Milder today, I hope. Yesterday turned out to be not so bad. It wasn’t as humid as Wednesday, nor as hot. And there was a bit more sunlight. Up north it would be an Indian Summer. Here it’s just Houston weather.
I didn’t get much done in the morning yesterday. The meds hadn’t completely flushed out, and I was feeling weird. Took more of a nap than usual, but felt good when I woke. I am stiff and sore, but I don’t feel like there are any skeletal issues. Just avoiding neck problems is a blessing.
In the afternoon I got my pickups done, mostly stuff for the BOL, and even moved a load out of storage. Plenty more loads still to move, but I’m chipping away at it.
It’s getting past time to figure out what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. We want to be at the lake, which means buying the meal and fixin’s, which means a bit of planning. There is also the complication of the kids’ activities this week and D1’s new job. Her second day working will be Black Friday. That should be bad for SO MANY people…
Technically I have a pickup or two north of here today. Both are on the way to the BOL, so I could grab them on my way past– if I go. But I’ll be up there during the week and for Thanksgiving, so I should probably keep moving here… Choices need to be made, and I’m just not feeling it.
Some things will happen, and some stuff will get done. It just might not be me doing them. Or at least, not PLANNING to do them.
I’m planning to continue working my list, and adding to the stacks.
That’s enough for now.
nick
Winter has arrived. We have 4-5 cm of snow, with another 10-15cm coming on Monday. Cold, well below zero (C). Tomorrow should be sunny, though, which will help clear the roads. Good thing, since I need to make a long trip with a trailer.
Our nutty neighbors are putting up a “fence” on their side of our fence. Our fence is chain-link, 1 meter high. They are apparently worried about deer hopping over it and into their garden, so they’re putting up posts, but with only a single, dark-green wire at around 1.5 meters. Almost invisible, especially in the dark when the deer are moving around. Seems like dumb idea…
Good morning! Friday. A day off for me. Hurray!
Winter has arrived here at the BOL too. I spent the afternoon yesterday out in the snow with a rifle. I was cold despite my warm gear. I think I might have caught a chill on Wednesday, when I spent the afternoon in a frigid office without warm gear.
We seem to have had an additional 10-15 cm (4-6″) of global warming overnight, and there is more falling now. It looks nice. Festive. The school kids down the road are having a field day with sleds, snowmen and snowballs.
The plows were out overnight and early this morning, so the roads don’t look too bad. I will have to shovel the footpath, though. Ah well.
Brad, your nutty neighbours’ “fence” sounds like it is calculated to injure deer. I would be inclined to drop a dime on them to the forestry service before you have a deer with a broken neck hanging across your fence.
Nick, good luck to D1 for her job!
Wishing you all a beautiful day.
The French have a lovely idiom for that moment when the perfect comeback or witty riposte only afterwards occurs to one – the “on the stairs moment”, because it happens to you on the stairs on the way out.
You also missed the opportunity to mention that your ladies work for chickenfeed 😉
Someone is practicing medicine. Real science. Imagine!
Quick! Put a stop to that a prescribe a pill!
“Brad, your nutty neighbours’ “fence” sounds like it is calculated to injure deer. I would be inclined to drop a dime on them to the forestry service before you have a deer with a broken neck hanging across your fence.”
My first thought, also.
Warp speed a beautiful vaccine.
Safe and effective!
Proven, safe, and effective treatment, not even a cure, but just make it better, would FLY off the shelves.
Mine doesn’t interfere with my life much but I’m aware of it almost all the time. I’ve got friends who do restrict their activities because of it. Lots of musicians, carpenters, shooters, etc as a market.
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72F this morning. Didn’t see the %RH but it’s probably high.
Coffee is started.
I’m still processing metabolites so I might head back to bed for an hour or so once the house is empty. Even half a dose lingers. On the other hand, my neck is ok and my back is within normal levels…
n
Meatspace for the win!
