Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️
@willotheglen.bsky.social
NorCal native, retired mechanical engineer, golfer, freelance writer. I like golf, cars, motorcycles, books, movies, whiskey, wine, and BBQ – not necessarily in that order.
Member GWAA.
Member GWAA.
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I mean, it's always hard to open a movie in a week of below freezing temps. And your husband is destroying the country. But that's every week.
January 30, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I mean, it's always hard to open a movie in a week of below freezing temps. And your husband is destroying the country. But that's every week.
Plugging along w-my self-imposed task of cataloguing my book collection. Am up to 916 volumes and anticipate the count passing 1500 with ease. This is reason #1 why do not intend to ever move house again – packing up and then re-organizing my books in another house is a daunting prospect.
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Plugging along w-my self-imposed task of cataloguing my book collection. Am up to 916 volumes and anticipate the count passing 1500 with ease. This is reason #1 why do not intend to ever move house again – packing up and then re-organizing my books in another house is a daunting prospect.
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Holding your mind focused when you need to work, keeping yourself and your dear ones fed and afloat and hopeful: this is resistance, too.
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Holding your mind focused when you need to work, keeping yourself and your dear ones fed and afloat and hopeful: this is resistance, too.
But it's not the sacred blue, eh @theauthorguy.bsky.social ?
When brilliantly coloured Prussian blue pigment was first introduced in the 1830s, it was such a novelty that some publishers produced aizuri-e (blue-printed pictures using only shades of blue) for the fascinated public.
🏔️ EAX.4386
🏔️ EAX.4386
January 26, 2026 at 9:08 AM
But it's not the sacred blue, eh @theauthorguy.bsky.social ?
Adding 15 feet of bookshelf on the only open wall area in my office has allowed me to re-shelve some books & open up my view of some VIBs* that had been hidden behind double-shelved books.
* (Very Important Books)
@theauthorguy.bsky.social @underwaterlance.bsky.social @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
* (Very Important Books)
@theauthorguy.bsky.social @underwaterlance.bsky.social @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Adding 15 feet of bookshelf on the only open wall area in my office has allowed me to re-shelve some books & open up my view of some VIBs* that had been hidden behind double-shelved books.
* (Very Important Books)
@theauthorguy.bsky.social @underwaterlance.bsky.social @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
* (Very Important Books)
@theauthorguy.bsky.social @underwaterlance.bsky.social @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
I appreciate that “The Pitt” is available with ASL ( for ppl who can't read the subtitles?) – but it shouldn't be the default setup every time I pull it up to stream.
January 23, 2026 at 4:26 AM
I appreciate that “The Pitt” is available with ASL ( for ppl who can't read the subtitles?) – but it shouldn't be the default setup every time I pull it up to stream.
I hate to be that guy, but…
the word they want here is “denied”.
the word they want here is “denied”.
January 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I hate to be that guy, but…
the word they want here is “denied”.
the word they want here is “denied”.
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SAFETY:
JD Vance: “Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe.”
Time since Denmark
has protected Greenland
without an invasion: 1100 years
Time since J.D. Vance's 5 hours
stormtroopers murdered
an American woman.
JD Vance: “Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe.”
Time since Denmark
has protected Greenland
without an invasion: 1100 years
Time since J.D. Vance's 5 hours
stormtroopers murdered
an American woman.
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
SAFETY:
JD Vance: “Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe.”
Time since Denmark
has protected Greenland
without an invasion: 1100 years
Time since J.D. Vance's 5 hours
stormtroopers murdered
an American woman.
JD Vance: “Denmark hasn’t done a good job at keeping Greenland safe.”
Time since Denmark
has protected Greenland
without an invasion: 1100 years
Time since J.D. Vance's 5 hours
stormtroopers murdered
an American woman.
I am cataloging my books and I am up to 403 individual volumes and am not even close to the halfway point of the count. Since I have multiple copies (intentionally, for different editions, different cover art, etc.) of some books the unique-book count is at 349.
Accounting for duplicates and…🧵
Accounting for duplicates and…🧵
January 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I am cataloging my books and I am up to 403 individual volumes and am not even close to the halfway point of the count. Since I have multiple copies (intentionally, for different editions, different cover art, etc.) of some books the unique-book count is at 349.
Accounting for duplicates and…🧵
Accounting for duplicates and…🧵
I don't know what’s worse – doomscrolling the news or obsessively checking the weather apps and the app for my weather station to monitor the all-day rain we’re experiencing.
