Cool and overcast, some chance of rain. Never got any rain yesterday, but never got any sun either. It would be nice to get a few hours of sun today.
Slept late, and woke feeling better. I feel like I’ve got a day or two left of this cold instead of feeling like it’s just starting. Of course, typically they last 5-7 days, so it could just be in my head. I’m managing the snotty head with Airborne and Kleenex…
Did some more cleanup around the yard. Trimmed and mowed. Mowed the HOA lot too. Had a bonfire to burn some of the less desirable wood from the tree I took down. Met some folks from the adjacent neighborhood that I haven’t met before. Spent about a half hour chatting about working on 50 yo houses up here.
Had dinner, colored eggs, and went to bed.
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Today is the most holy feast day for most mainstream Christians, and I wish you all Happy Easter. If there is any doubt that the trad religions are under attack, look no further than the White House. I know which sort of culture and society I want to live in, and it isn’t one that tries to co-opt such an important day for millions of people with the Trans agenda…
On past Easters I reframed the Bible story in political and activist/socialist language for a bit of fun. In the face of the rise of islam, and the secular religions of trans worship and climate change, I’m no longer inclined to poke even gentle fun of people who seek to uphold their traditional beliefs. Celebrate your faith while you can.
Stack some stout allies. And the provisions you need.
nick
Happy Easter
Just the straight story has a lot of interesting modern parallels. There is a reason that “The Sound of Music” used to run every Easter on NBC while ABC had “The Ten Commandments”.
ABC resumed the tradition with “The Ten Commandments” last night. Burbank really has nothing to lose, and Paramount is also in bad shape so the license was probably cheap.
The Get Woke Go Broke fire sales have just begun. Paramount *Pictures* has attracted private equity interest but the rest could go anywhere, including “Star Trek”.
“The Sound of Music” belongs to The Mouse via Fox and ran a week before Christmas on ABC, again buried on a Saturday night.
The film is still important to be screened regularly IMHO. As I’ve stated before, I believe half of the white population in North America and Europe secretly desire to be Rolf Gruber, right down to the uniform and, of course, the whistle.
I see lots of Good Germans running around Austin with their armbands -er- masks.
Pancakes and bacon again for breakfast. That used up that quart of buttermilk. Now I just need to use the other quart of buttermilk and the quart of cream. Neither has been opened so there’s no desperate hurry but I don’t want to forget that they’re in the fridge -cough- again -cough-. There’s also seven or eight pounds of potatoes to use up before they get too sprouty. I can think of a handful of recipes to use them but The Child is a finicky eater and that eliminates most of the recipes.
I don’t understand it. My wife isn’t finicky at all (within the limits of dietary restrictions) and I’ll eat practically anything. (There are plenty of things I detest and would never choose but I’ll eat it if it’s set before me.) Where did The Brat get it? Must have been too spoiled when she was little. I need to invent a time machine and go back to dope-smack myself, my wife, and my mother-in-law to knock that crap right out.
We have eight steaks remaining. The Child is plotting how to get the chuck roasts and the stew meat used up before the steaks are eaten. She knows that I won’t buy another chuck roll until everything is all gone.
I’ll probably finish moving the dirt and mulch today. It’s breezy but nothing like yesterday, which was “breezy” turned up to 11. (That’s 11 in the Spinal Tap sense, not the Beaufort Scale.) It’s only 2500 pounds or so, maybe 3000. Piece of cake…
I finished reading the John Grisham novel “The Whistler” and now starting Dean Koontz’s “77 Shadow Street”.
The pediatricians will tell you to indulge the finicky eaters.
The Number One Son “Boss” cousin in Vantucky maintained a “No Soup for You” hardline approach at his house to finicky eating, and one of his kids had growth issues develop over time.
The child never seemed to have a problem eating what seemed like her body weight in dinosaur chicken nuggets and mac-n-cheese at our house.
