But it is likely to be hot. We are on the edge of a system and supposed to get rain, which would cool things down a bit, but who knows what will actually happen. It was hot enough yesterday that I was moving slowly and trying to keep up my fluid intake.
Did some cleaning and organizing. LONG overdue but not a priority until now. Didn’t finish so I’ll be continuing that today.
Spent time with the family paying a game and watching a movie, then I spent some time on the dock remembering my absent friends.
The night was warm at 85F but the breeze picked up and it was pleasant over the water. The list of absent friends gets longer, but I suppose that’s how this part of life works. I realize most of them were older than me, 10-20 years, and mentor figures mostly, and I wonder who will sit on a dock remembering me. I left the business without ever being “one of the old guys” and developing relationships with the next generation coming up. I suppose it will be family, and maybe a few guys I’ve never met in real life…
Hopefully that will be decades in the future, and I’ve got some time to work on the next generation. None of us know the appointed hour and some of them had damn little warning, so make the most of what you’ve got.
Do what you can to thrive, not just survive. Stack some stuff, and spend some time on friends and family.
nick
And the camps open.
We just came really close with Covid jabs.
Out and about yesterday, I saw no lack of armbands -er- masks around Austin.
Big smile!
And don’t give me nonsense about excusing the armband as a concern for health when they’re buying the rags in fashionable colors … like “SS Uniform Black”.
When the smoke from the fires in Canada were flowing into the Northeast, people were wearing masks. They were informed that the masks were ineffective against smoke particles. Viruses are smaller than smoke particles yet people still think the masks are effective. If the mask don’t work for smoke, they will not work for viruses.
We have been lied to, conned, manipulated, made fools by the “science” kabuki by Fauci and his band of clueless minions.
@brad
Nice post last night.
So what metric do you use to solve that problem which will be immune from political manipulation?
Just follow the blueprint used by all the other public policies that are immune from political manipulation.
85F and sunny with a breeze this morning. Nice day to be out on the water. Not so nice to be in the garage…
But that’s the breaks.
Bacon and egg with toasted english muffin and strong coffee with cream. So simple and so good.
n
Ham, two farm eggs, cojack cheese on a croissant with black coffee.
No cream–saving it for the potato soup tonight (not that it would go in my coffee, anyway).
– who could have predicted that? /sarc
n
about that WaPo/ABC poll:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/09/24/heres-one-figure-in-a-recent-wapo-poll-on-biden-thats-a-potential-election-killer-n2628858
37% approve of his job performance
They should have included another question:
“Would you vote for Senator Robert Menendez as a younger alternative to Joe Biden?”
Probably get about 37% on that one, too.
meanwhile:
Trump +10 over Biden: Washington Post rejects latest poll from Washington Post
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2023/09/24/trump-10-over-biden-washington-post-rejects-latest-poll-from-washington-post-n2387666
Yeah, broke. Trump, tho.
Trump. I’m jus’ sayin’.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1705300409974161724
Give me the sweat shirt and I could put ten better things on it.
Like a nice caricature of Barry, Hilary, Jill and George running the strings on an FJB puppet.
Is that after the 2AM delivery of poll results?
If my washer is connected to the IoT why isn’t there a camera that feeds a phone app so I don’t have to stand there to watch the ‘round-and-’round?
Instead of a picture sending a text message when the cycle is complete would be sort of cool. Just give that number a distinctive ringtone and you don’t have to pick up the phone to know the laundry is done.
My Samsung microwave and Samsung tv are both connected to the Samsung Smart app. Last night I warmed something and my wife told me the TV said my food was ready. It’s been doing that for months since the new microwave. went in. Dings my phone too. She just never noticed. Good thing my Samsung washer and dryer are older, not connected. They actually use chimes, how quaint.
The new Apple Watch Ultra 2 is set up. Cell service was really easy and worked fine. The new watch face is Tim’s arse with the title: “Enter the Portal.” Just kidding. Maybe. Time for a naked midnight stroll.
BTW, the iPhone “Standby” mode is cool. Place it landscape on your Magsafe charger, and a customizable clock comes up. A nudge makes the phone light up in red when it’s dark Easy on the eyes..
Losing Faith: Religious Identification Among Democrats Crashes 20 Points in 20 Years
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/losing-faith-religious-identification-among-democrats-crashes-20-points-in-20-years/
Yeah, and if you’re Catholic and ignore the teachings of the church–specifically with regards to abortion and the Fifth Commandment–you’re identification as religious is bogus. You’re a CINO–Catholic in name only.
