Hot and humid, sunny and clear. Boy it got hot yesterday. Sun was beating down too. It was still 80F at 1am when I went to bed.
Spent the day doing auction and home stuff in the morning and pickups in the afternoon. Something similar is planned for today. Except that in the middle of my day I have to take D1 to a birthday party. Unknown details at this time, but it breaks up my day and makes it hard to get stuff done. Frowny face. It would be nice to know when I’ve been tasked, at least a day before…
One of the things I’d like to get done is a visit to the doc in a box to get something for whatever is making me itch. I got something on my forearms while up at the BOL cleaning out brush and debris. I thought it was just scrapes on the skin, but it’s turned into big splotchy red itchy stuff. It’s not looking like poison ivy, and I didn’t see any at the BOL. I’m super aware of it, and look for it all the time since the last time I got contaminated with it. Normal OTC creams aren’t helping it much. Sunlight and sweat on it is excruciating, so no outdoor work for me today either. Most of the time it feels like wearing a rough wool sweater on bare skin, but there is an edge of burning pain too. We’re grid up, so might as well take advantage. It’ll be another all cash visit, thanks Obastard care.
I’ll find plenty to do that doesn’t involve sweating in the sun today.
Always be working to improve your position. And stack it up.
n
OK, groomer7.
“A group representing 90 young women — including U.S. Olympic team gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — filed federal tort claims against the FBI on Wednesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for the bureau’s mishandling of its investigation into sexual abuse by former U.S. Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar.”
That investigation would have been a slam dunk for Barney Fife.
The really sad thing is that not one of these women had a male relative that found out what was going on and arranged some quality time with Dr Nassar.
I was part of a general discussion about male coaches and female athletes (school level, not Olympic level). These famous cases of sexual abuse by staff are a problem with lots of knock-on effects. Those of us who like working with kids and teens are automatically suspect. Work in a sport that necessarily involves physical contact (I taught Judo for years), and it’s even worseThings are reasonably sane here, but I don’t think I would dare coach girls in the US.
Women in the discussion were all “we can’t trust guys with our daughters”. Which is somewhat understandable, but eliminates their daughters from any team that has men on staff. Which is going to be most of them – how many teams have only women as coaches? Plus most guys are not going to abuse kids, and it’s not correct to dump all of us.
Tough issues…
Plenty of female coaches having “inappropriate contact” with female students too.
n
86F and 77%RH with a bit of hazy overcast. SOOO ITCHY.
n
Or, more likely, with male students, but we never talk about that.
For girls, it probably is mostly men – heterosexuals are by far the majority.
My BOL garden is infested with nut grass or nutsedge… and I guess pulling it was the wrong thing to do. Good thing I stopped part way thru I guess.
You can eat the little tubers.
n
8 foods you can safely eat even if they’re past their best before date
Uh, you sure about that wording?
This is against plugs The First’s decree because you won’t be dependent on the goobermint for your weekly soy rations.
RE: Nut Sedge
I get purple nut sedge (and, yes, sedge is it’s own thing and not a grass). Usually later in the Summer when things are more arid and the grass thins out a little. Like many weeds, once it’s not being crowded out by lush healthy lawn grass the sedge pops up. There’s a lot of truth to the concept that the best weed preventer is a healthy well-watered lawn. It’s a different shade than the lawn grass and grows faster. So, seeing it makes my eyelid twitch. Sulfentrazone (aka Dismiss) works okay, but it’s one of the pricier lawn chemicals.
According to the LGBTQWERTY world, cis men are the minority and will be snuffed out with a few more tweets.
“Plenty of female coaches having “inappropriate contact” with female students too.”
Raise your hand if you went to a high school where all the dykes weren’t on the softball team
Best By Dates That Are Too Long:
Ice cream sandwiches—Soggy after two days and disgusting after a month.
Re: Ice cream sandwiches. … I find they keep longer if left in the (working) freezer.
