It's a nice middle of the week day at the end of the month here in Pensacola, FL. I've been sitting on the front porch watching a busy world around me, with a small dog on each side of me, and their heads in my lap.

I just smoked a bowl and I'm rubbing their belly. I think Zen has arrived.

No idea where the roommate is, and I called my downtown bank earlier and asked Jessica if they have a coin counter so I can cash in a container of change.

She said "Sure, but only before 1100 or after 1330, because the lady that runs the machine is covering lunches for everyone at that time." I think I've discovered the magic time you should never do banking business!

There was also the last remnant of a relationship sitting on the patio table this morning. Andrew must have dropped it off sometime in the night, after Shelby returned the Mercedes to him yesterday.

This is my last Future Angels project.

One more wild animal here is the Florida Wild Boar, aka Feral Hog. Here's his Future Angels Base.

The other dangerous animal around here is the Florida Panther.

I've been capturing my AI images at 3200 x 3200, keeping the originals and then reducing down a new set at a nice square 800 x 800, which is fine for speedy slide shows, but nothing else.

As I'm migrating to video, I need to go full standard resolution of 1920 x 1080. So now I'm capturing at 3200 x 2188, which grabs a lot of detail, and is evident as my video editor brings it down to standard HD.

The Slideshow look great in horizontal phone mode, but is a bit smaller vertically. I'm working on that.

But, I think this new video is stunning. I decided to add a giant alligator as home base to the mix. Check it out, and shift it into full screen YouTube video mode!

I'm conceiving a new fleet of Blue Angels in the next ten years. I call them the Future Angels. Click the image below to see them, there's 24, enjoy.

I was struck by "bangel12" in my recent collection of Blue Angel shots. What a badass futuristic little jet!

Maybe our AI's do glimpse into the future sometimes...

I captured some great Blue Angels logos last night, click below to see them.

I've put together a quick AI summary of Poker for beginners. Click the image below to read it.

Yvette invited me to a movie this afternoon. This was the first time I've been inside a big movie theater in almost thirty years. It was called The Monkey and it was about a wind-up toy monkey that kills people in gory fashion, whenever it starts beating the drum.

She snagged us some great seats online and their was nobody in front of us. It was fun, good to get away from creating AI images.

I don't Drink OR Drive. I possess neither. I walk. On occasion I'm driven.

I have an old bicycle that weighs more than me. It's safer to leave it be, and walk.

Everyone has their issues and sometimes we can share them with someone, and talk.

But most of the time not.

Today I conceived some Hole In Space logos, and .com became the logical bottom extension.

I normally don't use chatGPT as much as I should, but I tried out it's Image Generator tonight, and this is what I got.

Interesting...

I almost lost my cool little metal glasses today. I braved the frigid cold this morning, which was hovering around 40° and is considered deadly to some Florida residents, to walk to the Dollar General.

With the Sun bearing down in a clear blue sky, it was a beautiful morning. My roommate Yvette needed kitchen scrubbing utensils, and we were going to Walmart today, but she bailed as the morning arrived in the twenties, and has been hunkering down with her dogs all morning up in her room. Hey, she's been working hard in school for the last four days, and deserves it.

So I found three scrubbing things on the Dollar each shelf, took my glasses off to check them out, and that's the last place I remember touching them. Then I paid my three bucks, and walked home with a bag of plastic shit.

Only when I got back did I realize my glasses were missing, and I had walked home without them. Pretty spaced...

So I went back. When I walked in they weren't on the counter and the pretty young black chick was in the back stocking shelves. I found the spot in the store where I bought the stuff, and my glasses weren't sitting there.

As I started to walk away I spotted a yellow basket on the floor, and then remembered I had a basket! Sure enough, I looked down into it, and there were my glasses, laying on their side and they were easy to miss!

I had suffered the bad karma of leaving the basket behind on the floor, which my pretty friend would need to pick up later, and walking to the front counter holding the scrubbers in my hands.

I slid the glasses onto my head, and carried the basket back to the front stack.

And of course I needed to document it (click below).

Whipped up a few more Coffee Cap logos...

I asked the AI guy to generate a marketing plan for my Coffee Cap idea. Then I asked him to create a web page from the plan that I could host on my server. Click below to see the result.

