a quick experiment

I have returned safely from the Moby Dick Marathon. Got my 2026 merch and everything. It was a blast. Reading a book for 26 hours doesn't seem like a blast to the outside observer, but it is. I even got to go to HP Lovecraft's grave. It was great. Oh, I'm using my voice to dictate this this post. I was wondering if it would capture my various stutters and it appears that it does so you're going to see some duplication. Probably definitely. Maybe. This is great because it can't handle my the way I talk the ADHD pattern speaking where there's maybe no punctuation. It's trying to detect that I can clearly see it's struggling. My phone is getting hot in my hand and it's steaming and there's various cartoon curse emojis popping up in the air around my phone, which I didn't think was possible, but apparently that's some kind of new feature. This phone is still pretty new to me so that's why I'm trying to trying to spend a little more time learning about it. But this is good. I feel like this is going to be a good step for me who needs editing when you can just talk at a machine and it will say the words I don't know. I was trying to look at device to help me just get in the habit of sitting down and riding and at what I end up doing is looking at all kinds of stuff. Oh man we probably should have a

Here I said. 

What if I just want to write the words new and paragraph? 

So I can say the word separately. But God forbid I attempt new para graph. I paused in between the word and it added that. That's great. This is very entertaining to me. Probably not so much for the reader but hey if you love what you do. 

I was saying that I just keep researching all these various writing devices and there's so many cool things out there. There is the what is it type free. It's sort of a little word processor portable or built-in screen. Kind of a typewriter ish device. Sort of like what you'd see it on alt universe steampunk universe. 

This is a good thing I think because I can keep talking and then go back and edit because sometimes I just write and I do not edit at all and then I go back to the post. You know a day or two later ending you see? Oh no! I said something not so good or indelicately phrased or maybe not exactly what I meant. 

I see that my ability to go off on tangents is unaffected probably even exacerbated so I was looking at devices that would help me and I did actually just purchase a magnetic attachment. That's the little keyboard if you remember. BlackBerry phones they had. They have the built-in actually some older phones but they had the the built-in keyboards. I had a full-sized built-in keyboard not full size but it was the length of the phone and one of my phones and I loved that thing. How I loved typing on that thing. Just full keyboard so this is similar but but it's not the same. What's it called? A click power keyboard anyway I pre-ordered it cuz all the other stuff I was looking at was you know pushing 100 bucks essentially just a keyboard and and I guess what I was looking at ultimately was how do I use my phone now? Am I going to log a full size keyboard around with me and the answer is no I barely take any stuff. I'm reluctant to take my wallet with me most places. I've got a phone that or a phone case that has the little flappy thing where I can put in my credit card and my driver's license. And what more do I need? What more do I need in this crazy world? 

You know I'm not going to edit this. I'm just going to publish it because this whole thing was an experiment and and it's time to gather some data. I did say datum and then it corrected to Data but I meant datum even though it wasn't correct. 

I like that it made the word data capitalized like the Star Trek character. One of my favorites. I also got a pixel watch and it has a watch face that has the Star Trek the next generation interface. It's called LCARS I think. I love it. 

Searching for Moby Dick

After a lovely New Year's Eve party at Donovan and Lauren's, I fall into bed, excited to fly out to New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the annual Moby Dick reading marathon early Friday, the next morning.

Except the flight isn't on Friday. It's Thursday morning, as in today, this morning. Brian Young calls me and wakes me up with "Hey buddy, are you on your way?" And horrible realization hits me that I've got exactly 50 minutes before the plane starts boarding. 

After a prodigious amount of swearing, I hang up and call my mom. She's an early riser and says she can take me to the airport. Excellent. Now it's time for this desert dweller to pack for...snow. I turn on the shower and don't even wait for the water to warm up. I run naked and wet down the hall and grab my bag, which I had meant to pack days ago. I hurl in a coat, socks, and underwear, a copy of Moby Dick and then get dressed and run outside where my beloved mother is waiting. 

She is a very polite driver and loves to just under the speed limit. I grit my teeth while she prays for God to bless me and my journey. I remind myself that if it weren't for her, I would have no chance of making it at all; let her do her thing and focus on the mission. 

Security is no problem. Brian waited for me there and the line was very short because who the hell takes a 7 am flight on New Year's Day. Nobody. 

Almost not me, too. Because I forget entire days.

But we made it!

Now we just have to make our connection in Chicago. So there's still plenty of time for things to go wrong. I'll try not to get cocky.

After all, there's a high probability I will freeze to death once we get there, like some Dickensian urchin. 

But if I don't, everything else should be smooth sailing.