09:48 – Work continues on science kits and the prepping book.
With the amount of text I’m generating for the prepping book, I decided I really have no choice but to break it into two volumes. The first will cover the first day through the end of one year and the second beyond one year. I hope to have the first volume complete by late spring.
Late spring shouldn’t be a problem as you didn’t specify the year. See http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20111025 and the four subsequent cartoons.
I’m looking forward to both volumes.
It’s currently 35 and sunny here in Portland. Predicted high of 57 and a predicted low of 28 tonight. Snow pack in the mountains is currently about 10% of normal. If we don’t get a lot of snow in the mountains soon, we’re going to have a hell of a fire season this summer.
Rick in Portland
Hey, Mr. rick; I been meaning to ask, but keep forgetting; have you seen that series “Portlandia”? Mrs. OFD and I watched a couple of episodes but it was too painful and we quit.
We get snow in our “mountains,” but so fah this winter and last, not as much as you’d think. It’s just been fairly cold. Your worry is summer fires; ours is winter ice storms, which knock down trees and power lines and leave thousands or tens of thousands of us with no juice for up to a week or two. Of course, other pahts of the state have to also worry about river flooding in the spring.
Sunny with blue skies today but single digits and ten below zero tonight. Mrs. OFD has a Victorian mansion to herself down in Syracuse for the week, at $90 a night, thanks to airbnb.
We get snow in our “mountains,”
Hell froze over in West Vegas. Cars with snow on them! Lazy bastards wouldn’t even clear it off their rear windows.
I am relieved today. The DHS is going to focus on “right wing extremists”, like Mr. OFD, instead of Mooslims in the country. Read that as WHITEY! I’m getting out my psuedo prayer rug to mask my nefarious right wing WHITEY! activities.
I don’t believe I’ve ever met, talked with, or exchanged email with a “right-wing extremist”.
“Cars with snow on them! Lazy bastards wouldn’t even clear it off their rear windows.”
Believe it or not, some of the lazy bastids here don’t clear the snow/ice off their windows and vehicle roofs, which, if memory serves, is a moving traffic violation in state law. I was stopped once some years ago for having mud obscuring my rear plates, while the ass-hat local huckleberry’s cruiser was also covered in it. I got off lightly with a “warning.” This, by the way, was during our infamous “Mud Season,” our fifth season hereabouts.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever met, talked with, or exchanged email with a “right-wing extremist”.”
Well, that would be me, according to MrAtoz, haha, but also the legions of libtards, libturds, and Dem/RINO cupcakes who infest this land of ours. I am a traditionalist Roman Catholic paleoconservative, but leaning strongly toward anarcho-capitalism. I’m working my way through Lysander Spooner and also Lew Rockwell’s “Against the State” now. In any case, a Catholic “breeder” gun nut and “crusader.” Death penalty for me under most regimes in the world now. Nothing new, though; back in SEA I would have had an instant death penalty visited upon me by the indigenous enemy forces just for being part of the 56th Special Operations Wing (military arm of Air America/CIA), though a lowly machine gunner. We had bounties on us. Probably have them on us now, too.
Hey, Mr. rick; I been meaning to ask, but keep forgetting; have you seen that series “Portlandia”? Mrs. OFD and I watched a couple of episodes but it was too painful and we quit.
I saw the first episode and parts of subsequent ones. Some parts were funny, some were just dumb. It is regularly in the news here, but I am not much of a TV watcher. What may seem painful to an outsider is funny to locals. Some times.
Rick in Portland
How about “Grimm” Mr. Rick. I like that one a lot. Portland must be erie.
I haven’t seen Grimm. Our current house is in the hills and the TV antennas are on the other side, so we can’t get most stations without cable. I cancelled cable years ago after getting jerked around by Comcast one time too many.
I wouldn’t call Portland eerie. When it has been overcast and rainy for two months, I would call it grim. Our winter has, so far, been exceedingly dry and warm. It’s currently 59 and sunny out. Predicted low of 29 tonight. I can’t believe it’s February.
Rick in not so grim Portland.
I live in Erie (PA). It’s not Portland. (But it is much colder right now).
I saw the first few episodes of Grimm on Amazon Prime. It was OK, I guess, not good enough to keep me watching it. That’s not meant as an anti-recommendation nor even as damning with faint praise. I don’t watch much TV, so it’s the very rare show that has me watching more than a few episodes.
(Thinking back, I think Married with Children was the last show I watched every episode of, even the dreadful 7th season.)
I only saw a handful of the MwC series but have watched all but the latest season of “Sons of Anarchy.” Katey Sagal became Peg Bundy From Hell. After a while it got old, though; a biker soap opera.
Last decent series I saw recently was “Peaky Blinders” on Netflix and I hope they go to more seasons. “Longmire” has also been pretty good.
I’ll probably watch a movie tonight, though, not sure which one I’m in the mood for yet.
One of the reasons I liked MWC so much is because it wasn’t fiction. It was a documentary. My ex-wife got really bent out of shape when I called her Peg, but if she didn’t like it maybe she should have done something other than watch TV or shop all day. Sure, she watched the baby while I was at work, but she dumped him on me as soon as I got home because she needed a break after a long day, and I had to make supper if I wanted to eat, and if any vacuuming was going to be done, I had to do it. Have I mentioned that I didn’t shed even a single tear when she left?
(My current wife isn’t nearly as bad, but she has her “quirks”. One is that, even though she’s still asleep when I leave for work and she gets home before I do in the evening, she complains about her long work day.)
“… but she dumped him on me as soon as I got home because she needed a break after a long day…”
Ditto with my youngest brother and his wife, and our son and DIL. They get home after long commutes and busting their butts and the wives practically THROW the kids at them. And then go back to shopping on the net and tee-vee, or, if ostensibly working, going on FaceCrack and Twatter to bitch about their bosses and colleagues.
“…she complains about her long work day.)”
Yup, that also sounds familiar; you were out gallivanting and having a ball, weren’t ya? While she slaved her life away. Check.