I took my Coffee Cap concept a bit further today. I used the image from the previous post cover, as the basis for the creation of a new logo. Then I applied the product name to it.

Here you go, click the image to see the new CC Logos.

I had an idea tonight for a fresh coffee making product, one that snaps on to the top of your coffee cup, where you place coffee into a filter on top, pour hot water over it, which then drains great hot coffee into your cup.

I described the product design I wanted created, to the OpenAI Image Generator, and got back some great designs. I changed the prompt midway through, to a flexible metal strainer, because a few shots assumed I wanted paper filters.

Overall, the results are fascinating. Some don't make sense, but a bunch do. Click the design below to check them out. I call them Coffee Caps!

Back in the mid seventies I was a hotshot computer programmer. Among many things, I consulted for an outfit up in Carmel Valley, an insanely cool place south of Carmel, up in the hills.

I met my friend Beryl there, and she introduced me to a guy that had a house high on a small barren mountain, South of town along the Pacific Coast. The road to his place was right off US Highway 1, it was a single lane, winding dirt road, up the side of the mountain. I drove this road several times, and always dreaded going over the edge.

I tried to describe it to the AI, and we couldn't really connect, but I ended up with these very nice images. Click the one below, to see the seven.

It's funny, but it feels to me like the East Coast.

I used a facial photo of me, and it kinda worked fairly well with this new set of site logos.

Click the image below to check them out.

The original photo for facial generation technique worked fairly well with this new set of logos for Yvette.

Click the image and see for yourself.

I think I've found a way to use a "url link to an image" as the basis for facial generation on openai's AI processor.

Not sure if it worked, but I tried that image I took of Yvette in the Cave, and I think they came out great!

Her favorites are 02 and 03. Click the image below, to see the latest.

We had a heavy thunderstorm roll over us last night. I knew it was coming and pretty much slept through it, but Penelope freaked out over on Yvette's side of the house.

Then I thought I would watch the Daytona 500, but they got 11 laps in and the same storm hit them. I've checked back a few times but they're still all wet, so I've bailed.

It's just me and the dogs here today, Yvette's meeting school friends, and it's been great to hang out with them.

I've had a chance to reflect on this new chapter of my life, and I love it.

My AI vendor keeps losing my Pro mode credentials, but I managed to whip up these logos for Riley. I can do better.

Click the logo below, and go...

Here's some logos I did for myself.

Click the logo below, and go...

Here's some fun logos I did for Yvette.

Click the logo below, and go...

It's been a fun day, went out for a drive up the road this morning to Yvette's favorite coffee spot, than we came back and she whipped up some delicious eggs (Florida raised), thick bacon, and French bread.

There is no dining table here in our place, so I've dug out the Amish cutting board I had custom made for Shelby up in Tennessee, a few Christmas's ago.

We can sit on the couch and eat off the board, as it lays on the foot stool. Easy to clean, keeps things clean, and works great.

Then we left the dogs behind and walked to downtown Pensacola for the weekend market.

A funny thing happened this morning. I was sitting on the front porch, waiting to hear from Shelby about wether we got vendor parking for the big Pensacon event downtown, where we're also getting free $50 tickets to hand out flyers for Dan's gun store.

Then Shelby calls at 1300 as the doors open and says come on down. Yvette was upstairs recovering from earlier banging the top of her head on the bottom of the bar. I went upstairs not knowing that, and said Lets Go!

She managed to get ready in a commendable amount of time, while I sat on the porch below.

I thought Yvette was on the porch above me so I tilted my head back and yelled up something through the slats in the floor. We didn't connect and all of a sudden I got real dizzy, actually pretty damn bad.

Turns out I was suffering from Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), which is triggered by specific changes in your head's position.

So I'm barely able to walk and keep my balance, and she's got a headache from hitting the Bar, but somehow, through insane downtown Pensacola traffic, we made it to the Grand Hotel, across from the show, and parked as crew at no cost. Shelby found us and showed us into a rear entrance where we were given a VIP pass each.

They had a great Virtual Range setup in a corner of this big event, giving out free shoots. We were supposed to be handing out flyers, earning our VIP status, but the printer was a day late.

So Yvette and I just wondered out into the crowd, I think really just for the experience, and the costumes, because all she bought was a key chain.

So here's my shots, some womans (I assume) ass.

Todd, Dan and Shelby.

...and the ladies.

