Author: FLYNN

  • Trying to maintain garden

    20250421-1940. This morning I awoke. But for some reason and in these past few days, I’m feeling okay but barely alert – more like foggy-brained from eating deli food, which I love.

    Then I unboxed yesterday’s home delivery of Butterfly and Hummingbird Wildflower Mix by Earth Science. I used up the whole bag to add into the two planter strip area at the base of both our Saratoga Laurel trees.

    While working on the larger of the two trees, a military-looking copter kept flying more northbound from where I’m located. I turned-on the Airplane mode of my iPhone and continued spreading some seeds and watering down with the OLD plastic water contain with its missing white watering spout later on.

    A couple of elderly Oriental walked-by. The wife asked what I was plant. I fumbled and barely said: wildflowers for the bees and hummingbirds.

    I still could hear the copter trying to worm its ways southbound from my location and worked on the smaller tree, which has triple the size of soil. For whatever reason, the City of San José wanted the opening to be larger. But the tree trunk is still smaller that the other one.

    This is because my dad top-killed main branches long ago on the premise that it would be more convenient for me when I get older. Idiot NPCs. The the top is still sprouting with smaller branches.

    I caught and met Manong James (half Italiano and half Ilocano/Filipino earlier this month chopping off branches of the Saratoga Laurel trees. Because he was gonna make soup from the leaves, which did NOT smell fragrant enough for me or cooking in the least.

    I guess my “thoughts” were transmitted and some could hear my “thoughts” and so “offered” to trim our trees. I wanted the NO PARKING ANYTIME sign more visible. But the larger tree was block the sign.

    The afternoon was weird as my younger brother need a ride back to GearMasters off Keyes Street in downtown San Jose, CA. The guys installed some computer chips that was to be done in an hour.

    But the hour had passed and my brother said he would do it himself. Surprisingly, their good business practice allowed it to be done for free. They are blessed in my books.

    The evening is winding down with the sunset being VERY bright. After my afternoon power nap, I saw that one fat birb red robin was taking a bath in the bird bath. But I did NOT see the normal splashing of the water, meaning that the water is NOT full enough.

    So I had to wait until the fat birb red robin finished its bath and I quietly and hurriedly flushed out the birdbath and watered the backyard lawn, which still has patches of dried grass.

    Then I saw the fat birb red robin was a male because its counterpart wifey was smaller and brown! That was also a blessing.

    Yesterday was also a blessing after my dad and brother apologized unto moi for different reasons. Sheesh. Thanks, heavenly Father!

    It’s time for dinner as my elderly father kept making his hungry triple tweet/eat. End transmission 1955 PST.

  • Streamlined header and footer

    20250421-1930. Good evening, chumps! I’ve streamlined both header and footer, thinking that I could increase my Jetpack Boost mobile score. Unfortunately, the system got VERY angry unto moi and gave me an even lower score!

    For the footer, I switched to a different pre-designed Footer pattern and have taken out two outta four Details menus, leaving only the Details for Blogroll and Social Media. I plugged my Twatter description into the Paragraph block provided.

    For the Header, I’m trying the one-row deal. I stuck my Site Title block inside the Navigation menu. But the Archive block is too HUGE and the loading time was too slow.

    Oh, wait! After regenerating the Critical CSS, my Mobile Score has increased slightly higher to 97 (or 79 without the paid upgrade)!

    That’s all. End transmission 1939 PST.

  • Back to presidential dark blue

    20250421-0042. Welp, I tried the olive green and brown color scheme based on the alphabetical, double-digit value in ascending order to spell out my current location.

    But I really liked the dark blue color/stone cold colors from the WH DJT 45-47 Style Guide. And so I reverted back to the presidential colors.

    For the Sidebar template of WP widgets, I managed to reuse my olive green and brown color scheme for the rows of Details block.

    There were nine outta the original eleven WP widgets that had the perfect number of Details block to color code my current location.

    I had to delete the original Details blocks containing the Archives and Categories List, both of which could be found at the new location in the Header above.

    I had to reset both my Header and Footer by reapplying from the pre-designed patterns; because I messed-up the width again, causing an empty white space column of death from the mobile view.

