Cool, 60-ish, and damp. Weather was crazy yesterday. The overcast turned to misty drizzle, then the sky opened late morning. Then it mostly stopped for a couple of hours. But in the early evening we had a lot of bump and flash, with actual hail for a brief time. Big hail. Ping pong ball sized mostly with a few bigger, and some smaller. Didn’t last long but it got my attention.
Haven’t looked at the truck yet, but I’m sure there are some dings. Today has light rain in the forecast.
I used the lull in the rain to do my pickups yesterday. Stuff for the house, and the BOL mostly. That late start got me home late too. Did some more sorting, stacking, and moving stuff around. Cleaned up and did laundry. The usual domestic bliss.
Broke down and vac sealed the Costco pork ribs. Three racks to a pack is more than I want to defrost for one meal, so I cut each rack in half, and bagged them two halves in each bag. That is more like dinner sized… The rest of the marinaded pork chops got bagged too.
Don’t know if I’ll head to the BOL today or not. It’s turning into a challenge to get up there to meet the cable/internet guy, and then mostly turn right around and come home. I have my non-prepping hobby meeting on Saturday morning, and I have good ‘show and tell’ items and don’t want to miss it. Plus I’ve been volunteered to be a committee chair for our annual meeting, so I should start getting up to speed on that. There are other family reasons to not be gone Friday as well. Maybe I can go up during next week. Change. Supposedly it does a body good.
Today is the anniversary of one of my wife’s relatives’ unexpected death. Having married into the family, he knew what I was facing, and was one of the first to make me feel welcome. I miss him. I’ve been thinking about old friends lately, and have started picking up the phone. Don’t wait if you get the feeling you should reach out. Twice it’s happened that I talked with a friend shortly before his unexpected death. I feel better for having had the contacts when I did.
I don’t know why the universe works the way it does. It might just be innate pattern recognition pulling signals from the noise, or inventing signals where there aren’t any. Or maybe it’s something quantum, or Taoist synchronicity, or God’s voice. Happens often enough that I’m convinced something real is going on though.
I don’t have a general sense of dread, nor any specific “feeling”, but I do sort of find myself oddly passive, in a sort of ‘learned helplessness’ sense. Like it’s all kinda pointless to keep working on the problems. That’s probably just fatigue, and the fact my calendar has far too many absent friends memorialized on the next couple of pages. There are good anniversaries coming up too, both daughters have birthdays, and I have a wedding anniversary… and of course I just had my birthday, which may be a contributing factor. Memento Mori. Probably worth considering, and then putting aside- like usual.
And like usual, I want you to stack stuff. I’m giving you permission. Do it.
nick
Not really. It’s nice to hear your daily updates. Plus the forum: the comments are – for me anyway – like sitting in a bar with a group of like-minded friends. Pleasant conversation, sometimes even useful. Very worthwhile, on more than one level…
Thanks Brad, that is the goal.
There is always a bit of navel gazing at some point in the new year, and remember that I’ve often said the post titles were not necessarily related to the content, but whatever struck my fancy when I sat down to write. It’s actually kinda ‘meta’ as the kids say, because the comments (best part) often have nothing to do with the posts (so the titles are twice removed from the main discussion). Today’s title is more a play off of yesterday’s title than anything else, although it’s true enough.
One difference that has developed between my style and Bob’s is that I find it entertaining to sometimes play with words or phrases just for the fun of it. That is not something that I would have expected, btw. And I’m at least a couple of orders of magnitude more likely to quote a song lyric, or make a pop culture reference… not sure I can ever remember Bob doing that.
Most of the time the post is just my idea of a possible conversation starter. And most of the time, the crew decides the conversation should be about something else! [insert Ghandi quote about leading…] which is just fine.
Glad you stick around.
n
@Nick
Bob used to post a lot of nuts and bolts bench chemistry like tips and tricks for making standard solutions. And lots of discussion about sourcing chemical materials. You aren’t going to be doing either. That’s ok, you’re writing different stuff, but still a lot of “core RBT”. You’re doin’ fine.
