Ok, I wanted to get this uploaded before my brain stops thinking about it. I wanted to show…erm…the path that I take to create/re-write the Mayan characters in a simplified script. You’ll see three titles: Stone (What was most often carved into stone), Codex (What was more predominately used in their books), and Mine (Which are the variants that I’m creating).

I’ll label these by their rows. So 1 will be the top row (and will include the codex form on what should be row 2), then row 2, 3, and 4.

1. You’ll note that the Codex form doesn’t look like Mine, as the Codex form would be too similar to other characters of Mine. The last two characters with Mine and with the Stone forms show how I came up with the design.
2. There’s probably no mystery how I designed Mine, as the Codex form is pretty much a copy of it.
3. Again, there’s probably no mystery how I designed Mine here, as well.
4. If you look at the affix (3rd character from the left), I took the circular part of the bottom, and only went up one side, then I used only two of the lines that span the entire width of the character rather than 1/3 to 1/4th the width as in the Stone variant.

And that’s my brain power for today.

Ok! What I have at the moment (for casual text).

And a line from “The Jaguar and the Jaguarundi” as written in “Of Cabbages and Kings, Tales from Zinacantan”.

Ivay la ta be ta yak’ol bik’it nich (He slept by the road above Little Flower).

(I’ll add more details about my ideas and opinions sometime later…But I will say, doing this makes me wonder how Hangul, Davangari, Dravidian, etc alphabets are written in a school setting. So I may need to make a few inquiries).

By accident really. I found a book called “Of Cabbages and Kings, Tales from Zinacantan”, and was able to decode a lot from both what little was explained in the book, and deducing from what I had learned from Cherokee. Then there was a web site called Sk’op Sotz’leb which went into more detail and had some pronunciations. After a few years I had gotten my hands on “The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan” (And to this day it is my all time favorite translating dictionary. So much so that Robert M. Luaghlin is one of a very few people I revere).

It was kind of odd, as when I first started learning the language, I wasn’t that keen into it. Heck, I really didn’t like Cherokee all that well either. I found many Algonquian and Siouan languages to be far more prettier, but I actually found really good references for Tzotzil here…In this backward hillbilly hole in the ground, 😶 , and Cherokee through a mail order company. Anyway, the more I learned about the Tzotzil language, the more interesting it became, and the more I wanted to learn it.

Granted, I was never going to be fluent (just don’t live in that kind of area), but I did surprise the only person I ever talked with who knew the language. So I didn’t do all that bad. (The area I had the most difficulty with were the numbers, and that guy helped me to understand them. Actually, he helped me a lot. Tzotzil seems to count backwards after 20, but when you translate the words, it makes more sense. Jun scha’vinik = 21, but cha’vinik = 40. Which my mind always thought jun scha’vinik as 41, but once I learned to “translate” the numbers, jun scha’vinik : jun (one) s (3rd person possessive) cha’ (two) vinik (man). “One [digit] of the second man” thus 21, as 20 is all the digits of the first man, and now we’re counting the next digits of the next man).

Anyway, I can’t get too descriptive. 24 years of a bad marriage, chronic pains, and dealing with some really harsh health issues, my mind is pretty darn wrecked, but I am hoping I can at least pull off some feats before it gets worse, HAH!

Kosher! I found the Mayan Hieroglyphics Database and just a little digging around I can see that my thinking on this is not that far fetched as I had felt.

So how I was planning on standardizing the embedding of sounds is Mayan, and that is what I will stick with. Preceding sound is embedded within the succeding sound. (IE initial sound is embedded within the final sound). (That is lu+ku will be pronounced as kul, and chi+k’in will be k’ich and not chik’in or chik’).

However, I don’t have any plans on writing similar to how k’inich is written, with the middle sound being under the embedding sounds like in the picture.

Might add this image at least til I can elaborate more on it. These are some characters I modified for the glottalized consonants k’, t’, p’, ch’, and tz’. Since a lot of these are not known from classical Mayan texts, I’ve embedded the characters k’in, ch’a, t’u, pa, and a small part of tz’a into the vowels a, e, i, o, u. Now, I may remove some of these (as Tzotzil doesn’t have that many words with t’, and there are other ways/rules of writing them, but for the moment it’s what I have).

