Sweaty humid and warm today, and yesterday. Yesterday had thunder in the morning with a little rain, but it had cleared out by 3pm and was a beautiful evening and night. Albeit a sweaty one.
Spent 4 hours in the morning volunteering at D2’s middle school, working on their theater sound system. Made real progress putting things in order, and addressing stuff that had fallen by the wayside. I’m going in for at least a couple of hours today to continue working on notes.
After my volunteer hours, I came home, documented what I did, then put out the “day of” stuff for Halloween. That rolled right into passing out candy, saying hi to my neighbors, and then putting stuff away. Had a tiny little fire and read for an hour to wind down.
Today I’ll do some work at school, then load up a bunch of stuff to take to auction. I will get at least two pickups while I’m doing my dropoff too. Maybe I’ll get a second load dropped off Monday or Tuesday of next week as well. It will be nice to move some bigger pieces.
I’m sure the day will be too full, and I won’t get everything I want to get done. One of the pickups could wait until next week, for example. Still, I’ll give it the old school try…
I’ll put this in the ‘stacking up money and relationships’ columns…
Stack something for you too.
nick
Cuban. Why is it that he seems to be sacred in Texas, even among Republicans? I don’t get it.
The “tres commas” character on “Silicon Valley” is generally regarded as a slap at Cuban, having made those three commas doing something similar sounding early on and getting lucky selling out at the right time.
So sore this morning. I feel like I was beaten with baseball bats. Feet hurt, and whole torso hurts. I jumped off a ladder and landed bad yesterday. I must have banged something up then. Between that and carrying some heavy things, my back and lats are reminding me I’m not 18 anymore.
I’m getting ready to head back to school and do a bit more, then spend the day on auction stuff. Should be busy all day.
Dang body, not staying young…
n
Oh, and 72F this fine day.
n
Isn’t this a total of 7 years?
When some thug gets killed during a crime, his mother, 18 aunts, 8 sisters, 5 brothers, 76 cousins all say he was a good kid with a big heart that would do anything for anybody and would give the shirt off his back if needed. My response is much simpler. Good riddance.
No one trick or treats out here: my block has 6 homes in ¾ mile of mostly dirt roads. Not worth it for the kids.
I go into town and help a friend with his Halloween display. He goes all out, it takes him all month to set it up. His wife is pretty understanding…
We got 300 trick-or-treaters last night there rather to our surprise. Our cold snap and the wind had paused so they were out in force I guess. That ties his record.
A friend lives in a popular “drop-off” area: 1200 kids. I can’t imagine the chaos.
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…
No Halloween kids last night for the fifth year in a row.
Isn’t this a total of 7 years?
That is their estimated demand growth in ONE year.
I just like putting the 24x7x365. It is seven years but it looks cool.
Headed to South Texas in a bit after a men’s luncheon. Gonna go see my momma.
So sore this morning. I feel like I was beaten with baseball bats. Feet hurt, and whole torso hurts. I jumped off a ladder and landed bad yesterday. I must have banged something up then. Between that and carrying some heavy things, my back and lats are reminding me I’m not 18 anymore.
I’m getting ready to head back to school and do a bit more, then spend the day on auction stuff. Should be busy all day.
Dang body, not staying young…
Just wait until your middle 60s and the slightest little thing wakes you up five times a night.
I woke up at 7 am with the 35 lb dog laying on my legs and putting them to sleep. So I got up to pee, it was almost time anyway for the first pee.
“REPORT: Texas AG Opens ‘Criminal Investigation’ Into Dominion Voting Systems.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/10/31/report-texas-ag-opens-criminal-investigation-into-dominion-voting-systems/
“A sheriff’s office in Barry County, Michigan, says it has been referring suspected electoral crimes to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and that the America First law officer has opened a criminal investigation into Dominion Voting Systems.”
““The Barry County Sheriff’s Office has an ongoing investigation into election related crimes since December 2020,” a statement from Sheriff Dar Leaf explains, confirming the Michigan law office “has made referrals for criminal ingestion to the Texas Attorney General’s Office.””
Okaaaaaay …
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Our neighborhood would be “not worth it” for the kids, but I am on a corner and host the entire ‘hood on our front porch with adult beverages and snacks. We had 25 kids show up and they received a handful of treats from each of the participating neighbors. Score!
Update on preps success and failure wrt Milton:
The $6K spent thinning out the live oaks was worth every penny. We lost some limbs, but nothing as large as my thigh.
The whole-house generator ran for about a day. I checked the consumption, and it confirmed my math that we have about a week’s worth of fuel on hand if we run everything as normal. Maybe two weeks if we shut off the pool pump and one of the 4-ton A/C units and are mindful of other electric consumption.
Fail: the neighborhood pumphouse had a live oak go down, and the root ball coming up broke the water mains to the community. No water at all for 4 days, not safe to drink for a few more. I keep about 100 gallons of 5-gallon bottles on hand, so we were fine with drinking water. OTOH, a “pool shower” just makes one smell like Chlorine and B.O. after doing 3 days of hurricane clean up. I’ll have to figure out a longer-term solution for showers and laundry. When the need arose, I was able to get a hotel room nearby.
Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home From 24 Billion Kilometers Away On A Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
MTG eviscerates Mask Cuban:
“Here’s the problem with Mark Cuban. He suffers from low testosterone. The guy looks just like Rachel Maddow.
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Mark, I suggest you get some HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and hit the gym.”
