Cool and damp, not impossible that we’ll get rain, but I hope not. Pretty nice yesterday for all my driving around. Got a bit overcast in the late afternoon, and we had a tiny bit of moisture from the sky.
I did get almost all my pickups done. I had one company that I thought was 9-5 pickup, but had closed at 3pm. So I’ll get that pickup done later. Got stuff for D2’s birthday, got stuff for my BOL, got some logging stuff, including a cant hook. Who orders a cant hook from amazon, and then returns it? I even had time to stop at Microcenter and pick up some photoresin, and my free microSD card… and I popped into a nearby store to buy a couple things, and they were blowing them out. Online from the maker, $8 each, marked $5 in the store, but discounted to $2 last visit, offered to me at $1 each. I bought them all. $70 for a lifetime supply or use them as gifts… score!
Got the kids to school for their show, and dressed up a bit to attend later. It was about what you’d expect from 6-8th graders. They did show noticeable improvement over the year. Still, I was glad I had my ear pro when it got screeching loud. I’m happy to support the school’s drama program and the kids. Everyone starts someplace. I just wish someone (with more actual knowledge of the subject than me) would work with them on audio reinforcement. I can play the tune and march with the band doing audio, but if I was going to TEACH it, I’d want more actual training and theory than I have. What I know I learned from necessity first hand, on my own, or in class 30 years ago, before there was much actual instruction in the subject.
Anyhow, got home, and now it’s time to face the weekend.
I’ll be going up to the BOL. I just don’t know when, or for how long, or what will go with me. If it’s pouring down rain, that will seriously limit me in what I can take up, and there is always a lot to take. There is plenty to do when I get there too. Hopefully, I can get the hose bibs installed. There are other things, like getting some seeds in the ground and making some progress on the sprinkler system, or doing more sorting and clean up, or breaking more concrete, that I can do too. Who am I kidding? There are ALWAYS more things that need doing than time to do them.
It would be nice to get the base for my 10″ dob assembled and get a look through it… or drop a line in the water and catch some fish, or get the crawdad traps set…. But I think I’ll be doing trees, water lines, sprinklers, and putting the walls back together where I had to open stuff up.
Whatever it ends up being, progress is progress.
And that’s true with prepping too. It’s very difficult to go from unaware to ready for the zombies in a short time. It’s a journey, not a destination. AND the path varies, and the destination keeps moving too…
Do what you can with what you have, and keep working to improve your position. Stacking stuff doesn’t hurt and it’s easy.
nick
I need to see a mea culpa about jabs, vaccines, and, most importantly, masks.
Trump will win and then we’ll get Woodchuck Pox or some other similar nonsense.
“Deja vu all over again.”
And next time, Skippy, yer goin’ to camp, where you will takes yer medicine, gets yer mind right with videos starring VP Tulsi Gabbard, and .., eat some bugs! And, yes, you’ll likes it.
Wearing a bikini while she talks? Asking for a friend.
You know, I just might.
To the main point, though, yah, if Trump were to say that he blew it by fast tracking the clot shots, he’d get a lot of points. My opinion is that he’s not much to blame, as he’s no doctor or scientist and relied on the so-called experts, but the buck stops here.
If Trump were to say that he relied too much on career politicians and fixtures of the deep state and that his second-term appointments would come exclusively from outside the beltway, he’d get a lot more points.
He absolutely must do that now, but it isn’t in his personality.
It will be too late a year from now, with more information out about what bad things the jabs are doing to everyone and Trump getting clubbed in the head on the issue by the Republican Governors running against him for the nomination.
Really, who cares if DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers like the MAGA ads currently running in Florida portray.
Yeah, that’s the problem with Gabbard and Republican men, especially the vets my wife works with. The blue streak in the hair really gets them going.
People want to get their strange on.
On domestic issues, Trump might as well run with Wee Pierre — Gabbard and Trudeau sat in the same WEF workshops back in the day.
Look at what has happened to Trump appointees in the last couple of years, as the NeverTrumpers and deepstate operatives have done everything in their power to blackball them from employment and harass them in a hundred ways. Don’t think that’s being done just out of spite–it’s a horrible example for anyone who is thinking of working for Donald Trump. Hell, how many notable attorneys have been read out of their own law firms for daring to be conservative and take on the “wrong” case?
