Knock, knock, knock!

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending March 10, 2023!

This is, depending on how you count, newsletter 111 knocking at your door! Won’t you let it in? “My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one”—AL, I.48

This week I mostly did more work on The Winged Beetle and Hermeneuticon. There’s also new German folklore to check out for this month from Jürgen Hubert.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every ongoing Patron on Patreon, Subscriber at Bandcamp, and Member on Ko-Fi for making the work of the library possible!

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One might be forgiven for at least crossing fingers

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending February 24, 2023!

This week I did a bunch of work on entries for Hermeneuticon, adding new stuff and new kinds of stuff. I also had to figure out and fix some display issues caused by Google on the site, which led to a whole can of worms across site and blog both.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every Patron and Subscriber for making the work of the library possible!

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Let this be another periodic reminder to you: backup your files today

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending February 17, 2023!

This week I discovered that the internal disk on my daily driver desktop is failing, so I spent way too much time checking that I had good backups, refreshing backups, copying backups, implementing an external boot drive, and so on and on and on. Ugh. What a pain in the ass. But, whilst I did find some files munged, I appear to have not lost anything that wasn’t backed up in some fashion, somewhere. Still it’s a damned mess and bother, but not, I think, all told, the disaster it could have been if I didn’t have regular backups. Let this be another periodic reminder to you: backup your files today. Right now. Start or refresh your backups. I’ll wait.

In spite of all that, I managed to still do work on the site as I’m wont to do, including having fun reposting old and posting new memes for sportsball / Superb Owl sunday and venereal disease day, and VD quotes to the blog.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every Patron and Subscriber for making the work of the library possible!

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I don’t really have anything extra smart ass to say

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending February 10, 2023!

This week I worked pretty hard on a lot of content, including an entire issue in the JWMT archive, another whole raft of old newsletters their archive on the blog, news tales from Jürgen Hubert for this month, along with all the other weekly stuff; so, I don’t really have anything extra smart ass to say this week? I mean, lucky you? A reprieve! I got a lot done, so sorry, not sorry, I guess, right?

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every Patron and Subscriber for making the work of the library possible!

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it’s time to close that chapter

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending February 3, 2023!

This week I worked on adding new entries in Hermeneuticon and improving Trevor Blake’s OVO zine. I also created new Patron merch, and completely changed how I’m doing merch. I revamped the library’s Patreon and Ko-Fi profiles to better reflect the new merch regime, and all the changes recently made everywhere. I got started adding various old newsletters to the blog from various old platforms.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every Patron and Subscriber for making the work of the library possible!

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a bit of a journey full of surprises

Howdy everyone! Here’s a public summary of my activity this week ending January 27, 2023!

This week I continued to work on new server Crocell, and decommissioned a bunch more stuff including the HRMTC I∴O∴ social network and RADIO @ HRMTC, and am moving the Calendar, Zine and Newsletter to the main library blog. And, I created a new bit of propaganda and added more tales from Laura Gibbs.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

Thank you for visiting and being a guest of Hermetic Library. You help me be of service and make the work of the library meaningful. Especial thanks to each and every Patron and Subscriber for making the work of the library possible!

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banging my head against the wall for a while, as one does

This week I continued to work on new server Crocell, and decommissioned servers Abraxas and Furcas. I added the first chapter of St Irvyne, a Rosicrucian themed novel, by Figure Shelley and started adding The House of the Vampire by Figure Viereck. And, I’ve been working with someone on a cover for pretty PDF version of the recent zine issue, so there’s a sneak peek at the current draft WIP front and back.

Plus the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, meme, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

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♬ Action cat, moving quick, lookin' good ♬ passing through your neighborhood ♫

This week I’ve welcomed Crocell as a new trainee on the team of machines that run Hermetic Library stuff. Crocell is an experiment that I’m going to be trying to consolidate a few things, in order to reduce costs. Not to jinx it, but I’m hoping that will help me economize at least at least a little bit, if not more. We’ll see how it goes and if I can do what I’m hoping will work. I don’t have much else to say about that right now, but it’s been a big part of my week.

Plus, there the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, memes of cats and things, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, mail call, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

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Don't open it, Pandora! You'll let the Internet out! Run!

First week of the new calendar year! Hope your festivities were … festive. For my part, I was just hanging out with the library cats, as one does. But, I was most excited for perihelion, when the earth is closest in its orbit to the sun.

Speaking of perihelion, I’ve wrapped an issue of Hermetic Library Zine for January 2023! With that, I’ve started collecting contents for an issue at aphelion in 6 months. I also took a break from creating images for Goetia and tarot this week, but kept posting from the previous week (except not entirely cold turkey because I did create a meme). This week I also welcome Trevor Blake’s OVO ‘zine as a new Reflection, a restored archive of a zine that fall off the Internet. And, after a lengthy hiatus, I posted new merch for Patrons and on the public shop!

Plus, there the usual weekly stuff like almanac, propaganda, memes, calendar, zine, updates, quotes, reviews, mail call, and more!

And, as always, I worked on various other things on website, blog, and more … Enjoy!

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