10:00 – Barbara is taking the Trooper in to B&T Tire today to have them change the oil, flush the radiator, and so on. There’s some valve tick, but overall the Trooper is doing pretty well for a 24-year-old vehicle.
Along with building more science kits, I need to make it a high priority to get stuff organized and stored out of the way. We just received 15 large boxes yesterday, which are sitting in the middle of the garage floor. I’ll have Barbara in charge of that, because I tend to squirrel stuff away and then forget I have it. A lot of the stuff doesn’t need to be readily accessible. Among the items in this shipment were two cases of 15 mL bottles, two cases each of 15 mL and 50 mL centrifuge tubes, and similar items that replicate things we already have stored accessibly as working inventory. None of them are temperature-sensitive, so my attitude is that we can move half a dozen or more of these large boxes up to the attic over the garage, to be retrieved as needed. But I’ll let Barbara make that call, since she’s in charge of organizing supply inventory.
I’d also like to get some of our LTS food restowed in a less accessible area, which would free up a closet that’s currently packed solid with it. I’m thinking we could put a lot of the cased LDS #10 cans under the bed in the downstairs guest room. And so on.
But Barbara’s right. I’m covering us up with stuff, and she wants to de-clutter. So I’ll let her decide what goes where.
Good reminder for me; we have a lotta clutter here, too. My method is to start by tossing everything that can possibly be tossed, either to the trash, recycling or donated.
Pahtly sunny today so fah; and a slow start to the day here; wife and I both needed eight-plus hours of uninterrupted sleep.
Latest “fake” nooz is that Obola awarded himself a “Distinguished Public Service” medal, but all the National Administrators apparently get that when they’re about to leave office. The so-called wingnut media don’t mention the second part of that story, so it goes on there, too.
I’d give them the medal and then take them out to the firing squad wall.
flush the radiator
Generally not necessary with the long life anti-freeze that is available today. Should just be checked for color and low temperature capability.
Also using synthetic oil you can now go 10,000 miles between oil changes. Both my vehicles can use the synthetic oil, not sure about a 24 year old vehicle. Tends to be low viscosity which may not be applicable for your vehicle. But the stuff is expensive.
Rain, rain, rain but maybe too much now. Flooding in many places and too warm to boot. 55 here at 7:30am. Alta Sierra ski resort at 6800′ elv shuts down due to rain not snow.
Along with building more science kits, I need to make it a high priority to get stuff organized and stored out of the way.
Dr. Bob, I’ll gladly get you completely organized if I can move in with you. I’ll bring my dehydrated chow to add to the pile.
Madcow wants to know if Trump will put her in a camp. I hope so but not because of her sexual preferences but because she’s a lunatic.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rachel-maddow-wants-to-know-if-trump-will-put-her-in-a-camp/
She’s one of a whole crowd of hysterical lefty lunatics. The shit they come out with is priceless.
You can bet your bippy, however, that if she and her crowd on the political end of things ever came to power, they’d have tRump and the rest of us Normals in camps toot-sweet.
We just want them all to STFU and go away and leave us the fuck alone, once and for all.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco Still Dead!
http://www.ibtimes.com/charles-manson-latest-hospital-update-cult-leader-has-been-ill-while-prison-official-2470176
News media obsessed with CM. He’s not out of prison by any means. That whole floor of an older section of Mercy hospital was remodeled to be a very secure lockup several years ago. There are half a dozen prisons within an hour of here.
Frankly I think they should give him that injection he missed forty years ago.
Madcow is just unbelievable. Talk about stoking the fires. What a lunachick. And I use chick with doubts in my mind.
With the elevated cost of full synthetic oils the only thing you’re really saving is the time and hassle of having it changed (or changing it if you DIY). Twice the price for twice the oil change interval is about a wash. I use Mobil 1 Extended Performance, but I’m thinking of just switching to a good quality conventional oil and just changing it more often. I never seem to get the advertised oil life out of synthetics anyway. :/
Sure one person sticks stuff away, and promptly forgets. Have you considered a pen or stylus tablet to make a Inventory File, that says where what box of what was stored for long term stowage?
