Cool and clear, but still humid. Not as humid or as warm later though. It’d definitely Fall, although it’s staying warm later in the day than I expected. Odd weather this year.
Did auction stuff in the morning. Then did pickups. Got home at a reasonable time to work on the list but didn’t get much done. Did some work on my AAR for our non-prepping hobby convention/meeting which I hope to finally get to go through with my fellows this morning.
But first, I’ll be getting up before the butt-crack of dawn to take the kid to her thing. I might get an hour of nap before I have to head to my meeting. I can sleep when I’m dead.
Getting out among real people and engaging the world around us is a critical prep. It’s grounding, gives a reality check on our beliefs, and builds people skills and community. It’s the people that are closest to us that will help us or hurt us the most when times get bad. Knowing who they are is critically important. And getting together with people that share an interest is fun.
So get out there and do stuff with people. And stack. Resources make everything easier.
nick
Good morning!
Seize the day. A pal wrote to say he is having cancer treatment. Not good.
My best wishes for your buddy Denis.
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Temporarily up. Kid was asleep. Her alarm didn’t wake her.
n
What’s the point in practicing those disco moves if you can’t show them off in front of your friend?
I wouldn’t know aaaaaaaaaanything about that.
Even more annoyingly, while she’d sleep through various alarms, she’d wake up at basically nothing and come staggering through the house, a quarter awake, to find me, even at sixteen. Spare Kid, and my sons a decade earlier, would also sleep through alarms but at least wouldn’t wake up at nothing.
The “Black Panther” movies are the best films ever made, white man. I suggest you get your mind right.
Seriously, they should have recast the role when the actor died. It didn’t stop James Bond until Fleabag killed the character on screen at the end of the last Daniel Craig film.
Disney has tried to recast Blade, but, at this point, after his cameo in “Deadpool & Woverine”, Marvel won’t be able to make another one of those films without Snipes appearing as long as he is alive and in shape.
Snipes knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avTH3Dn_Cs
“There’s only been one Blade. There’s only ever going to be one Blade.”
Last week was the 30th anniversary of “Goldeneye”. Sadly, I was not quick enough to get tickets to the local screenings.
I did get motivated take my wife’s Brosnan Bond Seamaster to have the battery replaced. The watch had been dead in a drawer for the last eight years, but it now runs like new.
While at the watchmaker, I had him take a look at my Timex Datalink 150 from the same era. That timepiece had been dead even longer sitting in a drawer, but also fired right up with the new battery.
Now I get another rabbit hole to run down with hacker information about reestablishing data download capability to the Datalink.
That was only a small part of the problem with BP2. A much bigger problem was the terrible villains in the last several movies: Apparently invulnerable. Apparently unlimited powers, which are revealed one-by-one as needed to make them more unstoppable. Paper-thin motivations. And, of course, their human side has to be revealed once they’re finally beaten by the Good Guys, by which I mean the Good, Powerful, Flawless Woman. There’s also the excessive reliance on CGI effects, substituting flash for writing and acting.
Bad idea. Never put rechargeable flashlights in an emergency location. The light will be discharged when you need it. Use flashlights with AA batteries. Use lithium AA cells as they do not leak.
Hollywood had to work the Infallible Girl Boss out of their system following Me Too.
How many male-oriented IP franchises did that destroy?
4G/LTE will be a lot harder than 3G to switch off due to the number of tattle tale connected devices which are out there, specifically cars.
Unless the communications capabilities include a 2.4 GHz transceiver, moving a device to 5G will require a hardware swap.
And even with the “unlicensed spectrum” radio available, the question becomes whether the manufacturer has the source code for the system and the capability to build a new release.
I had a friend with a 3G flip phone. he hung onto it forever because he thought it would be hard for the government to track, unlike the 4G.
Eventually the 3G network closed down and he said he would just do without a phone.
But his carrier went and sent him a brand new 4G phone, gratis, flip of course, and now he uses that.
I gently pointed out that he uses a Chromebook at home so this is all kind of moot, but I don’t think it really sank in.
working on FO in the Windy City:
“Don’t want to see you sad, girl,
Don’t be a bad girl…”
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/10/11/watch-wgn-journalist-joins-ice-protest-in-chicago-it-does-not-end-well-for-her-n2194956
I like the video of the car that tried it block the ICE vehicle by illegally parking. Bumper torn off, license plate clearly visible–good luck with your insurance covering that.
“Bad idea. Never put rechargeable flashlights in an emergency location. The light will be discharged when you need it. Use flashlights with AA batteries. Use lithium AA cells as they do not leak.”
Just augmenting existing flashlights with another useful form factor. I carry a 3-4 D-cell heavy aluminum body flashlight under the seat of each car, a task light in the tool box (4 AA-cells) and a 24-in breaker bar with an impact socket that fits lug nuts just in case of emergencies.
