Cool and very damp, with a chance of rain. Yesterday was nice, for values of nice that include high humidity, with overcast later, culminating in a quick inch or two of rain. It stopped after a couple hours and I did get to sit on the dock and spin the dial on the shortwave.
DX was good with just the basic antenna. NewZealand was loud and clear on 15mhz for at least a few hours. Cuba was silent at 1030pm but opened up after midnight. Fun to spin the dial from 2.500 to 21.000 and see what I can hear, especially with just the radio’s telescoping antenna.
It did remain mostly cloudy, so no observing. I was hoping for at least one good clear night this trip.
I got a bunch of small projects done before the rain hit, and even got in some fishing. Had a chat with another neighbor about hard times. He had a very extensive garden a couple of years ago when he’d lost his job, and kept most of the full timers in veg for the summer. Said he was ready to do it again if needed. His biggest concern is access to meds. Lots of folks out here are ‘tore up and worn out.’ SHTF is very physical and there will be a lot of folks in bad shape when their meds run out. There are a lot of folks that would have a hard time with the hard work, even now. His biggest emphasis was on the community banding together and sharing the load and the resources, particularly skills. Since he’s lived up here his whole life, his ties and local knowledge run deep.
It would be very interesting to see how RBT’s plan might have changed as he settled into his community. I don’t think that “volunteering to be the local wizard” would work very well, without years of laying the groundwork, building the relationships, and getting to be a known quantity. It’s becoming more and more clear to me that if we are facing a rapid (or even slow but severe) decline, who you surround yourself with is probably the most important choice you can make. The really stone cold b!tch of it is that the people most likely to get by, are also some of the least willing to accept and trust newcomers. If you are dropping into a community, you better have some VERY high demand skills, if you haven’t built the relationships.
Today I’ll do a few things to wrap up, weather permitting. Main concern is getting the lawn tractor back together and back in it’s shed. Then any little thing I can do before cleaning up and heading home, I’ll knock out.
I need to pass through north Houston before 3pm to make a pickup, so I’ve got my schedule set.
Stack up the things, and the skills, but REALLY get busy on relationships.
nick
(if your BOL is in a community where someone can say, “One of my second cousins’ wife’s best friends was the one who told me about the boat for sale…” you need a champion, and you’ve got your work cut out for you.)
My wife had prepper types as patients in Florida, and I always suspected that one guy’s SHTF healthcare plan was to stick a shiv in “Skippy” and add my spouse to his plantation/enclave.
The guy wasn’t a native like I was, but he had been in the area for decades at that point.
Our most contentious issue beyond what he viewed as my normalcy bias was the local Congresscritter, “Opie”, and Opie’s carrying water for the Bush Administration on the Ted Kennedy “Every 20 Year” Amnesty Bill.
Opie always got reelected with 70-80 percent of the vote so it made him arrogant IMHO.
Opie was destined for the Governor’s Mansion as a reward for being a useful idiot for the Bush cabal … until DeSantis upset that plan.
Well, the tooth had to be extracted. Not a big surprise. It took several injections of Novocain, or whatever they use, and was still not enough. The dentist said she was going for it, and she did. Boy howdy, that hurt. The good news is that everything should be OK for the trip to Europe. Even though I now look like an Alabama native.
“Even though I now look like an Alabama native.”
Go for the gold.
@ray, good to get it taken care of. People die from infected teeth.
@greg, yeah, there’s always some people think they’re gonna be the marauder. Maybe, but more likely they’ll catch a bullet before too long, or right at the beginning. The ones who are serious probably have a long list of people who are only kept in check by ROL. The “I’ll just eat your food” guys are gonna end up footsoldiers for the real warlords, or in a ditch because the cartels don’t play and they are shoot on sight mad dogs. Stuff will shake out pretty quickly if it goes bad suddenly.
If it goes bad gradually, there’ll be time to sort the wheat from the chaff.
n
My wife’s patient was eventually done in by his estranged wife before we left Florida.
They never filed for divorce so she put him in hospice when his mesothelioma advanced to a state where it was terminal.
Hospice polished him off with a morphine jab within a couple of days.
It isn’t civilization if “Skippy” gets the shiv after a couple of decades doing the mainstream things necessary to support the acquisition of the skillset and subsidizing building the experience through repeated practice.
