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

Tech Troubleshooting and Mindfulness Reflections: A Personal Journey

Tuesday, January 6, 2026: 6:53 AM: I’ve done a Henry Shukman meditation courtesy of Tim Ferriss and his podcast, the Tim Ferriss show. It was pretty good. I look forward to the next one in the series, to be released on Tim’s podcast this coming Monday.

I talked with my cousin Stacy last night for a while, her planning to call me when she’s at her mom’s house (my aunt) later today. My aunt is under hospice care and is sleeping quite a lot so the conversation will probably be short. I wonder if telling her the house is full of “Bring back President Joe Bidon” banners will make her come round again.

Stacy laughed when I suggested it to her. But, in reality, I know whatever I rehearse in my head right now, it’s never going to be what comes out of my mouth when the time to talk with my aunt actually comes. The terms and course of the conversation is guaranteed to be dictated by unforeseen factors. “I’ll just have to roll with it.”

I’m going to research this business with GEO Restricting traffic to Brian Schnabel’s Head Space today, me waking this morning with the sense that I know why things aren’t working as predicted, particularly where Bing and Google are concerned. My gut is telling me their JSON generated IP addresses are garbage and that the shared server is configured to disregard a majority of the “Order Deny,Allow” and “Deny from all” directives in htaccess. I need to use my test site to investigate the IP ranges further, flipping the script so I can see how the server is interpreting them through the IP Block tool in cPanel before I make any more decisions on how to best restrict traffic to Sussex County NJ only.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026: 11:11 AM: So, I’m on my own with regard to extracting already coded posts from WordPress. M365 Copilot’s half-baked information pretty much tells me all I need to know and the internet isn’t going to be much better. Years of experience tells me that. No worries though, “I have my original journal to work with.”

Tuesday, January 6, 2026: 11:22 AM: Useful information I’ve acquired this morning is as follows:

• Five type written pages generated by Microsoft Word 365 is the maximum I should incorporate into one HTML page on my website.
• I can write a PHP script to generate XML sitemaps for my website, executing it manually or via a cronjob on my shared server.
• HTAccess is better for blocking bad actors in a shared server environment. I’ve verified for myself that my suspicion is correct. “PHP in conjunction with .user.ini for loading isn’t quick enough to do the job when the server is under load.”

Wednesday, January 7, 2026: 5:49 AM: I’m not sure where the night went. I woke around 1:35 AM to use the bathroom but didn’t think I was sleeping after that. I did some breathing exercises and stuff like that for a little while. Then I checked the time and discovered it was 5:10 AM. Again, it was another one of those nights where I never felt myself fall asleep and wake up. “How annoying!”

I found the information I was looking for yesterday with regard to my website, Brian Schnabel’s Head Space. I also found a Hemi Sync track from the Monroe Institute and a few more guided meditations from UCLA Health that I think will be helpful to work with. I think I will be calling the Monroe Institute in the near future about possibly acquiring more material.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026: 7:42 AM: While migrating evergreen material to a second OneDrive account I did some Mindfulness exercises and the following affirmation statements came to me. As I spoke them allowed, I noticed my body was so relaxed I could feel the vibration of my voice all the way down through my abdomen. The statements are as follows:

• I am, and always have been, well protected from the greed, incompetence and prejudice of others, and this is so.
• I am, and always have been, taken by women acting on their newly resurrected sexual hunger for me, and this is so.
• I am in, and always have had, dominion over fire and earth, and this is so.

Thursday, January 8, 2026: 7:17 AM: I went to bed at around 7:30 PM last night. I slept pretty well, given the workouts on the bike and walk to Dominick’s Pizza for lunch; me doing this in between working on the server and moving evergreen files to account Number 2. I got greeted like a rockstar at Dominick’s before I ever reached the entrance to the place. “I guess they like having me there!”

I wasn't as productive with digital tasks as I wanted, but I learned that transferring files between OneDrive accounts works best with smaller folders. Moving directories over 14 GB seems to be a bit resource-heavy for the OneDrive system. Of course, it probably would have been smarter to “Copy” rather than “Move” a 29-gig directory but…

Today is all about cleaning up the apartment and doing laundry. The bathroom and kitchen need a good straightening out, and the place needs to be vacuumed, badly.

Friday, January 9, 2026: 6:56 AM: Another water main leak will be rendering Newtonian Gardens Apartments without water today starting around 9:00 AM or so from what I hear. It’s funny how Goldberg Realty Assoc always thanks us for our cooperation, “As if we have a choice.”

Such Woke Language for a company that is clearly not interested in DEI policy beyond appearances. Neither is the State of New Jersey. One look at what NJ has allowed Goldberg Realty to do to this property will tell anyone with half a brain that. Maybe when the federal government is done with Minnesota, they will stop by New Jersey next? “One can dream.”

Yesterday, I made a lot of progress cleaning this place up. Next week, I will do more with it, but so far so good. The laundry is done, kitchen straightened out and rock salt, gone. I just need to fold the laundry and put it away at some point today. All in all, though, “I win!”

Today is primarily Back Posting Friday until further notice. If I’m going to get this journal online in HTML format and kill the WordPress platform I’m currently using, I’ve got a lot of work to do. What will it achieve other than pissing more people off than I usually do by simply daring to exist? “I have no idea!”

Friday, January 9, 2026: 8:31 AM: On this coming Read and Research Tuesday, I need to look up the generally agreed upon best settings for operating Windows 11 with a screen reader. Copilot should be able to ace this task for me, and I can use that information to tweak my main laptop account if need be. I can also keep the info handy for setting up secondary accounts on the machine.

Saturday, January 10, 2026, 7:32 PM: I’m unsure if this morning’s vision affirmed my “well protected” meditation or served as a warning about a potential confrontation, possibly around 10:00 AM on a sunny morning in the very near future. Either way, it seems things will work out well for me, “Assuming anything about my interpretation is correct at all.”

My gut tells me the possibility of a potential confrontation is moderate to strong, given everything that’s going on. But the vision seemed to be indicating some sort of intervention on my behalf. If that’s the case, based on the vision, “I feel sorry for the dog that’s going to lose that fight.”

Over the past two days, I’ve begun experimenting with talking through my meditations, rather than just doing it all in my head. Doing this helps me to keep from mental drift but also lets me know just how relaxed I am via the sensation of my own vocal resonance. The more vibration felt in my chest and abdominal area while speaking in a relaxed manner the better. At least, “That’s the theory.”

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!”