Sun. Feb. 22, 2026 – so, that didn’t go to plan

By on February 22nd, 2026 in culture, decline and fall, lakehouse, linux

Cold today, maybe down to almost freezing. And chilly to start. It was mid 40sF when I went to bed. Sunny and mostly around 60-70F yesterday, which was nice. Not so much today.

I didn’t get much of the original plan done yesterday. I started laying out everything, and getting it together, but came up short on bathroom fans. So, I put that task further down the list and kept cleaning and organizing, since I was already well into that. I did do a couple of structural notes, that were minor, but needed attention before they got major.

Today, I’m going to pull some dang wire. Should be cold in the attic, so I can’t use the heat as an excuse. I’m still probably going to take breaks by doing more sorting and organizing, but I really need to pull some wire. And I need to unload the truck. And spend at least a little time chatting with my buddy.

I didn’t see him yesterday so he must not have been feeling good. I hope I’ll see him today, if not, I might ping him or go by his house.

I missed the Hamfest, and feel conflicted about that. I’d have liked to have gone, and I will probably have time next month, if it was at its normal time… oh well.

I’m working to improve my situation. And putting stacks to good use. Can’t do much more than that.

nick

71 Comments and discussion on "Sun. Feb. 22, 2026 – so, that didn’t go to plan"

  1. Denis says:

    Sunday. Good morning!

    It rained all night, and the forecast says it will rain all day too. Indoor things today. I’ll be working, whatever the weather.

    “The weather is frightening,

    The thunder and lightning,

    Seem to be having their way,

    But as long as I’m with you, work,

    It’s a lovely day!”

    Peter Skellern‘s was my favourite rendition of that number.

    I mentioned, I think, that I didn’t manage to have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. Breakfast today might be a good time to catch up…

    Wishing you all a lovely Sunday.

  2. Denis says:

    I just read Paul and Buddy the Beagle’s chicken goujons adventure. Sounds delicious. I wonder if I need to get myself some chicken and an air fryer… and a Beagle, of course.

    If I understand it correctly, an air fryer is a tiny countertop forced-air convection oven. Is that right, or does it do something additional I don’t know about?

  3. SteveF says:

    That’s about the size of it, Denis, though the size on the countertop is anything but tiny.

    We have an air fryer. It sure takes up a lot of space. I’m not sure of the purpose of it, given that we already have a convection oven and a multifunction toaster oven. And we live in a cold climate, so for 8 or 9 months of the year the excess heat from using the main oven is not wasted. The air fryer does not seem to be notably faster than the convection oven, even taking into account warm-up time, and it’s slower than the toaster oven for heating up a teen-size tray of tater tots and chicken bites.

    I’ve never used the air fryer for reasons unrelated to the above. I don’t clean up after others (except for small children I have accepted responsibility for beforehand).

  4. Denis says:

    Thanks, SteveF. That about confirms what I thought. We have two ovens already, and I don’t want another appliance standing around on the kitchen counter with the coffee machines. Putting the toaster away after use is bothersome enough, and oddly enough, I seem to be the only inhabitant of the house who ever does it.

    Here are some love letters for Mr Ray, whom I hope is feeling better.

  5. brad says:

    My wife bought an air fryer a year or so ago. Yes, it is basically just a convection oven, but it must move the air a lot more/faster than a normal oven. For example, “oven fries” in a normal convection oven do not really get crispy, but they do in the air fryer.

    It also serves the purpose of having an additional oven, so that you can cook more different things at the same time.

  6. brad says:

    Let Puerto Rico go. After they pay their debt. US official national debt: about $38T – call it 3E13. Puerto Rico population: about 3M – 3E6. Each Puerto Rican’s share: $10M.

    Um…why is Puerto Rico responsible for the entire national debt?

    Better math comes to about $100k per person throughout the US and territories. Which is still an absolutely stupid amount of debt to have accumulated. Me, I would be all for a special law that says: In any year with a deficit, the property of all current politicians (Congress, President, VP) and top-level bureaucrats (SES) is confiscated.

  7. SteveF says:

    Brad, try this trick for fries and such: put a cooling rack on a cooking sheet and cook the fries on the rack. They’ll get a lot crisper than cooked straight on the sheet even if you turn them halfway through.

