Cold and dreary? Maybe cold and clear. Probably cold though. It was chilly in Houston yesterday, I changed from shorts to long pants before I left the house.
Had a good hobby meeting. My website design and work was approved as was my plan to continue. So there’s no dodging it now. I’m learning stuff, which is good, but it’s another project and a time sink at that.
Picked up my wind generator on the way to the BOL, and I’ll at least take a look in the box today. It’s not huge, but I don’t know the wattage yet. Looks like it was designed for a boat…
I’ve got a list of projects, as usual. It’ll be pick and choose based on weather, mood, and timing. And if I got all the parts together. Setting up starlink should be at least a little bit interesting.
We’ve got the in-laws up for the first half of the week, so that will add a layer of complexity and angst. Good for the kids though, in small doses.
And apparently the garden has sprouted. So I’ll probably do some weeding over the week. And I might get some seeds in the ground in my plot too. We’ll see. Meanwhile I brought up more meat for the freezers, and two cans of freeze dried for the shelf. My thumbs are not green. So I stack.
So how does your garden grow? If not, better add some canned veg to your stacks.
nick
With silver bells and oyster shells and little chicks all in a row.
I’m not much of a farmer, never have been, but I’m good at caring for animals, always have been. At need, I could get my hands on any variety of pigs, guinea pigs, cows, chickens, or rabbits and make a go of it. The only problem would be in a partial collapse, in which the economy is largely wrecked, income is hard to get, products are hard to get, and prices are up but government structures remain in place. You know that even if unemployment goes up to 25%, poverty is endemic, and there are food shortages, the busybodies at town call would fine you for keeping a pig in your suburban yard.
25%? Near the end of our time in Vantucky, effective “adult workforce non-participation” numbers were pushing 30% on the WA side of the Portland Metro, and that was a decade ago.
The busybodies in the county got new installations of wood burning fireplaces and stoves at some point during our sentence -er- tenure.
I deduce that you mean the Karens banned the installation of new fireplaces and stoves.
Here, too. Most of the upstate counties are reasonably sensible but the Karens are empowered by the state government, which of course is dominated by NYC.
Ack. I forgot the word “banned”. Yes.
They were working on banning the gas fireplaces and cooktops when we left.
Controlling gas at the individual household level still requires rolling a truck and turning a mechanical valve in a lot of cases.
The problem with the “hot lists” mentioned at the end of the article is that the toll authorities don’t have the money for enforcement and turn the systems off because the stats for repeat offenders get embarrassing.
The article does not get into the tricks which are possible at 70 MPH.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/sneaky-drivers-dodging-toll-cameras-cost-authorities-millions-5941fe31
@Brad
Thanks. Powerful video, with one of the best covers of one of the best songs of the 60’s.
I listened to a couple of Disturbed cd’s last year after coming across a rather articulate and insightful comment by Draiman. I did not find it to my taste, but my practice is to circle back and try again. Since YT has offered a “best of” playlist to follow, perhaps it is time.
As one who grew up with Simon and Garfunkel, got burned out by 637 million top-40 plays of BoTW, and then mostly enjoyed Paul Simon’s career, I hadn’t listened to an actual S&G album for a long time until last year. Then I bought a box set of their studio albums (Wednesday Morning, 3AM, Sounds Of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water) and found in reacquainting myself that I could play all five albums in an afternoon and not overdose on their music. Not at all common for me.
“Hello. We’re the Scum of the Earth.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_oECaA7Nw
Waterloo Records, the landmark Austin new/used store, rejected all of the Paul Simon solo albums I took in there last year, saying that, essentially, anything after the “Rhythm of the Saints” era was worthless on the wholesale market to the point that they wouldn’t even take the discs for free and face the possible disposal issue.
Eventually I took the Simon CDs to McKay’s in Nashville where they probably ended up in the store’s giveaway bin. I received $9 in store credit for an airline carry-on size suitcase of movie and music discs which we didn’t want around the house anymore.
@Ray – If you are in McKay’s regularly, I still have the store credit slip on my fridge. In theory, it doesn’t expire.
Sunny and clear this morning, is what the universe decided for me. 53F.
MIL made bacon so there is that. Coffee is brewing…
n
Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament this weekend on CBS.
Championship Game at 12 Noon (ET) today:
No. 5 Nebraska vs. No. 2 Iowa (note: Nebraska beat Iowa in their February match-up)
Iowa got there with win margins of 33 and 27 points; Nebraska with 12 and 10
Caitlin Clark of Iowa continues to set records. She surpassed Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old all-time college basketball scoring record of 3667 points, which had stood for 54 years. She set the Big Ten scoring record, and is the first NCAA women’s basketball player to notch two 1000-point seasons.
Big 10 tournament tickets sold out for the first time ever.
We’ll see at least one more game in the NCAA tourney, and hopefully a few more, but if you have any appreciation for basketball, watching her “logo three” is a thing of beauty.
Game starting NOW.
Thanks for the offer. I have not been in that store in probably 20+ years. There is one in Knoxville, just off I-40. Always seems to be crowded. I must respectfully decline.
This is quite unbelievable:
Hunt Them Down’ New York City Goes Full Fascist on Firefighters
But par for PLTs. Say and do what we want or else…
No, it’s entirely believable.
At some point PLTs will need to receive some forceful pushback on their incursions into our freedoms.
Perhaps very forceful.
But as a stopgap, maybe the FDNY needs a list of addresses where they will not go to rescue people.
Starting with people who are trying to “hunt them down”.
The coming dismbemberment of Disney will be glorious to watch.
