Thursday 8:34

Kinda lame puzzle. The long down answers are nifty, but the rest are ho-hum and the cluing was totally tame, almost nothing that was tricksy or clever, and on a day when the puzzle is supposed to get that way. The only exception might be 56-across/57-down. xkcd is likely a mystery to some, and the clue that gives you the X is another tech answer with one of the only misdirecting clues "Echo starter". Still everything else is easy, and X becomse the only reasonable letter, even if you don't understand it The theme was whatever enough that I don't feel like explaining it.

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog. Google now has features that use AI to make me more "readable" or something. I won't. I've thought about feeding that elegy to my Dad to ChatGPT to see how it would rewrite it, but I'm not a politician; I don't need speechwriters to project myself to a nation. It's my voice, and it's better that way. I always hated the hourglass essay format.

This blog is public and not invisible, but I don't promote it, so nobody visits. I don't really mind, it's more of an excuse to write. Gotta feed my head, improve my attention span. I should read more too. I have a novel I got last Christmas, and I haven't read more than 20 pages of it, and it's good a good novel by a writer I like.