Cool. Then warming. Still no rain. Well, not for me. I’m pretty sure some of those dark clouds that were roaming around rained on someone. It did stay relatively cooler all day though. I could actually do a little bit in the attic without overheating.
I was up at a reasonable time, and made breakfast for D2 before her friends came over. They spent a few hours watching Hamilton and singing along. I read while that was going on. Afterwards, I got busy with my pantry project.
I cleaned up the cutout drywall, insulated, and hung new drywall to close up the wall and ceiling. Of course it wasn’t as simple as that, and it took a quick trip to Lowe’s for spray foam. I picked up some screws and a fresh bucket of drywall compound while I was there.
I had the insulation stored in the attic, some from the bathroom project, and some stored there waiting for me to rip and replace the nasty 50 year old blown in insulation. That isn’t a job I’m looking forward to, and I’d just pay someone to do it if I didn’t have all the stuff stored up there in the way.
After I vacuumed up the drywall dust and assorted old insulation, I changed out the A/C filters. I’ll change them again after I’m done with all the mud and sanding too, but that is for another day.
While in the attic, I moved some stuff around, found more ebay ‘inventory’, and tossed out some rat poison baits.
I really hate doing anything with fiberglas insulation. REALLY hate it. When I do the attic, I’ll fully gear up in protective measures, but yesterday I just wore gloves and was very careful about what I touched.
Today I’ll do the first layer of mud and tape on the drywall, and do at least two pickups. I won a couple of things for next summer at the BOL, and some more supplies for projects there. Some small random things too, since I was making the trip.
Sometimes I just pick up things that might be useful later. They almost always turn out to be something I need in the future. I’m pretty sure I’ll need the foam version of a toilet wax ring, for example. Other stuff ends up coming in handy. IF I can find it and remember I have it…
Stacks are good. Skills are good. Friends are better.
nick
Amen to that. Talc on the skin, Tyvek suit, goggles, respirator, the whole lot. Horrible stuff.
Mass arrests that support something Greg has been saying for years: ICE & Sheriff Grady SMASHED Disney employee Child Trafficking Ring
67F and saturated air. Kids are off to a slow start this morning. W is slow starting too.
Lunch is made though, and coffee will brew soon.
Lot of weird deaths and accidents this last few days in the news. Not saying there’s anything sinister involved, but stuff does seem to ‘clump’.
n
The Western Way development on the edge of the Disney property is a smorgasboard for the Pedos who live in that part of Polk County.
Contrary to popular belief, Disney does not have a lot of buildable land left in Florida, and the last two parcels suitable in size and zoned for parks are on the road between Western Way and The Coronado Springs resort.
If you are a parent and you take your child to participate in a sports event at the Disney property, staying at either one of the Western Way hotels or Coronado Springs outbuildings, you are ringing the dinner bell for the predators IMHO.
For God’s sake, don’t take them to the pools … or Target.
Rain this morning. So far .41 inch and 53F. Not a lot of rain but not bad for here. A little early in the season.
A package I am expecting from Amazon, left Lebanon TN, about 120 miles from me, yesterday and arrived in Katy TX this morning. The package is now 900 miles away. It will have to be sent back to TN, probably the Maryville center. Arrival is slated for Thursday so I guess the package needs to stay in transit that long.
“They’re Dragging People Away”: Hamas Begins Mass Executions as Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza
Hamas doing what it does best.
Whoa: Who Letitia James Has Living in Alleged Mortgage Fraud House Just Made Her Situation Much Worse
[grand larceny, possession of burglary tools, etc.]
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/10/14/whoa-who-letitia-james-has-living-in-alleged-mortgage-fraud-house-complicates-story-n2195044
Every Amish family should have a state AG to help them hide out.
I wonder if Dumpy Goldberg is waiting for someone to write the screenplay?
After watching the ST: Academy trailer, I can attest that there are enough fat, Amish, females that Whoopi Cushion could be in there.
Stephen Colbert announced that he had joined the cast of “Academy”.
That series is already cancelled, but Skydance won’t announce it just yet.
I can’t comprehend featuring a…a…a trans-Klingon? Female Jem’Hadar? Robert Picardo could pass away during filming. Who knew STA had such lax weight standards? SecO’War needs to whip them in shape, not a fat, female, Jem’Hadar.
Well, rain in SoCal, first good northerly storm.
From the media you would think the sky is falling … which, I suppose, technically is true … still, it’s rain, not the end of the world.