  8. SteveF says:

    Um…why is Puerto Rico responsible for the entire national debt?

    Because I’d been up since 0100 and forgot to make it a pro rata share.

  9. Lynn says:

    44 F and cold this morning at 650 am.  The solar heater has yet to show up.

    I got back from the land of casinos, aka Oklahoma, late Friday night.  It was 30 F there Friday morning.  The 480 mile drive was gradually warming until it hit 70 F about 49 miles away from home in deep south Texas.

    I stopped in North Texas and visited my wifes sister and her two boys.  We went to go see her husband in his group home.  He has stage 4 Alzheimers and has dropped below 150 lbs.  Pretty light for the big 6’4″ guy that was hefty all his life.  However, he actually recognized me and my SIL was overjoyed since he had not talked in weeks.

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  10. Lynn says:

    I sold moms 2024 Mercedes yesterday.  Took a bath on it but now she does not have to make the $1900 monthly payment just to have it sitting behind her assisted living.

    Of course, the stupid thing turned on the check engine light.  Turned out it was griping that my driving it once per month was not enough to keep the battery charged.  The guys figured that out for me when I took it to the place.  

    Now I am down to 99+ items on my task list to get done.

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  11. Lynn says:

    I managed to gain 5 lbs on my 5 day trip.  Food was all over the place and open bars are very detrimental to the waist line.

    Going south through Dallas at 4 pm was horrible.  Millions of cars and trucks everywhere, all trying to keep moving in the gridlock.

  12. Lynn says:

    Sol is peaking over the neighbors roof now.  I wish that we save some of this cold for August and September.

  13. Ray Thompson says:

    This really bad crud is on the downhill slope. I slept all night without horking up a lung. I still had to clear my lungs this morning with a lot of coughing, so progress.

    Going south through Dallas at 4 pm was horrible

    When I make the annual journey to Texas I try to avoid Dallas. I take even greater pains to avoid Austin by traveling through the hill country via Marble Falls to avoid that bottleneck bridge over the river. That annual journey is coming up in about a month. I like to plan it around the blooming of the flowers along the highways in Texas. Thanks Lady Bird. And the Blue Bonnets.

    I=40/I-75 through Knoxville is almost as bad as Dallas. It is the joining of a major north-south and east-west highway. There are more trucks than cars many hours of the day. Being a local I know how to avoid, and when to avoid. There was talk of a bypass, but NIMBYs you know. Also Knoxville fought hard against the bypass which would move a lot of travelers away from Knoxville and have an economic impact. The state abandoned the plan because of the money influence from University of Tennessee and Haslem oil. Corruption rather than intelligence was the deciding factor.

  14. Denis says:

    Hew Choob occasionally pops up a gem of a recommendation. It persisted with this one, about undersea cables, and I eventually gave in and watched some. Turns out it is fascinating!

    https://youtu.be/RMveiKaXtQw

  15. drwilliams says:

    Exit fee. 

  16. EdH says:

    A brisk 23F this morning in the California high desert, two degree’s warmer than sunrise yesterday.

    Yesterday was reasonably productive;

    1. a second diesel heater is on order from Amazon, “two is one…” and all that.
    2. a keypad lock on one exterior door to keep from licking myself out
    3. posted a book review to the club.
    4. astronomy club outing.
  17. Nick Flandrey says:

    @edh, sounds more productive than my day.

    —–

    WRT air friers, I picked one up in an auction, to see if anyone would use it.   It’s a very simple thing, aimed at people who don’t know how to cook and are intimidated by ovens or pans.  My opinion.   The microwave convection oven does the same thing in the same time, without heating up the ‘big’ oven.   And when someone insists, I have an air frier head that goes on the Instapot that works well, and doesn’t seem so flimsy that it would burn the house down.

    they really do a good job on fries.

    ——

    I’m not a fan of the instapot either, I don’t think it’s quicker for most things.

    —–

    50F and clear, sunny, blue sky.