Hats off to Mr. Nick. Doing a great job, sir.
You guys scared me yesterday talking about the adulteration of Looney Tunes. So I got out the canoe and headed to the torrential stream. I found the “Golden Collection” and now have 32G. Someone put together a massive collection of LT, Merry Melodies, and other cartoon classics and movies. 370G and working on it. It’s not like having them in hard copy,, but I’ll probably watch them if they are on my server.
I did the same with ”Song of the South” when that was being wokified. I also found scans etc of the Seuss books to put on the NAS.
Oooo:
Country Music Mega-Star Travis Tritt Drops Anheuser-Busch Products From His Tour
The real kicker is he says he knows many other artists who are doing the same. After the Drag Queen show on the CMT Awards, I bet many Country artists are shaking their heads. Even if it is just the hospitality rider, this is a kick in the nuts to AB. LOL if they had any.
AB’s diversity hires in the marketing dept. are nuts, even if they still have theirs or never did…
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Ah, the game of life has a limited number of NPC “skins”… and now that we have widespread travel and imaging, people are starting to find out. Just wait until some of the cheat codes get published…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11943723/Life-really-does-mirror-art-people-doppelgangers-hanging-gallery.html
n
I just read Lizzo is guesting on The Mandalorian. The Hutt jokes will write themselves.
I may be old by some measures, and I do consider myself a friend, but please don’t call me. 😉
Seriously, what Brad said. I feel at home here. A nicer bunch of people couldn’t be found anywhere. I especially appreciate the day to day slice-o-life stuff, plus the ability to post a question and get useful answers.
Another self important piece of disgusting racist slime scum. What she is doing is racist to the core. I hope the rest of the team gets the invitation, except for her. She has been accused of being a ghetto thug which she denies. I counter with she has just confirmed the claims against her. She is ghetto trash and would only be able to make a living by spreading her legs to make lots of welfare babies if she could not play basketball.
Of course Jill Biden and the rest of the clowns in the White House did not help the situation with Jill’s stupid remarks. Any time someone associated with the White House says something they stick their foot in their mouth. Especially Sponge Brain and that fool he married.
Don’t forget Jack Black sporting a “Letterman”-weird beard sitting right next to Lizzo.
What’s interesting is that Black’s voice, including singing, is featured prominently in the new “Super Mario Brothers” movie, released tomorrow, which kicks off two years of Universal PR for their new theme park attractions in Hollywood and, more ominously, Orlando.
Maybe The Mouse should have considered that one more carefully.
Lizzo is guesting on The Mandalorian.
–desperate attempt at relevance?
n
In the “you never know what will show up at the goodwill outlet” vein, I picked up a partial roll of 12/2 romex…
75ft, about $100 worth, for $10.
I’ve got a whole house to re-wire. I also find it at garage sales, and estate sales. Serious discounts because people forget, or don’t know how much copper has increased in price.
Seems straightforward to price, yet people don’t…
n
Funny, this literally just happened to me this week. Some management type at my school said “hey, cool project, can we do some publicity with this?” Me…huh?
They sent me a photo of some of our students standing next to a guy…who looks just like me. I was genuinely racking my brain, trying to figure out if I was *that* absentminded, and had totally forgotten about some project, but no. Definitely not.
Strangely, my wife says the pic doesn’t look like me at all…
Sweet! Just won the swivel base for the 10″ dob that I won a couple months ago. I knew it would come up. I think it’s the actual exact one I need, but if by some chance it is a different manufacturer, I’m sure I can make it work. And less than $20 too. I couldn’t buy a sheet of plywood for that.
n
School just sent out a weather warning that there might be heavy rain during pickup times and busses might be running late.
First time that’s happened.
n
>> “So I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come but, you know, I’m going to tell Joe [Biden] I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
Participation trophies for all!
“Elon Musk’s brand new satellites are ‘falling out of the sky’ in huge headache for SpaceX”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/elon-musks-new-satellites-falling-29643448
“Despite only launching last month, SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink satellites are already falling out of the sky – Elon Musk has admitted that satellites are ‘experiencing some issues’”
Oh crap !
