Cool and damp today, but hopefully clearing. It’s always nice to have good weather for Easter.
I spent yesterday morning with my fellow enthusiasts for my non-prepping hobby, and spent the afternoon sleeping and getting ready for today.
The kids still like to get Easter baskets, and color eggs. We spent a while last night making little gnome egg characters, and some more traditional egg decorations.
Today, after the back yard egg hunt, we’ll gorge on chocolate and Peeps ™, with dinner hours away. Plan for dinner is a big lamb roast, and some tasty sides. I always lean toward ‘savory’ with lamb. Might use the robot to make a fresh loaf of bread. If it doesn’t work out, I will pop a shelf stable loaf into the oven.
After dinner there might be some napping.
Whatever else you do, enjoy the fellowship and promise of the day.
nick
Yes, because police agencies have an unblemished record for investigating themselves.
Well, no. SOP should be to answer the door with the gun out of sight, when someone pounds on your door in the middle of the night. Not that it would have made much difference with cops responding to a claimed domestic violence incident.
If a bread machine doesn’t give consistent results, the problem almost certainly comes from inconsistent measurement of ingredients. That usually means the flour. The water being off by half a tablespoon (a quarter ounce) will do it, too. Keeping the yeast in the refrigerator will keep that fresh, if the problem is that the dough sometimes doesn’t rise.
Low-quality ingredients, namely the flour, could be the issue. Store-brand all purpose flour is inconsistent from batch to batch, sometimes demonstrably so if you examine the flour from two different bags. Using bread flour (or pizza flour; I haven’t noticed any difference and pizza flour may be the same stuff with a different label) gives more consistent and more delectable results. Using half bread flour and half all purpose gives almost-as-good results at lower cost; bread flour in 50# bags is almost twice the unit price as store-brand all purpose flour in 5# bags.
The machine itself is unlikely to be the problem. It spins the paddle. Not much room for error there.
What was at stake in 2018 in Florida was the losing party being shut out of redistricting and, thus, for the Dems, state-level power for at least a decade. Media at places like the Poynter Institute – The (St. Petersburg) Times and PolitiFact – pulled out all of the stops to get Benny Crump’s meth head sock puppet candidate Andrew Gillum elected, which included throwing the Graham family under the bus, something unthinkable just 20 years ago in the state.
Gillum almost was sworn in as Governor, which is really scary. Imagine this as Governor of one of the most populous states in the nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAIn7vZ36E
Video courtesy of Warren Buffett’s TV station, lest you think I’m using a right biased source.
If you are using a bread machine in a humid environment, you will have to eyeball the dough during the mixing/kneading cycle and add flour as necessary to make sure that the mass forms a cohesive ball which does not stick to the paddle. The old Ron Popeil maxim “set it and forget it” doesn’t apply in a Gulf state anywhere near the coast.
55 F at 8am here on the West side of the Brazos River. That is very cold for us in the middle of April here, just 35 miles away from the biggest hot tub in the world, the Gulf of Mexico. Everything is wet outside as the dew is pouring off the house. The cat was just licking the dew off the grass, I’ve never seen him do that before.
Gonna head to church in a little while. Went to HEB last night as it is closed today. Was a madhouse with empty shelves all over the place, people were in a panic that HEB was going to be closed for one day.
Working at HEB during any holiday is entertaining. Thanksgiving Day is nice. Store closes at 2pm so it’s not busy. Just folks that forgot the brown and serve rolls or whipped cream for the pie. Then every year someone buys a 16# frozen rock sold turkey to cook that afternoon. The week leading to Thanksgiving is a mad house. Same for Christmas but not as crazy…. “we did this last month”. By Easter all of that has been forgotten so you get that learning curve again.
Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day are just “cook-out parties”. Busy, not insane.
Morning all!
Children are up and going thru their baskets. Shampoo and conditioner don’t impress…
There will be an egg hunt shortly.
n
(and yes they are too old. Littler one wants it, so she gets it. She’s clinging to the past while rushing into the future…)
Ask them why they don’t just microwave it to defrost it.
Important: Phrase it as a question so that they can’t come back and claim that you gave them bad advice.
Followup on the Farmington, NM shooting of a homeowner by police responding to the wrong address:
All of the coverage excepting one from KOB4 in Albequeque:
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmsp-farmington-police-shoot-and-kill-homeowner-after-responding-to-wrong-location
which adds little to the events, are derived from an AP report.