In the specific case of the prepper type patient, “Skippy” subsidizing the practice of medicine with most of an income from mainstream employment allowed the shiv man’s sorry a** to be treated on a comp/barter arrangement with the doctor for the better part of a decade in non SHTF times.
These days, “Skippy” is the poster child for “b*tchy doctor’s wife”. I completely understand where that thought process comes from now.
“Even though I now look like an Alabama native.”
Go for the gold.
Steel for that Russian look.
And if we get to the Mandibles time in our forthcoming fiscal apocalypse, the gold bounty hunters may be pulling gold teeth.
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X/
I cannot imagine what it would have been like 123 years ago. What I had, infection with a bad tooth, would have been fatal. I know they extracted teeth back then, done by the local barber most likely. Based on what I experienced with several injections of Novocain, such extractions must have been really painful, excruciating. Even with ingesting large amounts of 3rd rate hooch.
Actually, my tooth was ok. The socket was allowing the tooth to move too much. The resulting gap allowed the infection to set in. The tooth was deflected too much, and too often, when chewing and contact with my upper teeth. This caused the socket to loosen. Alignment is important for tires and teeth.
“PUTIN BLITZED: Kamikaze drones strike ‘in earshot’ of Putin’s palace as mushroom cloud fills sky in ‘worst attack on Moscow since WW2’”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/8239463/moscow-blitzed-wave-kamikaze-drones-kyiv-counter-strike/
“Moscow was blitzed by a swarm of drones in a rare attack on the Russian capital after Ukraine vowed to respond to a barrage of unprecedented missile attacks in recent days.”
Uh, this is getting spicy. Be careful not to get any on you.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Horrific footage shows mob of FORTY teenagers jump three Marines on a California beach before unleashing savage beat down on Memorial Day weekend after they were called out for being unruly”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12138283/Marines-savagely-beaten-40-TEENS-confronting-unruly.html
Stay away from crowds. We are living in Heinlein’s crazy years.
I cannot imagine what it would have been like 123 years ago. What I had, infection with a bad tooth, would have been fatal. I know they extracted teeth back then, done by the local barber most likely. Based on what I experienced with several injections of Novocain, such extractions must have been really painful, excruciating. Even with ingesting large amounts of 3rd rate hooch.
Watch “The Shootist” with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Ron Howard. A really good picture of life in the late 1800s. The dentist is also the town doctor.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075213/
I have a bunch of handbooks for the manual trades, the kind of thing a journeyman or master would have in his box to refer to when called on to do a bit more than his normal daily work. Formulas, methods of work, tips and tricks, and especially captured ‘institutional knowledge’. Lots of graphical ways to solve math problems too. Something as seemingly simple as the “L” shaped carpenter’s square is actually a sophisticated calculator for solving the sorts of problems a carpenter encounters using graphical methods. I’ve got a pipefitter’s pocket handbook that has a stunning amount of information crammed into it.
Let’s not forget the Pocket Ref: https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-4th-Thomas-Glover/dp/1885071620/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11MM28BQUWFZQ&keywords=pocket+ref&qid=1685462675&s=books&sprefix=pocket+ref%2Cstripbooks%2C125&sr=1-1&tag=ttgnet-20
“REVEALED: The nine U.S cities where home owners are losing THOUSANDS on their house values: Median sale price in San Francisco drops a staggering $220,000 from a year ago”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12136167/Home-owners-losing-THOUSANDS-home-values-data-shows.html
“Two cities in the Bay Area – Oakland and San Francisco – are among the worst offenders when it comes to decline by dollar amount, a phenomenon researched said is fueled in part by diminishing demand and the looming possibility of a recession.”
“Other notable declines occurred in major metros like Austin, Boise, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Los Angeles – all of which saw their median home price shed at least $60,000 since April of last year.”
If your house is your long term wealth then you might want to consider where you are living.
And we all have to live somewhere, I prefer a solid roof over my head, not a tent.
My wife’s patient was eventually done in by his estranged wife before we left Florida.
They never filed for divorce so she put him in hospice when his mesothelioma advanced to a state where it was terminal.
Hospice polished him off with a morphine jab within a couple of days.
I regard that as a mercy. I had a friend die of mesothelioma several years ago. From diagnosis to death was nine horrible months. It started with a collapsed lung in the ER on Easter weekend, he passed at Christmas.
