Muggy, warm and damp. Possibility of rain. Yuck. Weeks of dry and cool and the day thousands of people will be out walking around and it is wet and warm. Yuck. We actually had dripping from the sky most of the day yesterday, although it didn’t really puddle, it did get everything wet. And it was very warm.
I did some stuff around the house, then got one pickup done. It was lots from several auctions, so it was time to get the stuff. Then I headed to school for D2’s rehearsal and my volunteer hours. At her school, parents are expected to volunteer time throughout the year to help the kids or the school activities. My wife and I help in the theater program, since that’s our background. I’m doing sound this time, even though that was very secondary to my work and school experience.
The school has a very capable system that hasn’t really been maintained, adjusted, or properly configured for years. It’s been slowly added to and modified, and cruft from second hand knowledge and minimal training and understanding has built up to the point it needs to be cleaned out and reset. And I guess I’m the man to do it. Joy.
On the plus side, the system has built in features that should make their lives easier and shows sound better once we get them configured and active.
On the minus side, a lot of that will be opaque and not at all obvious to the incoming users, who will probably start making changes based on their ignorance and the need to get stuff done.
I’m headed there this morning for a couple of hours to get started.
Then I’ll be putting finishing touches on my Halloween decor and getting ready for trick or treaters. We get about 120-140 kids most years. I’ve got big bags of candy… and I’m not afraid to give it away.
It’s a weird holiday, but one I enjoy a lot. Hope you do too.
n
(not much stacking for me, but should be some for thee..)
Have a mother approach the nurse with the concern about what you noticed on the girl.
That is, if one of the volunteer mothers seems cool and wouldn’t flip if you mentioned something that you observed.
Nurses are generally strange. A lot are Dems.
Beyond that, you’re a 50-something male noticing something on a young girl’s legs.
76F and muggy. Distant thunder. No rain at the moment.
Getting ready to leave for school.
I don’t want Trick or Treating to get rained out. That would suck for t he kids.
n
I hear that, but: out of principle, I would do it myself. If you’re working with kids, you are working with kids. Anyone throwing shade at you for being a guy, needs to be called out.
That said, I wonder about the mandatory reporter stuff. If, as Nick says, the scars are all clearly healed, nothing fresh, then is there anything to report? I imagine the poor girl gets reported 20 times a year…
Right now, with the election becoming a man-vs-woman fight across many age brackets, the possibility of being targeted for Y chromosomes isn’t far fetched.
Bad Daddy.
Here in Texas, Collin Allred has gone back to using the Rafael Edward as Bad Daddy meme, this time with a video clip.
Gotta wonder if the same Southwest employee who took the pic stepped forward with the full video.
Today’s Tyler Dryden cowardice protecting someone who is an obvious mainstream auto beat “journalist”.
Of course even this source is in the tank for Musk. OTOH so are a lot of “Republicans”.
The future of humanity is at stake …
Blah blah blah, Ginger, blah blah blah.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ford-reportedly-idling-f-150-lightning-production-seven-weeks-amid-sluggish-demand
At one time or another, we’ve trick-or-treated with an umbrella, with winter coats, and in a t-shirts/shorts. The weather for Halloween is such a crapshoot around here.
Same here.
This is the first year since we’ve had our son that we aren’t doing Halloween stuff. He came home a couple weeks ago, so no pumpkin carving. I probably won’t even give out candy, as both my wife and I are onsite at our jobs today and rushing home to give out candy is not on my high list of priorities. Actually, I don’t care about Halloween at all. My wife and son are the big participants. I do like all the decorations, as long as I don’t have to put them up.
I will watch Charlie Brown tonight though. My son has access to the plex server, so we can technically say we watched it together…
Home.
School was already aware of the issue with the kid, I asked the teacher who is my point of contact. they’ve been working with her for a while. And she seems to be a lot better.
@brad –
– the AI summary missed the “self harm, or suicide” or harm to others. If a kids says, “man, I wish I was dead” or “I’m gonna kill you all”. that triggers the requirement too. Or if they say, “pain makes me feel like I’m alive.”
The real difficulty is that kids joke and have dark senses of humor, but often the jokes or tossed off comments are meant as ‘cries for help’. If you are a mandatory reporter, you can’t really make the determination that “they were only joking” you have to treat it as a serious statement.
In this case, having legs covered with scars that are typical of “cutting,” the self harm is pretty unambiguous.