January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I don't know what’s worse – doomscrolling the news or obsessively checking the weather apps and the app for my weather station to monitor the all-day rain we’re experiencing.
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And here I stand both to impeach and purge
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
And here I stand both to impeach and purge
Last night was (hopefully) the last night of holiday-lights lookie-loo traffic on my street. I took down my lights, etc. y’day btwn rain squalls and placed our traditional yard tree at the curb for City pickup – and this person saw fit to drag it into the gutter. 🧵
January 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Last night was (hopefully) the last night of holiday-lights lookie-loo traffic on my street. I took down my lights, etc. y’day btwn rain squalls and placed our traditional yard tree at the curb for City pickup – and this person saw fit to drag it into the gutter. 🧵
Delivering the cherrypicker that my Griswoldian neighbors will use to FINALLY take down their Christmas decorations.
January 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Delivering the cherrypicker that my Griswoldian neighbors will use to FINALLY take down their Christmas decorations.
Today’s Spelling Bee: I didn’t check “Hints” to see how many pangrams there were before I typed in the one that just jumped out at me, and it kicked me out (as a non-suscriber) with 15 points to the next level. I know that there is at least one more pangram, a longer one.
January 2, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Today’s Spelling Bee: I didn’t check “Hints” to see how many pangrams there were before I typed in the one that just jumped out at me, and it kicked me out (as a non-suscriber) with 15 points to the next level. I know that there is at least one more pangram, a longer one.
Cataloging my book collection (slowly) and pulled down a book that I don’t remember having read – only to discover several sticky-note tabs marking passages of note, etc. – proving that I actually had read it.
Memory fails…
Memory fails…
January 2, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Cataloging my book collection (slowly) and pulled down a book that I don’t remember having read – only to discover several sticky-note tabs marking passages of note, etc. – proving that I actually had read it.
Memory fails…
Memory fails…
Still sputtering along on in my sort-of-in publication-order re-read of the oeuvre of @TheAuthorGuy . After “Fluke” I skipped over “Fool”* and I am now reading “Sacré Bleu”, in my opinion the most challenging of his books… 🧵
* (I will go back and read the three “Fool” books consecutively.)
* (I will go back and read the three “Fool” books consecutively.)
December 31, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Still sputtering along on in my sort-of-in publication-order re-read of the oeuvre of @TheAuthorGuy . After “Fluke” I skipped over “Fool”* and I am now reading “Sacré Bleu”, in my opinion the most challenging of his books… 🧵
* (I will go back and read the three “Fool” books consecutively.)
* (I will go back and read the three “Fool” books consecutively.)
Hot take as the year wraps up: Nobody cares how many books you read (or listened to) this year.
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hot take as the year wraps up: Nobody cares how many books you read (or listened to) this year.
Au revoir, BB…
9/29/1934 – 12/28/2025 (date not confirmed)
9/29/1934 – 12/28/2025 (date not confirmed)
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Au revoir, BB…
9/29/1934 – 12/28/2025 (date not confirmed)
9/29/1934 – 12/28/2025 (date not confirmed)
Pleased to see “Midsomer Murders” back with a new season; disappointed, however, in the quality of the scripts.
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Pleased to see “Midsomer Murders” back with a new season; disappointed, however, in the quality of the scripts.
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If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!
December 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!
Holiday-lights traffic update for my short (675 feet, 16 houses) street in a normally quiet neighborhood: My motion-sensor trail camera recorded 2,215 images between 5:00 pm and 11:45 pm yesterday, a rate of one every 11 seconds (with a 5-second retrigger delay).
December 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Holiday-lights traffic update for my short (675 feet, 16 houses) street in a normally quiet neighborhood: My motion-sensor trail camera recorded 2,215 images between 5:00 pm and 11:45 pm yesterday, a rate of one every 11 seconds (with a 5-second retrigger delay).
I'm looking forward to this weather forecast to keep the hordes of holiday-lights lookie-loos at home and out of my neighborhood this coming week.
December 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm looking forward to this weather forecast to keep the hordes of holiday-lights lookie-loos at home and out of my neighborhood this coming week.
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Hot (and probably unpopular) take: “Wake Up Dead Man” left me cold. Aren’t there enough earnestly religious people making the world a miserable place without making a whole movie about them?
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hot (and probably unpopular) take: “Wake Up Dead Man” left me cold. Aren’t there enough earnestly religious people making the world a miserable place without making a whole movie about them?