Scrapbook 2025- July & August

 Scrapbook 2025 - July and August!

1. Art Stuff
1. The Lousiana Channel
1. Pope.L about why we do art link
2. My own documents
1. Home AI prompts link
2. Gift Cards link
3. Household Item Finder link
4. Dave's Booklet (AKA blog index) link
5. Summer Cookbook link
6. Books to Read link
7. CCL dates and details link
8. Retirement estimate link (before TRS visit on 7/29/25... but really close)
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3. AI

1. The challenging thing about finding a job these days is that most people, especially young ones, are not aware of their own marketable skills and are not aware of all the possible careers those skills can aid. Google has a new, free, AI-based, web-based service, Career Dreamer, that will assist you to clarify your marketable skills, match them with possible kinds of jobs you probably didn’t know about, provide you with current job openings of that type near you, and then help draft a resume aimed at those opportunities. Google calls it “a playful way to explore career possibilities with AI,” and it’s a great use of AI. — KK

2. Use AI as a language teacherI’m learning European Portuguese, and I’ve asked AI to be my tutor. I use a prompt like this:  Have a simple conversation with me in European Portuguese in the Simple Present tense and correct me in English when I get anything wrong. Start by asking me about my day. If I respond with "t" repeat what you said in English.

3. Home AI prompts document (my doc) link

4. Food stuff
1. Henry's Farm newsletter archive link
2. No Waste Chef - on making sauerkraut link
5. Gardening
1. Indoor. How to replant a kiki YouTube link
6. Woodworking
1. Rolling Cabinet (my base) with drawers - Bear Mountain Builds link
2. Home page of Matthias Wandel - link
7. Music
1. Music Theory Minute - link
8. Books
1. The Walden Woods Project - Thoreau's Journal online link - link
2. Elmore Leonard's advice on writing in NYT link
9. Recipes
1. Honey Mustard Brussels Sprouts Slaw link
10. Online Things to Follow
1. Lit Hub - link
2. WonderTools - link
11. Miscellaneous
1. We live in an old house and the sewer pipes get clogged a lot. I got tired of paying a plumber $150 to clear the pipe every time it clogged, so I bought this $27 hose attachment, called a Drain King. It’s a rubber bladder that you insert into the sewer line opening. 
2. By adding "udm=14" to your Google search URL, you can strip away all the AI summaries, knowledge panels, and ads that clutter the results. This doesn't improve the actual search results, but it provides a cleaner, distraction-free interface reminiscent of Google's early days.   is it "&udm=14"?
3. I begin keeping a record of interactions with kids here
4. Household Item Finder my doc link
12. Outside/Traveling
1. Geocaching (Michigan DNR) link
2. Check in on Midwest Living for travel destinations link
3. UP vacation planning document link
13. Watch YouTube
1. an evening with Malcolm Guite (creative christianity?) link
14. Quotes
1. Every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they've become. - James Baldwin