Supposed to be clear in Houston, and that means also in the mid 80s by afternoon. Humid as a swamp too. Spring has sprung, and we’re on our way to Summer. It never got sunny yesterday, and it was 86F at one point, all while being about 90% RH. Just generally unpleasant.
I stayed home and fought with computer and website stuff all day. It kept me in and out of the humidity. I was really unmotivated to drive up to the BOL, so I didn’t. Spent part of the day doing auction stuff, part learning about wordpress, part looking at tax stuff, and part watching videos. I didn’t even sit by the water feature/storage pond and have a tiny little fire.
Today, though, I’m gonna jam. Really. For sure. Maybe. In any case, I have a couple of things I need to do, and a couple of pickups. Then there will be kid taxi services, as D1’s sport has ended- meaning she needs the earlier pickup, and D2 has rehearsals after school with no late bus.
I’ll try to fit my stuff around theirs. And I’ll try to get some of the home list done. There are things I can do. Always.
Perhaps easier to stay on top of things if you do them when you have time. Perhaps not.
Try to keep up. Stack.
nick
Still alive, despite the crud. It’s been horrid – on my way for a second Dr visit now. Persistent headache and nausea – I suspect infection is holding out in the sinuses, despite a course antibiotics. No fun.
Thanks for all the work on the site, Nick. Seems from here to be working correctly.
@denis, hope you are feeling better soon.
@alan, thanks for the detail. That is what happens for me on ffox too.
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Mid 70s.
Coffee tasting especially good this morning.
Kid’s lunch and snack is packed.
Can’t tell what the sky looks like yet, but I’m hoping for clear, like the national forecast.
n
“Woman in the Yard” is a horror flick from Blumhouse. They made money.
The “Princess Mononoke” re-release is a 4k digitzation put into IMAX theaters. The box office numbers are skewed as a result.
Aso, Disney had the rights to distribute the Ghibli flicks thirty years ago and did zero marketing back then.
I believe Ghibli has the rights back to distribute in the US and learned from Toho’s success with “Godzilla Minus One.
“The Woman In The Yard” shot at this complex in Georgia.
Hollywood is in serious trouble.
https://athenastudiosga.com/new-purpose-built-state-of-the-art-production-space-created-for-georgias-thriving-television-and-film-industry-in-athens/
I like ghibli the same way I like poetry, more in the abstract than the concrete… It’s beautiful, and maybe poetic and even haunting, but something just doesn’t click for me.
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Looks like it’s going to be overcast, at least for a while.
n
Every day I’m more surprised that Trump escaped the trap.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14554463/marine-le-pen-banned-presidential-elections-guilty-embezzlement.html
France joins the US, and Romania in jailing or trying to jail the leading political opposition…
n
If Enya lived in the California High Desert she’d have an album entitled “A Day without Wind”.
Don’t forget the UK and Tommy R.
Has Germany imprisoned any AfD leadership yet?
“Kiki’s Delivery Service” and “The Wind Rises” are approachable by a mainstream audience, but the rest are … odd.
I don’t think any other film has nails the engineering profession like “The Wind Rises”.
Of course, you have to set aside what the engineer character created in his “10 good years”.
No, but the co-leader’s domestic partner is from SE Asia. I figure it is only a matter of time before the EU demands her be deported, even if she is a German citizen.
When the press asks J.D. Vance about the secret plan to switch places, have him run as president, win, then resign in favor of VP Trump, he should troll them hard:
“We’ve talked about that and agree there’s no need. Confidentially, the plan is to find the PLT district judge with the biggest list of felonies in his closet, and make him a deal, then he rules that Trump was unjustly defeated in 2020 by a conspiracy of Democrats acting illegally to promulgate false stories about him (Russia Russia) and suppress stories about the Biden Crime Family, so he’s setting the counter on the 22nd Amendment back one.
“And then the next day we release all the files on the rest of the PLT judges that haven’t thrown themselves out of windows, and have a little talk with the Soo-premes about their files.”
What the DOGErs Keep Finding at Social Security Explains the Progressive Spasms
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/31/what-the-dogers-keep-finding-at-social-security-explains-the-progressive-spasms-n3801328
El Salvador needs a big grant to build more prisons, and we need to ask their president to share the financial details with Haiti.
Every U.S. citizen that conspired to dilute the value of U.s. citizenship should be stripped of it and shot, but I’ll settle for shipping them to hell-hole prisons.
YETI Refuses To Customize Cups With The Word ‘Conservative’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/31/yeti-refuses-to-customize-cups-with-the-word-conservative/
I have a 30-oz Yeti cup that I’ve probably used 300/365 for the last 6-7 years.
