Tues. Sept. 5, 2023 – once more unto your breeches my friends…

By on September 5th, 2023 in culture, decline and fall, lakehouse

Hot and damp. The joy of living in the swamp. Bayou City, FTW! There was some rain here in Houston yesterday but I missed it. Don’t know how much, but although it looked like a lot in the aftermath, it couldn’t have been that much or the fish pond/water feature would have overflowed. Today should continue the trend of hot and humid for a while yet.

I spent yesterday laboring, albeit slowly and at low priority tasks- mostly the stuff I didn’t do upon arrival, like unloading the truck, but also double checking the irrigation sprinklers (found one zone not programmed correctly) and had to re-aim a couple. Also I added another sprinkler to cover the septic drip field. It doesn’t get enough use when we aren’t there to keep the grass alive in this drought. The grass is part of the system design as it pulls moisture out of the soil and lets it be evaporated. Buried drip systems don’t let the water percolate down, they allow it to be transported up and evaporated. So my system really needs healthy grass on top of the field to work.

Then I packed up, closed up, and headed home.

Home sweet home. Where I won’t be most of today. I’m supposed to meet an appliance repair guy at my rent house but I don’t know when. 8 hour window. Gah. I don’t intend to sit around there waiting, and he’s supposed to call me in advance with enough time for me to get there an meet him. We’ll see if that works out.

I started the audiobook of the third Harry Dresden novel on my way home, and I’m enjoying it as much as the first two. I’ve read them, more than once, but it’s a different experience hearing them. It’s been a long time, and I have forgotten a lot. It’s interesting to see the seeds that are planted in the early books, knowing where the story arc heads (not where it ends up, as the last three books aren’t out yet.) I also have been reading the Murderbot stories. They are available on Kindle Unlimited, so I’ve been tearing through them. I like them a lot.

Anyway, IDK how today will shape up, or what will get done, but I’m trying to keep moving forward. Getting the rental back to earning for us is definitely a prep. I think we have a new tenant, possibly moving in on the 15th. That would be only a 6 week loss of rental income, which would be nice.

If I get done there, I’ve got plenty to do here, and the chance to take another load to the auctioneer if I can get one together.

So I’ll be jumping today. Find some time to stack!

nick

71 Comments and discussion on "Tues. Sept. 5, 2023 – once more unto your breeches my friends…"

  1. Greg Norton says:

    Ron Howard purchased the rights to Seveneves back in 2016.  He released a tweet in 2020 that they were working on the script.  Amazon is paying the bill.

    That was before Amazon’s “The Rings of Power” became the most expensive nerd TV flop of all time and the miniseries of “Willow” so awful that it was kicked off Disney+ as a writeoff after less than a year.

    Don’t hold your breath for “Seveneves” on TV in the current environment. If any production was underway, that would be a candidate for “Force Majeure” termination.

  2. Greg Norton says:

    Ron Howard purchased the rights to Seveneves back in 2016.  He released a tweet in 2020 that they were working on the script.  Amazon is paying the bill.

    Also, I’d be surprised if any serious money had been spent when Howard wrote the tweet. After “Solo”, it doesn’t seem like Hollywood trusts him with money anymore.

  3. Nick Flandrey says:

    Kids and wife out the door, time for some breakfast.  Then I need to head out to meet the appliance repair guy.   He’s thinking he’ll be there around 930, which is great if true.

    It’s cool but saturated, with heavy condensation on the windows.   Some low clouds rolling around on the horizon too although the sun is coming out.  We’ll see if anything shakes loose weather wise.

    I did manage to resist the call of the Murderbot last night… so I’ve got something to do while waiting for the repair guy.

    nick

  4. Ray Thompson says:

    Subbing today, floater. Need to move to different classrooms in each block as the teachers have some meeting they have to attend. Will be doing the same thing tomorrow.

    This first class is freshmen, annoying little creatures. Especially the male of the species. Coming from being on the top of the pecking order heap, they still have that mindset. A couple of kids have real attitudes and I think they basically don’t want to do anything. “My Chromebook is not charged”. Then find, or borrow a charger, and get to work.

    Zero sense of responsibility or thinking ability. If they are the future, then 90% are doomed. A couple of them are destined for manual labor or welfare the rest of their lives. There is one I suspect will be in prison for some drug infraction or violence.