Eggs that were hidden have been found… and the loot counted. Hash brown potatoes are cooking on the stove and I have coffee in my mug.
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@steve, I like potatoes cubed to dice sized or smaller, deepfried in peanut oil in a pan, with a few chunks of garlic to flavor the oil… add salt an pepper to taste, or Lawrey’s seasoned salt.
Yum.
Or I use a mandolin to make my own potato chips. Need a bit more oil, I use cast iron, for depth. Just slice the pots right into the oil… Drain and flavor. Serve hot.
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congestion has moved mostly from my nose and into my lungs. I hate coughing, but at least the dripping has slowed.
Happy Easter all.
n
Maybe being homeless isn’t that glam after all….
Americans sold ‘van life’ dream by influencers reveal nightmare of living on road – and warn it is far less appealing than social media makes it look
n
Get well soon, Nick. The crud is no fun.
Just back from a pre-prandial walk in the woods and Easter egg hunt for the youngest family member. The next two “found” cash, and were just as pleased. With the current price of petrol, it does them more good than chocolate.
SteveF, have you tried making Irish soda bread?
Baking soda is the raising agent, rather than yeast or baking powder, and the CO2 is generated when the soda reacts with the acid in buttermilk, which is the liquid component of the dough. It can be white or wholemeal.
Texture is similar to scones/biscuits, but the taste is slightly different. You will find loads of recipes and variations online.
If you can get paws via AbeBooks.com on a copy of the Ballymaloe Bread Book by Tim Allen, or the New Ballymaloe Bread Book (no more Tim, since he is in disgrace for non-culinary sins) via big river, there are excellent recipes within.
No more internet for me. I have duck à l’orange to make…
The people buying “tiny houses” are next, once they realize that they bought a trailer.
Well, duh. Think about it. Might be fun for a couple of weeks, as long as the weather is good.
Stupid influencers. Stupider people who believe anything they say.
Off to Vegas today for a week of house hunting!
Happy
EasterTrannyHe Is Risen Day!FJB
Dirt and mulch are where they’re supposed to be: dirt in the garden, mulch in 400# bags in the neighbor’s driveway. Took a bit under two hours.
And as I typed that, a hawk was getting ready to stoop on my chickens. He’s getting to the point that I something must be done, I think.
Anyway, the stuff is delivered in bags holding about ¾ of a yard (0.7 m3) of moist dirt or very moist mulch. I shoveled my bag of mulch into a wheelbarrow to distribute to our bushes, then used that empty bag to drag the one neighbor’s dirt to his garden in 350# batches. Then used those two bags to bring the other neighbor’s first bag of mulch to his driveway in bags something over 400#. Then used the bags from last year’s mulch to bring our two bags of dirt to the garden, and finally used the bags for the neighbor’s last bag of mulch. It’s sort of like a puzzle game in which the steps need to done in the correct order, but sweatier.
The wind was no problem when I went out of the house but as soon as I got the shovel to the bag of dirt it picked up. Grr. However, it didn’t really pick up until I had put the tools back in the shed, so it could have been worse.
The chickens were mostly scratching around the bushes while I was doing all that but a couple came to check on what I was doing. But they ran away in a panic as soon as I started pulling a bag on the dolly. Did the rumbling noise scare them because it sounds like the belly rumblings of a large, hungry predator? Who knows. They’re chickens. Heck, they were all scared out of their tiny little chicken minds last year when I wheeled a bike past their run on the way to the shed. -shrug- Prey behavior.
I’m calling Plughead and Newscum right now!!!
Neighbors dropped off some snack food leftovers from a party and my wife gave it to the chickens.
And the chickens aren’t eating it. Things like bagged popcorn with unknown flavoring but it’s bright yellow.
The chickens are smart enough to know that it’s garbage.
This says bad things about the intelligence of the typical human compared to that of the typical chicken.
Your retirement money hard at work. Now that Hollywood has imploded under their ownership, Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard want a piece of the action at TickTock and Only Fans.