    Trying my new, larger moka pot for espresso coffee this morning.  Most of the backup coffee I have up here is espresso, so it doesn’t taste as good in the drip machine for some reason.  Probably operator error.   I don’t want to make multiple small moka pots, so I got a bigger one.   We’ll see how it goes.

    —–

    If you’re getting a winter storm, make your preps and ride it out…  let us know how it goes.

    n

  18. Greg Norton says:

    Going south through Dallas at 4 pm was horrible.  Millions of cars and trucks everywhere, all trying to keep moving in the gridlock.

    Road construction is another area where state government in Texas is swimming naked.

    Compounding the problem in Dallas is that the whole planet seems determined to move to the stretch of I-35 between McKinney and the San Antonio suburbs. Austin is the Colonist preference, but they will accept Dallas or Houston.

    As for North Dallas problems AT&T announced last year that they are moving out of Downtown Dallas to corporate HQ row in Plano.

    I told my wife that she’s driving the next trip to UT Dallas/Plano for anything kid related. I’ll sit in the passenger seat and read.

    I banned video in the car on long trips for all family members several years ago.

  19. MrAtoz says:

    Another nut trying to GET tRUMP, GET HIM!! taken out at Mar-a-lago. Killed as he tried to get through the front gate. All we know is he was in his 20’s from NC. Probably a tranny or tranny adjacent.

  20. SteveF says:

    Probably a tranny or tranny adjacent.

    Hey! Pattern recognition is a CRIME!

  21. Greg Norton says:

    Another nut trying to GET tRUMP, GET HIM!! taken out at Mar-a-lago. Killed as he tried to get through the front gate. All we know is he was in his 20’s from NC. Probably a tranny or tranny adjacent.

    Mar A Lago is a difficult piece of real estate to secure from an adversary with state-level resources, but a twenty something armed with a shotgun and a gas can is not getting very far.

    Even if the pinhead managed to pull off something on the estate grounds, a successful escape would be nearly impossible.

    Ask Ryan Wesley Routh. At least he had the sense not to try something at Mar A Lago.

  22. drwilliams says:

    1,000,000/10,000 = 100 ft2 luxury suite

    $128 million/10,000 = $12,800 per luxury suite/year

    $12,800/365 = $35/night

    Assume 100% operating costs → $70/night

    Assume monthly turnover: $70 x 30 = $2100 per guest

    Throughput: 10,000 x 12 = 120,000 guests/year

    Total facilities budget ($38 Billion /$128 million) x120,000 = 36 million per year

    https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/02/13/ice-bought-warehouse-in-social-circle-ga-the-city-wishes-it-hadnt

    Taking a swag at the numbers, it seems like someone has a good handle on how to get the job done from the detention side.

    That leaves apprehension and physical deportation as the bottlenecks.

    Give a lot of publicity to the organizational buildup, make it clear that once in the pipeline there is no way out, and voluntary deportation looks a lot more attractive.

    I hope they get a nutritionist hired for menu planning for the Georgia facility. Grits every day for breakfast, collard greens in the lunch salad and stewed for one of the evening vegetables, lots of non-free range chicken, barley, sweet potatoes and other regional delights should help, too.

  23. lpdbw says:

    re: air fryers

    I had one, but I was the only one who used it.

    My weight loss journey went something like this:

    • 30 day potato diet kickstart.  There’s a  YT guy who did a whole year.
    • 6 months vegan.  Not because I believed in it, only as a temporary intervention.
    • 4 months medically supervised program, mostly expensive protein shakes
    • A year of keto

    During the potato diet and vegan phase, the air fryer was great.  The potato diet uses almost no oil, so baked, boiled, mashed, or dry-fried are your only options.

    After the vegan phase, we donated it to a thrift store.  I kinda miss it.

    It’s difficult to stick to any diet long-term if you live with someone else who’s not committed to the same diet, and you’re too weak, addicted, and undisciplined to overcome that.

    No low-fat or low protein diet is healthy long term, but as a temporary intervention it may be helpful.

    I’ve never tried it, but I’m told you can cook a frozen steak in the air fryer, right out of the freezer.  Mikhaila Peterson of the Lion diet fame does that.  At one time, she was eating one meal a day, all steak, all cooked that way.