    They seem to remember to charge their phones but not something they actually need for school work.

    Maybe I was that way in school, too long ago to remember. But I certainly don’t think I, or the other students, were that way.

    Several will be OK by the time they are seniors. The others will be leaches and an infestation on society.

  5. ITGuy1998 says:

    Getting old is not for the faint of heart. My father-in-law (wife’s step father) has dementia. Late diagnosis, and he seems to be progressing fairly fast. He and my mother-in-law are 7 hours away, but they are close to his family (two daughters). Yesterday he got angry and grabbed mil’s wrist and twisted it – no permanent damage, thank goodness. One sister always just says “put him in a home”. The other sister was having a pool party, and couldn’t get away at the time to help. She sent her husband. I said enough and called the non-emergency police number for their town and requested a wellness check. It turns out, my mil had called 911 too, so that was good. End result is a big nothing sandwich, of course. 

    I did talk to my mil on the phone after and I think I am the first person who has told her unabashedly that she needs to start prioritizing herself first. She agreed with me, but she tends to slide back into old habits. I can only imagine how hard it is to deal with. At some point though, you have to put on the adult pants and do what needs to be done. I’m afraid the only real change will come if he seriously injures her (or himself). 

    I’m trying to get the mil to move down near us. The step children don’t give a rats arse about her. That likely won’t happen until we get the fil a home, and I have a feeling it will be easier to get a politician to be honest than have that happen.

  6. drwilliams says:

    “My Chromebook is not charged”.

    The toilets need cleaning. 

  7. Ray Thompson says:

    At some point though, you have to put on the adult pants and do what needs to be done

    That is really a tough decision and tough to enact. I sent my mother down to Mexico to fly back to Washington state so my mother would know exactly why I was removing my aunt from her home and bringing her to assisted living in TN.

    The person that is forced into assisted living, in your case your Father-in-law, will be angry, as in really, really angry, will say really unkind things, become absolutely the worst person you could imagine. You will become his worst enemy.

    What you need to remember, it is not them. The person you remember is gone never to return. Do not take it personally. You are doing what is in their best interest even though it will incur their wrath.

  8. Greg Norton says:

    “My Chromebook is not charged”.

    “The world needs ditch diggers too, Danny.”

  9. SteveF says:

    My Chromebook is not charged.

    “Then I’ll mark that down as a 0 for today’s work.”

  10. MrAtoz says:

    So I’ll be jumping today.

    Reminds me of Airborne School, 1978, Fort Benning, GA.

  11. SteveF says:

    Survived yesterday’s trip to the county fair. It wasn’t too bad from my perspective but a largely wasted day. The kids enjoyed it.

    All of the mothers pulled last minute “he/she needs to be home by X o’clock”, which quite annoyed me because we ended up going yesterday because every other day had “can’t possibly skip” commitments and we all had arranged for yesterday to be open all day and the kids could get home “whenever”. I’m not blaming the kids but I’ll be less inclined to make an effort to include them in the future.

    OTOH, all of the kids were exhausted and quite ready to leave the fair by the time we had to go to get the kid with the earliest return-by time home. They didn’t even want to stop at McDonald’s for precious nuggies and fries on the way.

    There’s something wrong with this picture. I’m four times as old as the youngest of the kids (like, 4x her age to within a small fraction of a percent, just a coincidence of timing). Almost 4x the age of the others. But they were exhausted from being on their feet and in the sun for six hours, while I’d been on my feet as long as they had and had been carrying almost 40 pounds the whole time. (My backpack had water and gatorade, my thermos of coffee, emergency gear, and purchases as everyone made them. Plus I was wearing my vest with tools and wallet and what-not.) And, as noted, I’m nominally in my twilight years while they’re energetic youngsters.

  12. Ray Thompson says:

    Then I’ll mark that down as a 0 for today’s work

    I cant’t. The grades are reported on some system to which I have no access. All I can do is leave notes for the teacher. I also have no access to Google classroom. Kids could be looking at football videos for all I know. 

  13. CowboyStu says:

    >> Well, I haven’t had a road accident in my post 75 years, but I really am concerned about it

    Speling miztaks doughn’t kount

    Not a spelling mistake.  What I meant with “post 75 years” is the time interval in years from my 75th birthday until now.  Yes, my 75th birthday was a while ago and I am still waiting for dementia.

