It was not the weather we were forecast yesterday. I know, big surprise… It started damp and overcast but ended warm and damp. There was some sun in between too. Today is forecast by some to be clear, and by others to be raining later. We’ll see.
I didn’t end up going to the BOL yesterday. Mainly it came down to mood, and some gastric distress. I got off to a slow start, and wasn’t really interested in loading up the truck. My back was hurting again, and I didn’t want to trigger it further.
I did get to the chiropractor, and did some shopping at Lowes, but I didn’t load the truck. The solar panels I intend to bring to the BOL are big and heavy. So is the floor tile, the fire ant killer, and some of the other stuff I have waiting for a ride to the lake. Carrying stuff in front of me is part of what triggered this attack.
So I did small things. Shopping. Changing the A/C air filters. Some paperwork. Some auction stuff. Some personal maintenance… It was a down day and I’ll regret the time later but I felt off all day.
I’ll be playing today by ear. I may head up to the lake after all, just not with the solar panels, or I might take them. We’ll see. I’ve got stuff to do around here as well as the pile o stuff up there. I don’t think I’ll ever run out of stuff to do.
I don’t actually want to run out of stuff to do, and end up sitting on the couch in my clean and organized house, staring at the TV wishing I had something else to do…
Fortunately, I don’t see that happening. UNfortunately, I also don’t see me getting half of what I need to do done.
Balance. That’s what’s needed. Right? Oh, and a shite ton of work.
Stack. Work. Live.
nick
That’s 1200 two hour movies at 1080p. The three of you aren’t watching 40 movies a day … right?
I suspect the Rokus are constantly downloading stuff 24 hours a day And 2 of them are 4k units so they can really get going heavy.
I have my own Surfboard modem that I bought six years ago. Xfinity says that they have me at 600 / 35 mbps but I doubt it in real life. So my bill is going from $85 per month to $115 per month.
Overcast, cloudy, warm, muggy and 68 F this morning. I was awake when the alarm went off at 645 am. Weird.
The varmints went outside and right back. Two crows sat on the power pole top ground wire and screamed at us. Not sure if that is a murder but they thought it was.
Yesterday’s leftover corn fritter with real blackberry jam (the fake blackberry jam is awful) and coffee is good to bring oneself to reality. And a couple of mandarins.
Fortunately, I don’t see that happening. UNfortunately, I also don’t see me getting half of what I need to do done.
Me either. I need to finish that stupid computer that I bought parts for in 2021. But, I did the 2020 amended tax return last night since I still had Turbotax 2020 on the old pc.
And I still have 30+ boxes to unpack from the 2020 move. Feels like I am stuck in 2020.
“Feels like I am stuck in 2020.”
That sucks. Weather is better in 2025–ongoing forecast for liberal tears.
Attempted murder, at least.
Rain actually woke me up, here in the high desert. i draggedmyself out of bed an hour early and brought in some stuff that I’dl left sitting out.
There was a chance that we would get rain with this storm, but I didn’t really *expect* it to happen.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/03/30/hillary-clinton-can-go-straight-to-hell-n2654689
I wrote something unkind and then deleted it. Fact is, even with the full vocabulary of a long-time Maledicta subscriber there is no curse sufficient.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/30/canada-mark-carney-faces-plagiarism-accusations-for-1995-oxford-doctoral-thesis-n3801289
Another left-wing plagiarist.
The hoo-ha in the U.S. seems to have died down after the election. It’s time to revive it and chase the plagiarists out of academia. The victims need to file suit against the plagiarists and their institutions, demanding money damages, public apologies, and shredding of every offending physical copy, along with prominent notices attached to any online copies, as long as the institutions holding the latter agree to pay ongoing fees for the copyright infringement.
Then everyone holding a legitimate degree from those institutions should file suit and demand revocation of the fraudulently obtained awards that dilute legitimately earned degrees.
And finally, all students who took courses from the frauds should demand a 50% rebate on the course hours taught by improperly credentialed thieves.