I got my 2024 federal income taxes filed at 2 am this morning. All 51 pages of my tax return. I beat the Oct 15 deadline again. And my return was already accepted by the IRS.
I felt in terror while I was getting my taxes ironed out. Does that make the IRS a domestic terror organization ?
I saw a great quote this morning on one of the legion of news sources. “The same people who were screaming for a cease fire in Gaza over the last two years are now criticizing the cease fire.”
“1,500 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Massive DHS Bust in Illinois”
https://slaynews.com/news/1500-illegal-aliens-arrested-massive-dhs-bust-illinois/
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that more than 1,500 illegal immigrants, including pedophiles, violent gang members, and armed robbers, have been arrested across Illinois under Operation Midway Blitz.”
““Operation Midway Blitz is making Illinois SAFE again,” DHS said in an October 14 post on X.”
I do not understand why anyway would defend these criminals. They are not positive contributors to our society. The only thing that I can come up with is that they would make great brownshirts.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Wildfire: A Hidden Legacy Novel (Hidden Legacy, 3)” by Ilona Andrews
https://www.amazon.com/Wildfire-Hidden-Legacy-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0062289276?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a six book and one novella paranormal romance fantasy series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Avon in 2017 that I bought new from Amazon. I have the other three books and the novella in the series and will reread those soon.
Totally cool series for me. This makes the fourth series that I have read from Ilona Andrews, a husband and wife writing team based here in Texas. The Innkeeper, Kate Daniels, and The Edge are the other series of books. They are now starting a couple of new series of books.
The Hidden Legacy Universe is a complex place. The Osiris serum that induced magical powers in humans was released to the general public in 1863 and the world was never the same. The serum was banned after a while but the world was irreparably changed. Families starting breeding children for strength in magical powers with breathtaking results. Magic users are segregated into five ranks: Minor, Average, Notable, Significant, and Prime. The Prime families operate mostly outside the law since they are so powerful and incredibly dangerous.
Nevada Baylor runs a very small detective agency in Houston, Texas ( ! ) that usually works on scammers and divorce cases. She is a 25 year old hidden Prime Truthseeker, she can unerringly tell lies from truths and can force people to emit truths. In fact, she can burn a persons brain if she wants to. Her mother and father started the detective agency but there is a huge mortgage to a Prime Family that funded the effort to try to save her father from cancer. The effort failed and left them with a huge mortgage when Nevada was 17.
Connor “Mad” Rogan is a Prime Telekinetic and a noted combat veteran, famous and feared for leveling a village in the Mexican-Belize war using only his powers. He is a billionaire with a private army and wants Nevada Baylor very badly. So badly that he bought all of the property around the Baylor household in a one mile radius so he can protect Nevada and her family.
Nevada and Connor’s first meeting was when he kidnapped her and chained her to the floor in his house basement. Things have gotten better since then. Mostly. Now that Nevada is filing to create her own house, she is being listed as a Prime too. So is her middle sister Catalina, a siren. And her youngest sister is a literal monster with an well known reputation. But, several people want to stop the creation of the House of Baylor, including her very estranged grandmother that Nevada has never met.
The authors have a very active website at:
https://ilona-andrews.com/
My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (13,920 reviews)
Lynn
“Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones’s Appeal of $1.4 Billion Defamation Judgment”
https://thelibertydaily.com/supreme-court-rejects-alex-joness-appeal-1-4/
I am on the fence on this one. But, the award is definitely outrageous.
Crackshaft: Acronym Anonymous
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2025/10/14
Yes, there are way too many acronyms nowadays.
Absolutely a ridiculous amount of money was awarded for “feels” being hurt. The judge in the case should have made it a $1 trillion award so it is really ridiculous. Serious tort reform is needed in the FUSA.
Swan Eaters: Little Hut Is Moody
https://www.gocomics.com/swan-eaters/2025/10/13
Uh, I had no idea.
Beyond Meat:
Vegan dream in tatters as $8bn fake meat darling now worthless after brutal Wall Street sell off
This has to be a case study on how to run a biz into the ground. I wonder if people caught on to how awful fake meat is.
Pearls Before Swine: Cell Phone Updates
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/10/14
Cars and trucks are updating now too. Very annoying.
Plants? You will eat Ze Bugz and be happy.
Crimes of existence
From Newsweek,
Prosecute? For what crime(s) is the Illinois governor seeking prosecution?
