Hot and wet. Jumid even. But hopefully no rain. Someone got a lot of rain yesterday but despite the clouds and the thunder, it wasn’t me.
I COULD have done my planned work after all. I had planned to empty a storage unit. Lots of trips back and forth. Probably didn’t have enough time to do it all in one day, but I would be farther along than having done nothing.
I really did do a bit more than nothing, but today I’ve got to do more than that. Unless it’s raining today. Which it could be.
Or if we have site issues. That mess ate a couple of hours I won’t be getting back. Yes, I did learn some things. Hopefully they are things I won’t need again, but with my hobby site as well, who knows?
Learning things is a good thing. So is saving money, and selling stuff for cash. And stacking. Don’t forget to stack.
nick
added- some days I feel like I need a new tag — “barely adequate”
I assume y’all have seen the videos and images of the Scottish girl defending herself and her sister from immigrants, who had been harrassing and assaulting them. How bad does it have to get, for a girl to feel like she needs to carry a kitchen knife and an axe, in order to walk in her own neighborhood? To add insult to injury: the police arrested the girl, not the migrants.
Here, in Lausanne, an immigrant stole a motorbike. The police chased him, he sped through the city (speed limit 50, he was going 130), crashed and killed himself. Migrants have been rioting and burning since, because this is somehow the fault of the police. And the news sources are charging the police with racism. Huh?
Time and past time to send the scum home.
Bring on Ze Kampfs. And not just because Ze Skippy won’t wear his mask and take the jabs.
Unfortunately, that level is what will be necessary. At this point, it is becoming life and death.
What happened to you Scotland?
Remember the days of “Pick a window, lad. Yer goin’ through it.”?
Or maybe that was just Mike Myers.
ICE, DHS to Illegal Aliens: Pay Up or Get
“It’s driving immigrants to the point where they feel like they will lose everything if they remain in the United States, so it’s better to cut their losses, pack up and self-deport,” said immigration attorney LaToya McBean Pompy. “It’s psychological warfare.”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/08/27/ice-dhs-to-illegals-pay-up-or-get-out-n3806210
So, it’s working.
Maybe it should be race-ism as they were going at high speed.
Yeh, I know, I should let myself out.
I have another long train journey tomorrow with one segment on the ICE. I have reserved seats on that train because it is supposed to be heavy use on that segment with it being a Friday. The cost was $19.00 for the two of us, which is relatively cheap compared to what Germans pay for the same thing.
I think I will do the same thing when I travel to Munich on Monday. Reserve seats on the ICE trains as it does not cost that much relative to what I have spent on the rail pass.
One of our visits got eliminated as Deutsche Bahn is working on a section of track to the location. The solution was for DB to provide busses instead. Nope, I am not substituting a 3 hour bus ride for a 1 hour train ride. It takes too much out of our day. And with two large, heavy suitcases, a carry-on and a backpack, I am not wrestling that on a bus.
I will now only use 5 days of the 7 days I purchased on German Rail Pass. The extra two days was another $150.00 dollars that is now out the window.
This time change adjustment is taking longer than usual. Maybe because of age. After breakfast I went and laid down and slept solid for two hours. I am really sleep deprived because of several factors, location, different bed, time change, etc.
Going east is much harder as it is difficult to force yourself to sleep when your body says it is still 5:00 in the evening. Going west you just force yourself to stay awake.
I forgot that many of our friends, and son, use iMessage to send and receive messages. That does not require a cell plan so the wife was able to text even with her cell number inactive. WhatsApp is used extensively in Europe so the wife texting the former exchange students has not been an issue.
The two factor authentication for some of the sites I need, like the credit card and bank, are now useless. They want to send a text message to my phone using my US cell number. That is not going to work. Or they will call my home phone with a number to use to validate me, again my US home phone. The sites do not seem to off an alternative.
I tried using the chat on the credit union site and they would not send me a code. I asked how do I get into my account? The chat person suggested video chat. That worked. The only difference between that and chat is the CU can see my face. Are they validating my face? I don’t think so as they have never taken my picture. Does having a video recording of me eliminate their responsibility if my account is hacked? Are hackers not going to use video because it is recorded and they can be identified by the police if necessary? Or a combination of any and all of these? I don’t know.
