sw00916d35-deployed

 Am engaged in a massive project.  Have no idea when I'll
return; but I must attend the labors at hand, for if I do not,
they will not get done; and they must get done.



Brian Salchert    2008-06-11

sw00906d30-offline

                                What is it that suddenly motivates a person to do something 
                                          that's been put off for years?  Have not a thimble 
                                          of evidence.  Was offline most of today organizing  
                                          my documents.  Still need to clean up certain files, 
                                                       but that space looks 90% happier.



2008-05-31

sw00880d28--read-my-blogs-if-but

   you are also welcome to use this one and my 
bajsalchert.blogspot.com one as gateways to
other web logs.  Here in the Favorite Places
sidebar section are links to a variety of sites.
Take a look.  The one I visit the most is the
Astronomy site, but a site such as the HTML
ASCII site (www.lookuptables.com) often
helps when I need to know special codes.

My blogspot blog has more links to sites
maintained by other writers (mostly poets).
Its name is Rhodingeedaddee.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-05-07

sw00868d25

 Yesterday I joined Goodreads, a free connectivity service
for people who read.

 Anyone interested in a recipe for a large batch
of really hot chili should go to my Other Journals
section and click on      a place in Ohio.
-                                                 
[ 2008-10-23 note: the place in Ohio is in limbo
   and I'm not sure when it will return from there,
   if it does return. ]



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-23

sw00867d24

Earth Day 2008

sw00854d14

 Partly because it may not be available much longer,
visit this journal: Isaac Stolzfuts' Journal  Its author
has been missing since about August third of 2007.            
He was 87 at that time.

 Have been involved with a math project based on Pascal's Triangle,
its fourth row to be exact.  It's a different way of looking at the
6n Elimination Table, a table which begins with the 5 7 pair, rising
through all the odd natural numbers which are not divisible by "3".
Thus the next three pairs are: 11 13, 17 19, 23 25.  The second
row of this triangle is comprised of all the natural numbers except
"1".  1 is the number which borders two sides of the triangle, and
"0" is not in the triangle.  The triangle's third row is comprised of
numbers in the natural number summation sequence, beginning
with "3".  I have done what I set out to do with these numbers.
This is all I'm saying about it.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-05

sw00851d11

 Rest of today and all of tomorrow are expected to be stormy.
May not be online much, if at all.  Plan to go grocery shopping
tomorrow.  If that happens, beets and lima beans will be at the
center of my food changes.  Will be pulling away from dairy
products and processed meats.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-04-02

sw00844d4

 The last two days a post at a blog I visit has moved me to comment twice
beneath that post/ and to spend several hours last night researching via G-
the topic "immanent critique"/ and also to add links in my Rho- list to two
.com sites.  Since around WW1 this planet has slithered into a cavern of
contradictions of such force that the gyroscopes of the teeming humans
upon it are consistently askew.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-03-26

sw00843d3

 Have been busy with other projects the last several days.

 This morning at money.aol.com/ this:
Most Common Tax Scams

 Placed the final page of brians brain 2000 up yesterday 
on my bajsalchert blogspot blog.

 Have been reading many things online, and posting comments.
Most of that has been done at poetry blogs, particularly the
Poetry Foundation Harriet blogs.

 If you would like to read and vote on poems, Andrew Shields has an
ongoing project for doing so.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-03-25

sw00840d2

 Not all blog previews are trustworthy.
The preview where my other blog is does not tell the truth.
The preview where I regularly comment does not tell the truth.
Why?  Those who programmed those previews ought to know,
and they ought to know how to program them so they tell the truth.
Although I can learn how to work around such faulty previews,
previews which do not tell the truth irk me.
Given these facts, it is just as well AOL Journals
does not provide previews.



