I’m snowed in for today; been trying to keep myself busy with jar candle making and other stuff, but it feels like a dull day, all things being considered.

My Halloween tree for 2025.

I think I have had one of the most stressful Saturday evenings of my life so far, but the big thing was I helped my uncle up after he suffered a fall. And save for some bloody fingers, he is doing OK.

I got word from Facebook that human civilization is expected to implode by the 2040s, according to an MIT supercomputer simulation. It makes me question why I was even allowed to live, knowing that my own predictions regarding the collapse of human civilization coincides with my own beliefs/theories, and therefore rendering my generation as the last to see old age (if we are lucky).

It’s dawning on me that I don’t process caffeine as efficiently as I once did. It may be the root of my sleeping problems, especially after longs days at work.

A true gem in the Iowa City area: Dane’s Dairy, an independently-owned ice cream shop since 1960.

I don’t believe that I will ever lose my keys now with this key chain setup.

Between heat waves, severe thunderstorms, and my father’s recent medical issues ruining vacation plans for the rest of the year, I have to consider summer 2025 to be a bust, if not the entire year of 2025.

My father will have to undergo another round of surgery due to an infection of his right knee. Hopefully he will be able to recover reasonably quickly, but I admit that my confidence is shot. Along with some of my later vacation plans.

I recently completed a blog post with pictures, a first in my case. If anyone is interested in seeing it, here is the link: https://squelchistanicrank.blogspot.com/2025/07/6-6-meanderings-about-deadly-compendium.html