Hot! With an extra helping of HUMID!! It was still 81F when I went to bed, and that was the coolest it had been all day. It really saps my energy and pace of work. Today promises to be like yesterday, with MOAR!!
More heat, more work, more cowbell…
I did get a bunch of stuff done. I ran some new electric, and some new gas lines in the garage. I’m getting set up to have A/C in the summer and heat in the winter. This house really isn’t that big, for all that it has 4 bedrooms, and the garage is slated to become a party room. It will still have a bunch of stuff stored in it, but it also has the pool table, and I need to find somewhere to set up the dart board.
Of course some of that stored stuff will have to be obscured or hidden, like a safe and fire proof file cabinet… and I don’t really want all the buckets of bulk food readily visible either. The regular food is already in metal cabinets and the freezers are black, which makes a surprising difference- they don’t poke you in the eye and scream “freezers”.
Plenty of work to do today including a trip to town to buy pink insulation. And something to use as exhaust piping for the A/C units. And maybe a plumbing part or two.
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While I was cooling down yesterday I had an interesting thought. Interesting to me anyway. I’m getting close to 60 years old, and I’m still finding ways that I’ve been programmed, conditioned, TRAINED, that are entirely unconscious behaviors and beliefs. The one that struck me was about not eating after bedtime. The night before I was hungry so I got out of bed and had a snack. I did it a week or so ago too. I’m a grown man, kids of my own, always had food in the house, and it never occurred to me that if I was hungry in the night, I could just go eat.
It didn’t take much, some crackers and cheese, but eating in the middle of the night (even though I was awake reading) was not something I’d ever done before this month. I’d been conditioned that you ate at meals, or had a snack during the day, and you didn’t get out of bed to eat something. Once you were in bed, it was the end of the day and the time to eat was past. (You’ve already brushed your teeth! never mind that you can brush them again.)
I know there are other things, I can hear my dad’s voice in some of the stuff I say to my kids and my wife. I can feel his expression on my own face sometimes. I’m sure that some of the things, most of them probably, are fine and won’t bite me in the @ss if the world turns upside down, but I can’t help but wonder if there are others, and when I’ll notice them.
It’s a minor thing, but I felt like I woke up somehow. I had something similar with taking showers. I recently realized I can take a shower as many times a day as needed. Somehow, I had the idea that I really shouldn’t take more than one shower a day… unless I was really dirty. Even then, I probably wouldn’t take one the following morning. Showers somehow were ‘a big deal’. They aren’t. Take one, if you need another in half an hour because you cut your hair and feel prickly, take another… or if you cleaned up before dinner, but smelled like smoke later, you can take another…
Weird huh? We’re creatures of habit and conditioning. Take a minute to consider if the things you are doing by rote and habit are GOOD things, and if they meet your needs NOW. Maybe you’ll find something that needs changing.
And stack, because how else are you going to prep?
nick
added- maybe I should start a tag for (not so) deep thoughts…
Along the line of Nick’s musings: I had dinner with elder son last week, and we were talking about generational changes in parenting styles. Just as a trivial example: my parents and my wife’s parents had strict rules about cleaning your plate, even if they were the ones who filled it with stuff you didn’t like.
We dropped that rule with our kids, of course, but we made our own mistakes. Basicslly all parents are amateurs, learning as they go. I recalled a cynical saying along the lines if: each generation of parents finds new and exciting ways to screw up their kids.
Rewatch “Mr. Mom” and really pay attention to the dialogue.
Hughes is the reformed ad man from the 70s. A piece of that script lives on in the Windows API which I find hilarious.
And Texas invented “swimming naked”.
Say, whatever happened to the $17 billion state surplus the schools and local governments received as part of property tax “reform” in November?
Income tax. November 2027.
Which division of Vanguard/Blackrock builds the least cr*ppy kitchen appliances these days?
The microwave in our kitchen picked last night as its expiration time.
Installation has always been half-a**ed on that appliance, missing one of the screws to the face plate.
Hopefully, unplugging/plugging resolves the issue this morning.
“Pinocchio Joe”.
The progression from a habitual liar to a deluded liar to a demented liar has been an insult to the electorate. Unfortunately, there is a hard-core third that are Yellow Dead Dog Democrats.
Three panel cartoon:
–Fish Biden wrapped in NYT
–3-day old Fish Biden wrapped in WaPp
–7-day old Fish Biden leaking out the combined wrap of NYT and WaPo, with Jill, Obama, and a line of MSM apologists stuffing chunks back in the wrap.
Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN) mounted a brief primary challenge to Biden. 100% record voting with Biden, so the challenge was opportunistic rather than principled. Now that he has been spectacularly proven right he will still get no credit for it. Estimated wealth of $75 million seeded from family money, he doesn’t have enough to run with the big dogs, but might be a dark horse candidate.
@ EdH & JimB, we plan on leaving Costa Mesa at 8 AM. Driving app predicts Randsburg arrival in 2 ½ hours. I think that is too quick. Still looking at arrival at 11 AM when The Joint opens.
Scranton Joe’s problems with plagiarism go back to law school. He got caught doing something serious in his first year, enough to get kicked out, but Daddy’s money enabled a deal where Junior graduated …cough … almost last in his class … cough … remaining eligible to take the bar.
Biden was the case study in Plagiarism in my undergrad Business Communication class 35 years ago. The Dukakis campaign opposition research for 1988 was widely available back then, and the prof teaching the class had plenty of material to fill an hour.
@CowboyStu & JimB: Sounds good, I will shoot for that. About an hours drive for me.
I will wear the straw Buccee’s hat my Texas friend gave me for identification…
Jill Biden is the Reason Why Joe Biden is Not Dropping Out of the 2024 Election
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/jill-biden-is-the-reason-why-joe-biden-is-not-dropping-out-of-the-2024-election/
Joe to Jill after meeting: “Who were those guys?”
I’ll believe it when plugs steps down. I think the PLT/Deep State/Puppet Masters don’t want the curtain drawn back an inch. They’ll run plugs with a big FU to the sheeple: “We can put anybody we want in the White House.”
The Mooch won’t run without a huge amount of cash, say $1-200 million, upfront, win or lose. Then she can drop Barry any time she wants. She might have a chance with the Dumbo cheat-machine behind her.
The unctuous, slimy, Newsome can’t get elected. Anybody else has too much baggage.
Maybe run Uncle Festerman? LOL
CowbotStu, I will be there a little before 1100. How much depends on tailwind, which is calm here.
re: parenting
I carefully explained to DS1 (Dear Son #1) that I refused to make the mistakes raising him that my parents made raising me.
I also told him that I would be making new, previously unimagined mistakes. Because I’m human, and inexperienced at the parenting thing. As it turns out, I was right.
Years later, I again carefully explained to him that the reason I treated his younger brothers differently was that I had gained experience.
Such explanations are only good for my benefit; they are not received with an open mind and sage judgment.
My youngest is 35 years old, and I don’t explain anything any more.
re: Nick’s cogitations
On the one hand, I say good on Nick for breaking out of the mental box.
OTOH, however, as a lifelong dieter and in recent years student of human physiology and biochemistry (forced by the fact that doctors don’t know squat), I say be careful with your new eating discoveries.
Unless you have type 1 diabetes, your diet can have a great impact on your production and usage of insulin in your body. Too much insulin leads to heart disease, obesity, and bad control of blood sugar, up to the level of type 2 diabetes. This is true even if you don’t show signs of being fat. Look up “skinny fat” and heart disease.
Keeping insulin under control means you need periods where you don’t produce/release much of it. The general consensus of the doctors who DO know squat is you can achieve this by very low carb diets, or fasting, or a combination.
Dr. Jason Fung is a real fan of, minimally, intermittent fasting where you eat normally, up to 3 meals a day, in a narrow eating window. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and no snacking. Make the period between dinner and breakfast as long as possible. Give your body time during the day to use the insulin, but also a long period without insulin spikes to utilize the dietary fat and mobilize body fat. He points out that this was normal behavior prior to the 1960’s, when obesity, though it existed, was not rampant in America.
He also likes periodic longer fasts up to 72 hours.
Having said all this, I recall you being underweight, and I would never tell someone who’s hungry not to eat. Just be sure you’re listening to your body and not rebelling against your ancestors.
from AoSHQ this morning:
“Face first on a rake.
There are at least a dozen compounds under the generic label “nitrogen oxide”, and it is not the proper name for any of them.”
–Pixy Misa
Not the proper name or the common name.
Rather than offer student loans to fundamentally unemployable imbeciles to get a grievance degree and seek a job in the dwindling market for do-nothing brakes on the economy before trying to broker dubious skin color or heritage claims into an elected position to destroy our society, there could be a special class of scholarships for STEM B.S. graduates who are willing to enter a special law school program to become certified “STEM Special Masters”. And make at least half the scholarships dedicated to older scientists and engineers with a minimum of twenty years experience in private industry (i.e., outside of government or academia).