  14. drwilliams says:

    From the current top story list on HotAir:

    Google this: can men menstruate?

    Pete Bootyjuice…

    Is this a coincidence? Or a subtle caution to ask for the definition of man, which will implode woke. 

  15. Ray Thompson says:

    I am still waiting for dementia

    Maybe it has already arrived, and you forgot.

  16. dcp says:

    Reminds me of Airborne School

    “If at first you don’t succeed…then skydiving is not for you.”

  17. drwilliams says:

    Sometimes the headline is enough:

    “Doctor” Jill Biden, Who Has a Doctorate In Numbers, Shapes, and Colors, Has Covid Despite Being More Filled with Vax Than Steven Colbert’s Writing Room—Ace

  18. Rick H says:

    Has Covid Despite Being More Filled with Vax

    …although it’s my understanding that vaccines don’t prevent a disease, but help mitigate the seriousness of the effects of a disease. 

    Conspiracy theories to the contrary, of course.

    Paging ‘@ech’ to verify…

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  19. SteveF says:

    vaccines don’t prevent a disease, but help mitigate the seriousness of the effects of a disease. 

    I’ll believe that when I see proof. Every other aspect of the reporting on and the official pronouncements on the Chinese bioweapon has been, to put it mildly, something less than complete and accurate.

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  20. Nick Flandrey says:

    vaccines don’t prevent a disease  

    – that is in fact the whole point of a vaccine.   Do you get a little bit of polio?  Little bit of measles?   Little bit of smallpox?

    They changed the definition on their website, and it was widely noted  here and elsewhere when they did so.

    n

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  21. Greg Norton says:

    Sometimes the headline is enough:

    “Doctor” Jill Biden, Who Has a Doctorate In Numbers, Shapes, and Colors, Has Covid Despite Being More Filled with Vax Than Steven Colbert’s Writing Room—Ace
     

    You assume she got the vaccine and not an injection of sterile water for show.

    Still, best wishes for a speedy recovery.

  22. SteveF says:

    Reminds me of Airborne School

    I never made it. Paperwork screwups and one big, unrelated problem that I was needed for fixing which kept me from going the one time that the paperwork wasn’t screwed up. (At the time my “day job” involved development of a new surveillance aircraft. Things went mostly well but not always well and sometimes schedule, budget, or function could be impacted.) And by the time that was all straightened out, Congress had played more budget-balancing games by cutting military budget, a bunch of junior officers were now excess, and I was mustered out. (And the handling of that was a screwup, too. I was supposed to have IIRC 90 days to prepare for switching over, find a job, find a place to live or arrange to have stuff moved back home, etc. In practice I had something over a month. Not entirely the personnel officer’s fault, as I was off-site most of the time, but no one bothered to send a letter or leave a message with my office’s secretary to contact him as soon as I was back on base. And then he pressured me to sign the form saying that I’d been notified in a timely fashion.)

  23. MrAtoz says:

    vaccines don’t prevent a disease  

    – that is in fact the whole point of a vaccine.   Do you get a little bit of polio?  Little bit of measles?   Little bit of smallpox?

    They changed the definition on their website, and it was widely noted  here and elsewhere when they did so.

    n

    +googolplex

    Watch the clip I posted with Rachel MadCow screeching to the High Heavens: “It’s a vaccine. You take it and you don’t get COVID. You don’t spread COVID…”. Times a thousand other PLTs and goobermint “experts“ sqawking the same memo. All proven wrong.

    As Mr. Nick said, they changed the definition of vaccine in the middle of the night. Instead of the goobermint agencies coming out with the truth, they lied for years. MadCow and the other PLTs probably caused millions of extra infections with their lies.

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  24. Lynn says:

    Anyway, IDK how today will shape up, or what will get done, but I’m trying to keep moving forward. Getting the rental back to earning for us is definitely a prep. I think we have a new tenant, possibly moving in on the 15th. That would be only a 6 week loss of rental income, which would be nice.

    Do you use a realtor for your rental property or do you throw a sign in the front yard and on https://houston.craigslist.org/ ?

