Cool and clear after yesterday’s misty drizzle. I stood with D2 under an umbrella waiting for the bus in the morning, but had to shade my eyes from the sun when I drove home from my appointment in the evening. It would be nice to have a sunny but cool day.
Did my pickups yesterday. Mostly health and beauty stuff for the teen, and a few items for the BOL. I’ve got a couple of pickups today too.
Did my imaging appointment yesterday, but won’t hear anything until a week from now. It was interesting to have a scan I’ve never had before, but I’d really just as soon not needed it. It’s amazing what we can do with tech. Western civilization has been very good to a huge number of people.
Today I’ll be doing auction stuff, and hopefully dropping some stuff off for sale.
I’ll also try to get to Costco for Halloween candy, and whatever else I can get.
I didn’t lose a whole day, but I lost a part of it, and I couldn’t spend it on the stuff I thought I would. I have to make up some of that time.
And time feels very short. Get your preps stacked, you might need them sooner than you think.
nick
Early results are in.
In July 2021 I took up an offer of unlimited lifetime web hosting for $99.99 from iBrave. I moved a semi dormant domain onto to the service, and have monitored it since – with no significant issues (no greater than my paid for hosting). Earlier this year, I moved my brother’s domain to the iBrave service (I did discuss it with him), and we have seen no issues since. So in the last two days I have moved my primary and other hosted services onto my ‘lifetime’ iBrave service. At the price, I thought I had little to lose. We will now see how this all works out in the ‘real’ world, where a failure in the service would now impact me (if only for 24 hours till I rehosted.)
If you are really paranoid, you can ask for the referral and self pay for the MRI. Cash price is less than a grand, at least here in Austin.
The MRI is the emerging next step between the DRE/PSA finding something and the biopsy which involves infection risks and pain.
A better blood test than the PSA is also on the way.
The acronym was in a post yesterday. Tony most likely has deals with all three of the major carriers to provision service in densely populated urban areas.
I imagine that a fair bit of your Starlink Internet traffic at the office goes over a standard cellular connection, particularly if you are in a zoned commercial area with an AT&T tower nearby.
ERCOT is not a state agency, one of the things I learned on my interview, which seriously quelled my enthusiasm for the job. That’s private money.
If approved by voters, the state slush fund will be another piece of the state’s surplus given away to private interests. God forbid the Gecko use his own capital to fund the Pilot/Flying-J generator capacity which you’ll see start to show up at the stores next year.
As for the additonal turbines, they will probably show up if the Gecko’s ballot measure passes. I doubt any of the state-wide surplus giveaways will fail, but a number of local ISDs and governments have tax increases on the ballot as well which may or may not pass and influence the top of the ticket.
The jacka** superintendent for the local ISD, famed for having the parents arrested who pushed back against his political theatrics over masks, was on the local Faux News last night going on about the tax increase, planned to be hidden in the overall “reform”, as being “a few pennies”.
Clown.
What I have heard is that few men die of prostate cancer, but most die with it. Apparently, it is common, but usually very slow-growing, so we tend to die of other things first…
Virtually everyone who dies has drunk water within the past thirty days.
If I ever die, I expect it to be violently. Plan for it to be violently; if I come down with something fatal and incurable, I’ll go full Zombie Patriot.
a fair bit of your Starlink Internet traffic at the office goes over a standard cellular connection
– traceroute would show that
Cool, some overcast this morning. Damp as always.
n
@Alan
“Maybe I should stick to pop-tarts, those I can still open.”
No dental problems, yet?
Cold start, the kind of tech that will survive EMP and collapse…
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/10/100-year-old-fairbanks-morse-light.html
n
Virtually everyone who dies has drunk recycled dinosaur pee within the past thirty days.
Fixed it for you.
Longtymago we got rags from the local linen supply. Mostly cut up cotton roller towels, which had been laundered many times and were lint free. I’ve been getting near to the last of my stash, and I expect if they are still available they’ve become a premium price product. Don’t know when I last saw a roller towel and I would guess that the Chinese bioweapon killed the market.
