Cool, eventually, but starting cold. It was 38F Thursday morning, but 54F at midnight, with gorgeous skies and temps in between.
Got dressed and did some small things to get ready for no water most of the day, but then I left… so I didn’t have to suffer the consequences of not having a pitcher of drinking water available. It wasn’t really a big deal. There was plenty of other stuff available, and there were hundreds of gallons I would have used if needed.
Drove around and did my pickups. Hit the Habitat reStore, and a couple of thrifts looking for stuff for the lakehouse. Got stuff to resell instead, and stuff for this house.
Did I mention I bought a little boat? Well, I un-bought it too. It was a vintage Terry bass boat, a project about half done. It was cheap, and the repairs were straightforward. BUT I found out yesterday that it didn’t have a title. It’s a huge pain in the butt to even try to title an old boat in Texas. The official TX agency says “Don’t buy a boat without a title in Texas!” right on their website. So I told the seller I wouldn’t be buying it after all. Saves figuring out how to get it here… and doing the work. I’ll need to do some work, no matter what I eventually buy, simply because I can’t afford and probably couldn’t bring myself to buy a new boat anyway… but this one isn’t THE one.
If you own stuff with titles, put them somewhere your heirs and assigns can find them.
Today is more pickups. First auction stuff, then D2 from her early dismissal, then another pickup or two. And shipping. Sold something so I need to find it and ship it. I should probably do some cleaning up around here too.
Mundane, everyday life. Cook, clean, work, repeat.
And stacking, don’t forget that.
n
Flirting with the upper 20s. Rabbit kits are about three weeks old. Moved them to the rabbitry a couple days ago, cage stuffed with straw and a nest box warmer to help them out. They are wretchedly cute.
My oldest and best doe kindled, three kits. All dead. There may have been more, the third kit was partially consumed. Her typical litter size is 6-8. She made a nest but not up to her usual standards. She pulled fur but it wasn’t used to cover her newborns. A nest box warmer was present, the dead kits were on it. Without the fur atop them they were dead within the hour. Short of bringing does inside to kindle (rife with problems) or camping out when a doe is due, I’m going to lose the occasional litter.
My next best doe was due yesterday. She’s half heartedly nest building.
I bred the doe with the three week old kits. She’s a nasty bitey rabbit, so bred or in the freezer. I don’t intend to keep any of her offspring given her temperament.
Moose hazard in our backyard yesterday. I’d spotted it out front earlier in the day. Carefully surveyed the backyard prior to loosing the hounds. No moose. Except of course there was. Dark bulk under the trees stood up and glowered as the dogs vocally lost their minds at the incursion. Very lucky the moose didn’t turn them into paste. Aggravation – it severed my Christmas lights which had been illuminating the far corners of the yard. I was fiddling with a section trying to sort out the lack of light. The sparking against the chain link was my first clue.
Got my haircut first time in 18 months. It’s been falling out post covid. $20 at a chain instead of $70 at my husbands lifelong hair dresser. I think I’m a convert. It wasn’t as good a cut, but took a third the time and was good enough.
Otherwise? Second verse, same as the first.
Got my haircut first time in 18 months. It’s been falling out post covid. $20 at a chain instead of $70 at my husbands lifelong hair dresser. I think I’m a convert. It wasn’t as good a cut, but took a third the time and was good enough.
I have never understood the difference in price between men's and women's haircuts. A guy goes in, 20 minutes, 20 bucks, done. A woman goes in – not more complicated, maybe just needs the ends trimmed. Comes out an hour later and 100 bucks poorer.
Shampoo, blow dry, and gossip. But the primary reason is because they can. Ever looked at the price of makeup you silly savage? Female stuff is always priced gouged.
gouge
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English is a funny beast.
42F this am, with 96% RH. Tired. Fell asleep in the chair, then woke and transferred to bed at 2am. Wasn't enough.
Hope the plumbers are early, I've got things to do and wife isn't gonna be here.
n
Ford, Toyota, and GM are all experiencing supply issues because the bridge is shut down.
Isn't the Ford Jesus Truck plant up in Canada also?
@nick:
Probably due to its habit of mugging any language it comes across, and stealing any useful words.
G.
The classic spelling poem is Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité, published by SSS in Journal 17.
I take it you already know
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead –
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose –
Just look them up – and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart –
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
or
Our Strange Lingo – by Lord Cromer, published in the Spectator of August 9th, 1902
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and loseAnd think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone –
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don't agree.
or
WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
This was a good time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
I read it once and will read it agen
I learned much from this learned treatise.