Things that make you say “Hmmm…..” – Only Fans is owned by a Ukrainian.
$2 million per month, $40 million net worth.
Plus she made $100,000 selling jars of her …. well watch the video … if you dare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9-JedX1Et4
But…but…it worked when they did the demo…
https://otter.ai/
Hi Alan, I am confused as to what the issue is. I did not watch the video as I have no interest in a bunch of 20 somethings going nuts. And in a bunch of marketing crap. And my audio has not worked on my home pc for over a year now (my wife is starting a slow boil but she has her own home pc in the dining room but I have a 55 inch tv in front of my pc).
“AT&T Resets Millions of Customers’ Passcodes After Dark Web Leak”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-resets-millions-of-customer-passcodes-after-theyre-leaked-on-the-dark
“The leaked data set included an astounding 73 million passcodes; 7.6 million of those are still current AT&T account holders.”
So that is why I got all those messages yesterday for my four AT&T accounts. Looks like I get to do something Monday as if I did not have any plans, such as the customer who gracefully just emailed me asking for his fix. I told him ten days ago it would be a minimum of ten days, he took that forecast to heart.
Today is the most holy feast day for most mainstream Christians, and I wish you all Happy Easter. If there is any doubt that the trad religions are under attack, look no further than the White House. I know which sort of culture and society I want to live in, and it isn’t one that tries to co-opt such an important day for millions of people with the Trans agenda…
The wife and I skipped attending church corporately today. But we will play back the service on youtube soon. I am still sick and she is taking care of the daughter.
Christ is risen !
Christ is risen indeed !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7ECSNrUhs
The USA will always have Christians. The world will always have Christians. But the number of Christian martyrs is rapidly increasing, a half million in 2023 alone according to some. Mostly in Africa and Middle East.
Are those Wireless account holders?
Wireless is its own little fiefdom, based, like the other half of the CoDominum, outside Seattle.
For a while, Wireless shared the swanky former Eddie Bauer campus with Nintendo in Redmond, and the management their had their own deal to avoid the 2009 scab duty requirement the rest of the company faced at the time.
I’ve been rewatching “The 100” on Netflix. Even with all of the craziness, I just caught something I did not catch the first time I watched it. All of the 1,000+ nuclear war survivors who made it off Earth to the thirteen space stations were eventually genetically modified for their bodies to withstand the increased radiation of space. That is why they could withstand the increased radiation when they returned to the ground a hundred years later. So, some of this crap does make sense.
Over The Hedge: Progress
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2024/03/31
That is a lot of “progress”.
I made box of Kraft mac and cheese last night. The milk is not exactly “off” but it is still ok. Best by Oct 12.
I do run a cold fridge but almost six months is unusual. I usually get about a month extra time. But then there are the much more common jugs of milk that are curdled and sour almost into cottage cheese a week before expiration.
congestion has moved mostly from my nose and into my lungs. I hate coughing, but at least the dripping has slowed.
I am taking Muscinex. It seems to be helping.
Are those Wireless account holders?
Wireless is its own little fiefdom, based, like the other half of the CoDominum, outside Seattle.
I do not have any AT&T Wireless accounts. Just three DSL accounts.
I had planned to char some HEB Hill Country Fare fajitas on the grill today. I have all of the fixings. No guacamole though. I suck at picking out avocados and the pre-made guac sucks more.* The forecast said sunny and 80f. Nah. It didn’t happen.
It barely made it to 75f today and the sun was out enough for shadows for all of a half hour. A bit windy, too much to feel warm.
It’s all good. I did a package of the little pork loins a couple of nights ago. Loin #2 is on the menu for tonight. And the rest tomorrow for a cloudy and rainy Monday.
Tuesday is looking good for fajitas, 72f and sunny. But no rush, the Sell by date is the 11th. I’ll put the flour tortillas in the fridge for a few days.
