Same same. More clouds today than yesterday and yesterday there were clouds. Some moisture from the sky even, depending on what part of town you were in. East side had a massive storm cell parked over it in the afternoon, and north of Houston had dark clouds with a spattering of rain. So, did it rain in Houston yesterday? Well, there was none at my house.
Picked up my solar panel, another 200w panel. $13 for this one, new in box. The round trip added some cost. Then I came home and went shopping. Soda is finally on sale again. Meat still is not. It’s been a really long time since pasta was on sale too now that I think about it. Got the kinder some ice cream but I’ve been abstaining for the last month. My gut feels better without it.
Store was completely out of Gold Bond Medicated Powder, original recipe. There was a spot for it, but no product in any size. Grr. I’m down to my last sprinkle and I’ll have to try the drugstore today. Normally I’d go to the OTC drug cabinet, but I must have raided that, or taken it to the BOL and not replaced it. Prepper fail.
Having to make a special trip takes time and effort. Might be easier to order from Amazon… and it would be if I wanted to wait several days. I’ll stop at CVS.
Today I need to do some pickups. I am limiting my buys and which auctions I’m buying from. I shouldn’t need to do a pickup every day. That’s where all my time was going.
And of course I’ll be working the list. At least with D1 driving, she’s doing most of the kid taxi stuff on Tuesday and Thursday. I don’t get to see the kids much though and that’s beginning to bug me. It’s the natural order of things, but still a bit sad.
I’m sure there is prepping to do, stuff to stack…so I better get busy.
nick
For God’s sake, don’t hand the CoDominium more of the sub 1-GHz spectrum on the cheap.
Leave the AM, FM, and ATSC allocations as is. Ban the pharmaceutical ads on TV. The market will figure out the rest.
Today’s Tyler Durden cowardice on the affiliates refusing to return Kimmel to the air.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kimmel-gets-show-back-after-disney-has-thoughtful-conversations
I give it a day or two. ABC/ESPN has the upper hand with the affiliates during college football season, and Florida-Texas at The Swamp in particular will be a problem for the affiliates to lose on Saturday.
Dropping the truck off today for five recalls. One recall is fairly major involving some nut on the rear axles that can come loose and the entire rear axle assembly falls apart. Or something to that effect. It will take at least two days to do the recalls. The major one involves replacing the half shafts on the rear axle. The other four are computer firmware updates.
76F and 96%RH, so not quite as cool this morning.
Went to bed an hour early, woke up an hour early. Then tried to nap until time to get the kids up. Kinda sorta worked.
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Depending on the source of the data,
– this site uses google analytics run thru something called Monster Insights. All the site analysis tools seem to be crep, but this one is free and integrated with wordpress and google. It’s supposed to filter out bots. For instance, it no longer reports that average time spent on the site is <10 seconds.
Top two referrers are Barbara’s site and areaocho.com (Divemedic’s site). I believe Barbara, as many of you likely start there, but I’m having trouble believing divemedic, since he doesn’t have a link to here, other than if I comment there.
The number of new visitors to returning has to be off too. Far too many ‘new’ visitors to be true.
Thankfully, site metrics are merely amusing, not something monetized or critical to my job/income.
n
Some years ago I was driving to work on a twisty, hilly road when all of a sudden I found myself in the wrong lane with a truck headed right for me. I ditched into a yard, causing damage to the car, the yard, and the stuff in the yard but not having a head-on collision with a truck, so it could have been a lot worse. The car was drivable so I limped home. The next day my brother and I went over the car to catalogue the damage. We found that three of the through-bolts holding the rear axle to the body were broken and the fourth was missing. Well, that ain’t good. There was a hump in the road just before the place where things went wrong. We speculated that the bolts had been broken for a while and held in by friction, then the one fell out when pressure was relieved as the car went over the hump, then the car didn’t go where it was supposed to because the back end was no longer attached.
