Moist. Wet. Humid. Muggy. All probably good adjectives today. Still some chance of rain too. Yesterday threatened all day and someone got lots, but I didn’t see any. I did see a storage facility with 6″ of standing water around the units. And the ground was so saturated that landscaping rock was under 1″ of water…
That was when I was out and about doing pickups and digging through other people’s rubbish at thrift stores… I did get a few other things done before leaving the house, but not a ton.
Today I’ll be getting my stuff together to do the work at the rent house. First, gather tools as my plumbing bucket and my electrical bucket are at the BOL. Then install the new battery in the truck. Then do one pickup near the secondary location, get some supplies from the secondary, and go to the rental. Do some work. Head home. Contrary to what I thought, W will taxi the kid around both to and fro. That leaves me to actually have a chance of getting stuff done. Goody.
There’s a list. It gets bigger and bigger. I don’t understand how people can run out of stuff to do as they get older.
Stack. Plan. Learn and do.
nick
I don’t think people so much run out of stuff to do, but they rather run out of giving a sh1t about doing it…
Thursday. Good morning!
I can’t decide whether I am suffering from worse allergies than usual, or I am actually suffering from a cold as well as allergies. Either way, I am miserable. I think I will operate on the assumption that there is a cold in the mix, and take vitamins c and d, plus zinc, along with irrigating my sinuses and inhaling steam. Gah.
There is a general strike here today. No public transport, plus other disruptions. I will work from home and hopefully avoid most of the chaos.
Wishing you all a beautiful day!
Denis beat me to it, not only First Post!!! but the explanation for how people “run out of things to do”.
“Fake” is relative since “Ugg” is a generic term like Kleenex. The trademark is complicated.
Amercians love their $20 Reeboks.
I’ve run out of “giving a sh*t about doing it” in my “career” work, but even running at – my guess – 25% of true capability, I still get important things done.
My review was this week, and management danced around the Go compensation/age discrimination fiasco, writing in my review that the issue was that I didn’t like to venture outside my “comfort zone”.
My response was direct. “Go was about money. The whole thing was gross.”
Bonus money doesn’t get paid for a couple of weeks so I didn’t go too far, but I did unload on our “technologist” (think systemarchitect) to management on Friday. Ours has always been lousy, but AI takes lousy to a whole new level in the case of that individual.
I’m right there with you. There is a lot more I could do at work, but for what benefit? I make sure the important things happen on time. Extra tasks? Not anymore, unless they interest me personally.
I spend a significant amount of time documenting lack of action by others. I do this solely to cover myself. I’ve had to break out documentation before to show I (and my team) wasn’t the one holding up progress on a project.
I don’t recall a single time that I’ve been helped by documentation of stupid decisions by managers or screwups or laziness by coworkers.
From 1977 to 2007 I was a peak performer, using all the skills I learned in 2 college degree programs, doing technical work. Operating systems, assembler language, GIS systems before GIS was a term, Object oriented programming in C, not C++. Nationwide networking before the commercial internet was available.
There was a bad time from 2004 to 2010 when I got distracted by my son’s addiction issues and my (now ex) wife’s infidelity and our divorce. I got laid off, changed from defense to healthcare, from programming to DBA, then data analyst/reporter. They call it Business Intelligence now.
I described the rest of my career as using between 10% to 20% of my skills and knowledge.
In that environment, with those co-workers, that put me in the top tier.
Retired now, I have trouble motivating myself to even do hobbies. I spend too much time doomscrolling (not phone, but laptop.)
I got my new iPad Air set up. Easy to do restoring from an iCloud backup. The battery has lasted 24 hours and is 80% whereas my old iPad would have been at 30% or less. I had purchased the old iPad in September 2020 when it was released.
The Apple pencil I used on my old iPad Air no longer works on the new iPad Air. Yeh, thanks Apple. I don’t need the new fancy features of the new pencil as the old pencil served my needs quite well.
I can certainly tell the new iPad Air is much faster in everything it does than the old iPad Air. The screen also seems better but that just may be a mental “want it to be” thing and not based in much fact.
56F sunny and clear. Guess my guesses were wrong.
Neighbors are having a tree cut down. THey had a very poor trim job done after the big wind storm and it didn’t recover. Still, I’d have given it another year.