Might need to have the DOJ question what sanctions might be appropriate in light of the fraud and the inaction by the phony “accrediting” bodies.
Thanks to tRump KANKLES KLINTON WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT! It must irk her/it to no end tRump is the 45th AND 47th President of the United States. Dumbo’s just won’t fade away and enjoy the rest of their lives. They can’t let go of the power.
well, warm and overcast today. I woke several times, and went back to sleep. Weird dreams. In one, I was meeting with a railroad work crew over something and a parrot (BIG parrot) swoops down and lands on my outstretched arm. The dream shifted to trying to find the owner… the dream was like watching a movie. Fully realized images and dialog.
I’m up. Coffee half down the hatch. TWO chocolate chip cookies joined the coffee. Kid made them from scratch last night. I had to get a couple of pounds of flour out of a bucket. (Prepper win!) They are almost like snickerdoodles with chocolate chips. Better than tollhouse.
Time to maybe get some stuff done.
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–wrote this an hour ago but didn’t hit ‘submit’
If you feel the need to buy your ow parrot and, eventually, rig a pirate ship, I can recommned a place.
https://redondomarine.com/GATE.html
I recently discovered that the owners are distant family by marriage.
I had a good friend who was a live-aboard at the marina in Redondo . I used to live within a mile of the marina, oh so many years ago now…
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Site response may be slow for a few minutes as I pull a backup.
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ok, done.
no delays.
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Scared me for a minute… I deleted some very simple texts and the site was unavailable on refresh…. yikes. Seems ok now, and there isn’t any logical reason for my very small change to have killed things, but that is always the fear when poking at the wordpress beast.
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Alright, I’m going to pull the trigger on the wordpress update….
It’ll either go as planned, or blow up.
I’ll comment when complete, but you SHOULDN”T notice anything.
The most likely thing to break is the added features in comments, the ability to edit, the gravatars, the like/dislike, etc.
Fingers crossed, chicken blood spilled….
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Ok, I think that was it…
Let me know if you notice any changes to the commenting process.
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SOMEONE comment so I know we’re live!
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Give us a chance to F5 the page! Sheesh, so impatient.
My emu is still there and I can edit. No emojis, though.
Proof of life.
Comment
If you don’t get this comment, there is a problem.
I had a couple of steers delivered two weeks ago. Paid a small fortune. They are about seven months old. I’ve had them in a pen so they can get used to being here and knowing where their water tub is. Plus get used to me and to me giving them a few cubes.
They have more or less learned the sound of a plastic bucket with a couple of handful of cubes being shaken. Not much yet for being petted or hand fed but that’s fine. They’ll get there in their time.
When I gave them some cubes today I left the gate open. They’ll figure it out.
@Nick
“the dream was like watching a movie.”
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/17749/
The writing lyrics are credited to the entire band, but have always felt like Eric’s phrasing to me.
I don’t get it. I can catch students cheating at the bachelor level. At the masters and doctoral level, you have fewer students. Either the supervisors are lazy, or they just don’t care. Or both.
Faulty dilemma. You’ve left out some options.
In some fields, it’s expected. In Education, for instance, I’ve heard 50% of dissertations are ghost-written. Dr. Jill and Dr. Bill Cosby come to mind. A reviewer may be risking his job if he looks too closely at a paying grad student’s work.
Maybe there’s some pay-as-you-go action. Here’s my dissertation; pay no attention to thos $100 bills paper-clipped to it.
And of course, you left out that the supervisors could be, in fact, retarded.
Fun fact: I know a young man who earned his way through college writing term papers for undergrads. Even for classes he’d never taken. He’d ask for a topic, and what grade you wanted. He would point out that an “A” paper would stick out if you were a “C” student.
So the conversion of emoticons like smiley
to emoji is broken?
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worked for me.
n
Peanuts: Breakfast
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2025/03/30
I Hate It When My Pancakes Go Downstream.
Yuck. The blue bar on the side of ‘blockquote’ is back. That is probably a conflict between the editor, the new wp install, and the 3 or 4 other plugins that act on the comments.