I’d discount the whole article based on the flawed statements, except the IDEA that you can eat stuff after the dates.
“However frozen ground meat only lasts up to four months in the freezer.” – what the everlovin’ what???
I routinely eat meat including ground that has been frozen for more than 4 YEARS. It’s vac sealed and in the deep freeze at or below 0F. The author(very typically) doesn’t define “freezer” (frost free is different from “chest” is different from the bottom drawer that melts when you don’t close it all the way…. The author also conflates “has changed” with “unusable.”. There are old recipes that specify ‘sour milk’ as an ingredient. You might not enjoy the taste by itself, but it won’t kill you in pancakes. People didn’t get rid of food.
Hard cheese? FFS, cheese is HOW YOU PREPARE MILK FOR LONG TERM STORAGE. Years even.
What I notice most about out of date food is that the texture and appearance change. Stuff gets mushy. It fades or ‘blurs’ to all look the same. Jarred pickles in particular will get soft, even though they are still edible.
A lot of simple statements (distilled and dumbed down, then applied inappropriately) from times of abundance need rethinking in times of scarcity.
n
(one of the one’s you’ll here most often is that pregnant women shouldn’t eat sushi. We chased this one down because the wife LOVES sushi… As far as we could find, the recommendation, taken as a law of nature, came from someone concerned about pregnant women vomiting from food poisoning. Food poisoning is always a concern, but out of the dozens of times I’ve been poisoned, only one was sushi related. And I knew in seconds, and was done in minutes, and went back to my meal. Besides, preggos vomit all the time during pregnancy. There may be stages where it’s advisable to avoid vomiting, and therefor things that might make one vomit, but that got distilled down to “don’t eat sushi”. A lot of the “is this edible” advice is like that.)
PLT’s make disappointing first run at Supremes, will try again later.
PLT’s make disappointing first run at Supremes, will try again later.
Hey, when I was in high school, I was dating a girl. Dated for a couple of years. Split after I went in the service. Shortly after she came out as gay and joined up with another girl that I knew, and I knew was gay. I am hoping I was not the cause of her turning gay. Mr. SteveF, let it go, it’s too easy.
“I am hoping I was not the cause of her turning gay.”
Sure you are. After you left no other guy measured up.
n
Agreed. That’s absurd. I don’t keep it around as long as you do, but I’d say the median age of frozen meat in our house is probably at least 6 months. I double bag it (stick the manufacturer’s package inside a freezer ziploc I’ve squeezed most of the air out of) and call it good.
A few weeks ago I used a pound of vac sealed ground beef that was dated 2014. It was fine.
I often buy the 1# chubs and they seem to keep a long time. I discovered a chub of Italian sausage in the bottom of the deep freeze. No telling how old and I didn’t think to look. Made an excellent batch of spaghetti sauce.
Keep air away from it and keep it frozen, and it will keep longer than anyone wants…
n
I made a batch of pemmican in 2010, from cheap pork and chicken livers, which I ground and dried, plus store-bought lard. Filled two 1-quart ziploc bags (and Son#2 and I ate the rest) and tossed them onto a shelf in my office and ignored it. This office gets well into the 90s on summer afternoons and down to high 50s at night in winter. (Technically the room is on the house’s forced air heat/aircon but in practice the air pipes pass between the unheated garage and the room so most of the heat or cool is lost.) After a year the son and I ate one of the bags. It was fine. I was going to eat the second bag at the ten-year mark but it disappeared sometime in the preceding few months. Considering the pattern of mysterious disappearances of my tools, office supplies, money, and anything else left unguarded, I have no idea who could have done such a thing.
“Tactical Spy Pen” that you can reputedly get through TSA since it is a working pen. A very stout working pen.
https://spybriefinggear.com/collections/featured-products/products/1-pack-tactical-spy-pen
An ongoing annoyance.
