Cooler and a bit less damp to start, probably hot by the end of the day. Weird weather yesterday. As long as the wind was blowing it was tolerable. Got pretty unpleasant when it got still.
Then the rain started, off and on. Cooled it down a bit, but increased the humidity. The big storm got here around 5pm. Temps dropped to 67F and the thunder and lightning started. It was right overhead. Pretty to watch, but no so nice to be out in it. A couple of dead limbs came down too.
Lost power for almost 3 hours. Discovered that I don’t have as much stuff up here as I’d like. Notably emergency lighting. We live on the Gulf Coast, so no one even blinked, they just lit FLASHLIGHTS and candles. I got the oil lamp going, and the Coleman propane lantern. Cooked dinner and the power came back when we were ready to sit down and eat.
I did manage to fish a bit, but didn’t even get a bite.
We mostly worked on small projects. Changing doors, door knobs, cleaning carpet, moving stuff around in the garage, replacing cover plates, that sort of thing.
Played a couple of games with the kids, Rummikub and Catan as it was still raining until midnight.
Today it’ll depend on the weather but I’ve got a few more ‘outdoor’ things I could do, or I can keep working on the storage and cleanup stuff if it’s raining. I’ve got 6 buckets of bulk to put away too.
Potatoes continue to grow, berry bushes do not.
So I stack food. If you can’t garden, stack more food…
nick
First post! In your face, Timezoneboy, in your face!
Been very busy lately. End of school year stuff plus wife’s and mother-in-law’s increasingly irrational behavior, atop the usual.
Indeed. I missed my opportunity as I am on the [expensive] train ride. Really pissed off that I was informed wrong by DB so I am in a bad mood. DB can sit on it and spin.
Prince Harry … deported.
If, like the vast majority, you believe the Royal’s current antics to be the result of long overdue Kharma catching up, you might find this entertaining as you ponder whether Harry really will be deported.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-ItnFsJ70
I usually watch the channel for the Disney meltdown news, but The Mouse is busy this weekend, pondering the sale of assets to raise desperately needed cash, so Iger is gagged.
Figuratively, of course. Literally? Who knows.
As for the Royals, I believe it is all part of a script laid out 50 years ago by the old Kraut Queen and the handlers who have run them for centuries.
House of Windsor wants to simultaneously occupy the Throne and the White House.
From time to time I have to cycle the breaker for the range. GE gas stove+oven, but all computer-controlled so it doesn’t work at all if there’s no power or if the computer gets spastic and stupid, as it does every couple months. I will say that it works well when it works (and so long as we don’t have a power failure) but I don’t recommend this model. (Or this brand. All of our GE appliances give us grief.)
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Sympathies, Ray. We’ve all been burned by some government or corporate employee telling us something wrong, we’re responsible for the problems, and the employee and entity have no liability at all. Happens often enough that we should be used to it, but it’s really really irritating every single time.
72 F and almost clear sky here in the quiet west side of Fort Bend County. We never got any of that wild thunderstorm at 1 am that we were promised. Going to be a hot one today, maybe 98 F.
Prince Harry … deported.
Nah. The spare is married to an American citizen. No deportation happening here.
One of my friends married a Chinese lady last year. He is 75, she is 55. She told me last night that she just got her permanent visa. So they are going to China to get her two boys soon.
One stupid mistake… A good friend of mine just lost control of her phone number to a scammer, who has tied it to a Google Voice account. She’s even a techie, and should know better. At least she realized what happened immediately afterwards. However, Google is too big to care, so her only solution is to change her phone number.
How it happened: She was selling something. A buyer wanted to to discuss the pickup details. “To be sure she was for real”, he asked her to confirm a security code he would send to her phone. She gave him her phone number. Sure enough, a code arrived, and she sent it to him. *Then* she read the message that came with the code: “Do not share this, this is to confirm that your phone number will be tied to XYZ Google Voice.”.