The Valentines Party at Green Line Arms, is tonight in Pensacola. It's called Love In The Air!.

Meet my new roommate, Yvette. We get along great, and it turns out she's still only 49, won't be fifty untill next month. We both have our own spaces upstairs, and we share the rest of this cool place.

She's a smart sweet woman, on her own for the first time, kids grown, divorced. She's going to a skin school, she's proud and independent. Meet Yvette!

...and Sebastion.

It's kinda hard to work on my computer when I've got a sweet little guy making himself at home in my lap.

It's been moving day Wednesday around here. My next door neighbor with the exotic name, a pony tail, and a couple of Indian restaurants, is moving into a new house he bought locally.

Then a ragged homeless guy showed up with an overflowing shopping cart and moved in under the freeway onramp.

Then Yvette arrived with two adorable little dogs and her first load of stuff. I walked Sebastian and Penelope around the block, to cheers from the neighborhood, while she made herself at home in the kitchen and upstairs in her new room.

Sebastian has clung to me as his owner went back for her last load and a quick shop. He's on my lap as I write this, and was sitting next to me on the porch as the PoPo evicted shopping cart guy.

Turns out Yvette is fifty, definitely looks younger, and very pretty. Nice to have a roommate, and a couple new dogs!

Just a quick roommate update, Yvette came by at noon today, before Shelby arrived. I gave her a tour of the house, and she's all in. I like her a lot, I think we're going to become friends, and she and her two little dogs are moving in tomorrow.

btw: She has three grown sons, scattered around the country, no daughter...

Shelby took some remaining stuff up to her new place today, but left behind the little monitor she used for work. So I brought it out to the Cave and hooked it up to my laptop.

I'm not confiscating it, just enjoying coding on it. I figure if she needed it currently, she would have taken it.

So this is my little space in the Cave. The cup holds pure water, and I brought my meds out. The kitchen counter is now cleaned up and we're waiting to meet the new roommate on Wednesday.

I believe her name is Yvette, but who knows with my brain. It's going to be interesting.

I figure Shelby and I will sit down with her and learn each others stories. The main thing I want to make clear to her, is to ignore my current physical condition. Parkinsons is making me walk really strange, and my voice is starting to go. I'm stronger internally than I appear.

I'm also turning the living room over to her, with the big TV. She has two small dogs that I'm looking forward to meeting

I will also assure her that even though I stagger, I can still protect this house.

I walked up to the Dollar store for eggs and milk this morning, and as I came around the corner on Strong St. I saw a neighbors truck damaged bad. I see this truck parked here all the time and it's always parked off the road as much as possible, but somebody crashed into it last night.

I stopped to take a picture and the owner came out of his house from across the street and we chatted. He had no idea when or how it happened, then his neighbor, the cat and dog groomer came out and mentioned some other neighbors that had cameras.

I knew the girl, met her at the local bar and we had a date to get stoned a while back, before I got 86'd. I told the guy he should call the cops and I went on to the store.

As I was coming back, a police car rolled up and I hung out for a bit. The guy told the cop he parks as far off as he can, because the fire station is a block away, and he has no parking in front of his place. Tough way to start out a week.

Pretty cool day, I'm watching the pre-game Super Bowl show out here in the Cave, and the Blue Angels are roaring home overhead from the weekend. In fact they've come over three times now, not sure what's up.

I got a code bug today, and wanted to make a contact website for Shelby. We settled on shelbyhamilton.io, and I bought it. Then I called my server host and had them connect the domain name to a directory on my server, and we we're in business.

Now I'm building the site up and watching the Super Bowl. I wanted to watch the whole event on Fox, so I picked up a YouTube TV five day freebie, and I'll just cancel it tomorrow.

I asked Shelby for her best head shot, then ran it through OpenAI's image generator. I got a great picture out of it, which you can see by clicking her site profile picture in the upper left.

Or, I can just put it here, and you can check out the work in progress, by clicking on it.

I wanted something simple, clean and professional for her contact and events page, and I like it so far.

Remember, this is an AI generated image from a photograph of Shelby. Here was the photo it was created from:

Still having fun with logos, and added the website name to most of them.

Click the logo below, and go...

Another great day with my blog, and AI. I dropped all of the embedded IFrames and just went with straight slideshows based on the click of any image I choose to represent that collection.

