Cold and damp again, although possibly just “cool” and not “cold.” It did warm up a bit during the day, and I ended up in long pants and a T shirt to get the lights down. It was 52F when I went to bed.
I spent Saturday morning at my non-prepping hobby meeting. Lots of good conversations in one of the best (largest) groups we’ve had in a while. Next month is our quarterly ‘swap meet’ meeting. I’ll have some stuff to sell by then, and the stuff I didn’t sell last time.
After my meeting I was supposed to quickly take down the Christmas stuff and head to the BOL. Of course that didn’t happen because reality smacked me around. I did get the lights down, and the lit up figures put away. Got some more stuff cleaned up and sorted for the local auction, and did some planning for the coming week with my wife. Girl Scout cookie season is only a month away. Our house will be a cookie depot for a while and needs to be cleaned with a place for all the cookies. That is mostly me getting my stuff out of the way…
The upshot was delaying my run to the BOL to today. If everything goes to plan, I’ll have a good night sleep, early start, and head out. My plan is to tackle some more plumbing and convert either the hall bath, or the laundry to pex. I should have most of what I need to do either, but the laundry is the least critical if I don’t get it finished. It’s also got some of the most corroded looking pipes. I’m going to just play it by ear. Maybe I’ll do work on the deck or yard. Hard to tell, but I should at least open the walls and make sure I have what I need. Which reminds me, I’m out of straight join pex connectors. Gotta get some on my way up… It’s always something.
The one critical thing is to deliver the freezer to my neighbor up there. Weaving my way into the community is a priority. Meatspace baby.
Also, figuring out what I need to keep the septic system running grid down. That’s a priority too. Batteries, solar, and inverters should do it but which ones, and how, and when and where do I get them….
Stack up the stuff you need. Infrastructure, money, and friends being three of the things!
nick
Ok, CNN, NBC will see your David Rodham Gergen commentary and raise you a Lanny Davis quote.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/democratic-allies-grow-frustrated-white-house-response-bidens-classifi-rcna65616
The Big Guy is toast.
It is 54 F on the West side of Fort Bend County. Gonna be a beautiful day.
I am shocked at the cost of going out to eat. I took the wife out to Salt Grass Steakhouse Friday night for our 41st anniversary. $63 plus tip for a New York Strip and a Grilled Shrimp dinner for the wife. Great food and the place was full at 9 pm.
Then I went to Whataburger last night. $23 for a burger, grilled chicken sandwich, chicken fingers and two large fries for the three of us. Expensive !
The prices have gone parabolic lately which makes me wonder if restaurants are testing the limits of what people will tolerate, particularly the chains.
Red Robin for four last night was $100 plus tip.
Red Robin.
I went out for a haircut yesterday and stopped at Nothing But Noodles for a steak salad. Almost $16 with tax. It was $11 a couple years ago, and not worth the current price.
While on that side of town, I stopped at Target. My preferred coffee is almost $3 more expensive than Walmart. Charmin Blue is $5 more expensive than Costco. More than ever, it pays to shop around.
I’ve had the same thought,
60F this morning and 92%RH.
WRT eggs, we get most of ours locally in Texas, at least HEB does. From what I see in comments on other sites, our eggs are CHEAP.
WRT going out to dinner, it’s nuts, even fast food. I’ve shared several times about KFC or Jack in the Box because those are the few places we go. The chinese buffet was nearly $100 for me and two kids. Chinese delivery was $100 for 4 entrees and 3 dumpling apps.
We’ve got some gift cards for fine dining and we’ve been trying to figure out when we can use them, before they won’t buy us anything.
—– some kind of race going on in Houston this am, scanner has runners falling out…
Time to get ready, and load the truck.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atf-declares-braced-pistols-illegal-demands-registration-or-face-jail-time
–pretty sure this was predicted… even if it gets struck down like a bump stock ban, they’ll have the list.
n
Here we go again, a three-letter agency making laws. When this is ruled unconstitutional by the courts, they will try a tax/stamp like suppressors.
Take a look at the examples given in the link at the link. This is not a fringe issue like bumpstocks. 40MILLION have been sold or built by some estimates… and it’s Ruger, Smith and Wesson, FN, PSA, Daniel Defense…. major manufacturers.
The NFA is unconstitutional on it’s face, rammed thru because of fear of depression era gangsters, and has to go.
n
Shall not be infringed.
Every gun law is on its face unConstitutional. Ditto for any restrictions on owning artillery, tanks, fighter jets, or nukes.
A law which is found to be unConstitutional is in theory treated as if it had never been passed in the first place. Any convictions under that law are voided, in theory wiped from the so-called offender’s record, and in theory he’s compensated for the time he was illegally imprisoned or for fines he had to pay. In practice, that doesn’t happen.