It’s doubtful that there is a single person in the Supreme Court Building that has any STEM education beyond the typical single weeder courses (i.e., IQ test surrogates) included in many degree programs.
ScotusBlog is silent on the undergraduate degrees of present and past justices:
https://www.scotusblog.com/biographies-of-the-justices/
Congress was superficially well-represented with STEM degrees (relative to the general population) in 2020:
https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/engineers-in-congress/
although a quick sampling of three did not find any that had much more than ten years of practice in their fields.
https://interestingengineering.com/lists/25-best-engineering-jokes-make-your-day-better
lpdbw
“My youngest is 35 years old, and I don’t explain anything any more.”
The normal arc is first learning not to explain to your wife (just apologize,right or wrong), then stubbornly keep trying to explain to children before giving it up. Shortly thereafter you enter the twilight of CodgerTime, where no one listens to you anyway, when you give up seeking approval for anything and indulge yourself in sandals with socks, shoes with velcro, plaid shirts with suspenders, and cargo pants with enough big pockets to carry extended magazines.
Please urge all Democrats to get their Biden votes in early (and frequently) to show their support for Joe.
I had an urgent message from Amazon this morning.
My account was in danger.
Seems one of my listings was the culprit:
“This product has been identified as a live plant or seed product that is listed outside of the SEEDS_AND_PLANTS or PLANT_SEED categories.”
The product in question was a brand-new case of laboratory sample containers that were left over from a project.
I told them it was not a plant or a plant seed, and the notice was in error.
I included a photo of the not-a-plant, not-a-seed container in question.
I estimate chances of success at 50:50.
I suspect that Skynet decided to eradicate humans when the AI collision avoidance program was told one time too many to quit running over pedestrians in crosswalks, and decided to solve the darn problem.
88F sunny and windy today. Partly cloudy, as the sky just darkened…
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Anybody else has too much baggage
– more than SloJoe and the Ho? Naw, we just got used to their baggage. And the puppet masters put them in the office.
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I limit carbs as much as I can while still eating what I like. Did Atkins for Life for several years after using the plan to lose from 235 to 190. I don’t have a scale here, but I was 196 the other day when I thought I was about a quart of water low… monitoring water loss would be an acceptable reason to have a scale at our “vacation home”.
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We knew our kids would be tall, think polish farm girls, so we made conscious choices about how we talked about food and our food rules. We knew society would hammer away at them enough without us doing it too.
The programming is DEEP and hard to break.
We don’t “reward” ourselves with food. We don’t talk about “comfort” food. We never encourage them to eat, with the rule that if we put it on their plate they were required to try it. We do talk about sugar and sugar content as the insane amounts of sugar in the modern US diet are definitely causing health issues.
We don’t talk about “junk” food. Food is food, and your body turns it into you. Some food is better (has fewer side effects) for you to eat, but if you can digest it, it’s food and that’s all.
I explain that calories were a LAB thing, that counting calories is a really horrible way to monitor your diet, that weight is a terrible way to compare yourself to anything, due to differences in height and muscle tone.
They eat what I cook, which is a lot of meat, some veg, and (now) rice or pasta to extend… They are young and growing with white hot metabolisms.
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The inlaws and my MIL in particular are crazy when it comes to programmed responses to food. I have to stop MIL talking nonsense every visit. MIL has been on one “diet” or another since she was 16 and is 50-100 pounds overweight. Every fad to come thru the magazines EXCEPT low carb, and she’s been on it. Her fridge is so full of chemicals and highly processed “low fat” food it looks like a chem lab. She can’t put a single bite in her mouth without judging and hating herself.
She goes on and on about salt and cholesterol and fat, but can’t tell me her cholesterol numbers, BP, or AC1 because she doesn’t actually know what she is “treating” with her diets…
I do acknowledge that she grew up in a messed up home, with a tyrant for a father, and poor. I don’t think there was ever enough food for everyone when she and my FIL were young. That explains some things, but the poor choices of WHAT to eat and why are entirely on her.
And I don’t understand why she’d want to pass her F’d up relationship with food to her grandkids.