My local town in the news. I was pulled over for mouthing “dumb ass” at the incompetent school crossing guard. What I say in my own car is not an action for which I can be pulled over. A local LEO abusing authority.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/investigations/da-says-assistant-police-chief-made-unlawful-traffic-stop-but-declines-to-prosecute/51-31b04665-d8f6-4298-8985-0ebd5dc79750
“Saudi diesel imports from Russia, exports to Singapore hit records”
https://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2023/05/saudi-diesel-imports-from-russia-exports-to-singapore-hit-records
“(Reuters) – Leading crude exporter Saudi Arabia is maximizing refining profits by importing unprecedented amounts of cheap Russian diesel and in turn shipping record volumes to Singapore, where the fuel can achieve higher margins, shiptracking data shows.”
Ah, reminds me of the “old oil, new oil” debacle in the USA back in the 1970s. Buy some old oil for the Presidential Executive Order of $1/bbl, sale to a paper company, and resale to the public as new oil for $7/bbl. Ah, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, the sharp guys played you like a steel drum.
“Horrific footage shows mob of FORTY teenagers jump three Marines on a California beach before unleashing savage beat down on Memorial Day weekend after they were called out for being unruly”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12138283/Marines-savagely-beaten-40-TEENS-confronting-unruly.html
Stay away from crowds. We are living in Heinlein’s crazy years.
Ya gotta love the feral teenage Amish–or they’ll try to kill you.
I don’t think about the house being worth more than we paid for it in 2014.
That’s the number I have in Quicken for net worth calculation. If we eventually sell for more, then I will be pleasantly surprised.
Imputed income tax is coming.
Ray Thompson says:
“Horace Wells was the first dentist to use nitrous oxide on his patients in 1844.” By 1900, dentists had been pulling teeth with nitrous oxide for 50 years. Probably wouldn’t have been PLEASANT, but not certainly fatal.
Imputed income tax is coming.
Nah, of all the crap being suggested, I doubt that one. Unless that is the name of the Wealth Tax. That one is definitely coming for the middle class, the top 1% will buy their way out of it. And a national sales tax, probably not a VAT though.
“Summer 2023 Science Fiction Reading List” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/summer-2023-science-fiction-reading-list/
“You’re finally vacationing on a planet with a decent set of rings, your kid just got promoted to Hyper-engineer, and there’s a cold drink levitating right next to you.”
Nice list. I have read:
11. Sleeping Giants
3. Project Hail Mary
1. The Kaiju Preservation Society
Alley Oop: Thin Walls and Spaceships
https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2023/05/30
We need to enclose the Earth right now.
“Chipotle founder Steve Ells is developing a new automated restaurant to be called Kernel”
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/chipotle-founder-steve-ells-developing-new-automated-restaurant-be-called-kernel
“Expected to debut in New York City late this year, the robotic concept can reportedly be operated with as few as three people in roughly 800-square feet.”
This is probably the future of McDonalds.
“The Pride of the Damned: Cochrane’s Company Book 3” by Peter Grant
https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Damned-Peter-Grant/dp/B09JV9FKR4?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a three book military science fiction series. The series is set in a universe with seven other books by the author. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2021. BTW, this book was dedicated to Michael Z. Williamson for his encouragement and enthusiastic support.
The Mycenae system is a frontier star system with an planet and asteroid belt rich in minerals. There is a legitimate discoverer and owner of the star system but two other claim jumpers are in the system now. Captain Andrew Cochrane is sought out by the Mycenae system owner to build a patrol space force and writes a sharp contract where he gets to keep all bounty recovered from the claim jumpers.
So the main claim jumpers, part of the old Albanian brotherhood mob from Earth, send through a small group of destroyers after their prospecting spaceship is destroyed by a space mine in the asteroids. The destroyers are destroyed along with several ships of Cochrane’s small fleet. When the destroyers fail to come back, the brotherhood swears revenge and starts rebuilding their fleet. And so on and so on.
Intelligence in War is everything. And if you upset multiple groups of people, don’t be surprised when they get together and come after you. Dropping things into a star fixes a lot of problems.
The author has a very active website at:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (272 reviews)
Source.