>> Virtually everyone who dies has drunk water within the past thirty days.
Yeah, but did you drink any of the Camp Lejuene water back in the day?
My memory of high school history may be a little fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure that the newspapers in Dec 1941 were not reporting the numbers “killed on both sides”.
>> No dental problems, yet?
Been there, done that. Falls into the ‘if you ignore it long enough it doesn’t fix itself’ category.
>> IDK why but amazon is offering me about 20-55% off list on augason farms freeze drieds in #10 cans.
@nick, Tuesday and Wednesday were “Prime Big Deal Days.” You have Prime?
>> Visited my favorite pawn shop to looks at gubs. They had a S&W 9 mm MBP Shield EZ which I liked. I asked about 9 mm carbines and he had a Keltec but it didn’t fit me well. I will look for a S&W M&P FDC locally to see if I like it. The FDC doesn’t have any sights so I’m looking at Leupold Optics’ Freedom 1×34 Red Dot or a VX-Freedom Rimfire 3-3×340. A Tacticon Laser sight seems like a good deal for the laser sight for the automatic.
@Bob, before it fell into the lake I had the M&P Shield EZ in .380. Really nice rack action for those of us that have lost some grip strength.
For the laser sight, go with green (over red) if it’s an option, much better daytime visibility.
Stepping back from the current attacks, what bugs me most about the Israel/Palestine situation is the way the international community has kicked the can down the road for 70+ years. When Israel was founded, they forcefully relocated people out of Israel’s territory. The surrounded Arab countries were supposed to absorb this population, but they refused. The affected populace has been living in resentment since, with hatred growing generation to generation.
There are three exits from Gaza: Egypt, the Med, and Israel. I know which exit will not be used. Look up the story of Masada if you want to see how the Israelis feel about it.
Brad from yesterday: “Stepping back from the current attacks, what bugs me most about the Israel/Palestine situation is the way the international community has kicked the can down the road for 70+ years. When Israel was founded, they forcefully relocated people out of Israel’s territory. The surrounded Arab countries were supposed to absorb this population, but they refused. The affected populace has been living in resentment since, with hatred growing generation to generation.”
“… they forcefully relocated people out of Israel’s territory.” is an old wives tale. In college I wrote term research paper on the founding of Israel, a fully footnoted paper. What follows is a summary of that paper (which I misplaced many years ago.)
The paper started in the mid-1800s and went through 1960, covering just over 110 years. When the European Jews of the mid 1800s first wanted to buy land in what is now Israel the Turkish rulers/government/law would not allow them to do so. They had to bribe the local rulers to have them get the Turkish laws changed to allow any purchases by non-Arabs. This took years so leases with many restrictions were common.
When buying land became legal there were almost no sellers in urban areas. Only property outside of any town was available and the properties were semi-remote, i.e., not visible from any existing town or village. If you wanted to use the property for anything but a farm, the buyer often had to dig a well for water and start construction on bare land. Almost all attempts to build a hospital or school to serve the local Jews, who were restricted to living in ghettos, were blocked. A few were built outside of towns but most of them failed and became marginal farms, dependent on donations as the land was not suitable for farming (or it wouldn’t have been sold).
Selling of property outside of the ghettos to Jews was not common until after WWI. Attempts to build factories to employ local Jews ran into local bureaucratic restrictions that could take years to get approved.
Following WWII, the British government controlled the buying of property by the returning Jews. When the maps of the proposed Israel were published many Arabs wanted to sell and move out, but their prices were beyond the means of the destitute Jewish refugees. Relief organizations arranged most of the funding for buying, with the “buyer” having a mortgage with payments due when they became employed. In no case was a home or business confiscated by the British (or anyone else) and turned over to the Jews. In some villages almost all of the Arabs sold their homes rather than have Jewish neighbors. The remaining Arab families in some cases sold their property at low prices to avoid being the only Arab family to remain in the neighborhood or village, but their property was not confiscated.
