Cold or cool, or just nice, these cool clear mornings rock. I’ll be happy to wear a jacket waiting for the bus if I can wear long pants in the afternoon without sweating. And that’s what we had yesterday. Great weather for driving around with the windows down.
So I did.
Got my dr visit done, had a bit of chicken for lunch, then got my free 128GB thumbdrive from MicroCenter. Picked up two more 64GB drives for $8 total, and the switch I need for my client’s house. I know they aren’t the fastest drives, but free, and $4 each is incredible. The smaller ones will be used at school for the light and sound board backups. The bigger I’ll load with music for the truck.
After that, I did pickups. Then I picked up the kid. EV not for me… I’d have range anxiety. I was anxious to find the right gas station to refill my truck, and there are gas stations at every intersection.
I was sleepy all day, which interfered with my driving. IDK if it was skipping the coffee in the morning or what, but I was wiped out. Never did catch up.
Today I have a local pickup, and household stuff to do. And all the Thursday kid stuff is disrupted by the theater performance tonight. It’ll still end up being a busy day, despite having nothing to do…
I’m engaging with my community. I’m spending time with my kids. I’m improving my position… and stacking some stuff.
I’m prepping, but mostly I’m living.
nick
$3276.40 is the price if the buyer pays with an eCheck or wire transfer.
Shipment happens only after payment clears.
Credit card or Paypal transfers involve a higher pricetag.
An invoice from the Mint is impeccable provenance.
The point remains, however. Fishing lures are more expensive. The Mint price was ~ $2800 at this time last year.
59F this morning, so that warming trend is still happening. Kid’s lunch is packed, coffee is in the mug. I’m taking youngest to school so she doesn’t have to wrangle the extra stuff of a show day on the bus.
Then we’ll see how the day progresses.
n
As long as deficit spending remains policy, precious metals are guaranteed to appreciate, since their price demonstrates the depreciation of fiat. While I would prefer to buy a pack of gum with micro or milligrams of PMs, that is not yet the way of the world.
The somewhat less than 10% premium/surcharge from an internet dealer over spot is the price of business and other payment details reflect charges the dealer pays for those means/ forms. A 20% -ish discount from the manufacturer’s, mint price is certainly desirable.
While I have dealt with JMBULLION more than a few times, both buying and selling quite satisfactorily, my first foray/purchase was with Northwestern Territorial Mint who subsequently went bankrupt in a horrible mess of fraud.
In any case, The Mandibles or something like that is coming.
The Mandibles or something like that is coming.
– yes. I’m astounded at some of the online outrage and wailing about “crashing the economy.” It was always going to crash. It has crashed, (if you consider the measure of the economy to BE the economy) in 2000 and 2008. It will crash again.
The wider crash, involving not just the markets and real estate as an investment, is coming. You can’t continue to spend what you don’t have. Eventually the debt comes due. When that happens to countries, war is the result.
n
The last comment quoted by MR ATOZ was by Nick regarding how drug prices are set.
As he notes, context matters.
If, for example, you have a life threatening disease, say type 1 diabetes, you will be dependent on a supply of insulin for life. Imagine a market without rules in this context. Drug companies colluding to raise the price for insulin (well off any patent protection – say thanks to Canada and Drs. Banting and Best) as high as possible, making anyone with diabetes a virtual slave to the drug companies for life. So yes, drug prices are set by the governments in Canada along with general market rules against collusion. I like free markets but not unregulated markets. As Dr. Pournelle pointed out some time ago (I paraphrase), an unregulated market will set a price on your daughter’s virtue and your son’s flesh and sell both. So, NO to your third YES.
Deficit spending combined with failed Treasury auctions triggering the printing press is the cause of inflation.
If the printing presses didn‘t run, the housing market would crater as the interest rates rose to reflect the true cost of borrowing.
The Deep State might allow the stock market to crash, but the housing market is different since more of the population buys into the delusion of the tenbagger being possible from holding their stucco cr*p shack for 15-20 years.
Currently raining at FCFSP and will rain for the next hour. Cool, but not as cold as the night before where the temperature dropped below freezing. One time when we were here the water line to the trailer froze and we did not have any outside water. Fortunately I had filled the 40 gallon on-board water tank the day before.