I was content to note the content of the message.
The Blessed Virgin blessed her. Blessed her richly.
It's a bit wicked to over-trim a short wicked candle.
If he will absent himself we mark him absent.
I incline toward bypassing the incline.
🙂
n
My sympathy is nil. If they stopped paying the high prices, then the prices would drop.
>> My sympathy is nil. If they stopped paying the high prices, then the prices would drop.
Too many 'sheeple' brainwashed by advertising and social media for that to happen.
Geez. New plugs hire:
EXC: New Biden Nuclear Hire Is Drag Queen Who Wears Stilettos to Work, Discusses Sex With Animals, And Calls NIH Chief ‘Daddy Fauci’.
plugs is the worst.
See previous comment. If they're that weak-minded, then they deserve no sympathy.
Yesterday I said
What I didn't think to say: It's even worse than that because admitting that they were wrong would mean admitting that right-wing racist Nazi science-denying warming-denying Trumptards were maybe right about something.
(And never mind that Trump was and is pushing the not-vax, causing many of his supporters to criticize him.)
“This court ruling only confirms all of those things. It makes Canada look like a banana republic backwater, where the ruling elites crush peaceful opposition through brute force. Trudeau always said he admires China and Cuba. This plays to his stereotype.“
commentary on the Canadian government’s secret petition to try to freeze donations to the Freedom Trucker convoy.
WTF? Even if he were the world's best political advocate, it's idiotic to put him in a role like this. No one he deals with will be able to see past his sexual peccadillos. Imagine him attending international conferences as the US representative…what an embarrassment.
On top of which, this is obviously going to polarize politics even more. It's like Biden (and the Democrats in general) want to piss off half the country, and lose the midterm elections. Napoleon comes to mind: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
That said, the guy does actually have some qualifications. He is currently working for a nuclear waste start-up. He studied nuclear engineering at MIT. None of which changes the fact that his in-your-face sexual proclivities will prevent him from getting any useful work done.
You could have stopped there as that covers about everything.
@brad
difference in price between men's and women's haircuts
Nor do I.
I’ve never been particularly good at understanding, learning, executing, or adhering to what constitutes women’s norms. I grew up a tom boy. I suppose if I were born today, the local school would be busy turning me into a boy by third grade -eyeroll-
Ford, Toyota, and GM are all experiencing supply issues because the bridge is shut down.
Isn't the Ford Jesus Truck plant up in Canada also?
Time to comment on the "truckers" nonsense happening here in the Great White North. Nonsense because it is mostly NOT truckers as they are 90% vaccinated as is the rest of the population and the protests are not supported by any of the organizations (business or labour) associated with trucking.
It is of course political theatre. The protests ostensibly started as a protest regarding the need for truckers to be vaccinated to cross the border back into Canada. Since the US has exactly the same requirement, getting the Canadian federal government to rescind this is pointless. The protests have now expanded to insist that all vaccine mandates and associated restrictions put in place by government are reversed in the name of "freedom". All of these other mandates and limitations were put in place by the provincial governments as they are responsible for the provincial health care systems. The government in Ottawa could not change them if it wanted to – the protesters are in the wrong place for that. The government (Trudeau and the Liberals) are stalling and using this as a wedge issue. The official opposition (no leader – the Conservatives) are all over the map with some in support of the protests and some against. The Conservatives have finally come out against the protests as someone in the party has finally realized (DUH!!!) that 90% of Canadians are vaccinated and an overwhelming majority are fed up with the protests – not a winning political position. Of course, Trudeau and the government in playing this as a wedge issue have abandoned any position of leadership, and I think that will cost them more than anything they might have gained. Time will tell.
In the meantime, some of these yahoos have decided to close down border crossings as part of the "protest" – notably the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, stopping roughly $450 million dollars of trade daily. I expect that will be taken care of shortly, as will the other border crossing blockages. You have the freedom to protest – you don't have the freedom to interfere with everyone else since they too have a right to freedom.
In the meantime, every wacko on the right in Canada has joined the protests to get attention for whatever cause they espouse, and they have even gained some media coverage in the US (Fox and the NY Times) – mostly coverage without nuance or explanation (which in my experience as a Canadian, is par for the course). Some of the wackos include Trump supporters which is both stupid and amusing (again, this is Canada – we don't vote in US elections so who cares about Trump?) and there is US money coming in support, which is annoying. I guess people can do what they want with their money, but there must be a thousand better uses for American money in America than supporting these guys. Again, this is political theatre. The border closing will be cleared shortly as that has a real economic cost. The nonsense in Ottawa may go on for months, until everyone is bored to tears and goes home (which is the Canadian way with such things). I doubt anyone will even remember this a year from now.