We saw the future of McDonalds on the Disney property before leaving Florida. I counted two people working in the dining room – one brought orders out of the back room and called customers names while another person wiped the tables and kept an eye on bathroom condition.
Orders were done with a touch screen kiosk. Credit/debit only.
A new McDonalds is under construction near our house. We’ll see how many people they use to staff that location. The look of the exterior is similar to what we saw in Orlando.
I should have known that this guy would cover the Disney McDonalds when I went looking on YouTube for a video of the place.
The stationary bikes were gone when we visited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3tLKW3RRu4
Definitely a time capsule of 2020. The parks were still closed but reopened over the following two weeks.
Having spent a few years renting before buying, I’ve always figured as long as we break even on a house we’ve had free rent for x years, anything more is gravy.
We effectively broke even on our Florida house which we held during the largest speculative boom in the state’s history.
The Zillow number doesn’t mean anything until you find someone to pay that for your house.
I have a nephew and family living in that town and close to the beach. Oh yeah, the kids are surfers.
I bought a Toro 58620 Walk behind string trimmer. I went with this model for the Made In USA Briggs and Stratton engine. Same price and free shipping from Home Depot or Tractor Supply.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/toro-walk-behind-string-mower-with-163cc-4-cycle-briggs-and-stratton-engine-37391
There’s a similar model that offers four cutting heights. But all Chinese and thinner metal on the mower deck. I’m good with the variable choice of 1.5 inches to 3 inches. An inch above “scalp” seems about right. A bigger engine is a plus.
I went with Tractor Supply. They have their Neighbors Club stuff. Shrug. Sometimes I get a $10 off next purchase coupon when I have enough points. I get coupons for free trailer rentals and that’s nice. I have three trailers now and access to a couple more. I have a pick-up truck to drag a trailer with, so, whatever.
Tractor Supply wanted me to fill out a form. A copy of my Ag Exempt card wasn’t enough. That’s taken care of and I have a UPS tracking number.
Where UPS delivers is the mystery. Dropped on the neighbor’s side of the cattle guard? On my side of the cattle guard? Or maybe like it was a couple of years ago, delivered to the house.
Anyway. I can trim the fence line once a year and not kill my back with stooping to use loppers or toting a weed eater with a chainsaw blade. It’s been a while since I was 40….
It’s been a while since I was 40….
Amen bro, amen.
“Gay Floridians Are Leaving in Droves, Says Pride Organizer”
https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/29/gay-floridians-are-leaving-in-droves-says-pride-organizer/
The red states are getting redder, the blue states are getting bluer. I don’t know about the purple (50/50) states though.
“Chipotle founder Steve Ells is developing a new automated restaurant to be called Kernel”
When I read that earlier on my tiny screen I thought it was “Kennel”
Makes sense. Served directly in your dish, face down, no need for silverware.
@Paul
“Anyway. I can trim the fence line once a year and not kill my back with stooping to use loppers or toting a weed eater with a chainsaw blade. It’s been a while since I was 40….”
Any trees or bushes cut off in the fence line should get treated with Tordon RTU so they don’t come back. I recommend a 2 oz. (60ml) plastic dropper bottle. That’s over 1,000 drops and you typically use 2-4 if you catch them small. It’s tinted bright blue so you can see where you put it.
Yeah, I’m calling BS on that one.
Probably more paid Disney propaganda. The stock continues to slide.
I’m sure this weekends Gay Days festivities at the Magic Condom -er- Kingdom will see a large turnout from the LGBTQXYZ community, especially with the old Parliament House resort out of commission for good.
Video here – it’s a 45 degree slope: https://t.co/BgIkivkDDg Much bouncing of participants.
Gervaise Brook-Hamster is in the Guards, and his father uses him as a wastepaper basket.
I used one of those once. Actually borrowed it from my ex, to reclaim my son’s back yard from some gnarly weed growth. Worked like a champ. I think it was that boutique DR brand. God knows how she ran across it.
>> My local town in the news.
Sounds like a slow news day…
>> For hundreds of years, people have gathered in Gloucestershire, England, to fling themselves down a notoriously steep hill — in pursuit of a hefty chunk of golden-yellow cheese.
Cheese and a Darwin Award nomination. Hopefully no public funds are used for this idiocy.