    I’ve created my very first few Template Parts. Unfortunately, I couldn’t edit some of my Pages. And so I had to detach the Template Parts that had the “Content” block.

    That’s all for now. End of transmission 0105 PST.

  • Easter egg breadcrumbs

    20250420-1931. Attention! Moments ago, I just finished messing up the color scheme of my weblog site! I do NOT know what strange incoming thoughts that I received earlier. But I think I like it!

    Anyway, since today is supposed to be some sort of “resurrection”, I thought I’d share some breadcrumbs. In this hunt, you are given some easter eggs, which are the HEX color codes.

    These HEX color codes spell out my current location.

    In the header, I spelled out my home number and mailing address address.

    In the footer, I spelled out my long stretch of road.

    In the content, I spelled out the adjacent just pass my long stretch of road.

    The code is simple. There are 26 letters in our alphabet. I assigned the two-digit value in ascending order.

    So that’s it! Good luck, chumps! I do this in case something happens unto moi, in light of the recent suspicious vehicles parked illegally on my long stretch of road, which has red/white signs clearly designated as NO PARKING ANYTIME.

    End of transmission 1938 PST.

  • Set design style background color white

    20250420-1525. Welp, I had NO choice but to set my global settings for the background color as basic WHITE! Now my eyeballs are gonna hurt from the blindingly bright white light instead of my preferred muted creamy stone cold color.

    Now my Jetpack Boost scores are 98 (or 96 without) for mobile and 100 (or 99 without) for desktop!

    So I guess the less the colors and images, the faster the loading time and responsiveness of my weblog site.

    I’m still tweaking the header and footer. The header got fixed the way I want it: because on my iPhone, there was the empty white column of death. The footer got fixed: I had to move down the subscribe button and move up the links columns.

    Now both the header and footer look rather normal, boring and whitish. I still liked my colors, which seems to slow down everything, though.

    That’s all. I’m feeling sleepy. I have my master bedroom window wide open to the cool breeze. The sunshine is bright! End of transmission 1615 PST.

  • Still sampling health and sports websites

    20250420-1336. Anyways, last night, I briefly sampled the Cottage theme and save its Index template because I liked the “cottage-backgroun” image. However, my Jetpack Boost mobile score was VERY angry unto moi and gave my front page a much lower score than expected. So I removed the “cottage-background” image, but the mobile score was still too low for my expectations.

    So like clockwork, I got tired of the dark blue WH DJT 45-47 style and tried the similar stone/cream color the Cottage theme and then I’m trying the dried bloody red color of WH DJT 45-47 style. I like this color better as I feel it is warmer appropriately against the stone/cream color of my overall global settings background color.

    After last night’s sampling of a health site, where I failed to create an account and had to submit a request to help me get the account created, and after sampling this morning’s major league baseball’s site for mobile view, I came up with a cleaner -looking header!

    Lo and behold! I’m still NOT happy with the header layout. But I did figure out how to compliment my Category List block of 66 KJV audio bibles! I added the Archive block displayed by Years instead of by Months!

    This make sense now! So there are two rows in the my header. The top row contains my Navigation block of Search block and some Pages and my Site Tagline and a jump-page link “to the pit”! The bottom row contains both the Archive and Category List blocks!

    I didn’t want to use the Details blocks and the “Labels” are okay, but I can’t customize the Label for the Archives block. However, I could customize the Label of the Category List block with the words “KJV audio bible”.

    For the footer, I set the Details block to NOT Open by default and the background color is now dark. The bottom-most row is the darkest black.

    For the content, it’s just the default triple-column taken from the Index template. I deleted two of my customized templates Blog Home and No Sidebar and let the Pages template take over.

    That’s all for now. It’s time for lunch. End of transmission 1350 PST.

  • Happy Sunday, chumps!

    20250420-1255. Today was cold. Then the sunshine came out. I’ve been awake early this morning and chased off the black cat on or about 0350 PST this morning from “sitting” on our front yard lawn. I saw it wait on the our driveway and then made its way back on the sidewalk, to our street-facing face and back to our backyard and beyond.