Houston is sometimes called “Tree City” and we lost a lot of large trees during the drought a few years ago, and then the big wind.
big trees add value to a property, I think mainly because they signify either care choosing a lot and building on it (in the case of new construction), or that the neighborhood is well established. And the monkey in us likes looking at them.
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Bit of a late start, but then that’s normal for me by now. Breakfast is done and coffee is about halfway gone.
n
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/03/12/axe-wielding-psycho-picks-the-wrong-fl-brothers-to-mess-with-will-think-twice-about-actions-next-time-n2200133
Don’t need to make a video. A stick kick in the nuts would have done it.
Spicy times out there today.
BREAKING: Driver Rams Car Into Temple Israel in Michigan, Opens Fire – UPDATE: GUNMAN DEAD: AP
Norway Police Arrest Three Suspects of Terrorist Attack Against US Embassy, Is Probing Foreign Government Involvement
Four Military Drones Stolen from Fort Campbell in Kentucky
there was something about a university too, but I can’t find the link.
n
Most hated woman in Houston.
Entitled Democrat judge complains she was MANHANDLED by Texas rodeo staff who refused to let her access VIP area after giving her $9,000 freebie… and suggests she is victim of racism
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo claims she was manhandled by Texas rodeo staff who refused to let her access the VIP area without a ticket. She decided to try and enter the area anyway and claims she was grabbed, shoved and threatened by security staff. The venue also said that Hidalgo’s team requested and were granted nearly $9,000 worth of free floor tickets for shows on the three previous nights.
n
@nick – university shooting:
Instead of “grabbing, shoving, and threatening” PITAs, event security should carry “barf in a bottle”. One spritz in the face guarantees ten minutes of convulsions and wretching. If possible, the mix should have dye, too, so that the offender can be recognized by the orange face even if she changes out of her vomit-streaked clothes.
Go armed, preferably with sanitized ammo. Carry a mask or balaclava with you everywhere if you live in a jurisdiction which is hostile to armed citizens.
And leave no witnesses.
WiFi 6 or 6E. Maybe even WiFI 7.
2020 would be WiFi 5.
Don’t you have a pre-production router from someone nameless?
How are the SSIDs configured?
“Saudis Eye “Large Order” of Ukrainian Interceptor Drones as Kill-Cost Missile Crisis Deepens”
https://thelibertydaily.com/saudis-eye-large-order-ukrainian-interceptor-drones-as/
“(ZeroHedge)—Saudi Arabia is in discussions with a Ukrainian counter-drone firm to acquire low-cost interceptor drones designed to counter inexpensive IRGC kamikaze drones. The cost-exchange ratio remains highly unfavorable for the U.S. and its Gulf partners, who are using multimillion-dollar interceptor missiles against $20,000 drones. If the conflict drags on for months, the risk of depleting critical interceptor missile stockpiles will become a major problem, not just in the Gulf area but also on the Ukrainian battlefront.”
“The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabia is preparing to purchase a “large order” of interceptor drones and electronic warfare equipment from Ukraine. This report is based on sources and has yet to be confirmed.”
“The unfavorable kill-exchange ratio for the Saudis – eliminating a $20,000 IRGC drone with a +$2 million missile – is quickly straining defense budgets and supplies. A cheaper approach is to use Ukrainian interceptors that have been battle-tested in Eastern Europe for several years.”
“Other Gulf countries, including Qatar, are also examining the use of cheap Ukrainian drones. The U.S. has already deployed Ukraine-tested Merops interceptors to U.S. forces in the Gulf region.”
“Last week, a Financial Times report stated that U.S. officials were negotiating a purchase of interceptors to counter IRGC drones. This comes as supplies are dwindling and costs are soaring after nearly 12 days of conflict.”
““They have missiles for the Patriots, but hundreds or thousands of Shaheds cannot be intercepted with Patriot missiles. It is too costly,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview last week.”
The world has changed and not for the better.
Rods of god.
n
Just goes to prove the maxim that Quantity has Quality all of its own. The neighbors of the Iranians cannot block thousands of cheap missiles coming in roughly simultaneously.
War is changing. Missiles are cheap and getting cheaper.
I don’t think people so much run out of stuff to do, but they rather run out of giving a sh1t about doing it…
Or they run out of brain matter to process getting stuff done. This is the stage that my mother is at. She talks about getting stuff done all the time but does not get anything done. All she does is move one pile of stuff to another pile and back.