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the head games society and culture play with kids, and girls in particular are insane. When D1 was very young, 8 or 10, she was crying in front of the mirror because she was “fat”. The kid was average to skinny (1980s standards, because that’s my main experience with kids). Her F#CKING pediatrician started talking about her weight and BMI at an appointment when she was pre-teen, and we STOMPED her. BMI is specifically NOT TO BE USED as a diagnostic tool. Kid was at the statistical high end of the weight chart because she was a foot taller than kids her age. Pediatrician was just running on habit- lose weight, watch your fat intake, blah blah, diet and exercise, blah blah, lower salt intake, blah… but I didn’t want the kid to have the white coat stamp of authority on the crazy.
(food pyramid is upside down, because we grow a lot of grain, and it was politically compromised. just look at the results of adopting it. also .gov has undertaken to feed the masses, and they need the masses to eat the cheapest crep they provide.)
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wow, work avoidance at it’s finest!
Better change that…
nick
The more I see, and hear, of Jill Biden during this time of Spongey’s senility, I am beginning to believe that she is a very evil person. She is placing herself, her desire for the White House and its privileges, so high that she is seriously compromising the health of her husband. If the full truth were known I suspect she is more involved in keeping Spongey vertical than any other individual.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13580283/retreat-behavioral-health-rehab-locations-close-executive-deaths.html
both top guys committed suicide.
Money trouble.
I’m gonna say, love triangle, embezzling, and maybe billing fraud or drug abuse.
n
And I note that if this is what happens when a business closes, imagine what happens when it ALL goes to sh!te in one or two days…
Homeowner tips and tricks:
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1806824043841986726
Engineering then and now (caution, NSFW):
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/IMG_1810.JPG
When you made the mistake of going back to your place, a slution is born:
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1806824152084435346
Liberal scientists:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/The%20thing.jpg
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/The%20thing.jpg
(Arctic base, not Antarctic.)
Not going to be eating Bugemite:
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/IMG_1818.JPG
Brilliant
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/ospreydiving.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World
Never ascribe to AI that which can be explained by Amazon’s overseas workforce who generally don’t have a clue, even the “engineers”.
And you would be amazed at what graduates qualified as an “engineer” in a lot of those places.
Yes.
“the fire alarm had been triggered and everyone was out of the building. ”
Jamaal after the primary?
“And you would be amazed at what graduates qualified as an “engineer” in a lot of those places.”
Yeah, that’s why the road to our country’s future is predicated on importing third-world standards and the people that can’t meet them.
Please note that above I double-copied a link under “liberal scientists” when the second link was supposed to be the wiki entry for The Thing From Another World. I had 11 seconds to edit and was too slow to put the link in the right order.
Call it mea caffeina culpa
That’s Doctor Jill Biden to you, citizen, per the current Nexstar talking points.
Hooking up with Plugs cost Doctor Jill Biden a half ownership stake in the Stone Balloon, a famed music venue which she co-founded with the first husband and eventually became one of the most successful college bars in the country. Her behavior was so aggregious that she walked out of the divorce court with the jury awarding her nothing.
That’s how much she put into Plugs so, yeah, she’s going to ride that dumpster fire all the way to the end.
Ironically, Corn Pop had planned to be the youngest President ever before his plagiarist tendencies caught up with him in the mid-80s.
Tomorrow (June 30) is “World Asteroid Day”. Which is just after this is happening. (Link)
Hard hats optional.
South Florida. All of the above.
A lot of healthcare positions get staffed under what are effectively indentured servitude arrangements so the moment the money stops, the staff start heading for the exits.
@ken, thanks for the heads up. I’m upstream of that particular issue but I didn’t know that until I just looked.
Crumbling infrastructure is everywhere.
n
Overloaded infrastructure is all over the place too. Which, causes the infrastructure to crumble.
The 14 lane bridge (actually four bridges) on I-69 (Hwy 59, Southworst Freeway)) over the Brazos River seven miles northeast of my house is being replaced all of a sudden. It dropped nine inches during Hurricane Harvey as some of the piers settled in the ultra hi flood waters going eight miles per hour downriver, 160,000 ft3/second. They say that the replacement is going to take three years and they are actually going to move the river a ¼ mile east, creating a huge flood pool under the new bridge as the bank erosion during the floods has been fierce.
They were suppose to create a new flood retention pond of 100 square miles north of here outside of Fulshear, Texas but that has yet to happen. It sure would be nice to save some of those flood waters for the tough years.
xkcd: Routine Maintenance
https://xkcd.com/2952/
Wait, nobody told me to take shelter ???