In theory, a cop making an arrest under an unConstitutional law has committed armed assault under color of law, false arrest, false imprisonment, and a host of other crimes. In theory, he can be sued and charged for those crimes. The same applies to prosecutors, judges, prison guards, and everyone else involved in an arrest and prosecution uner a non-law. In practice, I’ve never heard of that happening.
The dock I use also has a power button. One press, unplug one TB4 from the MBP and I’m out the door. Convenient. I use a Logitech Brio HD cam/mic and it works flawlessly thru the dock.
Man, the LSM is pressing hard with the “plugs didn’t know, someone else put the docs there” tack. Even implying plugs is so far gone he couldn’t have done it.
@RickH
Good. Sounds like you’re keeping an eye on things. Even with granule protection the asphalt of shingles that age will be somewhat brittle (in TX they would be brittle like a soda cracker).
Asphalt shingles are made from a fiberglass mat coated on both sides with asphalt, Then run through a machine that coats another grade of asphalt on top and adds granules, pressing them in with a roller. The asphalt comes from oil, so the price follows the price of oil. If you anticipate replacing the roof in the next five years, you might consider doing so if the price of oil comes back down a bit. Waiting until you have to might find you in the middle of a new price spike.
Yeah, predict what oil is going to do…
Biden did it. He just doesn’t remember.
The conspiracy is the handlers deciding to let The Big Guy twist in the wind and the word going out to the aides to “cooperate fully” so no one goes full-on Greg Marmalard attempting a cover up.
“Nixon White House Aide. Raped in Prison.”
A successful cover up would probably be worse for a number of Dem careers than a scandal and another failed Presidency.
Idiots. It’s sufficient that Biden removed the docs. If he compounded the problem with negligence it makes the matter worse.
McCarthy needs to get his caucus to go slow until they figure out how to impeach the Camel.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/four-more-virginia-schools-admit-to-withholding-national-merit-awards-from-students/
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action..
and seven times in one small area is a freaking conspiracy. Dig and chances are that these people did not immaculately conceive this idea independently, but had a common source, probably in a taxpayer-paid “workshop” that was run by a Soros-funded commie p.o.s.
I’ve been saying for two years that Biden would resign or be pushed out after 1/21/23, giving Commie Harris the right to complete Biden’s term, AND still run for two terms of her own. These “revelations” about Biden’s retention of classified documents may set that off. And look at that timing! Only two weeks to go.
I’ve read speculation that “Harris” might nominate Pete Buttigieg or Navin Gruesome as the new VP. I put Harris in scare-quotes, because I don’t believe that either Biden or Harris is actually running the show there; I suspect that Obama is the man behind the curtain there.
AoSHQ has a Saturday morning book thread that always starts with a photo of a library, sometimes public, sometimes personal.
Today:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/011523-Library.jpg
I believe I’ve seen this one before–as pointed out in discussion the laptop is vintage.
Storing books on curved shelves is terrible practice A curve in a vertical plane is the worst, and the binding is unevenly supported and racked.
A curve in a horizontal plane will also damage the bindings. When a book is stood on its lower edge it is supported by the boards (covers). The text block is attached to the boards by the endpapers, forming a joint at the spine which leaves the fore-edge unsupported. Gravity acts to pull it down, placing stress on the hinges.
When books are shelved in a straight line they support each other. The text block is constrained by the boards and friction, reducing the stress on the hinge. If the text block is large (e.g., CRC Handbook) the text block still develops a droop over time. Coated papers are heavier and have less friction between pages, so books such as encyclopedias tend to develop distorted text blocks even when shelved properly.
https://www.ibookbinding.com/blog/book-anatomy-parts-book/
Gavin Newsom and Harris can’t run on the same ticket in 2024 per the Constitution, and they represent different California money interests competing for power. He’s out.
Well no need for that dirty oil when all new roofs will be mandated to be silicon PV panels.
My whole neighborhood, about 20-25 years old, is concrete tile. From what I can tell usually asphalt paper/fiberglass under. Probably good for 50 years plus. Most likely will never be my problem.
I suspect that Obama is the man behind the curtain there.
–if by that you mean the group pulling Obammmm a’s strings, I agree. The nobody senator from nowhere can’t even speak extemporaneously, he’s not gonna be a mastermind.
From his speech at the national convention to the end of his term, the whole thing was stage managed.
n
If you watch any Obola debate/interview, it can barely put two words together. Totally agree that it is the puppet, not the puppet master.
January 30th can’t come soon enough for some people.