So, on to Haltern tomorrow. Three nights in Haltern then the journey to Munich. We will be in Munich for two weeks.
I will spend the last night in Germany at a hotel at the Frankfurt airport. A room is expensive, about $300.00. Yikes. But I cannot trust DB to be on schedule and I cannot miss the flight. Besides, it will be less stress on a long travel day, 10.5 (10:30) flight time, time getting checked in, time in security, actually two levels and it seems stricter than the US. Then the hassles when arriving in Atlanta where immigration treats every U.S. citizen as criminal until proven otherwise. I will be spending the night in Marietta GA as I do not want to drive home after that long day. I ain’t no spring chicken anymore.
76F, sun coming up. Lots of orange streaks in the sky. It was 82F and 81%RH when I went to bed.
Time for tea.
n
@lynn, the mental effects of your loss are real. You need more sleep. Sleep deprivation leads to all sorts of bad things. Add on the stress, and it ain’t pretty.
Your mom is probably dealing with the same things, only worse. Just something to keep in mind, as it may look like old age deterioration to you and everyone else.
It takes time. Sometimes a lot of it.
n
A fine Irish family name.
Yeah, dunno why I didn’t link to that video. TPTB have always sold other peoples’ kids into slavery.
I wonder if Feminism or the cult of anti-prejudice (masquerading as the cult of anti-racism) will be blamed for the fall, or if the history websites will embrace the power of ‘and’.
n
The article is crep, lacking in actual numbers, but two questions leap to mind…
When did mid level manager at a company like Google become “middle class”?
What the heck is wrong with your reward and promotion policy that you have so many managers with 3 or less people you manage? Sounds like a culture where everyone is an chief and no one is an indian. OH MY. In a couple of years, it will be ALL indians…
n
I just discovered another problem with two-factor authentication.
I needed to book a reservation at the Frankfurt airport, or very close to the airport. I found a hotel, set up the reservation, then tried to finalize the booking. “Verified by VISA” wanted to text me to make certain is was me. Again, using my home phone numbers which cannot receive a text. Blocked out of being able to do the reservation.
I resorted to using my Apple Card, which is MasterCard. I finished the reservation without issues.
That is a reminder to always carry, two, maybe three credit cards when traveling. Especially one each from the two of the major issuers. VISA, MasterCard, Amex and Discover.
I understand the need for security on the cards, especially U.S. residents using cards overseas. Fraud from overseas use is difficult to prosecute and recover funds. But there has to be a better solution, or an alternative, to being able to verify the person is really who they claim they are.
Man, that’s true.
Absolutely.
While in London, we ate dinner one night at a restaurant and found out they didn’t take American Express when I went to pay. I used my capital one Visa to pay.
Another tip. If your significant other is an authorized user on your cards (my wife is), make sure they carry their cards too. My wife left hers in the safe at the hotel in London (not safe, I know. She didn’t’ tell me beforehand). This prevents you being stuck if you lose your wallet.
Not only when travelling, but in general. The bank that I have been using for some 30 years decided to block my card recently. No notice to me first and no explanation. That was inconvenient, but had I been travelling and/or without an alternative, it could have been disastrous.
Banks. Trust them about as far as you can kick them.
Nick, thanks for the detailed information about wire sizes yesterday!
In San Jose, yes. My middle management friend at Apple lives in a house like the McFly place in “Back to the Future” except his driveway curves to the left.
He still believes in “Happy wife…”, however, so I think they rebuilt the house and added a second story in the last decade.
It already is where I work.
I have no clue why our stock is going up today with Nvidia going down on news about data center sales not meeting expectations.
Cough … CRWV … cough.
That may have to do with the bank fraud detection. If they detect activity outside the normal location range, the transactions get blocked. It happened to me when I traveled to Las Vegas and I had to call and get a travel notice on the cards. I knew I had to do it when traveling overseas, but not in the U.S.
I now always put a travel notice on my primary card (CITI with Costco) when I am more than a couple of states away from my home residence.
It is all part of the algorithms that are used to detect, and try to prevent, CC fraud. Just two-factor. Which in some cases just gets in the way.
I tired Inkscape but I don;t understand vector drawings so I couldn’t make any real progress.