In the above image, you’ll see there are two characters for the sound ch’u, that’s because the first set (main sign & affix) are following my rules, u embedded with ch’a. The second set are the more likely candidates to be used as those characters…erm…Don’t know the appropriate term to use, but they are a huge part of the religious speech of both Mayan classical and Catholic present. K’ul (yucatec, Lacanton, etc), something like holy, sacred, spirit, etc, which is ch’ul as well in other dialects (Ch’ol, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, etc).

Oof! Good luck. I gave up most years because they’re such a nuisance. I did have small luck with vinigar and peppermint, but only very small.

Also, grasshoppers…holy halibuts, batman! I’ve never seen something sheer gourds to nothing like this year. So even trying gourds to deal with the squash bugs didn’t work.

In a really twisted way, Youtube is a fairly big reason why a good number of people go outside, take up hobbies, etc.

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Made another batch, this time anise flavored, and I used a cookie sheet so I can rest my pained body.

There was a slight problem with this batch. It came out more chalky, but I’m wagering it was because I cut down on the sugar by a lot. (Not enough elasticity/moisture/whatever to keep it sticky while cooking).

There are very very few entertainers that have ever choked me up, but damn Richard Simmons and Newhart are definitely on that list. Rest well.

Well good luck when you do, 👍.

My helper (Dot) wishes you good luck, too, 😁

it looks intimidating

It started out that way, heh, and I still have issues with figuring out the best fabrics (Which are a huuuuuuge part of getting it right, heH< (KITTY IS trying to help me type, HAH), but after that 6firstr bad experiments, it got easier7 (I’m going to leave his typings in this, HAH), 3wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww7y buy hen…but oddly enough, I seem to have an easy time with odd things like this…SR55tam q…Same with knitting, I’ve come up with quite a few of my own little sTItches. HAH!

me to my kitten. “Ok, Ok, Ok, I’llgive you some attention, boy”

yep! Tried to leave back in 2017, but couldn’t find a job, then screwed up by pushing myself to work electrical full time. If I hadn’t torn myself up doing furniture delivery in 2000-2002, I would definitely be gone. So…damn…sore…Oof! And to top that off, when she finally let me use money for a doctor in 21, the meds messed up my stomach, and I’m so god damned dizzy as well.

Lonely and aggravating as all hell. Hate living with how filthy the house is, not having a job, etc, but it’s not like I didn’t try. I did work part time for about 15 years, but in my wife’s mind, it wasn’t a job and she didn’t have to help around the house. I did try to keep the house clean, by implementing chores lists so every one would help out (minor things just to help me to become accustomed to the pain that was going to happen), but they worked/went to school and therefore didn’t have to help…Yeah, I tried…

That’s a tough call. Before I attempted to leave in 2017 and was forced to push myself to working full time at electrical (as I couldn’t find a less physically demanding job), I could say a lot…But it’s been a long long time. There’s a few things I know I still enjoy.

1. The act of solving. Rather odd, but I realized about 10 years ago that I actually really enjoy finding a solution. Unfortunately, though, I know it has slowed down some (as I’ve had trouble going through some of the code on code academy [C only], and that was about a year ago). This has come in handy with woodworking, programming, electrical, supervising, etc, etc.

2. Lexicography, always wanted to write/create a dictionary for Cherokee similar to Robert M. Laughlin’s “The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan”.

There is a chance…I don’t know how great of a chance, as the stress of living here has kept me from doing anything overly complicated, but scripting (Bash, calc, gp/pari), to which would naturally include many console based programs. The last complex thing I did around 2017 is I modified the suckless program “tabbed” to utilize a script to create or add tabbed windows from a configuration file. (Used that for windows specified for writing code, debugging, man pages, reading/reviewing code/text/pdf/ps, calculator, and a file manager.

So there is a chance that I’ve done that enough that I could relearn it all, but I just don’t know. I’m so god damned sore sitting, walking, etc. Also, this GERD like thing I got most likely from medicine for my pains makes living even more difficult…and then on top of all that, the stress of how I’m going to be treated. I just don’t know what I can learn, how well I can learn, or what my body is capable of. Hell, I don’t even know fully what I truly know…I’m already stressing out right now, and she’s not even home.

And I can’t think any more at the moment. Sorry! Heh!

That’s fine, am a Linux user and not a big deal running a file/media server, also have large enough SD cards, so still not a problem storing music either. I would just like to be able to purchase some new songs just so I can be able to adjust the playlists to something more to my tastes for particular songs over the entire genre or band’s albums which can often contain other bands/songs that just bug the living daylights out of me, heh.