HeyJaredThe Ouachita Optic
Life, refracted. A mix of Optical expertise, Faith, Fraternity, open-source tech, and sourdough baking from the Ouachita mountains of Arkansas.
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I Have Moved (opens the original)
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I have moved the Ouachita Optic to my own self-hosted platform. If you have enjoyed my writing, please follow the link below to discover the reasons for the move and how to keep up with my work going forward.Randy Webster - The Ouachita Optichttps://ouachita-optic.ouachitafortress.link/posts/the-sovereignty-of-plain-text/
2026 (opens the original)
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First, for those of you who enjoy my work, an apology. I’ve left you without content for most of the last six months and for that I am sorrowful. I hope that this post will explain what has been going on and why I went from two to three submissions a week to months long stretches of silence.At the beginning of this year, I felt like I was at the top of my game. I had led my little slice of Walmart, the Vision Center in Mena, AR, to the biggest sales year it had ever had in the fiscal year that e
Physical Reminders (opens the original)
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Back in January I wrote about getting my first tattoo, a Masonic one, in the article linked below.Today, I am going to tell you what that has led to as the year progressed.Over the months from January 2026 to July 2026, I was asked more times than I can easily count about that tattoo. The questions ranged from “Are you a bricklayer” to the sarcastic “Why did you put a hoe on your forearm?” from a co-worker that likes to imply that I think she is a slang version of that work (and no I have NEVER
Adonis, Adonai, and Kyrie (opens the original)
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A few mornings ago, on my drive into the Vision Center, YouTube Music tossed an old Amy Grant song from the 80s, “El Shaddai” in with my normal modern Contemporary Christian music. As I listened, I convinced myself that Amy was mixing Hebrew and Greek names for God in the song because of the word “Adonai” which sounds a lot like the name of the Greek god “Adonis”. So I asked Google about it, the modern equivalent of my encyclopedia deep dives when Amy released that song in 1982.
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