Stupid, sure, but you only have to let your guard down for a second. At the moment, I am being flooded with surprisingly genuine looking mails supposedly from the Swiss Post. They aren´t, of course, but I do get occasionaly legitimate mails from the Post, so I have to look at every single message to see if it is legit or not. Thankfully, you can just look at the address hidden in the links on the page, which is anywhere but “post.ch”.
Scammers are scum. Wish I knew a way to make their lives suitably unpleasant…
Milk: It does a body good again
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/06/09/milk-it-does-a-body-good-again-n556750
Worth a read, as it segues into the war on milk in school lunches.
Has the USDA called anything right in the last 50 years? War on eggs, war on butter, make everyone slaves to the most recent revision of the food pyramid (we got it right this time!). Add in the elimination of recess and other p.t. activities that is disproportionately damaging to biological male children. What’s the result? Increase in child obesity, increase in child diabetes, increase in autism, increase in school violence. And, yeah, increase in playing soccer.
The story of the founding of the FDA and the food pyramid is very interesting.
75F and sunny this morning. Bacon and egg in my belly, coffee in my mug. With cream. Real butter on the toast. Everything in my belly is one or two steps from a living thing.
We’ll try the circuit breaker next. Intarweb says “call for service” regarding the codes.
Only the one limb down last night. Time to do a few things then start packing for home.
n
To the extent that lies and bribes are interesting.
Remember Moochelle’s school lunch program? A dried-out carrot, dehydrated fish stick, and 2% milk. Our goobermint overlords dine on the finest fresh foods and feed our kids swill in commie-run schools. All to keep us, dirt people, in our places. I remember the moose squealing in the White House, “We have our own chef who makes me french fries any time I want!” That’s practically a quote. And the fake garden she “tilled” in her $600 sneakers. Food deserts, anyone? Thinks she’s eating salads in her McMansions?
A windy and blustery afternoon yesterday, and probably today. The Sierra’s had a lot of rain, thunderstorms and supposedly snow. In June.
CowboyStu may have quite the tale when he gets back.
While the breaker is off, put the dishwasher switch in both positions.
It’s possible it’s wired backwards and you want to give the dishwasher opportunity to drain capacitors both ways.
Household electricity is weird, even when it’s done right.
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Dies in Prison at Age 81
“Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-dies-in-prison-at-age-81/
Some outlets are reporting it as a suicide, but Epstein syndrome has not been ruled out.
from the comments to the article:
“Another great FBI victory.
Worked on the case for years and got bupkus.
Finally the guy’s brother turned him in.
Agents were high-fiving all over America, like they did something.”
From wiki:
An Antifa member before his time.
Now, if his weapon of choice had been masks, or clotshots, or keeping family from isolated seniors, or illegal weapons exports to Mexico, he wouldn’t even be on the top-twenty list.
NB: Any comments above that are superficially approving or in anyway dismissive of the crimes that this idiot committed are black humor in the current reality of much larger crimes committed by our own government against its citizens.
Loud thunder in Lone Pine this morning about 3. Off and on again later in the morning while driving down to town of Mojave, but nothing substantial.
Great time yesterday afternoon meeting and chatting with JimB at Indian Wells Brewery. Wonderful beer and bought some to bring home.
I know plenty of ways to make their remaining lives both short and very unpleasant, but I fear they would be frowned upon by TPTB. Too bad, that.
Alas, I slept late this miorning, missing my opportunity to out-timezone Ray and SteveF.
Case Closed: It Was a Lab Leak
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/case-closed-it-was-a-lab-leak.php
Sorry, Ted–life in vain–the Unabomber doesn’t even show up as background noise.
Fauci, Daszak, and dozens and perhaps hundreds of others are responsible, even if not one of them set foot in a Level 4 (effectively 2) containment in Wuhan. And Christine Grady deserves to be lumped in, too. (Clara Haber had the grace to commit suicide).