Depending on circumstances I’ll sometimes refuse to do whatever crap job my “better half” has volunteered me for, but that will often screw over someone else. eg, one of her friends is arriving at the train station at midnight and needs a ride to our house because the taxis won’t go there that time of night. (The train station nearest where we used to live is in a bad part of town.) Or our kid and three others are at the mall and need a ride right now. Oh, and my wife promised the other parents that “we” would bring all of the other kids to their houses. Other things are easier to refuse: Yes, I probably could fix your friend’s washing machine, but I’m sure she can pay for a service guy and take her clothes to a laundromat in the meantime.
Given that I won’t screw over children and am reluctant to screw over innocent others who were not part of volunteering my services, I often will drop everything and pick people up, or whatever. But then I decline to do other things that I’d normally have done for the person who showed no respect for me. You wanted that heavy thing carried down to the basement? Nah, don’t feel like it.
It helps that I have no intention of keeping this marriage together beyond the youngest’s 18th birthday, if it lasts that long.
Yeah, there are a bunch of those pens in the TSA seizure bins at the state surplus store in Austin… so they do get seized.
That said, I bought mine there for like $5 and have had it in my bag for the last couple of years without issue.
n
Well… the birthday thing is really NEXT week, so that is off the schedule for today, but there was an orthodontist appointment no one mentioned.
She claims whole body aches, head ache, and upset stomach since last night, so she’s on the couch and the Dr visit is re-scheduled.
Of course, my day is shot anyway now.
n
@SteveF
I have some mixed heavy metal waste from a project. Would you store it for me until I can set up a plating recovery process? Mostly non-ra
@Nick
Wait until John Q Public realizes that natural gas has been sky-high because Biden has been bailing out the Eurotrash.
Speaking of heavy, I showed my daughter an article about the SpaceX Super Heavy and how many tons it can lift. I didn’t even have to suggest that she tell her friends that Musk is building this specifically to lift your mom to orbit. She’s been well taught.
I hear The Hollies…
nope. Almost, though.
Or the other guys scared her when she realized what was really possible and she decided to not take the risk.
Woo hoo, 104 in the sun.
n
“A group representing 90 young women — including U.S. Olympic team gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — filed federal tort claims against the FBI on Wednesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for the bureau’s mishandling of its investigation into sexual abuse by former U.S. Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar.”
That investigation would have been a slam dunk for Barney Fife.
Or Luther Heggs (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059221/
I have been reliably (and repeatedly and redundantly) informed, by a lesbian, that people don’t turn gay, they discover they are gay after resisting it due to societal pressure to conform to hetero norms.
It went like this: On a support website I told what I thought was a funny story about my ex-wife’s first (that I know of) lover, and how after years of acting like a stray cat and bedding anything that
could wear a skirthad XX chromosomes, he met and bedded my wife and a couple years later was full-blown gay. I was reveling in the idea that she turned him gay in my post.The lesbians on that site objected. Well, after all, that’s what lesbians do, isn’t it?
I just had a lady in Peru complain that our software sucks because the cracked version that she is using crashed on her. I responded that we know that she is using a cracked version of our software that she did not pay for and that the cracker probably installed a virus in it. She even sent me the file that it crashed on which I will be ignoring because I crashed our software intentionally and randomly which it detected that our software security had been bypassed.
The nerve of some people ! This is how my employees and I shelter and feed our families.
>> Food poisoning is always a concern, but out of the dozens of times I’ve been poisoned, only one was sushi related.
Dozens of times?! Maybe you can compile a list so we know where to avoid??
>> The nerve of some people ! This is how my employees and I shelter and feed our families.
Ahh, living in a cardboard box is underrated.
[A sizable fraction of women] have nothing to offer us but their anger. And what they’re angry about, in the main, is having been born female.
David Weber reports on FB that his new book is doing well ! “Ahem. Jane Lindskold has called my attention to the following data from Amazon vis-a-vis A NEW CLAN:
#1 children’s sci-fi Kindle
#3 children’s sci-fi hardback
#9 space opera Kindle.
