📆 Sillywell Update J34Q1B1: WordPress & Word Factory
Dear Sparkans, my fellow silly ones, I’m here again with another brief update as another adventurous and progressful week of mine, J34Q1B1, is just finishing. This week, I’ve been making great progress. Of course, as I gotta say, I first focused on my physical therapy and yada yada. I did, I keep on with my “Cogito, ergo ergo” exercises, stretches, and improvised aerobic, Zoomba, yoga, or whatever it is I’m doing. But, in the remaining time, as my recovering body already allows me, e.g. from the bed, I worked on this Sillywell project to help you live well, feel well, and be well. Silly well. We all need it. In last week’s update, I promised to work on: moneywork, paperwork, codework, reaching out, playing the lyre, singing, joking, & silly content. How did that go?
- 🪙 Moneywork: I’ve been exploring the monetary side of this Sillywell thing this week, and I’ll continue doing so in the weeks and months that follow. It will need to work alongside paperwork, and I have to feel a good vibe about it all, but it’s starting to look really good. I’m very excited.
- 📜 Paperwork: This may be more “designwork”, but I decided to lowercase the “W” in “SillyWell” to turn it into “Sillywell”, and I like it better now.
- 🎼 Playing the lyre: I have started playing the 24-string lyre, and I’ve been making progress in my fingering technique. What helps me is just trying out various melodies I recall from music school or choir times, especially folk Czech songs.
- 🎤Singing: I’ve recently bought my first external microphone in a very long time, and I keep on singing various karaoke songs and replaying my voice back. So far, I’ve been keeping the microphone on its stand nearby the laptop at which I’m standing and singing into it from a distance while the karaoke backing track plays from the laptop. Not bad sound quality, for starters.
- 📣 Reaching out: I’ve realized I need to reach out more, to personally invite people to Sillywell, and ask people struggling with wellbeing how they think I can be most of help. I am gonna start with that soon.
- ⚙️ Codework: I’ve moved my nostalgia website here onto WordPress, with a nostalgia theme. Given all the health stuff going on, it’s great they have a mobile app and I can publish my articles from my phone, from the bed, from my “one-eye-phone” position, in between my various physical therapy exercises. I’m fine with that. Let’s go!
- 😂 Joking: I’ve made a few. Scroll below.
- ⁉️ Silly content: If you count coming up with new words in English during my daily improvised self-speeches as “silly content”, then also yes. Scroll further below.
New Jokes
As you probably already know, I like to make improvised jokes – spontaneously, without preparation, and without any serious thought – that are mainly based on language humor, puns, rhymes, confusing words, and so on. To make sure the jokes are based on random inspiration, I find prompts e.g. by throwing gaming dice to navigate to a random page in my paper dictionary.
This time round, I chose the improvisational game “My X is like Y” and X turned out to be “dating me”, and Y? That turned out to be the word “engineering”. Now, here are the three jokes I made with this theme:
- Dating me is like engineering… if it’s finally working out, please don’t change me!
- Dating me is like engineering… if you become my “engine”, I’ll give you a “ring”!
- (spicy) Dating me is like engineering… I’ll “edge” you when you’re “nearing”!
New Words
If you’re already familiar with the Sillywell project and the story of me, John Spark, the co-creator & founder, you know that I’ve been hacking my brain with meditation, silly scribbles, nature, and so on, for greater creativity and idea frequency.
I’d say it works because in J33, I started coming up with completely new words in English, my second language. (J33, that’s 2025 in my new calendar, for another illustration.) I haven’t been this creative ever before, and I am super excited about what’s next if this keeps going. It will.
I like to call this word list “John Spark’s Word Factory”, or “John Spark’s Word Printing Press”, and I’ve already made almost 100 of these in a couple months. As a joke, I like to say that I only need to come up with 1,702 of them to beat Shakespeare. That’s because Shakespeare, reportedly, coined “over 1,700 new English words”. That’s officially 1,701, and so the moment I’ve made 1,702 new words of my own, I win. Beating Einstein at gravity – that’s gonna be the next stage. I mean, I’ve already kinda started working on that in parallel.
But back to the words – The new English words I’m coming up with kind of make sense to me, and I cannot think of any other word to use. Now, not all such words end up on my list. I only call them as “new words” if at least 3 out of these 5 dictionaries say the word doesn’t exist: Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, and Dictionary.com. Or, did I say TheFreeDictionary.com? Anyway, I only need 3 that return no result. Occasionally, though, the words I think I’ve coined are not completely new, undescribed concepts, but rather new, alternative versions of already existing words. Other times, I make such words to be different parts of speech, like turning the verb elbow (which Shakespeare made a new verb from the then-existing noun, elbow) into elbowly as an adjective (e.g. elbowly behavior). And, while I’m at it, also elbowly as an adverb (e.g. to behave elbowly).