The magnitude of their crimes argues against simple death or imprisonment. Medieval methods are superficially attractive but demeaning, for all that they would tick the horrible example box. Certainly strip them of their pensions in any form, and remove their wealth with class-action lawsuits. Deny them anything related to medical care, right down to aspirin and toothpaste. No t.p. for you, Tony.
ADDED: Numerous conspirators after the fact helped deny, deny, deny the possibility of a lab leak and muddy the waters. Doctors, researchers, politicians, government employees, social media censors. Beggar them all and toss them in jail. No t.p. for them, either.
missing my opportunity to out-timezone Ray and SteveF.
Rookie.
Arrived in Prague, much cheaper than Austria or Norway for items. We are in an apartment for two nights. Downtown area that is really close to the tourist street. Walked that along with several thousands of other people. All kinds of shops hawking stuff to tourists.
Tired from a lot of walking. Will sleep well tonight. May not beat the first post battle.
Yes, I had a great time meeting @CowboyStu, his SIL, and GD. Stu is an engineer, and so a kindred spirit. A real gentleman. SIL and GD were patient with our hour long conversation about old times. I got the full story how Stu found this place (actually the now defunct computer site) after buying one of Robert and Barbara’s books to build a computer. Funny how those things happen. BTW, I found this place from a link on Jerry’s site. Found lots of other places, but this one always kept me coming back. Lurked for some years before posting. I think I called myself @OldWindowsGuy at first. Ironic to me because I was much younger then.
The brewery has grown since I was last there, but the operators are still down-home friendly. Besides about 20 beers, they make over 100 soft drinks. That has to be some kind of record under one rather small roof. Google Indian Wells Brewing Company to see some of their photos and products. Their website is down, but there is a Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/IndianWellsBrewingCompany/. Some products are sent to somewhere in Texas, so they might turn up in a local store. I have heard of other places, possibly Colorado. If it comes from IWBC, it is good.
No rain here, just some dark clouds and virga close to the mountains. Some mountains either got or are expecting snow. There is still skiing at Mammoth. Most of our precipitation comes in November through March, and this season we had above our normal of 3.5” total. I don’t know how much, but it adds up to one good gully washer in other parts of the country. There is enough moisture in our surrounding mountains that we have some cumulus clouds most days. Some of them drift across our valley. We need some more drying to return to normal.
Ooh, just checked MyRadar, and we have rain on three sides. Looks like the low pressure center is closer to EdH. He might be getting some rain. We have no measurable rain in our forecast, but clouds do wander…
It is good to put faces to names. I have met Mr. Lynn, twice; Mr Atoz; and Mr. Flandrey; along with Barbara when they celebrated Robert’s life. All gracious people, intelligent, well versed in current events and generally people I would welcome as neighbors. Except perhaps Mr. Lynn when his mammoth sewer sprinklers are sprinkling on a windy day.
Custom vs. Retail Front Quarters of Cow: A Comparison by The Bearded Butchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NYN39YppM
A very nice intro to disassembling a front half. A bit long–1.5X is not too fast for the audio, and makes the knife and bandsaw very impressive. I would have added a couple comments for completeness–where is that tri-tip, anyway?–but pretty good in calling out the various mystery steaks.
Coincidentally, over at AoSHQ CBD has some questions/comments about ribeyes which the above would help to answer. He comments about choosing a steak graded “Choice” which was “obviously incorrect”.
The thing to remember is that the grading process is for the slaughtered carcass and applies to all of the cuts therein. It’s not unusual for individual cuts to present a grade higher or lower, but at that point no re-grading is allowed by law. Since evaluating the ribeye is integral to the grading process, having that cut grade higher or lower is probably less likely.
Beef grading video (and a lot more):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEHwm1gIj-w
The Biden administration has made war on beef production in the U.S. at the direction of the climatistas and global elites. The latest move to raise costs and lower availability is to require all medicines be administered by licensed veterinarians.
Denver citizen-initiative looking to ban “meat processing”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/06/11/denver-citizen-initiative-looking-to-ban-meat-processing-n557236
I’d amend it to ban the importation of meat products into the city of Denver, then get out and campaign like hell for it.