There are many trees blown down throughout the park. I was talking with a maintenance worker and a couple of months ago a tree fell on a truck and trailer while people were inside the trailer. The people were not injured. The truck was removed fairly quickly. The trailer stayed for a month as the insurance company was claiming act of God and the damage was not covered as the trailer was a “home”, a “structure” subject to the same rules as a permanent house. Yeh, right, any excuse to not pay.
It is supposed to be sunny this afternoon. In fact the sun is breaking through as I type.
We are here for one more night. Another cool night. Sleeping under lots of blankets, cool, and really quiet. I think one could hear a mouse fart. Sleeping really well.
I did some pictures yesterday and put them on a website. All of them were taken with my iPhone 15 Pro. Amazing the photographic power that a person can now carry in one’s pocket.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/FCFSP/index.html
Something to waste time for y’all.
The demented yam is rotten to the core.
Prime Minister (PM) Carney’s original statements to the Orange Man started with (paraphrasing): “ I am not speaking with him until he shows respect – no more 51st state and no more Governor comments”. What happened, a few days later Trump calls (or I suppose a time for a call is agreed to). Both replied after the call. You will note the total lack of any 51st state or governor comments (then or since) in the now cowed Yam’s statements. There is also an agreement to look into the trade relationship after the Canadian election. All of that happened 2 weeks ago, so all you have here is PM Carney repeating that agreement. You will note that there were also no stupidly calculated tariffs announced Wednesday on Canada. A stupid but quiet yam.
But congratulations: these are Daily Mail headlines after all and so clickbait. I clicked.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-sellers-amazon-panic-after-trumps-tariff-bazooka
— the cheapest crep, shipped via exploitive “packet mail” and received broken, and returned, or sold via fraudulent listings and then returned, cleaning those sellers out is a service to the world.
They lie, ship doll sized versions listed and sold like full sized versions, ship ¾ sized versions that look right in the pix but are unfit for purpose, ship “third shift” versions of products they are producing for legit sellers (stuff that is defective, doesn’t pass inspection by the design team, or stuff that is produced in the same factory, but on the 3rd shift, after running two shifts for the contracted designer (nike has this problem.) The crep doesn’t meet safety standards, sometimes in deadly ways.
Get rid of it and nuke from orbit.
n
“The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys” by Lise Olsen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593595688?tag=ttgnet-20/
“Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place—the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture.”
“It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys’ bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the “Candy Man,” was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed.”
“All of Corll’s victims’ bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked “1973 Murders” in the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll’s accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men.”
This happened where I grew up on the southwest side of Houston. My mother was freaking out in the summer of 1973 when the Houston Post newspaper starting noting that there was a lot of missing young men around our house in Meyerland. She would not let us leave our front yard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll
Elmer Wayne Henley shot and killed Dean Corll in August of 1973. Together, they murdered at least 29 young men in Houston over four years from 1970 to 1973. They buried them all over the place. Elmer Wayne Henley is still in a Texas jail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Wayne_Henley
The Mandibles or something like that is coming.
– yes. I’m astounded at some of the online outrage and wailing about “crashing the economy.” It was always going to crash. It has crashed, (if you consider the measure of the economy to BE the economy) in 2000 and 2008. It will crash again.
The wider crash, involving not just the markets and real estate as an investment, is coming. You can’t continue to spend what you don’t have. Eventually the debt comes due. When that happens to countries, war is the result.
Yes, but it is now thought that the US Dollar will survive. But the Dollar of tomorrow will be a faint shadow of the Dollar of today. I still think that we will be looking at 30% inflation, year after year for at least a decade, in the very near future. But what other currency will you invest in ?
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/006232828X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Wow, out of 4,589 reviews on Big River, I am still the top review with 18 recommendations.
Texas says “hold my beer” to my home State of WI finest: Ed Gein (special mention for Dahmer).