There are a lot of EDC videos on YT such as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-KZcN_5tI
100mm Knipex water pump pliers, custom printed accessory holster, stubby ratchet, couple of bits, and small tools tucked in. About $120 for the package. No flashlight.
I don’t wear 511 tactical pants every day, carry an EDLBP (every day luggable back pack) or push a stack of Milwaukee Packouts or have a $25,000 personal robot follow me carrying all the shiite I might need. Until I “win” the lottery and have a beautiful princess gift me with a named sword and a personal assistant with a fold-box, I just have to get by using my wits to anticipate what needs to go in my pockets for the day, and what I should have in my vehicle or close to hand (jacket pocket, etc.)
Best advice I give everyone is “don’t carry shiite in your back pocket–your back will thank you”. My wallet went to my front pocket in my late twenties and morphed into a slim credit card holder decades ago. Quit carrying a comb. Still have too many keys. Don’t always carry my .354 drill–need to get better.
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/10/11/why-are-they-protecting-antifa-good-question-lets-look-at-the-books-n4944729
No surprise, just fyi to back it up.
translated:
“We’re too committed to sucking on the foreign funds teat to restrict the Jew-haters from terrorizing the real best and brightest from America.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/mit-is-first-school-to-reject-trump-administrations-plan-for-higher-education/
Let them be independent without federal research funds, and give them more independence by removing eligibility to student loans for any campus that does not respect all students civil rights.
And, yeah, where are we at with investigating the accreditation scam?
I’m going to echo that advice. I’d been having back problems from the time I was 30 or so. I was giving far too much money to my chiropractor until, in my late 40’s, he watched me pulling stuff out of my pockets so that I could lay down on the exam table; a wallet and checkbook in the back pocket, keys and a knife in the front pocket, cell phone in the OTHER front pocket. He said “I’m gonna regret saying this, but don’t carry anything in your hip pocket except a comb. Your wallet is too thick for you to be sitting on it.” I took his advice to heart, and put everything in an NRA-branded fanny pack.
After another month of “treatments”, my back pains had substantially subsided, and only occasionally returned. And now, 25 years later, my back only aches when I’ve been working too hard.
I binged the current season of “Only Murders In The Building” last night. Wow, Selena Gomez lost a shit-ton of weight. Her arms had no definition and her famous “cute chipmunk cheeks” are gone, replaced with valleys and some baggy undereyes, also. I guess she double-jabbed to lose weight for her wedding. She has blamed Lupus in the past for all her weight gains and losses. I’ll bet she is back up to her “fighting” weight in 6 months, no way she works out with those arms. Good show, except for her nasal delivery.
tRump has said he will pay the military on October 15th one way or another. Another reason for the Left to hate him.
Home from my hobby meeting. Still no AAR. Critical board member absent. Oh well, you can only try to push on rope for so long.
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D2 hasn’t checked in yet about whether they advance to the next level, so IDK if she’ll be home in a couple of hours or at midnight.
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It was 61F when I got up the first time, but I’m sweating in the sun now. I wore a cotton T shirt because it was cool (as is the shirt) and I was gonna be indoors. The A/C shut off while we were still talking and it got warm and steamy quickly. Yuck. Now my shirt is soaked with sweat.
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Nice day other than being a bit warm in the sun.
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I have avoided all the MCU as I never really cared much for comic books. I did enjoy the Thing when a cousin had a book… I’ve never watched any of t he movies. I was in the room when the one with Groot was on the TV, so I saw parts of that, and alec baldwin was god? And that 70s kid had a mix tape. A skinny woody had a majik arrow… and a tree talks but only says one word. Oh, and green t*tt*es. Not really my cuppa. Although the roller coaster in Epcot ROCKS.
n
RIP Diane Keaton.
We made a run to IKEA today to pick up kitchen tools, a bed tray for one of the kids, and a few tubes of Jammie Dodgers knockoffs for me.
The cafe near the exit was closed, and I overheard one staff member tell a customer that the food service was too understaffed to open the counter today.
I haven’t seen that cafe open since before the pandemic. My wife claims that she remembers it was open at Christmas last year but hasn’t seen any activity there since.
Ruh-roh.
The military payroll is constitutionally mandated. Even if the government defaulted on the bonds or hit the deficit cap, active duty are first in line for any incoming tax revenues followed closely by the VA and retirees.
Social Security, SSI, and EBT pretty far down the list, but I don’t think the shutdown will last long enough for those direct deposits to be late.
I’m not sure if that is correct. A quick search returns several instances similar to this:
and this:
Please cite sources that support your statement.
One source is here https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/future-of-pay-our-troops-act-remains-uncertain-as-shutdown-nears/
I live with my primary source. She works at the VA.
Our cat sitter, the other source and more authoritative, works for DoD Payroll as her “day job”.
I’d trust both more than Hubbard Broadcasting.
The VA nurses’ unions are making noise about a work stoppage in the event that they don’t get paid, but, at this point, it is just that. Noise.
