A Brother's Five-Year Retirement Plan Connie, You Are Not Too Late You have spent your life taking care of other people. Now we build a system that makes sure Future Connie gets taken care of too. Connie, I want to write this directly to you because this is about more than money. It is about what happens next. You and I have spent most of our adult lives taking care of other people. You became a nurse. I became an MRI technologist. We built careers where somebody else was usually having a very bad day when they walked through the door, and our job was to keep our heads, figure out what needed to happen, and help get them through it. Now I want to apply some of that same thinking to you. Not because you're in trouble. Because I think you're actually in a much better position than you realize. ...

Saying goodbye to one summer star — and planning the 2027 comeback. There comes a point in every garden season when you have to admit that one of your plants is done. Today was that day. Not because the zucchini stopped producing. Not because I got tired of eating zucchini. And certainly not because I suddenly decided I had enough zucchini. This plant had been a workhorse. Then she started looking tired. Then she started wilting. And finally she collapsed into the unmistakable posture of a zucchini plant saying, I have given you everything I have. At first I was hoping it might just be heat stress or some temporary problem. Zucchini plants can be dramatic. One hot afternoon and they sometimes look like they have already contacted an attorney to settle their estate. But this wasn't drama. I checked the base. Frass. Lots of it. The murderer had left evidence all over the crime scene. My zucchini had a squash vine borer. An...

MRI Safety Navigator: A Better Way to Research Implants https://mri-safety-navigator.deepdive-n1i.chatgpt.site Every experienced MRI technologist knows the moment. The schedule is moving, the patient is waiting, and an implant suddenly becomes the most important object in the building. Sometimes there is a clean implant card with a manufacturer and exact model. Sometimes there is a partial operative note, an old device description, or a patient who understandably remembers only that “they put something in.” Then the real work begins: identify the complete system, locate the controlling documentation, compare every condition with the planned examination, and document why the scan can—or cannot—move forward. After roughly 25 years working around MRI safety decisions, I wanted a better starting point. That led to the MRI Safety Navigator , a free browser-based research and documentation tool designed to organize the first stages of implant investigation. Bottom Line MRI Saf...

Bottom Line: Building an AI system is surprisingly easy compared with cleaning one up. The hard part is not deleting old code. It is deciding which lessons, safeguards, and proven workflows deserve to survive. This sentence is the publication verification marker for the AI Factory cleanup article. When Experimentation Works a Little Too Well Give an AI agent enough time, Git access, a few APIs, some Python, and a mildly obsessive human operator, and eventually you do not have a project anymore. You have an archaeological site. There are working tools. Half-working tools. Experiments that became production systems without anyone officially declaring them production systems. Old branches containing one brilliant idea buried under hundreds of outdated files. Documentation describing architectures that stopped being true months ago. New systems that solved problems the old systems were specifically designed to solve. Then someone asks the terrifyingly simple question: “Can we cle...

I Hired an AI to Help Me Build the AI That Helps Me Finish What the First AI Started Bottom Line: I am experimenting with a simple development workflow: use the most capable AI for the hard engineering, and use a local AI running on my own computer for the repetitive work. There is a point in every automation project where you realize something slightly ridiculous has happened. You started using artificial intelligence because you wanted to save time. Then you built an automation to save more time. Then that automation needed maintenance. So you brought in another AI to help maintain the first automation. And suddenly you are sitting at your desk thinking: I hired an AI to help me build the AI that helps me finish what the first AI started. Welcome to Project Attila. What Project Attila Is Attila is deliberately small. It is not an AI writer, not a giant social-media dashboard, and not another all-in-one marketing platform. The idea is straightforward: bring ...

Michigan Baseball • 30th Season 30 Years of Luglife! Baseball, Big Lug, Honolulu Blue and three decades of Lansing memories at Jackson Field. Bottom line: Thirty years after the Lansing Lugnuts first took the field, the formula still works: summer weather, minor-league baseball, a ridiculous mascot, a giveaway you suddenly cannot live without, and another memory added to three decades of Luglife. Thirty years is a long time for anything to survive, especially something built around summer nights, foul balls, mascot chaos, cheap beer and the stubborn belief that a minor-league baseball game can still feel like a major event. That is basically the story of the Lansing Lugnuts. Tonight, sitting above the field at Jackson Field while the grounds crew finished its work and the late-August sun stretched across the infield, the anniversary suddenly felt less like a number printed on a logo and more like a piece of Lansing history that is still alive. ...

We came to Columbus with two e-bikes, a birthday, and a loose plan. We left with a route through the city that no standard weekend itinerary would have given us. Our Columbus trip ran from Wednesday, August 12, through the weekend, with an apartment near 431 West Rich Street in Franklinton as the center of everything. We were close to the Scioto, close to downtown, and close enough to restaurants and breweries that even the days without a long ride still felt connected to the city. The e-bikes changed the scale of the trip. Columbus did not arrive as separate neighborhoods visited by car. It unfolded continuously: Franklinton into the riverfront, German Village into downtown, downtown into Ohio State, and the Olentangy corridor north toward Clintonville and the Park of Roses. That continuity became the real story. Wednesday: learning the neighborhood We arrived around midday and began at Club 185, an authentic neighborhood bar where Columbus felt local bef...