Cool and clear again, although some overcast might put a damper on the day. Like it did yesterday. Part of the day at least, was gloomy and grey. The rest was nice though, mid 70s most of the day and night.
I continued working on sorting, moving, and putting stuff away. Making some good progress, but not as much as needed. Then it was chauffeur time. I did get a chance to make a classic bucket trap for the rats. Ramp leading up to a pipe/roller that is smeared with food. Rat goes out on the pipe, it rolls, and the rat is dumped into the bucket. I also set a couple more snap traps. And a new camera. I watched Senor Raton move around the bucket for 10 minutes last night, and he even climbed the ramp to taste the delicious beef fat I smeared on the roller. But he bailed. He kept coming back and nosing around, so maybe he’s in the bucket by now. Emptying the bucket is the bad part of a bucket trap.
Today I’ll be doing my big loop of pickups. Some stuff for me, some for the BOL, and some for the family. Hopefully amazon will also come through with my wife’s anniversary present in time for me to wrap it. Not that today is my anniversary, but it’s coming like a freight train… as is D2’s birthday. I’ve been collecting stuff for her all year, and I’ve got to get it wrapped.
There’s always more to be done than I have time or drive to do. Compared to learning new skills, meeting people, or building a homestead, stacking is prepping on ‘easy’ mode. Still, it’s worth doing just because it’s so easy.
So do it!
nick
@Paul, have you considered a bereavement group?
Keep sharing as much as it helps.
The andouille was good. We still have another pound left.
Slicing into the product, the inside definitely didn’t look like what we buy at HEB.
The younger child opted for UTD instead of College Station, but TAMU is another school which has expressed interest in hiring my wife for a faculty position. If she gets an interview, I’ll make a trip out there.
We like to get Opa’s brats from their factory store in Fredericksburg when we go out there, but Opa’s is at HEB.
With Fredericksburg’s business district undergoing assimilation by the wine bar and AirBnB crowd, I gotta wonder how long Opa’s and the other old school businesses will remain. We try to support the local places when the opportunity comes up.
My wife’s nephew has his spare room in Georgetown on AirBnB. Your tax money at work.
Video games as a passive activity like movies or TV is something I don’t understand.
Even Crazy Larry knows what’s coming in Texas.
The Oracle “headquarters” campus near Downtown Austin has always been a joke.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/oracle-is-moving-its-world-hq-to-nashville.html
My son used to be a big Minecraft player, but hasn’t played in years. In 2010 (wow!) I setup two private Minecraft servers for him. One was for him and and his friends, and he changed the world quite often on it. The other was just for the two of us. One world with lots of building. The other day he asked me to fire it up and we got on for a little bit. I spent more time exploring what we had built in the past than doing anything new.
I still find it relaxing to play it for a little bit. Watch videos of people playing? No thanks.
70F and light overcast this morning. Had to drive D1 to school as my wife had an early meeting. 10 minutes in traffic. You’d think that traffic management could change the light timing during the rush time for the high school. But that would make sense and serve the citizens.
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I’ve got some Oma’s pickles and pepper jelly in the fridge. Good stuff but dunno if it’s worth the premium cost.
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Both of my kids watch youtubes of other people gaming. They like the streamer’s personality and commentary, or they find the environment of the game comforting without the work of actually playing… and watching someone do something gives a sense of accomplishment that is almost as good as doing it yourself. Watching work gets equated to doing the work. I’m guilty of that too when it comes to repair and refurbishment videos.
n
Same here. He was always (and still is) a huge computer nerd. I introduced him to digital logic, connecting gates, making LEDs blink, etc.. Then he got into minecraft and – among many other things – created a full digital calculator. What an amazing sandbox, that things like that are possible!
Pictures from a local high school softball game for those that are needing a small distraction.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Wartburg
how much of that is taxes? How much is due to stricter environmental rules? (Cali gas is different from everyone else’s gas, and is only brewed in one or two plants in Sweden or Norway, iirc.)
Mr Lynn can address it with more authority, but IIRC there are summer and winter blends, and different states and regions have different requirements. Thus there is no single substance called “gasoline” but only dozens or more blends of chemicals. Some of those blends are more expensive than others.
n
Hey, they’re approaching European prices. Of course, ours are something like 3/4 tax. What’s California’s excuse?
It’s never too late in life to take up a new interest, or rekindle an old one.
Take up a musical instrument.
Take a class at the community college. (I did this. I took class piano for 2 semesters, and plan to get back to it real soon now…)
Explore classes/groups at the local senior centers.