Not TOO shabby, I guess.”
https://www.amazon.com/New-Clan-Star-Kingdom-Weber/dp/1982191899?tag=ttgnet-20/
and
https://www.amazon.com/New-Clan-Kingdom-Novel-Harrington-ebook/dp/B09XPDV633?tag=ttgnet-20/
I really liked his previous three treecat books. They are what most Heinlein readers would regard as juveniles.
That one pops up on “Svengoolie” about once a year. It is among his most-requested films.
Liberty’s Torch…. added to my feed.
That story is 100% believable.
You’re a rich American dot com entrepreneur.
Third day at Disney World, taking an afternoon break. Our first trip since 2015. To summarize, some of the changes are great (mobile food ordering seriously rocks). Some changes are the same but different (new lightning lane). Some really suck (lightning lane availability and genie+. We aren’t your average visitors, and have a great plan and can adapt as needed. I will say that having access to DAS (disabilty service – for additional ride reservations) has been a life saver. My son said he felt guilty using it at first, but after one lone line in the heat, he said he changed his mind. For him, the heat gets to him much more now after the type 1 diagnosis. That was on Monday. We adapted our plan to minimize time in the sun. It’s worked well.
We leave Saturday morning, so halfway done. We haven’t purchased genie+ yet, but are considering doing it on Friday so we can ride the new Guardians of the Galaxy ride again. It lives up to the hype – highly recommend.
I thought that Joan Staley from “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” died recently, but it turns out that she died in late 2019. Time flies, especially during a pandemic.
To bring an old topic….
Currently listening to Mandy on my recently acquired Homepod Mini. Actually sounds good for a small speaker.
You’re a rich American dot com entrepreneur.
You and I both wish that was true. It is unnerving to be working in a business market that the President of the USA is actively attacking.
Well, you’re a white cisgender male. So, somebody somewhere is oppressed and it’s your fault.
Well, if people like you weren’t actively trying to destroy the planet…
Unless things have changed significantly in 20 years, enough CPU and memory to run your software is probably well into the mid four figures in Peru due to tariffs. The person complaining about your software may not even have a legal version of Windows.
I have a full size Homepod which works well with any of the Apple devices in the house.
If you’re running Manilow this afternoon, try this track while the original material inspiring the “in” joke is fresh in your head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S0RSdGl-2E
Back from the grocery store. Hit the aisles while waiting for my scrips to be filled.
Weird gaps, poorly hidden. Stuff from other departments thrown onto a shelf. They were doing a lot better job of stocking and hiding shortages last week. Weird vibe in the store too.
Chicken thighs were $1.40 but the loss leader pork tenderloin vac pack was $1.27/pound. I bought the limit. I cut them into roasts and chops. I’ll wait on chicken until the price falls when all the culls take place.
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Doc in the box was a PA, gave me a steroid shot, some oral steroids and an anti-itch pills, and some cream. The pharmacy thought they’d have to order the anti-itch, but I ended up getting the last of the bottle. That’s the second time this year they either thought, or did, have to order something for me.
n
A couple of years ago, I had a really irritating itch – almost a burning sensation – in my back. It felt like it was under the skin.
Turned out it was shingles, although thankfully a mild case. Don’t recall what I got for it – probably steroids.
A shingles vaccine is a good thing, IMHO. You don’t want even a mild case of it. I was lucky.
PA is pretty standard anymore at those places. Lots of private schools churning them out.
Loan forgiveness will decimate healthcare further once the indentured servitude nature of the repayment plans is removed.
I strongly suspect HEB pharmacy under-dosed my BP med earlier this year. The crew at the local store pharmacy never seem to have their minds on the job. I’m now at Walgreens after one round of refills at CVS was enough to make me remember why I stopped going there.
I don’t think the CVS buyout of the Eckerd Drugs stores in the South has ever really worked.
@RickH: Just noticed that clicking on the current day in the calendar in the side bar brings up Nick’s main body, but no comments.
Clicking “home” brings those up.
