09:10 – I’m back at my desk, but still not hitting on all cylinders. I’ve had severe nausea since Monday evening, although it’s starting to taper off now. Between then and this morning, I drank a total of about half a liter of water, in sips, mostly overnight last night. Trying to drink more than that made my stomach rebel. I’ve managed to drink half a liter of hot tea this morning, and will try to do more later. My usual daily fluid intake is 2.5 to 4 liters, so I’m way down.
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
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Sounds nasty, hope you feel better soon.
Something you ate?
n
Regarding the mexican earthquake
Impacts
• Fatalities: 216; Injured: Numerous; Missing: Numerous
• Damage: Multiple buildings damaged/collapsed including schools
• Power: 70% of the electricity supply which had gone down had been restored
Mexico Response
• Mexico’s President declared an emergency for the affected areas
• The military had been drafted in to help with the response
FEMA Response
• US&R: CA-TF2 & VA-TF1 deploying to Mexico (awaiting airlift)
• U.S. accountability complete; U.S. Consulates and Consulates General have
reported no impact
FEMA is sending 2 of the remaining US based Urban Search and Rescue teams…
n
Regarding the mexican earthquake
Haven’t heard more from my brother in Puebla since yesterday afternoon.
Even though he’s much closer to the epicenter, the geology of Mexico City will amplify the vibration and cause more damage there. One thing my brother noted yesterday was that right after the earthquake, students from the local Puebla college took to the streets, without prompting, to manage traffic control at intersections (as the power to signal lights was down) to allow the police and emergency teams to deal with critical issues. Can you imagine any merican students doing that?
yes, but from religiously affiliated universities in middle america. Certainly not at any of the big 10 or 20.
n
Community College of Vermont? Saint Michael’s College? Johnson State College? Probably.
UVM? Doubt it. (it’s a private university, despite its title, and an infamous party skool, plus increasing numbers of SJWs and progs and antifa wannabes).
Mix of very bright overcast/cloud cover and sunshine. Off to run various errands and recon the AO. Back later for chores and homework. Yes, it’s very exciting up here.
Glo-bull warmening, is there anything it CAN’T do?
“Modern roads are NOT equipped for climate change: Rising temperatures will cause asphalt to melt and could cost countries billions to repair
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4902244/How-climate-change-affect-ROADS.html
If it’s hot enough to melt your roadways, and you aren’t in NV or AZ, you might just have bigger problems….
n
We may get a chance to find out, I dunno; LOTS of roads and highways around here were repaved this past summer but the temps never got above 87-88 or so. And THAT was BRUTAL.
Poor Mrs. OFD has been out in Kalifornia in the past couple of months and it was WELL over 100, more like 107-108. She’s seen that in NM, AZ and TX, too. No thanks. Been there and done dat. I’ll take 30-below any day.
Currently 95F and 62%RH. Partly cloudy.
Kinda miserable with Feels Like 107F.
Got stuff to do, wasted enough time on the internet today.
n
I got cancer.
Most likely basal cell carcinoma. A blemish on the right side of my nose acted up, so I had a Dermatologist appointment today. The area was numbed with six needle pokes and then scraped for a sample. The Derm has a lab in the same building, so the analysis will only take 1-2 days. If there are no “roots”, it gets scraped down to the meat and I’m done. If it has “roots”, they cut it out and stretch and stitch the skin. The doc says she sees White guys all the time for this. The sin of being White and not tanning.
The doc says she sees White guys all the time for this.
That’s called “White Privilege”.
@MrAtoz: good luck. Sounds like you caught it early enough for them to get the whole thing, but of course one worries anyway.
It’s your own fault. A few days ago you said here that you had a few words with the cows that, come the fall, you’d be eating them. They thought you meant you’d butcher them on the equinox, so they got together and cast some powerful cow hoodoo to get you before you got them.
This theory, when evaluated using the same level of rigor as is applied to psychology, sociology, and climate science, is rated as true and impossible to question.
@MrAtoz: I have two brothers who went through identical processes. Both cases have remained eliminated for over a decade. Routine operation today. I had a small tumor removed from my groin 30 yrs ago. Went much deeper that they expected, deep roots, but after an hour of uncomfortable digging and tugging in my nether regions, they got it all. No problems since. You will be great.
Good luck, MrAtoz, but when mentioning this in the future please tell people that you got ovarian cancer. #FemalePrivilege must not be allowed to cheat you out of the sympathy you deserve.
_Wool_ by Hugh Howey
https://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476733953/
First book in a three book post-apocalyptic series. I read the trade paperback version. I am going to order and read the other two books in the series.