And if you backtrack a bit and consider the animosity in the Jeb! camp and others, it’s not just very likely but certain that they were doing everything they could in 2016 to poison the well of candidates for a lot of appointed positions. Trump gets criticized for not preparing to make those appointments–rightly so in some cases, why did he even talk to Mittens?–but the real shortfall was not in the top-level people so much as the nuts-and-bolts levels. Does anyone really think that the plan to kneecap Mike Flynn was hatched after the election?
There’s a whole lot of “conservatives” who need to realize that when the time comes they need to go all-in and support Trump as the last chance and only way to stop the existential threat to the republic. Anyone who is in a position now where the organization is not supportive should be doing their darnedest to compile every bit of dirt on their future ex-associates.
Trump’s biggest shortcomings were that he didn’t know how deep the rot in government went, that he wasn’t prepared with the people to do a wholesale deep housecleaning, and he didn’t play real scorched-earth hardball with the foot draggers in his own party.
And yeah, too fond of running his mouth.
Mr. Greg was wrong about Vadic (still one episode left, though):
It’s the Borg! LOL Geordi has been restoring the Enterprise E for twenty years. Now, that’s , a plot contrivance. “Bones” was right all along about the transporter.
Bones and Pulaski, who was name dropped during the episode.
We’ll see if I’m wrong. The big bad still hasn’t been revealed, and the Borg were dealt a serious blow by Janeway 20 years prior. They may just be hired help — something wasn’t right about the queen. Credits list Alice Krige’s voice and a body double.
You might want to include the “spoiler” warning.
I’ll give them the restored ship because the scene was exactly what fans had wanted to see for three seasons. The behind the scenes stories all point to the decision about the Enterprise being made very early so the crafts people could get to work. Even Mike and Denise Okuda consulted on that set.
It wasn’t a contrivance. A contrivance would have put them on a simpler set which wasn’t as well lit in the 90s, like the Defiant.
Frakes probably also called in favors from the craft people, who now work for Seth McFarlane.
Captain Worf destroyed the “E” in at least one non-canon book. That plot hole was *very* nicely handled.
Am I the only one who think that Dorn has forgotten how to do Worf’s voice?
I hope they don’t give Wil Frickin Wheaton a cameo in the last ep…
What a PLT article:
REVEALED: The lethal truth about mass shootings: Never before has America suffered so much carnage, so quickly. Now experts tell DailyMail.com the real reasons why – and the answers will fascinate and appall you
Mental health should be front and center. Instead, IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT! Every one of these lunatics was mentally ill. But, too many guns, take ALL the guns. The goobermint is the only entity that should have guns. They can go right to Hell.
Day started. Breakfast and coffee consumed. Bids placed for today’s auctions (lots of BOL stuff, sprinklers/plumbing/lawn). Need to dress and load the truck. Then I’ll hit the road.
n
The gave “Shut up, Wesley” and out last season. But it wouldn’t surprise me if he, Q, or some Angels showed up to save the day. Well, not Angels, this is PLT World. Maybe Captain Michael Burnham will show up from the future to save the day. Like her mother. Is Janeway still alive? She hasn’t had a cameo yet.
Sure it was. Not that peeps wanted that, but, come on, twenty years tinkering on it. No supervision I guess, since it cost a fortune. And, if just happens to have the original, non-fleet, equipment, so it’s Borg proof. And they are all on death’s doorstep. It would have been better if Janeway showed up on a roque starship.
Doubtful. The current season showrunner Terry Matalas was a production assistant during the Berman era, when Wheaton was essentially fired.
Wheaton has really gone off the deep end with revisionist history regarding his parents in the last year. Some of the “Ready Room” episodes with the cast who knew him well 30 years ago have seemed uncomfortable.
Janeway may yet show up. Tim Russ’ second credited appearance this season has yet to happen, and Kate Mulgrew is under contract at Paramount for “Lower Decks”.
And Star Trek: Prodigy, I think. At least a second season was announced for this year, at the end of S01. Holo-Janeway.
Doh! “Prodigy”. I haven’t watched either one beyond the one “Lower Decks” episode identifying the most important person in Starfleet history – Chief O’Brien.
A clip on YouTube featuring Colm Meany responding to that designation, but I can’t find it offhand.
Regarding @Nick’s comment yesterday about the noisy frogs outside his office – a favorite joke:
Male frogs: “Wanna do it? Wanna do it?”
Female frogs: “Gotta headache. Gotta headache.”