About two days later, I got a package from the manufacturer with a note: Urgent recall notice! Take your car and these bolts to any dealer to get them replaced. As soon as you can!
Turns out the original bolts were fully hardened and thus brittle and thus liable to break. The replacement bolts were case-hardened and more likely to last the life of the car. Would have been nice to get the notice a week earlier.
So another thing we can blame Geraldo for–
GERALDO: My exposé shuttered mental hospitals. Now, five decades later, the Charlotte train stabbing proves some psychos must be locked away
Geraldo Rivera, the ambitious young reporter who helped expose Willowbrook, is among those demanding that the dangerous mentally ill be – once again – forcibly institutionalized.
When we gonna hear an apology from the Silent Spring woman?
n
That’s how sphincters get worn out.
“I give it a day or two. ABC/ESPN has the upper hand with the affiliates during college football season, and Florida-Texas at The Swamp in particular will be a problem for the affiliates to lose on Saturday.”
I’d tend to doubt that the lawyers could review the many layers of contracts that would be involved in such a punitive response in a couple days, that the network would be willing to discount advertising and loose even more money, or that they’d make the threat under FCC scrutiny.
What is number one?
“The Wind Rises” nails engineering.
The story behind the story: “Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter”
https://www.amazon.com/Eagles-Mitsubishi-Story-Zero-Fighter/dp/0295971681/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.izR8bpIaVOYWW1zYO9wrbWdNsR84XYbcf4Q2lRmZSDm-iVIDicGyBwvWTZvfBXQ-_WutpWrKLpG86CnvSoq2Cy4sVklNGqqegx5XwQLBZEdw8IZQAU_GhVtSWkxjUIl6W–s7VPdNT3ZtPmROUyRLoqegIQ9DX8q8rE0H0JzQ2o.7hHiDHdnFKp2TQUiNUdikr5p7Murtx-Xv8hBct8qBfc&qid=1758631909&sr=1-1&tag=ttgnet-20
something ain’t right with this story.
WTF do you get 100000 sim cards? Who built the devices they’re installed in?
The pic with the gorilla racks, neat cable runs, and carpeted floor has a drop ceiling. That’s not an apartment. Boxes on the floor, loose wires – that looks like a temporary attack setup.
And “encrypted communications”? How would that work?
n
I bought SIM cards on EBay for my Open BTS experiment rig in grad school in WA State.
I still have a card programmer around somewhere.
As long as the card numbers are unique, the system would allow every device to make a 911 call.
Clear and cool here in the California high desert.
Not so much as a trace of the monsoon we were
threatened withpromised.Ask the viewers in Tuscaloosa how they would feel about missing the game which will end either Florida or Texas as a power in the SEC while the lawyers counted the semicolons.
Thanks for the kind words. I don’t know about “good”, but I am still very much enjoying learning about marksmanship and woodsmanship after more than 20 years of fairly intense practice of those arts.
“Ask the viewers in Tuscaloosa how they would feel about missing the game which will end either Florida or Texas as a power in the SEC while the lawyers counted the semicolons.”
Disney has proven in the past that they are stupid, and shutting down an unrelated broadcast as some sort of penalty would be in character. But they would not survive the consequences, and Iger would be a candidate for a Robin Williams Memorial Belt.
Hmm. Today appears to be my silver wedding anniversary. I might have a shower and take W1 out for McDonalds or something…
Happy Meals?
I bet McD’s for two today costs more than a date night meal 25 years ago…
n
Nexstar on Kimmel: We’re Out, Too
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/09/23/abc-reinstates-jimmy-kimmel-but-nexstar-is-saying-nope-n2194263
Wonder what it would cost to break the tapes of Luke and Laura on the run in the summer of 2980 out of the vault?
Restaurant prices are high here. McD for two is about $40 here. Yup, 25 years ago that was defintely a meal in a nice restaurant.