Twice the price for twice the oil change interval is about a wash
Yes, but remove the hassle and it is worth it. Crawling under a vehicle, draining hot oil, removing filter housing to replace the filter element (Toyota) or filter cartridge (Ford) is just not something I enjoy doing. Then you have to dispose of the old oil by taking it to a recycling place. The mowers are enough of a hassle at once a year.
Supposedly the synthetics provide better protection as they are more tolerant of heat, better for fuel economy (0-20 is typical weight) and less wear during startup. May be just marketing hype. My Toyota dealer who was always a strong advocate of 3K oil changes even though the manual said 5K, has now reverted to synthetic and a 10K change interval. Truck tells me how much life is left on the oil so depending on use may be less than 10K, the maximum interval.
I just think it is fairly cheap maintenance item so a few extra dollars is not a deal breaker.
“bretteldredge Before ya go to the bathroom…DONT FORGET TO LOOK DOWN”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BO2nAEsg-qF/?taken-by=bretteldredge
My worst nightmare.
Hat tip to:
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/celebrities/article/Singer-Brett-Eldredge-finds-snake-in-his-toilet-10836908.php
VW requires full synthetic in most if not all of their cars.
My wife has a Passat and my daughter has a Rabbit. I get my Mobile 1 0W-30 at Walmart ($25 for 5qt bottle) for the Passat and 5W-40 at Costco (wait until it is on coupon) for the Rabbit.
We get the oil changed annually at the independent auto repair shop I have gone to for 30 years, costs $45 for a bumper-to-bumper check (includes charging system and A/C checks) and top off all fluids.
The VW dealer charges $200 to just change the oil and you cannot BYO.
BTW, did you know that by Obuttwad’s orders ALL of our carriers and their task forces are in port in the USofA, indefinitely. That has NEVER been allowed in the past and is actually against “regulations”. Those Seals over near Russia are sitting ducks. I have more information from my still inside friends, but you would shit your pants and I would be in big trouble if I said any more. Obuttwad is playing with more than fire.
I am still looking at this, “100% Of US Warming Is Due To NOAA Data Tampering”:
http://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-28-at-5.45.44-AM-1.gif
From:
http://realclimatescience.com/2016/12/100-of-us-warming-is-due-to-noaa-data-tampering/
I am trying to decide which side is lying and I am leaning towards the climate change skeptics being correct. But, I am extremely biased since my business and engineering experience is heavily weighted towards the fossil fuels industry. Does anyone see anything not crazy here ?
Some things have had required maintenance put off, which has basically turned the things into scrap. Sort of like putting off changing the oil and having your engine seize hard. Except that this scrap will be very expensive to dispose of. It would be “penny wise, pound foolish” in saving on maintenance costs, except I truly believe that destroying American assets was the intent.
Not I. No one told me anything. It was just a little bird chirping nonsense on the wind, and if I happened to guess right on anything, well, guessing ain’t hardly a crime.
Lynn, it’s like I’ve been saying for years now: ignore what they say and watch how they act. Governments aren’t acting like there’s an existential crisis. It’s just a money and power grab. The “scientists” are getting money by being warmenist shills, so they can’t hardly be trusted.
It’s as RBT and Jerry Pournelle have been saying: there may well be warming underway. We don’t know, and probably ought to do something to find out. Unfortunately for 99.999% of us, the people who should be finding out have, almost every one of them, been revealed as liars. Not only are they lying, they’re demonstrably tampering with the current and historical data to make sure no one else can find out.
The “deniers”, on the other hand, are mostly up-front with their data, methods, and analyses.
Now, based solely on the way they’re acting and with no reference to climate data or science, which side seems more credible?