    I’ve been relapsing lately to a more “normal, balanced” diet, and gaining weight.  I’m still down 50 pounds from my peak, but I’m still 50 pounds above the “normal” weight for my height.

    I’ve talked to two doctors about GLP-1 drugs, and they both argue against it.  I need to make changes.

    Maybe I’ll buy an air fryer and a freezer full of steaks.

  24. Greg Norton says:

    https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/02/13/ice-bought-warehouse-in-social-circle-ga-the-city-wishes-it-hadnt

    Taking a swag at the numbers, it seems like someone has a good handle on how to get the job done from the detention side.

    That leaves apprehension and physical deportation as the bottlenecks.

    Apprehension is easy. Rivian built their new EV factory boondoggle in Social Circle.

    Not only will the illegals be an important labor source but voters as well. 

    On one of his last days in office, Plugs gave Rivian a $6 billion loan to finish the factory, and the Republican currently representing GA 10, Mike Collins, has only held the seat since 2023. Collins will be vulnerable this year after the end of the tax credits for EVs.

    The area also has a history of human trafficking, brought to light by this case:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ga-couple-abused-2-adopted-153223988.html

  25. Ray Thompson says:

    I need to make changes.

    My doctor says the same thing. But, at my age, I would rather enjoy my life rather than be miserable eating rabbit food. I may gain a couple of years, of life, of lounging in a hospital bed in diapers. Nope, not going to happen. “it’s my body, not yours doctor.”

  26. SteveF says:

    eating one meal a day, all steak

    That won’t work unless you’re conscientious about vitamins and other supplements. Careful not only in taking them daily but in which you choose. Not all “vitamin c” is the same and the same goes for almost every so-called vitamin and supplement.

    You can survive indefinitely on a carnivore diet but you need organ meat and plenty of fat. Think about pork fat with the meal or about cooking with lard because pork fat stores several vitamins which we need which beef fat does not and vegetable oil certainly does not.

  27. SteveF says:

    Kudos to you for that attitude, Ray.

  28. Greg Norton says:

    Not only will the illegals be an important labor source but voters as well. 

    I don’t know who is supplying batteries for Rivian, but ICE raided Hyundai’s Georgia battery plant last year.

    https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/federal-agents-raid-hyundai-battery-site-south-georgia

    Georgia has a lot at stake making sure the EV grift continues.

  29. Greg Norton says:

    On one of his last days in office, Plugs gave Rivian a $6 billion loan to finish the factory, and the Republican currently representing GA 10, Mike Collins, has only held the seat since 2023. Collins will be vulnerable this year after the end of the tax credits for EVs.

    Collins supports passing SAVE. The Dems will have money from Rivian to put a bullseye on him this Fall.

  30. paul says:

    I had a shower thought.  Maybe I don’t need puTTY to update pi hole..  Try Mint’s terminal.  It worked!

    Now to write down what I did for the next time. 

    Once I connected, pihole -up didn’t work but the screen said “try sudo pihole -up”.  Ok, that worked. 

    Now to see if I can be lazy and make a shortcut of some kind for next time.   SSH-Keys looks a bit over my head. 

     ssh pi@192.168.0.24 -pw .It.Is.A.Secret.  does not work for me.  Oh well, I can copy/past the info.

  31. Greg Norton says:

     ssh pi@192.168.0.24 -pw .It.Is.A.Secret.  does not work for me.  Oh well, I can copy/past the info.

    “ssh pi@192.168.0.24” should result in a prompt for password.

    You can run “sshpass -p ‘It.Is.A.Secret’ ssh pi@192.168.0.24” to provide the password on the command line, but that is a security hole since the credential will appear in the output of “ps” using the right options.

  32. Nick Flandrey says:

    I’m having fried onions and sausage for lunch.    IIRC onions have vit C.   Winter food with vit C was vital where citrus doesn’t grow.  I’ll have a couple of crackers to move my blood sugar, so the monitor doesn’t complain.

    Attic is chilly.

    It’s ~72F in the sun, but chilly in the shade.

    Breeze is mild for now.

    Big moka pot worked well.   The very inexpensive el caribe espresso tastes just fine in the pot.