Some high-end grocery stores or kitchen stores offer cooking classes.
All of these keep your mind busy, and encourage you to interact with people.
re: Kimber revolver
That looks pretty cool. I like the 6 shots vs. 5. As light as it is, I wonder about felt recoil, but then with a snubbie it’s never going to be great.
One of the issues I have with my Charter Arms Undercover revolvers is holsters. Some J-frame holsters fit, some don’t, and there are none made specifically for the Charter.
Wife and I are off on our anniversary ‘get away’ tomorrow (our 42nd!), we’re off to a small town called Wooler in Northumberland, it’s right on the edge of the largest dark sky reserve in the UK so hopefully get a chance for some stargazing & photography. There’s also some awesome castles and huge empty beaches to wander around, as well as wild goats/cattle etc. Might even squeeze in a trip to Lindisfarne if the tides work out in our favour.
Amazing we’ve been together for so long, still love each other.
What is it with these pro-Palestine protester fcuktards around the FUSA? I bet most of them couldn’t even point out Israel on a map but want all Israelis to die. They have never had an interaction with anything in the Middle East. Is it just the latest shiny thing to be cool?
Maybe they will get tRump elected just to stick it to WHITEY! plugsy McSpongeBrain.
@norman, don’t forget to look for the “green” comet.
I’m hoping this weekend is dark and clear at the BOL.
n
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/24/3-body-problem-takes-the-science-out-of-science-fiction/
Excuse, excuse, excuse.
Then it gets really bad.
Then it gets worse.
Bottom lining it: It’s unwatchable crap—run away.
I seem to recall 27 different summer regular unleaded specifications.
But did it smell and taste like shi(r)t, the way French andouille literally does and is supposed to? Inquiring minds need to know.
Poor people food for dinner this evening. I had a busy day and no time to stand over a pot, so we’re having pigs’ cheeks braised in the Dutch oven with onions, beer, leek, potato, bacon, carrots and lentils. The secret ingredient? Ketchup. Shhhh, Lenny Henry.
Crusty baguette and salty butter for dipping.
Minecraft’s redblock is a nor gate and the sandbox considered to be kinda sorta Turing complete if you ignore the finite memory limit.
No. The sausage had a powerful smoke smell/taste which worked well with the spices my wife used.
Whats authentic in the US?
Everton’s secret ingredient was Daddies Favourite. Brown Sauce. A1 Sauce is a close US approximation, but even Daddies is no longer made in the UK.
Also, remember, the father passed on the meal in favor of even more inauthentic dining at The Taj Mahal outside London, which I understand is no more.
Re: Revolvers. I can shoot semi-autos, but the semi that fits my hand is far and few between. I can pull the trigger on most semi or revolvers I’ve tried but accuracy is another matter. My husband knows all the things to make them fit, but at the end of the day the average 6th grader has bigger hands than I do. Even when the grip nestles beautifully into my palm and is secure high and tight as it should be, I find most often the trigger sits at the very end of my finger. And can’t be pulled without shifting my grip off kilter to get the pad of the finger enough on the trigger that I can pull.
Trigger reach is my bugaboo.
I have a Kahr I (used to) shoot well, and that was about it after trying many many many platforms over two decades.
I favor J frame revolvers, though they’re limited in capacity. That deficiency can be addressed with a variety of approaches.
I have an airweight. It’s nice to carry but not fun to shoot. I’m not accurate after a dozen shots because there’s not much to absorb the recoil other than my tender flesh. Bruised hands don’t grasp as well and precision suffers.
I prefer shooting heavier revolvers. I’m more accurate with them as the recoil is easily managed. I prefer a concealed hammer. That predictable always double action trigger pull aids my consistency. The hammer cannot catch on clothing at an inopportune moment. I cannot lighten the trigger for a particular shot. Some folks believe it removes an argument from the prosecutors tool chest should one have the misfortune to use it in self defense.
I’m of the opinion that they are tools. More tools is nearly always A Very Good Thing Indeed.
A well built tool that fits your hand is a joy.
We all need more joy.
So many jokes.
Also taxes.
Plus, the state closed a lot of their refineries, importing gas from the less hip neighbor states.
@paul
Five minutes at a time, friend. Literally, five minutes at a time. You’ve suffered a shock to your entire system.
Do your best to be active so your body will rest even if your mind cannot.
Drink water. Lay off the caffeine and alcohol if you find you’re imbibing more than previously.