When Israel independence was official the Arabs attacked the Jews. After the war was over some Arabs abandoned their property and fled to Jordan, etc., rather than live under Jewish rule. Those who did not flee were “counseled” by male relatives of those that did leave. If they did not soon leave all too often fanatical Arabs murdered those who remained. Those forcefully removed were forcibly removed by Arab fanatics.
I know this is contrary to common belief. I did a lot of research and found nothing to support the claim that the British were forcing people out of their homes.
Also, Herr Hitler gave a large amount of gold to the Jews of Germany when he was Chancellor in 1936 or 1938 in exchange for a promise to leave Germany. That gold was paid to the Sheikh of Jerusalem for much worthless swamp land that later became many Kitbuzes.
But… but… muh narrative!
What I have heard is that few men die of prostate cancer, but most die with it. Apparently, it is common, but usually very slow-growing, so we tend to die of other things first…
Yup, my 86 year grandfather died with prostate cancer. My grandmother had his prostate removed six months before as she was running him to the ER for a catheter three times a week.
My 64 year old grandfather was a freaking disaster. When he was 59, he told my mother he was peeing blood. She took him to St. Lukes where a surgeon removed his prostate and 40+ tumors in 1976. The surgeon came out covered in blood and said my grandfather had survived the surgery. He lived another 5 years, dropping from 200 lbs to 80 lbs when he passed. He died because of the prostate cancer.
Keep in mind the scene from 1984: If you and I agree that I flew around the room, then that is what happened.
1984 is not only a description of leftie scum thought and actions, it is taken as a handbook by them. “Massaging” history is only to be expected.
Good grief. I’m astounded by the trouble all y’all have had with windshields.
Happy Otoya Yamaguchi Day!
I vac sealed the Ore Ida crinkle cut fries in quart bags. I covered my cookie sheet with plastic wrap and put “the usual amount” on the plastic. Dumped the fries into a two quart Pyrex cup. It’s about a quart or liter. Tossed the plastic and put the cookie sheet back in the cupboard. I made five bags and had a handful left. Found the scales and evened the bags out to near 1.06 each. The measuring cup worked great. Ore Ida doesn’t give but a few fries extra in a bag.
Six bags would work but I’d rather have a few to snack on the next day than be short.
Ore Ida says 3 ounces is a serving. For a first grade kid, sure. I suppose they say so to get the calories per serving down.
Then I vacced the meatballs. Four 3.5 pound bags. The bag says ½ ounce each ball. Sixteen balls to seventeen bags. There were six extra so a few bags have an extra meatball for the cook to sample because quality control is a thing.
The last time I re-packed meatballs was in May 2022. Not bad.
Best? Nothing is going to freezer burn.
Bigfoot sighting in Colorado from the Durango/Silverton train ride (and excellent trip, BTW)?
See here for the story and video.
Yes, it is an excellent trip. Except for the last 15 miles on the open flat stretch from Silverton to Durango after coming down from the mountains. The novelty has worn off, the constant rocking, the desire to just have it end. The best part is the trip is through the mountains on the way to Silverton. Some fantastic views.
Meh, it was probably Lizzo.
“BREAKING: Israel Bombs Damascus & Aleppo Airports Before Iran’s Foreign Minister Due To Arrive”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-israel-bombs-damascus-aleppo-airports-before-irans-foreign-minister-due-to-arrive/
“State media has confirmed that the Israeli strikes hit runways and have left both airports out of commission. It’s not the first time Israel has attacked these airports, but them being both hit in a simultaneous operation appears a first.”
“The Israeli army spokesman has also announced, “We bombed Damascus and Aleppo airports in response to the firing of mortar shells from Syria.””
The canned sunshine is getting closer and closer. If the USA does not do something about Iran in the immediate future, Israel will.
