Cool and clearing later. Yesterday was lovely, once the fog burned off. Sunny and blue sky with moderate temps, around 70F most of the day. If today is the same, I’ll be a happy boy.
Did my pickups. Spent time bidding on some stuff for D2’s school, but ultimately quit bidding. What price to put on philanthropy? Less than $1000. Less than $300 this time too. There was some gear in one of the surplus auctions that they could have used, but they don’t have a mechanism to buy it outside channels. The amount we’re willing to just donate fluctuates, but yesterday, for this particular stuff, we hit our limit before the other bidder did. Oh well, I’m sure to have another chance. Everything comes through the auctions, although the timing for this one was perfect.
Today I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning. I’m of an age where my primary care doc thinks I should have a stress test (cardiac thing, not anxiety thing). I’m having the nuclear version, and a mask and breathing hose is not supposed to be part of it, although walking on a treadmill is. The main issue for me is the amount of water I’m supposed to drink both before and during. It’s a LOT. I hope there is built in time to pee. And I might have already screwed up the “no caffeine rule.” It’s too late to do anything about it, but hope the 24 hours is a bit overkill, and that half a can of Dr Pepper yesterday afternoon won’t mess it up too badly.
Modern science is a miracle, and since we’re grid up, might as well take advantage and know for sure if there are problems.
The test and recover is supposed to take 3-4 hours of time, and IDK what I’ll feel like after, other than like peeing… So I might not get much done today.
I guess checking up on my health is a prep. I might find out I need to stack some new stuff… if there is stuff you need, be sure you are stacking it.
nick
First!
Well, ok, more time to get ready if I’m not brewing the devil’s bean… but nothing to ease the transition to daytime either…
n
Tyler Durden cowardice continuing to protect the mainstream source for the NSA chat room scandal.
100 strikes me as a bit low.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sex-castration-butthole-zapping-nsa-cia-confirm-secret-kink-chat-room-after-chris-rufo
No. Never. Not in a million years would I vote for Blue Streak to occupy the White House.
Trump hired her for a specific job. Never forget she’s a socialist.
Good luck for your exam, Nick!
Been there, done that. My test did not involve consuming fluids. I was placed on the treadmill until my heart rate reached a certain level for X minutes. Immediately after getting off the treadmill a radioactive dye was injected into the IV. That was removed and I was told to return in three hours at which time some type of imaging was done.
It was determined that everything was OK and the prolapsed heart valve that was diagnosed in the USAF 20 years earlier was incorrect. No such issues were found. Hmmmm.
Good luck, may the golden flow please you young Jedi.
I am no expert, but it seems to me that it was adopted by the red/green government to dilute the consequences of the conservatives’ personal popularity. Of the over twenty candidates who were chosen by name, but got no seat, in this most recent election, the majority appear to belong to the conservatives.
In general, the German system seems to make it impossible for independent candidates, since party lists are all-important.
Personally, I think it is valuable for the democratic process for independents to be in with a chance of being elected, even if they might be single-issue candidates.
I hope the Senate is onboard:
BREAKING: Budget Resolution Squeaks Through the House of Representatives in 217 to 215 Vote
Any reductions will call for savings elsewhere, ie, cutting Department budgests. I am all for that. The Iron Rule needs stopping.
Home safe. Didn’t need to drink as much during as they said. That treadmill is surprisingly hard. I’m working on getting some food and caffeine in me…
n
You don’t hate the LSM enough:
‘There’s No Bottom For These People:’ Jake Tapper To Release Book on Cover Up of Biden’s Mental Decline
Tapper is a lying piece of Dumbocrat trash.
They get paid when they keep it secret, then they get paid when they tell all… scumbags.
n
Wow. This is sad:
Michelle Trachtenberg dead at 39: Buffy and Gossip Girl star passes away after sharing troubling posts
The Demon alcohol.
The picture of her with the gaunt, pale face and with is shocking. She’d transformed herself into a skeleton.
n
Hollyweirdo’s. ‘nough said.
And this…
https://people.com/michelle-trachtenberg-had-a-liver-transplant-months-before-death-report-11686973
DataRepublican has been doxed while getting her background check to work for DOGE.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1894540234089795908
This tells me that the FBI is still riddled with traitors and leakers. To attack a woman who is severely disabled is a travesty.
Too nice a day to not do yard work.
But a half day of shoveling and raking is all that the lumbar veterbrae can endure.
@lynn
If reports are accurate, her doxer has been identified and is also handicapped.
The Missouri AG reached out to her and they are reportedly talking, so here’s hoping we see charges.
WHCA Cared More About Protecting Biden Than Defending The First Amendment
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/26/whca-cared-more-about-protecting-biden-than-defending-the-first-amendment/
Complete with all the receipts, including:
“We have identified a corrupt and discriminatory organization and removed it. Their past discrimination is blatant and provable, as is the silence of the supposed ”free press” that benefited. To act as a counterweight and redress past wrongs, our policy will be to reduce the seats for “lean liberal” organizations to 9 out of the 50 available, and place 5 of the 9 in the back row. It will be interesting to see if the liberal free press can detect any change when they are on the short end of the deal.”
Just woke up. Between the sugar and the disruption in my caffeine intake, I was out for a couple hours.