“House Narrowly Passes Trump-Backed Budget Plan Despite Two Republicans Voting With Democrats”
https://thelibertydaily.com/house-narrowly-passes-trump-backed-budget-plan-despite/
“(The Daily Signal)—House Republicans pushed through a Trump-backed budget framework on a 216-214 vote Thursday, providing a boost to the president’s legislative agenda.”
“Democrats voted against it unanimously, while Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., were the only Republicans in opposition.”
“The resolution’s passage came amid some protests from hard-line fiscal conservatives within the GOP, who argued that the plan does not provide sufficient cuts to the deficit.”
“The budget resolution is a major first step that Congress must pass in order to get to budget reconciliation—the process of setting targets for spending in various areas.”
We have not had a federal budget in the USA since 2008. Congress is not doing its job.
New York is dying. People are leaving there in droves. The cities are dangerous and the citizens do not care.
LA was pretty grim last week.
We stayed mostly in tourist places, but a trip to the firehouse from “Emergency” required getting off the freeway in Carson and getting lunch at a nearby diner.
Carson isn‘t Compton, but an impromptu lowrider show started setting up in the diner parking lot while we ate. The rental Camry kinda stood out.
The immediate vicinity of Pink’s in Hollywood was also iffy.
Newegg third party vendors are also bad since the site was sold to new Chinese owners.
“Social Security Administration backs off plan to cut phone service”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-security-administration-backs-off-plan-to-cut-phone-service-181403247.html
“The agency faced backlash about limiting customer service for millions of seniors.”
Does Social Security even have a clue who their customer is ?
I did some pictures yesterday and put them on a website. All of them were taken with my iPhone 15 Pro. Amazing the photographic power that a person can now carry in one’s pocket.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/FCFSP/index.html
Looks like Texas except for the, you know, water.
Social Security workers think they are doing applicants a favor just by doing their job. Go to a local office and ask for anything beyond a simple question and the answer requires two levels of management approval. Most of the “workers” are there for the paycheck and nothing else. Actually doing work, pffftttt, you must be silly.
Prime Minister (PM) Carney’s original statements to the Orange Man started with (paraphrasing): “ I am not speaking with him until he shows respect – no more 51st state and no more Governor comments”. What happened, a few days later Trump calls (or I suppose a time for a call is agreed to). Both replied after the call. You will note the total lack of any 51st state or governor comments (then or since) in the now cowed Yam’s statements. There is also an agreement to look into the trade relationship after the Canadian election. All of that happened 2 weeks ago, so all you have here is PM Carney repeating that agreement. You will note that there were also no stupidly calculated tariffs announced Wednesday on Canada. A stupid but quiet yam.
Trump is up to his earlobes, at the moment, with alligators. Canada will have to wait their turn before the annexation starts.
And the tall trees, Bastrop excluded. I really like the hill country and Blue Bonnets, massive fields of flowers, the wildflowers that grow alongside the highways. Awesome, but short lived.
xkcd: Push Notifications
https://www.xkcd.com/3074/
Just say no. But the notifications are a funny game.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3074:_Push_Notifications
Wizard Of Id: Frog Prince
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/04/10
Ok, that is funny. I wonder if it is habit forming ?
“Trump targets state climate laws in latest executive order”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/government/article/55281099/trump-targets-state-climate-laws-in-latest-executive-order
“President Trump issued an executive order tasking Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi to ensure states and cities follow federal climate and energy laws, not their own, more aggressive energy rules and climate standards.”
This may not be Constitutional. But different climate rules between states do definitely affect Interstate Commerce. SCOTUS may be interested.
Yeah, once you start abusing the General Welfare and Interstate Commerce then you might as well use it for good. Better to enforce the 10A.
n
“Prepared Citizens”
https://areaocho.com/prepared-citizens/
“I saw this story in the New York Times and was amazed that there was a prepper movement that I hadn’t heard of, that it appears to be centered on Central Florida, and also that a branch of the MSM would do a positive story about prepping.”
“I wonder how many Feds are associated with the two groups in the story. Remember, the Fed is the one urging you to do something illegal.”
You can read the NYT story here:
https://archive.is/RV3C4
I wonder who the fed is here ?
“A Malibu liberal loses his California cool”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-malibu-liberal-loses-his-california.html
Welcome to the real world. He will never be allowed to rebuild his home.