FWIW, I have no dog in this fight except the minor effect that climate scare has on the price of a dollar of gas.
What Mr. SteveF said about the warmist agitprop; I approve! And agree. Couldn’t have said it better.
“My worst nightmare.”
Well, the snake just wandered in there and crawled up over the rim, obviously; what would be worse is if it came up through the pipe under you while you were sitting there.
Over in SEA, we’d find lizards and various snakes in the hooches all the time; you really had to watch where you stepped and where you put your hands. Exciting.
Back from vets group; nearly full house today, and we tried to help our newest and youngest member from whichever desert shit-hole; he’s really wired. I think we’re helping him, though. He’s married and trying to get his first-grade son learning to read and he gets wicked frustrated and angry when the kid isn’t coming up to snuff. So we came up with half a dozen possible solutions for him, and I told him to get wifey involved, but I sense there’s some major hassle/friction with that particular relationship so I’ll leave it alone for now.
It was sorta intense but at the end, one of our comics told a little anecdote:
Runs into a woman acquaintance and exchanges small talk; her son is an attorney. She asks how his son is doing and he says ‘well, he drives trucks; he drives a beer truck.’ She says ‘Well, don’t you want something better for him?’
And he says ‘He’s doing good; at least he’s not a fucking lawyer!’
So it ended with a good laff all round and tension eased. Our psych moderator is gonna bring in some stuff next time, thanks but no thanks to two of our members who seem to be entranced by the touchie-feely therapeutic bromides and wish to push them on the rest of us. I’m not interested; already went through the CPT thing last year. I intend to sabotage it if I can, unless I see it obviously helping somebody.
“Does anyone see anything not crazy here ?”
YUUUP! Remember the first OJ trial WRT Det. Mark Furhmnan’s testimony? They said if it can be demonstrated that he is lying about one thing, then you can assume that he is lying about all.
Well, the 100% electric cars have a sticker on the rear that says “ZERO Emissions” which is a complete lie. Yes, the CO2 emissions are not at the rear bumper; however, they are at the electrical generation plane which burns CH4.
OK, there is the first lie!
CS who was a life long Thermodynamicist.
“…but you would shit your pants and I would be in big trouble if I said any more. Obuttwad is playing with more than fire.”
I heard about the carriers; I guess the next step is that he’ll turn off whatever passes for NORAD these days, and then he and his administration will do the national administering from deep inside some Virginia bunkers.
I mean, what else is left for these bastards to do; the borders and coasts are a joke, and we have male cadets and other trainees tripping in high heels and wearing fake pregnancy gear, while the top brass trumpets all the diversity crap every chance they get.
I wouldn’t put it past these fuckers to pull something off in the remaining two weeks that torpedoes the inauguration and becomes a state of national emergency.
Let’s see:
Force Obuttwad care down throats CHECK
Run up “trillions” in debt CHECK
Bring home carriers CHECK
Release Gitmo Mooslim fukstiks CHECK
Get in last million dollar vacay CHECK
Poke Russia in the eye multiple times CHECK
Pussify the military CHECK
Apologize the the World (except Israel) CHECK
Set back Race relations (go BLM!) CHECK
Make land grab 3 x the size of TX CHECK
Put the kibosh on oil exploration CHECK
Promise to fuk with tRump after office CHECK
The only thing left is flushing cherry bombs down the WH toilets on the way out.
“The only thing left is flushing cherry bombs down the WH toilets on the way out.”
That, and screwing with all the desktops and laptops and the network to make drives null and void and release virus havoc. Plus a few turds and used condoms in the Oral Office. And rayciss slogans smeared with excrement on the walls.
Boy, this place was dead today. Everybody must still be hung over from the New Year’s revels. Either that or they’ve all gone down inside their bunkers waiting for Russian missiles.
Just you and me, bro. Maybe CS out there in Kalifornia, Mr. Lynn in TX, and that crazy guy down in the Capital District.