Composition and Research prep?
At least attribute Stephen Fry propery if you’re going there. Did you actually watch the BBC series or just the YouTube clips?
I’m guessing you started from OpenCulture.com and watched the video.
“Fry’s Planet Word” was a long time ago. He’s been around a long time.
Somewhere in my archives is Stephen Fry’s first screen appearance ever.
Lord Snot.
Yes, that is the character’s name.
“Yes, it’s rotten. They gave it to Scapper just because he directed our world tour of Hamlet and wrote our hilarious revue ‘What Ho, Darkie’. Honestly, chairman of a nationalised industry. I’d rather be a cabinet minister!”
Update: I stand corrected. Colonel Sodom in “There’s Nothing To Worry About!”. Unless you count “Chariots of Fire”, but Fry’s appearance there is uncredited.
I missed something. Why not?
The electoral college system requires electors to vote for candidates for President and Vice President, one of which cannot be from the same state as the elector. This doesn’t explicitly prevent two candidates from the same state from sharing the ticket, but it makes modern politics and balloting in the specific state difficult so the parties avoid the problem by splitting the residency.
The Dem Presidential playbook requires California as a cornerstone. I doubt they would want to risk giving that to the Republican VP nominee.
Or maybe they would with Newsom. Something to consider.
Greg said:
But nominating a replacement VP doesn’t invalidate picking Navin Gruesome. This would be a problem if the Dems then wanted to run a Harris/Newsom ticket in 2024, but Harris was never all that popular even with the far left. They may be planning to dump Harris and put Newsom at the top of the 2024 ticket.
Because let’s face it; the Dims have a very thin bench going forward, and Newsom is the only “experienced” politician there. Granted, it’s “experience at failure”, but still, it’s experience.
Grooming from the pulpit, famous civil rights worker turned president returns to the black church of his youth:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/15/biden-panders-lies-gaffes-and-appears-to-creep-on-a-girl-at-ebenezer-baptist-remarks-n689051
I don’t necessarily want whatever Ted is using, but I’d like to know.
It might be fun. Like trying Purple Microdots in college . . . that was a big let down. All the hype and just some aurora borealis out of the corners of my eyes and mostly, it was like a mexican diet pill. I paid $10 for this?
Want to try something interesting? I went to feed the cats a couple of years ago. There was an unnoticed scorpion on the lid. Well, we noticed each other and I then stomped all 3.5+ inches of it into pulp. Biggest one I’ve seen. I was drinking beer because that’s what I do esp. on hot days. So I’m on beer #3 and fed the cats and the emus and went to the house. Because that’s where the beer is. Mentioned the scorpion and “you know, I have a funny sort of metal taste in my mouth”.
Beer, scorpion, and two Benadryl make me loopy. A fun loopy but not enough to be worth looking for scorpions
“Quote of the day”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/01/quote-of-day.html
“From Klaus B. on Gab, following this news:”
“Biden’s cabinet is so Jewish they want to ban gas ovens.”
Make a meme of that and post to Facebook. I bet ya get 30 days.
“He’s telling it like it is”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/01/hes-telling-it-like-it-is.html
“A strong currency is one that can buy more goods and services than other currencies. That’s not the case with the U.S. dollar.
In fact, the U.S. dollar is only “strong” in comparison to other currencies.
Take the euro for example. Adjusted for inflation, the euro has lost about 35% of its purchasing power since its introduction in 1999.
The yen? It’s down 23% against the dollar this year alone.”
Oh my.
“The only way to restore the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is to stop the money printing. The only way to do that is to end the Federal Reserve and return to a monetary system based on sound money … We must do this before the central banks of the world print every currency in existence into total collapse. Look at those charts again. We’re much, much closer to total collapse than we are to stability. And if all your savings are tied up in U.S. dollars, I strongly recommend examining the benefits of diversification.”
And reputedly the repuglicans in the House are going to have a go at that on Thursday.
https://news.yahoo.com/house-republicans-prepare-emergency-plan-000250667.html
Pray tell, how do I do this? Beyond stocking up on canned food and such and LOTS and LOTS of bullets?
Put my savings into what? Effing Mexican Pesos? I’ve seen them drop a zero or two a couple of times.
How badly did we overcount COVID deaths and hospitalizations?
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/01/15/how-badly-did-we-overcount-covid-deaths-and-hospitalizations-n523940
Note that VeggieBiden just extended his emergency powers yet again.
Past time to shut down the executive power grabs, whether it is federal, state, county or city.
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp
If FDR acknowledged the necessity of getting approval from congress, what has changed to let a hair-sniffing imbecile like Biden unilaterally extend his imperial powers?