Buried later in that report is:
The claim of announcing themselves as police officers will be verified or not by bodycam recordings.
So it seems that the whatever “announcement” was made was insufficient to be heard by the people inside.
What is also absent from the report is any claim of address verification by the dispatcher. SOP would be to verify street and house number and any direction suffix (e.g., N or S)
And note that all of the story so far is sourced from the police. The surviving homeowner is not on record.
As @Nick stated last night:
The KOB4 link quotes a neighbor that their are many of the deceased family living nearby on the same street. That could make the future of the source of the 911 call “interesting’ depending on whether they are family or not.
[sorry for the double post, I moved this from yesterday’s thread]
First major holiday with the son not here. With less than a month left until finals, he felt it better to not do the 5.5 hour round trip. He didn’t get an argument from us either. We did send him a card and a pack of 5 Cadbury creme eggs. I would have sent more, but that should spike the sugar levels of a type 1 just fine!
I miss Easter egg hunts. Every year, we always had one at our house for the boy and friends. The last one was when he was 13. Obviously too old, but he and the other older kids humored us, plus there were some younger kids, so it all worked out.
Off to change the spark plugs in the Cadillac. Should be a 10 minute job….
On the Farmington shooting:
We’ve been to Farmington many times administering our programs. Very poor community with nearby reservations that are just as poor. I don’t answer the door with a gun before I check the camera. Everybody should have a door cam of some type. The fact that two people came to the door armed indicates past problems with crime in the neighborhood. Maybe the couple was expecting trouble any time soon.
This is, of course, a police failure. They went to the wrong address. Their response was to open fire. Even if the owner brandished, the cops were at the wrong house and the owner was at home. The police need better training than “I feared for my life.” If it is dark, just saying “We’re the cops” doesn’t cut it.
@SteveF
Ask them why they don’t just microwave it to defrost it.
Important: Phrase it as a question so that they can’t come back and claim that you gave them bad advice.
Don’t mention the turkey fryer.
I had sirloin and asparagus planned for the grill yesterday when I decided to add some burgers to eat as leftovers (yeah, I’m just not the trencherman of my youth). I did the hot water thaw on a 1.5# chub of ground round:
Cut off the top of a 1-gallon milk carton. Drop in the chub of burger. Run the tap until it’s starting to warm, then fill the jug. 15 minutes later you’re safely thawed and ready to make patties. Ideally the meat will be slightly frozen at the core, and patties should go on the grill immediately.
Cold water thawing takes longer, and usually leaves a large core in the middle that is frozen. If you strip off the thawed meat and put it in the refrigerator, you can tightly wrap the frozen portion in a freezer bag, seal it, and finish thawing in cold water.
Just for completeness, I’m going to note that my burger comes from a locker, where they process a half to my specifications. The burger is ground, sealed in chubs, and put in the flash freezer in a few minutes, so it has a very brief history at anything that looks like room temp.
The Mythbusters covered what happens when you put a frozen turkey into the deep fryer. I couldn’t find that footage looking quickly, but I believe the column of flame measured 30 ft high in the stunt.
Here’s a video which is just as effective at demonstrating what happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gn895y4wkc
My redneck mother would buy the frozen turkey the day before Thanksgiving and thaw the bird in hot water in the sink in the garage. No deep fryer, but a silent killer. Pass the Botulism gravy, ma’.
children counted up their egg loot. There was over $25 in coins and a few bills in amongst the candy treats…
I thought briefly about sneaking into the neighbor’s yard and leaving a few eggs for his little ones, but remembered where I was. No sneaking around in people’s yards in the pre-dawn hours… especially people who have been burglarized. Should have thought about arranging something.
n
The last 4th we were home, the HEB near the house had a cookout, and I bought a rack of ribs to add to dinner that night. Tasty!
Plugs changed. 20 minutes, but as I did it in the main garage and not the work garage, I had to walk back for more tools twice. And removing the plug by the firewall required removing the engine cover bracket. I could do it in 5 minutes next time. Being it’s only required every 60K miles, I doubt I’ll do the job again.
To get the rear plugs on my van’s transverse mounted engine, we took off the part of the body between the windshield and the hood; don’t know what it’s called. The hood was off already, so it was less work to detach the wiper arms and something else than it would have been to weasel an arm over and behind the engine and repeatedly drop the plug socket and have to monkey with multiple lengths of 3/8″ drive extensions.
I’m torn between hoping that the van lasts for several more years, so that I don’t have to bother finding a replacement, and hoping that my daughter wrecks it after she gets her license, so that I don’t have to bother doing more work on it.
