Hongumart
hongumart

Thoughts and other stuff.

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Last Notes

2024-11-06 16:15:32

#bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/Luhc.jpg

2024-10-11 00:13:57

Why is it so cool all of a sudden to not know what the fuck you’re talking about?

2024-10-09 18:29:53

Seems like a good strategy in this day and age is to not believe anything.

2024-09-20 03:16:14

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Each freefall gets worse. Eventually they won’t be able to make it back to the stairs.

2024-09-20 03:14:11

When I finally accepted my wife for who she was, not who I wanted her to be, that was when our marriage really started to click.

2024-09-08 05:02:34

Your journey begins when you realize that no one gives a shit about anything outside of their periphery, and begin to ponder the implications of this. This is a hard step to take.

2024-08-31 00:31:22

Baby dragonfly, hanging out on my clothesline
#bugstr
https://m.primal.net/KWGe.jpg

2024-08-30 02:33:58

Why is California Almonds paying Coach Prime to shill their product? I will only buy the cheapest almond on the shelf. Quit wasting your money and just lower the price.
https://m.primal.net/KUYX.jpg

2024-08-23 01:28:00

In Blackhawk for some gambling and golf. Saw an Anna’s hummingbird #birdstr
https://m.primal.net/KIjZ.jpg

2024-08-22 16:21:01

If you choose the middle urinal when there are other options, that’s on you when I have to saddle up next to you.

2024-08-18 04:02:06

Systems change isn’t just about breaking down barriers, it is also about putting up an impenetrable defense to protect you from the system, rendering it obsolete. #bitcoin is the impenetrable defense.

2024-08-17 16:24:14

Finches loving this seed mix. #birdstr https://image.nostr.build/3d496f17609f4aa181e53aa06a8e34b23dc03e7c49f17c7d242030282471544b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c60d3db7ba54f654dcd64e38d826c3e1dfc19c869c81f9f3fd5969a13f60f484.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e4e67d8c96fd33f1e4087fee4c21c5331e5518ba16fe77badc01b8891f05698a.jpg

2024-08-16 17:26:59

Jack trying hard to be photogenic #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/7e9c4d464237e15d7b117b8374c271fd9405e5579c6583fb6aa773a7cf4e1e6f.jpg

2024-08-14 23:59:04

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Neither are wrong

2024-08-14 23:46:20

Red House Finch #birdstr https://image.nostr.build/084a09afb92ab06f9b95dce482ab7d006b8c445ab3ecf0890100144ede663d1e.jpg

2024-08-14 12:30:49

Life, despite my best efforts, has not allowed me to be anything other than myself. A bittersweet gift to be sure.

2024-08-09 10:57:03

One of my son’s buddies from the neighborhood came over the other day and he isn’t here more than 10 minutes before he earnestly asks me if Santa is real. Kid is like 9.
Like, damn, what do I do with that?

2024-08-09 02:23:14

🦅 https://image.nostr.build/b3a20feb41129cd3e79534be35a06345718ad6f995c1a17c50d558453cd49ea4.jpg

2024-08-09 01:36:15

Channel surfing continues to reach all-time lows; while passive attentive watching continues at all-time highs.

2024-08-08 17:32:50

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*David

2024-08-08 17:32:13

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
Davis Foster Wallace
This is Water

2024-08-08 01:44:15

Bad people aren’t going to get us out of a bad situation. Good people need to step up now more than ever.

2024-08-07 01:49:22

Let the record show that I tried to appreciate everything as it was happening. Or that I at least recognized that it was something I should strive to do.

2024-08-06 20:43:20

The universe is shaped exactly like the Earth. If you go straight long enough you’ll end up where you were.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/3rd-planet/215598214?i=215598215

2024-08-06 14:37:53

I can’t believe I am in agreement with Peter on #bitcoin for once 😂
https://x.com/peterschiff/status/1820826895232995448?s=46

2024-08-02 17:02:14

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I go there frequently. Little Jerusalem is close by as well! Very beautiful area.
https://m.primal.net/JmDB.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JmDD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JmDE.jpg

2024-08-01 17:04:30

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Yea I’m going to have to do footnotes. Will just try not to get lost in them. That has caused me to put the book away in the past and I really want to finish it.

