Wed/Thurs, July 8/9, 2026

Tonight, just enjoying my peaceful life.  My body is hurting some, but inside, feels so settled, so comfortable with living.  In the kitchen, it hit me, Why?  Knowing and understanding God, I know how I am serving Him.  It is nice knowing why I exist.  Why I am here.  The purpose of my life.  It is all about serving Him.  The "Highwaymen", tonight.  Well, the Pig was not finished for the night, but he is now.  He is sacked out.  The bum.  Don't get me wrong about serving Him.  I have no calling or any thoughts of being special and trying to change myself.  The best part about serving Him is I can be myself???  Tomorrow.  Nice morning.  Slept well.  Not so much sore as just weak feeling bones, haha.  Thinking this morning, serving Him is great, but you have to do so with Him in mind.  You can't serve Him with hatred and violence in your mind, heart, or soul, you can't serve Him if you can't sense or feel Him, you can't serve Him if you don't believe in Him.  God is about loving life and living it for Him.  Think today will be a nice day.  It will be hot, but hopefully, not much rain.  YES, the Mutt is fine.  The bum.  Someone came up to the house this morning and he didn't bark.  What a bum.  Definitely, ain't getting my money's worth for feeding him, taking him to the groomer and vet.  Sure Penelope will pay his bill, haha.  Penelope was the sweetest.  Sure she still is, but she is getting close to the teenage years.  Well, later.  Still playing around with photos.  One day, hope to get them organized  Have over 200,000+ photos and videos on my main photo/video drive.  Sure many duplicates.  Still have a couple of other drives that have some photos and videos.  Anyway, getting there I hope.  Later.  Wasn't raining, but electric went out.  It has been doing that a lot lately.  Assume the hot weather.  It hasn't been staying off too long, but might look into a UPS backup device.  Never used one before, but if electric is going to keep going off on a regular basic.  Might try one.  Chance barked at something, but wasn't much, I guess.  With the 4th of July, everyone remembers U.S. beating the British, but seems like people forget there was another war we, U.S., fought with the British, the War of 1812.  My hat is off honoring those soldiers, as well.  Photo editor has recorded all my photos/videos but now it setting it up for AI.  Whew, computers.  Later.  What an afternoon.  Electric went out, at least, three more times.  Once for about an hour and a half and a couple of other times.  Not real bad weather here, but.  Can make a bunch of assumptions, but just going to appreciate it wasn't for too long.  Look into a power backup that can also act as an Uninterruptible Power Supply, but that would get a little more involved.  Power ain't surging.  Just shutting down.  So that is good.  Guess same old, same old routine, tonight.  Movies, emails, news, articles, maybe think of a new project.  Do have a nice evening, nice night, and happy, fun dreams.  TGIF for tomorrow.  Take care, be safe.  God bless.  Thought about a new office desk chair, but not sure if a new one would be better than what I have.  The confined space I have doesn't allow for much maneuvering.