is no surefire way except to strengthen and build enamel, between brushing regularly. There are 2 ways to do this. Eat less gluten (bread), instead eat toasted oat muesli (Alpen) with fresh milk. Along with this, eat lotsa raw celery and carrots with yogurt. Eat less sugary foods, replacing them with stuff like bitter coffee, matcha, flower tea, etc. When you have cake, don’t eat the icing and if you do eat brownies or jelly beans, things like that, be prompt to brush. Brush with soft dense bristled toothbrushes. Secondly, you can boost your enamel with special expensive toothpastes. I use it and can recommend Colgate gum strength, plaque release.

By request, how to delay early onset baldness. I read an article that worry or stress causes white hairs. Baldness, I have experienced myself, it came with extreme levels of stress and worry. Overnight, I was thinner on my left side, where the worry in my mind was concentrated. So I feel like an authority on balding. Basically, don’t let yourself be without comforts. Jesus is a comfort. So are my works / deeds in his name. I lean on the Lord lots when I’m stressed and I know nothing I lose will be as bad as losing my salvation. To take away minor concerns, you must be productive and sometimes able to tangibly feel the fruits of doing well and doing good. When you make the connection between health or stress-free living and good clean living, you will age slower.

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Just worked out and am feeling good. Had some food earlier to build up muscle mass. May sleep by 3am. Was telling people that my most inspirational thing is my book SuperdereK UnderpantS. It is inspirational and fun to read. Whereas project SDM is somewhat less, being just a thought-provoking sci-fi story with twists.

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Managed to get cleaned well at last. Afternoon is still early. Drew another KoangDeLambe comic strip at the usual URL. Folks are gone to the old house. I got my $100 and will save it towards a Macbook Neo if possible. The USD-MYR rate is down from 4.1 ot almost 4.0 but not sure about the memory prices. Hopefully I will be able the purchase the Neo on my birthday, 3 months from now. Quite excited over it. 

Will resume writing project SDM in a few hours. This is one story I did not outline and am just pantsing from start to finish.

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Spent the night fighting with the Liew witches. The westerners are adamant we solve her insurgency ASAP. We actually have no weapons prepared, being a jail and a hospital, a radar installation. But we did the best we could.

Now past 2am. May do a bit of writing later, sleep by 3:30am. 

I designed a simpler compact compound bow...

 

Since I started out with my Mission Hype DT, I realized I had always wanted a smaller bow, and a lighter one. By curving the limbs upwards, the riser can be shorter and lighter. The limbs, rather than compressing, would expand. They could be laminated with tapering strips at a shear angle to the horizontal.

The grip is thrust forward to increase draw length without increasing the bow string length. Cables are also affixed to the S-shaped cams, providing more torque and less complexity.

This is a simple innovation but one that could reduce the cost of compound bows, allow participation by children, and make them more portable.

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I have started on a new novel idea. It's sci-fi, and about dimension shifting. There is a catch / twists which make the book exciting. Am outlining the plot and inserting the characters. Think I can write it in a month if I write every day, circa 1.5k words. There was a lot of down time in the mindspaces so I thought of filling it up. Apparently Sara Lubratt's novella will be sold at MPH but that's around Xmas.

Already past midnight. Have brushed, took my meds, and showered. Workout coming soon. Felt good. Want to talk about a better bow sight.

This is my 'capsule sight-rest' design. It takes the arrow weight and dials the spring tension so the arrow is horizontal. At the same time, this sets the spring / sight pin tension so when the bow is lifted (to shoot far), the sight pin drops by the appropriate amount. It looks simple, but internally, it is a bit complex. 

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Was up lateish. Managed to get cleaned well. My weight is still 1kg over. Don't know how to lose it. Maybe go on more walks. Will be at the mall later. Don't have much to buy tho. Brushed and will shower soon. Liew witchy forces messing with our minds / friends, hit by muscle growth. It is mostly harmless and reversible, tho not immediately so.

We told the story of how fragile the word is when people all use telepathy. How in the last days Chinese people protect the world inside and out. And our plan is a modular, fail-safe plan, ongoing thru all efforts to undermine God and his prophecy. Tonight, we will discuss dealing out something different for our futures. I bought a bottle of low sugar Coke.