Dropping the truck off today for five recalls. One recall is fairly major involving some nut on the rear axles that can come loose and the entire rear axle assembly falls apart. Or something to that effect. It will take at least two days to do the recalls. The major one involves replacing the half shafts on the rear axle. The other four are computer firmware updates.
Wait, your new F-150 has Independent Rear Suspension ?
Nexstar on Kimmel: We’re Out, Too
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/09/23/abc-reinstates-jimmy-kimmel-but-nexstar-is-saying-nope-n2194263
Wonder what it would cost to break the tapes of Luke and Laura on the run in the summer of 2980 out of the vault?
My wife rewatches those GH episodes on youtube. People have posted their VHS recordings, grainy and snowy, to youtube, even with episode markers to get the automatic advancing.
something ain’t right with this story.
WTF do you get 100000 sim cards? Who built the devices they’re installed in?
The pic with the gorilla racks, neat cable runs, and carpeted floor has a drop ceiling. That’s not an apartment. Boxes on the floor, loose wires – that looks like a temporary attack setup.
And “encrypted communications”? How would that work?
n
This is a Sovereign level attack.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/secret-service-dismantles-weaponized-sim-farms-designed-shut-down-nyc-cell-networks
Wait, there are abandoned apartment buildings just 35 miles away from NYC ? What ?
“Olbermann Deletes Direct Threat To Jennings: “You’re Next Motherf**ker””
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/olbermann-deletes-direct-threat-jennings-youre-next-motherfker
Olbermann needs to be institutionalized with electroshock therapy.
“Visitors here by country”
China? Some one here is in China? Interesting.
Hmm. Today appears to be my silver wedding anniversary. I might have a shower and take W1 out for McDonalds or something…
Congrats ! Take a shower after hoofing that beast through the countryside.
BTW, my dad left me a Ruger 270 single shot break open with a 20+ inch barrel. Sounds very close to your single shot.
Something like this:
https://ruger.com/products/no1/specSheets/11399.html
Ha, ha! tRump tells the UN it sucks donkey balls, and, Little Marco tells the narcos: “Send more boats, bishes. We have plenty of ordnance.”
I voted for this.
Wait, who are you talking about? 😉
Denis; Congrats! These days, that’s quite an achievement.
That was my thought.
Five of them? With power on? And no watchman (and did anyone mention this to their ins. company?)?
No. They have to replace the half shafts and part of the wheel hub assembly. The part that goes from the differential gears to the actual wheel hub. I do have ¾ floating bearings where the weight on the truck is not fully on the axle but runs on bearings on rear housing. I think, from the description of the issue. 109K vehicles were affected by the issue with the axle. The issue is specific to F-150s equipped with the Trailer Tow Max Duty package and the 9.75-inch HD rear axle spanning the 2023, 2024, and 2025 model years.
I read that Trump is being castigated for talking about a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism. Apparently there’s insufficient evidence and therefore he’s wrong. In other news, there have been studies showing a link between cannabis use during pregnancy and autism rates, roughly a doubling of incidence. And it’s old news that alcohol causes cognitive deficits, i.e. FASD.
So various psychoactive substances are linked to problems in the next generation.
Now add that in some areas with either a medical marijuana exemption, or legalized recreational marijuana, some pregnant women are encouraged, if not directed, to use cannabis for nausea during pregnancy, and that there’s still places that consider there’s a ‘safe’ level of drinking during pregnancy.
For your consideration.
Frankly I don’t see any reason at all to require the hep vaccines. And I’m not thrilled with the meningitis one either.