ITGuy1998 >”Plugs changed.”
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Oh, you are talking about your car. You had my hopes up, for a few seconds.
“Rule of Law is Ending?”
https://areaocho.com/rule-of-law-is-ending/
“The Democrats in Congress are now angry enough at the courts that they are pushing the Biden administration to ignore Federal court rulings on abortion. The Secretary of HHS is saying that “everything is on the table,” including the Federal government ignoring the court rulings that it does not agree with.”
“This is two branches of government declaring that the third branch is no longer relevant. How will that play out? What else can be ignored? Judicial limits on gun laws? Election tampering? The Democrats have taken the first steps in dissolving the Federal courts. Why pack the Supreme Court, if you can simply ignore whatever it does?”
“Attacking Teachers”
https://areaocho.com/attacking-teachers/
Ray, be careful seizing student phones. Or anything else.
While the Court does not have an enforcement mechanism, the check and balance is that the House could impeach and then the fun in the Senate would begin with the Old School Marm Roberts presiding over a trial.
Or trials. One per week, perhaps?
In the short run, while the vote has already been taken and opinion writing in progress on the student loan forgiveness, nothing is final until the day of publication of the decision. Sure, Corn Pop could ignore that ruling too, but there is still a chance that the decision could come down in his favor, legitimizing the scheme, as telegraphed by Comey-Barrett’s concern about standing.
That deal my wISP offered?
To be sure, I asked “So, I send $92.12 times 10 and I’m paid up for a year? And the money helps you get radios on sale? And radios in stock mean you’ll be over here sooner?”
The reply? “If you cover a $921.20 over via zelle today, I will guarantee a complete refurbish and brand new highspeed radio before next weekend comes or we’ll give you every dollar right back and let you have the free year of internet anyhow.”
So I sent the money with Zelle. Credits applied. Now I wait to see what happens.
They are upgrading the radios. Faster, more powerful than a speeding bullet!!! It’s like Superman or is it Mighty Mouse? Only the Shadow knows. With newer/less used frequencies. I think it’s 6G. Upgrading service plans, too. For ex, your plan is 30/10. With the new radios they are going to 100/100 and as traffic increases your speed drops to the plan you are paying for. Seems pretty cool to me. If they are paying for X amount of bandwidth to their upstream provider, hey, let’s use it!
The radio is on a 40 foot pushup mast. Guy wires and all. PITA. You need three hands. Ok, I need three hands. The current radio has been up there in the weather for four pushing five years. He can connect to the radio from his office at 350+ mb but it’s not putting that out to my side. Even with a laptop connected to the POE block, by-passing my LAN, I get about 10 to 30 down. My LAN is fine. It’s the radio or it’s the even older Ethernet cable from the radio. I think it’s the cable…. Like Jerry always said. I’ve swapped out the cables I can a couple of times. I’ve had brand new from the package cables that are duds.
Time to put the house plants, all four that are left, outside. Might beat the dogs, too. And kick a few cats. I’d best get busy…. and think of something for supper.
While the Court does not have an enforcement mechanism, the check and balance is that the House could impeach and then the fun in the Senate would begin with the Old School Marm Roberts presiding over a trial.
Good luck. I highly doubt the House will do anything. Even with the fact that Slow Joe is guilty of taking bribes while he was Vice President and now while he is President. That is a direct Constitutional violation but, in these enlightened times, who cares ?
So for the record, datum, or data…
I decided to proof my yeast for the bread machine loaf, as lack of rising is my most common failure, and I don’t make bread very often.
Red Star in a jar, stored in the fridge, opened in the last 6 months, but best by 2020 – very little activity.
Red Star foil pack, best by Jun 2022 – vigorous, even though stored outside in the shade.
Fleishmanns foil pack, best by Feb 2019, or 5 years past due, still pretty active, easily active enough to use, even though stored outside in the shade…
Conclusion? Foil packets last longer than open jars even when refrigerated. And if you have a doubt, check before committing to the bake.
Bread dough is underway. Lamb roast is coming to room temp. Dinner scheduled for 6pm.
n
Police shooting another innocent person? Should never happen. They see a gun? So what? Police should never fire the first shot.
No, police work is not especially dangerous. As I recall, it doesn’t even make the top ten.