Have you seen the pictures from Gaza ? There is not a building without some damage. Most buildings appear to be falling or fallen. There is no mercy there. I wonder where the two million people are ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
The number of dead in Israel is up to 1,200 people. The number is still increasing.
https://www.barrons.com/news/more-than-338-000-people-displaced-in-gaza-un-e3155ff2
Pictures of Gaza.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/11/pictures-that-show-israel-is-on-track-with-aim-of-turning-gaza-into-tent-city-19645783/
When the prostate cancer gets that bad, there is serious pain involved, especially centered in the lower back.
Your grandfather never got the DRE or PSA after ~ 50 or so?
My wife has patients with PSA numbers in the 1000s and diagnosed cancer, but they’ve decided to forgo treatment and continue to live normally as long as possible. The big downside is that a lot of painkillers are required.
The PSA drifted in and out of favor as a preventative screening until better biopsy techniques became available and, as a result, doctors weren’t running the test. Now, with the MRI rapidly gaining acceptance and insurance company coverage, the PSA test is more routine.
The DRE has always been subjective, but it catches some cancers which still aren’t popping the PSA number above 4.
At this point, no one should avoid the PSA/DRE out of fear of the biopsy. It isn’t the old school biopsy unless you live in a really remote area of the country with backwards medical care. I ate the cost of the MRI, but the insurance company eventually agreed to cover it. Now the trick is getting everything filed before the end of the year and receiving the money back.
OK – since there are a bunch of gearheads here, I am asking for some advice.
I would like to move my 1976 BMW 2002 from the 32/38 Weber 2 bbl carb to some kind of EFI. Everything I see on Summit is related to 4150-style 4 bbl systems, and even if I fabbed an adapter, it would be ridiculous for a little M10 4-banger. I haven’t done the math, but I would be surprised if it flows more than 400 CFM.
Does anyone know of an after-market system that would work for something that small? Bonus points if it is Bosch-centric.
It’s still at the previous primary location, and I need to bring it down to the new primary (former BOL), so it’s not going to happen any time soon. I’m not trying to race it or minimize quarter times, but it would be nice to be able to map the A/F ratios and such. We can talk about the 4150 stuff when I bring down the LS-equipped Suburban…
Cold start, the kind of tech that will survive EMP and collapse…
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/10/100-year-old-fairbanks-morse-light.html
n
The first power plant that I worked at back in the early 1980s had a pair of ten cylinder opposed crankshaft two cycle diesels, surplus WWII submarine engines. They had two crankshafts with ten pistons on each crankshaft. No valves, they had intake and exhaust ports. They ran at 300 rpm and developed 1,500 hp (1,250 kw) each. We started them every Wednesday on 80 psig of compressed air (plant air). They would spin right up and we would open the diesel valve. No finesse here with diesel pumps and injection. We would then synchronize them to the grid and run them for an hour. For the first fifteen minutes, raw diesel would shoot out the exhaust stacks and coat everything in sight.
If we ran out of compressed air and did not have electricity for the air compressors, we had a manual compressor. It was used once back in 1952 when the Texas grid last split into north and south. West Texas went totally dark.
When the prostate cancer gets that bad, there is serious pain involved, especially centered in the lower back.
Your grandfather never got the DRE or PSA after ~ 50 or so?
He used to tell me that hospitals were places where people went to die. He did not believe in doctors. He was a really tough guy, if the pain got bad he would light another cigarette.
I will never forget my grandfather smoking a cigarette in the emphysema oxygen tent. He started that habit in the Pacific Theater. He didn’t tell a lot of stories about that time. He just smoked and drank. He gave me the 1860’s-era Katana he brought back.
I will never forget my grandfather smoking a cigarette in the emphysema oxygen tent. He started that habit in the Pacific Theater. He didn’t tell a lot of stories about that time. He just smoked and drank. He gave me the 1860’s-era Katana he brought back.