AOC Has Meltdown at Elon Over Parody Account
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/05/30/aoc-has-meltdown-at-elon-over-parody-account-that-gets-her-ratioed-into-next-week-n753777
More used to working the top of the dresser.
Shoulda called the Hanoi Harlot first.
Let’s not forget the Pocket Ref
– I carried one in my travel toolbag for YEARS without ever looking at it. Some time in 20 years I might have looked up the RS-232 pinout. Great for the library, but failed as a pocket carry.
I made it home. Got the lawn tractor back together and drove it into its shed. Still didn’t change the brake pads, but I’ll get to it. IF I hadn’t misplaced two screws, the install and reassembly would have taken about 10 minutes.
Poisoned the fireant mounds as my last task. I was so hot and sweaty I had to take a shower and change clothes before leaving. It was humid as a linebacker’s jock and hot as a supermodel.
Collected all the trash, turned the water and air to ‘vacation’ and hit the road.
Got some catching up to do on my web surfing…
n
amish. yeah. can not recommend, avoid.
n
Another big retailer is closing in San Francisco and you’ll never guess why
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/05/30/another-big-retailer-is-closing-in-san-francisco-and-youll-never-guess-why-n554389
Old Navy.
Take a look at the map that accompanies the story. From Nordstrom’s northeast to the Embarcadero (the street fronting the piers) is almost exactly a mile.
Last time I stayed in the area the beggars were pressed up against the glass in the front of the hotel, waiting for people to exit. Once you made it out things got better. Maybe not so much any more.
I haven’t read anything on the list but several look interesting enough I’ll put them on my birthday wishlist.
n
“Dude in a dress welcomes little girls into Disney’s Enchanted Chamber”
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/05/30/dude-in-a-dress-welcomes-little-girls-into-disneys-enchanted-chamber/
“Nick seems like a nice enough guy, but the mustache and the dress really clash. Apparently, this is business as usual at Disney now, where little girls (and trans girls) shopping for a princess dress are ushered inside the Enchanted Chamber by a man in a dress. We guess we prefer this to a full-on drag queen, but didn’t any women apply for the position?”
Yup, I agree with the “Bizarre” comment.
Theodore Audel’s is another company that published reference books for the working man:
I went to a lot of estate sales in the 1980’s where copies of titles from the 20’s were priced at a quarter to fifty cents.
It seems no one has managed to put together a good company history. Audel’s started publishing in the 1890’s and most early works were written by Nehamiah Hawkins–“Theodore Audel” was his pseudonym. The first works concerned steam boilers but Hawkins wrote some of the earliest books on practical electricity and radio, which probably became the basis for the later 10-volume set.
[Hawkins started an early journal called Steam which was sold and became Power, the basis for the McGraw-Hill empire]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Hawkins
Some info here:
http://www.wkinsler.com/technology/audel.html
Many titles were bound in thin black-pebbled leatherette with gold embossed titles. This includes some editions of the Carpenters and Builder’s Library which are recognizable from across the room due to the hammer motif on the spine.
Audel’s fluorished through the 1950’s. In the early 1960’s is was acquired by the Howard Sams company, and the imprint was well-used through the early 1990’s.
https://openlibrary.org/publishers/T._Audel
@Lynn
“Summer 2023 Science Fiction Reading List” by Dan Livingston”
I’ve been deservedly critical of Livingston in the past. This is just a list of recommendations, so let’s give it a shot.
I just ordered
13. Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis
11. Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel (first in a trilogy completed in 2018)
Simple criteria: If the synopsis looked interesting (some of them do not) I looked for a cheap copy on eBay. I ordered these two and two others (unrelated, already on my list) from second.sale, getting one free and paying about $19 total. Note that all of these titles are pretty new, but no cheap copies are available for the newest.
When these come I will pick one of the two and give it a try. If I complete it I will look for a couple more on the list (Stross is already on my list but I don’t have a copy), order/buy them, and report. I will have 4 of 18 in hand at that point.
When I have read them all I will offer to pass them on. If someone else buys three or four and wants to trade, even better.
The idea is twofold: One, to critique Livingston’s list wrt my tastes. Two is to find a new author.
Obviously, if the Neuvel is interesting I have the rest of the trilogy to read.
I grab the Audels when I see them too. I like the short period of time, captured in the ads in magazines like Popular Mechanics, that there was this idea that any man could learn to do anything if he set his mind to it, and had the right books.