    I got two greetings via text message from my Auntie Edith and my younger brother, who attended this morning’s eight o’clock mass. I saw the photo of the refurbished interior of our local church. My dad and I never did return; since the COVIDIAN lock-downs. I resented that place due to the tongue-flicking humanz, especially the demonic infiltrator/NextDoor neighbor.

    On Saturday/yesterday 04/19/2025, my dad did some light yard work in the backyard by using his OLD green-colored stake/spike tool to dig-out some weeds from the soil/past the ginger rocks. I then watered two Saratoga Laurel trees, located northwest from our corner lot.

    On Friday/two days ago 04/18/2025, my dad had a doctor’s appointment. Afterwards, he was surprised and resistance that I grabbed four bags of STA GREEN FLOWER AND VEGETABLES GARDEN SOIL PLUS FERTILIZER and one bag of PENNINGTON WILDFLOWERS WESTERN GARDEN MIXTURE for my long-awaited wildflowers for beeds and hummingbirds!

    Thanks goodness my elderly father has more common sense than me and the strength to use his OLD faded red-colored pick-axe to loosen the soil before applying fresh soil and then the seeds and followed by water! I just wanted to dump the soil and spread the seeds on my own and without his help!

    We have arrived home on or about 125830 PST and then a dark gray car similar to the coo-coo headed bitch living NextDoor to us took off from its parked position on MY long stretch of (middle name) Road on or about 125911 PST. The gas cap is black colored and located on the right rear of the car. The last three digits of the car is 954. The silvery wheels are flowery.

    We had eaten lunch and probably started on or about 2 or 3 PM.

    On or about 1600 PST, a white hatchback car with the green-colored words COMMUTE parked for one hour facing the railroad intersection after dropping off someone near a Court. On or about 1714 PST, a white vehicle Nissan parked next to the Mexican house (which used to have beautiful green lawn out front but is now full of weeds). This white Nissan mini-suv was parked for about another hour.

    On or about 1309 PST 04/16/2025, a suspicious Lexus beige four door mini-suv car with license plate number ending in 815 was parked next to Bill/Melody the Chinese (who both live directly behind us).

    On or about 1128 PST 04/16/2025, a suspicious dark suburban vehicle parked in front of our house, made a u-turn after the initial light suburban vehicle was parked in front of streetlight pole area of our mailboxes for the coo-coo headed bitch living NextDoor to us and ours on or about 0924 PST earlier that morning and up until 1124 PST when the white USPS postal service truck pulled-up behind the white suburban vehicle, which drove-off eastbound.

    On or about 1135 PST 04/16/2025, a dark gray hatchback traveled northbound from our Drive and onto our Road upon which the parked dark suburban vehicle made a U-turn from its parked position in front of our home and followed the dark gray hatchback. Then the white suburban vehicle followed after the dark suburban vehicle.

    To you stupid investigators and other spooks, all y’all have to do is evict the incapacitated bitch living NextDoor to us, period. All of you having anything to do with failures against my dad and me are cursed anyways. We had a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday.

    So whatever y’all are up to, I have NO idea. My elderly father are trying to enjoy ourselves without the drama of ungrateful relatives and other strangers. But you still do NOT get it.

    The PGE blue truck has been stalking my area when their activities are finished. The Express vehicle was also seen parked illegally next to Terry’s OLD house down the Rue as are the other illegally parked vehicles on my long stretch of Road recently in the past few days.

    Y’all are stupid much like the nonsense having to do with my weblog site. I really don’t care if the REAL god of this known realm takes care of whatever you fools messed-up thus far, especially concerning SHEOL where y’all will end up anyways.

    Y’all are idiots. Mind your own business. The cool breeze is blowing. Today is a blessing while y’all are scratching around for more nonsens. As a matter of fact, I like the idea of having paid parking in my neighborhood. You know, like the paid parking fines for outsiders infiltrating the neighborhood area near the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk.

    That’s all. End of transmission 1335.

  • Created duplicate content

    20250417-2304. That’s correct! I’ve created duplicate content both as “pages” and as “posts”! These would be the 66 KJV audio bible and the 4 featured OLD sites projects! So that would a total of 132 KJV audio bibles and 8 featured sites or the combined total of 140 pages! I’m weird! Yes.