Even if “Deadpool vs. Wolverine”, the hard ‘R’ movie with a pegging joke opening the trailer earns a billion dollars for Burbank this Summer, The Mouse is still beyond redemption at this point.
Apparently, Disney’s answer is more woooooke.
Today’s project went “meh”. Not in the mood because my back feels like it’s about to say “you shall not stand to walk”. I’ve done that and it wasn’t fun.
I did get the cables out to the EDC and unpacked and de-twist-tied.
Each cable has two velcro straps. Stuck together. Still black though. Maybe I can find my silver Sharpie and it hasn’t dried out.
Marketing loves does love their black. But as an aged boomer I am really tired of squinting and guessing and carrying black things to the window to be able to make it out details.
And website designers like their gray colors. Sites that use gray for text are a personal irritant. Often, the text doesn’t have enough contrast with the background color, which makes it harder for these ‘aged boomer’ eyes to read without squinting.
Which is why this site (and others that I design/manage) always have black text on white background. The text / background is always high contrast.
As has been said of architects: No-talent hacks copying each others’ mistakes.
I picked up a couple of inexpensive and BRIGHT headlamps a few months ago. This allows me to wear the light and still have both hands free to, for example, hold a magnifying glass to look at the black plastic devices with tiny black raised lettering.
My red hen is doing fine, a few weeks after the hawk attack. We kept gauze wrapped around her neck until yesterday, partly to protect from the cold because the feathers had all been pulled off – that’s presumably what kept her alive long enough for me to find my way out there and unknowingly scare off the hawk. No sign of infection around the one remaining scab and the feathers are growing back.
Egg production is way up. Don’t know if it’s because of the lengthening days or a lingering effect of the hawk attack. The food is being emptied much faster … but they’re not eating all of it. I looked at the ground (actually the layer of cardboard on top of the patio stones) under the coop and there’s quite a lot of pellets and corn pieces. At least a quart, probably more. Didn’t notice before because it’s under the coop, mostly shadowed, down low, the food is partly concealed by the straw, and the pellets are almost the same color as the cardboard. I’m not sure what’s going on. I haven’t heard more squabbling around the food but it seems the most likely explanation. Anyway, I’ve taken the food bin out for most of the day for the past couple days and let the knuckleheads pick up the food from the ground.
I need to remember to bring a camera next time I let them out after it’s been raining. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because she was eating every worm in the county. The birds are showing their T-Rex ancestry by mercilessly predating upon worms. Fear the mighty predator and her pokey beak!
Re: LED headlamps (FLASHLIGHTS!)
I got these, which have worked quite well. Used them during the last power outage, and while working on the car. Have two of them in the house in a known location, and two in the car.
Three pack for $25. USB chargeable (USB Cord but not charger included. Any charger will do.) On the Zon here. Recommended.
Trying again…..
I have a bookmark I named Zap Colors. It works in Firefox. It’s a java script and this site won’t let me post it in a comment. So, go here: remsset.com/files/zapcolors.txt
Copy that and paste into a bookmark.
Well, the link will work if you use the ‘link’ button, or put the ‘https’ stuff in front:
https://remsset.com/files/zapcolors.txt
Without the https stuff, the editor thinks it is just text, and won’t automatically convert it to a link.
Although the site is marked as ‘suspicious’, so I didn’t look to see what was actually there.
>> More coughing.
We all came here we’re all Americans!
Civil rights march, “our great friend was on that march” [and other dems were wearing sheets and doing the beating.]
More coughing.
Note cough is listed as a side effect…
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/adderall-side-effects.html#other-side-effects
>> No matter what the clocks say, the dogs run on solar time.
Same for our pack here…but since we’ve had the sense to opt out of DST, nothing really changes. 🙂
>> And I’m off like a prom dress. I’ll check in later.
And really doesn’t need saying that D1 and D2 will coincidentally be at the BOL on the dates of their proms.
“Rift in the Soul (A Soulwood Novel)” by Faith Hunter
https://www.amazon.com/Rift-Soulwood-Novel-Faith-Hunter/dp/0593335791?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number six of a six book paranormal dark fantasy series. The Soulwood series is a follow on to the most excellent Jane Yellowrock Skinwalker series of 20+ books. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace (Berkley) in 2024. I will purchase and read any and all future books in both series.
Nell Ingram is listed as “not human” by the FBI. Married at age 12 in a polygamous marriage and widowed “widder woman in church talk” at age 18, she has a unique perspective on life. Add in her ability to talk to the land beneath us and the trees and plants among us, she is quite unique. Which is why the governmental PsyLED group snatched her up, trained her as a field operative, and sends her out to confront dark witches and rogue vampires.
The author has a website at:
http://www.faithhunter.net/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (455 reviews)
Lynn
Over The Hedge: Snow Removal
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/03/10
That is a lot of melted snow in the house.
Pearls Before Swine: Lots Of Beatles Songs
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/03/10
When I’m 64.
Actually in a couple of months.
Now coming to you via SATELLITES! With more spacey goodness, I’m sure.
Starlink is up and has been working all day. Process was pretty simple. Point the pizza box at open sky, wait, go online.
Not getting great speeds, but I haven’t poked at it. Might do better when it’s truly pointed at open sky, not just “sorta” pointed…
Spent a long afternoon and evening mowing, trimming, blowing…
More detail than you want in tomorrows post.
Bed is calling me.
n
“hen pecked” doesn’t sound as sinister as “attacked by mini-dinosaur”
I wonder what is “suspicious”? I don’t think I have anything suspicious there.