Works good, sometimes you just want to show a bunch of images, but not stack them up on the page, and cramming them down into IFrames is cludgy. Now you can just click the image and drop into the slideshow.

Speaking of images, I started a new collection of OldManJim Logos at OpenAI today, and after exceeding their courtesy, they offered me a monthly Pro subscription of five bucks, which was better than our previous agreement, so I signed up.

Which means I can now generate amazing images using their genius mode, which uses all of the power of their AI.

Image generation takes longer, but it gives me what I want, and every time I'm blown away by what I get.

So click the damned image below, and have your mind blown!

I just had an amazing encounter with Microsoft's AI called CoPilot. I've been using him for various projects over the last month or so, but today I really challenged it.

I've been wanting a perfect image scroller, one that has left and right buttons on each side, responds to left and right keystrokes on a computer, and responds to left and right swipes on a phone. I also wanted the image file name to appear below the image, in case anyone wants to use it.

After a few versions, and explaining deeper into how I wanted it to function, CoPilot wrote me a great app. I wanted to just pass the app a directory name that contained the images, but it required some server side Node scripting, so I settled on creating an app where I include the filenames in the code, and just create a single html app with a unique name, for each directory of images.

Here's my first one, with the images I created for Shelby yesterday. I love it, it's perfect on any display, and here you go!

I'll whip up my other recent image sets with this code and include them here tomorrow.

Click the image below to start the new scroller. It can also be used as a link if you wish to share it.

These are 640 x 640 images, but I have all the originals in higher resolution and quality detail, if anyone wants to use them for publishing. Again, credits to deepai.org and the chibi-character-generator.

I was a hell of a web coder back in my early days of Tennessee. I started this blog about six years ago and then developed a bunch of tools for it. You can see the collection by clicking the Stuff button above.

Most of the tools still work, even though I gave up maintaining them a couple years ago. Some tools rely on other websites to still exist, but like life, they go away.

I was thinking about grabbing the domain name galentines.com for Shelby, but it was taken. In the process I saw some amazing stats about my tools.

The one with the most number of hits is called Place, and it's had 7,238,470 hits. Considering that a few mapping functions no longer work, that's pretty damn impressive.

As I was testing it out, I ran across one of my favorite creations, which had it's own domain at one point, but is now just a tool. It's called Nexht and still has some amazing map functions.

I also noticed another stat on my blogs Control Panel. It said I've got 73,408 files (images, code, posts, whatever...) up there on the server, out of 262,144 files available, so I guess I'm good for awhile.

Here's Place:

Here's Nexht:

Here's Nexht on my place.

I got a few requests from grand-daughter Shelby yesterday, she first asked me to take a couple pictures of her former, and now empty, booze cabinet, along with some shots of the exercise bike.

Both of which she would love to sell on Facebook, so I did:

Then she asked me to be here at 1100 on Saturday, to meet up with her housekeeper that's going to clean the shit out of this place before my new roommate arrives next week. I will do my part...

The final thing she asked me, was to create a web image to represent the Valentine Party happening at Dan's gun store with the virtual shooting range. Then she mentioned a table nearby with charcuterie and champagne? Then she asked about an upcoming "Galentime" event, with all of her hot mafia girl friends.

So I had a rockin good time yesterday creating images for both events, and shooting them out to her via text.

Happy Galentines! Click the image below to view them.

Here I am on a Wednesday night in early February, in the upper part of Florida, and it's been around 67 degrees. Tennessee is just a bit cooler, the mountains where I lived in Idaho are in the thirties, and Seattle is around fourty.

It could be better, Miami is going to be in the eighties next week, but I have no complaints.

I have a new roommate coming in next week. I have made a commitment to our landlady Shelby that I will be at my best, sober, and a great roommate for this lady. She's an Hispanic lady with a couple small dogs, which I look forward to walking. Shelbs said she loves to cook, so it's a good thing I'm doing this purge.

Life is so interesting, and I'm really glad to be alive to still experience it. I just thought about the fact that I have no family older than me, I'm the old guy, the matriarch.

I made my first TikTok purchase the other day. I'm pretty paranoid about using my debit card for this shit, so I refreshed my PayPal account, and used it. The shipper said it would arrive in a week, but it got here in a few days. The small package was sitting on the front porch this afternoon.