    I managed to get some plywood into the attic to make the job easier – eventually.  Every task is fractal.

    n

  33. Nick Flandrey says:

    but that is a security hole 

    –assuming they are brave enough to face the sight of a naked Paul and pets while in his house…  although good to know for anyone following along.

    n

    BTW, when did raspi get to be $150?  I thought they were cheap?

    n

  34. paul says:

    I’m not worried much about security.  Isn’t the router a type of firewall from the Evil World Wide Web?  That’s how I think of it.

    Shields Up says I’m totally Stealth. 

    I’m trying “sshpass -p ‘It.Is.A.Secret’ ssh pi@192.168.0.24”  It says to sudo apt install sshpass.  Well, that installed quick. 
    Permission denied, please try again.  I suppose I’m missing a comma or something.  I’ll keep trying.

    Thank you Greg!

  35. lpdbw says:

    I’ve got a moka pot, and I wondered how anyone could make enough coffee in it.  I’d have to run it 3 times get my daily ration.

    I followed your link, and I see that yours is much, much bigger than mine.  I may need an upgrade

  36. Greg Norton says:

    BTW, when did raspi get to be $150?  I thought they were cheap?

    How much RAM?

    16 GB for my new Thinkpad is $440 right now if the vendors have any in stock.

    Not that I’m in a big hurry. I’m not thrilled with the build quality of the machine, and I may unload it on EBay by the time Redmond gets around to specifying a 32 GB minimum to run Windows 12.

  37. SteveF says:

    when did raspi get to be $150?

    Three issues which built on each other:

    1. RPi has been getting more powerful and with more RAM, to the point that the new units have more capability than low-end new laptops.
    2. The price of RAM has jumped dramatically.
    3. Raspberry Pi Holdings, the company which makes the RPis (that is, designs them, outsources manufacture, and then markets and sells them) went public in late 2024 and now need to make a profit.
  38. Greg Norton says:

    Something is seriously wrong with Lineage OS today. Both Android devices I have with the OS installed are refusing to start, cycling through the startup animation repeatedly.

    I did a wipe from the recovery parition on one, and it looks like I will have to repeat process that with the second.

  39. Lynn says:

    No low-fat or low protein diet is healthy long term, but as a temporary intervention it may be helpful.

    I’ve never tried it, but I’m told you can cook a frozen steak in the air fryer, right out of the freezer.  Mikhaila Peterson of the Lion diet fame does that.  At one time, she was eating one meal a day, all steak, all cooked that way.

    Is she still alive ?

  40. Lynn says:

    No low-fat or low protein diet is healthy long term, but as a temporary intervention it may be helpful.

    I’ve never tried it, but I’m told you can cook a frozen steak in the air fryer, right out of the freezer.  Mikhaila Peterson of the Lion diet fame does that.  At one time, she was eating one meal a day, all steak, all cooked that way.

    I am fairly sure that I have never seen a Lion cook their meat on any of the nature shows.  So, the Lion diet is not a true lion diet.

  41. lpdbw says:

    Is she still alive ?

    She’s been making instagram posts.  She did 8 years of nothing but ruminant meat, and it put a lot of severe autoimmune  (and mental health) issues into remission.  I just found out she’s introduced other foods, and is now theorizing it’s not only remission, but a cure.

    Oh, SteveF:  there is evidence that you don’t get scurvy if you don’t eat carbs.  Wooden ship seamen ate barrel beef and pork, and lots of  hardtack. Eskimos, Artic and Antarctic explorers fell into two camps:  Those who ate carbs, and those who died.  But I’ll take vitamin C anyway.

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  42. Lynn says:

    No low-fat or low protein diet is healthy long term, but as a temporary intervention it may be helpful.

    I’ve never tried it, but I’m told you can cook a frozen steak in the air fryer, right out of the freezer.  Mikhaila Peterson of the Lion diet fame does that.  At one time, she was eating one meal a day, all steak, all cooked that way.

    Sean Hannity is claiming to eat three small sirloin steaks a day, one for each meal, and nothing else.  I am not sure how he cooks them.  He probably has a cook though.