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2952:_Routine_Maintenance
WRT to the good doctor, I agree with ze Skippy 1000%. A chat with Bill Stevenson gets some juicy details…
Every freeway or US highway between Houston and the border seems to be “I-69”.
The big outlet mall on I-69 … East ? … near Victoria seems to get sadder every time we drive by the site. Someone is maintaining the buildings, however.
Rock legend is that when Stevenson went to negotiate the first appearance by Bruce Springsteen at the Stone Balloon, which put the venue on the map, Doctor Jill Biden skipped the road trip to hang out with Plugs.
Imagine how *that* played to the jury at the divorce trial.
Whelllll…. I’m trying to spend money in the local economy. Really I am, but holy cow. Went into town to buy my pink insulation at the DoIT Center, local lumberyard. Took a long time, several charges and refunds, inventory completely wrong, low stock, and everyone moving at” boiling hot Saturday afternoon country time” speed.
The other lumberyard closes at noon on Saturday.
And the local PD was out in force pulling people over for really petty cr@p, like using the center turn lane to merge into traffic… in the 2 hours I spent, really only 10 minutes driving in town, I saw 5 people pulled over. It’s a dick move and doesn’t build goodwill in the community. First time I’ve seen the local PD in 2 yrs and that’s what they’re doing?
My place is in the sheriff’s jurisdiction, not local PD, and he seemed ok. The sheriffs and constables generally are, as they need to get re-elected and the rural nature of their beat means they NEED the cooperation of the people. Looks like the town had an end of month fundraiser… which is tyrannical.
n
>> Whelllll…. I’m trying to spend money in the local economy. Really I am, but holy cow. Went into town to buy my pink insulation at the DoIT Center, local lumberyard. Took a long time, several charges and refunds, inventory completely wrong, low stock, and everyone moving at” boiling hot Saturday afternoon country time” speed.
@nick, have you ever tried the ‘mineral wool’ insulation (“RockWool” is one popular brand.) instead of the pink fiberglass stuff? No PPE required and cuts easily with a serrated bread knife. (NB to maintain domestic tranquility, get said knife from the thrift store, not from the W’s knife drawer.)
JimB, EdH, my SIL, and I met at The Joint in Randsburg and had a great time!!!
“That’s Doctor Jill Biden to you, citizen, per the current Nexstar talking points.”
it was Doctor Mengele, too.
( I had to check the spelling, and by golly, that fella sure looks like Pete Bootyjuice)
“Hooking up with Plugs cost Doctor Jill Biden a half ownership stake in the Stone Balloon, a famed music venue which she co-founded with the first husband and eventually became one of the most successful college bars in the country. Her behavior was so aggregious that she walked out of the divorce court with the jury awarding her nothing.”
Yeah, don’t let Doc Jill handicap your horse bets.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/for-special-counsel-robert-hur-vindication-day-has-arrived/
If Hur had the best interests of the country in mind he would have skipped the handicapping and brought charges against Biden. The facts of the case were a slam dunk and showed such an egregious disregard for security–with clear indications that some of the documents in his unlawful possession were sold to enemies of our country–that a lack of conviction for non compos mentis would have been irrelevant to the purpose of getting the facts of the crimes and the incompetence out in the open. The result absent a trial of a sitting president would have been removal from office via the 25th Amendment or impeachment proceedings, and failing the proper conclusion to either (because the cabinet and the sheep fornicators in congress have no regards for their oaths of office) would have likely spiked the candidacy.
For anyone with any regard for the republic*, the Thursday night debacle is frightening and opens a seven-month window where our enemies are now sure that the ship is rudderless.
*At the top of that list is that slick p.o.s. from Chicago.
Nope. Two people can keep a secret if one is dead. The crap that has passed for White House policy is a reflection of where it came from: a bunch of arrogant, posturing commies that were sure that their desires were superior to the electorates if they could just get them imposed forcefully enough. That group is congenitally incapable on not bragging up how important they are to the country, so the circle expands.
And there were plenty of Democrats that had enough unscripted time with Biden to no full well that he was senile and getting worse. Go back and read Hur’s evaluation of Biden from the 2017 interview tapes with his ghost writer, long before he was nominated in 2020.
No, there were hundreds of people that had direct knowledge of Biden’s mental incapacity and did not give a rat patootie. And that includes most of the Washington press corps and the talking heads that have relentlessly defended him and attacked anyone who dared to question competence.
