We’re firmly in the “might get rain and storms” part of the national map today, and tomorrow. I’ll be flying so I hope we don’t get a bunch of weather. After yesterday’s nice day, it was a bit more cloudy in the evening and we even got a sprinkle that lasted less than 5 minutes, before it cleared again. It probably hit 100F in the late afternoon. My shaded thermometer read 99.6F. That’ll be the hottest day so far. Sure to get hotter though.
I did my pickups. The big TV was surprisingly easy to deal with on the drywall cart. I stashed it and the last two lappy stands at the shop and came home to do stuff for our trip. It’s not WDW, but it will be FL.
And after Florida, I should have some internet for the next 6 days, but IDK how good it will be or when I’ll have it. We’ll see what we get for the money. I’d bring the starlink mini but it is specifically verbotten. Blogging will perforce be lame, tired, perfunctory, minimal, and intermittent. Or it will be just like a normal day but I’ll only check in at night. I guess we’ll see.
Today I’m flying to FL. Hopefully it won’t be a dumpster fire of a day. I’m not thrilled.
But life is what happens while you are making plans. It’ll be good for some things.
Stack. It’s so much easier.
nick
Safe travels and enjoy family.
Busch Gardens is City of Tampa which has been run by Dems since Bob Martinez left office.
Some of the Dems, however, were competent administrators even if they saddled the city with poorly chosen spending boondoggles such as the convention center and aquarium.
I’d go as far as saying that the stadium belongs on the list, but two Super Bowls, incuding Brady’s “home game”, are hard to argue.
The current Mayor does not fall into the “competent” category IMHO, but she is gay. The Dems had to work that out of their system.
I can’t break opsec until Sunday, but I have to fly through TPA this weekend.
Delta. No Spanx airside this trip.
My bad. Three in the new stadium. 2001, back in the “before” time, was overshadowed by the hanging chad fiasco so it was a long time until the next championship game in 2009. The Brady “home” Super Bowl was selection by default when the new LA stadium was delayed.
The NFL owners like Tampa for the quality of the party, but the facility is getting “dated” in ownerspeak.
FCC regulations dictate that HOAs can’t interfere with using the satellite TV mini dishes or Starlink, but FS 720 creates a lot of Corn Pone Hitler wannabes, especially among the military retirees around Tampa obsessed with that tenbagger real estate win while they are still “young retired” and can use the proceeds to bug out to locations with better weather and fewer bugs.
Fascist much?
Yeah, if you want to keep peace, ditch the dish.
The beauty of the mini is it’s size and flexible placement. You can have it on a three foot stand in the back yard, no one the wiser. And they sell a variety of car mounts.
The restriction will be from Sat – Thur and we will be searched and x rayed. Before then we’ll just be a the mercy of other providers and whatever they have. And I won’t be sitting at my desk all day.
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Up. Sunny day so far. Didn’t note the temp when I walked by but it ‘looks’ hot.
Time to start the coffee.
n
Humid and hot, already 80F.
Dog is on the way to the sitter. I’ve freed up 6TB on the NVR.
Coffee is in the mug and breakfast is ready.
n
Up at 5:30, sunrise is now well before 6am. Light overcast, sun peeking through, prediction is for 92F today. I need to get things done early.
Started coffee, fed cats, fed birds (and rabbits), started oatmeal, watered tomatoes (with ‘miracle gro’ since it’s the start of a month), took a 1.5 miles walk, drank some coffee, still waiting on oatmeal to steep, checked email.
Todays plan: pull weeds for an hour, water the trees in front (with Miracle Gro fertilizer), start clearing out the Chihuahua run in back, go into town and buy some bags of base for the pavers for last 6′ of the rear pathway (I will unload them tomorrow).
A couple weeks back I bought a queen bed and frame for guests that are showing up in two weeks, I really need to assemble them and make sure everything’s OK. That is an indoor job for the afternoon.
There’s a bunch of trim painting that needs to be done indoors as well, but the garage is such a mess that I can’t get to the painting supplies…
It’s a great life if you don’t weaken, to coin a phrase.
“the garage is such a mess that I can’t get to the painting supplies…”
darn squirrels
Paul Krugman calls for Purging the United States…
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/06/02/krugman-eliminate-maga-n2677071
I’ve got time after lunch on Saturday, Paul. I’ll put the 16” auger on the post hole digger. Bring ten of your best friends by at 2pm and I’ll have you all planted by 3—head down so you can enjoy the trip.
Yes, let’s purge Krugman and his ilk. He’s wrong about everything. A commie and crimmigrant lover.
Trust the science, says GOOGLE:
Outrage as Google plans to release 64 MILLION bacteria-infected mosquitoes in two US states: ‘This must be stopped’
What about DDT? Skeeters would be minimal by now. Oh, wait, hating DDT is a ProgLibTurd scare tactic, appartichik ploy.
I hate computers. My office PC was not talking to the intertubes when I left last night. But I was tired and blew it off. Traced it down today to frozen ethernet hub with all of the lights on. Turned it off for 10 seconds, turned it on, and life is good.
My son says that turning stuff off then on works until it don’t work.
And I notice that I do not have any spare 8 port ethernet hubs at the moment.
“Texas Announces New Tool to Keep Illiterate Foreigners Away From Driver’s Seats”
https://thelibertydaily.com/texas-announces-new-tool-keep-illiterate-foreigners-away/
“The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will give commercial driver license (CDL) knowledge tests only in English while banning interpreters, effective immediately, the agency said in a statement. The new policy aligns with that of President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to “ensure that all newly licensed commercial drivers have the communication skills necessary to operate these vehicles safely on Texas roads,” according to the statement.”