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-03-21

sw00838st100-Palm.Sunday

Read the Gospel of Matthew   26.36 - 27.60



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                     [ Note: 26 + 36 + 27 + 60 = 149 = 100 + 49 ]

                    [ Note: This weekend I remained in my apartment,
                               but I brought the missal I had been given
                               when I was in a Jesuit Noviate 46+ years
                               ago/ into my den/bedroom, and placed it
                               at the foot of the bed.  At that point in the
                               reading where Jesus expires/ an instruction
                               tells one to kneel and pause.  I, carefully,
                               knelt, and then looked up.  The time on/
                               the clock I've placed on the bedboard's
                               top shelf/ was 1:10 PM.  At 1:11 PM I
                               carefully rose.  For those of you who do
                               not know this about me: some years back
                               1:11 (both AM and PM) became for me
                               God times. ]  

sw00803st96-new.uri.url

journals.aol.com/thinkinglizard/sh/

10:12 AM  -  The above is the new name for this blog, wherein "sh"
means Sprintedon Hollow.  Intermittently thunderous, continuously
rainy cold day here in SW Missouri.  Rain on objects freezes.  Not a
good time to be online, but I still have to update internal links in most 
of August and February of 2007.  Am correcting other errors too.  Was
online until 12:20 AM working on updates.  Changed URI/URL near noon
yesterday.  Last month completed was June 2007.  Thunder continues.
Bad weather expected to last through midnight.  It is 10:53 AM.
-
11:55 AM  -  February's internal links are updated.   The skies have 
been quiet.  Time for a break though.
-
1:26 PM  -  Took about 23 minutes to get remaining August entries
updated.  Skies still overcast but brighter.  Thankful I was able to
complete project I unexpectedly imposed on myself yesterday.  I am
definitely happier with the new name for this blog.   




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Brian A. J. Salchert 

sw00802st95-uri.url.change

journals.aol.com/thinkinglizard/sh/   replaced   journals.aol.com/thinkinglizard/bajs/

earlier today  (Sunday  February 10, 2008)  for several reasons:  One is that
"sh" is Sprintedon Hollow; but, unlike "bajs", has more possibilities should  I
decide to change this blog's name, say to something like: Stupid Hermit.  
-
The immediate upshot of this is that any site that had linked to an sh entry will
find the link has gone dead.  I've already notified and gotten a response from
one such site.  Also, I have to change all links between entries in this journal.
Much of that is already done in those places where it matters most, but the
finish line is still distant.  There is at least one other site master I am going to 
 notify.  Google's robots may already know. 



Brian A. J. Salchert

sw00789st91-food.gardens

   My father grew up on a small farm at the edge of the town
I, years later, was born in.  By that time, with help from some
of his friends, he'd built a brick house on two lots he'd bought.
It was a corner location less than a right-angled mile--along
the sidewalks--from the place where he was raised.  Behind
his house he planted a garden, and from him I learned (among
numerous other practical skills) how to construct a garden.
   Our garden, an Eden for us, seemed endlessly edible.  At
the back were raspberry bushes in front of which were rows
of strawberries.  Potatoes, tomatoes, string beans, heads of
lettuce and cabbage, and peas, carrots, beets, celery and/ 
even asparagus: all were there. 
   Why am I revealing this and revelling in it?  Two poet sites
I visit.  This nation, and much of this planet, is too dependent
on oil, a commodity which may have already peaked.  Some
are now saying oil is on its way to $200 a barrel for us, and
capitalism--as we know it--is ashing itself in the face of it.
Certain nations are already paying considerably more for a
barrel than $200.  Since so many of us live in cities where
we do not have enough space for decent food gardens, my
suggestion is: co-op gardens.  Cities, counties, and states
should set aside land for them.  If a commodity upon which
so much depends consistently rises in price, all those goods
which depend on it will consistently rise in price.  Getting
beyond the need for oil appears to be the only happy-ending
alternative.  Our dependence upon fossil fuels is the main
reason why this planet of conscious intelligent beings remains,
in Michio Kaku terms, a Type 0 civilization.  Civilizations which
are Type 0 and--for whatever reasons--cannot pass to being
Type 1 civilizations/ are candidates for extinction. 
   Those of you out there who have food gardens appreciate
the beauty of them.