>> Need to dress and load the truck.
“Dress the truck,” hmm, fashion tips from Dylan??
I dress right.
n
(TMI?)
My dad asked which way I dress. I had no clue what he was talking about.
Rumors of Anheuser-Busch doing a reboot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ffAPN4h0Y
Tractor Supply offers curbside pickup. So, that’s what I going to do. I go for dog food and they are often out. The cat food has been out the last couple of times. The cats seem to like the HEB cheap stuff but it’s a pain because they have at most two bags. And the store is having a major remodel. No more beer on Aisle 14. More like Aisle 2. Bread has moved to Approx Aisle 13 instead of Aisle 1, right across from the deli.
I’ll go to Tractor Supply tomorrow. Easy. They don’t charge extra so why not?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/14/ross-mckitrick-the-important-climate-study-you-wont-hear-about/
I haven’t looked at the paper yet, but “can only be half as sensitive to GHGs ” seems like a statement about the upper limit, not the most likely. “What is the 95% Confidence Interval?” is the question.
“Democrats Who Have Allowed Crime to Flourish in Chicago Outraged About Closure of Walmart Stores (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/democrats-who-have-allowed-crime-to-flourish-in-chicago-outraged-about-closure-of-walmart-stores-video/
Sad. Blame the victim, not the criminals.
BTW, Rush Limbaugh said many times that Walmart was the greatest thing for the poor class of America. He was 100% correct. Good food and needful things at great prices.
>> My dad asked which way I dress. I had no clue what he was talking about.
But can Dylan answer that question?
A. Right
B. Left
C. None of the above
D. Hey, pass me another Bud Light
E. Shove it up your ass!
Anyway, “which way do you dress” turned out to be which side of the fly in your pants did the joystick of fun dangle. Turns out a tailor can customize your pants so you can look, take your pick, sexless or hanging like a porn star.
Anyway. I’m mostly left handed. Y’all can figure the rest.
I have the theory that the side that guys ‘dress on’ is the same as their dominant hand.
But don’t want to get into any further research than that. And you can make up your own jokes, but prefer if you didn’t share them.
Walmart also accelerated the demise of small towns across the U.S., putting businesses out of business on every small town main street in every county they built a store in.
They did the same thing in areas of the city they moved into, and now that Sears and K-Mart are also gone, those areas have little to fall back on.
There’s not a politician in Chicago that ever gave a one-eyed tinker’s curse about anything that went on in small towns downstate, so it’s just not possible to sympathize with a community that get exactly what they voted for. You did notice the timing–right after Lightfoot was replaced by more of the same? That was by design as they waited to see the shape of the future Chicago, and no one is predicting a renaissance.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/spare_us_the_outrage_theatrics_on_the_pentagon_leaker_merrick_garland.html
Be interesting to poll National Guard units in all the states and ask their intel sections if they got copies of those same docs. Anyone think it’s likely?
The “leak” story smelled fishy from the start, for the reasons listed above among others. However, my higher-than-the-prez clearance days are long past and things have surely changed so I didn’t pay much mind to the stink. Nice to see that others smell it, too, though.
Walmart and similar chains put more goods into consumers’ hands. Consumers voted with their feet. From a pure economic standpoint, the local stores deserved to go out of business.
Walmart and similar chains also reduced community ties. Why feel much sense of belonging to the city when you’re just an employee of a huge corporation rather than the heir of a century-old hardware store?
I don’t know how to reconcile the perspectives, especially given that many people see the weakening of traditional American community and values as a good thing.
Capitalism is continual brutal breaking and remaking the economy in the name of efficiency. With other consequences, most of which devolve to the participants having the least control of the process.
The result, so far, is people like Gates, Bezos, Kerry, Soros and a slew of similar Peter Principled morons-without-principles, and a vast number of hangers-on with aspirations or at least hopes that their boats will be allowed to float when the world is restructured so the serfs resume their proper place and fealties.
It’s beginning to look like capitalism and communism have the same endpoint.
Human intelligence is a finite quality divided among the population, which continues to increase.
Take a look at Ed Dutton’s books and videos. (“Jolly Heretic” on Odysee, a handful of interviews on YouTube usually with his name in the title, and “Edward Dutton” on Amazon.) He concludes that intelligence in the developed world is going down and in a few decades we’ll have trouble keeping the lights on, literally, as well as the rest of the infrastructure and the economy because there won’t be enough people bright enough to handle the maintenance.