    I had NO choice because the Details block fails to pop-out a simple window and using the Navigation block doesn’t have a Title attribute!

    I really liked the OLD WP Categories List widget and its simple text to prompt the user to “Select Categories”. However, there really isn’t any way to assigned a customize “template” for “posts”.

    So I had to delete and then add back my “bible” template because there is no way to get my “Select KJV bible chapter” Details block to function at its Full Width at the Default (Pages) template!

    After tweaking the date and time (down to the minutes as the only possible way to FORCE the “post” order, which is similar to the regular “page” order) for all 66 KJV audio bible, I then added the Previous Page and Next Page blocks to “posts” by copying/pasting from the “pages”.

    So the only way to tell the difference between the original “pages” version from the new “posts” version are the “Slugs”!

    For example, the main landing page/post for my bible project has the Slug of “kingjamesbiblervers” for the OLD “pages” version and “kjbv” for the NEW “posts” version!

    Moreover, the “books” are abbreviated longer as “bk000” for the “pages” version and shorter as “bk00” for the “posts” version.

    Furthermore, the OLD “pages” have a more constrained Wide-Width, which “falls-back” on my customized Single Posts template for readability; while the new “Posts” have a Full-Width from my customized “No Sidebar”; because my customized “Pages” template has the Sidebar pattern of mostly WP widgets.

    That’s all for now. End transmission 2341 PST.

  • Another busy week

    20250417-1231. Greetings, chumps! Today is cloudy. The temperature is cold.

    On Monday 04/14, my elderly father ruined my whole day: he reminded me to file our tax returns!

    Our normal online site was down for maintenance. So I had to sign-up with an alternate site, which I’ve used in the past with CDs!

    That activity took me until before three o’clock in the afternoon, when we ate our late lunch.

    I took many screenshots to feel comfortable enough that I was speed-filing correctly.

    I did mine first and then did my father’s tax return. Ours are easy and we paid/broke even barely.

    Tuesday 04/15, I awoke early and started mowing the backyard lawns on or about 08:30 PST. The cloudy morning helped to keep me cool enough to finish both backyard and then front yard lawns.

    (Some old 83 year old co-worker from Moffett Field talked to/spoke with my dad; but I kept interrupting because my dad was just staring and barely would say much. The old guy was interested in taking out my guy to go watch some show girls (to which I told the Filipino that my dad is a good boy) and to drink at the bar, too with some of the other guys. See?)

    On Monday 04/15, I charged our two new battery-packs, which surprisingly held its charge for both backyard and then front yard lawns! I think the original package of battery packs were OLD from the start!)

    (I picked-up my two new battery packs on 03/31, thinking that I would need two pairs of battery-packs for mowing both backyard and front yard lawns!)

    On Thursday 04/03 two weeks earlier, I’ve repaired successfully our broken right rear height adjustment lever after picking up the two bonders from the locker on 04/01!

    First, I used the JB-Weld double goo to connect the two broken pieces. I had my dad time me for 6 minutes before it set. The curing time is 30 minutes.

    Second, I used the JB-Weld epoxy putty to brace the two broken pieces after the 30 minutes of curing time.

    The first goo helped to HOLD the two broken pieces steady whilst the second goo was used to form the brace.

    I had my dad time me for 20-25 minutes of kneading SLOWLY the putty into shape and pushing the putty into the nooks and crannies of the sharp angles.

    The smell of the first application was apparent and the second application had NO odor.

    But to make sure that the pieces are solid, I let the pieces dry before installing back to our cheapest red-colored Craftsman cordless/battery-powered push lawn mower on 04/09.

    Then a couple of days later, I decided to repair two long white plastic PCV pipe, which was broken-off from its coupling/holder with the remaining first black/white goo bonder.

    The PVC pipe was a makeshift “roller” for our green-colored (boating sails material) patio awning.

    Back to Tuesday 04/15 Tax Filing day, we took longer than expected with the front yard clean-up because my dad used the edge trimmer.

    After cross-training him on how to use the edge trimmer (he might have childhood trauma, OCD and or autism, which affected his spatial understand of how to use tools), he made our front yard lawn look descent.