A well run grief group with a skilled moderator can be a blessing. A poorly run one without a moderator that knows how to steer can sink you deeper into misery. If the grief group is an ongoing lamentations from all and no sparks of hope then maybe not as helpful.
Being outdoors, writing, spending time with the dogs, these are all healthy coping mechanisms. Doing physical things helps ground you. Creating a new routine, however artificial and temporary, helps bring order to a distressed mind. Saying aloud, “I will wash dishes by hand for five minutes then stop”, and then doing precisely that, is incredibly helpful. Substitute whatever action for dishwashing.
Whether you’re church-y or not, many folks find comfort in the routine of church. Lutherans are generally pretty polite and not nosy, there are several flavors of Lutherans – WELS are on the more conservative side ELCA are least conservative. Baptists are all over the board. WELS services are fairly regimented and there -can- be comfort in the ritual, whether you believe or not.
Your routine has been upended, a wrecking ball slammed through your emotional life. Vent here. Rest, hydrate, be active, accept that your mind is going to be virtually ungovernable for a period of time. My observation is it’s about a year to regain a bare equilibrium, three to five years to “look“ normal to acquaintances, five to seven to “look” normal to friends, and ten years before you’ve really honestly got a handle on it. We’ve lost dozens and dozens of friends and most of my family over the last couple decades. Grief takes a lot of time, the deeper the love, the more complex the relationship, the longer grief takes.
The grief doesn’t go away. We adapt to it.
I’ve been watching my two attic cameras to try and see some rats dying… but no luck. One poked his head around the corner, but ignored the trap baited with turkey.
Nick is secretly breeding super-rats for the government.
Rats that turn down peanut butter and turkey ? What is the world coming to ?
My dog will do a flip for turkey. I cannot imagine a rat passing.
Maybe you have a colony from NIMH. Although, Mrs. Frisby is probably long gone.
@ray
So many jokes.
My job as ‘straight man’ is complete -grin-
Opa’s is smoked meat products. Brats, sausage, etc.
They are pricier than the bigger brands, but the quality is good.
Texas has enough small towns turned AirBnB colonies.
Received a text from my brother that his “new” home owners insurance company is cancelling him for fire hazard – desert scrub uphill 100′ away on the other side of the California aqueduct…
Kimber K6xs
https://www.kimberamerica.com/k6xs-38-spl
>> Papa wants a new toy ! But I want a external hammer. But the internal hammer may be safer.
Nice wheel, like the six round capacity vs five.
No decock issues with the internal hammer. And has the non-stacking trigger mechanism.
Yeah, I know somebody who just replaced their Ruger LCP everyday carry with this gun. He cannot rack the Ruger LCP anymore due to his hand strength is gone.
What is it with these pro-Palestine protester fcuktards around the FUSA? I bet most of them couldn’t even point out Israel on a map but want all Israelis to die. They have never had an interaction with anything in the Middle East. Is it just the latest shiny thing to be cool?
Maybe they will get tRump elected just to stick it to WHITEY! plugsy McSpongeBrain.
One can hope that they will all spontaneously combust when Trump is elected.
200 of them getting arrested at University of Texas right now by the Texas DPS. I doubt that Austin PD would do anything but the Texas DPS responds to the governor.
https://www.chron.com/news/article/university-of-texas-palestinian-protest-19420478.php
Watcha want to bet that less than half of them are actual students ?
@EdH
What kind of roof does he have?
“Johnny Manziel vindicated by Reggie Bush’s Heisman return”
https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/johnny-manziel-reggie-bush-heisman-19420140.php
“The former USC star will finally stand on the stage in New York alongside his fellow Heisman winners in December.”
Johnny Football is a stand up guy when he wants to be. Good for them both.
Wow, look at those DPS Trooper batons. OFD would be proud. I would not want to get hit with one of those.
https://www.chron.com/news/article/university-of-texas-palestinian-protest-19420478.php
The Democrats do not represent the USA anymore. They represent Enemies of the USA, both Foreign and Domestic.
“Elon Musk insists Tesla isn’t a car company as sales falter”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-insists-tesla-isnt-a-car-company-as-sales-falter-150937418.html
“By the numbers, Tesla painted a dismal picture through its latest quarterly results. But the stock told a different story: excitement. New models are on the way, Musk said. And beyond that, Tesla will prosper as a pioneer in autonomous ridesharing. Shares jumped following the earnings release, and the momentum carried over into morning trading Wednesday as the stock surged as much as 14%.”