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
@nick:
The UK equivalent of that is 2.5 sq.mm. twin-and-earth, although ours is differently colour-coded – we use red and black, not black and white.
2.5 sq.mm. is used for power circuits, although our practice is to wire a ring, with multiple outlets (often double) rather than individual spurs. The cable loops throgh the back of all the outlets, and both ends are terminated on the same 30 amp fuse/circuit breaker, despite the cable only being rated at 20 amps. Diverse feed ftw!
Our mains plugs have individual fuses, supposedly selected to suit the power consumption of the device, but nowadays that’s mostly disregarded, and all plugs have 13 amp 20mm QB fuses in them.
We do similar with lighting circuits, except with 1.5 sq.mm. cable, fusing centrally at 15 amps.
G.
The first son has his new condenser in his 2019 Camry and it holds a vacuum. But for some reason, Toyota put a left handed Schrader valve on his a/c system. So he has ordered the new a/c fill kit from Big River. Nice going Toyota !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrader_valve
Participation trophies for all!
Yes, indeed. This is a big PLT push (LOL starting with Shrub’s No Child Left Behind and BillyG’s A College Level Prep For All). A perfect commie way to dumb down the whole nation. Remember, plugsy McSpongeBrains’ COVID lockdowns gave us the dumbest generation of kids in 200 years. Generation SFB (Sh*t For Brains).
“Elon Musk’s Latest Twitter Controversy: Labeling NPR as State-Controlled Media”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musks-latest-twitter-controversy-labeling-npr-as-state-controlled
“NPR says it receives less than 1% of its funding from federal sources. Nevertheless, Twitter has decided to label it ‘US state-affiliated media,’ implying the government controls it.”
The truth hurts.
“Biden EPA Chief Wants Funding to Hire Hundreds Of ‘Environmental Justice’ Bureaucrats”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/05/biden-epa-chief-wants-funding-to-hire-hundreds-of-environmental-justice-bureaucrats/
“Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan requested $375 million and 265 new full-time employees to promote “environmental justice” in his Wednesday testimony to the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works while defending the agency’s budget.”
“The EPA established the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (EJECR) in September and is now seeking a cash influx to expand those efforts through support for community organizations, according to Regan. About one-third of the funding would go into grants to outside groups, and the newly proposed budget would approximately double the agency’s funding for civil rights issues.”
Just say no.
The plugs SpokesClown:
KJP effectively endorses and justifies future acts of violence in response to ‘anti-LGBTQ’ laws
This is a PLT tactic. “Do what we say, or die” then repeat ala Alinsky until Generation SFB believes it. The PLTs have used public school to indoctrinate and control kids for generations. Now they want to give kids drugs and medical procedures without parents involved. There have been a couple of Kalifornia school staff this week that are bold enough to go on social media and say we are transitioning your children behind you back. Why aren’t those people taken out and shot?
In shite you can’t make up department:
Biden admin review of disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal finds somebody to blame (just guess)
It’s tRump’s fault!!! The sheeple still believe this.
Game over, man, game over.
“Republicans: you’re being played!” by Ann Coulter
https://thespectator.com/topic/republicans-played-donald-trump-nomination/
“The left’s sole objective is to make Trump the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee”
She may be correct.
Trump botched the debate when all he had to do was keep his mouth shut and win.
Any other Republican wouldn’t make the mistake, and all of the announced candidates would present a clear age contrast with Biden.
The Constitution doesn’t prevent Trump from running a campaign from a prison cell.
“Any other Republican wouldn’t make the mistake,”
Every other Republican excepting one is too busy making the usual mistakes they make, number one being they are gutless wishy-washy RINO’s that sold out long ago.
The PLTs/Dumbocrats/Lefties want tRump because no one will complain when the election is stolen.
83 million, right.