  25. Lynn says:

    “Kaiser Permanente Employee Training Video Claims 3-Year-Olds Can Choose To Be Transgender”

        https://www.infowars.com/posts/kaiser-permanente-employee-training-video-claims-3-year-olds-can-choose-to-be-transgender/

    Are you kidding me ?  I doubt many three year olds know the difference between boys and girls.

    Hat tip to:

        https://thelibertydaily.com/

  26. Lynn says:

    Ron Howard purchased the rights to Seveneves back in 2016.  He released a tweet in 2020 that they were working on the script.  Amazon is paying the bill.

    Also, I’d be surprised if any serious money had been spent when Howard wrote the tweet. After “Solo”, it doesn’t seem like Hollywood trusts him with money anymore.

    Ron Howard wins awards.  Hollyweird does not let that casually walk out the door.  You gotta pay big to get on his dance card.

  27. Brad says:

    Watching tennis just now, as Teylor Fritz loses to Djokovic. Between points, the camera s keep cutting to this bored fake-blonde with too much makeup. Apparently Fritz’s girlfried, who is an “influencer”.

    Gack. Why does anyone find that appearance attractive?

  28. Lynn says:

    The wife spent the entire weekend watching the “The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek” documentaries on Big River (Amazon).  They are fairly well done with eleven one hour episodes.  I never knew that Gene Roddenbery had a cocaine problem.

    8,000+ actors have been on the various Star Trek programs, both live and animated.  Many actors begged to be on at least one episode just to get the cred so they can go to the Cons as a guest.

        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15766736/

  29. Lynn says:

    Don’t hold your breath for “Seveneves” on TV in the current environment. If any production was underway, that would be a candidate for “Force Majeure” termination.

    One can hope.  Seveneves needs to be a tv series.  The book is way too big, at least 300,000 words, maybe 400,000.  Stephenson even split it up into three parts: a year in the near future, the four years after the first part, and 5,000 years after the event.  He should have split it up into a trilogy, the book is a bargain.

    I am noting that people either love the book or hate it with a passion.  I am at 700 pages in (880 pages total) and see nothing to hate.  It is rated 4.3 out of 5 stars with 29,633 reviews on Amazon.

  30. Nick Flandrey says:

    @lynn, we use a realtor.   She’s a family friend, but did the showings, screening, photos and listing.   I’m very happy not to have to run over there and meet with people.

    Got the dishwasher parts swapped out.   Guy was on time, and quick.   Covered under manf warranty due to a defect in the spot weld breaking.   I bought the washer scratch and dent years ago, so it was nice that it was covered.

    The scratch and dent washer at the BOL is being repaired under manf warranty too.

    n

  31. lpdbw says:

    They changed the definition of pandemic.

    They changed the definition of vaccine, twice.  Once for the mechanism of immunity generation, and once for the new, never tested (in humans) technologies of mRNA and enterovirus introduction of DNA.

    They lied and told us Ivermectin was ineffective (without testing the hypothesis).  They lied and told us Ivermectin was not a drug for humans.  They lied and told us Ivermectin was dangerous.

    Fun fact:  If anyone had actually tested Ivermectin and HCQ, and discovered it was an effective treatment, the FDA would have been barred from giving EUA to the new experimental untested in humans technology.

    Fun fact:  69% of the FDA’s funding comes from big Pharma.

    Fun fact:  leadership at FDA is a launching pad to working for big Pharma companies.

    They lied and told us Covid came from bats via a wet market.

    They lied and told us it wasn’t an escape from a bioweapons lab.

    They told us it was an accidental release.  Do I need to believe that?  Or was it an attack by China?

    They lied and told us the vaccine  would give immunity.

    Then they lied and told us it would stop spreading.

    They lied and told us that your body would stop making spike proteins shortly after you get the vaccine.

    Then they told us it reduced the effects.  I’m supposed to believe them now?

    I skipped a few things, like “safe and effective”, “rare side-effects”, “two weeks to stop the spread” and “this thin cloth mask will protect you” and “keep your kids out of school for their safety”.  You get the jist.

    Here’s a meme I found recently.

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  32. Greg Norton says:

    Ron Howard wins awards.  Hollyweird does not let that casually walk out the door.  You gotta pay big to get on his dance card.