The bluebonnets are having an outstanding year here. So are a lot of other wildflowers. The hummingbirds are well, insane, I just made the second quart of juice. They sucked down the first quart in ten days and a cup of that happened yesterday.
*To me, guac is just mashed avocados with some salt and pepper and lime or lemon juice. NO diced raw onion or tomato, save that stuff for the pico de gallo.
Re: AT&T data breach; from various news reports:
I got the email notice today. It said that :
I had AT&T cell plan around that time, and have been a DirecTV customer for years (decades). I logged into DirecTV/AT&T today, and my current password worked. But it has been changed over the last couple-three months.
paul says:
We buy half-gallons of Borden whole milk. We don’t drink milk, and don’t use that much for cooking; I’d rather buy quarts, but I usually can’t find any. Milk can be frozen, and lasts for MONTHS in the freezer. When the half-used carton of milk starts to develop a “skin” on the side of the carton, my wife dumps the milk into a pitcher, washes the inside of the plastic carton with hot water, rinses it, and pours the milk back into the carton. This generally gives us another week to use it.
If you make instant pudding with that milk, it’s generally good for another two weeks, if you cover the surface of the pudding with wax paper.
We buy Borden milk because the other brands seem to go sour more quickly.
Wireless ended up with responsibility for legacy WorldNet and DSL accounts as the company struggled to integrate BellSouth, SBC, PacificBell, and Cingular. I learned this about five years ago when I had to recover one child’s WorldNet email password.
I used to pay $17/month for WorldNet email accounts until the entire service got handed to Yahoo to manage. At some point, I need to move to the cable company email I pay for with the Internet service or look at paid Proton service.
Paid email service doesn’t get data mined.
I forgot DirecTV.
Spent the afternoon in the dockhouse organizing and sorting fishing gear. My buddy stopped by and did most of the actual work of mounting loose reels on random poles, and then restringing them.
I want to grab a different pole when I want to change bait, kinda like Norm Abrams did with routers on New Yankee Workshop.
Some sort of failure led to a half dozen baits ending up in the lake today. Dunno if it was the knot or the line… but it suxx.
I put the crawfish traps in the water with some wet dogfood in them as bait. Caught some small bait fish, but no ‘bugs. I’ll try some rotten pork ribs tonight. Only took a few hours for a ¼ cup of food to be eaten…
Now to cook some ham for dinner.
n
The IDF Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit has uncovered caches of weapons and un-alived two more senior Hamas operatives.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/03/31/is-hamas-in-gaza-collapsing-signs-point-to-yes-n2172141
The Geneva Conventions consist of 4 treaties ratified after WWII, and are often referred to as a group as “The Geneva Convention”.
All too often the conventions have been used as a means to implement asymmetrical warfare.
In a rational world there would be a mechanism wherein an entity such as Hamas with a history of multiple heinous violations of the GC could be declared proven unworthy of such protections.
In the current international reality of nearly universal Jew-hate it probably wouldn’t do any good anyway, and with our own dementia-in-chief being puppetized by obvious Jew-haters and the disease rampant on taxpayer-funded campuses, we as a country have no moral high-ground.
If celebrating transvestites on Easter is a good idea for the Biden Administration, I look forward to a similar declaration for Ramadan.
National Pork Chops and Bacon Month would be good.
I don’t know if that is true. <cough>NSA and CIA<cough> But I’m very sure any mail going through GMail or Yahoo is mined. Same for anything Microsoft.
I have my domain. At DreamHost. It started at about $100 a year and went up to about $150 a year a couple of years ago. Shrug, after 20 years they raised the price… after 20 years of giving more storage space and more features.
So get that domain for your e-mail. Then it doesn’t matter who or what your ISP is, you just need a connection. Make the site’s homepage a pic of your late cat and saying “more coming soon”.
I had hosting at a small family company, and they went out of business last year.
Checking quickly, it looks like they finally pulled the plug on the servers.
I used the hosting service to transfer big files for work since the Death Star was too cheap to provide us with something.
