Another cold but sunny and dry day? Dunno. Hope so. Yesterday went a long way toward drying out my remaining Christmas decor. I’d like to have today to dry out the rest. And not freezing all day would be nice. It was below freezing with frost on the ground and cars yesterday morning. I think I’ll sleep late to avoid that today.
Yesterday was my non-prepping hobby meeting day. It was nice to get together with everyone. Several people who I didn’t get to see or talk to last month at the potluck dinner were there Saturday. It was a good day to just hang out and talk a bit. No one can believe the incompetence displayed in Cali, and no one found the idea that it could be intentional at all scoff worthy. We’re at a point where anything could be true. Or all lies. It’s very disconcerting.
Afterwards I came home, napped for a bit, did some domestic bliss, and avoided doing any major cleanup.
Today I’ll be paying for my slackitude. We need to get the house back together and get my stuff sorted out. I’ll be talking with a new auction to sell some of my stuff, and hopefully getting some of it out of the house. W is starting to send my articles about the negative effects of clutter and disorder… and it’s past the point where I should have been more proactive.
So that will be a priority, once I actually get my thumb out and get started.
The reorganization of my office and workspace needs to continue too.
Lots of opportunities coming up to miss deadlines and fail to complete tasks…
But the stacking will continue, at least a little bit, and mostly ‘targets of opportunity.’
I urge you to do so too.
nick
Armin Shimmerman accomplished something significant on that series, effectively serving as Ferengi “showrunner”.
Canon established in “Lower Decks” has Quark becoming very successful franchising his bar using tech stolen from the Karemma to tweak the replicators. At the dawn of the 25th century, “current” timeline, Quark is still in business.
If Season One of “Picard” is still canon, then Morn eventually becomes a rival, with his own chain of bars.
Someone at Skydance has a special interest in “Star Trek”, maybe even Larry Ellison himself, and work to repair the damage of the Paramount+ series has been underway for a couple of years, even before the company bought Paramount.
I don’t think this interview was an accidental piece of honesty.
https://trekmovie.com/2025/01/01/section-31-actor-worried-fellow-fans-will-reject-movie-for-being-a-different-kind-of-star-trek/?utm_source=syndication
They’re worried.
Don’t fret about Michelle Yeoh, however. She got paid. $12 million if the circuating stories are true.
Yeoh knew.
At this point, the franchise could probably use a rest, but, while I doubt people want to see 1000 episodes of TNG, they do want to see the characters/actors who became their family watching the syndicated series in the 90s, before everyone gets too old for a few final big adventures while introducing new cast.
48 F and raining lightly. The varmints want to go out and then right back in. Very dark at 7 am.
I think that we should get rid of Daylight Savings Time period and stick with standard time. It is just getting light now at 730am.
@Alan
“When it was obvious that the fires were going to be bad, couldn’t TPTB have started filling the reservoir (he said not knowing the source of the requisite water.)”
Can’t tell from the available information. The reservoir was out of service for repairs from March 2024 to present. Hard to tell what the state of the equipment was.
The Palisades fire grew very quickly and they ran out of water late in the day. Also hard to tell what sort of internal communications might be in place in an emergency situation. You would think, given such exorbitant salaries, that the management team would be top-notch and made all the right moves if possible. The empty reservoir argues otherwise.
I suspect that at some point the previous head of the water department, who retired but not under any cloud that I’ve heard about so far, will be proposed to head the investigation.
You don’t depend on tourism for an income.
The water department probably didn’t know the state of the equipment with most of the permanent employees “working” from home via TeamViewer.