Brian Schnabel's Head Space
Where Magick and Mind Digitally Interlace.
Week of April 19, 2026, Personal Journal Entries: Blind and Living the Dream
Monday, April 20, 2026: 7:20 AM: This morning we begin a new, so to speak. I figured something was up when I saw that my 512-gig hard drive only had 81-gigs of free space left on it, and discovered Apple iTunes software was the culprit, it using 120 gigs of space via generating multiple copies of the same cell phone backup. The complete removal of said software went badly, leaving me with a PC that took 5 minutes to connect to the internet and radically changing free space on the hard drive. So, after running multiple hardware tests and a fresh reinstall of Windows 11, “It’s all better now!”
Monday, April 20, 2026: 8:59 PM: There was not much financial stuff to do today so I spent a bit of time touching up those things I did not get to finish off on my PC this weekend. Everything is functioning great for now, although you just never know which company is going to release a screwed-up piece of software next. Apple is out of my PC and will be staying out for as long as humanly possible. And… For good measure, I think I am just going to clean house on this system once a year, whenever Microsoft does a major release of Windows.
Monday, April 20, 2026: 9:04 PM: I began setting up a LinkedIn account this afternoon and will finish it off tomorrow. The only way you can get verified on their website is with a Real ID as opposed to a state ID and I suspect that going forward a lot of places will be preferring to work with people like myself who have one, especially when paying me for services. So, I guess I will be dealing with that before this summer is out, too.
Monday, April 20, 2026: 9:08 PM: I finally heard from my cousin last night and we spoke for quite a while over the phone. It sounds like things are going ok down there in Central Jersey despite losing her mom in January. She is going on a 5-day cruise with her husband of 30 years, leaving on Thursday. Today, my niece called me from school in Spearfish South Dekota and sounded better than she did last week. I had a nice chat with my nephew this afternoon, too. Everyone seems good for the moment.
Monday, April 20, 2026: 9:14 PM: The exercise program has been going well. I have slowed down over the past few days after hitting it reasonably hard every day for the past month. The positive effects have been revealing themselves most noticeably in my skin and it certainly is nice to be below 170 pounds for a change, even if no one else can tell. I think part of my overall improvement has to do with a better understanding of my sleep cycles but also the intermittent fasting every day without fail has factored in there somewhere, too.
Monday, April 20, 2026: 9:32 PM: Tomorrow, once I’m done with my LinkedIn profile, using Copilot as an idea factory on how best to fill things out, I will continue reading at least another chapter of Robert Green’s Art of Seduction. I’ve read the book before, but I’ve never bothered to attempt any kind of AI assisted analysis to see what’s practical for a blind guy like myself in each chapter. Sometimes the stuff Copilot comes out with is a bit of a stretch, even though it is pretty obvious to me that Microsoft’s AI is quite familiar with the material. But other times AI points out things I’ve never considered. So, I will just keep doing chapter reviews with Copilot to see what pops.
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!”