But you can make up the gap with a belief in crystals, essential oils, and manifesting the perfect man to come into your life.
Sorry, I am already taken.
Only took sixty seconds.
37 seconds, rounding error.
re: crystals, essential oils
and Patchouli
I’ve been researching saunas, as I may have mentioned before, and my brief exposure to this world online shows, first of all, serious scientific work showing that using saunas regularly can improve your health and extend your life, but mostly that every pseudo-scientific tie-dyed, patchouli stinking crystal worshipping snake-oil hippie has migrated into the world of saunas. And Scientologists, too.
The serious research only refers to actual Finnish saunas that heat the air, either by wood stove or electricity. The highly plausible inference is that the same effect should be expected from so-called “infrared” saunsas, which basically use heat lamps or heat panels and instead of heating the air, they heat the person or people inside. They are much cheaper, warm up more quickly, can be easily constructed DIY, and can fit in most homes without much, if any, carpentry. You get hot, and you sweat, and your pulse rate goes up, just like a “real” sauna.
The flaky stuff comes in a variety of flavors. Some contend that the sweating leads to “detox”. Some say it only detoxes if you use special supplements called binders. Which they conveniently sell. Some say there’s a serious difference between “near infrared” and “far infrared” bulbs/heat panels, and one is good and the other bad. Depending mostly on which they sell, of course.
Finally, there’s the great bugaboo of EMF, or EMI, or “dirty electricity”. Some of the people on youtube are perfectly willing to stand in front of studio lights, computer monitors, ring lights, and multiple cameras, and tell you that a half hour under a heat lamp could give you cancer, unless you use a special meter and make sure your rig is properly filtered and grounded. A meter strangely reminiscient of the Scientology E-meter.
Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists.
Also known as Texas in the Summer.
Without mosquitoes unless if it has rained recently.
SteverF, you left out the Baptists. And the entire of group of insane trans folks.
paul, perhaps you haven’t seen the source material.
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve watched that movie.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff is a n****r and BONG goes the church bell.
That’s what she said.
More of that quality New York gun control
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/09/24/new-york-gun-control-3-n75168
and quality NY “guns bad, Bad, BAD” reporting:
“Agents located four firearms including a functional 9mm “Uzi” sub-machinegun”
Scary black gun legal to own unless full-auto w/o tax stamp.
“Agents also located hundreds of rounds of ammunition”
Not seen in photo. In the magazines? 200/34 = 6 rounds per firearm?
In photo:
Black guns, big and scary and little and scary–in the front.
In the back, about 14 (approximately half the haul) hunting rifles and shotguns, most probably legal even in FNYS.
All this for 8 grams of cocaine and some soiled plastic bags? Is that “large quantity”? Remind me–how much cocaine did they find in the White House? Cocaine is Sched 2. Did they find any Sched 1 Mary G. Wanna?
The rumors of Larry the Cat’s demise are greatly exaggerated
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/09/24/the-rumors-of-larry-the-cats-demise-are-greatly-exaggerated-n580213
Now tell us what he thought of Melania and Michelle.
Yeh, but she said it three times.
@Lynn
“All that water in the upper atmosphere is definititely affecting the absorption of the sun’s rays”
The increase in stratospheric water would primarily have the effect of reflecting IR. The magnitude would be greater on the upwelling IR, as there is more of it, so the net effect would be to trap heat below the stratosphere.
Cool, sounds plausible. It will also quit as the water vapor returns to equilibrium in the stratosphere over the next ten years. Then the so-called climate scientists will have to find a way to fake rising temperatures again.
@Lynn
As long as the global warming zealots have the full support of the ambulance-chasing media (if it bleeds, it leads: is the head dead, yet?) and their scare-mongering fits into the WEFdrive to take cheap energy away from the populace and make us all serfs, they will find a way.
Ten years? Another 100,000 or so EVs in Texas by next summer will have serious political consequences when the rolling blackouts start and continue into November.
Inflation note: Boy Scout microwave popcorn. $25/box.
The problem with cookies, candy, popcorn, Christmas wreaths and about anything else is that the kids only get cents on the dollar. On top of that it’s a logistical exercise that is typically borne by the same few parents every year ( cough, Nick, cough). I’d much rather write them a check and make a donation directly to their camp fund or whatever.
One of the local troops sells a sheet of discount coupons from local businesses. Each coupon is good for multiple uses over a years time. There’s usually a gas coupon that makes it a no-brainer if you don’t already have some sort of discount, and the grocery coupon alone can put you money ahead.
