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.
Settling in for a rainy day. More than three times as much rain since midnight as all day yesterday.
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Settling in for a rainy day. More than three times as much rain since midnight as all day yesterday.
Citation CLS+ charter coming in to SJC from Seattle this afternoon. Hmm, I wonder what they’re here for? 🤔
February 8, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Citation CLS+ charter coming in to SJC from Seattle this afternoon. Hmm, I wonder what they’re here for? 🤔
Just throwing this out there in case anyone is unsure about this abominable usage:
February 3, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Just throwing this out there in case anyone is unsure about this abominable usage:
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 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”.
First below-freezing temp of the winter was recorded on my weather station this morning here in San Jose. Brrrr… 🥶
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
First below-freezing temp of the winter was recorded on my weather station this morning here in San Jose. Brrrr… 🥶
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.
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)
Reviving this sleeping beauty and taking her for a drive in the spring sunshine.
December 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reviving this sleeping beauty and taking her for a drive in the spring sunshine.
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.
I wait with bated breath…
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wait with bated breath…
Well, no excuse not to finish writing that novel, I have /all/ the words now.
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well, no excuse not to finish writing that novel, I have /all/ the words now.
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
A left-handed musket? #AmericanRevolution
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A left-handed musket? #AmericanRevolution
If you’re not shaping your leaf piles like wightish barrows what are you even doing?
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you’re not shaping your leaf piles like wightish barrows what are you even doing?
Rivet counter…
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Rivet counter…
“in their withering power”?
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“in their withering power”?
Show of hands – who is surprised?
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Show of hands – who is surprised?
I have been given to understand, from someone who is much more involved with Democratic Party politics than I am, that Schumer and the Hateful 8 were part of a cunning plan to end the shutdown and – well, fuck, I don’t know.
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I have been given to understand, from someone who is much more involved with Democratic Party politics than I am, that Schumer and the Hateful 8 were part of a cunning plan to end the shutdown and – well, fuck, I don’t know.