Watch “Band Of Brothers” and “The Pacific” on Netflix. The year on Guadalcanal without resupport or supplies was brutal for the Marines.
https://www.netflix.com/title/70308702
https://www.netflix.com/title/80154375
“Tragic story of an Israeli couple who killed 7 Hamas militants to save their children”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tragic-story-israeli-couple-killed-170311162.html
“Adar and Itay Berdychivsky from the Kfar Aza kibbutz both served in the Israeli army as officers and kept weapons at home.”
“When the militants approached their house, the couple hid their 10-months-old twins in mammad, a reinforced security room required in all new buildings by Israeli law, and returned to wait for the militants in the main house to distract their attention from their children.”
“Adar and Itay killed seven militants, but were then killed themselves.”
“Their children remained in the hiding place by themselves for 13 hours, before their uncle and grandfather found them there.”
Ok, now we know the rest of the story. They did have guns and they did defend themselves.
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/10/on-road-again_0751918888.html
“Walgreens pharmacists stage walkout just weeks after similar action by CVS staffers”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/10/09/walgreens-walkout-pharmacists-protest-working-conditions/71122866007/
“Just two weeks after dozens of CVS pharmacists protested unsafe working conditions by walking off the job in Kansas City, Walgreens pharmacists followed suit with their own walkout Monday that left stores shuttered or short-staffed across the nation’s second-largest retail pharmacy chain.”
“The organizer estimated that several hundred pharmacists and pharmacy technicians participated in the protest, which will last through Wednesday.”
Wildcat strikes are the signs of a desperate economy.
Somebody is attacking my webserver for about a week now. My load has drifted up from my normal 2% to 40%. If it gets any higher, my host will start blocking IP addresses.
From Wikipedia:
Israeli Arabs (including the Arab population of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights) comprise 21.1% of the population or 1,995,000 people.[329] In a 2017 telephone poll, 40% of Arab citizens of Israel identified as “Arab in Israel” or “Arab citizen of Israel”, 15% identified as “Palestinian”, 8.9% as “Palestinian in Israel” or “Palestinian citizen of Israel”, and 8.7% as “Arab”; 60% of Israeli Arabs have a positive view of the state.[330][331] According to Sammy Smooha, “The identity of 83.0% of the Arabs in 2019 (up from 75.5% in 2017) has an Israeli component and 61.9% (unchanged from 60.3%) has a Palestinian component. However, when these two components were presented as competitors, 69.0% of the Arabs in 2019 chose exclusive or primary Palestinian identity, compared with 29.8% who chose exclusive or primary Israeli Arab identity.”[332]
21.1% Arab? In Israel, presumably of their own free will? talk about things that make you say “Hmm!”
Also, people in average office type jobs are looking at the blue-collar jobs & trades pulling down $150k+ a year (UPS drivers & longshoremen for a recent example) and realizing “Hey, in real world dollars my $59k is worth less than my $50k of ten yeaes ago)”.
So massive wage expectations & inflationary pressures are now baked into the economy.
That has certainly been my own experience.
“City” by Clifford D. Simak
https://www.amazon.com/City-Clifford-D-Simak/dp/1504013034?tag=ttgnet-20/
A standalone book of science fiction short stories about the distant future of the human race. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy in 2015 that I purchased new on Amazon. The book was originally published in 1952 with the stories published in 1944 to 1951.
This is book of short stories published in Amazing / Analog magazine over several years. The stories outline the condition of the human race as it slowly left Earth to other pursuits. The other races affected were dogs, ants, bears, raccoons, etc. And robots, lots of robots. A few humans did not leave Earth and went into suspended animation in Geneva for thousands of years.
I really had to struggle to finish the book. I just did not find it entertaining like some of the authors excellent other works like “Way Station” and “The Werewolf Principle”. Instead the book has a very melancholy tone to it as if the stories were obituaries.
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,368 reviews)
An office drone making $59k a year in this economy working from home in their jammies is not going to be able to make the leap to UPS deliveries or longshoreman easily.
Those are hard jobs with a lot of dues paying involved.
Soon, they will have no choice. ChatGPT is coming for the jobs of the Yoga Pants in HR and the jammie-clad drones.