“Report: Pam Bondi Living on Military Base Amid Fears She Might Be Targeted by Radicals or Foreign ‘Adversaries’”
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-pam-bondi-living-military-base-amid-fears-might-targeted-radicals-foreign-adversaries/
“Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined the ranks of Trump administration appointees who are living on military bases due to increased threats.”
“White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, departing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, War Secretary Pete Hegseth also live on military bases, The New York Times reported.”
“Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and Navy Secretary John Phelan also live on bases. Phelan’s D.C. home was damaged last year in a fire.”
The Civil War 2.0 has started. Do not get caught on the wrong side.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Bite This (The Kurtherian Gambit)” by Michael Anderle
https://www.amazon.com/Bite-This-Kurtherian-Gambit-4/dp/154633467X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number four of a twenty-one science fiction and paranormal fantasy series. There is also an eleven book follow on series and several other books related to the The Kurtherian Gambit Universe, over 200 books in total. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2015 that I bought new on Amazon in 2026. I own the next four books in the series already. The related series are listed at:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?46598
The series is a cross between science fiction and paranormal fantasy. A thousand plus years ago, an alien space ship crash landed in the Baltics. A man, Michael, found the space ship, went inside, and was forever changed into the first vampire using alien nanocytes. However, there were werewolves and werebears already existing on Earth and they still exist.
Michael has sired vampires and they have sired vampires. But only one of the vampire “children” is a daywalker like Michael. And Michael enforces strict rules among the vampires and the weres, no blood drinking, no letting humans know of them, etc. Violators of Michael’s rules face swift termination.
But it has been thousand years since Michael was changed and he now sleeps for years at a time. Michael’s helpers found a young woman named Bethany Anne working for the USA government who is dying of a rare blood disease. Michael took her to the alien space ship to become the second first generation vampire on Earth. Now Bethany Anne is cleaning Earth of the evil vampires and weres but, they are fighting back. And Bethany Anne is building her empire.
This series is real pulp like old science fiction with lots of action and dialogue. I love it !
Warning: this series might be damaging to your savings account since there are so many books.
The author has a website at:
https://lmbpn.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,867 reviews)
Lynn
I only have WiFi 6 in the house. Speed has never been an issue and the WiFi speeds measured by Speedtest.net are the same with the new iPad versus the old iPad. The network speed is not what is faster. The overall response of the tablet is better when opening apps and switching apps.
I did, but no longer use it. I gave it away.
I have an ASUS mesh system with the main router and two nodes in the house. One node is wired, the other is wireless.
My WiFi is the only WiFi picked up by any of my devices. There are no other WiFi networks close to me. I have a mixture of 2.5 and 5 devices. The iPad is connecting on the 5GHZ band as do my other computers. The only 2.5GHZ devices are IOT devices such as the garage opener and lights.
Go armed, preferably with sanitized ammo. Carry a mask or balaclava with you everywhere if you live in a jurisdiction which is hostile to armed citizens.
What is sanitized ammo ?
“Windows 12 could be the tipping point that finally pushes you to Linux – here’s why”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-12-rumors-linux-migration/
“Some rumored Windows 12 features could frustrate users and be the reason Linux finally starts looking better.”
I see this article every time a new release of Windows is coming out. Of course, spyware and ads in the Windows O/S might push many users away. But, Pournelle’s saying is still true, a full employment Unix guru is needed for Unix and Linux seems to have the same issues.
“Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power “A Strategic Mistake” – 15 Years After Supporting the Nuclear Phase-Out”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/11/ursula-von-der-leyen-calls-abandoning-nuclear-power-a-strategic-mistake-15-years-after-supporting-the-nuclear-phase-out/
“In 2011, when Angela Merkel decided that Germany had to phase out nuclear power because things like earthquakes and tsunamis happen in Japan, Ursula von der Leyen was Labour Minister and also vice-chair of the CDU. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, von der Leyen defended Merkel’s decision, insisting that her government had “to respond to the new developments”: the Fukushima disaster, she said, had shown everyone “that the unthinkable has now become possible – a worst-case accident in a high-technology country”.”
“Germany has spent the years since 2011 systematically shutting down its own nuclear reactors and also lobbying other European nations to do the same. Thanks to this very dumb policy which von der Leyen openly supported, our power has got a lot more expensive and our industry a lot less competitive.”
