Sundry

Nov 07, 2025

“I’ve been watching Wheel of Fortune my entire life and I still don’t know how much it costs to buy a vowel.”

-Jason Keusch made his wife laugh on this day 6 months ago.

Regarding my marketing efforts

Ok, so I tried to make a marketing push a couple weeks ago. I mined every email address I ever had. I sent a too-large file to 285 people. I hate it.

I sent 422 text messages to phone numbers in my address book. Then I quit. Want to know why? Someone or somebodies, reported my text messages as Junk. Do you know what happened? My iMessage got blocked by Apple.

They didn’t even tell me. I spent at least 25 hours going over my settings and trouble shooting trying to figure it out. There were several factors that I thought may have influenced my operations: a brand new phone service provider, a new internet connection, a new VPN I was setting up to travel to Mexico.

I am not sure I have ever been labeled as Junk in my life, but it hurts.

The exercise what not an altogether failure…I received about 10 new subscriptions and a good amount of ‘how you doin’s, which was very nice. For my efforts I received this accolade:

What does such a ranking on Substack mean? Your guess is as good as mine, but I know that it is not a measurement of my acumen. Guess who was number one on the list: Rick effing Rueben. There is no way there are only 16 people between me and a musical production genius.

Bento Update (borderline genius)

Mark today on your culinary calendar.

It is the day that a middling ex chef artist, at 51 years old, downtrodden by the difficulty of the modern world, in a fit of unbridled creativity, to serve the needs of society and ordained by God through the Holy Spirit…

…invented the Quesadilla Crouton.

And through strife and blessings, as though his sufferrring was a purification for his soul’s purpose presented…

…the first and greatest quesadilla salad of all time.

A diced and refried quesadilla transformed, dare i say- transfigured into a holy and culinary relic Morsel only paralelled by apparition Our Lady of Guadeloupe…

Seriously- i diced and pan-fried a 3-day old quesadilla and it resulted in magic.

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