Mark Twain on Procrastinating
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
— Mark Twain
Re: Ask for clarification
If you're questioning what someone told you for any reason, ask them for clarification. This post is a reply to Imperfect. On their post, they explain how someone asked them for help with something, a...
Turning personal experiences into posts
This post is born after an email exchange with Imperfect. I added their post Ask for Clarification to my Junited link list, without giving any clarifications as to why I liked the post. So when I got...
Junited 2026
I am joining Junited for the first time! During the month of June I'll update this post with links to content that interested/moved/inspired/baffled me.
Excire Foto 2027 released
Excire Foto 2027 was just released and it has one feature I really love and miss from my LR days: Map View.
My current version (Excire Foto 2025), which I just bought three months ago, does everything I want and need, but I'm very tempted to upgrade. Also: their Map View is powered by OpenStreetMaps, which is kind of a big deal for all of us trying to degoogle!
Costa Brava 💙 Travel Photos
Earlier this month we did a short road-trip around Costa Brava, all the way to Narbonne, Carcassone, then back home to Valencia.
Travel Sketchbook Vol. I
Our trip to Costa Brava and Carcassonne, Illustrated Edition! Here are the pages I created in my sketchbook.
Week 28: The Workflow
Another two-weeks long week, productive and filled with A-HA! moments. 🚗 Failed my driving exam again and now on a five months-long waiting list! At this point I am so pissed at this system that is de...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
I watched He-Man on TV as a 90s kid and was so happy about the new movie! But then I saw the trailer and it looks terrible. Has anyone seen it? Yay or Nay?
I suspect they'll only show it for a week here in Spain, so I need to decide kind of NOW if I'm watching in the theaters or not.
Back home from Costa Brava and Narbonne
Disappeared for a few days for a good reason: we went for a quick road trip around Costa Brava and Occitanie!
In only five days we drove 1600 km and visited Tossa de Mar, Peratallada, Pals, Tamariu, Cadaquès, Besalù, Collioure, Narbonne, Lagrasse and Carcassonne. 💙⛵🏰
I took my illustrated journal with me and tried to draw and write about the trip while on location, which proved impossible, so now I have half the trip on the journal and the other half I'll get done this weekend. I'm pretty happy with my drawings, will definitely publish it for the world wide web to see and rejoice in my art.
Decided to leave all cameras at home and shoot only with the Xiaomi 15U. Told myself I would be super mindful about every frame and shoot like film. Instead, got all excited about the different lenses, found a leica filter I liked, and ended up with 750 photos (and Jaanus shot about the same on his phone), lol. Hopefully, Excire will make it easy to cull. We'll see!
Watched: The Mandalorian and Grogu 🍿
Yesterday we watched The Mandalorian and Grogu at the movie theater. It was great, and in fact it would be impossible for me to not like it, as a Star Wars fan, a Mandalorian fan, a Grogu fan, so my o...
Week 27: E.T.
A two-weeks long week in the homestead. 🌱 This year I decided to not worry about vegetables and starting seeds in the garden; instead I was going to plant some hardy flowers and that's it. But basil i...
Watched: Person of Interest 📺
What a show! Visionary, prophetic, ahead of its time and a must-watch!
Jesse Livermore on the right side of market
"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
— Jesse Livermore
Bougainvillea
Seen during our morning walk today. And my first time posting to the blog from my phone! 📡📲
Larry Hite's trading rules
"I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1) if you don’t bet, you can’t win; 2) if you lose all your chips, you can’t bet."
— Larry Hite
Week 26: The return of the journal
🏋️♀️ Went to the gym 3x this week! The hard part is getting myself to the gym (which is inside my own house! I don't even have that excuse of being too tired to go outside!), but once I am done I fee...
Illustrated Journal journey, so far.
I have been trying to work on my illustrated journal since November last year. That's when I bought my little sketchbook and signed up for Danny Gregory's course. I thought Danny's course would be per...
Luneta
Luna woke me up extra early today. We went out before the first rays of sunshine showed up. We saw five or six wild rabbits, a squirrel, a cat, millions of colorful wildflowers everywhere we looked. Love spring!