How I See It: Reflections on spirituality, technology, and the art of everyday life

   Weekly Update 04/11/26 – 04/18/26 (hearing aids adjustment progress, FACTS credit card demo, rebuilding music library) This week’s update covers a mix of personal reflection, progress at work, adjustments to my hearing aids, and some ongoing cleanup of my music library. As part of my ongoing Weekly Update series, I try to document both what’s happening and how things are evolving over time. Well, I’ve been in shock for a couple of days. This started when I realized that Thursday was the 19th anniversary of Linda’s passing. How that is possible, I have no idea. Those 19 years have flown by. https://mrodell.blogspot.com/p/chapter-15-kitty-litter.html Things at work are going well. I have been working on getting eBiz data to post into FACTS for payments. I have also been preparing for a demo of the current way FACTS processes credit card payments. Since I now have access to Astra ChatGPT at work, I feed it all the FACTS manuals. I laid out how I’d like to present the ...

 This week’s update covers the Artemis flight coverage, what “eclipses from space” actually mean, adjusting to new hearing aids, and a shift in my credit card strategy. The big item this week has to be the Artemis flight. For me, the strangest part of the coverage was hearing reports claiming this was the “first time humans have seen an eclipse from space.” I knew that was inaccurate. Based on what was described, the Sun moved behind the Earth, disappeared, and then reappeared, effectively a sunset followed by a sunrise. We see that every day. On the International Space Station , it happens about 16 times a day. There are other eclipse-related observations from space as well. Astronauts can observe lunar eclipses from orbit. They sometimes see partial solar eclipses. There are also images taken from the ISS showing the Moon’s shadow crossing the Earth during a total solar eclipse. None of this is new. In my research, Astra (ChatGPT) pointed out that one of the early documented e...

  Weekly Update 03/28/26 – 04/04/26 (hearing aids adjustment, Artemis II launch reflections, early memories and Gemini 8, accounting principles insight) Well, it has been a calm week. Not much is going on, just steady progress. This update continues my Weekly Update series, covering work, health, and a few reflections that came up along the way. Things at work are going fine. The biggest event of the week was getting my new hearing aids on Thursday. $5,000 for what are essentially earbuds. They seem to be working well. Frankly, I do not notice much difference, but I was not the one noticing the problem. Other people were complaining that I could not hear them.   The one place I did notice a change was when backing up the car. The alert tone sounds different. The higher range notes that I could not hear before are now audible. It is also useful to be able to listen to things without bothering anyone by streaming directly to them. Another major event happened on Wednesda...