My hunting and shooting buddy, who is also one of the snowplough drivers, kindly ran the ‘plough along my section of the pavement and saved me a lot of shovelling. I must remember I owe him a few beers.
A bit of weirdness, an old injury on my finger (sliced the heck out of it, got 7 stitches) is itchy and tingly this morning. It’s not one of my scars that normally does anything to draw my attention. In more than 20 years, I can’t remember it feeling like anything more than a few times, and nothing recent.
Whatever doesn’t kill us … plagues us for the rest of our lives.
n
Ask me about marriage.
Pass
Winter is here. Ran the fireplace yesterday afternoon into evening (gas logs – too many air restrictions to bother real wood anymore.) As EdH notes, lots of rain in SoCal, well all of Cal. Looking at the railroad cams like I often do, snow on the Tehachapis. Likely a little over 4000ft.
https://www.youtube.com/@TehachapiLiveTrainCam/streams
five cams from Mojave to Edison, just east of B’field
Brad, how likely is it that the neighbors could get
hung uphanged in their own wire trap? Could such an eventuality conceivably bearrangedset upriggedencouraged? Sure, that would leave grotesque and probably rank frozen statues where you can see them, but sometimes sacrifices need to be made.@SteveF: Looking for a contract?
The USPS 2976.preliminary report is out.
It seems to be fatigue at the pylon-wing connection joints, at about 2/3rds of the cycles before a major inspection of them was required.
I’m not surprised that the DC-10 and MD-11 airframes are grounded, but it would seem to be a fixable issue, replace & inspect more often.
More seriously, the wing fire not going out, and the center engine shutting down after flame ingestion … I think you are required to be able to continue flight in a one engine out circumstance … but if the engine safely departing the a/c causes the center engine to fail… I don’t know. Was it a freak happening or does it happen a lot?
Scurvy, Vitamin C deficiency, can cause old scars to open up.
You might check you are getting enough, or that medications aren’t blocking it, or there are some sort of issues with collagen production/maintenance.
Perhaps get SteveF’s chickens to take a look?
You only need bi-weekly boosters, but wait, there’s more! It is all free! Paid for by your goobermint. No cost to you at all, just the rich!
What should I ask, my sweet Summer Papa?
“You only need bi-weekly boosters,”
in the new suppository form.
And six trillion dollars of printing press money.
PlayStation 5 for everyone!
Sorry, but I refuse to fly commercial until Magaw’s Morons/Loy’s Losers/Stone’s Stoners/Hawley’s Heisters/Pistole’s Pickpockets/Neffenger’s Numbskulls/Pekoske’s Perverts/McNeill’s Morons are out of the picture. I don’t play security theater.
Sorry on this one, too, but my chickens are not licensed to practice medicine in Texas. Maybe if Nick comes up this way sometime.
They should package it in a .22 caliber capsule which can be fired directly into the heart. Save the RNA the trouble of having to migrate there on its own.
And, oh, the wailing when it was found that the stimmy checks were just advances on tax refunds.
Meanwhile, my wife bitched bitterly at me in 2021 (?) that we weren’t getting a check because my income was too high the year before.* I never did get an apology when she discovered that the checks weren’t a gift.
* My income varies greatly from year to year, from “holy smokes, that’s a lot of money” to “dig deep into savings to pay the bills”. As I often say, self-employment is not for the faint-hearted.
Maybe you need to take more regular “contracts”?
Winter is here. Just had the first Glühwein and Lebkuchen of the season.
Yep.
Neither are a lot of doctors at the Austin VA clinics, but that doesn’t stop them.
Bang Bang!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swalwell-announces-run-california-governor-amid-probe-alleged-mortgage-fraud
Coming to you direct from the main ceremonial chamber of the Masonic Temple of Hollywood, its “Jimmy Kimmel Live”!
Was she planning to arbitrage video game consoles too?