This is a depressing book. The story, told in five parts, is about a silo of 144 stories containing a large amount of people. The people were born in the silo as they and their forebears have lived in it for at least 200 years. The air outside is toxic, killing almost immediately. Life is cheap in the silo and if you violate the draconian rules, you are sent outside to clean the camera lens. No one ever comes back from a cleaning.
The story is incredibly rich. There are details about all the variants of life in the silo. There is an elected mayor but IT is very powerful. There are no elevators so to go from one level to the next, you have to walk the stairs. And there is only one set of stairs.
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (13,341 reviews)
Good luck, MrAtoz, you will make it! I have had similar, freezing some, knife sculpture on others. Go in for dermatological check ups semi-annually.
Agree on the white, ethnic comment. One scraping left a white spot in the middle of my redneck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjr_3mP8Fd4
I’m back at my desk, but still not hitting on all cylinders.
Dude, hope you get to feeling better soon. If you got sick for an extended time, could Barbara run the business ?
“If you got sick for an extended time, could Barbara run the business ?”
No. She says she’s not a scientist and refuses to learn.
Well, you say Border Collies are extremely intelligent. Time to see if Muttley is smart enough to mix chemicals.
… Oh, wait. No thumbs. Never mind.
Get better Dr. Bob.
To add insult to cancerous injury, I’m leaving tomorrow for five days in Kalifornia with MrsAtoz. Gotta get those goobermint bucks.
@MrAtoz,
I’m in USPS Zone 92649. On the coast, 6 mi south of Long Beach.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/09/20/september-23-end-of-world-theory/http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/09/20/september-23-end-of-world-theory/
It’s about time! Preachers in my great grandfather’s time were telling him that it would be in their time. Repent now or go to Hades!
We have waited so long!!
Most likely basal cell carcinoma. A blemish on the right side of my nose acted up, so I had a Dermatologist appointment today. The area was numbed with six needle pokes and then scraped for a sample. The Derm has a lab in the same building, so the analysis will only take 1-2 days. If there are no “roots”, it gets scraped down to the meat and I’m done. If it has “roots”, they cut it out and stretch and stitch the skin. The doc says she sees White guys all the time for this. The sin of being White and not tanning.
Stay out of the gaze of the evil day star, it will mark you as its own.
Seriously, good luck. My father, an avid fisherman, has had several of these removed now. So has my father-in-law.
The wife had a small mole removed by the skin doc about a decade ago and then the next day he sent her to a plastic surgeon for “clear margins”. Turned out the mole was stage 1 melanoma. No problems since then thank goodness. Just a 1.5 inch scar on her left forearm.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/09/20/september-23-end-of-world-theory/
It’s about time! Preachers in my great grandfather’s time were telling him that it would be in their time. Repent now or go to Hades!
I hope that waits until my Aggies have beat the hell out of the Arkansas Razorbacks at Jerry’s world on Saturday morning. I am taking my 79 year old dad on his tickets.
BTW, preachers since AD 33 (approx) have been saying that the world is going to end today. The Bible clearly says that nobody knows so, preaching that the world is going to end on a certain day is the sign of a false prophet. And the Old Testament says to stone false prophets …
Everybody just get stoned.
Bon chance, MrAtoz; sounds like a routine deal; I had one taken from the corner of my left eyelid a couple of years ago, outside the VA system, by an expert female doc. It’s quite a nifty little experience having needles and razors working around your eye. I cowboyed up OK, though, but thinking about it since gives me the willies a little bit. No trouble since. Seems to be routine for us Whiteys nowadays, which is just as well, as wife and I are both redheads with ethnic backgrounds from northwest Europe and we were under the gaze of the evil Day Star many times over our lives. As a kid I spent many, many hours out on the beaches of southeastern MA and got burned repeatedly, badly a couple of times, too. Throw on the Coppertone, splash around out in the wotta, dodging crabs and bluefish frenzies, and forget to reapply the stuff.
WRT prophets and Scripture and churches; I’ve just spend months, on and off, arguing with my next-younger brother about this stuff. He did the RCIA thing several years ago and was received into Holy Mother Church and now he’s backsliding and in danger of apostasy. Oh well; peeps have the info and free will and it’s up to them what they wanna believe and do.
Did some cleanup ops on the ground floor today and was immediately exhausted. This chit has to cease; hope to find out more tomorrow after the vets group thing.
More pictures from the steam engine adventure can be found at:
http://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Steam/
URL must be exact. Enjoy.
San Juan mayor announced “”We’re looking at four to six months without electricity in Puerto Rico”.
This is a what a PA situation looks like.
“This is a what a PA situation looks like.”
certainly for them it does. Will be some lessons to learn from this.
n
Those are great photos, Mr. Ray. How slippery was it climbing up on the engine? Did you get to “load the box” or pass on it?
