If I give you a courtesy follow back and you don’t know me, (meaning you are not followed by someone I follow, don’t actually know someone that knows me ‘in real life,’ or you haven’t met me face to face anywhere), please do not immediately DM me upon me following you and try to manufacture familiarity. I’ve studied up on some psychology, so I don’t fall for it. I’m also not interested in your cryptocurrency scams. In fact, for a living, I have a role as a cybersecurity expert for a large and continually growing financial institution; so I’m really not the mark you’re hoping for. Might want to unfollow me now and save me the hassle of having to apply my professional skills in my personal time. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

As a Mentalist, and a student of the mysteries and application of intuition… “I want to know what you’re thinking. There are some things you can’t hide. I want to know what you’re feeling. Tell me what’s on your mind.” PURE ENERGY! piped.video/ijAYN9zVnwg?is=nVR-…

Your dreams are not going to come flying into your window, land in your lap and sweep you up into them. You’re going to need to hustle. If you don’t hustle, if you don’t sacrifice…you’ll always only ever be dreaming your dreams, not living them.

In honor of the full Harvest Moon tonight, I give you Werewolf pickup line memes.

Full Harvest Moon tonight. …I should have worn one of my werewolf shirts today. Would’ve been more fun and more apropos than the button-down shirt I ended up wearing!

What’s this bright blue thing I spy through an attic window of the Thurber House? …Why t’is the Bendymobile parked yonder, behind said Thurber House. Aye, to be sure, there must have been a paranormal investigation and shenanigans of spirits astir!

Stryper’s new album, “Throne of Thorns” was just released. I pre-ordered a physical copy of it, but couldn’t wait for USPS to get around to delivering it and bought it on iTunes at midnight! Here is, “Shadowbreaker” from that album! piped.video/NjbscG7nHqU?is=Hypa…

Yesterday? That’s just a memory now. Fading into the misty past faster than you realize. Let it go and surrender to the mist. Tomorrow? It’s a mystery. An adventure yet to unfold. But what of today? Today is a gift! That is why it is called the present. 🎁

Saw this at the grocery store. Not sure that cryptid coffee is such a good thing. LOL

I wish my schedule allowed me to make the journey and attend this class and the lab exercises. You don’t know how truly grieved I am that I can’t. If you can make this, then please do. You do NOT want to miss this!

Anyone else super excited like I am for the release of Stryper’s new album, “Throne of Thorns” this Friday, (September 25, 2026)? Here’s the video for the title track. piped.video/THfZyX9L0qo?is=2kYC…

Though I usually have either Zener cards or my Bendy Paranormal logo, (or both), displayed on my iPhone lock screen, I’ve temporarily changed it to what I think is a super cool Alice Cooper image. It’s on one of the concert shirts I bought at one of the shows earlier this year.

I finished watching season 4 of “Reacher” and season 1 of, “Neagley.” Season 4 of “Reacher” was the worst ever. I’m not sure that whoever wrote this latest season actually read a Reacher book. Season 1 and 3 were great. Season 2 wasn’t bad, either. But season 4? Meh. I have the DVDs of all three prior seasons…but I have no need or desire to re-watch season 4, so I will not be buying it on DVD when it’s released. “Neagley” was better. Not as amazing as season 1 of “Reacher,” but certainly not as bad as “Reacher” season 4. And of courses Reacher was in the beginning and ending of “Neagley” and that was a great cameo. Not overdone. It was Reacher acting and thinking like Reacher, while also not getting in the way of Neagley’s own story. My recommendations: You won’t be missing much of your skip season 4 of “Reacher. Re-watch Season 1 and bask in the awesomeness of it instead. And “Neagley” is worth a watch…though she does miss a couple of obvious things. She does some things that are too stupid for Neagley to do or miss. But it’s not as bad as that sort of thing was in”Reacher” season 4.

Ten bands I’ve seen live: Night Ranger Alice Cooper Iron Maiden Stryper Bon Jovi Styx Kool & The Gang Holy Soldier Berlin Wang Chung

Why are basketball courts always wet? …Because people keep dribbling on them. 🤤

My days of being on call are over. I’ve turned down jobs making nearly twice what I’m making now because I will no longer carry an on-call phone. That being said, once in a while, there is an emergency situation or there is a planned release/upgrade/install where I have to work after midnight on a weekend to do some checks and validations or issue some commands following an IPL that consists of system changes, upgrades or fixes. Those I don’t mind. Those I’m flexible about. Those I don’t complain about. Because they’re usually scheduled (at least to some degree - I have advanced warning by at least a day and I’m not being called as it happens), and I’m a team player. No complaints about the occasional late Saturday night working. As long as it keeps me from having to carry an on-call phone, (either all the time or on some kind of regular rotation), I’m always going to be accommodating for such things. Because these types of things actually have something to do with my job and utilize my skill sets. Every time I’ve ever carried an on-call phone in my I.T. career, I’ve never - NOT ONCE - been called for something that actually pertains to my job. No, it’s always someone desperate to get in touch with someone to reset their password. Often it’s an “offshore” contractor in the middle of their day that’s calling me on an “emergency” phone in the middle of my night because they flubbed their password and locked themselves out or something equally stupid. And I don’t reset passwords. I’m not Help Desk. And at my age, there isn’t a company out there willing to pay me what I’d want to have to put up with an on-call phone rotation. I say “never” again, but I do have a number. It’s just a number too high for anyone to match. Anyhow…when I have to work a random Saturday night once or thrice a year…I’m cool with it. No complaints. Just keep the damn on-call phone nonsense out of my life.

Hmmm. I’m skeptical. 🤣

I’ve got a presentation to make in the middle of the quarterly “all-hands” meeting today. …For the new Director. Part of me is proud of the presentation I’ve built. I’m on the meeting committee, so I’ve seen everyone else’s and they don’t compare. But most of me is nervous!

I did a magic trick while on a Zoom meeting, but nobody was impressed. …I guess I'm not remotely amazing.