We Changed the Simulatrix
There was no manual for what we wanted to do. We probably would not have read it, or followed it, even if such a thing existed. It’s only been maybe since this millennium arrived, that yours truly started consulting and following the assembly instructions that come with the item. We tend to assemble things backwards. It’s a gift. For this level of the “social media” thing, a practice was developed and an order maintained.
Super Power Tuesday. Flex’em up mi gente. Today is the day to strike your super-power pose, recite your super power mantras, and allow no one to penetrate your super-power aura.
The production process is basically, go outside and record some thoughts, ideas and observations as we’re walking to the market, the gym… when we were going to the gym, or the monkey-bars. Post production consists of editing, cleaning up the audio, that is, removing all of the ambient street-noise, dropping a little reverb into the audio, and then making the video collages for the audio. Then we assemble an episode, including editing for time. They are not 11 minutes 11 seconds by accident. Insure that we have all the pertinent numbers and dates correct. Then create an album cover. Also known as a “thumbnail.” Then we are ready for distribution.
We are still somewhat amazed that we can accomplish all of this on a device I’m attempting not to refer to as a “phone.”
Then we schedule the releases on three of the four platforms that host the Full Metal Ox series, (including Substack as of October 18th). We can upload to the platforms from the device. In fact, it’s more efficient to upload from the mobile, than from the laptop. Go figure.
We used to write elaborate descriptions of the episodes and whatever superfluous thoughts came along, but we got the impression that no one was reading them, so we dropped them.
As a side note, here’s something we noticed about, what we call, “gifts.” When gifts become products, most, if not all of the joy is drained from them. Writing and talking are maybe the only two of our gifts, bestowed by Universe, that have not been ruined by “formal education.” We may still benefit from some basic art/drawing lessons. If we go that route at all, it will be purely for pleasure, because AI can render most anything humans can imagine, or so goes the hype.
Today is the 2,060th day of what we’re currently calling the, “Vagabond’s Journey.” Translated that means we’ve posted at least one video every day for 2060 days straight. Plus some specials and experimental pieces. This is something both Ego & Universe agree that we can put out there to the audience.
Next step, is “promotion.” Simply announcing, for those who have resisted the call to subscribe, that a new episode is available for mental & visual consumption.
This is the part that brings us to the point. Since we started posting episodes directly to Substack, we don’t have to link the stack to outside channels. That saves several steps in the process. We notice the gaps. We are grateful for the time saved, however… I don’t know about anybody else, but when your boy gets into a pattern and that pattern changes, more so when something is missing rather than added, it throws us off a little bit.
For example, this is the final month of Hurricane Season, we mention this because today it’s raining. We haven’t had any fierce hurricane’s this year, if any at all. Indeed the search-bot just confirmed, “there have been zero hurricanes in the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season so far.” We have, however, had a lot of rain and your boy has been caught in many a downpour in 2026. Anyway, it’s a monkey-bars workout day. That’s four hours, including travel time, that the vessel will have to spend inside today. We can, should and probably will, workout inside today. We have light weights and we can always do push-ups. Maybe we’ll even record it for next week’s episode. Furthermore, if the sun does make an appearance today, we have the newly renovated neighborhood park 5 minutes away, that we can access.
We’ve mentioned several times, your humble vagabond is a “patterns guy.” We recognize patterns, but we also behave in patterns. We don’t acknowledge this very often. Nonetheless we are impacted by pattern-interrupts. On the upside, today’s weather yielded this little essay. We know, (gnosis knowing), that whoever finds this will get something valuable out of it, because it was meant for you to see, digest and grow from.
We are grateful every day.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay savvy, stay serene, stay sane, stay sovereign, stay subscribed.
Peace.