    “Solo” was the first “Star Wars” film to lose money. It won’t be the last, but the expectations were higher.

  33. Ken Mitchell says:

    “If anyone had actually tested Ivermectin and HCQ, and discovered it was an effective treatment, the FDA would have been barred from giving EUA to the new experimental untested in humans technology.”

    In March 2020, Donald Trump started talking about HCQ and all the lefties blasted straight up and turned left. What in the HELL would TRUMP know about HCQ????  Well, Trump probably knew nothing about it, but he followed (on Twitter) this polymath genius named Elon Musk, who tweeted out some French/Italian studies about it, and since Trump followed Elon….. 

    Here’s the text of an email that I sent to Tom Sullivan on March 18, 2020;

    ———————————————————————–

    Hi, Tom.  I’m attaching a couple of tweets that I’ve seen yesterday and today.  Hydrochloroquine is derived from quinine, widely used to treat malaria.  Quinine in water tasted so terrible that they had to disguise the flavor with sugar and alcohol.  So your “Gin and Tonic Water” is once again therapeutic. 

    _______________________________

    Gregory Rigano

    @RiganoESQ

    ·Replying to

    @elonmusk

    and

    @DiderRaoult

    UPDATE: Full peer reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWSHnGbj/view?usp=sharing…. After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured p-value <.0001

    I am co-author of the original paper. Was just on television discussing HCQ, first well controlled study against COVID-19.

    600 mg HCQ per day after 6 days, 90% of patients tested COVID-19 negative.

    96% of control group tested positive after 6 days.

    DM or grigano1@jhu.edu

    Update: As per

    @DiderRaoult

    – the study shows combination of HCQ * Azithromycin is most effective treatment 1 control group (placebo) 1 HCQ group 1 HCQ * Azithromycin group follow his youtube for more info, major announcements coming …

    https://twitter.com/RiganoESQ/status/1240273631604809728

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWSHnGbj/view

    ————————————————

    So HCQ was KNOWN to be effective against WuFlu, and Musk tweeted it, and Trump read it.  I was pretty sure that Gregory Rigano had been banned from Twitter, but it’s possible that Musk restored it. 

    Tom Sullivan used to be a radio talk show host in Sacramento, CA, whose financial awareness show was on KFBK radio, which was where Rush Limbaugh got HIS start. Tom and Rush were great friends, and after Rush moved to New York and took his show national, Tom’s show and Rush’s show were one continuous, glorious 6-hour block of Conservative programming. Tom was even at Rush’s wedding, and Tom was often a “guest host” when Rush was traveling. I think he’s with Fox Business. 

  34. Greg Norton says:

    One can hope.  Seveneves needs to be a tv series.  The book is way too big, at least 300,000 words, maybe 400,000.  Stephenson even split it up into three parts: a year in the near future, the four years after the first part, and 5,000 years after the event.  He should have split it up into a trilogy, the book is a bargain.

    I am noting that people either love the book or hate it with a passion.  I am at 700 pages in (880 pages total) and see nothing to hate.  It is rated 4.3 out of 5 stars with 29,633 reviews on Amazon.

    You’ll understand the reason people hate the book soon. You may or may not see it as a problem.

    The Infallible Girl Boss is done as a TV series concept. “Ahsoka” may be the last one.

  35. Ken Mitchell says:

    @Nich and @RickH;  apparently my last post had too many links.  Can you have a look at that please?  THanks. 

  36. MrAtoz says:

    Fun fact:  69% of the FDA’s funding comes from big Pharma.

    Fun fact:  leadership at FDA is a launching pad to working for big Pharma companies.

    First it was a double clot-shot, then booster one, booster two, booster three, annual booster, semi-annual booster, now a brand new clot-shot. I wonder how many boosters to go with that.

    Big Pharma is laughing all the way to the bank on US tax payers backs. Plus free testing on the populace of the mechano-gene-splicing-pseudo vaccine.

    FauXi got rich off this and retires with a pension probably more than the President.

    Compare FauXi justice with this guys:

    Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is jailed for 22 years for commanding Capitol siege – longest Jan 6 sentence

    Rapists and murders get less. You would think automatic weapons and explosives were used. Instead trespassing and vandalism. They all need their sentences commuted to time served. Reminder only Ashley Babbit was murdered. By a cop.