There are places with even MORE vax required.
n
Various parts of Houston are getting varying amounts of rain today. We got some here while I was out, and I drove thru some.
n
Haha
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15126839/ryan-routh-guilty-charges-trump-assassination-attempt.html
Shocking scenes as Trump’s would-be assassin stabs himself in the neck with a PEN as guilty verdict is read
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Nothing new in the article, but after all, it’s not paranoia if they really are watching you.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-15122637/lawyer-signs-government-watchlist.html
Lawyer reveals six subtle signs you might be on a government watchlist
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Another ‘conspiracy theory’ acknowledged
“pestered ” makes it sound so much more optional and harmless.
n
They really can’t quite keep who is the victim straight…
Mom of high school football player who fractured his spine in vicious attack by rival speaks out on her horrific ordeal
they make it sound like the kid broke his own back
n
But there’s no bias in MSM…
n
Don’t you need to be funny to crack jokes?
Johnny Carson was funny. Joan Rivers. Even Jay Leno Along with many more like George Burns and Richard Pryor. Heck, even Dick Cavett.
I’ve watched Kimmel and Colbert a few times. Not funny.
Dunno. Is calling the President a stupid retarded Nazi and his wife a whore suppose to be funny? I’m totally missing the joke over here.
And Kathy Griffin with the fake bloody head of Trump, that’s suppose to be funny. Somehow. Why she’s not in a mental institution is beyond me.
I’m going to go waste some time and spin up disc four of The Dark Knight set. It’s probably all garbage interviews. Most “extra features” are.
But maybe some good parts that were cut from the movies. Only one way to know.
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Well, yes, normally. But honestly, the ONLY time Kimmel has ever been funny was as the straight man on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”, which was part game show and part humor show. Ben Stein was been VERY funny, and Kimmel was able to react properly to them. WHEN the writers were writing his jokes.
See above. Geraldo played his part in getting the institutions closed.
“Interesting… is everything going wrong for China at once?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/interesting-is-everything-going-wrong.html
“First, the blogger at “Come And Make It” provides a Filipino perspective on China’s economic activity in the region. As far as he’s concerned, there’s a lot to worry about. He highlights the fire-sale prices being asked for Chinese production machinery, far below the actual production cost of the goods involved.”
“In a follow-up article, he ties the fire-sale prices to desperate attempts to get money out of China, bypassing that country’s exchange controls by hook or by crook.”
“Finally, Larry Lambert at Virtual Mirage notes that “China’s airlines are in freefall“. He offers several potential explanations of why at least some Chinese are desperate to get hard currency out of China any way they can.”
If China is having a fire sale then the rest of the world might be having stagflation.
Get ready for a rockier economy.
“Trump Calls Out Global Warming Hoax, Lays Bare UN Failures”
https://warroom.org/trump-calls-out-global-warming-hoax-lays-bare-un-failures/
“Trump opened by contrasting the United States’ current strength with the perceived failures of prior administrations, emphasizing economic growth, falling energy and consumer costs, and a record-setting stock market. He touted unprecedented foreign investment in the U.S., rapid defense spending increases among NATO allies, and major bilateral trade deals with countries including the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The President credited his Administration with ending seven prolonged wars within seven months, including conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, asserting that these achievements saved millions of lives, despite minimal engagement or assistance from the UN.”
Trump has stopped seven wars ? I just know about India and Pakistan. I wonder what the other six are.
And, the UN is worthless. Offshore the UN now !
For a 79 year old guy, Trump sure does get around. He makes me look bad.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Yesterday was the Autumn equinox. It sure does not feel any cooler around here.
I am beginning to think that we are going to have a hard winter. Most of the water vapor in the stratosphere that the undersea volcanoes put up there a few years ago is gone now. We never did get real hot this summer down here on the Gulf Of America so, a cold winter spell might be in store for us. Have some fuel for genny stashed away and some canned food. And some water, you can always use it to flush the toilets.
Johnny Carson was funny. Joan Rivers. Even Jay Leno Along with many more like George Burns and Richard Pryor. Heck, even Dick Cavett.
Letterman was funny too. And usually good interviews. And featuring Warren Zevon was always cool. “Bring Lawyers Guns and Money…”.
It’s being reported that the UN had mysterious electrical failures when Trump visited. Out of an abundance of caution, the world’s diplomats should be protected from any possibility of the situation escalating*. Trum pshould order the electrical service to the UN shut down until a thorough inspection can be done and the problems found.