The people expressing surprise are desperate to cover their backsides. The media talking heads in particular want to prevent a wholesale rejection and the long pull on the flush handle that they deserve.
After Trump is elected we are going to find out if the oath of office as written has any real teeth, or if it needs a re-write to get some.
Had a great time at the Joint with JimB and CowboyStu, more like catching up with old friends rather than a first meeting.
Interesting to see the similarities – and differences – in our lives and careers.
Fives stars, would do again!
I cooked some stuff on the grill’s side burner. It lit sooty. I pulled the whatever, that feeds the gas to the burner. Knocked out a bit of dirt. Tried again, still sooty. Let’s blow the dirt out. Still sooty. Heck with it. I’m using a SS skillet, it will wash.
First pan was 7 Po Folks Hot sausage patties. Half of what was in the box in the freezer. Onto a saucer with a paper towel and into the oven. Because Buddy the Beagle has a nose. He can’t get the oven door open yet.
I poured the grease off. Now for some bacon.
It was Hill Country Fare. There’s another brand, (can’t think of the name) that costs a dollar more that always has the zip closer. They taste the same. They look the same but for the label. Buy whatever. HCF is fine with me and ya wanna pay an extra buck for the resealable bag? Go for it!
Use by date was May 24. No worry. I have a cold fridge. I’ve had milk last 5 months past the date. It’s an off batch of bacon. Not very “bacony”. It happens.
The sausage patties smelled right. The bacon didn’t. More like frying the fat trimmed from pork chops, sort of.
I ate a couple of slices. Not bacony at all. Gave the dogs an inch long sample. Hopefully there will be no warp core breaches tonight.
Half way through cooking the sausage patties, when everything is hot, then I remembered I have a wire brush on a flexible “wand” to clean out the cobwebs. Duh. It’s a yearly thing to do.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m right in the head.
WHY is this site suddenly jerking on a page refresh?
“Bezos’ Blue Origin Wants to Cap SpaceX’s Starship Launches”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/bezos-blue-origin-wants-to-cap-spacexs-starship-launches
“Blue Origin wants the FAA to limit the number of Starship launches at Kennedy Space Center because they may adversely affect the environment and local personnel. Elon Musk is not pleased.”
Blatant jealousy.
I have physically met with Mr. Lynn, Mr. Atoz, and Mr. Flandrey. Not at the same time. It was good to put names with faces and have vocal discussions rather than typing. I had hoped to meet RBT but it never worked out. I did meet Barbara at a gathering to remember RBT. Maybe on my trip to SA this October I could meet with another on this board.
Burnet is about a hundred miles north of the SA airport. Just saying. I have a couple of spare bedrooms, too.
As for swaning about doing tourist stuff, yer on your own. But we can sure toss a few steaks on the grill.
I just cleaned out a decent sized chunk of cobweb with the brush. It now burns blue with tips of yellow and not all yellow now.
I need to look around for some metal window screen scraps. The previous versions of the the main burners would get cobwebs in them. And get messed up. The newest, cast stainless steel, even, and not cheap, came with a screen over the air ports. And never a problem in oh, 6 years.
I like spiders. They are cool critters. But they need to nest elsewhere.
NOT-A-DOCTOR Jill Biden’s degree is an Ed.D, Doctorate in Education. Which is the same degree earned by the renowned educator DR Bill Cosby.
On a website page load, the entire page is loaded starting at the very top. If you have clicked on any of the entries (comment entries, comment date, etc), that will jump you down to that entry.
If you click on the last comment you read (like the date stamp link, which I always do so I can look at new comments), then a page refresh will first load the entire page (starting from the top), then jump down to the last date stamp (link) to move the ‘viewport’ (the part that you see on your screen), then you might see a bit of the top part of the page before the ‘jump’ to the last link you clicked.
This is normal operation. There are some script things that might make that ‘jump’ even faster, but we don’t use them here.
If you look at the date stamps of comments, they will be green (indicating you haven’t clicked that link) or blue/cyan (indicating a link you have clicked). Your browser stores the links you have clicked; on this site, ‘visited’ links are blue/cyan.
Any comment you enter and submit will have a ‘visited’ link color of the date stamp of your comment.
I want to thank CowboyStu, SIL David, and EdH for a great meeting. You beat me with your kind comments above. It reminded me of my early ham radio days, when I would meet hams I had talked with for the first time, usually at a local hamfest, but it could be something less formal like an antenna raising.