“Sales fell 9% from a year ago in the most recent quarter, the first drop in four years. Operating profit tumbled more than 50% from the same period last year. Guidance, too, was a drag, as executives foresee “notably lower volume.””
“A note from UBS analysts referring to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology, or FSD, was even more critical. “We don’t doubt that FSD is making progress, but TSLA has talked up autonomy before, and we are skeptical that TSLA will have a ‘cyber-cab’ or ride-hailing service this decade,” analysts at UBS wrote after earnings.”
My understanding is that Tesla has to jump from stage 2 to stage 4 to get full self driving. That sounds like a lot in a short period of time.
https://www.synopsys.com/automotive/autonomous-driving-levels.html
I think that Johnny Cab was stage 5.
Johnny Cab became self aware and joined Starfleet.
Tile (concrete) shingles and stucco, standard SoCal fire code as of roughly a decade+ ago …. Not sure about the eave soffitts.
Similar houses on the other three sides.
I know you can google this but the following is pretty close to how my mom did it.
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Oven fried chicken recipe.
Cook Time: 45 minutes
* 3 to 4 pounds chicken parts
* 1/4 cup flour
* 1 teaspoon paprika
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 1/3 cup butter or margarine
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 425°.
Wash chicken and pat dry with paper towels. In a pie pan, combine flour, paprika, salt and pepper. Coat chicken with the flour mixture.
Put butter in a shallow baking pan; place in oven to melt. When butter is melted, arrange chicken in the baking pan in a single layer, skin side down. Bake at 425° for 30 minutes; turn and bake 15 minutes longer, or until chicken is tender and done.
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A few changes are in order. Use a pie plate? Are you crazy? That has to be washed. Use a bread bag. Think Shake and Bake.
For the butter or margarine, Mom used about a quarter cup of margarine and a quarter cup of Wesson oil. That went into the pan that went into the oven while the oven heated. By the time the oven was hot the chicken was ready. She would take the pan out of the oven and the chicken would sizzle as added to the pan.
I usually cook 4 thighs and 4 drumsticks. Leg quarters work, too. If I want to kick up the heat I use cayenne powder instead of paprika. I use more flour because ¼ cup doesn’t look like enough. Funny, I always have extra flour but if you are going to make gravy after the chicken is cooked, well, waste not want not.
Now you have the spices and how hot and long to cook. Just wing it. Ha ha. You can use less flour and add crushed saltines.
You can use pork chops instead of chicken. That works. Someday I’ll try the pork with a few crushed into crumbs ginger snap cookies. Sounds good in my head.
Cooking is fun. If you have dogs and cats and chickens any failures will not be wasted.
Maybe they will get tRump elected just to stick it to WHITEY! plugsy McSpongeBrain.
Uh…
Pro-Palestine Protester Has to Ask a Friend Why She’s Protesting
Shiny!
Just in case anyone doubted that the left actually wants Trump dead:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2972422/trump-appears-target-bill-strip-secret-service-protection-convicted-felons/
At this point he now has to win, or be prepared to flee (with family) to Switzerland.
Got home from UT (to WA) last night. About 14 hours of driving. Could have stayed somewhere along the way to break up the trip into two days, but was anxious to get home.
Did some catchup on the computer last night. Then slept well.
This morning, opened up the computer. No drive found (4tb ssd). Diags don’t see the drive. Cold restart doesn’t help.
Got out my professional computer tool kit, found the correct tools, and removed the 6 tiny screws and the back cover. Removed and reseated the M2 SSD drive. Put everything back together.
No joy. Took it into Best Buy Geek Squad, 3-4 days to diagnose. Hoping to recover the data.
Last backup was about a month ago. Had the thought to do it before leaving on the trip. Didn’t. All site data plus latest book projects on the SSD. System was new last October.
<sigh>
Have a Chomebook – using it now. And, yes, I know how important backups are. Mea culpa.
That sucks.
Well, I am reminded that the original copy of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” was lost on a train, you are in good company.
“The Cat Who Walks through Walls” by Robert A. Heinlein
https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Who-Walks-through-Walls/dp/0441094996?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number seven in a very loose series of eight science fiction books. I reread the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Ace in 1988 that I bought new in 1988 (I think !). I plan to reread “To Sail Beyond The Sunset” and “The Rolling Stones” soon. I have yet to decide if I am going to reread “The Number Of The Beast”.
The book dedication is quite excellent, “To Jerry and Larry and Harry, Dean and Dan and Jim, Poul and Buz and Sarge (Men to have at your back). R.A.H.”