It might make sense to lose the midterms if the Dems want to purge moderates and prepare to run a Jesus candidate like Moochelle in 2024, but I don't know if the American people are going to buy the "transcend politics" meme like they did with The Messiah in 2008.
As things currently stand, agenda items important to the suburban Dem female swing voters like restoring the SALT deduction and student loan forgiveness are off the table for at least another Presidential election cycle assuming Biden survives to renomination.
Yes, if a parent refuses vax for child who the dies of KungFlu, parent should be charged as associate before the fact of murder, or accomplice.
That's a grand idea, Cowboy Slim. How about murder or attempted murder charges for everyone involved in giving a shot to a minor who then suffers an adverse reaction?
Went to a local Smith's in Vegas today. Some of the staff weren't wearing masks including a manager. There might be hope. Now to get plugs to crumble. But, he has nothing to lose. Except re-election.
Kankles rears her ugly head:
Hillary Clinton 'will speak at New York State Democratic Party Convention "to galvanize the party"' amid mounting speculation that she will run for president in 2024
I wonder if they are paying her?
It would be awesome if American truckers surrounded the Super Bowl protesting plugs and the NFL. plugs would probably call in an airstrike on the trucker insurrectionists.
@TV
”You have the freedom to protest – you don't have the freedom to interfere with everyone else since they too have a right to freedom.”
You obviously haven't been paying attention for years.
Cool! Let's criminalize parenting decisions and cost/benefit analysis.
In fact, let's just jump to letting the government make every single parenting decision for us!
Want to homeschool because you don't believe in the homosexual/trans/communist agenda pushed by public school? Right to jail with you!
Want to drive to Grandma's instead of fly? You're putting the child at higher risk! Child endangerment! Right to jail with you!
Let your child eat meat? Right to jail with you! Never mind the science; we all know meat eaters are evil!
I don't think you've thought this through.
"$1,516,952,000,000: Federal Tax Collections Set Record Through January"
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/1516952000000-federal-tax-collections-set-record-through
"(CNSNews.com) – The federal government collected a record $1,516,952,000,000 in total taxes through the first four months of fiscal 2022 (October through January), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today."
"The record $1,516,952,000,000 in federal tax collections included $824,571,000,000 in individual income taxes; $469,468,000,000 in social insurance and retirement taxes; $112,248,000,000 in corporation income taxes; $32,359,000,000 in customs duties; $25,800,000,000 in excise taxes; $8,951,000,000 in estate and gift taxes; and $43,554,000,000 in what the Treasury statement calls “miscellaneous receipts.”
Wow, I could live off that. Instead, the USA is headed towards another two trillion dollar deficit.
Hat tip:
https://drudgereport.com/
From yesterday
Well just at the San Andreas. Since that's just west of me I'm hoping for beach property.
The best
man, er women,er zee for the job.I doubt Sleepy Joe made the choice.
One more you nasty carnivore white misogynist…
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/02/masculinity-is-always-under-threat-and.html
@nick:
Probably due to its habit of mugging any language it comes across, and stealing any useful words.
G.
As my crazy acquaintance James Nicoll says,
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
― James D. Nicoll
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/694108-the-problem-with-defending-the-purity-of-the-english-language
Actually, murder charges require a death certificate from an MD after a cause of death determination, or did they do it wrong in the George Floyd murder trial?
@lynn
That's the quote I was paraphrasing, badly. Thanks.
G.
Another plugs special. "Americans , you got 48hrs to get out of Ukraine. Then it's tough potatoes."
It's almost like the State Dept. is announcing upcoming Rooskie invasion of Ukraine. What good are several thousand of our troops there? Troop blood will be shed thanks to plugs. Half a century in goobermint and he is the King of Bumbling. Wasn't his big thing with Obola and now "I'm a foreign policy expert". Now he rejects his own panels AAR that there was no withdrawal plan from Afghanistan. "I know nothing…nothing!"
So it's bad to tell Americans to get out of Ukraine, but also bad not to help Americans get out of Iran before the 'fall'?
Yes, and how many unprosecuted murders of children by enforcement of mandated polio vaccinations occured? What school districts have not mandated such?:
Smallpox vaccine not the same as (but the same technology as)
Measles vaccine not the same as (but the same technology as)
Polio vaccine.