Meat from critters IS plant based protein.
Ok, except for hogs that get used for the occasional trespasser…. so I hear.
Windows Networking idiocy never stops.
Emu and new PC see each other just fine. Emu and Moa, same. New PC to Moa? Nope. Moa to new PC? Yeah man, we cool.
Yeah, I know network discovery can take a while but I think four or five hours should be more than enough time.
Oh well. It’ll all be moot tomorrow or the next day. Depends on how lazy I get.
I tossed the stuff I want to keep from moa into a folder, pulled that across the LAN to emu, tossed that onto the new PC’s desktop. It’s all sorted now. Next is to install SlimServer on the new PC. Pull the music SSD out of moa and stuff it into a USB case, then copy the contents to new PC. Get it all running. Rename the new PC to moa and give it old moa’s assigned address.
Then run Acronis to copy the entire mess to the new PC’s original drive.
It’s a plan. Might work. Might not. Only one way to know.
As if ya’ll didn’t think I wasn’t all that bright, here’s some proof.
My NanoBeams chat to each other at 400 to 600 Mbps. Note the case of the letter B as we go. Ignore my bad punctuation of Mbps. My switches do 10/100 Mbps. Says so on the box. So the Nanos are abut five times faster than my switches.
All of the PCs here can do 10/100/1000 speed.
But the thing is, is Microsoft counts different. Tossing stuff across the LAN and yeah, it goes at 10 and a maybe a hair more than MBps. Oh. Wait. MBps vs Mbps. Take Mbps and times eight. for MBps.
https://www.checkyourmath.com/convert/data_rates/per_second/megabytes_megabits_per_second.php
Time for a couple of new switches.
Duh.
For extra fun, the wISP has changed up the plans. You sign up and pay (for example) 30 down and 10 up. But now you get full blast, whatever your radio can do, and the speed throttles down to “plan” as network traffic increases.
I’ve seen 110 down early in the morning. Middle of the day? 40 or so, still better than plan. Speed is often around 80.
No complaints from me.
I’ll hold off on the criticism until after people stop confusing teaspoons and tablespoons. Or until people can settle on a single abbreviation for tablespoon.
Time to reconsider membership.
Home safe, family too.
Got pretty dang hot at the BOL today, but it was nice on the dock in the shade, while the cool wind blew off the water. When that stopped? Time to shower and head home.
Had a nice time talking with my fisherman buddy before I left. He won $3000 bass fishing, and has a 1:17 chance of winning another $1000 this month. There is good money in bass fishing, especially if you would be doing it anyway. I had no idea.
Turning off the breaker to the dishwasher didn’t help. I’ve left it switched off. Maybe it will run down whatever over the next few days.
I’m beat. Lots of sun time this trip.
n
“Their Fractured Light (The Starbound Trilogy Book 3) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
https://www.amazon.com/Their-Fractured-Light-Starbound-Kaufman/dp/1484747836?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a three book science fiction romance first contact space opera series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Hyperion in 2016.
You know, I just don’t know if this series is set 500 years in the future or 10,000 years in the future. So be forewarned.
Many years in the future, the planet Elysium was blown up after the 5 mile long “Icarus” spaceliner crashed out of hyperspace onto it. Then the planet Avon went through a major turmoil before settling down. And now the “Daedalus”, the sister spaceliner to the Icarus, is being turned into an orbital museum around the planet Corinth dedicated to crash of the Icarus by LaRoux Industries.
The two survivors of the 50,000+ dead in the Icarus crash, Captain Tarver Merendsen and Lilac, the daughter of Roderick LaRoux, the great spaceship builder, are on Corinth for the Daedalus dedication. So are two of the survivors from Avon, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase. And another Avon survivor, Sofia Quinn, along with the computer hacker Gideon Marchant.