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-gives-mark-cuban-atomic-wedgie-stuffs-him-in-the-locker-guy-suffers-from-low-t-n2181377
And Trump follows up on his golf game:
“”he’s got no clubhead speed!”
Mark tried to “clarify”, but sunk himself deeper. 8 out of 10 polled on Twitter/X agree that he would have been better off putting cheese doodles up his nose and dancing naked to appease the Gods of the Internet.
If Trump Wins, He Should Arrest And Prosecute Jimmy Kimmel
Which brings us to the Kimmel joke. Conservatives of an earlier era would have balked at the idea that we should apply to Kimmel the standard that Democrats applied to Mackey. But those conservatives were wrong (not least because their brand of conservatism didn’t conserve anything ). They thought you could win by pretending to be above the fray, by sticking to principles of neutrality and fair play. What they didn’t realize is that there was never any neutral ground to begin with, that the left has no principles and was never going to restrain itself once in power. Most of us on the right have figured that out by now, and we are adjusting accordingly.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/01/if-trump-wins-he-should-arrest-and-prosecute-jimmy-kimmel/
the left has no principles
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/11/01/new-hoax-alert-liz-cheney-claims-trump-threatened-her-n2181380
If there was a way to have less than no principles, they would
Disney is circling the drain. Kimmel’s show won’t survive what’s coming in Burbank.
Late night has been dead since Letterman was fired.
Universities vs. Jews, and America
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/universities-vs-jews-and-america.php
Universities that violate constitutional protections should have 30 days to respond as to why their federal grants should not be suspended and their students denied federal loans, with both subject to clawback from the date of inception.
Individual violators who are not U.S. citizens should have their visas cancelled and be deported within 24-hours, unless they are under criminal indictment, in which case they should be jailed as flight risks.
>>I’ll have to figure out a longer-term solution for showers and laundry. When the need arose, I was able to get a hotel room nearby.
One contingency to consider, depending on the extent of the outage, is if you have a gym/health club membership that has showers (and hot water).
Home from my volunteering. Jeez that took long, but it was partly my fault, and partly because I had a chance to meet and spend time talking with the district’s tech guy about the issues in the theater.
He’s going to check some stuff and work with me to get things back together, which is a huge win.
Note to self, read the manual VERY FRICKING CAREFULLY before applying the “reset” function.
The result was lots of fumbling and time wasted because the option I needed wasn’t JUST in a menu, it was behind a function “see more” key in the menu. Not really obvious or discoverable.
n
Late night has been dead since Carson retired.
Fixed it for you.
My brother sent me that link this morning. His attached comment:
“I still love getting updates from a spacecraft that was launched when I was 19 years old.”
The Instalundit comment at the bottom is:
The comments there echo this, and are amusing, but, not to be a woke-scold…
You know, that’s a bit unfair to the current detective/engineers who figured all this out 50 years later, and the people at the DSN who probably busted their butt and worked overtime to find that sigbpnal..
So launched about the same time Plugs launched his lifetime political career. Hmm…
LOL! Which one held up better and accomplished the most?
Voyager isn’t pinging “Beau … Beau …. Beau …. Beau ….”
Star Trek episode tonight is Assignment Earth.
Roberta Lincoln lives.
The plumber arrived today. Nice guy, offered to help tote my groceries into the house. No, I need the exercise. I told him what I thought the problem was. He crawled under the sink, and yeah, it was the valve stem on the new shut off valve.
Not a big deal, sometimes they come loose in shipping. He tightened the stem cap (or whatever it is called) and all is fixed. He was here all of 20 minutes.
Leak is gone. Buddy the Beagle seems disappointed that his personal special water dish is dry. He’s useful!!! I never had to pour the bowl out into the sink.
Real exciting day over here.
The Hecho en West Germany flick?
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I don’t know. But if you have a plane load of dancers heading to Thailand and the plane crashes somewhere past Hawaii, one would expect to see palm trees.
I never saw a palm tree. There were some “cliffs” that could pass for parts of Lake Travis. I suppose it was the German flick.
Define “most”.
Getting the law changed so credit card companies can base in Delaware and be able to skirt the usury laws of all of the other states is something.
Deserves a rope necklace, but it’s something.
I’m sure everyone carrying a credit card balance loves paying interest rates pushing 30%. Compounded daily. Or maybe I’m just full of hate.
Nah. No maybe.
A most excellent episode, and, meow Isis.
And wasn’t slojoe responsible for schools being ‘gun free zones’?
n
^ he was.
Darn. That means I missed “Patterns of Force” within the last week unless Weigel deliberately moved up the episode.
We’re living “Patterns of Force” with Corn Pop.
Teri Garr occasionally complained that she got passed over for more serious drama parts like “Silkwood”, but I don’t see “Silkwood” run 3-4 times a year on nationwide broadcast TV like “Assignment Earth”.
Usury laws you say?
Another classic bit from the Conan O’Brien era of “The Simpsons”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5y2gS54KfE
https://babylonbee.com/news/diddys-ex-girlfriend-urges-americans-to-trust-her-judgment/
Bet she thinks Dougie and Timmy are fine fellows, too.
Just remember, if you haven’t voted yet, control of the Senate is control of SCOTUS, right “Justice Garland?”
Weeelllll, youtube shorts sucked up a couple of hours of my life.
I do like this guy a lot, “wanna see something cool?”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2z5bnR3hjzE?feature=share
and he really nails something in this short that is outside his typical “here’s the inside of a cool device” content.
n