You smell that? Do you smell that? Farts, fraud, and Chinese prostitute, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
my chickens are not licensed to practice medicine in Texas
– but are they licensed to BE medicine in Texas?? I’ve heard that chicken soup was good for the soul…*
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Been feeling weird all day, just a little bit off. Nothing particularly concerning, but it is odd.
Probably not driving to the BOL tonight. With all the holiday coming up, there’s plenty to do here.
n
*kidding! we don’t eat pets
The VA clinic is considered federal property, not state. The doctors do not have to be licensed in the state. It happened to me a Randolph AFB (the name at the time) where the doctor I saw had lost her license in Texas but did not need a license on a federal facility.
The inquiring minds want to know how you know how all that smells. (six words in a row with an “O”. How quaint.)
The VA requires a license from at least one state in theory.
“Parents protest Humble ISD adopting program that allows employees to carry guns”
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/humble-isd-guns-teachers-21201012.php
“Last week, board members voted 6-1 to join Texas’ School Marshal Program—a state-approved program that allows employees with a license to carry a firearm access to a gun on campus.”
“The program, implemented by law in 2013, is meant to “prevent the act of murder or serious bodily injury on school premises,” according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement’s (TCOLE) website. TCOLE oversees the program, which the Texas Legislature approved after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.”
“Those who participate in hopes of becoming a school marshal must participate in 80 hours of training and undergo a psychological exam.”
Usually I am on the side of the parents but in this case, the parents are idiots.
Questionable Content: Moray is having a great day !
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5705
Wait, Moray is using a straight pin to hold on her name tag. How does that not puncture her whatever that is body ?
You’d better watch yourself. Because they’re watching you. With Flock cameras.
Eh, maybe. On the whole, I am not impressed with the judgment or the performance under pressure of the typical school employee, specifically including teachers. If the typical 7th grade English teacher is carrying a pistol on the daily, would the students be more or less safe? What about when a parent comes in and demands to know why nothing has been done when their kid was assaulted every day for the past two weeks? Can we expect the assistant principal to draw down on them even though the parents are required to be disarmed?
BC: 3, 2, 1, Liftoff !
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2025/11/21
Those guys are very ambitious ! But, they need to be checking for upper atmospheric blockages.
Felt a draft in the master bath this morning. Discovered that the outside access panel to the enclosure for spa tub guts (which doesn’t exist, it’s just a bathtub) was open & broken.
Screwed a piece of plywood with weatherstripping over it, which helped a lot. Oddly there is still a very minor zephyr, which is a puzzler.
Also noticed that the strong northeast wind had blown tomatoes right off my bushes, so picked them up and also couple of eggplants, after lunch we will go out and pick the rest.
Eh, maybe. On the whole, I am not impressed with the judgment or the performance under pressure of the typical school employee, specifically including teachers. If the typical 7th grade English teacher is carrying a pistol on the daily, would the students be more or less safe? What about when a parent comes in and demands to know why nothing has been done when their kid was assaulted every day for the past two weeks? Can we expect the assistant principal to draw down on them even though the parents are required to be disarmed?
An armed society is a polite society. Generally.
Also noticed that the strong northeast wind had blown tomatoes right off my bushes, so picked them up and also couple of eggplants, after lunch we will go out and pick the rest.
Stewed eggplant is nasty but baked eggplant with lots and lots of cheese is usually quite tasty.
Monty: Wakeup call
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/11/21
We have lots of chickens in our neighborhood but no roosters are allowed. In fact, we discussed that last night in our monthly HOA meeting.
And what would you call a society in which the Only Ones are armed and the Ordinaries are disarmed?
If they would crow once in the morning, I don’t think most people would mind. But they do not shut up. All day long they’re screaming at the top of their lungs.