Here’s a couple words I coined this specific week, or at least realized it this only week that I had coined them:
- i-do (n.), i-don’t (n.) – thing one suggests themselves to do more of (i-do’s, e.g. play the lyre, read the book, do pushups) vs. avoid doing (i-don’ts, e.g. doomscroll, overeat, dawdle with a phone in the bed in the morning) in the longer term or on a more regular basis (compared to todos / todo’s) when they want to speak more from their own identity’s point of view rather than describe them as things “to do” or “not to do” or “should do”, “should not do”, and when coining these terms, I was inspired by a concept called “Turn shouldn’ts into don’ts” from the book Magic Words by Jonah Berger; ex.: “My i-don’ts for the coming new year are catastrophizing, avoiding responsibility, and holding grudges. My i-do’s are playing with English, making people type things slowly – em-dashes, hyphens, apostrophes and such – to relax their minds, and being meta.”
- movey (adj.) – What’s movey is something that makes you move when you play it, e.g. a movey song (doesn’t have to be named I Like To Move It or Dancing Cheek to Cheek), or, for clothes encouraging movement, when you wear it, e.g. movey shoes. Backstory: I’ve just realized that when I named the YouTube playlist of karaoke tracks for songs that make me move my body a lotta when I try to sing them as “Karaoke-Movey”, I had just coined a new word.
- TYIL (abbr.), TQIL (abbr.), TMIL (abbr.) – abbreviations for “this year I learned”, or “this quarter (of a year)… / this month…”, inspired by the abbreviation TIL (“today I / I’ve learned”); ex.: “TYIL that I’ve hacked my brain so much with my meditations and whatnot that I am able to coin new terms in a language I’m not a native speaker of. So far, just in English.”
- greenxiety (n.), greenxious (adj.), greenxiously (adv.) – greenxiety is an alternative word to the term eco-anxiety, the anxiety about “green” issues, such as climate change, global warming, species extinction, term inspired by the vegan term vystopia, the feeling of anxiety about animal exploitation; ex.: “Many young people, especially Gen-Zs, are feeling a lot of greenxiety due to the recent lack of political action on climate change.” / “I was feeling super-greenxious about climate change, so I joined this activism group.” / Climate activists like me keep greenxiously checking the NASA carbon ppm counter as it keeps going up, along with the global temperatures.”
- nerdily (adv.) – in a nerdy manner, a nerdy way, typically the manner of one’s speech or behavior; ex.: “The issue in question is my ability to be fun at parties, or, to be precise, the lack thereof. … Um, did I say it too nerdily?”
- sparkous (adj.), sparkously (adv.) – new, alternative, better forms of the word infectious / infectiously in the context of one’s positive emotions or “vibe” easily spreading to others in their proximity, especially in a physical setting, in the same room; ex.: “his sparkous laughter“, “her sparkous charisma”, “her sparkously positive mood“, “his sparkously inspiring words“
- red-and-green (adj.) – a new, better form of black-and-white in the metaphorical context of something being only available in two distinct forms that are strictly opposite to each other; ex.: “One of the symptoms of depression is red-and-green thinking.” / “This is not a red-and-green issue – it’s a very subjective matter, and there is a lot more nuance to it.”
- pawstep (n.) – Like footsteps but for cats, dogs, or other animals with paws; ex.: “There are pawsteps in the snow in the garden again. The cat keeps coming for more!”
- While I was busy writing this article from the bed where it’s kind of difficult to copy and paste content from various documents of mine, I realized that I had forgotten to copy many more words so let me just dictate them here without the definitions and examples and I’ll add those later once I turn this whole “John Spark’s word factory” list into a standalone page where you can sort by starting letter and so on. The further new ones for this week are: clawstep, hoofstep, legalchondria, legalchondriac, lawmonger, lawmongering, bloomscroll, bloomscrolling.
Next Week
In J34Q1B2, I’ll keep on doing my physical therapy and getting myself back on track and everything. And, in the little bit of free time that remains, I’ll be doing e.g.:
- 🧘 Wellbeing: I think it’s time to turn my mental notes with a lotta wellbeing insights, observations, curiosities, practical ideas & my favorite mind hacks into well-organized content pieces and publish them here.
- 🎙️ Make music: I’d like to turn the new word “greenxiety” into a hopeful and optimistic song, combined with a little bit of a personal apology, and I have a few more ideas for other songs. They’re probably gonna be simple & silly, and for your good mood, with just me playing the lyre and reciting or singing verses in the style of some kind of an Ancient Greek poet or a medieval bard.
- 🦁 Management skills: I’ll be working further on my CEO-powers, such as speaking in English, leadership, organizing the work of teams, moneywork, paperwork, and one of the two places where I can soon use these management powers is here at Sillywell, once I turn all the various creative ideas & learnings of mine into a really new, valuable & globally-available wellbeing project with a lotta more than just a WordPress blog published by one hand from the bed from a one-eye-phone position.
That’s it for now! Without bothering you any further, let me now officially close the week of J34Q1B1, publish this post on my phone from the bed, and… best of luck!
Yours,
John Spark
Co-Creator of Sillywell
on J34Q1B1r7 SC
a.k.a. Sun, Feb 01, 2026 CE
Written with ❤️ from Bohemia, Czech Republic.
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