I just want to make a to scale 2D drawing and FreeCAD, LibreCAD and TinkerCAD default to 3D which doesn’t work for me. (This is MY problem; they are no doubt good programs. I just don’t think that way.)
Nick: Please send me the Viso files.
As archaic as it sounds, I always carry a checkbook and cash when I travel. In CONUS, the checkbook is a good backup. US cash works in plenty of places.
@bob, email me your address, flandrey (at) aol. com
n
ping
upright and breathing
Nothing of note. Right side of the dirt.
I just want to make a to scale 2D drawing and FreeCAD, LibreCAD and TinkerCAD default to 3D which doesn’t work for me.
Many years ago I used TurboCad for some small projects, worked fine.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=turbocad&ref=nb_sb_noss&tag=ttgnet-20
The built in tools vary from version to version, as do the input/output file formats, so research, but it worked well enough.
Do you have tickets for “Jaws” this weekend?
I have IMAX seats on Sunday afternoon.
Take the kid. The flick is and always has been old school PG.
The shark is still working.
“F1” may also be safe for the kid and went back into release in places in the last few weeks.
The trailer has most of the sex in the movie. The cut after the kiss in the elevator is to an “after” scene in a hotel room with Brad Pitt waking up next to an obvious body double for Kerry Condon.
”F1” moves. The kid will not be bored.
As opposed to the left side. I would consider the top side of dirt to be the better choice.
Schnitzel for dinner tonight at a local restaurant in Hövelhof. Good stuff. No ice in the drinks which is normal. Refills are not free. Found Dr. Pepper at a local grocery store. It tastes different than what is provided in the states.
Can we have one for Canada too? Because I think it’s going to be needed.
Only if you can work ! Or if you are rich.
The illegals have swamped our social services.
I finally ran the wire from dish to receiver properly, attached to wall and through a freshly drilled hole. It looks better than laying on the porch and through a gap in the door’s weatherstripping and then laying all over the EDC floor It’s attached to the other Ethernet wires that run across the room and the excess is coiled sort of neatly. Bread twisters are handy things.
I installed Starlink three months ago. Today I completed the installation.
When I went outside it was nice and breezy. That didn’t last. It’s just 98f and not a breath of wind. Almost like crawling around in the attic.
I need to trim brush. The speed test site says 348×32 on Moa. On this machine in the house, 144×12 just now. It was 100+ Mb faster a month or so ago but then we had some rain. It shows in the Nanobeam settings, too. No big deal, I have a new brush cutter.
“Massive! Minnesota Trans Cult Member’s Father Has Worked For 29 Years As A Top-Level CIA/DOD Contractor”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/massive-minnesota-trans-cult-members-father-has-worked-for-29-years-as-a-top-level-cia-dod-contractor
“Why are so many school shooters’ family members linked to the intelligence community?”
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Once again, I give you one of the Pentagon’s leading experts on the Korean Peninsula.
Reading between the lines on the arrest, it is apparent that the Pentagon cut a plea deal with the perp arrested at a private airstrip in Virginia rather than get photographed being frog-marched throughTampa International or Dulles.
https://mugshots.com/US-States/Florida/Hillsborough-County-FL/Brandon/Glen-Alan-Nagy.4695502.html
Early 2011 timing raises the possibility that Pam Bondi may have either negotiated the deal on behalf of her boss until that January, Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober, or exercised her authority as the newly inaugurated Attorney General of Florida.
The records are sealed. No one will know for sure except the parties directly involved.
“Sisu: Road to Revenge”
Rest assured, once again, nothing will happen to the little dog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JotWLTbDN5E
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/08/28/media-abandons-the-retaliation-narrative-indicating-that-john-bolton-is-really-cooked-n2193337
So the Bidenista’s were preparing to take his scalp, and we’re just seeing an ongoing investigation.
Priceless eff on face of NYT and other PLT MSM.
‘Stache was found by a court to be in violation of his NDA years ago, but they couldn’t prevent his 2020 book from coming out because 200,000 copies had allegedly already been printed*. There should have been a civil suit to attach his earnings.
*I suspect this is a fantasy number. I frequent used bookstores and have seen exactly one copy in the wild. And the used price on The River is too high for a book that no one cares about. The number is either entirely false or they “printed” 200,000 of the title page and immediately pulped them.