Reminds me of marriage…
“Your Employer Doesn’t Care”
https://areaocho.com/your-employer-doesnt-care/
“A 7-11 clerk was being attacked by a customer because she refused to accept a counterfeit $100 bill. Read what happened next:”
“Good on her. However, her employer didn’t agree: they fired her for defending herself. I used to get roasted for this on the now defunct Packing.org, but I think that, if a property owner prohibits carry, they should be subject to liability for not taking steps to defend you from criminals. Apparently, property rights are sacrosanct to the libertarian crowd.”
“To sum it up- your employer is in business to make money. They don’t care if you live or die, unless your death somehow hurts the bottom line. The reason for this is that our current legal system punishes property owners and shields criminals. That needs to change.”
I think that the lady has an actionable cause in Oklahoma. A blue state, never.
Back in the nasty 1970s, so many 7-11s were getting robbed here in Houston, Texas that 7-11 had shotgun squads in the back room on a random basis. After a few robbers were cut in half, the robbers avoided 7-11 and went to easier stores.
If they would crow once in the morning, I don’t think most people would mind. But they do not shut up. All day long they’re screaming at the top of their lungs.
Reminds me of marriage…
Not my marriage. In fact, she rarely says anything. I have to pry everything out of her.
Proven, safe, and effective treatment, not even a cure, but just make it better, would FLY off the shelves.
Mine doesn’t interfere with my life much but I’m aware of it almost all the time. I’ve got friends who do restrict their activities because of it. Lots of musicians, carpenters, shooters, etc as a market.
Power plant, Natural Gas Plant, and Refinery workers too. I hear the constant speed 3,600 rpm motor 24 hours a day. Mostly in the right ear that was turned towards the 48 inch main steam line that shucked a 1 inch warming pipe when I was 20 feet away from it.
In the 1980’s, there was a spate of kidnappings in Ireland. After the Gardaí, an “unarmed” police force*, liquidated a few gangs of kidnappers who allegedly “resisted arrest”, kidnapping suddenly went out of fashion. Funny how that works…
* The Gardaí might be unarmed, but some of the world’s finest ‘smiths for the Browning High Power pistol happen to be in Ireland.
We went out to see “Sisu 2” last night, but, being the last night for the film, the screen was in one of the broom closet theaters featuring an exposed digital projector with whirring fan noise similar to the AI servers at the office.
We walked out to the lobby, got a refund, and left.
I’ve probaby got something from the last few years.
Federal Judge Rules Trump’s National Guard Deployment in DC Illegal
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/11/20/federal-judge-rules-trumps-national-guard-deployment-in-dc-illegal-n3809118
Pull the National Guard and tell Treasury to suspend all payments to officials in DC. Then tell said officials that they get paid when they can match those numbers and make some progress on making our nation’s capital safe again.
And pull security for all the courts in D.C. and tell the judges they can maintain order themselves. Worthless scum.
“baked eggplant with lots and lots of cheese is usually quite tasty.”
Cut the same shape from an Amazon cardboard box. Soak it in oil and cook it with cheese. Do a blind taste test and get back to me.
“For the First Time in 10 Years, There Were No Landfalling Hurricanes in the U.S. This Season”
https://rumble.com/v722bk4-for-the-first-time-in-10-years-there-were-no-landfalling-hurricanes-in-the-.html?mref=8g74p&mrefc=13
“”Climate change is going to kill us all!” – Cultists”
Yes, the Climate Changers are a cult. A Death Cult, be wary of them. I would not drink any koolaid that they offer you.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
The Atlantic huricane season was supposed to be above average, and the usual suspects at NOAA used their speed dial to call the Cult of Global Warming Zealots in the MSM and put the doom story out there.
Fire them all.
The yearly project ion should be for hurricanes in the Atlantic. Anything else is just biased B.S. from tweaking model numbers.
“Forecaster: Whoa! The sensors went out and the satellite was out of range, but if we extrapolate the trend we get a definite Category 17 storm.”
“Asstronomer: “Look! Uranus”!”