–fwiw, I did find a keyword comment killer, and there is a remote possibility that the mysterious vanishing comments were from that. one entry was three fairly common words that if they all appeared in your comment, it would be thrown away. They were all vaguely related to ‘liberty’ type ideas.
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Maybe there’s some pay-as-you-go action. Here’s my dissertation; pay no attention to thos $100 bills paper-clipped to it.
xkcd: Rock Identification
https://xkcd.com/3068/
I had a couple of steers delivered two weeks ago. Paid a small fortune. They are about seven months old. I’ve had them in a pen so they can get used to being here and knowing where their water tub is. Plus get used to me and to me giving them a few cubes.
They have more or less learned the sound of a plastic bucket with a couple of handful of cubes being shaken. Not much yet for being petted or hand fed but that’s fine. They’ll get there in their time.
When I gave them some cubes today I left the gate open. They’ll figure it out.
Cool.
Do you have to modify anything for them to live in the emu spaces ?
“Wrong, Daily Mail, Global Warming is Not Spiraling Out of Control”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/30/wrong-daily-mail-global-warming-is-not-spiraling-out-of-control/
“A recent article by the Daily Mail, titled “Global warming is spiralling out of control: Earth could warm by a whopping 7°C by 2200, scientists predict – leading to flooding, famine, and catastrophic heatwaves,” presents this alarming claim based on a computer model. The scientists who developed the model as well as the Daily Mail are guilty of overstating the model’s predictions, its use, and burying the lede that this alarming outcome is very unlikely even in the modelled universe.”
“The study was conducted by scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) – which due to the track record of the organization having a propensity for predicting dire but improbable climate scenarios, already indicates that the outcome of the model study is hardly unbiased. The Daily Mail reports the study says the planet “could warm by a whopping 7°C (12.6°F) by 2200 even if CO2 emissions are moderate[.]””
These people need to be discredited for their lies.
This didn’t take long…
https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578
I didn’t read the link or the previous article, but I assume they want T to run as VP next time, and then the elected POTUS steps down and T steps up?
Baby ducks. Every day is a new day filled with new things.
n
I’m assuming this “loophole” wasn’t addressed because way back when, the VP was the other party’s losing candidate and any kind of collusion like that was unthinkable…
Warm by 12 degrees. So what? For every drought there is a new temperate zone. Not gonna matter to anyone here… and our descendants will have plenty of time to react and move… england and the rest of the UK might be a nice place to vacation… more of Canada will be habitable. Some places will get an extra crop’s worth of growing season.
n
Yup. The DM (tabloid supreme) had an article, too. Now there are LSM articles and SNL (yuck) claiming Hegs is day drinking. You can’t hate the LSM and PLTs enough.
This echos what Mr. Ray is saying:
You’re Busted! Turning Point USA Exposes Jackson Hewitt Helping Illegal Aliens Get Tax Refunds
I’ve never gotten back more than I put in. I did hit zero on my first tax return. Leeches, frauds, and CRIMMIGRANTS! Throw out the crimmigrants, lock up the rest.
tRump is going to fix this and cut off another source of Dumbo grift.
Shades of Lurch throwing his military medals over the WH fence:
The Toddlers Are in Charge: Columbia Grads Tear Up Diplomas at Alumni Protest Event
When they need transcripts, charge them $5,000 a pop.
I had an idea about these Tesla vandals. Give the PoPo in a very LibTurd area. Let them go undercover and start policing up the trash. Get the FBI involved to up the charges to terrorism and see how long them go on.
Just fit the new teslas with the same system south african drivers use….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQCyOIgVWGw
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The Dems floated several theories about circumventing the 22nd Amendment during Obama’s second term, one of those being that the President could run even it he is legally barred from being elected by the Electoral Collage, deliberately creating a Constitutional crisis to delay a new President from taking office.
No, not a thing.
@paul, are they pets, livestock (food or sale), or for your ag exemption?
n
For the ag exemption. Pets, maybe kind of sorta. Food is a possible option.