The Euro was overvalued at inception.
>> Now, if plug’s guy did it not knowing that he shouldn’t have, he was not guilty. But if he did know, then he was guilty and if plug told him, then he is also guilty.
Just speculating here but if you work in the WH as an aide to the Pres I gotta believe you have signed some kind of code of conduct document that covers all of the handling of classified material. And “I was just following orders” ain’t gonna cut it.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/15/recent-paper-on-w-hudson-bay-polar-bears-includes-new-official-sea-ice-freeze-up-data/
Corporations routinely develop data using their own funds, and do with it what they please.
Scientists getting government grants to support their work not only seem to think they own the data the taxpayers paid for, they publish in paywalled journals that taxpayers cannot access without paying a fee. Their compensation largely determined by the grant money they bring in and the papers they publish, driving up their salaries and contributing to the increasing cost of education.
The global warming scam driven by $30 billion or so taxpayer dollars each year, the the zealots doing the research are very protective of their gravy train. As the ClimateGate files showed, they routinely commit scientific fraud by reporting false data, changing data to suit their preferred conclusions, turning “peer review” into “buddy review” and doing everything they can to perpetuate their power and income.
One of the most blatant has been the increasing use of a simple device: withholding data that does not fit their propaganda. This has been going on for decades–literally, as there are taxpayer-funded ice cores data that continue to be withheld from other researchers–but seems to be getting worse.
Part and parcel of this type of fraud is the routine violation of research contracts that specify that data will be archived and available to the public, and the similar requirements of some journals for data archiving that are not enforced to the “right researchers”.
Past time to put a stop to it. An Executive Order from POTUS (a non-commie with a functioning brain) would be a good start, announced in a SOTU address as an interim measure pending legislation from congress.
FDR’s first electoral address. Things went downhill from there.
Within a month, Roosevelt signed EO 6102 which outlawed private ownership of gold.
Hey, I almost ran into that guy last week!
https://hotair.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_0213-730×563.jpeg
Arrived up here later than I’d hoped, so I did a few little things. I spent some time breaking concrete and moving the chunks to the debris pile. Spent a good amount of time standing in the front and looking at slopes, volumes, and grades, and planning the earthmoving project. I would like to sub contract that and not do it myself. I’m pretty sure it will be a lot faster if someone else does it.
It was 72F and windy when I got here, the inside of the house was 55F. That’s what the furnace is set to when we’re not here. The house holds the cold just like it holds heat. Shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it did.
After I finish my Hungry Man dinner (salisbury steak tonight) I’m headed down to the dock for a fire, beverage, and some radio. I hope it doesn’t get down to 30F tonight. Thermometer says that was yesterday’s low…
n
Pournelle used to say “You can prove anything if you can make up your data. You can prove almost anything if you can ignore data that you don’t like.”
I asked my dad, a retired financial planner, the same, last year. His answer was “hell if I know”, with details and some profanity. Real estate, at least around here, is a bad bet because of housing bubble, taxes, constantly increasing environmental regulations, and ludicrously strong tenant protection laws. The stock market is rigged, kept high by government action, and tinkered with to benefit the big guys at the expense of the small guys. Other trading markets, much the same. Bitcoin is a bubble. (As demonstrated when the price plummeted shortly after he said that.) Keeping some cash is of course a good idea but don’t tie up too much wealth in USD because of inflation and untrustworthiness. Bottom line, he said that my policy of buying up food and a generator and other stuff is about as good as I can do.
I have three Kindles. The original was lost so my son replaced it not knowing I’d replace it with a White Model. I found the original almost a year later. The original one is my default for new purchases, etc.
I want to put only recreational reading books on the White. I have not been able to do so. It always has everything I own in its library.
I verified the original is my default one. I did a factory reset on the white and then using my PC told Amazon to load the books I borrowed from Kindle Unlimited to the White one and added a few other books I’d purhased. But when I opened the White I again had my complete library on it. I went back to the PC and using “Contents and Devices” and checked several books that I had not asked to be down loaded to the White. None of the checked books were listed as on the White despite the fact that they were there.
Actually the books were not downloaded, they were just listed. But I can’t tell the down loaded one from those that are just listed. The “Home” and “Library” listings contain the same books.
Any suggestions?
Bob
Bob, check your settings. The paperwhites default to showing everything in your library, not just what’s downloaded, IIRC. That may not be the case for you right now, as my paperwhite (which I don’t use, preferring buttons rather than touchscreen) keeps getting updates which change the operation and my daughter’s paperwhite, a couple years older, works differently.