“Today, von der Leyen is President of the European Commission, and she has decided that maybe the phase-out wasn’t such a great idea after all. Far from abandoning nuclear energy, she now wants the EU to be become a world-leading “pioneer in nuclear technology”:”
Translated today, she needs another payoff.
On drone interceptors from Ukraine for the middle east:
https://youtu.be/okQlmZJkbBk
Thursday bedtime. Still feeling like I have a cold, so I probably do, but the itchy eyes make me suspect allergies too. No fun.
I am persnickety about documenting everything, especially when giving advice that I know will be ignored, whether that be out of convenience, cupidity, stupidity, incompetence or malice.
One of the key tools for this is minutes of meetings. No one ever wants to write them, as that is regarded as a menial task for the juniormost person in the room. However, I find volunteering for the note-taking job generally allows me to put in the official record exactly what I want it to show, especially as most people are slapdash about reading or commenting on the draft minutes that they receive for approval.
That kind of documentation has proven useful on many occasions, generally when the adverse consequences of which I warned subsequently take place. It is good to have the receipts, as it were.
It is especially nice to be able to point to the “official” record, rather than just some documentation that I kept (nobody ever remembers who actually wrote the minutes). In a paper-pushing environment, he who wields the pen wins.
On that happy note, I write “goodnight!”.
I find it disturbing that PLT/LSM/Dumbos are going after Hegseth’s spending. “Use it before you lose it” happens at all levels of goobermint. But, going after spending $$ on prime food for the troops is totally disgusting. They are framing it that Hegseth has his garage full of ribeys and seafood (don’t forget the grand piano). All this is open information, but the sheeple are too dumb to read about it.
Meanwhile the Dumbos are squawking that the Redumbo’s torpedoed their “Fund DHS, TSA, FEMA, and Coast Guard” without mentioning the same bill defunds ICE and CBP. Absolutely dispicable dirtbags. Take out every Dumbo and shoot them in the babymaker.
Well…
My 6 ready mags for my AR-15 were carefully loaded direct from the factory boxes. I wore gloves while loading them, so the natural oils on my fingertips wouldn’t corrode the brass cases or copper jackets during long term storage..
I’m sure SteveF meant something like this, to keep the ammo clean and pristine.
Of course, there may be other benefits to such cleanliness.
No fingerprints, no DNA. Wear latex gloves when you load the magazine.
Enterprise users who can write a big check have the option of getting Windows 11 with all of the garbage stripped.
I’m sure the situation will be similar with Windows 12.
Microsoft has to include the AI to justify the capex for the sex robots.
Playing with the external USB connected drive. It would not mount on Mint either. I looked at in with “Disks” found under “Accessories”. I don’t know what happened because it did work.
Ok. The drive had four partitions. The first was Windows11 hidden boot partition. Forget the proper name. Most of the rest of the drive and then two more partitions from installing Win11 and then upgrading. I played with deleting the two little partitions and merging the free space and formatting. Then I did the entire drive. One big FAT32 partition of 512GB. Cluster size? I don’t care. Mp3 files average about 3 Mb each, a 4K cluster size is irrelevant. Copied the music folder from this machine to the USB drive.
I’ll have to do the same from Moa to make sure I have everything. But when Win11 asks “replace or skip” I’ll have it skip.
FAT32 was the first choice.
The drive works. It works on the Pi. The Lyrion Server, formerly called SlimServer does not see the USB drive. Just, nope. I’m looking at the drive with Files and I can see the path but nope. I was thinking that maybe putting a shortcut/link to the drive in my media folder might work. But I think I found a better way and it actually makes sense to me.
It’s all about permissions. I log in as user “slim”. PW “slim”. Yeah, machine name, user name and PW all the same. Just to make it simpler for me. The server software logs in with a different name. That user doesn’t have permission to access slim’s USB drive.
I think I found my answer about 20 pages down in Duck searching:
https://wiki.lyrion.org/index.php/Music_on_Linux_USB_hard_drives.html
Sure, the server is now called Lyrion and not SlimServer.
I’ve been looking and reading lots of tiny print web sites for about three hours. I’m tired of sitting here. My eyes are tired. It’s time for the Penny and Buddy the Beagle’s dinner.
So, tomorrow! Saturday for sure.
It took me two years to find the sentence online that told me how to get Samba to default to SMB1 for the scanner to work with my server.