Next time my neighbor fires up the Glowforge, the logo is going to become “Conservatives say F**K YETI”.
Isn’t That Nice? Dem Senators Went to Gitmo to Visit the Venezuelans
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/30/isnt-that-nice-dem-senators-went-to-gitmo-to-visit-the-venezuelans-n3801305
Too bad they didn’t all accidentally lose their ID’s and get stuck there.
I bet al-Dilly is cool with spending millions on illegal alien invaders in Cacafornia, most including those with illegal SSN’s.
Note to Speaker Johnson: Please get right on a bill defining possession and conspiracy to issue illegal SSN’s as insurrection against the United State punishable by death.
How many senators went to visit U.S. citizens rounded up as part of the J6 prosecution conspiracy?
Beach Town Poised to Use Green Left’s Favorite Legal Strategy Against Massive Offshore Wind Project
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/30/beach-town-poised-to-use-green-lefts-favorite-legal-strategy-against-massive-offshore-wind-project/
Gee, what are the odds that any such suit against wind farm development is not going to get settled by the Trump administration?
I just mailed my amended income tax return for 2020 to the IRS. My fellow shareholders and me have file amended tax returns for 2020 and 2021 because we got ERTC (employee retention tax credits) for WinSim for 2020 and 2021. WinSim has filed its 2020 amended tax return and the CPA is working on the 2021 amended tax return. Plus the 2024 tax return.
I am all taxed out.
YETI Refuses To Customize Cups With The Word ‘Conservative’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/31/yeti-refuses-to-customize-cups-with-the-word-conservative/
I have a 30-oz Yeti cup that I’ve probably used 300/365 for the last 6-7 years.
Next time my neighbor fires up the Glowforge, the logo is going to become “Conservatives say F**K YETI”.
YETI does not know their majority customer base, don’t they ?
Hollywood is in serious trouble.
Hollyweird is in serious trouble.
Fixed it for ya.
“YETI does not know their majority customer base, don’t they ?”
Wonder how many guys like me are going to put ten printed copies of the article in their range bags and hand them out?
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/31/what-the-dogers-keep-finding-at-social-security-explains-the-progressive-spasms-n3801328
El Salvador needs a big grant to build more prisons, and we need to ask their president to share the financial details with Haiti.
Every U.S. citizen that conspired to dilute the value of U.s. citizenship should be stripped of it and shot, but I’ll settle for shipping them to hell-hole prisons.
And yet my 100% disabled 37 year old daughter from Lyme disease and several strokes cannot get on Social Security Disability. They have told us that our household makes too much money.
Every day I’m more surprised that Trump escaped the trap.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14554463/marine-le-pen-banned-presidential-elections-guilty-embezzlement.html
Me too. I am shocked that he made it to the Oval Office still alive.
Reputedly, his 30 retired Mossad agents are the inner core of his protection detail. For some reason Trump does not trust the Secret Service.
I have no choice but to do that the weekend before the deadlne.
My taxes are complicated this year for … reasons.
I also sold a bunch of a Vanguard fund I’d held forever.
“Trump commutes sentence of Jason Galanis — second ex-Hunter Biden business partner to receive clemency “
https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/trump-commutes-sentence-of-jason-galanis-second-ex-hunter-biden-business-partner-to-receive-clemency/
“President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of another ex-Hunter Biden business associate, Jason Galanis, for defrauding an American Indian tribe.”
“Trump’s order signed March 28 authorized US Bureau of Prisons acting director William Lothrop “to immediately release” the federal inmate, who had been serving a 14-year sentence at a corrections center in Montgomery, Ala.”
“Galanis cooperated briefly last year with House Republican investigators who were looking into his dealings with the 46th president’s son. He pleaded guilty to a $60 million scheme to sell bogus tribal bonds and was sentenced to 189 months in prison in September 2020.”
Hmmm. Trump only does things for a reason.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Say what?
“Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success. We had a clean liftoff, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System. We demonstrated that we can not only design and build but also launch rockets. I could not be prouder of our entire team for working so hard over the past seven years to reach this important milestone,” said Daniel Metzler, CEO and co-founder of Isar Aerospace.
Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1823103/isar-aerospace-rocket-explosion-first-european-launch/
The first of Nissan’s new products is the long-promised Leaf EV revamp, and it just might be the greatest glow up in automotive history.
Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1819841/new-nissan-leaf-details/
Hoping finally for a liquid-cooled battery pack in the LEAF.
The first of Nissan’s new products is the long-promised Leaf EV revamp, and it just might be the greatest glow up in automotive history.
Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1819841/new-nissan-leaf-details/
Hoping finally for a liquid-cooled battery pack in the LEAF.
Has there been a problem with the air cooled battery pack in the Leaf ? One of my employees has a 2022 ??? Leaf with the 240 mile battery pack. He loves it.
I still would not purchases a total electric vehicle. But, my next F-150 4×4 will be the plugin hybrid instead of the mild hybrid that I am driving now. And my AGM battery is dying again. Two years and out.
“Sen. Mike Lee Introduces Legislation to Ditch the TSA: ‘Too Much Groping, Too Little Benefit’”
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/28/sen-mike-lee-introduces-legislation-to-ditch-the-tsa-too-much-groping-too-little-benefit/
“Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced legislation on Thursday to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and to privatize security at the nation’s airports, under federal oversight.”
“The goal of the legislation is to dissolve what Lee and Tuberville call the “bloated and ineffective” TSA while allowing U.S. airports “to compete to provide the safest, most efficient, and least intrusive security measures” under an Office of Aviation Security Oversight.”
I am not looking forward to my groping in May.
“9702 Surrey Ln, Richmond, TX 77469”
https://www.har.com/homedetail/9702-surrey-ln-richmond-tx-77469/2527183
My son wants to buy this house 50/50 with me, move in, and sell his house. When WinSim needs another place to be, we will rent it to WinSim together.
I am thinking about it. I cannot own the house totally at the moment since I already own a water in Fort Bend County. You can only own one water well in Fort Bend County.
“Elon Musk Announces He’s Receiving 17,000 to 18,000 Death Threats Daily from the Far-Left (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/elon-musk-announces-daily-death-threats-left-have/
That is unreal. Something is really wrong with the liberals in the USA. This is how a Civil War starts.
The euros have made the first two boxes moot, they’re looking to get the third box too.
Criminalized speech. – soap box
Arresting political opposition leaders. – ballot box
Dying in a hail of gunfire is next. – cartridge box
n
Home from my client’s house. No gear swapping today. The problem is in the cat cable between the attic switch and the rack. Every piece of gear checks out ok by itself. When plugged into the cable to the rack, das blinken stops.
That means I’m in the attic tomorrow, on my belly pulling cable. I’ll probably just back pull the bad one, and it might be quick, but it will still be a ‘soaked to the skin’ day. It was HOT in the attic today.
n
This is why I hate our CongressJerks. Everybody, I mean everybody, should get SS, Medicare, taxed at rate, and any goobermint bennie no matter how much you make. You want to work until you die, you shouldn’t be penalized on SS and Medicare. You earned it. I hate the IRS and the rules Congress has shoved onto it.
This is why I hate our CongressJerks. Everybody, I mean everybody, should get SS, Medicare, taxed at rate, and any goobermint bennie no matter how much you make. You want to work until you die, you shouldn’t be penalized on SS and Medicare. You earned it. I hate the IRS and the rules Congress has shoved onto it.
I hate the fact that there are different rules for citizens and illegals. That is not right. First off, illegals should not get ANY government services whatsoever.
BTW, all of my friends are trying to work until they are 70 years old. They are very worried to retire and then the US government screws all of us.
Today’s video is “Venus and Mars – Rock Show – Jet – Paul McCartney And Wings 1976 Remastered”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNn5Q7H-FeA
But the 50 year wonder is “Wings – Letting Go (Live / 1975)” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9EI_wRWjM
Here is “Wings – Venus And Mars / Rock Show (Live / 1975)” with Linda as the only female backup and no horns section:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0FIkmJ79Aw
I had long hair back below my shoulders back then with my bald dad yelling at me to get my hair cut. And the vice principal of my school walking behind me in the hallway and slapping the back of my head yelling at me to cut that hair.
From one of the commenters:
“RIP Linda
RIP Denny
RIP Jimmy”
I pried open the dead switch, and there was a faint smoke smell of dead pixies… no visible evidence though.
Time to get started on dinner.
No rest for the wicked.
n
“The Remaining (The Remaining, 1)” by D. J. Molles
https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-D-J-Molles/dp/0316404152?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series. There are another two series in the same universe with the main character. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Orbit in 2014 that I purchased new in 2014 from Amazon. There is also a novella that prequels the series in the book that I read. I am reading the second book in the series now and have ordered the third book in the series.
Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces. His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and lead concrete bunker underneath it. Any time the US government gets nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault door. He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until released by his supervisor to leave the bunker. His duty is to stay in the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero contact with his supervisor. Then it is his duty to find groups of people to restore order in his portion of the USA.
Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple of weeks and his supervisor does not call. A plague has been sweeping the planet and things are getting more dire by the day. Apparently the infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out. Zombies. A month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.
The author has a website at:
https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (4,564 reviews)
Lynn
Did I say $1 Billion? Now I’m holding their beers:
Feds Put $9 Billion In Federal Funding to Harvard Under Review
I see Columbia’s interim president resigned after getting outed for being a lying sack. I changed my mind–hope they leave the first $400 million on the table so Harvard thinks they have time. Wait until Friday and permanently pull $400 from Columbia and $1 billion from Harvard, sending the latter a note that says: “We’re increasing the speed of our review and don’t see any need for an appeal since y’all can read the papers or should be able to.”
@Lynn
Have you consulted a pro firm that specializes in SSD?
“House lawmaker moves to oust judge in deportation case with move that skips impeachment”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-republican-proposes-alternative-method-remove-bad-judges-bypass-senate
“Rep. Andy Biggs invoked the “good behavior” clause of the Constitution to argue Congress has the authority to remove judges short of impeachment.”
“Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., filed a resolution that would remove U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for “failing to maintain the standard of good behavior required of judges” under Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution.”
“Biggs argued the clause gives Congress the authority to remove judges that it believes have failed to uphold that standard short of using impeachment.”
“But Biggs argued his method may let Republicans bypass the required 60 votes in the Senate to pass legislation or the two-thirds majority for impeachment.”
““The Senate also confirms judicial nominations by a simple majority vote of 51. The finding that a judge has violated terms of ‘good behavior’ should also be affirmed by a simple majority of votes in the Senate and House,” Biggs told Just the News.”
Go for it !
Have you consulted a pro firm that specializes in SSD?
Not yet.
““Loose on America’s Streets”: Illegal Alien Released by the Biden Regime Brutally Murdered a Mother of Five”
https://thelibertydaily.com/loose-americas-streets-illegal-alien-released-biden-regime/
“David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, a Honduran national who unlawfully entered the U.S. several years ago, is accused of brutally murdering a Georgia mother earlier in March, according to federal immigration authorities. Rivas-Sagastume has since been charged with additional heinous crimes — including rape and necrophilia — and is being detained in a local jurisdiction that has rolled back cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
““David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, a 21-year-old Honduran national, entered the United States illegally on March 17, 2021, and was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “He was issued a notice to appear and paroled into the country by the previous administration.””
Just another illegal murdering a US citizen. Happens every day in our country.
My wife became disabled in 2003 at age 51. She filed for disability, and it was denied, of course. She worked with a firm called “Binder & Binder” who worked the system for almost 2 years. Test after test, dr appointment after appointment, appeal after appeal. It was finally approved. Binder & Binder took ⅓ of the recovered back payment as their fee, and sent her a check for the rest. It was a nice piece of change, and SSD has given us no problem since then.
If they’re still in business, I’d highly recommend them.
Have you consulted a pro firm that specializes in SSD?
“Not yet.”
Interview hard.
“Just another illegal murdering a US citizen. Happens every day in our country.”
Rent the place next to Ashley Biden and put him up on bail.
Whoa: Anti-Tesla Protester Hits Trump Tesla Supporter With Car at Protest in Idaho
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/03/31/anti-tesla-protester-hits-trump-tesla-supporter-with-car-at-protest-in-idaho-n2187356
Not a good idea. Significant internal bleeding and you pass out on the way and die. In the worst case, you lose control of the truck, cross the centerline and plow into a school bus full of children.
There is something to be said for removing yourself from the situation, and acting expeditiously.
n
>>
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/03/31/anti-tesla-protester-hits-trump-tesla-supporter-with-car-at-protest-in-idaho-n2187356
Not a good idea. Significant internal bleeding and you pass out on the way and die. In the worst case, you lose control of the truck, cross the centerline and plow into a school bus full of children.
What, Tony hasn’t released ‘FSD Ambulance Mode’ yet?
Because Florida…
https://dnyuz.com/2025/03/31/a-special-election-that-was-supposed-to-be-a-snoozer-is-suddenly-buzzing/
AND
Because Texas…
https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-cities-in-america/10532
Nite all…
This. I had a nephew who was in a serious collision. Apparently fine, unbuckled his seat belt, got out of the car…and a few minutes later was dead. The other driver drove off and was never found. We only know what happened from reconstruction of the scene.
The really fun bit: the parents were out of town. The only other person home was his younger sister, who was 13 or 14 at the time. She told the police that she wasn’t contacting her parents with that kind of news until she was sure it was really her brother. So she was the one who went to the coroner’s office, walked into the refrigerator, and identified the body. Tough girl.