Today was an optional federal holiday here, that fuzzy area of government sort-of recognizing a Catholic date while, according to the 1988 Constitution, pretending to be free of religious affiliation. It is a municipal holiday, however.

Jon Paul Gulledge works with the Acton congregation in Michie TN. I believe I saw this chart there which he created. It's a fine graph in chiastic form. I got Grok to translate it into Portuguese for my use here. Turned out nicely.

(1) Not so long ago I did a little feature or format, if you prefer, which I called 7Points. Should I replicate that here on a regular basis? It could have its own tag, even. Here goes one ... (2) Three things I thank God for: chocolate and bacon ... and goiabada; dropping a bit of weight in recent days, even with the...

The option to post paragraphs without titles is a fine one. I follow a Christian blogger who doesn't insert titles, and that's irritating, but his posts deserve them, call for them. A paragraph, not so much. So here's another testeroo, now that the domain seems to have resolved. The post-by-email option is attractive...

This is a test, says Olly, and I'm the happy guinea pig. After flailing about helplessly, I've been rescued so that I can now return to bigtime blogging. I considered reviving the old name, Random Variables, from over 20 years ago. But why not go with something new? On some social spots I've used JazMat, so I'll take...