Another year was spent recently trying to figure out why I could not upgrade to the latest kernels for Fedora 41.
A guru full employment act.
You’re obviously too stupid to use Linux. RTFM, loser, and don’t bother us.
I got a lot of that when I tried to use Ubuntu about 15 years ago. Yeah? Hey Genius, how are you with DOS 5?
So I went back to XP. It works.
I’m getting off of Windows because of the constant updates and nagging to use OneDrive. And looking at what the pi-hole blocks, there’s stuff that I have uninstalled trying to connect.
I’m trying to get all of the device drivers and updates installed on a clean XP partition I created on my old primary desktop.
Running anything older than Windows 10 is a guru full employment act anymore.
Redmond wants Windows 7 and XP to die.
Maybe he’s just trolling, waiting for someone to make a mistake, no matter how tiny, in a response so he can pounce on it.
I don’t remember ever seeing “RTFM, loser” responses except as jokes. Possibly I was never in the “*nix newbies” forums because I’d gotten past the newb stage by the time the online culture turned toxic; most of my early learning was from books (HP-UX, Xenix, and AIX manuals, mostly) and coworkers.
AIX. I would have felt sorry for you and helped as much as I could.
Nothing was worse than Irix. For about a year, I could crash that OS at will with a user space program.
Everyone working in IT wanted an Irix workstation after Jurassic Park came out.
I’m digging out my Stevens Unix development books tonight. I have Unix domain socket code to write tomorrow.
Six years also means four cycles of Moore’s Law and better compilers. Plus more memory for iOS apps makes a big difference if the app manages resources correctly.
If the app doesn’t manage resources correctly, it can run faster, but the tradeoff is that the OS will terminate the app more often, which the user sees as a crash.
My fun back then with Ubuntu was that there was a nearby lightning strike. I lost a couple of hubs, my router, my Intel Print Server, my Xerox color laser printer, and the onboard nic in Moa. Yeah, it was a big blast, made waves in the waterbed.
I had, at the time, working Ethernet from the EDC to the house. Wire, in a pipe, buried armpit deep.
Armpit deep? Well, I called the County Ag whatever and asked how deep should I bury my water lines. He was, uh. Well, never mind and thanks for laughing at me. F him. A rented walk behind DitchWitch digs “X” deep so that’s how deep I buried my water lines. Which is for me, laying on the ground is armpit deep. About three feet down.
The printer was ok after all. After a couple of weeks.
But the network card? You’d think a common as dirt 3Com 3c509 card would have drivers. Nope. Not in Ubuntu. Er, maybe it was a 3c905. It’s been a while.
Being told to sudo this and whatever was useless. Without a working network card. I mean? Really? And from a Windows box? On dial-up?
I messed around for a week or so trying to find a driver I could sneaker-net from emu to moa. Finally said screw it, shoved in the DOS floppy. Installed it. Format c: \u to wipe the drive and then shoved in the XP disc. Worked fine for another six years.
The stuff I look for about Mint, it’s mostly useful. I’m probably searching with the wrong terms. But nobody is obnoxious because you don’t know what you are doing. I like that.
Today’s expedition for using a USB drive on a Pi running Lyris/SlimServer was actually baffling. Lots of directions of how to install the server on a Pi. Easy. But 15 pages or so of “more” on the Duck to get an answer about using a USB drive that makes sense just baffles me.
that’s supposed to be c: blackslash u. not c: u
3COM was pretty bad with support, but pre WHQL, Windows drivers were all over the place.
I’ve had 3COM clones work with the company’s drivers than 3COM’s own products.
Gates wants to be Feynman, but he will settle for his name at the top of a paper as important as Bob Metcalf’s outlining the principles of Ethernet. Metcalf had no clue about running a business however.
Post WHQL being required for 64 bit Windows and/or Vista/7/8/10, drivers are much more available, most of the time from Microsoft itself, who does the testing.
WHQL is the reason I doubt Microsoft will go to Linux. That is too much of a competitive advantage.
If a company is going to expend resources to write a driver, especially media-related devices, they are going to go for Windows first.
What is sanitized ammo ?