First time I actually tried the calendar thingy, I think.
@EdH – the calendar ‘widget’ shows a calendar, with a background color indicating that there are posts for that date.
Note the plural there – all the posts (if there are more than one) for that day will be displayed. You get the full content of the post (or all the posts for that day), but not the comments. If you want to read an individual post with the comments, you have to click on the post heading.
So if there were two posts that were published on the same day, clicking on that day in the calendar widget would show both of the posts. But it wouldn’t show the comments. It’s a ‘list of posts published on that day’.
So, that is working how it is supposed to.
Although the template that displays the post(s) is a bit borked; the side column isn’t positioned properly. I will have to fix that.
@RickH: Ah. That explains it, sorry to pester!
To reference another “Svengoolie” favorite, even the cops who couldn’t stop “The Abominable Dr. Phibes” from killing eight people could crack the case.
https://archive.org/details/the-abominable-dr.-phibes-4k/The+Abominable+Dr.+Phibes+(4K+Class).mov
@EdH – no problem. Didn’t realize that template was borked. Just fixed it, and installed the theme update.
Also upgraded to latest version of CKEditor5. A quick test – and everything looks OK.
or Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart (The Private Eyes)
with Don Knotts and Tim Conway:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081376/
I had low expectations for this one which were fully realized. Fortunately it was December and a large coat with many pockets didn’t look out of place with the pockets filled.
Dinner tonight was chops from the tail end of the loin, they are mostly dark meat. Texas HEB sells them as “Texas cut” or “cowboy” cut. I like the dark meat anyway, but I do season them a little different than the leaner center cut white meat pork.
Tried grilling watermelon, don’t know what the big deal is. SHOULD make it sweeter, but didn’t. Might be operator error.
Added frozen texas toast, and some doctored up Bush’s beans, and a feast was had.
The rest of the 20 pounds of pork turned into roasts and one bag of cowboy chops and went to freezer camp….
n
The Leidenfrost effect dramatically illustrated:
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1533482443667394562
Let’s find a liberal judge in California to issue a stay on Chesa Boudin’s recall for some manifestly transparently bullspit reason, so the citizens can enjoy him some more.
“Israel makes dramatic upgrades to military plans to attack Iran”
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-708875
“IAF can now fly its F-35 stealth fighter jets from Israel to the Islamic Republic without requiring midair refueling.”
Whoa, I thought the F-35 sucked ! Plus its internal weapons compartment can hold a one ton bomb.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Hey! Unless you treat the dark ones and the light ones exactly the same, you’re discriminating! And if the results do not come out exactly the same, that’s proof of systemic bias!
Don’t worry. Karen Bass might win in LA and continue that city’s current trajectory of enlightened governance, setting an example of the rest of California.
As soon as her name floated for VP two years ago, Biden lost Florida. Donna Shalala also lost down ticket in November, in a seat presumed to be hers for life.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/karen-bass-and-rick-caruso-projected-to-move-on-to-2022-mayoral-runoff/ar-AAYcLzR
Maybe the Israelis had a deal to build their own like the Japanese.
Mitsubishi of all companies.
Maybe the Israelis had a deal to build their own like the Japanese.
Mitsubishi of all companies.
Nope, Israeli F-35s are built in Fort Worth like the rest of the F-35s. Theirs is the F-35i though as they probably heavily modified it.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/meet-the-f-35i-adir-israels-very-special-stealth-fighter/
@Greg Norton
In other news, Hunters hooker porn co-star, who got a $22,000 forgivable loan from the goobermint, is trending on social media and has an initial favorable rating higher that Brandon.
The Wally at the previous previous job came from that program in Fort Worth.
Damning with faint praise. Pubic lice have a higher favorability than the Joetato.