I look forward to more meetings. Cheers!
Made chuck roast for dinner. Just did it like I”ve been doing the brisket, layer of onions, salt, pepper, garlic salt, slow cook for 6-8 hours… it was delicious.
Hot and humid with slow working conditions, but I did get some things done. I’ve got more to do tomorrow.
Headed down to the dock for some radio and me time.
n
Boys Who Identify as Girls Are Now Dominating Girls’ Sports
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/boys-who-identify-as-girls-are-now-dominating-girls-sports/
Women are 50% of the population. Title 9 was designed to give them a protected chance to participate in college sports based on the universal acknowledgement that women could not compete with men on the athletic field. After two generations, the alphabet agenda is going to destroy women’s sports for this generation and probably the next.
Most women will not have to take a public position and risk getting immolated by the alphabet army of cultural destruction. They will simply stop tuning in and going to see women compete when there are no women on the fields. And they are certainly not going to invest years as soccer and hockey and basketball moms in elementary and middle school only to see them benched in favor of a “male who identifies” and has no inherent advantage according the the “experts” (trained by the CDC?) but just happen to be heavier, stronger, and biomechanically superior.
I quit watching the NBA after an extended discussion between announcers as to why Michael Jordan should be allowed more steps than a rookie. We’ve already seen that bias is alive and well with the WNBA looking the other way when Cailin Clark gets creamed by a psycho dyke. Do you think the orders to the refs at all levels will be anything but “give the special ones a break”? How long will it be before a real female soccer player gets blindsided once too often by a cheating male that has a thirty pound and six-inch height advantage, and the parents or other family reacts badly?
And here’s a prediction for you: The racial element is going to get injected when the white cheaters take away the starting positions of the BIPOC females. Right sporty it’s going to get.
Ted talks (no, not those “Ted Talks”) Big Mike…
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/06/29/ted-cruz-drops-big-prediction-about-replacing-biden-and-who-he-believes-it-will-be-n2176162
Dear World Leaders,
My giant intellect is unimpaired despite the deceptive video that you may have recently seen. The day of the debate I was relaxing by squaring the circle with compass and straight edge, working upside-down on the teeterboard behind my back with a mirror to make it really challenging and became so focused I did not get my late afternoon nap injection.
In order to prevent a similar problem in the future, all international crises must be scheduled between 11AM and 3PM EDT. There will be no exceptions without a two week notice.
I’m reminding you despots not to try my iron resolve on this (means you, Val and Ill Dong) or I might be forced to reduce the billions that we shovel your way each month by as much as 10%, and that’s out of your end, not my 10%.
All the Best,
Joe “Whizzer” Biden
P.S. Jill and I are looking forward to next year at Davos. We’re going to bring the dogs.
>> “J.D. Power’s latest initial quality survey finds that EVs have more problems and higher severity of repairs compared to traditional autos.”
Just what I want in a new vehicle, more problems and costly repairs that the manufacturer ignores the warranty on.
What vehicle manufacturer doesn’t take the opportunity to deny a warranty claim?
Women were put on earth for a reason:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1273489267280671
Paris is looking for help after the Seine has been found to be too polluted with fecal mater to be used for events.
Pittsburgh has offered to help, and FJB has been seen with a strange smile…
>> “These are Trump’s most likely VP picks: Policy expert”
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trumps-most-likely-vp-picks-200512453.html
“”The conventional wisdom is that it is Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, Governor Doug Burgum from North Dakota, or JD Vance from Ohio. The one thing I think that Marco Rubio has in his favor is that, of course, he is of Hispanic descent. He’s of Cuban descent. He can speak Spanish on the campaign trail and Nevada’s and Arizona’s crucial swing states for Trump…but also that then allows for Governor DeSantis to appoint another senator from Florida,” Cantrill tells Yahoo Finance.”
Rubio, or DeSantis for that matter, probably would have to move out of Florida to comply with the 12th Amendment.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-12/
Barry for VP?
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20relevant%20constitutional,that%20office%20to%20the%20Presidency
from AosHQ today:
On this day: June 29, 1979 – Lowell George
American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Lowell George died of a heart attack. The Little Feat front man was found dead at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. George joined Zappa’s Mothers of Invention as rhythm guitarist in 1968, played guitar on John Cale’s 1973 album Paris 1919, Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson album and Jackson Browne’s The Pretender. via thisdayinmusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqv85coyTw&t=48s
>> I called Fidelity. They use to send the monthly checks. They are going to research for any possible life insurance policies and other benefits. I doubt there are but I don’t know everything.