– I also cycle it thru the mag and pistol a dozen time or more, to be sure it feeds correctly… although it does add a ton of scratches and marks to the casings from the extractor and chamber and feed lips…
And I feel compelled to point out that firing pins are not serialized… and having a spare around might be a good idea. Heck people change barrels on some gubs for all kinds of reasons too.
n
Redmond wants Windows 7 and XP to die.
Redmond wants Windows to die.
Fixed that for ya.
“Here’s the Correct Answer to a Stupid Question About Unarmed Home Invaders Getting Smoked”
https://rumble.com/v771ar2-heres-the-correct-answer-to-a-stupid-question-about-unarmed-home-invaders-g.html?mref=1htl22&mc=e16nv
Yup. Smoke ’em.
They need Windows to deliver the AI services which the bulk of their capex is dedicated towards.
While I don’t believe it for a second, supposedly Gates has been on the Colonist CEO about the capex.
Microsoft under Gates ran on the philosophy that the company always had a year of spending in the bank.
My first gen iPhone SE and last gen iPod Touch both received iOS updates today.
iOS 15.8.7.
The iPod Touch is relatively recent, but the iPhone SE is nearly eight years old.
I spent some time years ago in charge of an awful graphics/mapping application that ran on Sun hardware, with a special variant of their Unix. It was already niche, and then they added “features” for Compartmented Mode Workstation, which means theoretically you could have unclassified and Secret data on the same computer, and the OS made sure you could only see authorized information. It had panes-of-glass access, so if you were logged in UNCLAS you could only see UNCLASS files, but if you were logged in SECRET, you could see the SECRET file first, if it existed, and the UNCLAS version. You could have 2 files named foo.bar in a folder, but with different classifications. I hope that’s clear.
In other words, a kludgy OS, hacked to be kludgier. And Unix based.
Fortunately, I had a Unix expert in my company, and I’d bring my problems to him.
I remember writing simple VMS DCL statements to do things, and showing them to him, and he’d translate to Unix shell(s).
About the fifth time I did this, he said “You sure seem to find the awkward, dusty corners of Unix.”
I actually got the “RTFM, Loser” vibe when I was messing with Linux at home back in 2009. As I recall, it was when I was trying to use SMB. I don’t think I ever got it working.
I remember getting good at installing Ubuntu, and then loading drivers from a thumb drive, so I could get Ethernet to work.
Good times.
I don’t think I’ve posted this before.
I stumbled across this somehow. Following links, you know?
Anyway. I think this is good story telling. You might not like the bible stuff. But it’s still good story telling.
Link to the first chapter:
https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/drama/prophet-to-the-remnant/1-an-ordinary-day
It’s still being written so I don”t know where the story goes.
Interesting.
“Soros Prosecutor Blames Republicans After Convicted ISIS Supporter Opens Fire At Old Dominion University”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/12/soros-prosecutor-republicans-shooting/
“A George Soros-funded prosecutor lashed out Thursday, blaming Republicans and the “cult of gun absolutism” for the deadly shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.”
“Speaking hours after the gunman was shot dead by police, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi said the United States is “a country where people care more about guns” than children, religious worshippers, and college students. Fatehi blamed lawmakers for lacking “the courage to implement sensible gun control measures.””
No, this shooting was executed by a muslim terrorist.
I do not understand how any USA citizen could vote for this trash prosecutor.
I got to the rent house later than I wanted to, I’d had some gastric distress earlier and wasn’t ready to head out…
Did get the insinkerator installed. Did get the repairs to the porch in place, but forgot screws, paint, and glue/caulk so I’ll be doing that tomorrow. And renter’s dad will help me with the laundry machines tomorrow.
Found more evidence of termite damage in the porch columns. Not good. I’ll have to do something to replace the structure now. AND we need to treat for them.
Bummer.
n
I think I’ve told y’all about getting the underside of the floor coated with spray foam insulation.
I don’t know. I write a lot of posts to here and to an email list in my head.
Well. Short story is the air handler has three output ducts. One goes to the back bedrooms. One goes to the dining room and kitchen area. The third goes to the master bedroom and bathroom and also feeds the ducts in the living room. I fixed a a few boo-boos when I installed the heat pump system. I totally agree with having most of the central air going to the bedrooms.
For whatever many reasons, most of the living room and kitchen and all of the dining room never had any insulation under the floor. Call it about 20 by 35 feet of the house. About half of the house.
So the spray foam guys did their thing last week. And it’s interesting to feel with my feet that the parts that use to be warm now feel cold.