2024-08-01 14:54:39

Well this is my third crack at reading this book. Have only ever gotten about a 4th of the way through. But damnit, this time I am finishing it! (Probably won’t read the footnotes 🤷)
#bookstr https://image.nostr.build/adf07c11f291afdc33f293fd6e3e9ca30241ec3249af26460b1ed00d2ae5bf60.jpg

2024-07-31 17:14:14

Retractable clothesline #grownostr
https://m.primal.net/JkVC.jpg

2024-07-31 03:42:07

I bet these are good 🎅
https://m.primal.net/Jjqj.jpg

2024-07-30 14:48:15

Yearning for a time that no longer exists.

2024-07-30 01:44:10

Bankers understand #bitcoin is the final settlement rail.

2024-07-28 22:39:59

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You still can. I was able to get mine out but could t put any in

2024-07-28 18:00:36

Hear me out…the Reptilians are just dinosaurs that survived the meteor. ☄️ 🦕 🦖

2024-07-28 16:55:53

Anyone know why ln.tips is being decommissioned on telegram. Any other options on telegram for LN wallet?

2024-07-28 05:27:42

Marriage is not quite what I thought it would be, but then I don’t really know what I thought it would be.

2024-07-28 01:54:09

#bitcoin is backed by verifiable scarcity

2024-07-27 03:20:23

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Did you take this pic? It is really great!

2024-07-26 21:34:10

https://m.primal.net/Jfdj.jpg

2024-07-26 20:33:16

Painted Bunting! Beautiful #birdstr
https://m.primal.net/JfbH.jpg

2024-07-25 13:53:27

Government is designed to put limits on individual freedoms. This is the root purpose of government.

2024-07-25 03:51:37

Life is never long enough for those who wish to understand themselves and their place in the universe.
Father Paul Dure

2024-07-24 21:29:45

😂
https://m.primal.net/JdHI.jpg

2024-07-24 20:37:07

I get it. Not everyone is for everyone, but you don’t have to be an asshole about it.

2024-07-23 17:25:11

Pushed my engineering skills to the max and made a fountain for my goldfish 😂
#grownostr
https://m.primal.net/Jbgl.jpg

2024-07-21 16:26:51

https://m.primal.net/JZED.jpg

2024-07-21 16:13:44

https://m.primal.net/JZDX.jpg

2024-07-21 01:01:18

Ah #Kansas
https://m.primal.net/JYOm.jpg

2024-07-16 15:36:33

When you do unto others, don’t be surprised when it is done unto you.

2024-07-14 02:10:30

There is only a limited amount of time we can let our hate outweigh our love before we hit the point of no return.

2024-07-13 14:44:41

My choice is what I choose to do, and if I’m causing no harm it shouldn’t bother you.
-Ben Harper, on Jack
#dogstr

2024-07-11 02:32:00

Eventually, the lives of America’s boys and girls will be required to keep the war machine humming. We have to fix the money. #voteorange #bitcoin

2024-07-03 05:02:54

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Yea I’ve always heard it meant “hang loose”

2024-07-03 03:54:15

It’s always going to be more important to hold a part of a #bitcoin than a whole eth.

2024-07-03 00:14:23

The mind is a universe, the universe is a mind.

2024-07-01 23:44:34

When what you have is what you wanted, it’s ok to rest.

2024-07-01 23:35:53

I don’t see how anyone could ignore #bitcoin at this point.

2024-06-30 21:13:43

Gave a 🐿️ a Dorito https://image.nostr.build/fd569f217a3f36e4c83d6b01d61a4f9f4e47f96c3e600925511f07f3b4f1e7cd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a6fb0ae678a7125db8522c0a840f1942412c08d2895afddbc0af3c50ad22c637.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e839ad98af9d0d5cf6a185739f69dbbfe31157be8a737eeb9353acd81b40ff5c.jpg

2024-06-24 20:20:17

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Love the list! I got Giannis as MVP though. Think he is going to come back with a chip on his shoulder. Bucks vs. Nuggs in the finals. Nuggs take it all!

