March 1, 2026  Spring is just around the corner!

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Updated:  03-01-2026.

February 28, 2026  Coming Soon!   Pick'n and Grin'n 2026

EasyMusic.ai (free version) generated instrumental and Vocal  music based on my input regarding title, genre, tempo, mood, instruments (banjo, guitar, fiddle, string bass, mandolin, drums), and a vocalist, along with a brief description.  EasyMusic then created a "Style" followed by four versions of the song.  EasyMusic provided its own lyrics. 

EasyMusic's Style:  "This 1970s bluegrass country tune bursts open with breakneck flatpicked guitar and sharp banjo rolls in locked syncopation. A doghouse bass keeps the rhythm taut and pulsing, while crisp mandolin chords punch through the verses. Fiddle licks add bite between energetic breaks." 

Vocal segments of each song were deleted with Audacity--the remainder was saved in its original Mp3 format.  All versions have been substantially shortened.  Here are the instrumental demos:

Image Source:  Gemini, SketchUp, and GIMP

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February 17, 2026  Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year 4724 -- Year of the Fire Horse  (Image Source:  Google ImageFX)  

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February 11, 2026  Conversation With Elfsight Virtual Assistant – Verifying Today’s Retraining Session

Retraining Elfsight's  AI Virtual Assistant  manually to reflect recent updates posted to this website requires only a few minutes.  It includes Logging into Elfsight, Individually selecting pages that have been updated, clicking the retrain option, and waiting for each page retraining to be completed (usually less than a minute each), and then logging out.

Retraining was performed for only four page-links today (Home, Food, Miscellaneous, and More . . .).  The content of this website is not time sensitive--it is updated monthly at least once so that Virtual Assistant responses remain current.

The following is a quick check of today's retraining session:

I asked:

"Are there any posts or PDF file links on the subject of Inflation that have been posted recently? If so, please describe."

3:38 PM

Thinking...

Virtual Assistant said:

Yes — recent Inflation posts / PDF links

• March 7, 2026 — "Family Dynamics' Influence on Inflation" (PDF). A short economics piece (1,111 words, 5 pages) exploring how family-level decisions and behavior can affect inflationary pressures.

• March 6, 2026 — "Seventy Years of Inflation" (PDF). An overview (865 words, 3 pages) that reviews inflation across a long historical span.

• September 11, 2024 — "Inflation in America" (PDF). A ChatGPT‑generated response addressing four questions about inflation in the U.S.; linked from the Artificial Intelligence section.

• January 26, 2026 — "Settling the National Debt" (PDF). Although focused on the national debt, the post discusses inflation, printing money, and fiscal tools; includes a 10‑page PDF.

• Various practical posts about inflation’s effect on living costs (food budgeting and estimating inflationary impact) are included in site content and archived documents (examples in Food and budgeting posts).

If you’d like, I can open any of these PDFs and provide a longer summary or extract specific sections. Which one should I pull details from?

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Comment:

• Note March, 2026 content has been purposely post-dated.

• Other key words to investigate:  Composition, Writing Coach, Satirical, Humor, Nostalgia, and Economics that are contained in link descriptions, for example.  Many are included within PDF file link names or in titles of posts.
  
  

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February 2, 2026  Groundhogs Day -- The Report:  "Six more Weeks of Winter"  

February 1, 2026  The Joy of Reading (and writing) -- Comments about Interactive Advantages of AI

I experienced the transition from radio to television as a child and never fully appreciated reading stories, magazines . . . (Continue reading Click Here (PDF file, 803 words, 2 pages).

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January 9, 2026  More Music Video and Audio -- Click Here:  The Cubbarooska  (Mp4 file, 16m, 07s)

The Cubbarooska Up Tempo Album/Music Video consists of a compilation of four versions of an AI generated song created using an online Lyrics to Music app in addition to Audacity and Movie Maker.  Still images were added for the video portion.  The Cubbarooska Album contains experimental soundtracks with fluctuations in tempo that were edited with Audacity.

See the Audio and Sheet Music Page linked on the left or above for more information and software reviews.  Mp3 Audio singles of  Versions 1 -- 4 are also linked at that location.

January 5, 2026  Music Video -- Click Here:  Wild Country 2026 Album  (08m, 52s)

January 2, 2026  Chrome's AI "Ask about this tab" vs Elfsight's "Virtual Assistant ChatBot" -- Similar Apps 

Several months ago, I added "Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot" to this website.  More recently,  Google Chrome has included the "Ask about this Tab" feature on the home page of its web browser.

Now, Chrome users can use the AI feature, "Ask about this tab", to further explore a previously visited web page from a prompt--typically to query or summarize similar to Elfsight's ChatBot.  That is, it can provide key points in summary format or answer specific questions about the contents. The "Ask about this tab" option can also  provide linking information and then follow specific links if asked. 

Similar to Chrome's Ask about this tab AI feature, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot does not follow external links unless you first request a list of available link(s). Either app will summarize a  link's contents if you request it in your prompt (transcript example provided below).

In my experience, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot summarization, etc., works well with PDF files that I've personally authored or compiled.  When external links outside my storage area are selected from within Elfsight's Virtual Assistant's reply, the user is taken directly to that url upon clicking it--with no summarization capabilities from those sources which are beyond the scope of the app (??? I will need to confirm this--things seem to be rapidly changing).

• One advantage with Chrome's Ask about this tab is that its content is more current since Google Chrome and Google Sites operate under the same roof so to speak.  Elfisight AI Virtual Assistant Chatbot is manually re-trained with new data (as directed by me) whenever I deem it necessary to do so--usually monthly because content updates and new posts are infrequent.

• An advantage of the Elfsight ChatBot is that it allows the viewer to query/peruse my enitre website rather than a single page at a time.  To put it another way, Elfsight Virtual Assistant's output is similar but covers everything on this website and is not limited to a single web page.

As with other AI models, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant is very thorough.  Here is a transcript of a recent conversation where Elfsight Virtual Assistant has been prompted to search, summarize, and then follow a related link contained within the reply and provide additional feedback concerning the linked file's contents:   Elfsight ChatBox Conversation (PDF file, 427 words, 2 pages).

January 2, 2026  Something Fun to Try -- AI Music Generation Apps (November 2, 2025 Post)

Unfortunately, everything can't remain front and center on the Home Page for very long.  Here's something that was immediately buried on the Sheet Music and Audio subpage ever since it was posted on November 2, 2025.   For me, this activity is solely for experimentation, but there are others who may find that these apps have greater utility than merely for personal entertainment.

Links to Tom’s AI Country andCountry Western Music listed by genre, title, and file format—click to play:   Country:   Old Bill v1 mp3| Sober Up Sam v1 mp3 | Sober Up Sam v2 mp3 (another vocalist with a bit more twang), and |Country Western:  Robot Cowboy v2 mp3

Background Info:  AI music generation apps—where the user furnishes the lyrics, genre, mood, and a brief description.  The AI app(s) will then generate several versions within a few seconds.  These are unique, one of a kind productions where the user is the lyricist and the melody, instrumentation, and vocalist(s) are AI generated.

January 1, 2026  Happy New Year!

 Images Generated with Gemini
Edited with GIMP

January 1, 2026  Seasons Greetings -- A New Beginning

It is time to do some housecleaning here on this website's Home Page.  Previous content has been moved to a new page and can be accessed through this link:  Oldies But Goodies.

Lastly, the links that remain at the top of this page and in the left sidebar will reflect similar updates whenever it becomes necessary to make the website more convenient to navigate.

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