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  37. EdH says:

    Seen online, a new Capcha:

     “Prove you are not a robot by harming a human being or, through inaction, allowing a human being to come to harm.”

  38. paul says:

    Ivermectin works.  For a flu?  Even a flu from China? Folks say so.  I have never had the flu as far as I know.  So I can’t say it works for the flu.

    I got some because of all of the “we gonna die!” fuss.  

    The dogs get a dose every month.  It’s good for heart worms and whatever.  Not sure abut tape worms but I got Buddy some other stuff that took a month to work.  

    I take a dose too because why not?  If the dogs can get heart worms I reckon I can get heart worms.

    http://www.barnhardt.biz has details.

    Anyway.

    We went camping in the van to go tubing near San Marcos.  I scratched my right shin on the cross bar under the picnic table.  Bled a bit. That scrape healed and turned into an itchy spot.  Athlete’s foot stuff and some anti fungal cream my mom had moved the itchy spot from my shin to my outer leg.  And that’s as far as anything worked. Meanwhile, my toenails are starting to look odd.  Just on one foot.  Sort of like double layered nails.  Lysol Spray helps but stings a lot. 

    I did a couple of doses of Vit I and had some digestive output upset.  No big deal.  Nothing more than passing a brick one day and not a brick the next couple of days. 

    The itchy scaly spot on my leg stopped itching after a couple or three weeks.  Totally gone after two months. 

     –→>> The acid stomach thing I had, that needed two Tums at bedtime unexpectedly went away.

    I’m safe from heart worms and the parasite that causes River Blindness.  My toes are slowly, so slowly, because toenails, are growing out normal.

    I think I’ve cleared my system from various whatevers from a few trips to New Orleans and one trip to Key West.  I mean, one shouldn’t need to pull over on the highway to barf on the way home.  I do feel better. 

    What’s the drug trinity?  Aspirin.  Penicillin.  Ivermectin. 

  39. paul says:
     I doubt many three year olds know the difference between boys and girls.

    Hell, I was still trying to not piss in my pants.  I had the sit down part figured out.  Bladder control took me a bit longer.

  40. Ray Thompson says:

    I was still trying to not piss in my pants

    It will return when you get older.

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  41. paul says:

    Yeah, already there.  Sometimes.  But I have enough now to have something to get a hold of to pinch off the flow.

  42. Lynn says:

    @Nich and @RickH;  apparently my last post had too many links.  Can you have a look at that please?  THanks. 

    Released !

  43. Lynn says:

    Yeah, already there.  Sometimes.  But I have enough now to have something to get a hold of to pinch off the flow.

    Uh, that don’t work for me.  I think my bladder pressure is too high.

  44. Lynn says:

    One can hope.  Seveneves needs to be a tv series.  The book is way too big, at least 300,000 words, maybe 400,000.  Stephenson even split it up into three parts: a year in the near future, the four years after the first part, and 5,000 years after the event.  He should have split it up into a trilogy, the book is a bargain.

    I am noting that people either love the book or hate it with a passion.  I am at 700 pages in (880 pages total) and see nothing to hate.  It is rated 4.3 out of 5 stars with 29,633 reviews on Amazon.

    You’ll understand the reason people hate the book soon. You may or may not see it as a problem.

    The Infallible Girl Boss is done as a TV series concept. “Ahsoka” may be the last one.

    I have just reached the part where the group of seven is down on Earth and is headed outbound in a very sophisticated glider.  I suspect that they are heading to the cave people in northern Alaska.

  45. Lynn says:

    What’s the drug trinity?  Aspirin.  Penicillin.  Ivermectin. 

    I am allergic to Penicillin.  And Erythromycin.  And Keflex.

  46. Ken Mitchell says:

    @Lynn:  Thanks much!

  47. Ken Mitchell says:

    For Covid, Elon Musk thought thecombo should be HCQ, Azythromycin, zinc, and vitamin D.

  48. Lynn says:

    What’s the drug trinity?  Aspirin.  Penicillin.  Ivermectin. 

    I now take two baby aspirin a day to keep my blood from turning into sludge.  I have stopped taking Aleve for headaches and now take aspirin.