Even if it takes months.
*ba duh bump
Well, yes, normally. But honestly, the ONLY time Kimmel has ever been funny was as the straight man on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”, which was part game show and part humor show. Ben Stein was been VERY funny, and Kimmel was able to react properly to them. WHEN the writers were writing his jokes.
A trained monkey would have done a better job than Kimmel on Win Ben Stein’s Money.
Well, one war took six days, then he rested.
Explain the difference.
Trump Attempted Assassin Ryan Routh Found Guilty, Courtroom Erupts in Chaos
Where’s a pair of scissors when you need them?
Or a pamphlet explaining how to stick a pen in your eye and slam your head into the table to drive it home.
Could have saved the taxpayer’s so much money.
You’re assuming levels of competence and determination which are not in evidence.
When that escalator stopped, tRump should have been surrounded by Secret Service agents with guns drawn. You should not have been able to see him as he climbed the stairs. Time for another revamp of the SS.
Target is moving. Target has stopped. Bang.
n
There’s a movie clip on YT that can be described as “albino who runs the prison gets tables turned”.
It came to mind today as the cautionary tale shaping the newfound enthusiasm for free speech from Google and YouTube.
Both are evil organizations. In medieval times the families of the bosses would have been imprisoned and held to keep them in line.
Cowboy Stu’s nephew David had a story like that about a prisoner stealing the inkwell/tip part of a pen from his lawyer (the only pen parts allowed in that courtroom) and ‘concealing’ it where the sun doesn’t shine.
He didn’t get away with it.
I wonder if Jacob Samuel Winkler will be tried for attempted assassination for flashing a laser at Marine One, or if someone will plead it down to interfering with flight operations?
Link for above: Laser attack
Yeah. That’s my feeling. Hopefully not 0f with powder snow sifting through doors.
Ok, I watched disc 4 of the Batman trilogy. LOTS of mutual masturbation. Lots of “we are so clever” crap.
Some of the clips were good. IMAX supposedly. Looked normal on my TV. So, skip the disc of stuff. I saw nothing new.
Simply watch the three movies again. It is a good story.
Even you think Batman sucks. This set of movies does not suck.
Big River finally showed up today.
Hey. I bought a couple of screen protectors for my new Fire. Just two in the package. I guess ya get to screw one up as practice. Supposed to be glass. Not Gorilla Glass but glass of some kind. Heck, if it makes the screen slicker and less greasy looking I’m good.
No directions. Not even in Engrilish. Some little pictures. Looks like Japanese and Chinese text. I’ll figure it out.
Yes. I am laughing.
I seldom found Letterman funny. Yes, he was really good doing interviews. But funny? To me? Not much. /What can I say?
I haven’t hit FB in a week or so. I get e-mails and OMG I have like 168 new notifications.!!!
I’m kinda done there. It use to all be farmland. Now I get flooded with religious “Jesus Loves You” crap and “Donald Trump Is Hitler” crap. Not interested in either. And really, 30+ posts a day from each is a bit much.
What’s any one else doing? No idea. They are flooded out.
No big deal. I have my website posted on FB. And on my site I have a contact form. If you want, you can send me an e-mail.
Letterman peaked on the night of his last NBC show. Even the last CBS show was not nearly as good.
After the heart surgery, he got the mistress and the meds.
The mistress eventually got him fired.
Christopher Nolan is a good director.
The Val Kilmer “Batman” movie is worth the effort to find and watch.
Kilmer nails the split personality of Bruce Wayne/Batman better than any other actor since the films started in 1989.
We went looking for a way to watch “Love at First Bite” this weekend, but it appears that the flick entered the public domain as part of the dissolution of AIP.
Shout! Factory has it on a BluRay double comedy feature feature with “Once Bitten”, an early Jim Carrey film featuring one of my undergrad alma matter’s most notable graduates, Lauren Hutton, as the vampire.