I don’t know if it’s true in every case, but a number of the Girl Scout “special” cookies like the Grasshopper and what used to be called Samoas are indistinguishable from knockoffs made by Keebler.
AoS Gub Thread is always interesting.
Worth looking at today for the link to the Altor Corp Vidua single shot pistol in .380 or 9mm. Definitely some outside the box thinking and with a street price of $99/$109, it makes you say hmmm.
The receiver is not available online but other parts are:
https://altorcorp.com/shop/
But you can make up the gap with a belief in crystals, essential oils, and manifesting the perfect man to come into your life.
But you can make up the gap with a belief in crystals, essential oils, and manifesting the perfect man XXX multimillionaire to come into your life.
Fixed that for ya. First, it has to be a multimillionaire for 90% of the young ladies looking for a mate. Second, gender does not matter for many of them now, money is way more important.
You know, those vacations in the Mediterranean and New Zealand are expensive. Plus, have you priced an Escalade lately ?
Pool table is in the cleaned up and organized garage. Family is away. Night has fallen. It’s still 86F and not a breath of air. Lightning to the north, looks like it might move around us, but we were forecast (by the local guy) to get some rain overnight.
I’m hoping it doesn’t interfere with my dock time tonight.
Beef turnovers in the microwave for dinner… mmmmmm good.
It would be nice to get a little breeze and some cooling from the storm.
n
The good thing about cookie sales is that the money (such as it is) goes directly to the troop. The girls sell enough cookies, the girls camp for free. Anyway that’s what our troops use the money for, to pay the girls’ way to camp. They go several times a year.
In any volunteer organization there are the few people motivated and capable enough to do most of the work. There are some additional that will contribute if asked directly and for something easy for them to do. There are some that will always free ride. And the contributors are usually involved in more than one group because it’s in their nature.
As long as it’s truly volunteering, I think everyone doing the work is ok with it. The problem comes when someone feels forced, trapped, or taken advantage of. Then it gets toxic pretty quickly.
The single best volunteer org I’ve ever come across is the Houston Rodeo and Live Stock Show. THOUSANDS of people volunteer and they have a massive organization. I haven’t been involved but I’d like to know what their “secret sauce” is. I think it’s social standing for the demo that does most of the volunteering. IDK, but people do it every year for years…
n
I just found out today we lost another of my HS class of 1972 classmates.
I went to my 50th reunion about a year ago, and was surprised how many of my classmates never made an impression on me, and how few I had followed through the years. Although I made some impression on several of them. I was that really smart guy, apparently. Not how I viewed myself, but TBH I did do well academically. MIT turned me down, but I was accepted into one of the top 3 engineering programs in the nation. I viewed myself as part of a group of good students, not an exceptional case.
I can fake being an extrovert, and I did so those two nights, so I got a lot of social feedback.
This one who died was actually one of the ones I called a friend in HS. We eventually lost touch, but we did connect after college and while she was in law school, and the last decade or so I watched her on farcebook while she did community theater.
I need to develop a ritual for the whole absent friends thing. Something like an annual shot of Patron Silver. I don’t want to forget them, and some are fading in my memory.
I have brought the daughter and wife home from the hospital. The daughter is making blood again (her iron went from 8.1 yesterday to 8.6 today) so that is a major improvement. I have lost count how many blood and iron infusions we have given her over the last three years, at least thirty. Unfortunately, her bladder is not working yet so she came home with a catheter for a week. The daughter is now eating solid food for the first time in four days.
From the pictures the obgyn endometrial surgeon gave us, I am SWAGing ten feet of incisions in her lower abdomen to remove the endometrial material. The stuff was attached to everything.
There was another woman in surgery getting fibroids removed from her uterus. She was a 31 year old fifth year resident working in the med center. Her parents and us talked all during the surgeries. She was in recovery the same time as my daughter. I heard her walking about complaining to her mother that her bladder was not working either. Evidently not an uncommon problem.
@lpdbw
Memories fade after 50 years
I had a conversation with a hs classmate at the last reunion, who is now a priest in a church in another country. We’ve had no contact outside of reunions over the years and a college get together prior to the first reunion at 5-years. The question came up: “How, exactly, do we know each other from high school?” The best that we could come up with was “Mutual friends”.
Yes, memories fade.
@Lynn
“her bladder was not working either.”
