Timow's Turf

Hey, what’s up? If you’re asking how I’m holding up—I’m still alive, breathing. First off, my lungs are finally calling a temporary truce. I’m no longer hacking up a lung every few seconds like last week. The trick was a tag-team of modern medicine and old-school remedies. After finishing antibiotics, I started pouring turmeric powder into hot water and drink it up. Turns out, that bright yellow spice really works—it’s dragged up a horrifying amount of phlegm from deep in my chest. It’s gross, but out is better than in. My chest no longer feels like a clogged vacuum, so I’m calling that a win. In global chaos news: just hours ago, Lula officially reclaimed the presidency in Brazil, ousting another Bolsonaro. The best part wasn’t the political outcome—it was watching those insufferable crypto bros on Polymarket get wiped out. Seeing self-proclaimed "prediction market geniuses" lose their shirts betting digital fun-money on the wrong autocrat is a rare kind of satisfaction. Wa...

Happy June! Let’s dive into the personal updates, the technical headaches, and the upcoming deadlines that are currently keeping my coffee maker running on overdrive. Let’s start with the big one. If you’ve been following my YouTube channel , you know my usual videos are relatively punchy. They sit comfortably in that 8-to-12-minute sweet spot—long enough to get into the meat of a topic, but short enough that my rendering computer doesn’t sound like a jet engine preparing for takeoff. Well, next Wednesday (June 10), I’m dropping a new mini-documentary. Go ahead and take a guess at how long the rough cut is right now. If you’re thinking, “ Oh, Timow usually pushes it a bit for special projects, maybe it’s around 30 minutes." Right now, it's clocked at 11 minutes. The timeline is a sprawling, chaotic beast. It is significantly longer than anything I’ve ever attempted before. I’ve committed myself to a strict "one chapter per day" review process. Yesterday, I made it pa...

Hello, Timow here. After 12 years, I find myself back on Blogger.  My old blog here was a mixed bag of memories—some good, some I'd rather forget—but here I am again, reviving this space for the time being. Unfortunately, this return isn’t entirely by choice. For these past three days, I’ve struggled to access my WordPress site (or others), even while logged in.  Here's the tracert test I conducted this afternoon. It’s frustrating.  My Jetpack app works fine on my smartphone, but my experience is frustrating! When I blog, I prefer working on it on a laptop and Chromebook over a smartphone. Typing on a phone just isn’t the same. You need to copy and paste the links. It's tedious. For now, Blogger will have to do until someone is paying attention to me. The next blog post on WordPress is scheduled to be on Monday. (I'll try to replicate that content here if the servers fail to respond.) ~Timow