When you read the books, you will likely be struck by both the clarity and sophistication of the language that ordinary men were expected to be able to read and follow. There are sentences so packed with info that I sometimes have to read them more than once to get it all.
I love the illustrations too. Anyone who draws for a living should spend some time with old technical books to see how information is conveyed graphically.
n
We are living in the future.
Years ago I traveled with a CD player and a case of CDs. I’ve lost both over the years, and there are TWO particular albums I’d like to buy again.
One was a side project for some famous British musicians featuring songs and sounds inspired by the middle east, and particularly the marketplace. Can’t find it. Can’t remember enough or with enough specificity to get good search results. It was titled something like “Songs from the Marketplace” and the only specific line I can remember is a vocal sample “there are many prophesies…”
The other has one song, where a voice says “Hey Ma, I got the job!” and she replies “But I thought they were a drum band.” Then the song starts. The songs have a strong but mellow male vocal, and very interesting rhythm and drum sounds, as you might imagine. Driving home today the album title popped into my head, completely unbidden. “Rooms in my Fatha’s house” and with that I was able to find the music. “Rooms in my Fatha’s House” debut album from Vinx. There are a whole bunch of other songs with similar titles, gospel mostly, but that was enough. And listening to the tracks confirmed it.
Miracles and wonders.
n
And a brain FILLED with random stuff.
Added- t he two songs I most wanted are actually on another album I also must have had… Storyteller. I had tried searching for “armina” when the actual track is “armida”. The future wasn’t good enough to fix that for me.
addendum to the Audel’s post above:
My interest in the technical guide type of book is certainly traceable to a copy of a GE publication ca. 1964 that my dad gave me. Blue hardcover, 50 pages or so, and at about 3″x4″ fit right in the pocket of a dress shirt. I still have it, along with a later version I picked up a few years later. I can’t find any listing for such on the usual sites, but an eBay listing for
Vintage GE General Electric Pocket Technical Data Guide 48 Pages 1975 USA
is almost certainly a later version, although staple bound whereas my 1964 is Smyth sewn.
When I took chemistry in h.s. we ordered copies of the previous year’s “CRC” , e.g. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. IIRC they were $4 and shipped directly to the h.s.
For years my most accessible bookself directly right of my desk) held the CRC, Mark’s (Mechanical Engineering), Perry’s (Chemical), Sax (Dangerous Properties of Industrial Chemicals), a couple volumes of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Knuth Vol 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms). I admired Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” and have wanted to find something useful to do with it but probably never will.
You could tell the useful books from the edges of the small postit notes sticking out the top and sides. Later when they came out with the flags I used those for some books. My copy of the TAR (Third Assessment Report) of the IPCC had the flags across the top, down the side, and then started over–not because it was useful but because it was such a p.o.s. Only other similarly festooned book was an advance reading copy of a scifi romance that I was going to send back to the author until she got snippy.
@Nick
I grab the Audels when I see them too. I like the short period of time, captured in the ads in magazines like Popular Mechanics, that there was this idea that any man could learn to do anything if he set his mind to it, and had the right books.”
There was a period of time when the public reading rooms were full of people that worked a full shift, then spent a couple hours in the evening studying and trying to improve themselves.
Caught up on my ‘usual suspects’ blog reading. Guess I missed all the reports of violence over the weekend. And there were a lot.
Get out of the city. Stay away from crowds.
n
Caught up on my ‘usual suspects’ blog reading. Guess I missed all the reports of violence over the weekend. And there were a lot.
Get out of the city. Stay away from crowds.
The summer of 2023 looks to be spicy, much spicier than normal. Maybe summer of 1968 spicy.
“Mommy, can we go ride Mario Kart now?”
I have my doubts about that being real. The dress doesn’t fit properly, and Disney usually pays more attention to detail about things like that.
Not gonna be a DAD, gonna be a sperm donor. BEST he can hope for is the kid is 10 when he dies. that should be fun for little al…
not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12142237/Inside-Al-Pacinos-modern-family-Meet-actors-three-children-prepares-dad-again.html
n
It was bound to happen…and to a lawyer no less 🙂
Lawyer Faces Sanctions for Using Fake ChatGPT Citations
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/3DZbSlkFoSU