Lion ponderings

  https://www.instagram.com/trifarahtops/  Hottie alert.  Her husband looked like a simp & shows up as a 3D artist.  Suspect she'll kick him out after the kid.  Went off grid in 2024.         Biceps of steel from rock climbing.  She looks incredibly conceited like Ego Monger.  --------------------------------------------------------------  Dreamed Russian Heroine & her sister were evading some zombies with guns.    They were in a big house with lots of doors, getting chased from the front to the back.  Was watching them emerge in the distance, from a hill.  Was feeling guilty over not feeling any more of the once grand love with Russian Heroine or caring about anyone anymore. At some point after 2020, asked heavenly mother to not fall in love anymore & it seemed to have worked.  Helas, it always seemed to be her intention for 2009 to be the last time.  Could only imagine hooki...

 Dreamed about getting hugged from behind & pulled back by Trophy Wife.  Tried to lean back & get lifted but she didn't try.  Then she was saying something like "we're too connected.  You can't go."  Tried to imagine what Trophy Wife looked like after 40, since she aged out of the grid long ago.  Could imagine she aged out of the polyamorous billionaire pool & became a cat lady. The goog showed her now renting in a 90 year old building but a lot more spacious than what lions have.  Need bathroom ventilation?  Open a window.  Need parking?  Fuggedaboudit.  A lifetime on a secretary income is a rough go. The attainable women were never able bodied enough to do anything depicted in any dream.  The worst thing that can happen is falling in love or having heavenly mother force you to hit on someone who wants you to fuck off, to keep your job. Trophy wife drained her inheritance on 6 months of travel & was an armchair...

   Principal recording finally ended on Escenas Romanticas, after 4.5 months.  Many days of lens correction, color timing, sound synchronization, camera switching, edit tweeking remane.   Recording has evolved to a process like movie making over the last 40 years.  Gone were the days of recording an entire piece in a day.  Then the days of recording multiple pages in a day ended.  A week had to be dedicated to just the 1 climax in the allegro, trying to get the crosspaw smoother.  Lions still had misgivings about allegro page 3.  Recording it in the daytime didn't go as well as night, yet the daytime recording represented more practice.  Lions just don't seem to be as focused in the daytime.   That was the 1st in a long Granados cycle which began in July 2025.  It was the most copyright trolled video lions ever made.  At least 5 users claimed it.  2 difficult Goyescas pieces & 1 dance remane.  Every...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZLOKK1_Tw   Estrin was always super positive on the value of buying pianos.  He always printed a dire headline to get the engagement & then spun it into a positive for buyers.  This time, dire situation for the manufacturers, manetainers, & resale value, but a great situation for consumers.  The mane problem, this time around, is a short term decline in Chinese spending, as the world's largest consumer of acoustic pianos.  There are only so many times you can say it's a dire situation for manufacturers, manetainers & resale value but great for consumers before consumers have to be in denial. For lions to part with $80k & have a large climate controlled room, it would now be a hobby of manetaining the instrument more than playing it.  Lions would have to take a class in tuning & regulation, buy the tools, & just do that, like manetaining an old car. It all makes it easier to imagine splu...

 https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/11/that-grok-applied-ipv6-style-pseudo.html https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/12/4adkycbbe-bordenaro-finally-caved-said.html  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-algorithm-spewed-some-stories-about.html  Continuing the saga of home recordings on acoustic pianos, 1 of the worst was  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWIgvubkk0   That was mono & more out of tune than lions ever heard before.  It reminded lions of the days their own piano would suddenly go out of tune after a humidity change. The idea of ever owning a large music room faded farther into the past. It would be quite difficult to manetain low, static humidity in FL or manetain the level of tuning required for recording.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   https://www.amazon.com/Guirnd-Protected-Memorabilia-Autograph-Protector/dp/B0FBWFR3ZZ     Ba...

 The X algorithm spewed some stories about wealthy but low status men in silicon valley spewing $50k & beyond to match makers after getting told to get lost their entire lives.  By 50, most of us have all the answers & not enough time for any more dating.  There might be some guys who still don't get it & resort to the big bucks  out of desperation.   Match making in silicon valley sounds like the mafia.  It's exclusively coercing & hustling women to notice men they give 0 fucks about.  They hire a female staff to impersonate best friends, create fake events, fake job interviews which are really dates. It's very rare for men to find any heterosexual relationship here.  They usually move out & find someone elsewhere, bring them in from elsewhere, or have an LDR.  The public figures usually have no problem.  The lottery winners hook up with lower ranking coworkers. Leaving a legacy is a big motivation ...

The tax code ever multiplies in complexity.  Where 401k catchup contribution was previously defined only by age, it now is defined by age & income.  Over 150k puts you into a roth 401k after $24500.  The lion kingdom, making below average income, will encounter the limit in 2 more pay periods.  Most everyone else in the bay area has already encountered it. Betterment only allows defining fixed percentages to contribute to the roth & traditional in every pay period while the tax code only defines specific dollar amounts to contribute in the entire year.  After the next pay period, the lion kingdom would have to change the setting to 55.56% in the roth 401k & 44.44% in the traditional 401k.  In 2 pay periods, it would have to be changed to 100% roth to keep a 401k rounding error from going over the limit.  Then, presumably betterment would cap the roth so the total of the 2 didn't exceed $32,500.  The settings would have to hit right bet...

   The old rose house in Titanic was in Ojai, CA in the script.  The filming location was never given.  It was probably a movie set in Baja.  It would have been expensive to stage an existing house with all that stuff.  It wouldn't be a retirement destination. The vanwives baja saga was pretty bleak.  Lots of difficulty importing water, having stuff disappear, organizing construction labor, getting approved, navigating bad roads, finding reliable storage.  The quality of what they show getting built down there is pretty low.  They have to repeatedly change storage units as places constantly go out of business, end up with shady landlords, or the government just takes stuff.  It doesn't sound like they're going to finish it.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switching to a marginally better government,    While there were many videos of th...

 Figured it wouldn't be time to start worrying until the last of 2 aunts entered terminal illness.  She was the 2nd fence.  That day finally happened. Terminal lung cancer, a natural cause of death.  The 1st was a plane crash well ahead of her time.  With the 2nd aunt on her way out from natural causes, the case for mom nearing the end became live.  Why heavenly mother picked mom to be the last surviving sister was an ominous sign.  It wasn't exactly a beneficial marriage.  Lions didn't react well to past deaths.  Coworkers have lost their jobs because of depression. Losing the forever property & the aunt in the same month was pretty brutal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new war on lung cancer began with today's speed running.  Despite the posterior tibialis, lions are still quite fast compared to 10 years ago.  Even a frigid 55F was no match for a 6 minute pa...