And the fact that I even recognize the scars is sad and disturbing on a whole ‘nuther level.
n
“Report: Marathon Oil warns of mass Houston layoffs after merger”
https://www.chron.com/business/article/marathon-oil-houston-layoffs-19875141.php
“A Houston Business Journal report published Wednesday detailed a scenario in which hundreds of workers will lose their jobs at the oil giant’s Bayou City headquarters.”
More and more consolidation in the crude oil and natural gas industry. Things are not well here.
BTDT and I have the T-shirt.
I spent a lot of time in a group setting with recovering teenage alcoholics and drug abusers. Cutting was a thing.
Happy to say I was only counseling their parents. Props to the pro counselors who were dealing with the kids.
Ironically, one of the hot AI startups is Crusoe Energy, which powers their servers with the gas which used to be flared at oil wells.
Crusoe casts almost as long a shadow over the industry as Musk.
The US is going to need a lot of cheap electricity soon. Even if the AI monkey trick runs out of gas, someone will find a use for the surplus power.
How long before mandatory reporting of Jews is required by law?
Austin is going to get crushed in a downturn when it comes. The crazy part is that the tech workers here think that they can push back on the five day office mandates heading their way next year.
Sorry, cupcake, but your Elementary Music Ed degree just isn’t that valuable, even if it came from Fancy Lad U. You are a quota filler, nothing more.
About 20 minutes after the big 4 cities elect a majority of muslims to office.
n
“Exelon’s ‘high probability’ data center load has nearly doubled to 11 GW, CEO says”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/exelon-data-center-load-co-location-pjm-capacity-earnings/731581/
““High probability” planned data center load in Exelon’s service territory jumped to 11 GW from 6 GW earlier this year, according to Calvin Butler, Exelon president and CEO.”
“The surge in potential data center load comes as Exelon and its utilities are dealing with major grid issues — including resource adequacy in the PJM Interconnection, potential co-located load at nuclear power plants and transmission development, Exelon officials said during an earnings call with analysts on Wednesday.”
This is crazy. Exelon can only generate and distribute 34 GW of electric power. To grow their demand by 33% in one year is crazy.
https://www.exeloncorp.com/company/about-exelon
Plus this is base load demand. That means that the new 11 GW will be needed almost 24x7x365.
The new data centers are going to have to generate their own power at the data centers using gas turbines is the only way that I see this to work.
How long before mandatory reporting of Jews is required by law?
Ok, where is this coming from and what is the goal here ?
How long before mandatory reporting of Jews is required by law?
About 20 minutes after the big 4 cities elect a majority of muslims to office.
n
This is another trigger for a USA Civil War.
The big 4 cities are: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston ?
The big 4 cities are: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston ?
– those are the 4 biggest, but I think Houston will hold out. LA might. Many of the secondary cities have already fallen, Detroit, Minneapolis/St Paul, possibly Pittsburg.
There are a LOT of subcontinent names up for election or re-election in Ft Bend. That’s different from and antithetical to the muslim invasion.
n
Karen Bass runs LA.
She is not a Muslim, but sympathetic to the cause.
Kill, convert, or extract tribute.
And don’t forget Speaker-in-waiting Hakim Jeffries.
There are a LOT of subcontinent names up for election or re-election in Ft Bend. That’s different from and antithetical to the muslim invasion.
Is there a definition for subcontinent ? If this is it then that is just part of the huge Asian immigration into Fort Bend County. We have many muslim temples out here now, several in old buildings converted to temples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent
“Ford Reportedly Idling F-150 Lightning Production For Seven Weeks Amid Sluggish Demand ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ford-reportedly-idling-f-150-lightning-production-seven-weeks-amid-sluggish-demand
“Demand for the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup must be so abysmal that the legacy automaker is reportedly planning to shutter the production line for the EV truck in the coming weeks through the end of the year. This should be no surprise to readers, given that the Tesla Cybertruck has become America’s best-selling electric pickup.”
The UAW is not going to like this.
India has many Muslims. The temples may serve that demographic.
“Lawsuit Over $1 Million Giveaways On Hold After Musk’s Legal Maneuver”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lawsuit-over-1-million-giveaways-hold-after-musks-legal-maneuver
The lawfare may have failed this time.
“Musk did not appear at the hearing. Foglietta said that if the case ended up back in his court, Musk would be required to attend in the future.”
Why ? This is a civil case.
India has many Muslims. The temples may serve that demographic.
The big muslim temple in Sugar Land serves around 5,000 mostly Pakistani muslims.
Electric pickups are Show Ya toys. They will never be more than a niche unless gas trucks are banned outright.