““Jerry” is Jerry Pournelle (1933 – ); His wife Roberta was a dedicatee of Friday.”
““Larry” is Larry Niven (1938 – ).”
““Harry” is G. Harry Stine (1928 – 1997); See the Have Space Suit – Will Travel dedication.”
“(All are science fiction authors.)”
““Dean” is Dean Ing, Ph.D., a professor of communications in Eugene, Oregon and a science fiction author.”
““Dan” is Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, U. S. Army (Ret.) (d. 1995), founder and director of High Frontier and an originator of the SDI project.”
““Jim” is Jim Baen (1943 – ), science fiction author and editor.”
““Poul” is Poul Anderson (1926 – 2001), science fiction author.”
““Buz” is Francis Marion Busby (1921 – ), science fiction author and fan (his wife Elinor was a dedicatee of Friday).”
“Finally, “Sarge” is Barry Workman, a friend of Jerry Pournelle’s.”
“Jim Baen mentioned in private email that he personally was very touched when he received his inscribed copy of the book, and he knew that all the other dedicatees were as well. He also noted that all of these people participated in the Citizen’s Advisory Council on National Space Policy, formed by Jerry Pournelle in 1980, which prepared much of the Reagan Administration Transition Team policy papers on space. Heinlein attended several of these meetings.”
http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/dedications.html
This book starts with a murder in chapter one in a popular restaurant in one of the large habitats circling the Moon after the year 2136. Dr. Richard Ames and his dinner date Gwen Novak aka Hazel Stone from the Lunar Revolution, are rudely interrupted by an uninvited guest who is murdered at their table. And thusly starts the crazy fleeing to the Moon, time shifting, universe jumping of their time together.
If you are offended by sex, and I mean lots of sex, in a book then I would advise you to stay away from this book and series. Except for the first book in the series, “Methusalah’s Children”. All of the books, except the first book, have group marriages in or mentioned in them which was first expounded by Heinlein in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” book.
The rather loose book series is (there may be more):
1. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Methuselah’s Children
4. Time Enough For Love
5. The Number Of The Beast
6. The Pursuit Of The Pankera
7. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
8. To Sail Beyond The Sunset
There is a rather excellent timeline of Heinlein’s books at:
https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/579486/
Jo Walton, the Heinlein apologist, says that “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” is not Heinlein’s worst novel, but, it is too long and the end plot is infuriating.
https://reactormag.com/heinleins-worst-novel/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 of out 5 stars (273 reviews)
Lynn
Last backup was about a month ago. Had the thought to do it before leaving on the trip. Didn’t. All site data plus latest book projects on the SSD. System was new last October.
<sigh>
Have a Chomebook – using it now. And, yes, I know how important backups are. Mea culpa.
The only way that I have found to get timely, reliable backups done is to automate them on a daily or weekly basis. On a desktop, not a big deal. On a laptop, not sure about that.
“Biden Proposes Highest Capital Gains Tax in Over 100 YEARS”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-proposes-highest-capital-gains-tax-in-over-100-years/
“Biden’s 2025 budget proposal raises the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6%.”
“Marks the highest tax increase since the capital gains tax was first created at 12.5% in 1922.”
Why not 100% ? Why not 200% ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Last backup was about a month ago. Had the thought to do it before leaving on the trip. Didn’t.
Did a quick check on Time Machine. What? Not running? Yup, looking for an 8GB SSD on a Linux server that no longer exists on this network. Woah. Yup, have an extra external SSD. Plugged it in and configured Time Machine.
Thanks, RickH, for sharing your misfortune. Hopefully, it saves others of us from the same fate.
I went to the funeral home yesterday. Signed stuff. Permission to cremate. No, he doesn’t have a pacemaker. Why does that matter? The batteries explode. Worse than a bag of popcorn? He laughed, much worse. So, you don’t want any excitement in your workday? Sheesh.
The funeral home is taking care of everything. The pre-paid plan is some kind of life insurance and is worth more than the $5000 it cost. The funeral home gives 5% off to vets. Well, ex-vets. Bottom line is about $2200 and I’ll about get $3000 in “change”.
He gave me some paper with phone numbers for SS. Call them next week, by then they’ll have the death certificate. There’s a $255 (I think) death benefit. But you have to ask for it. And the same phone number can handle the rest of it, like survivor’s benefit for me which if it happens is an extra $1000 a month to the budget in my head.
I asked what happens with metal things. I have four 6 inch pins in my thigh. Do they melt? No, they sift that stuff out. It’s discolored by the heat but it doesn’t melt.
