77F and the sun is peeking out from the rain clouds.
Woke at my normal time to the sound of rain. Went back to bed.
Woke this time to the thought that I’d missed my antibiotic pill taking time. That will cascade through the day.
The march to war continues, both domestically and internationally. As soon as we’re sufficiently distracted at home, expect to see someone grab something we traditionally think of as “ours” or watch one of “our” assets leave or switch sides. The response to that will set the tone. You heard it here first. Hope I’m wrong.
Got another baby rat in a glue trap this weekend. Smell one somewhere else. Maybe the poison is working?
I better get some breakfast going. The spawn are grumpy when they don’t eat (in this they take after daddy….)
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@Lynn – If you have to take a Toyota without a CD player, the newer entertainment system’s USB thumb drive interface works … for the most part.
Figuring out what to do with my car CD stash was one of this weekend’s projects. Software: EAC, Lame MP3 encoder installed as part of Cygwin, and DriveSort — sorting the thumbdrive FAT directory hierarchy is crucial to getting Toyota’s system to play songs in the right order.
I had concession stand duty at the football game Friday night. I try not to think about the ACL schedule for the opening night being David Byrne -> Hozier -> Paul McCartney.
I’m sure this doesn’t affect his hiring decisions, or his choices for algorithms….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/google-lead-designer-you-are-finished-gop-fck-you-all-to-hell/
‘cuz he sounds like the kind of guy who can maintain impartiality and separation between his personal and work life……..
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I found this fascinating…
https://youtu.be/MvjfSIkET70
It’s the detailed repair and restoration of a pair of men’s dress boots. It shows a true craftsman at work, embodies the anti-disposable ethos, and shows how complex something as simple as a shoe really is. He uses machines to make the work easier and faster, but could probably use traditional rasps and files.
Post slide, the cobbler’s trade becomes vital again….
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(curious, I looked for those boots on ebay, they sell for ~$200 used, and he says the repair was about $275. They aren’t that much new, and there are thousands available on ebay, so no idea why you’d spend the money or effort unless you loved them.)
I looked for those boots on ebay, they sell for ~$200 used, and he says the repair was about $275. They aren’t that much new, and there are thousands available on ebay, so no idea why you’d spend the money or effort unless you loved them.
Just because the name is Allan Edmonds doesn’t automatically mean the new boots are made in the US.
When I worked in Seattle, I stepped in something walking to the office which caused the soles of my Australian-made Blundstones to dissolve over the course of the morning. I spent $120 to get the soles replaced because new Blundstones are Made in China and don’t last nearly as long as the old pairs.
For the curious, I wasn’t walking someplace out of the way. International district, on 5th, somewhere between the train stations and the Bank of America building. My wife speculated it was grease dumped in the street which can be highly acidic coming out of an Asian restaurant.
I might have picked up a bug at Subway or Wal-Mart. I haven’t gone anywhere else. Maybe it’s allergies. Yesterday was drippy nose and congested chest. Today is congested chest (but not as bad) and my ears itch inside.
Does anyone hear faint music at night? Like a radio turned low in another room? Last night it sounded like Steely Dan. I got up and the music stopped. Other than snoring dogs and ticking clocks… everything is off. Weird.
@paul, I’ve def had that happen. No idea why, maybe a filling acting as an AM radio receiver…
@greg, did they have soft ‘rubber’ soles? And been in storage for a while?
I had a pair of Eccos that the rubbery sole just fell apart in a crumble while I was walking. Same for an expensive pair of canadian safety shoes. Common element was they were unused in a box for a year or more. Some online reading says- this is common for the modern soft rubberish soles.
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@greg, did they have soft ‘rubber’ soles? And been in storage for a while?
Nope. I’d owned the shoes for about 10 years at the time of the mishap. I wore them in all kinds of weather in Florida and WA State. Old school Blundstone soles were rated for oils and corrosives since they were farm shoes once upon a time.
The replacement soles are Vibram. I should get another decade out of the shoes since the upper looks brand new.
I’m not impressed with modern Ecco, but I have a pair just because I needed shoes and a lot of other modern stuff is worse.
I’m sure this doesn’t affect his hiring decisions, or his choices for algorithms….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/google-lead-designer-you-are-finished-gop-fck-you-all-to-hell/
‘cuz he sounds like the kind of guy who can maintain impartiality and separation between his personal and work life……..
Sad, very sad. I would not want to work with him as all of that rage will come out some day.
Does anyone hear faint music at night? Like a radio turned low in another room? Last night it sounded like Steely Dan. I got up and the music stopped. Other than snoring dogs and ticking clocks… everything is off. Weird.
Welcome to the club of tinnitus. When it is really quiet, I hear unidentifiable music. Usually it is a monotone pitch but sometimes it varies in tone. Scary as it is getting louder.
“Old school Blundstone soles were rated for oils and corrosives”
-so were my Terra work shoes. Something in the rubber like compound just fails after a while.
-the Eccos were older, perhaps even 10 years. They fit me perfectly and were a good looking shoe. I find it very hard to get those two things in the same shoe.
It’s been on my mind for long term preps. All the ‘over moulded’ plastics today will eventually get gummy, then fail. If they are exposed to oils (like skin oil) it can happen even faster. It’s getting hard to find any consumer products that don’t have soft overmolding. Screwdrivers, kitchen tools, hand and electrical tools… all overmolded.