Roderick LaRoux found a number of alien intelligences when he built the new ultra high speed hyperspace drives for the new Icarus and Daedalus luxury spaceliners. He captured several of the aliens and imprisoned them on the planets Elysium, Avon, and Corinth. Just the places where all the troubles had occurred.
There is a website for the series at:
http://thesebrokenstars.com/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (684 reviews)
Anthony Watts refutes WaPo on the cause of AZ water shortage:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/11/wrong-washington-post-climate-change-is-not-driving-arizonas-water-troubles/
Yeah, site a few freaking chip plants there and “discover” that they don’t have enough water. I think it was close to forty years ago that I heard the term “fossil water”.
Executive order from the next double-dumass Democrat president and you’re going to see a pipeline built from the Missouri River in record time with “special courts” taking farmland wholesale. You’re also going to see pipeline being blown up about as fast as they can build it. Maybe even some special attention out AZ way. Tossing families off farms that they’ve had for six generations is not going to create warm fuzzy feelings. The CO2 pipeline they want to build from Iowa to ND is a precursor.
Study the graphs and click through the AZ drought map to the national map.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx
Overlay U.S. corn production on that map and see what you get. Anyone know a rain dance?
Recommended video discussing Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene showing up at an FFL audit by the ATF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duPaFpez3WA
NB the discussion toward the end re records.
One bit of irony: Look at her coffee cup then cue up their video from a year ago “Take Down Your Gub Signs”
ADDED:
Sheesh, this is the video that started me clicking:
District Court Strikes Down 50-Year-Old Gun Law as Unconstitutional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMfally7JaA
@CowboyStu, JimB: Glad it went well!
Just very high winds here, there appears to be some sort of cyclonic thing over Barstow-ish to the east.
I was in scouting, even turned eagle. The BSA and NESA keep sending me funding appeals and other junk, but I don’t like what scouting has become.
I keep unsubscribing, they keep sending me junk mail anyway…
Everybody is getting caught up in the mania.
the Y, formerly the Young Men’s Christian Association, now has billboards up that say “The Y, not a gym, a community” and “The Y, not a daycare, a community.” I don’t want a community. I want somewhere to work out, or somewhere to leave the babies for a few hours, and I don’t believe it’s a ‘community’ in any case. So keep lying to your customers and see how that works out.
There is a milk billboard downtown. Shows a fit young woman doing a pushup. She’s ambiguously dark haired and dark- skinned. Has a nose ring, tats, and a prosthetic leg. WTAF? Milk advertising itself as a sports drink. With a literal poster child that NO ONE will see themselves in…
Or the billboard from the VA. “Veterans, you are not alone.” Image is a solitary FEMALE in civilian clothes against a black background. Literally alone. Not a man and a woman, to represent the totality of vets, but just a woman. I checked just now, 10% of vets are female. 1.6M in the US. THose 90% of male vets can just f#ck right off, according to the VA’s billboard, I guess.
crazy times indeed.
n
Ah the DM.
– if the good doctor is an example of the fine men in the public health service, you probably should work extra hard to stay healthy and away from him. Who in the everlovin’ thinks baked beans on toast is a healthy “diet food”?
n
Gotta love racial discrimination in the name of equity and ‘fairness’.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/asian-american-student-near-perfect-sat-score-4/
n
Now I am going to bed.
n
>> Our goobermint overlords dine on the finest fresh foods and feed our kids swill in commie-run schools. All to keep us, dirt people, in our places.
Bon appetite: https://racafes.compass-usa.com/USSenate/SDR%20Menus/SDR.pdf
>> Wang told Fox that he was rejected by all of them.
The article doesn’t mention it but would be interesting to see the rest of his bona fides. I wonder if all the efforts to achieve those test scores came at the expense of extra-curricular activities, internships and his admission essay (for those schools that still require one.)
https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/mass-shooting-nine-injured-sf-mission/
Nine shot, none dead…Editor: “Yeah, stick it on page five.”
Indeed. He could be a conservative which would violate the hidden agenda of creating limp wristed losers.