Ah. Like the little metal tags that were in Dad’s ashes and in Mom’s ashes that look like a beer can in the ashes of a bonfire?
Exactly.
I’m going to ask to see where it’s done. I just want to see, not watch. I have more questions. Learn stuff.
Anyway.
The boys came to visit yesterday. One wanted a couple of gubs. No problem. The other wanted his Dad’s Bible. There’s no writing in it, it’s just a book. But they lost their Dad and are dealing as they can.
Hey, how about some shoes? Here’s a brand new pair in the box and over here, he bought these two pair last month. Nope, wrong size. Goodwill then? Yeah.
I’m going to try to give them a couple of their Dad’s coats and by the way, pick out a few of his shirts. Yeah, I know they don’t fit you but just hang them in your closet…. ‘cause I’d sure like a couple of my Dad’s shirts hanging in the back of my closet.
There’s no rush. Everything will sort out as it should sort out.
I’ve lost my best friend but they’ve lost their Daddy. That’s more important in my book.
RickH: Just out of curiosity, what was the brand name of the 4tb SSD? I’ve got a couple of 4tb Crucial SSDs, and I want to know if I need to worry excessively about mine.
Why not 0%?
It’s so odd, we aren’t hearing a lot about MMT these days…
Don’t know The laptop is currently at the Geek Squad. Will try to remember to post when I get it back.
The laptop was purchased back in October. This one here. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C83WS7KD?ie=UTF8&th=1&linkCode=sl1&linkId=345cdc6f9af18ee5657747f71f09daa9&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&tag=ttgnet-20
Still under HP Warranty, but I am hoping that the Geek Squad can fix it faster. Data recovery is more important than any warranty cost savings.
Hmmm. I’m going to guess that an HP laptop purchased from Amazon may not have included a premium brand SSD.
Why not 0%?
It’s so odd, we aren’t hearing a lot about MMT these days…
MMT = Montana Mining Training ???
Hmmm. I’m going to guess that an HP laptop purchased from Amazon may not have included a premium brand SSD.
The only SSD, M.2, and spinning rust drives that I barely trust nowadays are Western Digital.
I have had several Intel SSD drives fail on me in the past decade.
I had a generic M.2 drive fail to boot in my daughter’s laptop after she dumped a glass of milk in it but I got it to work using a M.2 to USB drive reader afterwards.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-RIITOP-Reader-Compatible-Based/dp/B08FWZXT2N/
Modern Monetary Theory.
Printing press money to the max.
Modern Monetary Theory.
Printing press money to the max.
Thanks, I am not up on my acronyms.
HP would have just replaced the laptop thereby guaranteeing the loss of all your data. Geek Squad may not be able to do much better. Unfortunately, when SSDs fail, they really fail. Recovery is generally impossible. I have lost data from a failed SSD. Lesson learned. Hopefully your issue is the motherboard or something other than the SSD.
When Apple gets a computer in for repair, warranty or not, the system is returned to the owner in a factory fresh condition. Loss of data, apps, and settings always happens. The OS, recovery partition, and boot partition are refreshed.
I was wearing the only shirt I could even sorta wear from my Dad’s closet today… It looks a lot like most of my other shirts but it’s not something I would have picked off the rack, for some reason it just doesn’t quite grab me. I like having and wearing it just the same.
I’d have taken his 60+ yo Florsheim wing tips if they were even close to fitting me but he’s a 13 and I’m a 10.5, and they were pretty broken down.
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home from my pickups and a quick trip thru the Goodwill bins by my house. Nothing great at the bins, but some good resale stuff.
From the auctions I got my Eton shortwave with a crank to charge, alcohol stoves, solar panel, and a bunch of other stuff.
Time to cook something. If I had defrosted chicken I’d cook paul’s recipe…
n
Jenny is correct. I’ll get through this. I’ll get the money stuff aka SS sorted out one way or the other.
I’m busy putzing around the house. I’m busy with the dogs. And the stupid cats. I have to check the fluids in the Yanmar and mow with the shredder REAL soon now. But the forecast says rain is coming. I’m not sitting on the sofa moping around. I have projects.
I just don’t have an almost 80 year old man to talk to. Well assuming he has his freaking hearing aids on. Otherwise it’s yell at. Grin. We laughed about it, a lot.
Anyway, for me, I file stuff away in my head. Right now it’s get the SS and etc stuff sorted and take care of the boys. I’ll be fine.
There is! It comes in bottles and is usually marked “80 proof”.