“Merchandiser Claims No One is Buying Anheuser-Busch Products (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/merchandiser-claims-no-one-is-buying-anheuser-busch-products-video/
“In a video that is going viral on Twitter, a merchandiser and Anheuser-Busch affiliate claims that no one is buying the products and his business is suffering as a result.
In the video he says he has never seen so little sales as in the last few days. He laments the fact that when people don’t buy the beer, he doesn’t make money and can’t feed his family.
It’s sad that this man is going through this, but it’s the fault of Anheuser-Busch for featuring trans performer Dylan Mulvaney.”
And
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/major-distributor-cancels-upcoming-appearances-of-budweiser-clydesdale-horses-over-embrace-of-trans-influencer-dylan-mulvaney/
Yah, but taxi drivers don’t have a union, nor do they have DAs who routinely look the other way, nor do they have court-invented immunity from civil suits.
In honor of OFD I decided to try some Moxie. HEB had it on the shelf.
It’s kind of like a bitter root beer, without a ‘full’ flavor. And at 37g of sugar per bottle, how freaking bitter must the flavoring be that it’s still bitter after adding all that?
Drinkable. Won’t be a favorite.
Absent friends.
n
I’m tired of that phrase, “feed his family”. It is overused, much like “for the children”.
Someone driving a route for an Anheuser-Busch distributor is not going to have trouble feeding his children if beer sales suddenly slow down for a few days or even a few months.
>> The Secretary of HHS is saying that “everything is on the table,”
Someone remind me where AOC’s law degree is from … oh, right … she doesn’t have one!
Impeachment will play well in The Villages, which is still key to winning Florida.
Whether or not DeSantis runs for President, he is term limited out of office in 2027. Matt Gaetz is from an old Republican family in a “safe” conservative district, FL 1, and he wants to follow DeSantis to the Governor’s mansion from a House seat.
>> No, police work is not especially dangerous. As I recall, it doesn’t even make the top ten.
Yes, but within police work, DV calls and traffic stops are near the top of the list of getting cops shot. Not to say that this justifies what happened. If they roll up to a DV situation and things look hinkey, but there’s no indication of immediate danger, then rather than just ‘shoot first and ask questions later,’ call for backup. Most PD SWAT teams have trained for this.
>> ITGuy1998 >”Plugs changed.”
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Oh, you are talking about your car. You had my hopes up, for a few seconds.
Nah, don’t get too anxious. Like you, I first though of POTUS, but then assumed it really was “Plugs changed his Depends.”
Must have been old. To me Moxie tastes like a mix of root beer and Dr Pepper. Pretty good stuff. But I bought what I have from the source.
The grill ran out of propane last night. So I toted a full tank from “way over there in the shade” to the grill. Didn’t work. Ok, maybe the regulator is being stupid. It’s happened.
Tried another tank and it works. Tried the dud tank again today and it’s still a dud.
They both look the same inside the valve area. No cobwebs or whatever.
Just sort of strange. I know the easy fix, do a tank exchange at the grocery store. But still, it’s a full tank of propane.
I failed to beat dogs and kick cats today. Maybe tomorrow. I put the plants outside and watered them. It turned sunny so we (me and the dogs) sat out in the sun until the dogs started panting. Funny, the dogs move around so their head is in the shade of the deck’s hand rail.
Supper is going along. Might be good, might be slices of pork loin jerky. Ya never know.
If the Court wanted to REALLY still stir the pot, all they’d need to do is to officially notice that there’s nothing in the Constitution concerning health care in the 18 “enumerated powers”, meaning that the Federal government has no authority to do anything about it. Those rights and powers are retained by the States and the People.
Which was pretty much what they did for Roe v. Wade specifically; it’s not in the Federal government’s authority, so it can be regulated by the States.
So AOC’s “crisis” is that neither she nor the rest of the Dims actually believe in federalism.
And a “national abortion ban”? Not even. New York and Cacafornia will have abortion on demand, and many states will have bans, or tight restrictions.
I read Jim Garrison’s book “Heart of Stone” when I was in high school, and became interested in the Kennedy assassination evidence that did not support the Warren commission. (For those who are not familiar with Garrison, he was District Attorney of New Orleans and undertook several investigations related to the Kennedy assassination. The most important result was probably the release of the Zapruder film after he subpoenaed a copy from Life Magazine.)
It’s very difficult to evaluate most of the claims that run counter to the Warren Commission report, but two things stand out:
One is the conduct of the U.S. government in seeking to discredit and destroy anyone who has other views. That conduct looks more suspicious in light of recent events to cover up what are most certainly guilty actions by a number of elected officials and government employees.
