The book is off to a bumpy start, what with the fascist takeover of the country and all, But hopefully, after these major eclipses, things will calm down enough for folks to want to read quietly in their favorite cosey corners again. Download from Amazon Kindle for 4.99. It has many wonderful illustrations you won’t have seen posted here.

But it has been featured a few times on Blackboxonline.com podcast, Zodiac Mondays, by Ned Dehan, who has been very generous and kind with it.

Meantime Oranchak has come out with a terrific study of the 408 cipher on Youtube. The Hardin’s process has many similarities to my breaking of the 340 cryptogram, still not accepted by the community, but that may change soon when my breaking of Z13 receives wider exposure. Ned admitted it has some merit, and he doesn’t trifle with much.

I’ve emailed Oranchak but no response as of this writing. Here is the bit. HP, the initials of Hugh Penn. Was his codename Herodotus? That is the bottom Greek word translation.

Lately I’ve switched a lot of my effort over to Substack, a wonderful site for writers. I’ve created 2 sites:

Diminishing Returns – Clear Light Edition (memoirs);

and CG’s Dream Streamings (streaming tv series questions and reviews).

Staying sane by watching what’s going on with Kohburger. And Karen Read somewhat. And streaming tv. The Residence is great, it’s about a murder mystery in the White House. Quite droll, as the Brits say. With a Poirot like Black woman playing the master detective, in a wonderful performance.

Hope y’all can find ways to stay sane. I’m on SSA and they are trying to kill us off I think.

Cheers.