  43. Lynn says:

    BTW, I snack on “Prasek’s Peppered Smoked Dried Beef” through the day.  Supposedly fat free.  Three ounces for $8 at HEB.

       https://www.heb.com/product-detail/prasek-s-peppered-nbsp-smoked-dried-beef-3-oz/4384531

  44. Lynn says:

    BTW, it is Girl Scout Cookie season.  They are everywhere !

       https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTg43qC7R6g

  45. Ray Thompson says:

    BTW, it is Girl Scout Cookie season.  They are everywhere !

    Indeed. I ran two lines (the wrapped ones) of thin mints in an hour along with a glass of skimmed milk. Now those cookies are nowhere.

  46. Lynn says:

    “Launching the First Lion Diet Study”

       https://liondiet.com/launching-the-first-lion-diet-study/

    “Huge news guys!! I am reaching out to you to support the largest study on rheumatoid arthritis and IBD using the ketogenic and carnivore (lion) diet as dietary intervention, ever to be done. The study is being run by Dr. Robert Abbott and his team.”

    “For those unfamiliar with my background, I was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis as a child. I had my ankle and hip replaced at 17, and was in an unbelievable amount of pain for about 20 years of my life, on immune suppressants that were ineffective. I put that into remission with dietary intervention, astounding my doctors.”

    OK, this is very interesting.  I am having terrible arthritis pains nowadays, especially with my left hip and shoulders.  I am not interested at all in replacing these like my mother did, that was disasters.

  47. EdH says:

    Well, downloaded the X app and created an account.

    Not too impressed.  Terrible interface.

    Apparently I am thought to be interested in dozens of clips of cartel violence .. in spanish?

    I will look again, later.

    I told someone I would try…

    I have some shelves to assemble right now.

  48. Lynn says:

    BTW, it is Girl Scout Cookie season.  They are everywhere !

    Indeed. I ran two lines (the wrapped ones) of thin mints in an hour along with a glass of skimmed milk. Now those cookies are nowhere.

    I ate an entire line of Thin Mint cookies driving from Rosenberg, TX to Norman, OK last week.  That is 17 cookies, small but potent.

    Yup, 40 calories PER cookie.
    https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/cookie-flavors.html#!

  49. SteveF says:

    there is evidence that you don’t get scurvy if you don’t eat carbs.  Wooden ship seamen ate barrel beef and pork, and lots of  hardtack. Eskimos, Artic and Antarctic explorers fell into two camps:  Those who ate carbs, and those who died.

    I’m not sure that the latter provides evidence for the former. Barreled meat was not all muscle meat; generally, it was whatever was cheapest. That would most likely include a lot of organs. As for the eskimos, they made use of every bit of the seal or whale, eating pretty much everything except the skin and bones – they didn’t have the calorie luxury of not doing so. I don’t know enough about the later explorers to have an opinion on their diet, so their experiences may support your thesis.

  50. Nick Flandrey says:

    Couldn’t get to the top of the wall in the bathroom to drill for wire from the attic.  Very low pitch roof means not much room at the edges of the house…

    So I removed one panel in the bedroom as it was easier than the bathroom side (which already has the towel warmer/space heater and robe hooks installed.

    One of the big benefits of ¼ ” paneling is you can pop it off and put it back pretty easily.  Some touchup needed, but not like drywall.  Plus – lakehouse.   Not a high end property.

    One disadvantage is everything is made for ½ ” drywall, so the old work boxes won’t cinch tight on the ¼” paneling… I have to add a little block for thickness.   

    It also means that the wall is thinner than a modern wall, so the pre hung door they put in has a gap behind the molding that they didn’t fill.   And it’s flush to the bathroom side on the strike side and flush to the bedroom side on the hinge side.  Can’t even just stick a ½ ” filler behind it, not easily anyway.

    Eh, lakehouse.

    Time to pull the wire.

    n

  51. Greg Norton says:

    Sean Hannity is claiming to eat three small sirloin steaks a day, one for each meal, and nothing else.  I am not sure how he cooks them.  He probably has a cook though.

    Is Cutie Pie still shilling for Ruth’s Chris’?

    If he isn’t too annoying, I listen to about 20 minutes of the show on my way home from work.

