Cool. Then warm. Then hot. Oh, and the BOL could REALLY use some rain, that they won’t get. We could probably use some too.
I wasn’t as productive as I could have been yesterday. The mower battery was run down and I had to put it on the charger for a couple of hours. I wasn’t super motivated or efficient with putting stuff away, mostly I was talking to my buddy the fisherman. But that is good too.
When I finally did run the mower, the drive belt started slipping. I was almost done, so I just nursed it to get finished. I didn’t mow the HOA lot, as I didn’t want to get stuck when the thing broke. And it will break. I have the replacement ready, just didn’t want to take the time. I did get the two front wheels and tires replaced with new. I need to grease the fittings, but these rims came with ball bearings instead of bronze bushings, so I’m ok even though I forgot. I just need to do it next time.
Today I have one pickup that must get done (the solar panels) and one that I could do. I want to keep working on stuff in the house and yard though, so who knows what my squirrel brain will have me do.
Maybe I’ll even do something with the generators if it’s not too hot.
Or maybe office stuff if it is too hot.
We’ll see. But I’m sure stacking, fixing, or learning will get done.
nick
“The mower battery was run down and I had to put it on the charger for a couple of hours.”
If the Gilbreths were deciding on Therbligs today, they might have to make a separate one called “Waiting for battery to charge”
Idiotic. Gifted program, anyway if they actually have the guts to limit them to the gifted, are far more important than any other special program at a school. A gifted child may go on to make discoveries, found business, and generally do things to improved society.
School systems invest piles of money to improve the lives of kids with special needs, even though the improvements are often marginal at best. Investing in gifted kids is far more important.
/rant
Ok, you said to, so I did 😛
Actually, I rarely click either of those icons. I figure we are all just talking, like friends in a pub, and there’s no need to approve or disapprove of anything…
Dunno what happened, and too lazy to search for it. However, seems to me that the gloves can come off. How many hearses does Chicago have?
In Germany, some leftist twit said that, when attacked by immigrants, women should just shout at them. That’ll show them!
I commented that being armed would be a better response. Oh, the twisted panties…
Today was “wield a chainsaw for the town” day. Well, half the day, because I am teaching this afternoon. “Teaching” – the students are working on projects, so I’m just occupying space.
Tomorrow the same, only I have to apprentices to help. Well, I hope they help, but it may be that they will “help”. Lottery. The big cities send a contingent of kids doing apprenticeships, to help mountain towns keep up with the work of maintaining trails and such. Sometimes you get good ones, and sometimes lazy ones. We’ll see how the lottery goes tomorrow.
We’re not fixing a trail, though, we’re cutting back trees and brush next to the town’s sewage plant. Back in the dark ages, I spent a summer at a sewage plant (in Minneapolis). After a few weeks, you no longer notice the odor – I’m pleased to discover that I still don’t notice it. We’ll see how the kids react tomorrow…
Who needs to play games with oil when the AI monkey trick continues to build a bubble.
NVDA survived the scare a couple of weeks ago thanks to Larry Ellison.
The Colonists around here have the answer keys to the exams for entrance into the gifted programs in the local school district. The programs aren’t yet useless, but the classes are hardly “the best and brightest” anymore.
73F this morning. Lunch is made. Doors were knocked on. Stirring was heard.
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@brad, you don’t allow the volunteer kids to touch the chainsaws, do you? Are they ‘at risk youth’? ie. poor and never been in the woods, likely to commit crimes? or are they doing court ordered “community service”? That is how the courts here provide free labor to the agencies to pickup litter, etc.
Do you make a pile and burn it?
I couldn’t burn my slash pile as there is a county wide burn ban in effect. No open fires. It is dry as a bone on the country here. Houston has been getting rain, although most places haven’t gotten enough to keep the grass green, but the BOL has been watching it rain everywhere BUT there.
n
Our district threatened to kill all the gifted enrichment programs if they didn’t get the budget they wanted. That ENRAGED the mommies. I think the Board didn’t realize how bad they F’d up when it came out that the programs were never at risk. It was just a ‘motivational’ ploy to mobilize a phone and email campaign of parents to the State Legislature.