RCP National Average 48.5 48.0 Trump +0.5
Top Battlegrounds 48.5 47.5 Trump +1.0
RCP Betting Average 61.1 37.5
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
“Democrats Have Touched the Third Rail”
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/democrats-have-touched-the-third-rail/
“Vice President Kamala Harris recently claimed that Trump’s policies would be “catastrophic” for Social Security and Medicare – an accusation eagerly parroted by the liberal media. But the reality is that the biggest threat to seniors’ benefits this election is from the millions of illegal aliens that Ms. Harris hopes to make American citizens.”
“According to a new study from Americans for Tax Reform, Harris’s Medicare-for-All scheme could cost Medicare $2 trillion in spending for illegal aliens. Another analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that each illegal alien granted amnesty would place an added net cost of nearly $130,000 on Social Security and Medicare. Multiplied by 10-20 million likely amnesty recipients under the Harris plan, that cost balloons to a staggering $1.3-2.6 trillion.”
I am not seeing any doctors certified in the USA wade across the Rio Grande.
tRump/vAnce! TRANCE 2024!
No. They set up shop in places like Nuevo Progresso, catering to the “medical tourist” crowd.
There are a lot more US-trained dentists, but, to get something purchased at the pharmacias back across the border, you will need a prescription signed by a doctor. Even then, you are limited to a … three month supply … ?
And it is Medicaid For All, not Medicare.
My wife took care of a few Medicaid patients in Florida, but she had to eat the writeoff in some cases.
And never make assumptions about who is and isn’t on Medicaid. I didn’t find out until well afterwards that the spouse of our builder, Builderschwein, was among the charity cases I covered for something bad/chronic by subsidizing the other adult in my household practicing medicine privately.
Builderschwein had a laser engraver in his garage worth more than my house.
When the pricetag is “free”, the demand is infinite. Make healthcare a right, and the providers become slaves.
All of the yelling about Social Security and Medicare going broke is a lie.
SS is almost breaking even. Raise the payroll a percent and raise the max limit on the payroll and it’s good.
CMS which is Medicare and Medicaid is the problem. Go read the Market Ticker site. A start is here: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949
I had a plumber out this past Monday to remove the disposal and replace the 1980 vintage seized up shutoff valves. He replaced everything before the P trap. It looks good. Cost a couple hundred more than I had figured.
It also leaks on the hot water side. I have not seen a drip. I have felt for water. I finally got under the sink with some toilet paper to blot water. It looks to me that the leak is from the valve stem of the new shutoff valve.
No need to pour out the half inch of collected water. I’ve caught Buddy under the sink three times and that must be some fine tasting water. Silly dog.
I called the plumber. Someone is suppose to show up Friday morning.
On their dime.
Major server rebuild project averted.
I finally cracked what I had going on with my home server with regard to a device which post Linux 6.8 kernels insisted on testing but was not actually present in my system.
I didn’t think about looking in /etc/default/grub at the resume option passed to the Linux command line. I formatted my swap partition about six months ago, changing the UUID, and, after that, the home server would not start a Linux kernel past the 6.8 series, clocking at testing the swap drive which was no longer available at the UUID.
I hate UUIDs used as file system labels in Linux. In my day, we had /dev/sdx, and we liked it.
Whew. I did not want to rebuild that server ‘/’ partition.
OTOH, that has been static for a couple of years and really needs the cruft cleaned out.
Another project for the pile.
Next – why doesn’t my UEFI image work with grub on my ThinkPad to allow dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10.
All of the yelling about Social Security and Medicare going broke is a lie.
SS is almost breaking even. Raise the payroll a percent and raise the max limit on the payroll and it’s good.
I would rather drop SS to 5.0% for both the employee and the employer from 6.2% each and remove the max limit.
Removing the limit would be a big tax increase for a segment of the population which will never truly see the money back. Slippery slope.
The trust fund has been a lie for decades, but you don’t want people to think that those checks can be cut off at a whim by a majority vote in Congress and the President’s signature.
Of course they can, but we want to maintain the illusion.
Fleming v. Nestor
Helvering v. Davis nuked the trust fund and made SS “general welfare”.
Special thanks to the Democrat Party of Florida for my education on those decisions in the 90s, trying to derail the Jeb! for President scheme.
CMS which is Medicare and Medicaid is the problem. Go read the Market Ticker site. A start is here: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949
TL, DR. I did read the first couple of paragraphs.
Way too much common sense in that diatribe for Congress to pass something like that. Instead, Congress will pass a 4,000 page nightmare with all kinds of exemptions and gimmes for their contributors XXXXXX buddies.