I love the stench of climatista desperation:
Dr. Susan Crockford
My scientific blog posts contributed to the failed Antarctic Treaty bid to protect Emperor penguins
Dr. Crockford quotes from the preciously named but obviously all-paste “Tiara” Walters hit-piece in the Daily Maverick
and notes that, mysteriously, Ms Walters has omitted any links to the papers that were cited:
as well as under-reporting her [Dr. Crockford’s] credentials in such a way as to easily qualify as a blatant falsehood.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/08/dr-susan-crockford-for-the-win-booyah/
After quoting a 2017 multi-author hit piece on Crockford by Michael “That’s My Graph Trick” Mann [himself, mysteriously, not a polar bear scientist although sharing the girthiness of the high-latitude ursines], Walters piece (one guess what kind) ends with a plea for money.
Mysteriously, there are no credentials listed for Walters in the article or on the DM website. Finding her personal website was easy, but again, mysteriously, her “Bio” page lists no academic credentials, and no peer-reviewed polar science, despite heading the page with:
TIARA WALTERSAUTHOR/SCIENCE & POLAR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST
She does claim
“ I often appear as a media commentator and also have deep experience as book author/editor.”
which gives me a pretty good image of her importance in her own mind.
I also noted this:
“I investigate natural sciences for Daily Maverick, joint winner of the Global Shining Light Award with 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa — the world’s top investigative journalism prize.”
a truly Gore-esque construction indeed.
oh, one other thing:
Since Maria Ressa shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, a more accurate construction would be:
“I investigate natural sciences for Daily Maverick, joint winner of the Global Shining Light Award with 2021 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Maria Ressa — the world’s top investigative journalism prize.”
So she’s on the staff of a magazine that shared an award, but apparently made no contributions to getting that award–unless they were mysteriously omitted.
But said award is the “top” investigative journalism prize, having roared onto the scene in 2007 and wrenched the designation that the Pulitzer Prize had held since 1917.
I’m going to carry her photo in my wallet, right next to Callista Flockhart.
ADDED: Lost in the fractal splintering of the self-congratulation, it appears that the DM may itself be part of an organization that awards the GSLA, which adds a whole ‘nuther layer of stickiness.
@nick
pregnant women shouldn’t eat sushi
After a bit of research, I ignored most of the modern advice. I ate my normal (healthy) diet, slept a bit more, and kept up my normal physical activities. Moderation.
I do believe we as a society delight in being frightened and frightening others ~grimace~
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Creatures Of The Swamp”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-creatures-of-the-swamp/
“The left is playing up big the January 6th hearings in an effort to deflect from the Dems disasters. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2022”
Biden has done more damage to the USA than any other President in my lifetime and since the founding of the country.
Wow, I ‘d say the yellow box warnings about heavy machinery on the meds I took were probably justified. I was OUT. Still a bit wobbly. Fingers at the keyboard feel like feet after a few beers…
I’m headed to bed.
n
@jenny, that was the approach we ended up taking. Avoid alcohol. Don’t do anything stupid.
n
“India is Buying Up Cheap Sanctioned Russian Oil and Selling it to the U.S. and E.U. at Huge Profits”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/08/india-is-buying-up-cheap-sanctioned-russian-oil-and-selling-it-to-the-u-s-and-e-u-at-huge-profits/
“India is buying up cheap sanctioned Russian oil, refining it, then selling it to the US and EU for huge profits, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The US has reluctantly given India permission to buy Russian oil because India has threatened to ditch their alliance with America and ally with China if the US dares to sanction them.
While Americans and Europeans are being forced to pay record prices for gas as “the cost of standing up for freedom,” the free nation of India is buying oil from Russia for a whopping $35 off a barrel and selling it back to us in a hilarious arbitrage scheme.”
What did you expect ? Somebody was going to do it.
@nick
I didn’t entirely avoid alcohol.
My idea of a nightcap is two ounces of red wine, or a couple ounces of an amber beer, or maybe a whimpy G&T in a juice glass. Both parents were alcoholics, family has a propensity for alcoholism, so I’m a careful drinker. I had a few ounces of weak beer once or twice a month while pregnant.