Tonight’s movie was Killer Clowns From Outer Space. Not bad considering when it was made. I do think I lost a few IQ points though.
Killer Clowns from Outer Space was entertainingly retarded. I saw it in the theater in 1987 or whenever. Brought a date who almost ruined it by complaining “Why are we watching this crap?”
You will note that no hurricanes have hit the gulf since it was renamed The Gulf of America. Is there nothing that Trump cannot do?
There are a lot of school districts in Texas that participate in the School Marshal program. The training requirements are onerous and you have to be an employee. I am not aware of any issues inside the program.
Utah has had a similar program for years without issues.
I’m betting that in practice, it’s a principal, some coaches, tech ed, or a male STEM teacher. Wanda the whale liberal art teacher isn’t going to complete the training.
And from a societal viewpoint, I’d rather have an armed volunteer than a cop called a “resource officer” who has no duty to protect, and who might be running an intelligence gathering op on students (LA Unified, I’m looking at you.)
n
Trash day is Friday. Usually there are three rolling cans. One is my neighbor’s, She makes a kitchen bag of trash a week. But she doesn’t separate out her beer cans. She said it’s fine to put my trash in her can.
I make, just kitchen, a grocery store bag a week. K-cups mostly. That’s why I spent a week gutting k-cups. Put a pair of tennis shoes in a grocery bag, that’s about how much I have.
I do sort out and crush beer cans. I never make a special trip to the recycle place, just when I want something from Walmart or the big HEB in Mable Falls. The last trip gave 40¢ a pound for aluminum cans. $18 bucks for what most folks call trash is still $18 bucks.
Today all three cans were overflowing. Heaping. With the bonus of a bag shredded by dogs. I don’t know these folks but they sure do eat a lot of prepackaged food. Like the ready to cook meals near the HEB deli? Lots of those pans. Not even rinsed clean. Flatten a cardboard box? Or fill the box? Nah. The knife only opens the top of the box, never the bottom.
Not my mess to clean up.
Maybe I take compacting my trash a bit far what with stuffing dog food cans with k-cups or whatever. Molded cans and I can’t cut the bottoms off to flatten the can. It’s just not a big deal to flatten a cardboard box. Or flatten the empty core from a roll of paper towels.
I go to the mailbox and then to the grocery store on Friday. With a stop at Tractor Supply if I need dog and cat food. I don’t go anywhere else, ain’t got anyone to go visit.
I know I need to go walk Buddy the Beagle. He’s staring at me…..
Like the song says, “God Bless America”.
Dean Wormer from “Animal House” as the town police chief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
“Svengoolie” runs “Killer Clowns From Outer Space” regularly.
With the sequel in theaters, Sony put the first “Sisu” on Tubi.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100048358/sisu
We are trying again tonight to see the sequel in different theater.
The sequel is supposedly he most expensive Finnish movie ever made — $14 million.
Sony will make money.
I am trying to get the number one son to make the oyster habanero butter cornbread dressing for next week that his grandfather showed him how to make last year at our house. He is not very excited at the prospect. Apparently it was a lot of work and tripping the circuit breaker in the microwave is all I remember.
The Richmond HEB does carry fresh shucked oysters (Dad used to get fresh fresh fresh oysters at the dock in Port Lavaca):
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/jeri-s-shucked-oysters/1634325
Nothing like oyster and habanero cornbread dressing with three sticks of butter in each pan. Each bite is a butter oozing bite back of goodness.
I love being raised on the Gulf Coast. All kinds of good food, mostly shrimp and oysters. And lots and lots of butter in everything.
When I was growing up, my mother cooked every recipe in the Julia Child’s cookbook. I think every recipe had butter in it. My brothers and I loved it.
We make deep dish pizza every Christmas Eve, and, lately, we’ve been favoring Giordano’s “stuffed” pizza crust.
Each 10″ pizza crust uses a whole stick of margarine as well as a third of a cup of vegetable oil.