Quiet here in the village, too. Just saw a comment on a wingnut/gun nut site that has pretty good stuff, saying that our communities are no more than a two- or three-day walk from our front doors. I plan to hump that out from here this winter and spring, starting out with short hops, of course, ’cause I also gotta lose a bit of hard whale blubber around my mid-section, 20 pounds worth. Without the back pain/sciatica thing, I could do 3 MPH at a steady rockin’ pace.
Figure 8-10 hours a day, that’s 24-30 miles, and three days would get me 72-90 miles. That latter would include Moh-ree-all, with its 2 million in the city and twice that altogether in the greater metro area. So I don’t think I’ll include them.
Let’s say, since we’re on Vermont’s west coast, 70 miles NE and E, because that would also, if S is included, mean Burlap, and I don’t want them, either. OK, I think I’ve got it, and there are a couple of old abandoned rail trails in those directions, too. A day N/NE gets me to the Quebec border easily. And due E brings me out between the Long Trail and Jay state forests, the middle of nowhere. My community out that way is bears, moose, coyotes, etc.
“Right From the Beginning” again!
http://buchanan.org/blog/liberal-democracy-endangered-species-126366
I might move to Hungary or even France. They might even have OpenVMS running and need a solid sys admin. I already have petit Francais and could learn Magyar in a jiffy.
@Lynn: Re climate change, I am pretty certain that the truth is comfortably in the middle. The earth is warming, because it is and has been since the little ice age. We are putting CO2 into the atmosphere, which is adding a small additional component. The data tampering is (imho) designed to exaggerate the whole situation, so they can write panic-filled articles, which in turn drive funding.
CoyoteBlog wrote a long series of articles on climate change. He’s not a climate scientist, or indeed a scientist at all. However, he’s an intelligent guy with a strong layman’s interest in things technical, and his articles make a lot of sense. He came up with a very simple climate model nearly ten years ago, which fits the data at least as well as any of the fancy models. The “kink” of 0.5 degrees/century is his estimate for the CO2 contribution to warming.
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It’s pretty bizarre, watching Obama from afar. He seems to be the most active lame-duck president I have ever seen, as though he is deliberately trying to sabotage his successor. Especially the stuff with Russia – it’s like he wants to ratchet up the tension beyond the point where things can be rescued. I assume, however, that Trump’s people are quietly in contact with Russia, saying “just wait, only two more weeks”. Certainly Russia is playing the part of the adult, in the current situation.
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Just read a book from a new author: We are legion (We are bob). The funniest, most light-hearted TEOTWAWKI book I have ever read. Recommended!
“…overall the Trooper is doing pretty well for a 24-year-old vehicle.”
My cars don’t last that long. My first lasted 13.5 years and 247,000 km, the second 18.5 years and 150,000 km. On my third now, 4.5 years and 38,000 km. All bought new. You must take better care or buy better cars than I do.
DadCooks wrote:
“BTW, did you know that by Obuttwad’s orders ALL of our carriers and their task forces are in port in the USofA, indefinitely.”
How come? Maintenance or to avoid annoying Vlad?
I hope that some of the Trident boats are still out there…
The data tampering is (imho) designed to exaggerate the whole situation, so they can write panic-filled articles, which in turn drive funding.
It is all about money. I well remember Y2K and the amount of money made by a lot of consultants over that issue. Lots of people hoarding money, buying food, buying generators, buy gas cans and filling them. Lot of software work for those that wanted. I even got in on some of the gravy train, not because I looked, but because I was asked.
My opinion at the time was that Y2K was not going to be a problem. Since cars had computers people figured their cars would quit working. I would just ask them when was the last time they had to put a date into their car’s computer. Generally met with a blank stare. ATMs would quit. Why? ATMs don’t care about dates except to time stamp a transaction. Traffic lights would quit? Why? So what if the light thought it was a Sunday when it was a Wednesday? The lights would still cycle. Oh my mortgage payment will now be 100 years past due. So what? Don’t you think the bank would know that is a problem and correct it?