He thought he was one of the cool kids. Found out he was not.
n
“It’s not just a military conflict in the Middle East”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/its-not-just-military-conflict-in.html
“Matthew Bracken, former SEAL, author and astute observer of the world around us, reminds us that the staggering cost of a potential war with Iran over that country’s nuclear program is not just military.”
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/if-we-go-to-war-against-iran-the
War is Hell. Never forget that.
WTAF??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14595867/doctors-warning-women-die-vaginal-filler-procedure.html
– ok, I get that Korean men have (statistically) small penises. And women today have high body counts. But maybe a Kegel exercise or two would be a better choice than injecting fillers into your organs?
n
Wee Pierre/Castro Jr. is gone. That was the important short term goal.
Keir Starmer is next.
The media push for Starmer’s exit will start with the next season of “Clarkson’s Farm”.
BREAKING – Bell Jet Ranger helicopter tumbles and crashes upside down into the Hudson River. Initial reports say six dead, including one child.
CRASH VIDEO – https://x.com/Turbinetraveler/status/1910434572044493291/photo/1
“Over 30 pieces of evidence on how ‘the climate scam is collapsing’”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/04/09/over-30-pieces-of-evidence-on-how-the-climate-scam-is-collapsing/
“The climate scam is imploding right now. Of course there are still plenty of remaining pockets of climate cultism, but the whole movement is crumbling.”
“It’s the most massive scientific fraud in human history, and it will take significant time to completely die, but make no mistake: It IS dying.”
A list of 30 items …
“After discovering so many massive, high-profile COVID lies in recent years, large numbers of people are asking themselves “What else are they lying about?”, and the answer is “just about everything”.”
“Elites tried for the Great Reset but they got a Great Awakening.”
The chopper crash investigation will be interesting. Pilot error? Poor maintenance? Structural failure from fatigue? Bird/??? strike?
Pancaking in like that made me shutter. A bird stike on a rotor can cause an imbalance and the whole system rips itself apart. I hope the pilot wasn’t doing something stupid, but they always do.
“It’s not just a military conflict in the Middle East”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/its-not-just-military-conflict-in.html
“Matthew Bracken, former SEAL, author and astute observer of the world around us, reminds us that the staggering cost of a potential war with Iran over that country’s nuclear program is not just military.”
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/if-we-go-to-war-against-iran-the
War is Hell. Never forget that.
Before the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, the USA was importing about 70% of its crude oil from various sources: Middle East, Mexico, Canada, and Venezuela. Due to the combined magics of directed oil well drilling and fracking, we now import only 15% of our crude oil. And we turn around and sell about 25% of the gasoline and diesel produced with all that domestic and imported crude oil to Mexico, Europe, Japan, China, Caribbean, etc.
So, if we get embargoed again, the USA will not be affected much. But the rest of the world will be sucking wind since they will not be able to import very much crude oil.
“A Needed Dose of Political Reality from Paul Weston”
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/a-needed-dose-of-political-reality
“Time is running out for the UK to avoid total conquest and surrender to Islam.”
“There is now zero chance for any political solution to the ongoing Islamic conquest.”
I wonder what England’s new islamic name will be, Englandistan ?
Tom Kratman’s foretelling Caliphate novel is coming closer and closer to reality.
https://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman/dp/1439133425?tag=ttgnet-20
The clock is ticking on the Labour government.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/clarksons-farm-season-4-release-date-confirmed-newsupdate/
No chicken tonight. Someone, ain’t naming names, forgot to take it out of the fridge to thaw. There’s always tomorrow.
– ok, I get that Korean men have (statistically) small penises. And women today have high body counts. But maybe a Kegel exercise or two would be a better choice than injecting fillers into your organs?
Look at how many people are taking Ozempic and its siblings. People are always looking for the easy way out.
I can tell you from experience, changing your body is never the same as what God gave you. My wife had reconstruction after the breast cancer mastectomy 20 years ago when she was 47. She had it so that she would not have to wear a prosthetic bra like her three aunts that had mastectomies in their 40s and 60s. But the reconstruction does not feel like the real thing. And there is no nipple, just a ridge of skin folded over with a tattoo that has faded away. The original nipple was connected to one of the tumors and it all had to go away.