    If I leave work close to 5 PM, however, the radio doesn’t even go on since that’s when Jesse Kelly starts.

  52. Greg Norton says:

    I ate an entire line of Thin Mint cookies driving from Rosenberg, TX to Norman, OK last week.  That is 17 cookies, small but potent.

    Yup, 40 calories PER cookie.

    We haven’t bought many cookies this year. The local troops had Lemon Ups this season instead of Lemon Ades, and I threw away expired Thin Mints in September.

    Lemon Ups are vile.

  53. Greg Norton says:

    Sean Hannity is claiming to eat three small sirloin steaks a day, one for each meal, and nothing else.  I am not sure how he cooks them.  He probably has a cook though.

    Of course Hannity has a cook.

  54. Lynn says:

    Sean Hannity is claiming to eat three small sirloin steaks a day, one for each meal, and nothing else.  I am not sure how he cooks them.  He probably has a cook though.

    Is Cutie Pie still shilling for Ruth’s Chris’?

    No.  Isn’t Ruth’s Chris bankrupt ?

  55. drwilliams says:

    “I ran two lines (the wrapped ones) of thin mints in an hour along with a glass of skimmed milk.”

    Image of RT hovering up lines of Thin Mints with a very large straw.

  56. drwilliams says:

    Bought one package of the new Exploremores today–not sure if that is reastraint or surrender. So far they are intacto. I’m still working my way through an assortment of Mini Moon Pies.

    The other flavor that tempted me was the Adventurefuls. I’m a sucker for caramel.

  57. Nick Flandrey says:

    GS cookies need to be frozen to last the year.    Some of them do better than others, but most are not tasty if more than one year old.

    My kids aren’t really selling this year.   D2 sold to her friends at school, and a few relatives.   D1 didn’t sell at all.  The troop is winding down and they only use cookie money to camp.   One or two times a year doesn’t cost much.

    ——–

    47F.   Probably won’t have a tiny little fire.   Just too chilly.   

    ——–

    Got the bathroom mostly wired.  Still have to do the home run to the panel and the rough in for the fan.   Shouldn’t take long.   I didn’t count on taking down the trim and wall panel so I didn’t get as much as I wanted to done.  I’m staying tomorrow and maybe I’ll stay until Tuesday.  That’ll depend on if I need to be a taxi for the kids as I’m pretty sure my calendar is open.

    ——–

    A “normal” moka pot makes about two little espresso cups.   The one I used today says “12” cups.   It made enough that I only had to run it once.   Until I use up the espresso grind, or bring up some more of my usual Kirkland beans, I’ll keep using it.   I usually make 16-18 oz of drip,  but the Keurig Duo we have up here doesn’t brew a pot that small.   So I end up with watery coffee or I make 3 of the K cups.   I’d rather make the moka pot, the backup coffee tastes better that way.   The Cafe’ Caribe is the cheapest branded coffee on the shelf at HEB and is in the vac sealed brick which I like for “keep it on the shelf as backup.”  Definitely drinkable from the moka pot.

    ——–

    Time for dinner.

    n

  58. Greg Norton says:

    else.  I am not sure how he cooks them.  He probably has a cook though.

    Is Cutie Pie still shilling for Ruth’s Chris’?

    No.  Isn’t Ruth’s Chris bankrupt ?

    Ruth’s Chris’ is now part of Darden.

  59. Greg Norton says:

    We haven’t bought many cookies this year. The local troops had Lemon Ups this season instead of Lemon Ades, and I threw away expired Thin Mints in September.

    Lemon Ups are vile.

    Correction – Apparently, the local troops had Lemon Ades, but we bought our first round of cookies in Dallas, which has the new Lemon Ups.

    My wife saw Lemon Ades today at Sam’s but couldn’t remember if those were the vile cookies.

