Brian Schnabel's Head Space
Where Magick and Mind Digitally Interlace.

A Week’s Insightful Beginning: Healing, Productivity, and Digital Minimalism

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 2:31 AM: Reflection and Release: I got a text from my cousin Stacy last night that she’s going to get me connected with Aunt Pat on the phone so we can talk. I feel a little anxious about this, but my aunt Is a lioness through and through despite her failing health, so I think we’ll be ok.

It’s the thoughts of Dear old Dad and how I’d like to strangle the son of a bitch for his lies that are truly making my blood flow upon waking. But I think that it will die down in time, me having called him out on his crap in a letter, which was sent on Friday. He will soon know my trust for him is zero, I know about his fraudulent activities using my services, I believe his latest story about his will are fairy tales, and he’s no longer welcome in my home.

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 7:59 AM: Actions for Today: I am looking forward to meeting with Marilyn and Michael for lunch. Also, I’m thinking the call with Aunt Pat should go easy, too.

At some point, I need to get my journal entries printed out, posted online, and figure out which days to designate for which tasks. I like the idea of doing laundry on Thursdays because that’s when I always seem to end up doing it. I can clean the apartment, too.

Mondays are cool for doing financial stuff and taking care of the shopping. Maybe Tuesday should be the day of reading and research while I make Wednesday the computer programming day. Fridays and Saturdays? “I’ll need to think on that!”

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 8:17 AM: Visions and Dreams: I had one vision in which I was talking to Alexa, the Amazon app being built into an AC in my kitchen. I don’t remember exactly what I was attempting to get her to do but I do know this. If there is any good time to be doing Remote Influencing exercises, that time is between now and Thursday when it’s cloudy and cold out.

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 11:35 AM: Accomplishments and Gratitude Practice: I did spin for around 10 minutes, took a shower and got as far as printing out my journal, volume 7 now occupying the first 21 pages of its new binder. I even rinsed out the coffee pot, and associated components which are now drying in the dishrack next to the sink. I think we are off to a good start today, Marilyn and Michael probably will be calling soon to give me a travel update.

The anxiety level is at a dull roar, too. The anger that I feel towards Dad is just going to have to go back around to him, his energy needing to keep to itself.

All in all, it will be a good day. I’m in the flow. And so, it shall be.

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 9:12 PM: Intentions for Today: I’m going to have to think about how I want to continue putting my blog online. Based on what I’m seeing of the pending WordPress 7 update, it really is becoming a bloated platform that is way more complicated than it needs to be given the much more secure methods of web development available.

Option A: Build plugins to disable any functionality I don’t like if possible.

Option B: build my own version of blogging software that creates pages in a manner that is acceptable to me. Hell! Given what information Copilot has generated on the subject, I could easily do one version of the blogging engine for each section of the website. I will explore that idea more on Tuesday.

Perhaps I can get another vision that will give me a clue? “I’ll keep an eye out for that.”

Sunday, January 4, 2026: 9:24 PM: Accomplishments and Gratitude Practice: Lunch at Five Guys with Michael and Marilyn was good. Marilyn definitely seemed tired though. It was loud in the restaurant though and I’m glad I didn’t try walking there because it was way away from where I thought it was.

I got the posts up for the rest of this past week. The call from my nephew was unexpected but cool and I hope the family enjoyed their turkey at Duke and Dawn’s. It seems so strange that some people actually like their in-laws. “It’s cool though!”

I feel like I got enough done for today. I even got a meditation in, just clearing my mind and relaxing my body felt good.

Yeah, it was around sunset and cloudy out when I did it. But I was pushed out of it every time I went beyond relaxation techniques. “It happens!”

Monday, January 5, 2026: 8:17 AM: I didn’t get much sleep last night and had a mother of a time making it through a Silva Centering exercise once cleanly, having restarted it three times before I felt I had done a satisfactory performance. However, perhaps this isn’t a bad thing.

All morning long I’ve had the strong sense that I really need to stick with the plan to run an HTML powered blog instead of WordPress, which is now to include AI from what I understand. I see which way the wind is blowing and I don’t like it. “The WordPress Platform is full of bloat as it is.”

Again, the image of my site with just the Profile Navigation bar to the left kept entering my mind. There was an addition though. A “latest posts” link at the top of the page and a “previous posts” link at the bottom.

Also, I’ve overcomplicated things for myself with the categories so I’m doing away with that in my journaling practice. Tomorrow will still be a reading and research day. However, come Wednesday, I will set up the template for a relaunch of the site in HTML format, with a few possible twists, depending upon how well my research goes.

For now, I’m thinking the following:

• The home page will be a redirect to the first link of the blog, which will be the last date in the series displayed on the page from oldest to newest.
• The URL will look something like https://brianschnabel.com/journal/2025/12/28/ and will be handled by a redirect via the root “index.php” file.
• Each page of the site will contain a weeks’ worth of journal entries, unless the page is insanely long, in which case it will be broken up into multiple pages, length to be determined by my research.
• Titling of pages will be determined upon creation as will the excerpt and key words for each.
• Depending upon the details of what I learn from my research, I may be able to create a tiny blogging engine to assist me with this task. But I’m not big on the idea of screwing around with complicated programming that the server may or may not allow for when I really want to be writing. It might be more efficient to develop something locally that will help me speed things along though before uploading. So, I will devote some time to that.

Research and reading Tuesday will also include some time devoted to looking for guided meditations from Standford and other leading Universities who have taken the time to look at Mind Science seriously from all angles. I might be able to find some stuff from Cornell University, The Munro Institute, and Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Depending upon what your idea of a good time is, “It should be fun!”

Monday, January 5, 2026: 4:05 PM: The financial stuff is done for today. Checks deposited, budget set, new year set up in the cloud. “All done for now!”

I also got some spin time in and have begun setting up a second account on this PC that will primarily be used for long term storage. A third account will soon follow that will be used for sharing data with the general public. You might say I’m spreading myself out a bit.

I am not happy with Epson. They actually made the ET-2803 printer so you can’t ignore the low ink warning anymore and have to recalibrate the ink levels from the damn display on the printer, which isn’t accessible to the blind. “Assholes!”

I don’t know why the company can’t at least put something in the firmware settings that would enable someone to simply set the calibration to full. But “It’s probably too Woke and difficult for them to use common sense in their little DEI world.” Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is “such bullshit”.

Fortunately, Ellen was able to help me out via Facetime. And… Umm… If you think that totally uninstalling and reinstalling the printer’s software from all devices would have overridden the calibration requirement, “Think again!”

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!”