Pulped like most other politicians’ books. Essentially, a bribe from the publisher.
Here’s one that will blow your mind. I’m a fan of both, but I didn’t know the factoid about Diedrich Bader’s father until recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NEyohDGRM
“Elon Musk’s Boring Company is interested in Houston, investigation finds”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/boring-company-houston-tunnels-21019744.php
“The Boring Company, billionaire Elon Musk’s tunneling firm based in Bastrop, has garnered the attention of leaders in Tennessee and at Texas A&M for plans that aim to address congestion and traffic. But outside of that, Musk also thinks it could tackle storms and flooding and he has an idea for a big Houston project.”
“Musk has been trying to get Texas officials to hire the Boring Company to build two tunnels around a major watershed in Houston, according to an investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the Houston Chronicle. The proposal comes as flood experts have weighed the possibility of a tunnel system across Harris County in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, with studies exploring how it could transport stormwater out to the Gulf. The devastating hurricane, which made landfall in Aug. 2017 as a Category 4 storm, killed dozens and pushed local leaders to consider ways to protect the community during future floods.”
Sounds good to me. The Boring Company is a proven entity.
Here, in Lausanne, an immigrant stole a motorbike. The police chased him, he sped through the city (speed limit 50, he was going 130), crashed and killed himself. Migrants have been rioting and burning since, because this is somehow the fault of the police. And the news sources are charging the police with racism. Huh?
Time and past time to send the scum home.
You are past the time to send them home, you are getting close to the machine gun time.
Crankshaft: Driving the School Bus
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/08/25
There is no way I would want to drive a school bus either. Especially with small monsters on it.
“Pulped like most other politicians’ books. Essentially, a bribe from the publisher.”
Nope. Copies of books by the Clinton’s and Obama’s ghost writers are plentiful. Same for the younger Bush’s. The difference in the number allegedly printed does not account for the discrepancy.
A new copy of Bolton’s book was $12; used copies at $8. eBay shows about 30 copies purchased in June/July. Since rumor mill started ahead of the search there have been 300 copies sold, and the bots are juicing the fantasy prices.
The book deals are generally payola. Prove me wrong.
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Picked up from three auctions in a big loop, then started on clearing the storage unit that was most recently burgled. Got about ⅓ of it in the first load. Sweaty hot in the sun, not bad in the shade, with breeze.
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D2 has her first football game as a member of the marching band. Hope she enjoys it, she’s been spending a lot of time and effort on it.
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Time for some dinner soon, but D1 and W1 are MIA.
n
I want to see the promised tunnel between South Padre Island and Boca Chica happen first.
Over The Hedge: Zombie Lawyer
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/08/27
“Will Litigate For Brains”
Yup, that is a new one.
Questionable Content: Yay is back !
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5642
Wait, Yay is now a singular body, not hundreds of bodies ?
“Monkey”
https://areaocho.com/monkey/
That is terrible. Maybe NSFW.
I want to see the promised tunnel between South Padre Island and Boca Chica happen first.
Who promised the tunnel ? Can you point to the quote ?
Kinda wet in the swamp. Tunnels are problematic, although I take the one on the east side of town as often as I can, just because it’s there.
Massive tunnel projects, for flood control or other reasons, seem to turn into massive money pits. The Big Dig. Deep Tunnel. Blue cities, but then so is Houston, even if in a red state.
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Fell asleep in the chair after dinner, so now that I’m awake, I’m headed to bed.
n
I learned a longer version of the monkey/cue ball joke years ago. The classics live forever…
n
@lynn, the mental effects of your loss are real. You need more sleep. Sleep deprivation leads to all sorts of bad things. Add on the stress, and it ain’t pretty.
Your mom is probably dealing with the same things, only worse. Just something to keep in mind, as it may look like old age deterioration to you and everyone else.
It takes time. Sometimes a lot of it.
Yup. The real problem is that I am picking up the pieces all over the place.
I should have been more insistent with Dad to put more backups in place instead of being the Lone Ranger. I spent two hours in a bank today trying to get access to $7,000 that all three signatories are dead now, including Dad. I have taken control of that business via the majority shareholders.
I knew that Dad was letting things hang out in the wind but I always figured that he would continue to dodge the Reaper for another 5 or 6 years from any given day.