  60. drwilliams says:

    Pete Hegseth Comes Under Fire for Meeting the Standards He Demands of Others. Yes, You Read That Right

    Suddenly, X was inundated with people who claimed that 315 pounds was nothing. One moron claimed that three-fourths of the guys in his high school class could do it. And another school claimed it was all fake. Reality Check: Dude, do you see those troops standing there? Do you think a single one of them would let Hegseth get by with claiming he’d pressed 315 pounds if he’d really pressed 314? If you think an E-4 is intimidated by rank and won’t call out anyone, including generals, when they think they can get away with it, you obviously know nothing about any branch of the U.S. military. There were the imbeciles who pointed out that if the six plates on the bar weighed 45 pounds each, then he “only” pressed 270 pounds, loudly announcing to the world they were utter strangers to moving iron because the bar itself weighs 45 pounds.

    https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/02/22/pete-hegseth-comes-under-fire-for-meeting-the-standards-he-demands-of-others-yes-you-read-that-right-n2199449

    I would contribute to a fundraiser to fly every one of them to a meet up on a military base to show off their lifting skills on a live stream. Could probably get a sponsor from the LGBQRST soy milk manufacturers.

  61. drwilliams says:

    Canadian Hockey Team Files Medal Protest, Claims “High Score Should Just Be One Factor in Determining Who Won the Game”

    When asked about other possible criteria, they mentioned, “gayness”, “proper accent”, and “not running the score up with open net shots”

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/02/22/hot-takes-us-hockey-win-n2199435

  62. drwilliams says:

    I’m selective when buying Girl Scout cookies. I passed the group that set up inside a nice cozy grocery store, and bought from the group that was outside the local Goodwill. They also mentioned that they will be there next weekend, so my repeat business will go there, too. 

  63. drwilliams says:

    NASA admits it nearly killed two astronauts

    Remember NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore? They piloted a Boeing capsule to the International Space Station for what was supposed to be a 10-day visit. They ended up staying about nine months and made it back to Earth only because Elon Musk sent one of his ships up to get them at President Trump’s request.

    NASA admitted only to some vague “thruster problems” and eventually sent the capsule back to Earth empty out of an abundance of caution. Uh-huh.

    After that adventure, first Wilmore, then Williams retired from NASA. Now we’re learning they came within a hairsbreadth of being lost in space, and the Boeing capsule has not flown again and likely won’t.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/nasa_admits_it_nearly_killed_two_astronauts.html

    NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/nasa-says-it-needs-to-haul-the-artemis-ii-rocket-back-to-the-hangar-for-repairs/

    Trump should fire NASA management and sell it to Musk for a dollar, giving him the option of firing any incompetent staff he finds. Hint: Set up a hotline–a lot of people know who they are.

    I will never forget watching the Challenger blow up on live video, standing with a group of people who were proud that they had made a small contribution like thousands of other small contractors. At that time we did not know for sure that the orbiter was still attached. Half the room looked at me–it was my second orbiter-contribution and I knew a bit about the program–and I quickly reminded them that our small piece was second-stage, not first.

    When we lost Columbia I could not believe that it happened again. 

    Space is the second-most hostile environment that the room for error is much too thin to be within a razor-width of it.

  64. drwilliams says:

    DJUNGELSKOG Soft toy, orangutan

    $19.99

    CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

    https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/djungelskog-soft-toy-orangutan-10402841/

    eBay has spiked in the last couple of days:

    https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=DJUNGELSKOG+Soft+toy%2C+orangutan&_sacat=0&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1

    And the ca. $100 prices are likely for international shipping .

    And of course:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCImrmR63JE

    5:05

  65. Nick Flandrey says:

    Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle… 

    ——-

    I’m going to bed.  Too many aches tomorrow if I don’t try to head it off, so it’s meds and sleepy time for me.

    n

  66. Alan says:

    >>a keypad lock on one exterior door to keep from licking myself out

    Sorta like getting the younger kids in the schoolyard to lick the flagpole in the middle of winter?? 

  67. Alan says:

    >>Another nut trying to GET tRUMP, GET HIM!! taken out at Mar-a-lago. Killed as he tried to get through the front gate. All we know is he was in his 20’s from NC. Probably a tranny or tranny adjacent. 

    Suicide by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cop Secret Service. How many rounds in a UZI mag? 

  68. Lynn says:

    Monty: Things can be worse !

       https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2026/02/22

    Oh yeah, things can get worse in a hurry.

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