I will pray in both cases that it is simply a nerve that has yet to wake up, not one that was inadvertently severed.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
“All that water in the upper atmosphere is definititely affecting the absorption of the sun’s rays”
The increase in stratospheric water would primarily have the effect of reflecting IR. The magnitude would be greater on the upwelling IR, as there is more of it, so the net effect would be to trap heat below the stratosphere.
Cool, sounds plausible. It will also quit as the water vapor returns to equilibrium in the stratosphere over the next ten years. Then the so-called climate scientists will have to find a way to fake rising temperatures again.
As long as the global warming zealots have the full support of the ambulance-chasing media (if it bleeds, it leads: is the head dead, yet?) and their scare-mongering fits into the WEFdrive to take cheap energy away from the populace and make us all serfs, they will find a way.
The problem is that creating an energy and material balance around Earth is incredibly difficult. Personally, I don’t think that it is doable with any kind of precision that the global warming zealots are claiming, five digits of precision. I would be surprised if they could get even two digits of precision. There are just too many warming factors and too many cooling factors that are not easily measurable. The factors change too much with time, inclination of Earth, the heat of the core, the water content of the atmosphere through the stratosphere, the Moon, the Sun, etc, etc, etc.
All of their models are crap. The models just start at a base date and increase the warming of the planet using a few general factors. I have exchanged several emails with one of the scientists over the years, he claims that just 2,000 lines of Fortran code allows him to build a credible model of global warming. I gave up at that point.
I will pray in both cases that it is simply a nerve that has yet to wake up, not one that was inadvertently severed.
Part of the process of a hysterectomy is rerouting the urethra. Apparently it can be a traumatic experience for the nerves involved.
Thank you for the prayers.
“Shocking moment crowd of 100 migrants storm across Rio Grande, leaving Border Control guards with no choice but to cut razor wire and let them into Eagle Pass after four-hour stand-off in searing 101-degree heat”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12553607/Cheering-crowd-100-migrants-storm-past-Border-Patrol-boats-Eagle-Pass-Texas.html
I am sorry but they had the option of turning around and going back across the river. We did not have to let them in.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
WRT absent friends, we are creatures of story and ritual. I take some time alone, no radio, no noise, a glass of something to drink (ginger ale, in my case since I no longer drink alcohol), and something to occupy my hands and to focus on while I remember and tell myself stories. This quote from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon comes to mind.
I do something different if there were things left unsaid that I feel I need to get out.
n
I’m taking Ben Franklin’s advice tonight. I’d be happy with any 2 of the 3…
n
Got one of the small but annoying bits done today. Twenty-one months or so ago I bought a entertainment center for the shop’s office as working storage. It has been sitting in my living room, up against the fireplace. Today my son helped me move to the shop and get it into place. Now I can move the parts out of the tool boxes and put tools in it. Still need to mount the TV on the wall as well as the pegboard behind the tool boxes.
He changed the oil in his Taurus and we considered options for the air compressor installation. The 80 gallon unit is too big for the enclosure in built. I’ll tear it down and rebuild it this week.
Also put away some more stuff and got rid of some things that were really junk.
He changed the oil in his Taurus and we considered options for the air compressor installation. The 80 gallon unit is too big for the enclosure in built. I’ll tear it down and rebuild it this week.
I have an 80 gallon air compressor in a five foot wide by four foot deep by eight foot tall shed attached to my office warehouse. Those are from memory, I can measure them tomorrow if desired.
I need a new air compressor for the house. Just a 10 gallon tank or so. Something to air up vehicle tires with, truck tires take an incredible amount of air.
“The Global War on Farming: ‘Net Zero and the American beef industry cannot coexist’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/24/the-global-war-on-farming-net-zero-and-the-american-beef-industry-cannot-coexist/
These crazy people will be the death of us all.
I built the enclosure for two compressors – a 20 gallon and a 30 gallon. I decided I really anted a sand blasting cabinet which would require a bigger compressor. I been watching for a sale and found this two stage Ingersoll Rand on sale at Tractor supply – $1300 vs $1600. Bought it but to install it I will have to use my Cherry Picker to lift into place. So the top of the enclosure needs to come off and it needs to be deeper.
The enclosure is inside my carport. Not a big deal to dismantle; I used screws instead of nails to build it. I’ll get some before and after pictures and add them to my shop pages.
One of the small compressor died during the move. I plan to use the other most of the time and reserve the big one for those times when I need a lot of air. No sense in use a 5 HP motor to blow up a lawn mower tire. I’ll rebuild the dead one when I get around tuit.