NYFC has tried to kill the gifted programs before. “Harrison Bergeron” comes to mind. So does Rush, “The Trees”. The trees WILL be kept equal.
n
Our public school district had no gifted/talented programs when I was a kid. “Special education” meant only support for the retards (they were in the classroom with the rest of us but went to special assistance classes a few hours a week) and the criminals (juvie apparently had “assistants” who essentially did the work for the criminals so they’d graduate on time and not be the school district’s responsibility). The lab equipment in the high school Chemistry class was wretched and in short supply. But the football and basketball teams got new equipment and uniforms every year, so it’s all good, right?
Cue “Glory Days” by Springsteen
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/06/it-has-come-to-this-chicago-police-told-to-abandon-ice-officers-who-were-attacked-in-a-gunfight-n3807519
Part of the response should be for Border Patrol to carry heavy, and the next time respond to deadly force by lighting them up and toasting every one of the m*****f*****s . Save watching some jury of PLT’s fail to convict, too.
Should be possible to ID every officer involved and do two things: put them on a list of shame and publish the list.
My HS, in Rhinelander, WI, was just the opposite. I’d put my HS education up against any HS today. It’s like we are going backwards. Maybe we’ll regain momentum now the the DoE is dead. Get back to phonics. Get back to rote learning of math tables, etc. Dissect a real frog in biology. Be able to light a Bunsen in chemistry class, etc.
@Nick: Kids definitely not touching the chainsaw. Even if they happen to know how to use one, this is dangerous stuff: it’s on a steep slope with a total tangle of brush, so it’s difficult to stand stably, and you often have to work at weird angles. Add in occasional surprises like discarded fence posts, wires grown into trees, etc.. Dangerous stuff, and you really have to take your time.
The kids will be doing the hauling tomorrow, while I keep clearing. That’s why I got a head start today, so they can start immediately. We’re not burning it, just piling it up in a low spot, where it can quietly rot. However, this being a dry climate, it will take literally decades. I suppose it will make a nice habitat for small critters.
If it were up to me, I’d run it through a wood chipper. The town supposedly owns one, but for some reason doesn’t like to use it. Maybe it doesn’t work? Is broken? Contains the mortal remains of some unloved politician? I’ll have to dig into that at some point, because it doesn’t make sense to me.
Power is out, posting on my phone just to see how it works out
They say it will be on by noon or one. 1300 for you foreigners and military types.
I’ve been to Rhinelander, WI. You must truly want to go there as it’s pretty much in the boonies of central Wisconsin. There is a local brewery, “Rhinelander” tasting room on the main drag downtown. It uses a thoroughly unlikely monster mascot, but the several brews were tasty at the sidewalk cafe style tables. A deli restaurant bar up the street took care of lunch and the return trip was just as scenic in a rolling tree covered hills way.
Perhaps it is on loan to the DHS?
The Hodag. Rhinelander used to be the “snowmobile capital of the World” back in the 60-70’s. The countryside is beautiful there, but I’m never going back to boonieville.
– remember that the ban was put in place after one of the EMPLOYEES went nuts and shot people, spawning the phrase “going Postal”. AFAIK prior to that there were no restrictions.
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91F and 56%RH. I’m headed out.
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Carrying at the Post Office:
A well deserved victory! However, at this time, only members/donors of the Plaintiffs are exempt from the absurd restriction.
Last week an Amazon delivery guy shot a USPS guy in the face.
It’s getting crazy(-er) out there.
Two minutes that will make you smile…
https://youtu.be/lPPu6uxtqRA
🙂 I’d watch that any day over the latest pop-tart grabbing her crotch on stage. Or Swift singing about Kelce’s weiner.
@Denis
Thanks!
Carrying at the Post Office:
A well deserved victory! However, at this time, only members/donors of the Plaintiffs are exempt from the absurd restriction.
I am surprised that GOA and NRA are not part of the plaintiffs. Makes me wonder about them as I am a member of both.
Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/06/met-office-deletes-huge-chunks-of-historic-temperature-data-after-fabrication-claims/
Biggest scam in history. If Western civilization survives there will be revelations about the Chicoms deep involvement as a means of destroying us, and an estimate of the trillions of dollars in drag on the economy of the formerly free countries and damages to emerging economies including millions of unnecessary deaths due to lack of energy, food, and medicine.
Speaking of the evil Chinese:
Here Comes the Next Wave of Illegal Immigrant Truck Drivers, and a Whole New Set of Dangerous Problems
Steve Yates is the senior research fellow for China and national security policy at the Heritage Foundation. He called it exactly what it is:
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/10/06/here-comes-the-next-wave-of-illegal-immigrant-truck-drivers-with-a-whole-new-set-of-dangerous-problems-n2194769
I sometimes despise local banks/credit unions and some of their rules. I print many of my checks through Quicken, on laser sheets of checks. The current checks I have the account number is formatted differently than the newer checks. Because of that I cannot retrieve images of checks that are cleared. I can go on chat and get the agent to get me a copy but that only works during business hours.
I thought I would order new checks through the credit union. Nope, I cannot do that. i would need a business account to get laser sheet checks. A personal account is limited to the checkbook type of checks.
I have to order the checks from a third party. But the credit union support people cannot give me the proper format for the MICR line. I know about the transit symbol, amount symbol, account symbol. The amount symbol is the last item on the MICR line as that is added during the clearing. The transit item (routing number for the institution) can be first or second. The account number can be first or second. The clearing software is supposed to determine the proper field based on the MICR symbol.
The account number gets tricky. The credit union has changed software vendors and that has confused the account numbers. For checks the sub account number of two digits used to be the last two numbers of the account. Lacking that, then the base share was used as the account number. Determining the actual account involves a lookup using both formats, one with the suffix, one without a suffix. Account number length may get involved depending on the intelligence (or lack of) of the software writer.
With the change to the new software vendor the suffix is not the first three digits, the two digits suffix is now a prefix followed by a “1”, padded with zeroes, then the account number to get a full 13-digit account number. I guess this is because the credit union no longer has their own data center but is online with FiServe which handles dozens, if not hundreds, of credit unions. The suffix now becomes a prefix.
To make matters worse, ACH transactions use a different suffix than what is used on a check. For example, my one suffix on a money market account is 75. But when using ACH transactions, the suffix must be 59. The checking account suffix, now a prefix, is 17 on the checks but must be 71 on incoming ACH.
Is there a guarantee that checks ordered from a third party will work? No one at the credit union on online chat knows. I asked the order of items on the MICR line and the response “what is a MICR line?”.
I got my hearing aids back on Saturday. The left piece will not stay in, the right piece hurts. I went to VA audiology today and it was determined that the vendor, Phonak, had reversed the ear pieces. The mold for the right was used for the left, left for the right. This was confirmed by removing the earmolds from the hearing aid and switching ears. They felt normal again.
So off to the vendor to have that corrected. Another 10 days without the devices. This time, rather than being mailed to my home, I will have to go into audiology and to pick up the devices and make certain the devices are correct. The VA does pay mileage to and from the clinic.
The audiologist wondered why new earmolds were made. Apparently, the left hearing aid quit working because the receiver in the earmold failed. Rather than mismatch the earmolds (they yellow over time because of wax), the decision was made to make new earmolds. The actual hearing aid part, the guts, were replaced in both hearing aid parts. The battery was failing in one so both were replaced.
In three years, I can get new hearing aids as the VA will provide new devices every three to five years.
I was somewhat surprised that the devices were placed in my mailbox with no tracking number or delivery confirmation. 7-thousand-dollar devices with no tracking is odd.
Once upon a time, the word “Fudd” was invented. It applied to the vast majority of the NRA membership at the time, who would cave on any principle as long as they got to keep their deer rifle, duck gun, and trap gun. They looked down on us 2A absolutists, and the NRA stood by and let states get away with zero concealed carry, assault weapons bans, and import bans.