Then there's the Covid "vaccine". Not the same technology; completely different, novel, new, never before tried in humans and never successfully tested in animals as of today.
Equating polio (7% CFR), smallpox (30% CFR), and measles (1% to 30% CFR), diseases which killed and crippled children, with covid, which is at least 98% survivable in adults and almost no danger at all to children, requires a level of pig-headedness, innumeracy, or ignorance I can't fathom.
The risk/benefit analysis just doesn't land on the side of jabbing kids. Or healthy adults, for that matter.
The last reported death from Polio in the United States was in 1991. There were 8 reported cases. The last Polio case in the US was in 2009. Seems like Polio is not really a concern in the US and the vaccine is not causing deaths.
Why pick the fight here today? I don't think the positions around this place are unknown, but the last year has tempered open enthusiasm for the jabs among some of the regulars.
It was probably a year ago that I first saw this floating around the internet: I was always a big supporter of vaccines for reducing preventable death. I wouldn't have thought it possible but Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci now have me sounding like a life-long anti-vaxxer.
No, just the last half.
Hillary does nothing that she isn't paid to do.
Telling Americans to get out of Ukraine is good.
Telling Russia that any Americans who are still in Ukraine when the Red Army rolls in will be abandoned by America; that's bad.
>> It would be awesome if American truckers surrounded the Super Bowl protesting plugs and the NFL. plugs would probably call in an airstrike on the trucker insurrectionists.
We'll get him to ferry the players across the blocked roads on Marine 1. They're used to playing in empty stadiums. Gotta be able to show all those pricy commercials.
>> Then there's the Covid "vaccine". Not the same technology; completely different, novel, new, never before tried in humans and never successfully tested in animals as of today.
Yeah, but they've managed to placate the PETA wackos for a bit.
I don't see where "Americans will be abandoned in Ukraine" in all the news reports I've read. So would like to see an link to that, from other than 'opinion' news.
I do see that "Separately on Thursday, the State Department issued an advisory warning that the U.S. “will not be able to evacuate U.S. citizens in the event of Russian military action anywhere in Ukraine.” It warned that regular consulate service — including aiding citizens trying to leave the country — would be “severely impacted.” (from NBC news https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-warns-americans-leave-ukraine-russia-troops-world-war-rcna15781 and CBS news is similar https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-travel-advisory-us-state-department/_
That sounds like "There is going to be a fire in the building. Get out now. RIght now. It will be too dangerous for fire responders to get you out after the fire starts". That does not, to me, sound like 'abandonment'. (Yes, fire responders will go into a burning building. Maybe. But not if it is certain to endanger the fire responders.)
Psaki said recently that she enjoyed "working for President O, um, Biden".
The J&J vaccine is based on the same adenovirus technology behind the rabies vaccine used successfully in animals.
The EUA for the adenovirus Covid vaccine short circuits the argument which has always prevented human trials of a rabies jab — a successful treatment exists for the illness in humans.
"Telling" Americans to get out of Ukraine is a political move. Has nothing to do with any Americans IN Ukraine. The people there have already decided to leave or stay, and when, or they are too unaware to be left alone with sharp things. The .gov and .mil are under orders and can't just leave or stay on a whim either.
So why bother with the very public and very dramatic announcement?
It ain't because they've suddenly discovered a love and concern for their countrymen….
n
Spent the whole day running around, then spent a few hours getting my burgled storage unit put back together. I haven't heard from the facility manage, and I don't expect any help from that direction now.
I needed to find an item that sold. Found it in the very back of the unit. Whole lotta stuff got stolen.
n
@TV thanks for the local perspective.
n
They're Russians. Shooting a civilian probably involves *more* paperwork in their Army than would be required in ours.
The worst that happens is that anyone caught behind the lines would face a long, cold truck ride to a detention center before being processed and put on another long, cold truck ride to the border with Poland, Romania, etc.
Chances are Putin will put on a hospitality show, however. “Unlike American airport security, we don’t require anyone to remove their shoes, and the officers keep their hands to themselves — no groping of genitals.”
Though, I doubt that an invasion will happen. Europe and the US will back down about NATO membership. The Russians will go home.
Spent the afternoon and evening with Mom. They moved her to the hospital rehab as I showed up. Mom is doing well but a little disoriented.
The hospital is almost full and expects to be overfilled this weekend so they moved her to rehab early. They expect to be on diversion to the outlying hospitals fairly soon. Like Port Lavaca where my parents live.
I had a heart cath in this hospital back on turkey day of 2009 at 1am in the morning. Funny how walking the building brings those memories back.