The best part? The “wall of cold” when going to the living room on my way to the kitchen is like 80% gone. It’s not like walking into a refrigerator anymore.
The system is set to go to 67f at night and then 70f at uh, 6am. System anticipates and starts running the heat about 5am. With the new insulation? Ain’t no frenzy speed at 5am to raise the temp.
I used to run a Windows XP (ultimately SP3) desktop* just for compatibility with one client. They are long gone, but I have upgraded that machine twice, and am currently running Win10. I am not inclined to upgrade to Win11 without a good reason, and genuflecting to Redmond and Gates with their tongues up the backside of whoever now sits in Jack Valenti’s office is not it.
As far as Linux is concerned:
If I had a special-purpose air-gapped system that did not need peripherals that might change and a million-dollar budget to keep fanbois on-call 24/7, I might consider it. Otherwise why use something Unix-like when real Unix is just under the AOS shell?
I need to clean up my office desk area and bring out the media cart with the VCR and the 20″ Trinitron–I want to run through the Highlander series again. Might be a good time to chuck the WinBox and say buh-bye.
*I have a WinXP SFF desktop that runs software for a piece of analytical equipment that is 20 years old, runs fine, does the job as well as the newest stuff without the output being prettied up with colored graphs that are seldom useful. I’m not going to spend $50k to upgrade the equipment, and long ago I cloned the Dell box that runs the software.
@paul
“So the spray foam guys did their thing last week. And it’s interesting to feel with my feet that the parts that use to be warm now feel cold.”
I almost suggested getting one of those inexpensive non-contact IR temperature guns and getting some spot before measurements to compare with the after. Your calibrated feet are probably just as good, and ultimately the prooof is how you feel and what the utility bills look like.
If my dog is any indication, any cool or warm spots in the floor will be quickly discovered.
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I’ve got one XP box running to run my vinyl cutter. No new drivers for it and it’s a rock solid Roland cutter so no reason to trash it either. I do have a wide cutter, still in the box, that uses modern drivers, and if I was running a business I’d set it up. The 15″ Roland works well for the kind of small signs and stickers I do for the kids. A Cricut would probably work fine, but the Roland cuts heavy duty commercial vinyl. My buddy with the gub store has one of my signs on his door and it’s been fine in the weather for several years, maybe six? or seven?
I think I’ve got an atom notebook running winXP somewhere too. It’d be nice to get that on Pop!OS or something that would actually perform better on the anemic hardware.
I’ve got enough old notebooks that I should probably start dedicating them to ham radio, software radio, the laser engraver, etc. More projects.
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Got my passport in the mail today. Only been a couple of weeks. Guess ‘expedited’ really does work. Still need my docs and the card.
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Had pecan pie and mudbugs tonight. So tasty. Sleepy though from the sugar. Went from 100 to 150 and seems to have leveled for a bit. Might be coming down now.
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And it’s pretty chilly out. It was 54F at dinner time and now it’s 49F. I think I’ll skip my tiny little fire and try for an early bedtime.
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I had to fire my mother’s housekeeper of two decades today. She was interfering with the Estate Sales people who are in my mother’s house putting prices on everything. She was also taking stuff home without permission. We actually have her on camera coming in last Saturday and putting a book in front of the camera. The Estate Sales head complained to me Monday that several items that he priced last week were missing. And other problems.
Sigh. Why ?
Why ?
– entitlement. Or maybe mom promised her stuff and she didn’t think you’d believe her? Still entitlement.
Estate sellers hate when the family pulls items. They’ve already made assumptions about staffing and expenses based on expected value. I ran into it last weekend. I went to a sale looking for ONE item that was shown in the photos, but the family removed it without telling the sellers. So I made a trip for nothing. Several other people were looking for it too.
Send me a note with the company name and I’ll let you know if I have any opinion or know anything about them.
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I’m looking at an estate auction that is in my neighborhood.
The house is dirty and there is stuff all over. And then I spot the McIntosh amp. Sansui turntable. LP Record washing system… FFS, the seller isn’t even featuring the McIntosh. They don’t seem to have any idea it’s worth anything. It’s lotted with a bunch of other stereo gear because they made the whole shelf unit one lot.
I won’t be able to steal it, the lot is already over $220 so someone else saw it…
Crazy.
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Now it’s past bedtime.
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