I can also say this, if my diet does not continue to work, I will go the Ozempic route also. One of my friends is 5’6″, 79 years old, and has been on Ozempic for three years. He has dropped from 285 to 215 over those three years and expects to be on it for the rest of his life. His blood pressure is way down and his type 2 diabetes has gone away.
The LA Sheriff’s sent me a flyer, they are looking for helicopter mechanics.
Salary is $113,576.40, with an authorized 5.5% bonus ($6,246) for personnel authorized to do “in-flight” checks.
Crazy.
Though the only AP guy I ever knew that did “in-flight” checks hated doing them. In fact he didn’t like flying.
Climate Change Study Funding Goes Poof
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/10/weee-so-much-winning-climate-change-study-funding-goes-poof-n3801630
The problem is not the alligators. The problem is the confused yam has no clue what a swamp is, or how to drain it, and he keeps pouring sewage into the water he is wading in. He insists he won’t stop the sewage no matter what. Then he suddenly stops it. Totally clueless yam.
As for annexation, elbows-up.
If we close the border the Canadian sports teams will have to start their own leagues. Be fun to see if they can survive on $1.50 (Canadian) checks from cable.
MLB loves having that big empty domed stadium in Montreal to use as a bargaining chip for new stadiums in all of the league’s US markets.
Top US Commander in Greenland Disavows Trump’s Position to US and Danish Troops
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/04/10/top-us-commander-in-greenland-disavows-trumps-position-to-us-and-danish-troops-n2187734
“Vlad, how would you like to have a new liaison at the Vostochny Cosmodrome? Yeah, she’s used to the cold but maybe not that much cold.”
They could fill a few more seats if they distributed the “Why Baseball Bats Aren’t Flat and Curved, Eh?” coloring books with the Tim Horton’s coupon.
Sounds like the Colonel forgot that there is a chain of command, and that she’s not at the top…
or she thinks orangemanbad won’t be around to do anything about it.
n
I’ve never had cause to wonder before,but does the VPOTUS have status in the chain of command while the President and CinC is still available or does his authority over the military only kick in when he becomes CinC?
n
Article 2 does not mention VPOTUS.
Interesting.
a little ice age caused by volcanic eruption
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14589309/scientists-reveal-cause-collapse-ancient-rome-ice-age.html
Some geological evidence too.
n
She’s been relieved of command for “loss of confidence in her ability to lead”. She should file her retirement paperwork before she gets BCD’ed and kicked out as an E1.
The VP’s ONLY role in the Constitution is to be the President of the Senate, and break ties. Anything else is delegated from the President. I believe that Trump and Vance are pretty close, so any insult to Vance will be relayed up pretty promptly – and then the SecDef will take pretty quick action of his own.
But Article I does.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#article-1-section-3-clause-4
And the millennium-long cycle of “climate change”. Rome fell after the warming peak two cycles ago, while the collapse after the peak of the last cycle accompanied the collapse of the Vikings, and the “Little Ice Age” of the 1300s.
We’re pretty near the peak of THIS cycle, so I expect the next change will be cold, and things have gotten pretty cold after the peaks.
Gee… I wonder where the NHL started?
>>I can also say this, if my diet does not continue to work, I will go the Ozempic route also. One of my friends is 5’6″, 79 years old, and has been on Ozempic for three years. He has dropped from 285 to 215 over those three years and expects to be on it for the rest of his life.
The majority of users that go off Ozempic regain a good percentage of the weight that they had lost, hence the ‘rest of his life’ need.
Also check if your insurance company covers this for weight loss, otherwise your doctor will need to prescribe it for your “diabetes.”
The VP’s ONLY role in the Constitution is to be the President of the Senate, and break ties. Anything else is delegated from the President. I believe that Trump and Vance are pretty close, so any insult to Vance will be relayed up pretty promptly – and then the SecDef will take pretty quick action of his own.
And to replace the President if needed as has happened too many times in the past.