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It’s been on my mind for long term preps. All the ‘over moulded’ plastics today will eventually get gummy, then fail. If they are exposed to oils (like skin oil) it can happen even faster. It’s getting hard to find any consumer products that don’t have soft overmolding. Screwdrivers, kitchen tools, hand and electrical tools… all overmolded.
I haven’t had Vibram soles fail, but not a lot of shoes are easily resoled anymore.
“Welcome to the club of tinnitus.”
Mine is usually the high pitched whine or “ringing”. I didn’t know the phantom music was a symptom as well…
I find it hard to sleep without a white noise generator (fan) or actual noise machine going. The rumble of big diesel engines is the best! Slept better on my one cruise ship than I had in YEARS.
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Mine is usually the high pitched whine or “ringing”. I didn’t know the phantom music was a symptom as well…
Yeah, faint high pitch ringing/whine. Right ear. If I hear the music again, it’s only been twice, I’ll pay attention to which ear.
I’d guess I’ve had this for a long long time. Even when I was a teen, I could hear on the phone better with my left ear. ( <— how was that for broken English?)
I have a little 6 inch fan in the bedroom. It stirs the air. I'm not, er, a fan of it. My ears are still good enough that if the dogs are not snoring, I can hear the wall clock in the living room ticking. And the mantle clock in this room chime. I can hear the fridge in the kitchen. Not going deaf yet.
Heh.
Heh indeed!
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lol
Dang you Weather, if you’re going to rain, rain. Quit with the rolling thunder that has Missy freaked out. Thank you.
🙂
She weighed 106. The vet always complains about her weight. Missy’s weight. I don’t care what the skinny vet lady weighs. About 130, I guess. Anyway, I’ve cut back on Missy’s food. Last visit to the vet about 10 months later and she weighed 95 pounds. “Oh, is this weight loss intentional?” Yeah, I get where she’s coming from. I told her that every time I bring the dog in, since she was a puppy, you say she’s too fat…. so… it’s planned.
Missy has a waist. She’s just a big boned girl.
Anyway, 95 pounds of Lab/Pit mix wanting on the bed during a thunderstorm is still too much.
Penny? She doesn’t care.
Oh. Side note…. Wilma was fixed after she had weaned her sorta planned litter of puppies. Never got fat. A bit plump during her middle age.
Penny was 10 months when I got her, so, I’m pretty sure she had had a heat. Is not fat, sort of Matronly stout but she did just turn seven.
Missy was spayed before her first heat. And turned into a tube of dog.
Not a huge sized sample but my theory is that they need a heat to mature. Otherwise you have a full grown but immature dog.
The next dog will be my proof. Spay after a heat.
Um. Missy is eight. Penny is seven. I’m 61 end of the month. So… one more puppy after Penny.
I finally got a camera in the garage pointed at where I think the rats are coming through… we’ll see what I get on video.
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OK. Channel 2, kcwx out of Fredericksburg, TX, is showing Roller Derby.
The names are funny and crazy. The rink looks much smaller than I recall. The women are huge. As in your car will lean low on the where they sit.
This stuff makes wrestling look real.
Roller derby is a very popular thing with a segment of the population. Not sure if it’s hipsters, but it has featured in a couple of novels lately.
Brick sh!thouse describe the ladies?
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Does anyone hear faint music at night? Like a radio turned low in another room?
Happened to me most nights when I was a kid. Turns out that we lived a mile from the antennas of KOMA, a 50,000 watt AM station and the signal induced enough current in the aluminum window frame above my bed to turn the window into a speaker. Years later, while camping in remote reaches of Oak Creek canyon near Sedona Arizona, I awoke in the middle of the night and could swear I heard what sounded like a kitchen table conversation between a man and woman. Couldn’t make out any words but the tone and cadence were unmistakable. I do know a schizophrenic who hears voices. Usually telling him to hurt himself or others.
Roller derby is a very popular thing with a segment of the population. Not sure if it’s hipsters, but it has featured in a couple of novels lately.
My cousins Incryptid book series has women’s roller derby in about four out of the eight books. Turns out most of the roller derby players are Incryptids.
https://www.amazon.com/Discount-Armageddon-InCryptid-Seanan-McGuire/dp/0756407133/?tag=ttgnet-20
and
http://seananmcguire.com/incryptid.php
That was one I was thinking about, there were a couple others that crossed my path.
I liked that series, some characters more than others….
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There is also a Drew Barrymore movie about Roller Derby women. My daughter likes it a lot.
https://www.amazon.com/Whip-Blu-ray-Drew-Barrymore/dp/B01COQASF4/?tag=ttgnet-20
When I lived in Oregon about 5 miles outside of Wimer there was one spot on our ranch where you could hear trains. The closest train tracks were probably about 10 miles away as the crow flies. I don’t even know if it was those tracks. But one spot, about a 10 foot circle you could stand and clearly hear the trains. Discovered by accident while working on the fence in that spot. The timing was right as a train went by, wherever it was, at the same time we were working on that part of the fence. I guess the sound was bouncing off the mountains and being concentrated in that spot.
A natural whispering gallery, pretty cool!
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When I lived in Oregon about 5 miles outside of Wimer there was one spot on our ranch where you could hear trains.
The trains generated all kinds of crazy echos when we lived in Vantucky. About 7-8 years dago, the grain and coal shipments to the ports seemed to run 24/7, and the master bedroom in our rental was a sweet spot for the low frequency vibration resonance.