2024-06-22 15:47:11

Let’s go!!! #bookstr https://image.nostr.build/9ed55879b2f152a521b3fcc4e1ef1f2100f1330885a272438e7e613a356cb266.jpg

2024-06-19 04:49:23

Prison is not a good place for those who don’t want to be where they are.

2024-06-15 17:02:55

If you want to do something remarkable, you’ve got to try to do remarkable things.

2024-06-12 19:21:29

Awesome video concerning the end of the petrodollar. This was shared to me by a friend and I found it very educational. #bitcoin is winning!
https://youtu.be/yolCkHT1S_o?si=ivwcFzvsjyObBD5V

2024-06-10 22:08:19

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Yes sir! 🐦

2024-06-10 02:44:44

Don’t waste your time trying to return the unreturnable.

2024-06-09 23:43:28

while True:
print("love")

2024-06-09 13:36:00

Goldfinch and Red Headed House finch. #birdstr https://image.nostr.build/21ef31b4bd74db86db44012982ec6881b875c7fc8a4bdeec29ce0ea83d74b8b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/42888e9bceb71567c131d59225fdad54a117dc9caf71e8cff1eec6ab88ee10b7.jpg

2024-06-07 16:26:34

Let’s go!!!
#foodtruckfriday https://image.nostr.build/b70ed516cba34033fc3dd98878117b9ab589e8f5a48e7723eb8eb2ce01d6b848.jpg

2024-06-03 18:55:56

Monday afternoon but still on that #coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/03e0e05b7b350afb304dc4de608e49c1379811a60355ae7b133c1dd084aead2b.jpg

2024-06-03 03:02:37

Red vs. Blue doesn’t matter
We must fix the money before we can begin to fix anything else. Like a plumber or an electrician we must shut off the Main before we can get to work on the house.
Orange is the only color that matters.
#bitcoin

2024-06-03 02:15:32

Beautiful, yet threatening https://image.nostr.build/38027a6888104505ec30837d00765dc77e7bb1006dcb25f4bf7ff39d20601125.jpg

2024-06-02 21:17:50

It could be argued that most cults did their best work before selling out and becoming religions.

2024-06-02 20:51:30

My youngest and I picked some peonies today. Found the perfect spot! #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/180b6191a850dc0fbc5408a19b4ee0b85f52b374acb7b3a9c6596407199219ca.jpg

2024-06-02 15:20:15

I’m a freeborn man of the USA!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-body-of-an-american/189236068?i=189236675

2024-06-01 02:06:33

Just because we are the only ones who have done it, doesn’t mean we know the only way it can be done.

2024-05-29 18:57:50

https://m.primal.net/IRlh.jpg

2024-05-29 18:14:11

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That’s awesome! I did not think I was going to like it as much as I have but man there are some complicated themes. God, War, Parenthood. Amazing so far!

2024-05-29 18:00:08

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More to do with the Keats poem. The first book Hyperion was excellent. 4 chapters into this one and I’m already loving it. My buddy who is also a big Dune fan recommended.

2024-05-29 17:51:01

Book 2. I’m hooked. Let’s go!!! #bookstr https://image.nostr.build/609f79899c03ae2fe4e9018eb81eed2a5539343a370d0dd698afe9b509530ad3.jpg

2024-05-28 19:16:43

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Prepare for Luka.

2024-05-28 05:02:43

What does it mean to fear God?
Does it mean being physically afraid? Is fearing God a mental terror?
A humbled spirit.
An acknowledgment that there are things out there bigger than me.
The more I think about God, the less I fear.
How do you fear something you are unable to understand?

2024-05-27 21:53:17

😂 https://image.nostr.build/822ee5ce9b6898a1fc57097ad58a914698d3880e42503ad4b788fbc73c161985.jpg

2024-05-27 20:46:03

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Birth, Youth, Adulthood, Death
🐣🐥🐓🍗
😃

2024-05-27 15:33:35

How can we be certain the past has passed.