    But that took out some dried lawn. He also whacked the weeds from the cracks of the sidewalk and in the streets. I really wanted to keeps those weeds as a barrier against the smaller wind-blown seeds!

    Just when I thought I had finished my first sweep of our northwest-facing area of maintenance/corner lot (sidewalk, planter strip, curb AND gutter), my dad’s edge trimmings needed to be blown and swept (much like what a barber would do with hair cuts!) We finished before two o’clock because it took me three-x sweeps!

    On Friday 04/04, I picked up two more battery packs for dad’s electric blower. The total of three battery packs helped tremendously; because I knew I was gonna use this more than mowing the lawn!

    We have only one charger for this electric blower battery-packs; while we have two chargers for the pairs of lawn mower battery-packs.

    On Wednesday 04/16 yesterday, dad had his doctor’s appointment. I had awakened early to clean-up my files and reporting bugs to team Happiness Engineers.

    I was rushing to drive him to and from his appointments; to finish grocery shopping with him as he helped to hold open the floppy recyclable grocery bags; to unload our groceries; to warm-up our late lunch; and to finish up more archiving of mostly my OCD screenshots.

    And today 04/17, we’re winding down. I had awakened early again, tried working on my weblog but then decided to fertilize/water and release some growing squished white Calla lilies from underneath OLD ginger rocks that we dumped from other landscaping projects.

    So that’s all until my dad finishes his morning exercises and irons my cloths, which my other uncle once did for his family, too.

    Yesterday, I had to chase off cats from using our lawn as their latrine. I hate cats, because their species eat my birbs and other little critters!

    In my videos, I’ve listened to some singing birbs in the far distance. I miss hearing ours nearby.

    End of transmission 1327 PST.

  • Testing blocks for Table of Contents, Details and Page Break

    This Paragraph block is for Page 1. Right column here.

    01. Details block here

    01. Header here

    01.01. Details block nested here

    01.01.01. Testing nested sentence here using Header block H3.

    01.01.02. Testing nested sentence here using Paragraph block.

    02. Details block here

    02. Header here

    03. Details block here

    03. Header here

    04. Details block here

    04. Header here

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  • Generated three more with Jetpack AI Assistant

    20250415-0118. Behold! I have generated three more items using Jetpack AI Assistant to my four featured OLD sites pages.

    1. Optimize Title: Based on your post content and SEO best practices.
    2. Get Featured Image: Based on your post content.
    3. Get Feedback: Get feedback on content structure.

    For the Optimize Title, there are three generated title versions above and descriptions below.

    For the Featured Image, I simply waited for the first “run” to generate an image and then I chose Fantasy Art for the second “run”, which is usually “better” than the first “run”.

    For the Get Feedback, the suggestions are normal enough.

    So now my four OLD sites pages has a heck of a longer Title and Featured images. The AI did NOT touch the Slug. So I’m wondering if I should query my paid upgrade LEO AI/Brave: if I should change my slug to reflect the AI-optimized title.

    That’s all for now. End of transmission 0123 PST.

    Addendum: Later on, I’ll try “Write Brief (Beta): Visualize issues and apply AI suggestions.”

    Edited 0126 PST.

  • First time Use AI to Write an Excerpt

    20250415-0048. For the first time, I used AI to write an excerpt for all four of my OLD site pages: Flynn’s Angels, Flynn’s Blogger/Yahoo 360º, Flynn’s Blogs and KJBV!

    The “default” Post Setting > Desired Length is 50. This number “Sets the desired length in words for the auto-generated excerpt. The final count may vary due to how AI works.”

    I accepted the Desired Length of 50 for my Setting > Post > Excerpt. I tried 25, 22, 20 and 18 words, which I applied to my Navigation menu called Features located in the Footer, the Jetpack SEO Description, which suggests/recommends a total character of 156, and my Hero content.

    I generated the same Desired Lengths 50, 25, 22, 20 and 18 Words for each of the four featured site pages. Each time I would “test” (copy/paste) the AI-generated Words against the recommended/suggested length of Jetpack SEO Description Characters.

    So I took notes of my original version and the AI-generated version. I must say that AI does seem to be VERY helpful/useful in a rather dry tone. I still liked my version, though.

    That’s all for now. End transmission 20250415-0103 PST.