  49. Greg Norton says:

    I have just reached the part where the group of seven is down on Earth and is headed outbound in a very sophisticated glider.  I suspect that they are heading to the cave people in northern Alaska.

    As Ron Popeil used to say, “But wait, there’s more …”

  50. drwilliams says:

    @Nick

    “I started the audiobook of the third Harry Dresden novel on my way home, and I’m enjoying it as much as the first two. I’ve read them, more than once, but it’s a different experience hearing them.”

    I previously recommended the well-produced audiobooks of Murderbot.

  51. drwilliams says:

    Fauci admits to lack of COVID mask evidence — but wants us to wear them anyway

    But in February, a major study from the Cochrane Library found that wearing them was pointless.

    “There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author, said in February.

    “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.”

    Confronted with Jefferson’s quotes, Fauci backtracked.

    “When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” he admitted.

    “But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals,” they might be protective, he said.

    So let the individual make the decision to wear a mask. Any attempt by any level of government is a violation of individual rights–I’ve got your penumbra right here. And for any private company, they can try and I look forward to ruinous lawsuits.

    And in Fauci’s case, there are millions of people willing to help him tie it and get the proper fitment.

  52. drwilliams says:

    Hollywood walkouts have wiped $5 billion from California’s economy, exceeding analysts’ estimates

    https://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-walkouts-leave-5-billion-hole-in-california-economy-strategist-2023-9?op=1

    Sob for the little people, but clap for LA is it gets another push toward the drain and takes Grewsome with.

  53. EdH says:

    Received a text from a friend in Ventura, waiting in a line for gas. 

     It went from $5.05 to $5.08 while he was in line.

    It is post Labor Day, shouldn’t prices be declining?

  54. EdH says:

    “But there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level, for individuals,” they might be protective, he said.

    I haven’t followed this much lately (18 months?), but last I heard the “amelioration of individual symptoms” claim had a single paper backing it.

  55. Lynn says:

    I have just reached the part where the group of seven is down on Earth and is headed outbound in a very sophisticated glider.  I suspect that they are heading to the cave people in northern Alaska.

    As Ron Popeil used to say, “But wait, there’s more …”

    My son says the fallacy that something could hit the Moon, break it up into seven pieces, and not throw the pieces away immediately is a major flaw in the book so he will refuse to read it.

  56. Lynn says:

    Received a text from a friend in Ventura, waiting in a line for gas. 

     It went from $5.05 to $5.08 while he was in line.

    It is post Labor Day, shouldn’t prices be declining?

    The crown prince of Saudi Arabia believes that the US Dollar is worthless since Biden is inflating the crap out of it.  So he thinks that he should get $100 US Dollars per US Barrel as a minimum for his crude oil.  So he is going to remove their crude oil off the market until it hits $100.  The market is responding.  Brent Crude passed $90 today.

       https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF?p=CL%3DF

    “Oil prices soar to 10-month high as Russia and Saudi Arabia commit to slash production for longer”

       https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-prices-soar-10-month-030049795.html

    Just in time for the Christmas heating oil purchases !

  57. Greg Norton says:

    So let the individual make the decision to wear a mask. Any attempt by any level of government is a violation of individual rights–I’ve got your penumbra right here. And for any private company, they can try and I look forward to ruinous lawsuits.

    Lots of people around here would mask up in a heartbeat. 

    Austin has plenty of Good Germans.

  58. Greg Norton says:

    My son says the fallacy that something could hit the Moon, break it up into seven pieces, and not throw the pieces away immediately is a major flaw in the book so he will refuse to read it.

    I don’t remember a clear explanation being offered about what exactly happened to the moon.

    The message I got through most of that book is, “Talk amongst yourselves.”

    My wife has a conference in Madison, WI this fall so I have an opportunity to cross another place off of my “American Gods” bucket list.

  59. Lynn says:

    “Rosenberg man speaks after he and his wife were injured when an SUV crashed into Denny’s dining room”

        https://www.fox26houston.com/news/rosenberg-man-speaks-after-he-and-his-wife-were-injured-when-an-suv-crashed-into-dennys-dining-room

    Whoa ! We have eaten at this Denny’s several times.
     

  60. Greg Norton says:

    My wife has a conference in Madison, WI this fall so I have an opportunity to cross another place off of my “American Gods” bucket list.