(Not to be taken as medical advice. For proper advice, consult a bartender or other qualified professional.)
I’ve been very busy lately, between -ugh- working for money to pay the bills, The Child, chores around the house, and bathing just often enough to keep from setting off chemical warfare sensors. (Mostly joking about that last one, but it was seasonably warm and sunny for the past few days and I was doing a lot of toting and lifting, much relating to moving a pile of stuff so that I could get to the stuff behind the front stuff, then putting the front stuff back, then assembling and moving the formerly back stuff. Sweaty work.)
Mother-in-law is getting worse. No one big thing, just the little things getting more frequent. She keeps wiping down the control panel on the oven-range, several times a day because she’s bored and feeling pointless, and has been accidentally turning on the self clean cycle at least once a day. Things like that. Not much to be done about it, other give her a brown jacket and send her into the woods during deer season. (That’s an old joke from the 1950s if not before. I saw it in a Looney Tunes fake newsreel a couple decades ago.)
Speaking of deer season, the farmer (rancher, rather) that I worked for when I was a kid painted HORSE and COW in blaze orange on the sides of his animals. He’d lost one every couple years and got tired of it. IIRC he didn’t lose any since he started painting them.
When my mom was a deputy, one of the game wardens or park rangers came in one evening with a tale to tell. A guy came found him and said he needed help carrying the deer he’d just shot. Eh? What are you talking about? You’re a big guy, just pick it up and carry it. No, this deer’s gotta weigh a thousand pounds. Uh-oh, thought the ranger. This guy shot a moose. That’s a big fine, even jail time. So they went out to see the “deer”. Wasn’t a deer. Wasn’t a moose. It was one of those giant, brown deer with short, curved horns and an udder. And tags in its ears. -facepalm- Yes, our dauntless hunter was from NYC.
I have to call the bank. Things keep changing but last I knew was no service charge if you have direct deposit. And then it was if you had more than $X.xx in all of your accounts, no charges.
So his retirement is going to stop. Our SS goes into savings. I’ll call and figure it out. Might have to change my 401k to go to checking instead of savings.
Right about now Rodney would say shut and stop thinking about this.
Yep.
Shirts from Dad: When my father passed away 2 years ago, I claimed two of his aloha-style shirts with military aircraft. I love them, and they’re EXACTLY the sort of things I would have bought for myself. And I wear them proudly.
From the CDC
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FDA Authorizes Pemgarda to Help Prevent COVID-19 for Immunocompromised People
They are going to milk this for all they can, aren’t they ?
I’m busy putzing around the house. I’m busy with the dogs. And the stupid cats. I have to check the fluids in the Yanmar and mow with the shredder REAL soon now. But the forecast says rain is coming. I’m not sitting on the sofa moping around. I have projects.
We aren’t suppose to get any rain until Sunday or so. So, I turned off the lawn sprinkler system last Thursday. We got a minuscule amount of rain over the weekend, was suppose to be a full inch but was way less than that.
My mother just turned up with Shingles. She is inoculated but she got it anyway. The doc gave her a drug to help minimize it.
So much for the shingles vaccine. I thought it was 100% effective so even the wife and I went and got it. So I wonder how effective it is, 40% like the flu vaccine ?
So, are we being sold a bill of goods about all of these new vaccines ? Are all of them only partially effective and just about worthless ?
I had been thinking about taking the pneumonia vaccine since I have had pneumonia about a million times when I was a youth in New Jersey. My lungs did not handle the -25 F very well.
“LAWLESS: Joe Biden Mulling Granting Amnesty to Over 1 MILLION Illegal Aliens By Executive Order Ahead of the 2024 Election”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/lawless-joe-biden-mulling-granting-amnesty-1-million/
“The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that this executive order would grant legalization to illegals married to U.S. citizens who are barred from receiving green cards.”
“The pro-illegal alien FWD.us notes that 1.1 million illegal aliens are currently married to American citizens.”
“The Daily Mail reports that the primary reasons these illegals were denied citizenship in these cases are because the individual has repeatedly entered the country illegally or forged legal documentation in the past.”
Why stop there ? Go ahead and give green cards to ALL 45 million of the illegals.
Shingrix vaccine, from Wikipedia:
Which demonstrates the pitfalls of Relative Risk (that the drug companies use) and Absolute Risk (which normal people would use if only they knew about it.)
You risk all the side effects of the vaccine for a 3% reduction in risk. But they tell you it’s a 96% reduction.
Makes you wonder about all the other drugs they talk about.