I’m missing something. Pretty sure I am.
Somehow Israel is all EVIL Jews and the Palestine folks are sainted and persecuted Moslems.
But, the Hamas/Palestine folks started the latest war and chant “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free”.
Free of what seems to have been left unsaid in the mainstream propaganda on the TV. So Israel is making Palestine free. Not the way the moslems intended…. but, FA and FO right?
At the same time, I don’t give a F about it. Even less about Ukraine. I care more about the border of my country which is wide open.
“Blood of the Earth (A Soulwood Novel)” by Faith Hunter
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Earth-Soulwood-Novel-Hunter/dp/0451473302?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a six book dark fantasy series. The series is a spinoff from the Jane Skinwalker series, there are 23+ books in the universe. I reread the well printed (but small font) and well bound MMPB published by ROC in 2016 that I bought and first read in 2020. I own the rest of the series and I will be ordering future books in the series.
Nell Ingram is not human, but a human looking Earth Sprite. And the cult next door where she was born and raised is acting even more stranger than normal. And then the PsyLED government people show up on her doorstep. Again.
The author has a website at:
https://www.FaithHunter.net
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (4,198 reviews)
Lynn
I had hosting at a small family company, and they went out of business last year.
I move my large business domains to https://www.pair.com in 2000 at the advice of RBT or Jerry Pournelle, I cannot remember which or maybe it was both.
I moved the MX record (email) of my biggest domain to gmail in 2008 ? under their beta program. They made me start paying for it last year.
People want to get their strange on with the Palestinian activists like Linda Sarsour.
Israeli activists aren’t exotic enough.
Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
by Calvin Coolidge, July 5, 1926
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/
https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/inquiry-not-rage
I was not aware of this publication until recently. I cannot make a recommendation, but note that I have ordered a sample copy.
Warren Harding died in office in August 2023 and Coolidge served the remainder of his term before being elected in his own right in 1924. In 1928 he declined to run for re-election, as ending that term with ten years in office would “longer than any other man has had it—too long!” His place in history when I studied American history in the 1960’s was little more than a footnote. I recall Will Rogers lampooning of Coolidge via James Whitmore’s portrayal in the stage production more vividly than anything I studied in class. I suspect there has been a lot written since that did not get on my radar.
“People want to get their strange on with the Palestinian activists like Linda Sarsour.”
Probably necrophiliacs short on their preferred.
“The Sound of Music” belongs to The Mouse via Fox and ran a week before Christmas on ABC, again buried on a Saturday night.
The film is still important to be screened regularly IMHO. As I’ve stated before, I believe half of the white population in North America and Europe secretly desire to be Rolf Gruber, right down to the uniform and, of course, the whistle.
I see lots of Good Germans running around Austin with their armbands -er- masks.
The Good Germans are getting pissed off at power shortages. “The EU’s net zero retreat is gathering steam”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/30/the-eus-net-zero-retreat-is-gathering-steam/
“Building new gas power plants will, of course, “only make the transition to renewables-based power unnecessarily costly”. How do I know? Because I heard it from a bunch of climate activists calling themselves Beyond Fossil Fuels. What’s more, building new gas plants runs contrary to the “emerging consensus” that Europe must phase out all fossil fuel-generation of power by 2035.”
“I’m used to activists making sweeping assertions and talking in generalities rather than addressing the boring old details like how we keep the lights on when there is little in the way of wind and solar energy on offer, but this really does take the biscuit. Only a “consensus” of climate activists with their heads in the clouds – plus Ed Miliband – thinks we could save consumers money by closing down all our gas power plants in the near future. Judge European governments by their actions rather than their words and the clear consensus is that we are very much going to need gas power in the future. As Beyond Fossil Fuels itself reveals, Britain is not the only country that is building new gas plants. Across Europe, 72 gigawatts-worth of them are being planned. This may well be contrary to the targets governments have set themselves to decarbonise their power sectors, but when forced to make a choice between virtue-signalling and keeping the lights on they are invariably choosing the latter.”