So what the fuck was OldManJim's first purchase? The one they're pushing hard (so to speak) is a bottle of Nitrous Oxide to increase your blood flow, which helps your dick get hard, along with some other pills that shrink your Prostate and restore your flow.

Ok, maybe I could use both those things, but I went with the two week Colon Cleanse. A couple of brown pills taken daily which are supposed to drain all the old shit out of your intestines, and make everything clear from top to bottom. Like you could swallow a quarter and it would come out your ass clean an hour later.

So I spent $18.97 for two bottles of 30 pills each, and why I need two bottles I don't know. To make sure I was getting the right stuff I found it on Walmart for $15.04 with taxes included for one bottle, so I got a good deal and it's the real stuff.

As soon as I opened the package, I took a couple of those brown pills from one of the bottles. It's been a couple of hours, I'm writing great code here in the cave, and nothing has happened yet.

Here's a page from Amazon, where they're still selling it for more than TikTok.

I was sitting out on the front porch today, thinking I should have walked the ten blocks to the store on this nice day, but I just sat there.

I spent all morning in the Cave writing code and putting together a slide show for Dan's gun store. I'm not sure if he has any use for any of the 81 images, but it was a good exercise for my old brain.

I found out yesterday that Riley's boss has an attachment to their existing Auto Body shop logo. His daughter designed it and family comes before quality, so I get it.

As I sat on the porch I watched a tall lanky black guy hanging out under the freeway onramp, just across from me. It got me to thinking about what he's thinking.

There are options for the homeless here, but when your brain taps out, the only option you have is to crawl up the concrete ramp and sleep in the narrow space at the underside of a busy freeway.

I met a bunch of these folks when I worked the soup kitchen last year, and they define the word broken. I often consider myself broken, but I have to admit I'm far from that.

Thanks to Shelby I still have a roof over me, and my brain still works. I can only watch that poor man across the street now, and realize how lucky I am.

I've created 81 logos for Dan's gun store, Green Line Arms, located at 1350 South Blue Angel Parkway, Unit D, Pensacola, FL 32506'

Click the image below to see them.

Well, I just created some cool shit today. I went back to my old buddy, DeepAI, and created twenty fun OMJ logos. Then I realized that I couldn't realistically show all of them sequentially in a Post, so I created a slide scroller, and it runs right here in my Blog.

Click the image below to view them.

I created a bunch of cool OMJ Moon Logo images before picking my favorite, so I thought I would just share the others here:

Click the image below to view them.

What an interesting process I have gone through to create my recent code based projects. There was a time back in the early days of this blog, that I was at the top of my web programming game. I knew most everything I needed to know, to create new stuff.

Then I lost it. I honestly don't know how, age, brain damage, booze, or something else. I stopped writing code and just focused on using what I had previously created, to embarrass myself by blogging the truth about me.

And then along came AI, and I can now ask it how to do something I once knew how to do, but forgot.

Like how to gently rock a round image with CSS, and then embed an event into the frame, and make it go to another page when the user clicks on it. I know that sounds simple, but it ain't.

Microsoft's CoPilot is a brilliant programmer, and generates the code I need, that I used to know, just by asking for it. I still need my remaining skills to implement it, but damn, it's fucking amazing!

It can even create a complete page from it's response to the question I asked. For example, I asked "How to Stop Drinking Alcohol Forever" and it generated a great bulleted response.

Then I told it to make a web page out of its answer, and it created one, which I pasted into my text editor as a block of HTML code, named it Quitting, and then uploaded it to my server. It took me a minute.

Here's another I just created about selling stuff on Facebook.

Click the logo to visit my son's autobody shop! 28872 Pacific Hwy S, Federal Way, WA 98003

Most of the people in my life have bailed on me, and I get it. Many regrets, and a bunch of I'm sorry, have gotten me down to two that have impact.

I have this roof over my head for a while, and a new roommate is on the horizon. My requirement is sobriety, which I will commit to.

The van Riley was trying to score had already been bought. I told him that everything now depends on my ability to still drive.

Which is a big question, as I deal with my ability to walk. I layed off my meds for a couple of days and felt ok. Then I started them back up today and I have been staggering around the place like a dizzy old fool ever since.

But I wrote some good web code today, and it felt good...

In the meantime, here's some kisses from the Cave.