From the lot of DVDs and Blu-rays I bought on Facebook a couple of months ago, I found a movie called “wonder”.
The package says “Inspiring and uplifting” and “The perfect film for the entire family”. That generally means “total dreck” covered with weepy slime from Disney and Hallmark.
But with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, well, might be a good movie. Sure enough, it is a good movie.
What I have is the 4K UltraHD and Blu-ray set. My Sony player suggested that perhaps the disc needs to be finalized. My PC simply acts like it has a disc but it must be upside down or something and doesn’t bother to open Explorer.
I looked a little on Big River. A 4k UltraHD player is pushing $300 at the bottom and almost a grand for fancy.
My TV is 11 or so years old. As far as I remember, 4K didn’t exist when it was new. But I figure the magic of HDMI and such will let it display a 4K movie. If I had the proper player.
I’m gonna stick with DVD and if it costs less, Blu-ray. With my TV and my eyes, hey.
Wonder is a good movie. I haven’t decided if I’m going to keep it to watch again or if it goes onto the Library Thrift Shop stack. Probably onto the stack.
I have a lot of movies. Sitting on the floor next to the printer I have (roughly) five 25 inch high stacks of DVDs. Looking at what shelving I have, add another 50 inches of DVDs. Plus about six feet of LaserDiscs.
Then there is the Great Unwatched. Stuff I’ve bought and stuff my Mom brought with her. Easily another five 25 inch high stacks.
Who needs to watch TV?
I try for a movie a night. It’s a failed goal. It’s more like three movies a week. I have things to do. Drink beer, cook supper, walk the dogs, do the general carp needed so the house doesn’t look like a ghetto crib.
So I’m getting picky about what stays and what goes onto the Library Thrift Shop stack.
Will I watch this again? Keep.
Maybe watch this again? Keep.
Will I never watch this again? To the Thrift Shop stack.
Life is tough. 🙂
Please cite sources that support your statement.
Bill ? Bill Clinton is that you ?
I have avoided all the MCU as I never really cared much for comic books. I did enjoy the Thing when a cousin had a book… I’ve never watched any of t he movies. I was in the room when the one with Groot was on the TV, so I saw parts of that, and alec baldwin was god? And that 70s kid had a mix tape. A skinny woody had a majik arrow… and a tree talks but only says one word. Oh, and green t*tt*es. Not really my cuppa. Although the roller coaster in Epcot ROCKS.
I loved reading Spiderman, X-Men, Iron Man, and a few others back in the 1960s and 1970s. Good stuff for a nerd.
My SS deposit arrived on Friday for deposit on Wednesday.
I’m not sure if that is correct
I remember in the early ‘70s my USAF pay being two weeks late because of a government shutdown. I did get the back pay. If I wasn’t living in the barracks and eating in the mess hall times would have been difficult.
Is Deadpool a MCU movie? I bought it from the $5 movie bin at the HEB. I figured it was some sort of Spider-man knock-off. Had no idea what it was about.
Dang funny movie. The gratuitous swearing made it even funnier.
Yeah. I’m not normal.
Yes, but Disney Marvel did not make the first two “Deadpool” films. Fox made those as part of their “X Men” series.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is Disney Marvel, but it is a combination third “Deadpool” film and sequel to Fox’s “Logan”.
Fox Marvel wasn’t always great, but the movies were never about an agenda.
Fox’s Silver Surfer, Doug Jones, is white, straight, and, worst of all, religious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akivd148HlM
Is Deadpool a MCU movie? I bought it from the $5 movie bin at the HEB. I figured it was some sort of Spider-man knock-off. Had no idea what it was about.
Dang funny movie. The gratuitous swearing made it even funnier.
Yeah. I’m not normal.
The first Deadpool movie is the best. The opening is the world’s longest gag.
Supposedly Ryan Reynolds funded the movie and wrote the script.
“3D Chess”
https://areaocho.com/3d-chess/
“The firings have begun. The MSM frames it as Trump going after Democrats and getting rid of programs he doesn’t like. I think he’s doing what he was elected to do. He’s the first politician from either party to make real cuts.”
“Thats exactly what I voted for.”
This is what I voted for. And for conservative justices.
Got a call from D2 and they advanced to their finals, so now, hours later, I’m expecting a call to pick her up at school. Sometime in the next hour. It’s late. I’d like to be in sweats and not going out again.
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I’m not watching many of my ripped DVDs but the kids watch them at the BOL. Wife spent the day messing around with the TV, projector, and sound system for movie night on the dock. It’s fun to watch them on a big screen wrapped up in a blanket, with a campfire.
I’ve got a stack of unreadable/unrecognized/uncopyable discs that I might try again when I get the bluray drive installed in the PC. Even MakeMKV wouldn’t read them.
It’s like the old days when copy protection used weak bits on the disk and writing in out of spec areas of the disc. Locksmith4.0 to the rescue. Loftcrack for the win.
n
– so it’s not the guy who got rolled up in Thailand?
n