Sunday fun for Lynn:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCmwvadv13BW0Bk41wal7p9qFGYEGgNINMcPP0qTIsDDqid5WaYuAK8eggroBf3rtcFY1BcKcaYjveob2TPEPyNkpnBC3c6uEGD7FEFlSu4z8OffFrVb0zRZcar60bBWlpSMf2Q_O4xgzM_HAxsjAZzV5FLDxI1Oi8j-IRpuCV9u9wFldtXkJrr9JAEvY/s2040/820.jpg
Garage to House Ratio seems ideal…
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Garage to house ratio… need to apply that to my BOL
n
@lynn, https://hibid.com/catalog/631760/special-book-auction?apage=2
Perry Rodin books…
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Top U.S. Bank Executive Terry Dolan Believed to Be the Pilot Killed in Tragic Plane Crash in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/u-s-bank-executive-terry-dolan-identified-as/
n
I did have a prepper win tonight. D2 needed some craft supplies, and some hot glue sticks. I pulled them out of the stacks, and had exactly what she needed.
And while I was in the attic getting the stuff I noticed that the poison bait bucket was empty, except for some rat poop. I haven’t seen any on my cams, but they got in and ate the remains of the bucket that I couldn’t get out and put in baitboxes.
Joy. I’ll be finding some dead rats by smell soon. Not one of the traps has been activated. I should bait them with the poison…it seems to be the only thing they’ll eat.
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Sunday fun for Lynn:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCmwvadv13BW0Bk41wal7p9qFGYEGgNINMcPP0qTIsDDqid5WaYuAK8eggroBf3rtcFY1BcKcaYjveob2TPEPyNkpnBC3c6uEGD7FEFlSu4z8OffFrVb0zRZcar60bBWlpSMf2Q_O4xgzM_HAxsjAZzV5FLDxI1Oi8j-IRpuCV9u9wFldtXkJrr9JAEvY/s2040/820.jpg
Garage to House Ratio seems ideal…
FREAKING AWESOME !
@lynn, https://hibid.com/catalog/631760/special-book-auction?apage=2
Perry Rodin books…
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I have over a thousand epubs of Perry Rodin books translated from German to English when I run out of the 50+- more paperbacks that I have now.
For the ag exemption. Pets, maybe kind of sorta. Food is a possible option.
Chip and Dale ?
Tom and Jerry ?
Did somebody rubber band their horns ?
Sounds like all the movies out right now are teh sux.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14552631/snow-white-box-office-fall-working-man-spot.html
Tellingly, the only title I recognize is the one re-release from last century, Princess Mononoke.
n
past bed time. I’m outta here.
n
I might have to go to AA.
Amazon Anonymous.
Tellingly, the only title I recognize is the one re-release from last century, Princess Mononoke.
“The Chosen” is fairly awesome. I have only watched a few episodes though. My wife has watched them all through season four.
https://www.thechosen.tv/
“The Case for Removing Judge Boasberg’s Security Clearance”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-case-for-removing-judge-boasbergs-security-clearance/
“Mike Davis called for President Trump to remove Judge Boasberg’s security clearance. No one, not Congress or the Supreme Court, is doing anything about Boasberg.”
“Boasberg wants those Tren de Aragua back in the country. He won’t remove the TRO because he said the domestic terrorists marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win. He claims they are entitled to individual hearings and due process.”
“Attorney Mike Davis explained that he did not have the power to do what he was doing. It’s not the proper court. Davis also presents an excellent case for removing Judge Boasberg’s security clearance.”
“This didn’t come from Mike Davis, but Boasberg is also a little unhinged.”
Do it.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
>>Yuck. The blue bar on the side of ‘blockquote’ is back. That is probably a conflict between the editor, the new wp install, and the 3 or 4 other plugins that act on the comments.
Re the ‘blockquote,’ for me…
Before “Submit” there’s a light gray vertical bar to the left of the text.
After “Submit” the bar goes away.