2024-05-27 02:10:11

These three are getting big #birdstr https://image.nostr.build/8e587618b300401e9a5a9dc3458c874693a173e6ee62297d9b7ab3faa5abd3ef.jpg

2024-05-27 00:49:20

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I’ve used Merlin too. That is a really good app. It will even identify by song I believe, which is incredible.

2024-05-27 00:29:46

Oriole and a King Bird hanging out #birdstr https://image.nostr.build/8c5093768251feea94e83404ddd10f37ce1c56299b6e28967c0a6fbc313c481f.jpg

2024-05-26 18:21:55

Facebook is Facebook. X is X. #nostr can be whatever you want it to be.

2024-05-26 17:30:36

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Been thinking about making the switch myself
https://www.thelightphone.com

2024-05-26 01:08:01

When I was going to Respiratory Therapy school I took a job at a local hospital as a janitor. This was mainly so I had an in with the organization after I graduated and would go on to work there for 7 years as a RT. But before all that I was a janitor. I mainly worked in the evenings. I liked it for the most part. It was pretty chill, all the riff raff in a hospital is out the door around 5p so I could get my rooms cleaned or whatever I had to do and then watch TV in the clinic wing until it was time to go home.
One evening I was working and I happened to be down by the ER and this dude comes in carrying a bloodied up kid. Apparently there was a farm equipment accident and this kid, he was probably like 5, got run over by a tractor driven by his own father who was now frantically yelling for help while carrying his bloody mess of a kid in his arms. He just picked up the kid and bolted to town because it was quicker than getting an ambulance out to his place and he knew it.
If you have ever been in an ER when it is "go time" you know the type of organized chaos that happened next. Nurses and Drs. running all over the place. It was a small town ER so pretty much everyone who was in house who had any medical training was in the ER. An all hands on deck moment. Except for me the Janitor, I just waited outside of the ER until they were done and I would then have to go in and clean up.
The kid didn't make it. I suspect he was already dead in the arms of his father. The tractor had crushed his skull and there was not much that could be done, though all those involved tried everything and then some. So when it was my time to come in, they had moved the childs body to a room that we could get the temp way down in so his organs could be harvested and donated. I walked in there and saw the gore...and I mean it was total gore. There was blood everywhere and pieces of his skull and gray tissue on the ground by where they were working on him. I assumed at the time that the grey tissue was bits of his brain, but even to this day I am not sure. Still to this day, I am sure of this, that was the mose greusome ER post ressucitative efforts I have ever seen, except for one time when this dude was being chased by the cops and he slit his own neck ear to eat with a razor, didn't kill himself, so I had to intubate him through the giant slit in his neck. The kid with the crushed skull was much worse though because I had a young child and also it was my first time seeing first hand just what kind of fucked up shit I would see.
For a solid minute I just looked at everything and then could feel my hands begin to shake a bit and my stomach churn. But I was going to be in health care and I knew I would have to deal with the visuals of this kind of shit for the rest of my career. So I swallowed it all down. I put it all some place and went about cleaning up the bits of skull and brain and the sticky puddles of blood. I put it all some place. I am not sure where I put it but I know that if I didnt put it some where I would go insane.
Even now I am still not sure where it goes.