Gave a couple of talks at two senior centers for some local folk. They were all afraid of Y2K. After hearing my talk they calmed down. Except for a couple of ex-tech people, now consultants making money on the hype, who were all up in arms that I was totally wrong and giving bad advice. Everyone needed to hire these consultants to help them get through Y2K. Yeh, sure. Like their motive wasn’t biased towards profit.
Anytime there is money to be made, as in funding dollars, to find the answer that is desired, fraud will take place. When you set out with an agenda that is going to make you a lot of money “research” will find a way to justify the answer that lines their pocket. The same is happening with climate change. Climates change.
When the climate change alarmists can provide a model that will accurately predict the weather today from data from 100 years ago then perhaps they may have something. But using data from 100 years ago, coming up with a climate prediction that is incorrect, then adding in “adjustments” to get the climate of today, and adjustments to get the climate of yesterday, is cheating. The model does not work. I could create a model that would show that today should be 75f and sunny, add in a adjustment that lowers the temperature 45 degrees, adds an adjustment for cloud cover, and a final adjustment for dash of precipitation, and bingo, my model works.
Climate change advocates of today have the mindset of “If the model doesn’t work, make the data fit the model”. Bingo, keep my funding going.
There it is.
The only thing left is flushing cherry bombs down the WH toilets on the way out.
You forgot about building a wall around the new mansion.
http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/06/president-obama-dc-house-brick-wall/
Probably paid for by the Secret Service. Nothing is too good for our soon to be former pres.
And removing the T key from all of the computer keyboards. They don’t have those virtual keyboards done yet but they are working on it.
Y2K: Made sense not to be in anything computer controlled at the stroke. Some food and water on hand, Just in Case. A few hundred in cash, Just in Case.
I know people that were afraid of their Microwave. Sheesh! Even if you entered the date, SO WHAT!
Professionally, it was big deal. I was in telecom and there was a lot of equipment that had to be replaced or updated. Step Switch billing systems were not worth fixing. Beyond that? Treat it like a hurricane drill
Just read a book from a new author: We are legion (We are bob). The funniest, most light-hearted TEOTWAWKI book I have ever read. Recommended!
Added to my cart, thanks ! I will put it in my side cart. We have run of of money due to the local government seizures of property taxes and Christmas. And, I have around 500 books in my SBR (strategic book reserve) which the wife says should last me to the end of my days so, I get a lecture each time an Amazon box shows up.
In addition to the “man made global warming is junk science” war that I have been aimlessly fighting over in news://rec.arts.sf.written, I have been noting that we are living in a new golden age of speculative fiction, the new name for science fiction and fantasy. The self publishing capability of Big River has been a boon to everyone who wants to publish their masterpiece. Or crap, caveat emptor rules here. The so-called SF old dogs in the group tell me that I am foolish, that the golden age of SF was decades ago.
Just you and me, bro. Maybe CS out there in Kalifornia, Mr. Lynn in TX, and that crazy guy down in the Capital District.
What about the part time schoolteacher over in TN ?
I well remember Y2K and the amount of money made by a lot of consultants over that issue.
The Y2K panic is not over yet. The Y2038 panic will be arriving soon, maybe in the next decade.
http://www.marksei.com/y2038-and-millennium-bug-analysis-of-a-disaster/
And no global warming data would ever be faked:
http://bokbluster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091125boklores.jpg
@Miles_Teg said:
The Tridents can release their fury while tied up in home port, the only reason they are deployed is so that they are a hidden moving target.
Berry Obuttwad is doing everything possible to mess with Trump. There is absolutely no reason, or precedent for that matter, to have ALL our carrier groups tied up in their homeports. As a point of reference this Wikipedia page has a conservative explanation of a carrier strike group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_strike_group