So, the crime consists of being a federal agent during the time Trump was President. Pritzker’s legal theory sound insurrectiony to me. What’s the statute of limitations on formerly working for a Republican chief executive? I’m asking for myself.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/crimes-of-existence.php
Pritzer should be charged with insurrection and forced to do a perp walk in a Size Large orange jersey.
Yes.
This saves Jeff money. That’s what’s important.
When this wife starts to get a few miles on her, it will be on to #3.
And MacKenzie drove the Bronco …
Those toilets at the Hyatt hotels don’t scrub themselves, and God forbid the Pritzkers pay a “living wage”.
Ze Bugz are not food, but can easily be converted into food.
Turning bugs into food? Chickens have been doing that for a million years!
The Old School Marm is teaching a lesson – Stay out of Austin.
“IEA: Global oil market to see huge oversupply”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/news/55323217/iea-global-oil-market-to-see-huge-oversupply
“IEA data shows that global oil demand actually expanded by 750,000 b/d year-on-year (y-o-y) in third-quarter 2025, led by a rebound in petrochemical feedstock use following the tariff-induced slowdown in second-quarter 2025. However, the agency expects oil consumption to stay subdued through the rest of 2025 and in 2026.”
Crap. The oil glut is going to get worse.
This is only temporary. Most of the major crude oil reservoirs outside the USA are in serious decline. Of course, the 25 million barrels per day equivalent of crude oil and LNG that we are shipping from the USA are severely masking that.
When this wife starts to get a few miles on her,
— WHEN??? She’s already looking worse for wear. He just doesn’t want to get the treatment Leonardo DeCaprio gets for his “26years and you’re out” policy. I bet his side piece is young.
n
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/washington/article312426003.html
Washington State How police, FBI traced alleged school shooting threat to a Kennewick home
– some interesting details about tracking the kid down.
– the FBI has floor plans for every school in the US????
Know to police.
Win for the surveillance state.
n
Another win.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15191193/missing-children-rescued-San-Antonio-Texas-child-trafficking.html
n
The computer technician who got Hunter’s laptop should sue each news agency for a billion, for calling him a Russian agent or a Trump operative.
Trump should sue news agencies and the 51 intelligence officials for a billion each over the Russia collusion hoax.
And so on.
The suit against Jones was questionable at best, the award was an affront with obvious political motivation, and decision to allow the award to stand was another big spike in the credibility of the judicial system. And when the public loses faith in the justice system…
Austin/Travis County jury pool.
Stay out of Austin. The party is overrated.
Pritzker arguably committed insurrection by threatening ICE agents. He also arguably committed terrorism. He definitely committed the tort of abuse of process, and the nice thing here is that executive privilege and qualified immunity are generally not a bar to legal proceedings. (Generally. I don’t know about Illinois specifically.)
Now, I’m not saying that Austin should be nuked…
At least, it shouldn’t be high on the priority list. But if one were to have three of four dozen nukes, it might find itself on the list.
Check the prevailing wind before nuking Austin. West and Northwest wind please.
– the FBI has floor plans for every school in the US????
At one point it was stated that every high school in the USA had a Doom / Quake map.
“Windows 10 Support Ends Today. Do This to Extend Your Security Updates for Free”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-10-support-ends-today-how-to-extend-security-updates-one-year
I am so scared. No security extensions for me. Remember, I still have three Windows 7 PCs and a Windows 8 PC running.
The suit against Jones was questionable at best, the award was an affront with obvious political motivation, and decision to allow the award to stand was another big spike in the credibility of the judicial system. And when the public loses faith in the justice system…
The award and the methodology was designed to drive him into bankruptcy.
I still have three Windows 7 PCs and a Windows 8 PC running.
– me too, and a winXP box sitting here to run my vinyl cutter.
n
“OTA software update bricks Jeeps – while driving”
https://www.heise.de/en/news/OTA-software-update-bricks-Jeeps-while-driving-10751844.html
“A software update for the telemetry unit has caused Jeeps with hybrid
drives in the USA to fail – some on the highway.”
Yeep !
The programmers always know best, and it’s their machine not yours.
n
there was an episode of ice road truckers where the truck went into mandatory regen ON THE ICE where stopping means you sink. Limp home mode got it off the lake, but even subtracting the BS drama of the editing, it was clear the driver was sweating bullets.
My dad’s old win10 box here was taken over by MS overnight, so that it suddenly displayed a full screen animation and info box about the end of support, and how unfortunate it was that my hardware couldn’t migrate, but I could click on a button for help buying a new computer.