From Squalor to Luxury Part III
I’ll skip the AI-generated image this time and just put this up on a lark. A surprise showed up yesterday here in Thailand. A truck rolled in with a literal ton—probably more—of metal framing material to kick off the the second story going on the small house that’ll serve as office and man cave. My…
Read MoreElon Musk: First Trillionaire, Biggest Target
I loathe stupid people and fucktards. So I knew the news was coming, but I saw it today while scrolling through Elon Musk’s platform X. Everyone moaning about his trillionaire status is posting there—how ironic is that? I figured I’d do a post. It’s Sunday, so it’d be members-only, paywalled. I scrolled down and something…...
Squalor to Luxury Part II
It’s the 2nd installment. Here was the 1st. Of course, that’s an AI image. In this case, I canned the Grok image generation. I don’t care for Grok Imagine that much anyway, so I used another AI, and it immediately got me what I was looking for to capture the idea of the post. I…
Read MoreFrom Squalor to Luxury
Yeah, that’s been a lot of my life for weeks now—going on two months. I’ve abided and sustained because I have this vision of a great tropical homestead, and I’m doing what it takes to make that happen. So I sit there and think and write and interact, but underneath it all I’m thinking about…
Read MoreCarving Out A Cool Life
It’s been a couple of days since my last post, “My Workaholic Wife,” when someone asked if I’d gotten married again. Not formally. Not yet, anyway. But it might as well be. I’ve no intention of going anywhere. I’m well situated here on this rural Thailand homestead—crazy life out in the country. It’s a fulfilling,…
Read MoreMy Workaholic Wife
I’ll get to the theme of this post in due time, but first I wanted to lay out my evolving thoughts on how I think, work, and write. In my last post I touched on this sun-up-to-sundown way of living. It doesn’t mean you can’t stay up and party some nights. It’s simply your baseline.…...
Mega Rural Thailand Update
Well, this post has been a while in coming. I guess it’s been close to a week now since I pulled up stakes from Pattaya, Thailand, and moved out into rural Thailand once again. But this time it’s very different from when I did rural in the COVID clusterfuck of 2020. Very, very different. I’ll…
Read MoreThe Democrat and RINO Bloodbath
It’s a day or so since the Trump Train annihilated so many. This will be quick. It’s 0645 am and I need to be out of my Pattaya condo by about 0900 am. Far arrived last evening with my pickup about 2215 last night from Mukdahan, a 14-hour drive. … I laugh about the political…
Read MoreWhy Trump’s Strategic Position on China Is Critical
That’s USS Reeves (CG-25) pulling in to moor in Qingdao, China, in 1986. I was the ship’s electrical officer. It was the first US Navy visit to China in 40 years. Coincidentally, that was 40 years ago now. Here’s what I posted on X about that: Seeing the news surrounding this momentous gathering is a…
Read MoreAll Diets are Complicated By Design
I’ve mostly come to hold in disdain what has become of what was once a great and cool gig. Harken back to the latter 2010s. For me, it was 2007/8, when I discovered this new dietary approach. People were calling it “Paleo.” Or, “Evolutionary Fitness” in the parlance of the late Art De Vany. There…
Read MoreA Brief Statement About the Future
I’m preparing a solid post about the practicalities of diet. No spoilers. It will be comprehensive and huge. I have 9 days left here in Pattaya and am obsessed all day long, every day, about all the building I’m doing and am going to be doing up in rural NE Thailand. In the meantime, I…
Read MoreMaking Full-Fat Ground Beef Your Diet Foundation
As you can see, that’s not carnivore diet compliant (plus there are other regular things like a few dates daily due to very high potassium … just 3 dates: 200 mg potassium). But I got to this place largely by seeing an increasing number of high-meat-eating and carnivore-diet types talk about going to all or…
Read MoreThailand Homestead Update
So that’s my immediate future, and with any luck and goodwill, for years to come. Life is very happy now. If not singularly focused, it’s pretty narrow. The red circle is the homestead. The yellow circle is the village with the fresh markets (huge). The green circle is where virtually all of Far’s family live.…
Read MoreFah Talai Jone (Andrographis Paniculata) is the best thing for respiratory and sinus I’ve ever taken
I’ve got a real and true treat for a lot of you. I’m 65 years old and cannot remember a time in my life that I was not suffering some level of respiratory and sinus deficit. Some level is always there…like a very frequent need to blow my nose. Perhaps the worst, more than the…
Read MoreUnique Political Commentary—4 Issues
I don’t do it often, but now and then, a few issues pop up in the political sphere, and my takes are always different from all the bleating sheep out there—who follow the news only to know what to “think” and regurgitate. Today’s subjects are: Here we go. But first, quick admin note. Grok 4.3…...
Getting Buttholes Out of Your Life
I’m going to begin this post with this very short, funny clip from a stand-up routine I saw on X yesterday. Yes, the internet over the last few decades has resulted in abject morons clustering together. Just go read Facebook comment threads sometimes. Most of them are completely mindless in over 90% of moron commenters.…
Read MoreMore Good and Fun Stuff and Electrolyte Crash Update
Believe it or not, that’s actually Thai beef—a ribeye for about 5 bucks. 330 grams. Plenty substantial. Some might think I overcooked it, but I like ribeye more medium, fat melted. I see no virtue in unmelted marbling. I also finish it in a pat of butter for even more fat juice. So this is…
Read MoreAll the Good and Fun Stuff
Greetings From Northeast Rural Thailand Hey there, greetings from Northeast rural Thailand, and I’m coming to you with something that’s just all to the good. My last post was a real downer about a health crisis—which you can read if you haven’t already—and I’m gonna save anything more on that for a subsequent update that…
Read MoreMy Perils Into Extreme Low Electrolytes and Sleep Deprivation
I’m dictating this shit because my fingers are still too uncoordinated to type it out properly—some residual motor control bullshit from the ordeal. But I need to get this story out now; it’s been brewing for three days, and it’s one hell of a strange confluence of events. Right now, I’m up in Mukdahan province…
Read MoreMeat and Testosterone
I have seriously let myself go over months. I knew I was doing it, knew it would change and revert eventually, but was at the same time in a state of complacency as I was working through the phenomenon of being bored out of my skin about everything. I mentioned politics in my last post,…...