Like the old Dennis Miller routine goes, “You gotta have Mantooth out in the foyer warming up the paddles.”
“Clear!”
“And you gotta hope that Bobby and Julie aren’t out getting their kicks on Route 66 when Tighe gits on the horn to Rampart. Cooper from ‘Wagon Train’ is on duty tonight, and like he says in the commercial, he’s not a doctor but just plays one on TV.”
That would have also been the time frame for Graham Kerr, “The Galloping Gourmet”, who used a ton of butter in everything until his wife, producer on the show, had a stroke then heart attack.
Later, “Graham Kerr’s Kitchen” on PBS in the 90s emphasized much healthier ingredients.
I would hope so. I don’t know about the USAF in the early ’70’s. The doctor I was with actually bragged she’d lost her license in Texas. I asked for another doctor. My request was denied. I never saw her at the clinic again.
Lies. Mistruths. Nutrition “science”
There are many confounders, but the timing of using industrial lubricants as “food” correlates nicely to the decline in American health. Before our obesity and Type 2 diabetes crisis, people cooked with lard, tallow, bacon grease, butter, schmaltz, and occasionally easily extracted vegetable oils. The good fats; the saturated fats.
Not cottonseed and rapeseed, processed, bleached, and deodorized..
Anyone who uses seed oils or margarine today needs to do some research. Keyes’ lipid hypothesis and shoddy research is finally dying. 50 years late.
I look forward to Crisco cans and Canola oil bottles with skull & crossbones warning labels.
You misspelled “wine”.
The Giordano’s pizza crust doesn’t taste right using butter or vegetable oil butter-like spreads.
Lately, we use HEB vegetable oil and Land O Lakes margarine.
Whatever would be similar to ingredients which would be cheap and readily available 50 years ago when the chain started.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns After Rupture With Trump
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/11/21/breaking-marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-after-rupture-with-trump-n3809175
People Are Fighting About the New Ken Burns Documentary
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/11/21/people-are-fighting-about-the-new-ken-burns-documentary-n3809161
Show me a culture that substitutes “oral tradition” for “contemporaneous written record” and I’ll show you a culture ready to claim that they had all the ideas of dead white men first.
Hey! Wakanda was real and invented everything until de huwyte debils stole it all!
If Lord Elgin had left the Marbles in place they would have been stolen and sold to private collectors and lost forever.
“Supreme Court Issues Stay in Texas Redistricting Fight, Allowing New Map for Now”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/supreme-court-issues-stay-in-texas-redistricting-fight-allowing-new-map-for-now/
“The stay allows Texas to continue operating under the new map for now, preventing immediate disruption to the 2026 election cycle.”
“In a brief order issued by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court stayed the three-judge panel’s November 18 injunction “pending further order” and directed opponents of the map to file a response by November 24. The stay allows Texas to continue operating under the new map for now, preventing immediate disruption to the 2026 election cycle.”
Sweet !
Today’s song is “The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (Official Music Video)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY
Or a live version “The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (Live at Bonnaroo 2007)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnxW2anDDE
K
Well that was weird. I wrote a comment, and half way thru my BS, DEL, HOME, END, and ENTER keys all stopped working. When I posted the comment the only thing that showed was the K
Seems to be working now.
n
Kids are at GS camp. W and I took the dog for a walk but drops started hitting us. I had my tiny little fire and read, under cover of the porch, but no rain actually developed.
Time for a shower and bed. It’s still very warm and very moist out.
n
Look up the “Fallow” channel on YouTube. Two young British Chefs cooking in the French school. They love butter, and are quite entertaining. It is fun to watch them rediscover old school cuisine.
Good morning. Saturday. Doing meatspace things this morning, helping renovate one of the bars at the local shooting range (yes, our range has two bars).
Time to get up, pack a bag o’tools and start the car. We had temperatures down to -9C (15F) overnight, but no additional snow.
Wishing you all a beautiful day!