Stay safe and stay dry…
From Space City Weather
Thursday
The focus for rainfall this morning lies to the northwest of Houston, where a boundary just above the surface has remained more or less stationary. This area, including Austin, Waller, Washington, Brazos, Grimes, and Montgomery counties, will remain the focus for on-and-off shower activity this morning. Much of the Houston metro area may well remain rain-free during daytime hours today.
Later this afternoon and overnight, however, we are likely to see showers and thunderstorms developing closer to the coast, in and south of Houston. Overall accumulations today and tonight for the region are likely between 0.5 and 3 inches of rainfall. I think our Stage 1 flood alert covers things nicely. As always, remain weather aware when heavy rainfall threatens, and check conditions before venturing out.
Friday
Healthy rain chances continue overnight and into Friday, as a wet airmass remains in place, with the destabilizing presence of a cold front just offshore. This activity should start to wind down on Friday night, or Saturday morning at the latest. All told, most of the region will see an additional 1 to 4 inches of rainfall through Friday night. Please take care in thunderstorms, and do not drive into high water. High temperatures on Friday may only reach the low to mid-60s, with continued mostly cloudy skies. Lows on Friday night will drop into the upper 50s.
I grok that. I see pictures of me and I don’t look like that going by what I see in the mirror.
Whew! None of the satellites that I worked on with the launch team came down. Were we just lucky, or………?
Whew! None of the satellites that I worked on with the launch team came down. Were we just lucky, or………?
All of the Starlink satellites are designed to deorbit within five years. These are just coming down … early.
I’m sure it’s global warming (which is real!) causing the atmosphere to expand, thereby increase drag on the low-flying sats, thereby bringing them down early.
The next Republican President needs to give the commands in Tampa an enema.
Maybe literally.
Once again, I present one of the Pentagon’s leading experts on … Korea, IIRC. Aggravated Stalking online while contracting at MacDill and living in the Tampa suburbs in my neighborhood.
https://mugshots.com/US-States/Florida/Hillsborough-County-FL/Brandon/Glen-Alan-Nagy.4695502.html
The case is sealed in public records thanks to Pentagon intervention and the victim suddenly dropping charges.
Caught trying to sneak back into the country at a small airport in … Loudon County!
But but butt, drag is a good thing! The alfabet soup lobby says so…
n
Poured down like a mutha in the NW part of town, but not until after 4pm.
Light rain currently at the casa de nick.
n
– nothing like retconning the 50s now…
n
–it’s pedos all the way up and all the way down.
n
– nothing like retconning the 50s now…
n
What is a “non-binary tomboy” ?
This goes one of two ways. Either we defeat the insanity and we all look back on this as a lesson on how leftism almost took over the world; or, every boy becomes a girl and every girl becomes a boy.
They have all used the left to wriggle into positions of power, while starting to convince everyone they are “normal”.
Whooohoooo, it’s getting biblical out there tonight. Lots of banging and flashing…. power blinked and the rain is coming down..
n
We should always trust what the FBI says.
Also the nice lady on the TV made faces when MTG said all democrats are pedos. Always trust TV presenters.
This goes one of two ways. Either we defeat the insanity and we all look back on this as a lesson on how leftism almost took over the world; or, every boy becomes a girl and every girl becomes a boy.
Oh, there are about 57 other varieties that they can become instead of a plain old girl or a plain old boy. After all, any one who is not a plain old girl or a plain old boy is special. President Biden says so.
“The de-dollarization of the world economy”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-de-dollarization-of-world-economy.html
“We’ve spoken before about the danger of the US dollar losing its status as the world’s reserve currency. Now Tucker Carlson provides the best description I’ve yet heard of the growing danger that this will happen, and not in the long term – soon. What’s even worse is that it’s happening because of deliberate US government policies.”
“I can only urge my readers to take the time to listen to this excerpt in full. If de-dollarization happens, it will be a body blow to the US economy, and may have dramatic long-term consequences for all of us that are not predictable as yet.”