While Puerto Rico is a disaster, and was a disaster before the storm hit, it isn’t the PA scenario. What they are now going through without a bailout from the US taxpayers is a PA scenario.
We’ll probably park a carrier or two there to provide electricity.
We don’t have a bunch of carriers lying around spare.
One plan for LA involved diesel electric locomotives. Drive them into the areas they are needed, hookup the power cables. Don’t know if that was ever developed further.
n
We’ll probably park a carrier or two there to provide electricity.
That is just half of the problem, power generation. Sounds like the transmission and distribution lines are down too. Distribution lines are easy to put up (4,000 volts to 20,000 volts depending on age). Transmission lines are 69,000, 138,000 and 345,000 volts and must be stretched when putting them up. Plus transformers which are probably ok as long as nothing smashed into them or damaged their radiators. Big job.
If our local Grid up here goes belly-up, will the Navy park a carrier out on the bay for us?
Yes, great pics, Mr. Ray; next time you do that gig, keep an eye out for me and my compadres on horseback and toting various rifles and revolvers…we aim to take that train, hombre!
I’m back at my desk, but still not hitting on all cylinders.
Sparta doesn’t have a like minded GP hanging out at the Ham club or gun range?
How slippery was it climbing up on the engine? Did you get to “load the box” or pass on it?
You had to watch your step as it was slick metal. First step was most difficult. Did not shovel any coal. Requires a learned touch to get coal to the proper location in the firebox. Fire was really hot when the box doors opened. At 100 gallons of water per mile we used 1,400 gallons of water on the trip. Takes a lot of heat to raise the water to well above 212f and make high pressure steam, about 160 psi.
Awesome adventure.
If our local Grid up here goes belly-up, will the Navy park a carrier out on the bay for us?
No one worries about a mass exodus from VT/NH.
Everyone in Puerto Rico has a US Passport. If they land in FL, they’re voters after 45 days.
Well, the Plan is to import enough Turd World voters to expedite the devolution of the country for its rulers to a state like the former Rhodesia or the current Venezuela. Everything happens on schedule.
And a mass exodus from VT/NH would probably take about five minutes. OK, a half-hour.
I’ve had a couple of basal cell carcinomas taken off, most of them just outside the radius of protection of a welding helmet. My right ear has an odd notch, the other scars aren’t really noticeable. I also had one removed on my left temple, which came up after I got scabs & scars from shingles. I guess the leavening of Miccosukee in me didn’t help.
Nor did my very small leavening of Wampanoag.
Well, the Plan is to import enough Turd World voters to expedite the devolution of the country for its rulers to a state like the former Rhodesia or the current Venezuela. Everything happens on schedule.
In FL, the Governor/Senator “Opie” part of the plan is behind schedule by four years, and the whole scheme is in jeopardy because of the Graham family’s desire to return their name to the Governor’s Mansion next year.
The upside of the Graham family is that Gov. Bob understood the value of the state’s electric chair, Old Sparky (I’m not kidding about the name), capping an eight year run of executions with the juicing of Ted Bundy. Bzzzt bzzzt.
I remember when Bundy went to the chair: a local radio station asked listeners to turn off unneedeed appliances “so Bundy can have plenty of juice.” 🙂
Not to pick nits, but Bundy was executed during the Governorship of Bob Martinez, who is actually known for little else. He offered to confess to all of his crimes in return for delay / clemency, and Martinez’ reply parsed as “Talk all you want, mofo, but at 6 AM we’re pulling the switch.” There were parties all over Florida, and many restaurants in Tallahassee & elsewhere gave away Bundy Fries that day. Ironically, he was actually executed for the rape & murder of a 12 year old girl in Lake City, outside of his usual range of victims.
I moved to Florida shortly before Bundy’s execution. While I was not opposed to his removal from the gene pool, the celebrations were somewhat sickening. We should never celebrate killing someone, even if they need killing. Bundy Fries and corporations shutting down for the weekend to make sure there was plenty of power was too much.
Not to pick nits, but Bundy was executed during the Governorship of Bob Martinez, who is actually known for little else.
Damn. I remember Graham signing a Bundy death warrant among many others during the ’86 Senate campaign, but Ted’s lawyers obviously got him a stay.
Yeah, Martinez gave FL Governor He-Coon (Lawton Chiles) and, arguably, the 2000 election mess.
Graham did like to keep Old Sparky busy.
I would argue that the 2000 mess was exclusively the fault of the Ds who ran the four counties of southeast Florida as an absolute fiefdom. But that’s more than 16 years old, probably best to let sleeping dogs lie.