The issue is that I’ve got
several a couple of dozen books I’ve borrowed or purchased before I got the WuFlu the first time which I would like to read but I can’t locate them in my library of 800 plus books. The Home/Library listings do show books I’ve read but only after I’ve downloaded them.Yesterday I down loaded the User’s Guide and looked at settings. Didn’t see anything related to this. I also went through all the menu items. I didn’t pickup on the fact the the White loads all of the owner’s Library. I google that and see what I can find.
I wish there was a way to separate books read from books not read. I’ve tried “Collections” but haven’t been able to figure out how to put books in them and then locate the collections. I’d love to be able to have a collection of authors whose books were so awful (to me) that I couldn’t finish them. If you delete an awful book you have no record to refer to.
I’ll forgot that the first Kindles at keyboards, I just wanted a book reader and so all of my Kindles only have touch screens. (My original is a second or third replacement for the actual original that failed.)
@bob, my paperwhite that is my everyday reader has a word next to My Library. The choices are ‘all’ or ‘downloaded’ and they show what you’d expect them to – except the subscription stuff. There was another word I had to click on, or a check box, to show kindle unlimited. Once I found it, and whatever the choices were, they weren’t intuitive, I could see all my unlimited and then D/L to that device the stuff I wanted.
There is also a way to “manage my devices” or something similar on the amazon web page that lets you check box stuff on each of your devices. I had D/L’d the Harry Dresden books in too many devices, so when I tried to make a kindle with just Harry Dresden I got an error because the publisher limits the number of devices you can have copies on. I had to figure out which devices had them, and delete them from the devices from the website, not from the devices (which I didn’t have access to). That’s why I went looking.
One other thing you could try, from amazon, and the book page, try to buy it again. You should get a message saying you already own it, and there will be a link to manage where it’s downloaded.
When I order something new, it automatically D/L’s to my default, but on the order confirmation page, there is a link to send it to ‘another device’ and a drop down list of your devices. I usually do that to make sure it’s on the device I am currently using. Of course, I have 11 and it’s dumb, and overly complicated…. and I should get rid of the ones I don’t use regularly… but it’s easier to muddle on than clean it all up.
n
It was cloudy and a bit chilly on the dock tonight. Good radio though. Wind was gusting and blowing every which way.
All that died down about 9:30 and the clouds started to clear. I’d let my fire die out, and finished my drink though so I came back up.
I’m headed to bed with a book, and hopefully an early night so I can get some stuff done tomorrow.
n
Just found part of the answer: On the top, left side of the screen is an icon that takes you to “Filters”. That let’s you filter for unread books and the down loaded books.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/report-facebook-admits-to-suppressing-often-true-content-at-wh-request/
Clear conspiracy to violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Prison time for all involved in the criminal case.
Major damages from Facebook in the civil case. (Yes, they are a private company, BUT they cannot conspire with the government to violates people’s rights)
>> The global warming scam driven by $30 billion or so taxpayer dollars each year, the the zealots doing the research are very protective of their gravy train.
Don’t forget who’s allocating those billions of dollars (hint, hint, initials are D.C.)
@Bob, have you looked at Calibre as an option?
Pray tell, how do I do this? Beyond stocking up on canned food and such and LOTS and LOTS of bullets?
Put my savings into what? Effing Mexican Pesos? I’ve seen them drop a zero or two a couple of times.
Gold. Physical ownership thereof.
Read “The Mandibles” for more info.
https://www.amazon.com/MANDIBLES-FAMILY-2029-47_PB-171-POCHE/dp/000756077X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Be aware that some day, they will come for your gold. Pay cash and hide it well. There should be no records of your purchase as the first thing that they do is examine the credit card statements.
The global warming scam driven by $30 billion or so taxpayer dollars each year, the the zealots doing the research are very protective of their gravy train. As the ClimateGate files showed, they routinely commit scientific fraud by reporting false data, changing data to suit their preferred conclusions, turning “peer review” into “buddy review” and doing everything they can to perpetuate their power and income.
Try hundreds of billions of dollars. Federal and State subsidies of wind mills, solar power, electric cars, electric battery plants, etc, etc, etc. Plus the diversion of economic capital to these same useless wind mills and solar power plants.
>> Gold. Physical ownership thereof.
And/or Silver.
The global warming scam driven by $30 billion or so taxpayer dollars each year, the the zealots doing the research are very protective of their gravy train. As the ClimateGate files showed, they routinely commit scientific fraud by reporting false data, changing data to suit their preferred conclusions, turning “peer review” into “buddy review” and doing everything they can to perpetuate their power and income.
Don’t forget the canceling, blackballing, and persecution of legitimate scientists. Even such revered scientists as Freeman Dyson.