FBI Shows Up at Woman’s House Over Memes Criticizing Joe Biden, Refuse to Show ID
https://thepoliticsbrief.com/fbi-shows-up-at-womans-house-over-memes-criticizing-joe-biden/
Allegedly flashed ID when she could not look at it, refused to show it again while being recorded, had not cards that they would give out, had to look up the number for the local FBI office. Team of three, with the two apparently-guys in big-box-store casual doing all the talking and the apparently-female.
I’m not sure how I would have played it. I suspect the script would have been different based on my fashion accessories.
But a refusal to identify or even re-identify themselves would probably receive a reply like this:
Phone call to 911: “I have three people on my property who claim to be with the FBI. I do not know if they are armed or not. They refuse to show credentials and are acting suspiciously. Please get a squad car here as soon as possible.”
I’ve decided that if I should get crosswise with any agency, I’m calling my constable’s office to get some other eyes on scene. At least I know their names, and they patrol my neighborhood. They know me and my vehicles.
n
Decided not to feed the crawdads and bait fish tonight. I’m headed to bed.
Not even a fire or radio, and it is beautiful out, 72F and clear.
n
By “Good Germans”, I don’t mean that I see actual Germans running around.
Mail hosting: I signed up with Mail.com about 5 years ago. It’s inexpensive, at $30/year, and I can have 5 different email addresses with HUNDREDS of different domains. I’m unaware of the maximum size of my email file, but it’s got to be pretty large by now. It provides email, contacts, calendar, some games, and an “online office” program that I’ve never used. If you’re considering changing email providers, you should check it out.
I had the FBI and the CIA in my office over 20 years ago. Their credentials are crap, you cannot tell if they are real or not. I called the local Houston FBI office to verify both through the listed number in the phone book, not the phone number that they provided. The FBI guy was there first to introduce the CIA guy. In both cases, I was unhappy that I had cooperated to the slight extent that I had. After the CIA guy made his presentation to me, I told him no and asked him to leave which he did.
He did imply that a Presidential Pardon would be in place to protect me in the USA. Should I have agreed, the International Court of Justice would have probably brought me up on charges if they ever figured out what I did.
I still get mad over what the CIA asked me to do.
There’s this condo building next to our house. We bought a studio in it, as a guest room for people who visit us. I’m on the owner’s committee that deals with the management company for the building.
So, the management company announced that they have a portal, where people can log in, check on their bills, see insurance documents, and so forth. Great! This is a new management company – the old one was run by an 80+ guy who didn’t even have email. So we’re moving into the modern age.
You go to the management company’s website, and there is a login link. You click on the link, and suddenly you are on a completely different domain. Without giving away specifics, it looks like this: https://sso.xyz.ch/somewhere/i/never/heard/of/auth. It does show the management company’s logo, for what that’s worth. So I wonder: where the heck have I been sent. I visit https://xyz.ch/ and get an notice from an ISP stating “This domain has just been purchased! If you would like to buy a different domain…”
I wrote the management company and told them that this looks hugely suspect, like some sort of identity theft, and they need to fix it. Tell me: am I overreacting?
This is the way. People in agencies like that tend to have huge egos. Little people should do as they are told.
My cousin was married to a Secret Service guy. Was married, because the guy liked to flash his badge and get laid by impressed women in random bars.
Anyway, me, college student: He asked me to hack a PC they had taken from a guy who was accused of credit card fraud. I needed to find, decode and extract the credit card numbers the guy had somewhere on the PC. You think there was any sort of “chain of evidence”? An image of the hard drive? Nah, just me, random college student, hacking away on the thing. I was careful, but…geez. Anyway, it took a few hours, but I found the info and had it all printed out to paper (which was what they wanted). Afterwards, thanks of any sort? Payment? Nah, I should feel privileged to have done something for the (drumroll) Secret Service.