A possible look at the future of the USA where the dollar has lost its reserve status is documented in “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047” by Lionel Shriver.
https://www.amazon.com/MANDIBLES-FAMILY-2029-47_PB-171-POCHE/dp/000756077X?tag=ttgnet-20/
From my review which is the top review on Amazon: “The book covers four generations of a family in the near future. The family consists of about twenty people of whom I mostly did not like due to their overall craziness and attitudes about life. If there was anyone who came close, it was Florence Mandible who even as a single mother managed to buy a house in East Flatbush, NYC on a low income salary. But even she makes a lot of bad decisions that lead to a tough life. And I mostly liked Enola Mandible who was a successful author living in Europe but evacuated back to the USA due to supposed discrimination in Paris. Plus I liked Jarred Mandible who managed to get his patriarch grandfather to give him the money to buy a small farm in upper state New York.”
“The conditions leading up to the beginning of the financial apocalypse in the USA in 2029 had their roots in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, basically the Great Society federal and state programs. And in the continual wars and police actions started or participating in by the USA from WWI onward. One might exempt WWII from that list as WWII was supposedly actually good for the economics of the country but I have not researched that accepted fact for truthfulness.”
“In 2029, the rest of the world changes from using the USA Dollar as the world reserve currency to the new Bancor, a basket of world currencies. The USA Treasury Bills, of which there are $40 trillion outstanding, immediately double their interest rates in the next sale. The USA President and Congress pass legislation that holding Bancors is illegal for any USA citizen. Under further financial pressure, the USA repudiates the entire $40 trillion debt and starts seizing all the gold across the country from both citizens and businesses. Even gold wedding rings are seized as China has demanded that their tbills be redeemed immediately with non USA Dollars.”
“The patriarch of the Mandible family is a 97 year man with a fortune inherited from his grandparents who owned a steel mill. The patriarch has his fortune invested in gold stocks, stocks of gold bullion in central repositories, tbills, and the stock market. With the crash of the stock market, seizure of gold, and repudiation of all tbills, he is wiped out and he and his Alzheimer afflicted second wife move in with his son and his wife. And then the entire family ends up moving in with Florence in her tiny three bedroom house. But that quickly goes away also as the remaining family members are soon homeless and living in a park.”
The April 7, 2023 Dilbert is freaking awesome. And it is not on Reddit yet so I cannot show it. I can tell you that it is a conversation between Dave, the black engineer who identifies as white, and Dilbert.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/
“Operation Sand Man and Ramifications…”
https://capitalisteric.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/operation-sand-man-and-ramifications/
“The financial news coming out as I write this, 3/30/23, is getting more and more alarming. I posted only two weeks ago, that we don’t have much time left, before the financial house of cards that the American economy is, comes tumbling down. In other words, the collapse is imminent.”
“I can now say with certainty that the collapse is in progress, now. The Western central banks have all pooled their resources to stop cash outflows from different banks around the Western world, to plug holes that appear, and keep the banks solvent. But it’s too much; the dam has too many cracks, too many holes, and there aren’t enough fingers available to stop the leaks.”
“Think about it this way; FTX collapsed, with some $30 billion and cryptocurrencies vaporized. That in turn pulled in Signature Bank, Silvergate and Silicon Valley banks, in classic bank runs. It would appear that regulators are set to limit withdrawals from banks, to prevent future bank runs. In other words, your money is safe in the bank… until you want to withdraw it.”
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/04/inflation-and-us-money-supply-mixed.html
Since my weather station is still not running, I have to go by the buckets in the driveway. The buckets say we have gotten over 4″ of rain today.
n
Official rain gauges say between 1 and 2 “.
n
Mark writes:
Well yes, because Bill Gates and the Climate Whackos all think there are too many people, and getting all the kids sterilized will certainly reduce the population.
>> The Constitution doesn’t prevent Trump from running a campaign from a prison cell.
How about running the Presidency from a cell??
Well yes, because Bill Gates and the Climate Whackos all think there are too many people, and getting all the kids sterilized will certainly reduce the population.
Not good enough. Bill Gates wants to reduce the world’s population by 90%. The Climate Whackos want to reduce the world’s population by 99%. Now. Today.