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Time to figure out some dinner plans. Sibling is in town, maybe s/he will meet us somewhere?
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14439103/death-Texas-measles-outbreak-cases-surge.html
n
Who did they want to protect more – Biden or Kewpie Doll?
Kewpie Doll was expected to be coherent.
Karoline Leavitt wages WAR on the press as White House boots even more mainstream media giants out of the ‘pool’
– yeah, some of the “media giants” have orders of magnitude fewer viewers than some individual youtubers. People don’t realize the scope of new media, or the limits of the legacy MSM.
n
Total clickbait.
Editorial disguised as news, no real info there. His “terrifying” reasons? Lower standards or achievement by manf, ATC, and airlines. Solution? Give the FAA money.
n
Ha ha /muntz voice
n
We had to replace one of our 30 year-old garage door openers this week, but I made the mistake of doing it in a hurry without practicing a little due dilligence, and the new unit has built in LED lighting which truly sucks and is not adequate to light the garage at night so I can pull in the car without hitting something.
I have to be in the office five days a week starting Monday, but the garage door company is coming out that afternoon to replace the opener with something a little less high tech.
When I phoned the installer today to arrange a swap, the response was, “The built in LED lights are optimized for the camera.”
“Camera?!?”
“Camera?!?”
IOT. Internet Of Things.
In other words, every single thing will be connected to the intertubes. Whether you want it or not.
Liftmaster. Almost all of the residential units have WiFi capability with Amazon integration which means that the unit can phone home whether I connect it to my network or not.
When I was quoted for replacement, I thought the installer meant a low tech Genie screw drive opener like the original unit.
Beyond the light issue, the belt drive doesn’t strike me as durable in Texas summer heat.
When I was installing cameras, the two biggest things people wanted cams for were to make sure no one was in the pool/the pool guy actually came, and that their garage doors were closed.
There is a lot of anxiety about leaving garage doors open.
Chamberlain has MyQ? which is a connected door monitoring system… you can check door status, and open the door for a delivery, or to allow access to the house, etc. Of course that means someone ELSE could do so too.
n
Chamberlain is the DIY line of Liftmaster.
I’m done with this installer company after they replace the Fancy Lad system on Monday. Something has changed there since I started using them.
All the local mom and pop service people are being bought up by big companies. If you have the holy grail, RMR or Recurring Monthly Revenue, your exit strategy is sell to the investment group…
n
I imagine that the belt drive systems like the Fancy Lad unit last about as long as the warranty period (three years) on the opener before requiring an overhaul.
They’re replacing the opener with a chain drive – a little more maintenance, but I can manage to spray the chain once a year myself. I did that in Florida, and the opener never gave us any problems for 10 years.
Someone big came in and bought most of the AC contractors in North Austin/Round Rock recently.
Part of relearning retail in this country will be rebuilding Sears or something like it, with the same credit terms as the old Sears card so that even if someone is in Bankruptcy, they can get the appliances fixed/replaced or tires for the car as long as they make the card payments.
Sears wasn”t always great, but they were heckuva lot better to deal with than Blackrock will be.
@nick et al,
The new(?) DM+ articles that require a subscription can be ‘dealt with’ using 12ft.io/
e.g. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14417831/jd-vance-trump-successor-interview.html
The stench of “green” corruption across the waters:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/26/the-european-commission-faces-its-biggest-scandal-in-20-years/
@nick et al,
The new(?) DM+ articles that require a subscription can be ‘dealt with’ using 12ft.io/
Thanks! Works like a charm.
Belt drive is the way to go. Much quieter than other options. My unit has a lifetime warranty on the belt.
My chain drive failed because the sprocket wore out. There was no replacement available.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/citizens_stop_armed_attackers_the_fbi_lies.html
Easy peasy solution:
NASA has algorithms that they use to fill in missing weather station data–all you need is 4,5, or 6 stations within 500km, some cooking in the backroom using the Hanson-Schmidt Special Sauce, and you’ll get results accurate to within 0.01 felonies.
Of course, the results might be a tad on the high side due to global warmurdering…
That’s okay. If a blue shiitehole doesn’t like it, they can just report and ask for a re-calc.
And btw, what do you bet that every on is getting tax dollars from fedgov to do that reporting? DOGE can stop those payouts yesterday for non-performancing.
And if the data shows zero felomurapidy’s, we should be able to call it a success and give the fedgov law enforcement assistance money to some town needful of it, like that place in South Dakota that has seen a 10% increase in jaywalkening?
The belt drive models all have the cr*p built-in LED lighting. They’re out.
When I need to do the other garage door, I’ll call around and find a Genie specialist to do a 1:1 replacement with the screw drive opener but a newer model. That lasted 30+ years.
>>Of course that means someone ELSE could do so too.
https://www.amazon.com/key-delivery?tag=ttgnet-20
>>My unit has a lifetime warranty on the belt.
When the belt breaks its lifetime is over, right??
No worries, I’ll show myself out…
>>My chain drive failed because the sprocket wore out. There was no replacement available.
Check for a 3-D printable file?
Nice dinner with my sibling. S/he’s going to Africa next week. It’ll be a very lux trip using airline miles and hotel miles. Should get some nice photos.
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I think I will sit by my “water feature” little pond and have a tiny little fire.
n
Then off to bed.