You risk all the side effects of the vaccine for a 3% reduction in risk. But they tell you it’s a 96% reduction.
Hey, the Shingrix A and B immunizations HURT for days. Made my left arm feel dead for hours. Just for a freaking 3% drop in infection ?
My business partner got shingles while he was undergoing leukemia chemo treatments. He survived the leukemia but thought the shingles was going to kill him. He had a huge patch on his chest about 9 inches across and a huge patch on one leg on top of the shinbone. We all trooped over and promptly got the Shingrix vaccination at his behest.
I had both and had no discomfort. The injection site was warm for a couple of days. That was it. Same for pneumonia vaccines.
The antibody infusions actually work … unlike Paxlovid … or the jabs. I saw it firsthand in my household.
The Feds severly restricted the antibodies after Florida started handing the infusions out to anyone who asked, even if the patients weren’t state residents.
“The antibody infusions actually work … unlike Paxlovid … or the jabs. I saw it firsthand in my household.”
Anecdotal reports from four family members on Paxlovid: 4/4. All four had a positive lab test for kungflu, started Paxlovid within 48 hours of onset of symptoms, and reported improvement after one dose.
One relapsed after the initial 5-day course of treatment (3 pills, AM and PM) and was not allowed a second course.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/23/couple-left-dog-die-holidaying-centre-parcs-dodge-jail-20704422/?ito=push-notification&ci=-3S9JCNpLz&cri=Yri4W0mlrn&si=32291327&xi=0b64ba8b-206b-407c-9945-c007b78d9477&ai=20704422
Wife carrying an extra hundred pounds and husband carrying an extra 200 starve their dog to death.
As tempting as it would be to stake them in a dirt yard with 200 pounds of chain to carry, it would simply take too long to starve them to death. Pith them like frog and hang them on a barbed wire fence for the crows.
Dead on target:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/04/24/the-best-rant-on-the-progressive-pro-hamas-mobs-moral-bankruptcy-and-hypocrisy-ive-seen-in-awhile-n2638179
You know, I’ve noticed the AI generated images of demonic hands for Zerohedge’s v-necked “Financial Floozies” have become more sparse lately.
I put it down to some creative blurring, artful cropping, and maybe an intern good with Photoshop.
But apparently the wizards are staying up late to fix the issue:
https://blog.metaphysic.ai/repairing-the-nightmarish-hands-produced-by-stable-diffusion/
“Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2 Concentrations (eCO2)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/24/nutritive-value-of-plants-growing-in-enhanced-co2-concentrations-eco2/
“Despite many years of claims that increasing concentrations of CO2 are an “existential threat” to life on Earth, one cannot identify any harm that has been done. In fact, the only clear result of increasing CO2 has been an overall greening of the Earth and increasing productivity of agricultural and forest crops.”
“The evidence for greening of the Earth from eCO2 is now too obvious to deny. In recent years, some researchers have claimed that that nutritional values are negatively affected by elevated CO2 concentrations. Media promoters of climate alarmism have seized on these results to further demonize CO2.”
“In this paper we explain why the nutritional value of our more abundant crops can and will remain high as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase toward values more representative of those existing throughout most of Earth’s history.”
Facts won”t stop them.
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Please not. We don’t need Trump’s media circus. Sadly, I can think of one Swiss politician – also stupidly rich, also ancient – he would get along with just fine. The two of them together…shudder.
Because cutting expenditures is never an option? We have a balanced budget amendment here. The Covid years were an “emergency” and the government was allowed to ignore it. Those times are past, and so is the public’s patience with spending coming back under control. It’s struggle, and of course the government is making noises about wanting to raise taxes instead. Fortunately, they have zero chance, since the populace can create a referendum and vote that down.
For example, why should the government stop handing $billions to random other countries for no apparent reason? The EU is particularly egregious: we donate $1 billion per year (“Cohäsionsmilliarde”), basically as a bribe, so that the EU will negotiate market and border agreements in good faith. Which it hasn’t done and shows no signs of doing.
@Denis: Likely, there’s a rather different view from your side of the border?
The trick is to call an increase a “reform” and bundle it with temporary gimmies like the Texas Legislature just got away with in November.
Last night at an awards event for the high school, the parents at our table were mystified that the “free” community college tuition approved for this year’s graduates won’t stick around for the 2025 and later graduating classes, wondering how the bill got funded this year and not next.
They’ll get their answer in the 2026 trim notices.
Then
Then the income tax debate will start. Except, it won’t be much of a “debate” in the traditional sense.