Wayne Lapierre became the head of the NRA, and talked a good game. Like John Cornyn does every 6 years, he made it sound like the NRA would fight to the last ounce of strength for your rights.
But mostly, he was just a grifter who went to all the right cocktail parties, in bespoke suits paid for by the NRA.
Wayne is finally gone, but the board is majority of his supporters still.
Look up “paper tiger” in the dictionary; there’s a picture of the NRA there.
“Fudd” seems to have morphed into something else over the years, but it was a perfect appellation
I’m a life member of the NRA and I hope the board gets replaced soon..
@Lynn
There is at least on other case that the DoJ announced would be abandoned after this result, and it may involve one of those organizations as plaintiffs.
I have read that some diamond merchants send their diamonds in simple unmarked envelopes to avoid attention.
I’m not a life member of the NRA. When my membership expires I will not renew.
I subscribe to Gunns & Ammo.
@lpdbw
Most of the NRA is ignorant of history, or indifferent, or too arrogant to consider that Niemöller was right.
Even as we speak the Canadian government is conducting a “voluntary” surrender of
“assault weapons”“scary black guns”, after which non-surrendered weapons will be illegal and the owners confiscated.What are they going to do with the confiscated owners?
They have their own mafia. No one will mess with the shipments.
Yawn. Another nail in Vegas’ coffin:
Desperate Las Vegas residents now selling their PLASMA to make money after rip-off Sin City’s jobs market cratered
I’m sure these two are highly educated individuals applied to all the casinos. Sure, selling their “plasma” to buy weed is a good use of your bodily fluids. When I went to Home Depot last week, the strip stores had at least 3 job posts. I guess a GED equivalent to a 6th grade education won’t get you a job. Even if you have expertise in sativa, indica, and other weed strains.
I was in the Neal Knox faction of the NRA Life members. I’m glad that ol’ Wayne is gone now.
I never saw anyone at the drive thru for the Salad And Go up on the corner. I hit the Duck today when I drove by the place and noticed that the signs were gone and windows papered over.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/salad-chain-close-41-stores
Soup and salad as a restaurant was played out 20years ago or more. Just a scam to burn cash and pad resume’s is my thought.
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picked up my solar panels and the other stuff. Went by my shop and changed the locks. I won a commercial set in this auction, so I replaced the lever/knob I didn’t have a key for, and the deadbolt, so now both work and I have a key and a spare.
Once again validating learning about locks, locksets, and lock sports…
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D2 and W are at a school club booster meeting. D1 is crashed out- her best girlfriend is sick and I expect her to be sick soon.
I’m on my own for dinner. Something I ate yesterday turned my guts to water today, so it won’t be leftover chicken or ham.
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Heard an old madonna pop song on the radio and decide to listen to it. REALLY nice piano solo in the middle. Music used to be musical. Even 80s pop songs had horn sections and piano solos.
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The TSU college public station is doing a pledge drive, and whining that their funding went away and caught them by surprise– so it’s important to give them money. That DJ comment was followed by a produced (recorded) appeal about “our culture” aimed at and focused on BLACK culture. Granted that the college is black, and jazz and blues have their roots in black culture, it kinda limits the appeal. I’m guessing that whites give FAR more money to support the station than blacks, just based on demographic realities.
And I get annoyed when some group tries to claim ownership of culture.
n
HBCU alma matter of Meghan Thee Stallion.
Mathew (sic) Knowles, father of Beyonce, currently teaches there. He can’t ask his daughter for a donation?
The property was the first fast food outlet developed on that corner. Now there are six.
My guess is that Salad And Go was how the franchisee sold the residents in the immediately adjacent Fancy Lad neighborhoods on the concept of petitioning the county to change the zoning for the corner. Based on the connected parking lots, it appears that the same company owns the Chick Fil A next door and the Dutch Bros on the other side of Chick Fil A.
More meme investments.
n
Author and editor can’t figure out whether to blame the shooter or not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15166945/Chilling-text-sent-14-year-old-mass-shooting-suspect-six-teens-shot-city-centre.html
Gunfire “broke out”. He was being “quizzed” by police. Known to authorities. Has a social worker assigned.
probably “gang related”
“The victims, mostly young adults but including people under 18” – people under 18 – other wise known as “children” “youths” “teens” “kids”
We probably won’t hear it when they decide that the shooter is a victim too. But we might, that’s one of the reasons I still read DM.
n
Show trials and prison.
