A personal journal from West Texas
Things I make, collect, notice, and keep.
I’m Tom. This is where coffee rituals, Pokémon cards, old stories, new experiments, and the wide Texas sky end up together.
Coffee journalBefore the first sipOpen the gallery →Featured game · Moon Lander
Bring it down in one piece.
An endless roguelite about gravity, nerve, and making the landing you nearly had last time. Every level gets harder. Every upgrade asks for a tradeoff.
Play Moon LanderThe living almanac
What the sky is doing.
Local light, weather, Moon, and the next useful thing to look up for.
Outside
Breckenridge, TXweather loading · almanac local
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Reading the sky…
Feels like —H —L —
sunset in
—Night watch
Breckenridge lunar almanac——
reading horizonSky altitude & temperaturerolling 24 hours
- Sun
- Moon
- Temp
Moon above horizon
Calculating tonight’s window…Weather and daylight affect actual visibility.- 01 Exposure
- UV —reading live conditions
- 02 Air
- — mphwind and humidity
- 03 Water
- —% rainprecipitation outlook
- 04 Sunset potential
- Potential pendingcloud layers near sunset
Finding the next visible ISS pass…
Recently tended
The current shelf.
Recent notes, kept separate from the older work below.
Rediscovered in the archive · 2015
Created Cabin
An older piece from the blog, brought back into view.
Read from the archive →The rest of the cabinet