2024-05-25 21:51:46

No real point to this story, but I wanted to type it up while it was on my mind and thought I would share. Plus it contains an anecdote about Charlie Manson. #grownostr
I was thinking about this dude named Grant I used to work with at Kodak back in the day. We got to know eachother during our allotted 15 min smoke breaks every three hours. We worked together in the Kodak film...factory, I guess for a lack of a better word. The floor we worked on operated all night and day, 24/7, making different kinds of film for Kodak. Film for movies, billboards, whatever. We had to work on it in pitch black darkness using night vision, and I remember that it was purple, except when it was exposed to light in the darkness (and subsequently ruined) then it would get like a bluish hue to it. To be honest, I would go into that job and just vacate my mind because the work was absolutely mind numbing. But the pepople I worked with there were really cool, including Grant.
Grant started at Kodak as part of a reformed prisoner hiring program. Kodak hired ex-cons and were reimbursed for part of their wages. There were a few ex-cons that we worked with but it was hard for me to tell. I am a small town kid so my interactions with former cons remains limited even to this day. With Grant I only knew because he told me one time in the darkness that had done some hard time in California (I believe he said San Quinte and I only remember that because of the connections to Johnny Cash). He seemed to know all the other employees who were part of the reformed con program, not because they talked about it, but he said he could tell just by looking at someone who had done time. "They always have an anxiousness in their eyes" I believe is what he told me.
At that time, which was the mid 2000s, Grant was in his early to mid 60s. He was build like a block of wood with a thick moustache, and those 80s glasses that were made popular by Jeffery Dhamer. He was thick all over. Thick arms, thick legs. He had a tatoo of a panther on his left leg (or some kind of jungle cat, I never really asked) and he was funny as shit. Just real quick whitted and real intellegent, though I don't think he was even able to read. He had a ton of stories about prison. The best of which I am going to recall here.
Grant claimed that he was, at one time, in the same California prison as Charles Manson. He said he mostly avoided "Charlie" because he just talked and talked and Grant couldn't stand him. Charlie left Grant alone for the most part, but there was one dude that Charlie constantly made fun of. Anyway, one time Charlie was making fun of this dude, just being really ruthless towards this guy, and later that day when Charlie, Grant and all of them were hanging out (not sure if that is the prison term or not) the dude that Charlie was making fun of comes up to the group and has a hollowed out ink pen that he had filled with lighter fluid and blew the lighter fluid in Charlie's face. He then lit the fluid on Charlie's face with a lighter, causing horrible burns on Charlie's face. That was the last time Charlie messed with the dude, according to Grant, and Charlie was later moved to another cell block and Grant never saw him again.
A few years back I thought about this story and I looked it up. Charlie's face was lit on fire in the manner that Grant described. This is a fact. Whether Grant was there or not I suppose I will never know for sure. As for Grant himself, I am not sure what ultimately became of him either. When my wife and I had our oldest daughter, we moved from Colorado and I quit Kodak to go to Respiratory Therapy school. Before I left Grant gave me a bunch of baby gifts for my daughter from him and his wife. I know they didn't have a lot of money and I always meant to keep in touch with him but I got caught up in my life and a few years after I moved I tried his phone number and it was disconnected. I can't imagine he is still alive, but if he is I hope he is doing well.

2024-05-25 01:18:44

Baby robins in my crabapple tree. #birdstr #grownostr
https://m.primal.net/ILya.jpg

2024-05-19 03:30:08

This is what remains of the worst banana I ever ate. Absolute Trash.
https://m.primal.net/IIHf.jpg

2024-05-18 04:33:24

Ask more questions, give less answers.

2024-05-18 02:26:25

Hit up Mile High Comics in Denver. By far my favorite #comic shop. I try to go once or twice a year when I am in town and catch up on the few books I still follow. Too much to read and not enough time.
This cat is always here. He is super chill. #catstr https://image.nostr.build/227c16292ed8b11d02dadf6dc3b4c908d336c844e7dd8ee0afef17e4b8a51f87.jpg https://image.nostr.build/444f60a17bf8345c44391183db6d726fd2a05d71ed4464ab411d5f6e2e65b558.jpg

2024-05-11 13:39:01

40+ year olds on #nostr, am I just going to wake up with my back all stiff for the rest of my life? Or is there something I can do.
#thisis40?

2024-05-11 04:00:01

Northern Lights from Kansas https://image.nostr.build/fe68a0d3038d6ab134bc908ab75eb3ad6e4f16d2c7b8d24dc39855bb1a38ae7a.jpg

2024-05-08 00:47:59

If you want to know what type of government you have, ask yourself “does my government rule or does it represent?”
If the answer is “rule”, then your government is a tyranny.

2024-05-07 21:49:34

I always try to be reading at least one nonfiction and one fiction book at the same time. It rarely lines up where I start both on the same day!
#bookstr https://image.nostr.build/86346499fb0dc0e8d38d8bde094ad2ed0d7f1942df2b6c07a52f198acd8a3dab.jpg

2024-05-02 02:40:24

Was driving home from the store today and the thought hit me: it is quite possible I have never lived up to a single expectation anyone ever had for me. 🤔
Must confirm…