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Brian A. J. Salchert                                

sw00773st79-tags.removal

     8:25 AM - Have 3 months of Technorati tags to remove yet:
February, May, and June of 2007.  Will also be updating when I
am informed or/ I may try to see if I can do so now.  Not ready.
Hope they are before the expected storms arrive.  May's are gone.
10:55 - June's are gone.  1:31 PM - Amid 6 or so slow-to-respond
entries, I finally got through erasing the tags in February's 104.  If I
did not error along the way, my journal is devoid of Technorati tags. 
Really, I do not need them.  From this journal's site map, all but two
or three entries/ can be found.  The Sprintedon Tracker entries are
not presently listed on a central page, and probably will not ever be;
but they are numbered sequentially (variously), and I may add topic
information on each one.  May even change the URLs of last year's
st's to match how I am doing them this year.  



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Brian A. J. Salchert                    

sw00763st74-this.journal

   Since Sprintedon Tracker (st)--the ongoing interior journal
in Sprintedon Hollow--often addresses more than one topic,
the subject format will be as it is here today.  The "sw" once
meant Salchert's Weblog (the original name for this journal),
but it now refers to the first and final letters in its new name.
The "00763" indicates this entry is the 763rd in this journal.
The "st74" indicates this is the 74th Sprintedon Tracker entry.
As to topics, I am undecided, but two ideas I'm considering
are:  1) having section topics (e.g. Weather)
       2) using topic tags (e.g. Weather)

Thinking Lizard is the name of my viable but dormant publishing
company.  It had been the center of my copyright line.  The word
"Copyright" I deleted a while back.  Am heading toward having
no copyright information on individual entries, but keeping what I
have in my All About Me section.  I know I do not need to show
any copyright information, but I probably won't get to that stage.

The one constant in Sprintedon Hollow is change.  In that it is a
microcosm of nature in general.



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Brian A. J. Salchert                    

sw00762a-pdm.count3

  Before I begin this poems, ditties, muttobs count:
I have added 24 of my earliest verses (poems) to
the other poems in the autobiography (a) section;
and as there are now enough for e-chap status, I
am ending that project and naming it Autobio Poems.
This links to the main Autobio entry.  Yesterday when
I did a quick count, I found 11 in August, 11 in September, 
7 in October, 52 in November, and 13 in December.  Am
fairly certain this is accurate, but will be checking another
way today to be sure.  Miscounted.  December has 16.
Therefore, 97 (not 94) is correct.  So, 771 + 97 = 868 
pdm's from 03nov2006 through 31dec2007.  The others
are: 1 in Postures 2007, 6 in Seminary, 18 in Venturings,
and 48 in The Undulant Trees.  Zip over to the site map
(the Journal Links Center) for informative connections,
or browse through the Archives for hazy connections.

[ 2007-01-17 Note:  771 should be 768; so 868 should be 865 ]



Brian A. J. Salchert                    

sw00761st73-tagging

    For the moment/ things remain normal at S H.  Tomorrow
will be an end-of-the-year pdm-count day.  From the site map
originally known as Journal Links Center, there are major links
through which nearly every entry in this blog can be accessed.
The one exception being the Sprintedon Tracker series.  Since
this series is likely to be the permanent ongoing journal within
this journal, I have given each entry its own simple a/n code, 
but that is all.  -  5:17 PM  Changed st73 to 30dec2007st73
Brian and his crazy codes.  On 09sep2007, st1 was posted.
-
Added date/st# tags in all the Sprintedon Tracker entries.
-
Honestly, tagging confuses me.  Some bloggers use tag clouds,
some don't use any tags; some use simple tags.  My use of 
alpha/numeric tags and subjects might be daft, but the Google
robots care not.

Just did a quick count of poems posted since July 31:  94
If that count is correct, the number of my poems, ditties,
and muttobs in this journal through tomorrow will be 865.  



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Brian A. J. Salchert                    

sw00755st68-travails

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Travails, travails.  Bethle is hemmed in.  There's no inn in the room.
The center has been sold.  Hither and Yon have wandered on.  Go.



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sw00754st67-wish4you

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