The resumption of $300-400 a month in student loan payments for the education to make $60k/year won’t help.
An office drone making $59k a year in this economy working from home in their jammies is not going to be able to make the leap to UPS deliveries or longshoreman easily.
I suspect most of the lowly paid office drones are back in the office already.
No. They’re still trying to figure it out where I work.
A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/a-dozen-ceos-back-bill-ackmans-call-to-not-hire-anti-israel-harvard-students/
Yeah, the Islamic Society is a bedrock of tolerance everywhere.
The Harvard administration, faculty, and student body are dripping in anti-semitism. I state that without need for proof, and could substitute the name of any other Ivy League school and most universities in the U.S., based on the established fact that they are reliably 90+% liberal yellow-dog Democrats (you know, the party of the KKK and tolerance (for liberal hypocrisy)).
It’s more fun than watching real cockroaches scurry from the bathroom light flipped on at 2am in the morning.
Ace points out that it is Otoya Yamaguchi Day, the 63rd anniversary of the dispatch of the Japanese socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma with a sword on live television.
My son texted me that one of his classmates is dying in the hospital from multiple organ failure. Started with liver and kidneys, and he was on the transplant list, and suffered a big setback this week. Family is gathered at the bedside, and my son said his goodbyes on speakerphone.
37 years old.
I knew this boy from 1st grade on, and socialized with his parents for 12 years.
I’m bummed.
We’re not supposed to see people our kids’ age dying.
Stanford instructor removed for targeting Jewish students as ‘colonizers’ after Hamas attack on Israel
https://forward.com/news/564587/stanford-university-jewish-students-instructor-hamas/
A teaching assistant. I have a dollar that says that he may be removed from the classroom but he’s still going to be drawing a stipend.
@lpdbw , that sucks.
n
Spent the last hour sitting in a parking lot waiting for D1 and X1 to finish socializing after a football game (her first) so we could go home. I’m grumpy as that wasn’t my plan for the evening.
It’s all part and parcel I suppose.
n
“Just a reminder – heads up this Friday the 13th”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/10/just-reminder-heads-up-this-friday-13th.html
“I have no idea whether anything terroristic will happen tomorrow, but Hamas clearly hopes it will.”
“Hamas Calls for Global ‘Day of Jihad’ on Friday the 13th”
“Forewarned is forearmed.”
“Peter”
Adar and Itay killed seven militants,
– seven TERRORISTS. F’ing new reporters.
n
I’m tired, and headed to bed. Hopefully the only sunshine we see this year is natural.
n
My mom’s mom, one tough old broad, smoked while on supplemental oxygen.
Sitting in her ez chair at home, all day.
n
I guess we’ll know how the day is going before my wife’s evening flight. All the jihadis really need is a burner phone and some threats to cause havoc. Just leave 20 shopping bags sitting in public spaces. Or abandon some luggage. Get off a plane in a hurry. They don’t even have to actually DO anything bad. It’s in their nature to actually act though.
They might see this as their big moment. Might be worth arming up a bit more than normal, and make sure your medical kit is close at hand.
n
>> Watch “Band Of Brothers” and “The Pacific” on Netflix. The year on Guadalcanal without resupport or supplies was brutal for the Marines.
https://www.netflix.com/title/70308702
https://www.netflix.com/title/80154375
I’ve seen both, hard to watch – war is hell and lots of people get killed.
>> My mom’s mom, one tough old broad, smoked while on supplemental oxygen.
My mom gave up the cigs cold turkey the day she got the formal COPD diagnosis (and the home O2 machine.)
>> Spent the last hour sitting in a parking lot waiting for D1 and X1 to finish socializing after a football game (her first) so we could go home.
Spectator, not participant I presume?
>> I’m grumpy as that wasn’t my plan for the evening.
Six more dwarves to work on 🙂
And I’d guess none of the décor has yet to leave the attic…
>> It’s all part and parcel I suppose.
Think back and compare what your social life was like at the same age…