The other is the almost universal opinion in the firearms community that putting two of three shots into a moving target with a mediocre weapon at distance is not consistent with Lee Harvey Oswald’s firearm history. Similar shots have been done successfully with the same model of rifle by experts such as Howard Donahue (who had his own theories), but Oswald had no prior record of demonstrating such ability.
Of particular note is his failed attempt to kill General Walker (unknown until after the Kennedy assassination) as the Warren Commission reported. Firing from 100 feet at a stationary target at grade, his round hit the window frame. Worthwhile to further note that the technique used by the FBI to link the recovered round to Oswald was later infamously discredited.
Also of note is the lack of any training for the shot he would be attempting.
So when someone makes an assertion like this:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/they-didnt-do-it.php
I always ask what new evidence they can cite that supports Oswald’s being able to make those three shots.
I have an open mind, but I’m skeptical when “a miracle occurs”*.
*https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Where-AI-stands-today-Then-a-miracle-occurs-C-Sidney-Harris-in-American-Scientist_fig2_333061528
VP Harris is not trying to picki her nose in this photo.
She is going to apply direct pressure to her brain in a vain attempt to remember the right word.
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/04/08/kamala-went-to-tennessee-to-meet-with-democrats-expelled-from-legislature-n542485
Gah, I’m filled to the brim.
Lamb roast came out perfect. Purple for the kids in the middle, less purple everywhere else.
Brusselsprouts were pretty good.
I left the pie in the oven 12 minutes too long (didn’t hear the timer) and the crust was charred in places, but still tasty with ice cream.
Bread came out of the machine perfectly done. First time in several holidays that that worked right.
All in all, a successful dinner.
And everyone dressed up which was nice.
n
Well, crap. A kid from the local high school, graduated last year, was killed in an ATV accident last night. He was one of the better kids, played football, respectful, I liked him. Such a shame. Life is not a guarantee.
He was riding in a side-by-side, the driver lost control and crashed. The kid suffered severe head injuries and succumbed to the injuries. His mother had to watch him loaded into an ambulance in a body bag. It will be rough on the family and the operator of the ATV. I cannot even imagine. I am stunned.
Her finger is in the wrong location. It should below her waist line, in back.
Exploring the topology of her hemorrhoids.
Not an image I needed before bedtime.
@ray, it’s always a tragedy when a promising kid dies young. My condolences.
n
“Here’s What It’s Like to Rent an eSIM on an Android Phone”
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/heres-what-its-like-to-rent-an-esim-on-an-android-phone
“The value of using a rented eSIM from Airalo in a Google Pixel 7 over a prepaid physical SIM quickly emerged after landing in Spain. Here’s how to set it up for your next international trip.”
“It took two airports to sell me on the utility of an eSIM: Newark Liberty International Airport, where I rented one and set it up on a Pixel 7 in a few minutes, and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport, where I didn’t have to decide on a prepaid physical SIM card in a jet-lagged haze.”
Interesting.
The grill ran out of propane last night. So I toted a full tank from “way over there in the shade” to the grill. Didn’t work. Ok, maybe the regulator is being stupid. It’s happened.
Tried another tank and it works. Tried the dud tank again today and it’s still a dud.
They both look the same inside the valve area. No cobwebs or whatever.
Just sort of strange. I know the easy fix, do a tank exchange at the grocery store. But still, it’s a full tank of propane.
It is probably a gate valve. I suspect that the valve stem and the valve gate have separated. You are lucky, the valve failed closed. You can turn the valve forever, it will not open.
So why is a lower-level court now trying to assert national authority, rather than continuing to leave matters to the States?
Honestly, the religious R’s are shooting themselves in the foot. Absolutism creates horrific scenarios, like the recent birth of the anencephalic baby in Texas. Imagine the trauma of carrying through a pregnancy for a child that will die as soon as it is born.
This sort of absolutism makes for great clickbait headlines. This family, everyone who knows them, and a lot of people who just read about it – they will all vote against the people who caused this suffering. Yet the R’s wonder why they keep losing elections. Their intentions are good, don’t ya know…
When I lived in New England for ten years, I tried Moxie. I didn’t much care for it (I find the taste to be indescribable – not like anything else I’ve ever had). The weird thing is that after a couple of years, I started to get a hankering for the stuff. So I’d buy a bottle, drink it, and that would satisfy me for another couple of years. It was just a weird, very occasional, need to drink some.