    Oh, and a Cray museum?!? Too cool.

    I’ve been in the rooms where the first Apple Macintosh and Dell PC were assembled and powered on.

    The Packers are out of town that weekend. No trips to Lambeau wearing my Yucs “Bucco Bruce the Winking Pirate” creamsicle orange shirt.

  61. Lynn says:

    My son says the fallacy that something could hit the Moon, break it up into seven pieces, and not throw the pieces away immediately is a major flaw in the book so he will refuse to read it.

    I don’t remember a clear explanation being offered about what exactly happened to the moon.

    The message I got through most of that book is, “Talk amongst yourselves.”

    A black hole traveling through the Solar System, an Alien race planting a very large bomb on the Moon, etc, etc, etc.

  62. Alan says:

    >> They all need their sentences commuted to time served.

    AFAIH (heard), Trump has said he is open to reviewing the Jan 6 convictions and potentially issuing commutations or pardons once he takes office. 

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  63. Alan says:

    >> “Rosenberg man speaks after he and his wife were injured when an SUV crashed into Denny’s dining room”

    What?? You don’t have a drive-thru?

  64. Lynn says:

    Oh, and a Cray museum?!? Too cool.

    I have never written code or run software on Cray.  But I have run software on a CDC 6600 and written software on a CDC 7600 (the predecessors of Cray).  Very fast beastie.  Very very fast and very wide words (60 bits).  Yup, it was a 6 bit machine with 10 characters to the word.  I could not port anything back to our main development machine, the Univac 1108, since it was a 36 bit machine.

  65. Alan says:

    >> It is post Labor Day, shouldn’t prices be declining?

    Who was it again that told us that the inflation would just be transitory? 

  66. Nick Flandrey says:

    For Covid, Elon Musk thought the combo should be HCQ, Azythromycin, zinc, and vitamin D.  

    –  iirc there was someone in Aesop’s comments, VERY early on, with this combo and links to papers.   I think he deleted it out of a policy of not including medical advice, but can’t be sure without a.. looking for it, and b.. asking him.   There was speculation about needing the free zinc that I later read in other places as well.   The vitamin D thing is important.   According to Aesop, that was part of SOP at his hospital – give massive doses of vD as there was indication that low vD = bad outcomes.

    My new Dr recommended vD as a daily supplement.  I’m already doing that, although I’ve reduced my dose with  the end of the wuflu threat.   My bloodwork says I’m at the high end of vD “normal” levels.   Wife was told by her Dr to take daily vitamin D too, and I’ve since read that most people are deficient and should be supplementing, especially older people.   Costco usually has vitamin D on sale about every other month.

    ———————————

    Finished Murderbot 4, and started the novel.   Lost most of this evening to it so far, but am now heading to bed.

    n

  67. Nick Flandrey says:

    Gas here is $3.20 at most of the discount stations.   you can pay a lot more if you aren’t careful.

    n

  68. Nick Flandrey says:

     breeches -→ britches… 

    -ah me so funny …    

    (yeah, funny lookin’)

    n

    I’ll torture the language until it gives up and cries..

  69. Lynn says:

    Gas here is $3.20 at most of the discount stations.   you can pay a lot more if you aren’t careful.

    I bought 26.7 US gallons of regular unleaded at $3.359 / US gallon for $90.00 tonight at my favorite Shell station.  I got 18 mpg on that tank in my 2019 F-150 4×4.

  70. Greg Norton says:

    Received a text from a friend in Ventura, waiting in a line for gas. 

     It went from $5.05 to $5.08 while he was in line.

    It is post Labor Day, shouldn’t prices be declining?

    Summer to winter blend shift.

  71. Greg Norton says:

    For Covid, Elon Musk thought the combo should be HCQ, Azythromycin, zinc, and vitamin D.  

    –  iirc there was someone in Aesop’s comments, VERY early on, with this combo and links to papers.   I think he deleted it out of a policy of not including medical advice, but can’t be sure without a.. looking for it, and b.. asking him.   There was speculation about needing the free zinc that I later read in other places as well.   The vitamin D thing is important.   According to Aesop, that was part of SOP at his hospital – give massive doses of vD as there was indication that low vD = bad outcomes.

    The government put a lid on the HCQ supply early on to keep it available for Lupus patients.

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