@paul, if there are any life insurance policies floating around somewhere that you don’t find now, eventually (after seven years is common) the proceeds will be escheated to the state of issue and can be found via a site like missingmoney.com.
>> If they didn’t make the announcement today about Monday being the last day then The Court will continue through at least Tuesday, unusual but they seemed to get a late start with rulings this term.
Everything remaining will be coming on Monday. How they handle the presidential immunity case will be very interesting…
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/444168766_122162960180040699_1582738700071347071_n.jpg
Humans are not wired to live long lives. Memories are weighted to the bad stuff, because living through it is a survival lesson that must be used to inform future decisions. At least that used to be the case when it was, like, “Don’t go in that cave because there might be a bear in there!”
When you lose the ones you love, too often the most powerful memory is of the loss, both the event and the hole that is left in your life. The most easily accessible memories are the bad stuff, and it builds up. You have to go through that bad memory each time to get to the good stuff. Bummer. Practice getting through it. Pick a good memory.
>> “These are Trump’s most likely VP picks: Policy expert”
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trumps-most-likely-vp-picks-200512453.html
“”The conventional wisdom is that it is Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, Governor Doug Burgum from North Dakota, or JD Vance from Ohio. The one thing I think that Marco Rubio has in his favor is that, of course, he is of Hispanic descent. He’s of Cuban descent. He can speak Spanish on the campaign trail and Nevada’s and Arizona’s crucial swing states for Trump…but also that then allows for Governor DeSantis to appoint another senator from Florida,” Cantrill tells Yahoo Finance.”
Rubio, or DeSantis for that matter, probably would have to move out of Florida to comply with the 12th Amendment.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-12/
Trump still owns Trump Tower in NYFC. That can be his official residence and Mara Lago be the weekend place.
Both Dick Cheney and George W. Bush lived in Texas when GWB became President. Dick Cheney moved back to Wisconsin so he could be VP.
>> After the debate and the ensuing discussion, invoking the 25th Amendment would improve Harris’ position, and put incredible pressure on a group of the most inept failures in the world. Diagramming the cognitive dissonance, not to mention the sentences they would have to construct to justify “not fit to run for president but okey-dokey to be president until January” would make Yellen’s “the economy is doing great” and Bootyjuice’s “I’m proud of one charging station for $7 billion” seem straightforward.
This is the first reference I’ve seen of Petey’s name since the debate … seems odd considering prior mentions as the Kamel replacement …
>> Which division of Vanguard/Blackrock builds the least cr*ppy kitchen appliances these days?
The microwave in our kitchen picked last night as its expiration time.
Installation has always been half-a**ed on that appliance, missing one of the screws to the face plate.
@Greg, is this an over the range unit? If so, your first criteria should be that the exhaust duct locations are the same. Will save headaches during the installation.
>>
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/jill-biden-is-the-reason-why-joe-biden-is-not-dropping-out-of-the-2024-election/
Joe to Jill after meeting: “Who were those guys?”
Joe also to Jill: “Who was that lady that kept kackling?
>> The Mooch won’t run without a huge amount of cash, say $1-200 million, upfront, win or lose. Then she can drop Barry any time she wants. She might have a chance with the Dumbo cheat-machine behind her.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/03/01/what-happens-to-biden-or-trumps-campaign-cash-if-they-drop-out/
Hot night on the dock. Sky cleared for a short while, and the occasional breeze helped. Still 82F though.
Radio was pretty good. Lot of fairly local (zone 5 callsigns) hams on 40M and they were loud, which is a big change from even yesterday.
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of maritime and even aviation weather, this Eton radio really pulls in the signals. I’ll probably write a short review as it’s on my recommended list now.
I like the serendipity of radio.
Time for a book and bed …
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There seems to be a fair amount of push-back. I think this will be corrected in the next year or three. The trans-movement has seriously overplayed its hand, even pissing off lots of their LGBT allies.
Just what the US would need: a DEI President. She has been such a non-entity the last four years, it’s really no surprise that she’s not being considered.
I find it pretty funny, how a few of the leftist journalists are desperately holding on to Biden having out-debated Trump. Pretty severe TDS there. OTOH, I saw at least one outlet refer to him as the “Cadaver in Chief”, which was hilarious.