Brian Schnabel's Head Space
Where Magick and Mind Digitally Interlace.
Week of April 12, 2026, Personal Journal Entries: Completing Tests and Meeting Requirements
Sunday, April 12, 2026: 9:41 AM: Stretching exercises while waiting for coffee to brew works for me. I’m noticing improvements in flexibility. So, yeah, the routine is worth it, especially since it’s been helping my lower back and hips.
With coffee in hand, I then began working a meditation involving the incantation for intimacy I’ve written in a previous post. I like Amazon Music’s Meditation Station.
Once I was done with coffee and said meditation, I then hit the road for my six mile Sunday loop. My fastest mile this week was 13 minutes and 53 seconds with an average of 15 minutes and 41 seconds per mile. I continued working my incantation (affirmation) throughout the entire trip, which helped crowd out more annoying thoughts as I went along.
It would seem that my brain will only be satisfied if I’m focused on two things at once, minimum. In this case, the task of cane travel plus keeping the statement running in my head. Strange perhaps, but that’s the way it is.
This morning I received messaging from the seer within that I might actually get a communication from Goldberg Realty this week regarding my lease renewal. I know there’s a notice coming to myself and them from the Housing Program in the mail stating my apartment passed inspection on Thursday morning so I’m thinking this is a communication of some sort beyond that. It would be so nice not to have to chase my landlord for a new lease for a change. But, there’s always a chance that Goldberg will be sending out a notification that is of a different sort, too. “We shall see.”
Sunday, April 12, 2026: 11:27 AM: I have a call in to Kim Miatke letting her know that I did get the paperwork for my housing recertification on Friday afternoon. I do hope things go smoothly with the Rockaway field office this time around as we seem to follow a major screwup cycle every other year since 2020. I’m not sure why that is but I’m hoping the cycle is broken this year. I left the message on her voicemail Friday afternoon, recording a copy for myself. “Digital records are my friends.”
Sunday, April 12, 2026: 4:59 PM: This afternoon, I had M365 Copilot run analysis on my past interactions with the DCA and learned a few valuable lessons about writing emails and the usage of subject lines. In fact: I now have a Kim Miatke DCA Cheat Sheet containing templates for the various types of emails I’ll be sending her going forward, right down to the types of subject lines to use. “Old emails are handy!”
I’m also told that I need to lose the habit of requesting Read Receipts from state employees. They say it can be a sign of distrust, adversarial, and doesn’t guarantee your email is being read anyway. Instead, it’s supposedly better to request a response in the email body. “Interesting!”
Wednesday, April 15, 2026: 11:01 AM: This week has been moving along steadily in a positive direction. Thanks to Ellen, I was able to get my paperwork done for Housing and out to Kim in a timely fashion. Goldberg Realty did in fact send me a lease renewal this year without me having to ask for it. Kim confirmed she now has a copy of that, too.
I got my Cologuard test kit taken care of, again thanks to Ellen’s assistance. It’s hard to do it all yourself when you’re blind and filling out labels is a part of completing the kit. So, her pen and two eyeballs came in handy after I had taken care of getting my shit properly packaged. Having dropped the Cologuard kit off at the UPS Store in Sparta via Uber, “It’s up to UPS and the lab to do what they do.”
Posting that's a little off the trolley at times... Brian is a single Newtonian Gardens Apartments resident, Self-Publishing Author, cPanel WordPress Web Host and Windows 11 powered computer tech. He’s a musician, sailor, hiker, cycler and some women would say, “Magical, too!”