Jeb! never wanted to be President, BTW.
I hate UUIDs used as file system labels in Linux. In my day, we had /dev/sdx, and we liked it.
Did you have machines with literally thousands of hard drives ?
Linux was written for mainframes also. When I left TXU in 1989, our GIS IBM 3090 mainframe had 300+ hard drives attached to it and growing monthly as more and more meter / transmission / distribution maps were added to it.
The football field sized hard drive room was located underneath our dispatch center at Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas, Texas. It felt like the room in the “Alien” movie with all of the Alien pods in it.
No. I understand the point of UUIDs, and we used the concept at the tolling company for the removable configuration flash drives at each plaza, making it impossible to misconfigure the systems by plugging in the wrong drive.
I suggested UUIDs for that purpose.
I’ve been using Red Hat Linux since release … 0.9 … and old habits die hard.
I still manually set up /etc/fstab with /dev/sdx for my swap partitions. Fedora actually doesn’t install swap by default, even if partitions already exist on the drive, and instead depends on zRAM.
IBM is Red Hat Linux/Fedora. Everything else is gone.
Trick or treat is winding down. I’ll leave it for another half hour, see what we get. Pretty steady flow.
N
Tonight’s SciFi movie was The Horrors of Spider Island. Def not a Saturday afternoon movie for kids in Mobile, Alabama circa 1969.
Nice scenery, so to speak. The plot started out good. But it turned into a pretty dumb movie with real cheesy special effects / costumes. But fun to watch. Because scenery. I don’t feel like I wasted my time.
Not on the “watch again” list, though.
I know enough to mostly understand what you are saying. Lots. Ok, barely, to be honest.
On the other hand, I’m sure I know and can do stuff that would be magic to you.
It all works. Everyone is Merlin in their own way.
The Somali horde in Minneapolis will stampede the city to the front of the Jew-hating rabble and light the match long before any other city in the U.S.
One thing that the Walz selection did was reveal how much the MSM in MN is in the pocket of the Democrats. It’s hard to imagine such a sick, twisted piece of garbage could be sanitized and elected to state office anywhere else. That same control will keep the initial outrages under raps, and it will only be after the fact that the events suppressed in the run-up to wholesale violence will become generally known.
I barely scratch the surface of Unix knowledge, and I’ve been playing with various flavors for almost 40 years.
As Dr. Pournelle put it, Unix is a “guru full employment act”.
Now every cell phone and non-Windows PC is a Unix system.
Jazz Shaw, TIP
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/31/jazz-shaw-rest-in-peace-n4933832
The Hecho en West Germany flick?
German films are weird. Mike Myers nailed it with his “Dieter” character.
Now is the time on “Sprockets” when we dance …
For a bad spider flick, the one you want is “Kingdom of the Spiders” starring The Shat when his career was on the skids in the mid 70s.
“17 Nuclear Responses to Moronic Misogynist Mark Cuban’s Attack on Trump-Supporting Women”
https://thelibertydaily.com/17-nuclear-responses-moronic-misogynist-mark-cubans-attack/
“Billionaire elitist Mark Cuban accomplished something amazing today. He lit a fire that appears to be having the most dramatic possible influence on an election that a private citizen could ever have.”
“He went on “The View” and said, “Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever.””
Why are the dumbrocrats just going nuts right now ?
Lived here for five Halloweens. Zero the first two years, two years ago two groups with a total of 5 kids, last year one group of four, none this year. oh well…
Got the fragile stuff, the stuff someone might want to steal, and the more expensive stuff put away. Had a few more Trick or Treaters, mostly hispanic couples with one or two young kids. They either got a late start, or we were not their first neighborhood. I don’t mind. It’s a fun time for the kids.
My kids dressed up and went out with a friend each, and had fun too. Saw a lot of middle school and young high school kids this year. They must have decide that it would be fun, and wasn’t a ‘baby’ thing to do. We get the babies and toddlers from our immediate neighborhood before dark, and people from a bit further out later. At least we don’t have any busses bringing kids to our neighborhood. There are places where that happens.
After dark the crowd is mostly hispanic with a few more blacks this year than previous. The hispanics are always surprised when I say something in spanish.
Almost everyone was in a nice costume or a decent attempt. There were a couple of small groups of young teen boys that were barely trying, but I don’t really mind them either. I’m there to give out candy, so I do. I didn’t have any small toys this year, so it was all candy.
Everyone was polite, and I got a lot of complements on the decor.
All in all, a good night.
n
crazy sweaty humid, but a good night.
Now to shower and sleep…
n