“In New England, Canadian hydropower has slowed to an ominous trickle”
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/hydropower/canadian-hydroelectric-new-england-cutoff
“Whether due to drought, prices, or politics, the weekslong disappearance of Canadian hydropower from New England’s grid exposes risks for the region.”
>>I can also say this, if my diet does not continue to work, I will go the Ozempic route also. One of my friends is 5’6″, 79 years old, and has been on Ozempic for three years. He has dropped from 285 to 215 over those three years and expects to be on it for the rest of his life.
The majority of users that go off Ozempic regain a good percentage of the weight that they had lost, hence the ‘rest of his life’ need.
Also check if your insurance company covers this for weight loss, otherwise your doctor will need to prescribe it for your “diabetes.”
I have always regained most of the weight that I lost eventually. I got up to 272 lbs in 2004 from 205 lbs in 1981 and dropped to 232 lbs in 2004 using the South Beach Diet. I got back up to 263 lbs last year and want to drop to 220 lbs now.
I figure that I will burn that bridge when I come to it. It may come down to how is it worth to me to weigh 220 lbs. I do not want to be diabetic like several of my older relatives are.
There are many GLP-1 drugs coming out and the shortages are gone. The street price may drop extensively.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/expert-answers/byetta/faq-20057955
And the millennium-long cycle of “climate change”. Rome fell after the warming peak two cycles ago, while the collapse after the peak of the last cycle accompanied the collapse of the Vikings, and the “Little Ice Age” of the 1300s.
We’re pretty near the peak of THIS cycle, so I expect the next change will be cold, and things have gotten pretty cold after the peaks.
Christmas Eve of 1989 was 6 F (-14 C) here in Sugar Land and -4 F (-20 F) in Dallas for three days. Austin was about -2 F IIRC. Almost a serious disaster for the Texas grid, there were rotating blackouts all across the grid. I called my old boss (I left TXU in October 1989) and he said that they were barely hanging in there as they were burning 330,000 barrels (14 million gallons) of fuel oil and diesel per day with zero natural gas. All of the coal units were running day and night at 110% to 120% power levels with the mines going full speed.
We had about 3.5 million barrels of fuel oil in storage at the power plants when I left. I suspect that they burned at least 2.0 million barrels of that. Probably a third of the houses in Texas had broken water pipes since we did not insulate pipes in the attics or walls back then.
If it gets that cold in Texas again, all bets are off. The junior dispatchers in Austin will flub this one too as they seem to not do well in conditions that they have not seen before. We got down to 12 F in Fort Bend County in Feb 2021 which they went right past rotating blackouts to over half of the grid blacked out for four days.
>>The chopper crash investigation will be interesting. Pilot error? Poor maintenance? Structural failure from fatigue? Bird/??? strike?
Pancaking in like that made me shutter. A bird stike on a rotor can cause an imbalance and the whole system rips itself apart. I hope the pilot wasn’t doing something stupid, but they always do.
Some explanation of how the accident developed…
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2025-04-10/bell-longranger-crashes-hudson-river-killing-6
I got some test results back today and they were all good as far as I can tell. It’s a load off my mind, once the doc confirms I’m reading the reports correctly.
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D2’s show went well. Sound for a large cast comedy is very different from a musical, and the kid running it learned that lesson tonight. I’m hoping he can clean up a few things for tomorrow’s performance. That’s all there are, two, so you either get it right or you don’t. Kid doesn’t have enough rehearsal time in the schedule to get good sound.
I spoke with the teacher running the program tonight, and she understands, but right now the schedule really doesn’t allow any more time.
If they want to use reinforcement, they need to take it seriously enough that they rehearse with it. He mostly needs one more rehearsal to do a sound check as they are running, where he can listen and make corrections without worrying about muting and unmuting mics and hitting sound playback cues. It’s hard to listen and make changes one or two lines at a time, if you are worried about missing the next cue.
He did ok despite the problems.
Teacher gave me and the wife a shout out in the program and in her thank you speech after the show. That was nice.
n
>>I got some test results back today and they were all good as far as I can tell. It’s a load off my mind, once the doc confirms I’m reading the reports correctly.
Nice to hear the good news