I’m back-and-forth on whether I agree. A few really bright people can develop better systems which allow a less-bright person to use or maintain them. Whether the improvements will be allowed to become common is another matter. Dutton is also more pessimistic about robotics and AI than I.
Right now, the problem is that the all of the bright people want jobs which they “work’ from home, even in positions where security requirements preclude remote connections.
TeamViewer used to be a kind of fringe thing, but not the company has so much business that they are sponsoring Formula 1 cars. And that’s just the authorized users.
Before the pandemic, TeamViewer was the tool of choice on Wall Street to surf pr0n and visit the dominatrix during the lunch hour. Now it has gone mainstream. God help us all.
Gorgeous up here. 74F and light breeze. Clear. Might get to see some stuff tonight if the weather holds. It is a little hazy…
Got the yards mowed, and did the HOA lot while I was on the tractor.
Tried a couple different lures in the ½ hour I fished as the sun set. Did I mention gorgeous?
Picked up my metal supply cabinet on the way up. Have to decide where that will live.
Dinner (hungry man fried chicken) is ready. They are pretty good dinners if you are alone.
The camp fire is laid in the fire ring. The chair is out, and the dock is ready. I’m headed down after dinner.
n
Oh, and if you must…
I bet dylan does the thing where they push the frank and beans up inside the pubic bone, and ducttape across to hold them there. Gives you the smooth per-pubescent girl look he seems to be going for.
n
We had an educational system that required everyone to learn to read, write (with a pen), compose a sentence, and do math. They had to memorize times tables, states and capitols, poetry, and a lot of other stuff to advance year-on-year. Everyday living meant that they had to count change and learn their way around town from memory, maybe even use a map in unknown areas. All things that make the brain develop. Kids learned to fix machinery at an early age and a lot of ordinary folks with sixth grade educations made good livings doing complex things everyday.
150 years ago slaves risked being killed for learning to read and write.
Most children now have no such requirements. They can barely read, “write” with their thumbs, can’t compose a sentence, and have a device that spells and does math for them. The same device leads them around town and they don’t even look up. They can’t use a map and can’t count change. They check their phones 400 times a day on average.
First time pass rates on bar exams were in the news this week. 83% for “whites”, 58% for blacks. This is not an educational or cultural problem, is it evidence of racism. The response will be strong pressure to make it easier to pass, just as the standards have been lowered for everything else.
ADDED:
Read Fine Woodworking in the first ten years and it’s full of articles about making your own clamps, equipment, etc.
Watch YouTube now and every woodworker has to have a $1200 Festool tracksaw.
Adm Savage released a video this week where he found a piece of scrap steel and tested it. With a Dewalt 20V hacksaw, not a hand tool. God help us.
Let them lower standards. As long as I’m not forced to use the diversity bean… let my opponent.
There’s a lawyer in Houston who has billboards up looking for suckers with personal injury claims. “Willie.” He’s dressed like a king and sits on a chair that looks like a throne. I guess if your target demographic thinks hiring a guy who dresses like a pimp from a blaxploitation film is a good decision, you dress the part.
Or it could be that HE thinks that’s what a successful lawyer looks like.
He’s still buying billboards after a couple of years, so it must be working for him.
n
Now that he’s out at BL he would be perfect for ST:YJL (Star Trek: Young Jean-Luc).
He’s still got Loreal and nike.
n
tick tick tick
The “Strange New Worlds” producers already made the mistake of substituting a trans actress/character for Rainn Wilson’s Harvey Mudd last season.
The pirate story was obviously intended for Wilson as Mudd IMHO, but Hollywood still hadn’t felt “Get Woke Go Broke”.
Picard, tho
I bet dylan does the thing where they push the frank and beans up inside the pubic bone, and ducttape across to hold them there. Gives you the smooth per-pubescent girl look he seems to be going for.
You know, I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing that.
At least you haven’t seen it…yet.
That would go into the “can’t unsee” category.
Haze never completely cleared out, so no stargazing tonight. Nice black sky too.
n
@paul
Anyway, “which way do you dress” turned out to be which side of the fly in your pants did the joystick of fun dangle. Turns out a tailor can customize your pants
My mother was an accomplished seamstress. She asked gentlemen what side they favored. The pants she made always looked and fit great. The gentlemen liked her work enough that they were return customers.