I may get the disc from them.
So… pissing with the Fire. There’s a thing called Luna. Some kind of game platform. Not at all interested. I’ve had this Fire for what, two weeks? And Luna updates every third day. Yeah, that seems like a stable platform….
So I disabled it. And Alexa. Same thing. What’s the problem here? Crap I don’t want keeps resurrecting itself?
I just want a sorta simple tablet that can do e-mail and most websites and oh, yeah, do the Kindle shit for reading books.
Heck, it sucks at IMAP.
I paid the extra to remove ads. This thing is well, I don’t know. I thought my phone was possessed.
But really. Check e-mail and read books. Add on checking this site. Is that so difficult?
One of my kindles, every time I got to the home page it “updates my kindle store experience.” It only takes a minute, but it’s annoying.
I’m guessing it’s updating ads.
n
“Is that so difficult?”
Only if you still think you know what you want. Just relax and let them tell you what you want, so you’re happy when they give it too you (and offer the upgrade).
Just lay back and think of England…
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time for sleeping.
n
>>Trum pshould order the electrical service to the UN shut down until a thorough inspection can be done and the problems found.
Even if it takes months.
I thought Trump’s preference was to see the UN building on its side floating down the East River…
>>Trum pshould order the electrical service to the UN shut down until a thorough inspection can be done and the problems found.
Even if it takes months.
I thought Trump’s preference was to see the UN building on its side floating down the East River…
Could be, could be …
But glass don’t float.
How can you have TDS so bad your first reaction to health news is to loudly proclaim you’re doing the opposite, just because of the messenger?
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/watch-democrats-protest-trump-chugging-tylenol
Tylenol is nasty stuff. It will kill you painfully and slowly. Mixing it with alcohol use can destroy your liver. Overdose is horrible. Is it really inconceivable that it’s bad for baby just because Trump says he’s been told it is?
“Science” is wrong all the time, especially wrt to drugs. How hard is it to err on the side of caution and just not take tylenol while pregnant? They give up sushi for far weaker reasons, and alcohol.
n
thalidomide
Fen/phen
vioxx
statins
But glass don’t float.
– if it’s shaped right it will.
I think a better test would be to tie a rock to each parasite in the UN building and throw them in the Hudson. If they float, they’re a witch and need to be eliminated. And if they sink, they’re a parasite and are eliminated.
n
But glass don’t float.
– if it’s shaped right it will.
I think a better test would be to tie a rock to each parasite in the UN building and throw them in the Hudson. If they float, they’re a witch and need to be eliminated. And if they sink, they’re a parasite and are eliminated.
n
I like it !
“Manufacturing Begins on First F-47 Stealth Fighter, Set for 2028 Rollout”
https://thelibertydaily.com/manufacturing-begins-first-f-47-stealth-fighter-set/
“(Zero Hedge)—The US Air Force’s first F-47 stealth fighter is now in the manufacturing phase, with a planned rollout in 2028, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin revealed Monday.”
“”The team is committed to getting the first one flying in 2028,” said Allvin.”
Yup, we are getting ready for war. But will the Civil War 2.0 break out before WW III ?
Sean Hannity interviewed Newt Gringrich yesterday on the radio. Newt said that Charlie Kirk’s asssasination was the end of the first phase of Civil War 2.0 and the beginning of the second phase. Yes, Newt said that Civil War 2.0 has been going for several years now.
https://secure.boeingimages.com/archive/The-Boeing-6th-Generation-Fighter-Concept-2F3XC5KEOS8.html
Where is the tail ??? Mach 2.x without a tail ?
@lynn:
If you’d said “fin” or “vertical stabilizer”, I might have agreed with you, but I’ll just mention the Avro Vulcan (admittedly subsonic), and Concorde. Both with no tailplane (horizontal stabilizer) but with a fin.
G.