The lefts playbook is pretty small.
BROS is DEI driven investment supported by Vanguard et al. The private equity firm that expanded the chain’s footprint and took them public has majority female partners.
My wife and daughter go to that place frequently, but I don’t see how they stay in business long term.
I had a delivery from Big River just now. Not to the house. Even though that is what the tracking says. Nope. Right in the middle of the driveway on the far (from me) side of the gate. I know the gate works. Both push buttons. That’s how I got to the package.
Geesh. It’s just 1000 more feet. But no….. leave my package the equivalent of 12 houses up the road.
AAUI, Canada has nothing like our 13th Amendment.* Their various provinces have laws against slavery but laws can be changed whenever the legislature feels like it.
* Not that the 13th A totally forbids slavery. “[E]xcept as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. This means, for instance, that illegal aliens, or kiddie diddlers, or Democrats (some category overlap may be observed) may be enslaved, all in accordance with law.
She seems to get sick a lot. Have you considered that the root cause may be parasitic infestation? Try running her through a sheep dip. Shouldn’t do any harm, might do some good, and will certainly serve as a salutary experience.
I’m a life member of the NRA and I hope the board gets replaced soon..
The NRA board is 76 members. That is a yes board. No decisions made there.
Soup and salad as a restaurant was played out 20years ago or more. Just a scam to burn cash and pad resume’s is my thought.
I used to love that place. All of the soup and salad you wanted. And gingerbread. I once ate 6 pieces of it.
Sweet Tomatoes too. All went down during the Koof.
The property was the first fast food outlet developed on that corner. Now there are six.
A rising tide lifts all boats. It is a proven fact that multiple restaurants in one place attract more customers.
Autozone gave me a new battery tonight. My 2.5 year battery was not holding a full charge, even after driving a 100+ miles. No prorate on the 4 year warranty.
My old battery was 59%. That was borderline. The new battery was 71% after sitting on the shelf. I told him that I was getting a new battery period so he warranteed it. I gave him $30 tip after he put the new battery in my truck.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Monitored Private Communications Of Nearly A Dozen GOP Senators
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/06/jack-smith-tracked-senators-n2664550
Every one of the agents involved should be out on their keister immediately if they are still there.
The phone monitoring is unclear in the details. If the cell phone companies rolled over and provided the information on request, the senators should file a class action suit in the friendliest jurisdiction available, lay everything out to the public, then file legislation requiring a court order for phone records.
Look up “pen register” and the historical requirements.
Just a data point, but meat bars 7 years past ‘best by’ are still tasty, despite looking bad.
https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Natural-Uncured-Bacon-Maple/dp/B010SXA5ZS?tag=ttgnet-20
They are low sugar, high protein, and a lot tastier than granola bars.
I found one in my center console that was BB 2018. It was really dark, almost black, but the vac seal was still good, no swelling, etc. The texture was much harder than the original.
I was gonna chop it up and give it to the dog as treats. And I did, but I tried a cube for myself. Tasted pretty much the same, maybe a bit ‘smokier’ which was nice. It was a bit more firm than the original bar, but the size wasn’t reduced much.
I’d eat the whole thing if I was hungry.
If I don’t have any ill effects, and the dog doesn’t make a mess, I may eat the whole second one…
n
Soylent poutine.
“Uncured bacon”. How does that work? I thought the point of bacon is that it has been cured, otherwise it’s pork.
I hope you survive, Nick!
Good morning from the old world.
If I don’t have any ill effects, and the dog doesn’t make a mess, I may eat the whole second one…
Nice knowing ya.
I wonder who the girls will miss more, you or the dog ?
The dog. They take his stink into their room and beds.
n
It’s been about 5 hours and I don’t feel any ill effect. Dog seems normal and as a percentage of body weight, he ate a lot more than me.
n