3 . 2 . 1 . here comes a Biden judge with a differing opinion.
“Charted: Annual Space Launches by Superpowers (1957–2025)”
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf09-charted-annual-space-launches-by-country-19572026/
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
I guess that the USA gets to count SpaceX. Of course, SpaceX is an arm of the USA DOW. And I like that.
““He who occupies the high ground…will fight to advantage.””
“-Sun Tzu, Chinese military strategist and philosopher, 544 BC-496 BC.”
https://www.onverticality.com/blog/sun-tzu-quote-1
Paul Krugman is the prime reason why economics is called “the dismal science”.
“Death From Behind” – US Army Flight Surgeon (my Quonset Hut mate during a tour in Korea).
Delta. No Spanx airside this trip.
Wait, I want to be comfortable on a plane. I ain’t wearing Spanx on a plane for nobody.
The beauty of the mini is it’s size and flexible placement. You can have it on a three foot stand in the back yard, no one the wiser. And they sell a variety of car mounts.
The restriction will be from Sat – Thur and we will be searched and x rayed. Before then we’ll just be a the mercy of other providers and whatever they have. And I won’t be sitting at my desk all day.
I need to get a Starlink Mini for the office and park it at my house.
We have been walking a new path in our neighborhood and I have been amusing myself with how many of our neighbors have generators now. About a third of the houses on the three mile walk. And several of the generators are the 32+ kw liquid cooled generator like my 38 kw generator.
“Apple is coming for the entire $200 billion glasses market”
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/apple-coming-entire-200-billion-164004562.html
“A decade later, the math is brutal. Apple is now the largest watchmaker on earth by units. Swatch’s revenue is down roughly 28% from 2014, and Fossil’s sales have fallen about 70%, according to Bloomberg. The Apple Watch alone now brings in an estimated $17 billion a year.”
“When I line those numbers up, the pattern is impossible to miss. Apple does not enter markets. It absorbs them.”
“Now it is aiming that same playbook at something sitting on your face. Apple is building smart glasses meant to swallow a $200 billion eyewear market, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported.”
They can have the custom glasses market. I will have my cheap readers all over the place where I need them.
“Trump wants Fort Knox ‘physically audited’ after stunning $40M arrest — here’s why so many are after the yellow metal”
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/commodities/articles/trump-wants-fort-knox-physically-105500941.html
Whoever told Trump to shut up about auditing Fort Knox just got told to put up or shut up. And get ready for jail.
The Spanx store at TPA is next to the gate where the AirTran Atlanta Shuttle arrived/departed every hour during daylight hours on weekdays. Sara Blakely took that flight at least once a week while working for Danka in Clearwater and building her hosiery business.
The Spanx airside also has the best food vendors at TPA.
“‘Climate Change’ Is The Abortion Lobby’s Newest Excuse To Promote Baby Murder”
https://www.alexjoneslive.com/2026/06/02/climate-change-is-the-abortion-lobbys-newest-excuse-to-promote-baby-murder/
“As to exactly what kind of “climate-driven reproductive health crises” we are talking about, here are some of their arguments:
You are freaking kidding me. Sounds like a James Talarfreako argument.
The Spanx store at TPA is next to the gate where the AirTran Atlanta Shuttle arrived/departed every hour during daylight hours on weekdays. Sara Blakely took that flight at least once a week while working for Danka in Clearwater and building her hosiery business.
The Spanx airside also has the best food vendors at TPA.
Spanx and food are not compatible.
“Smith & Wesson 10mm Mountain Fighter”
https://athlonuntamed.com/article/smith-wesson-10mm-mountain-fighter/
I need one of these. Need, I tell you. We now have bears running around Texas.
Maybe I need a new .44 mag model 629 with a 3 inch barrel. My six inch barrel model 629 is a beast.
https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/n-frame-163606
“James Talarico Is a Full-Blown, Unambiguous, Biblically-Defined Heretic”
https://rumble.com/v7aplb2-james-talarico-is-a-full-blown-unambiguous-biblically-defined-heretic.html?mref=1t8q76&mc=5gu6n
Yes, Talarfreako is a heretic. He has the right to be heretic. But he does not have the right to force us to say his heresy is ok with us.
“Why weren’t the stupid pigs prosecuted as accessories to murder?”
Things are going to get muy ugly over this one. Would not be surprised if they put all the officers involved in witness protection.
The slightly bigger question is why the brother and father have not been prosecuted for their parts in the murder.
My wife got her hard cast today. Both of the hand and wrist breaks are healing nicely so the ortho doctor changed his mind about the 12 weeks. He told her to come back in three weeks and he would cut the cast off and reevaluate from that point. Yes !
@Lynn
“Up close, the platform delivers power in a way that is both manageable and authoritative.”
Yeah howdy.
1200fps with Wilson Combat 180g XTP.
Stock is $1200. As refined I’d guess $2500-3000 sans holster.
I would love to shoot one–I’m pretty sure my wrists would not love me after 20 rounds.
That’s fine. Just need a couple of 5 port hubs and a patch cable.
I thought all of the bears in Texas were hairy guys at gay bars. Yeah, Summer Child….. grin.
That’s fine. Just need a couple of 5 port hubs and a patch cable.
I have a dozen eight port hubs scattered around the office as the wall plates are never where it is convenient. And the offices in my office building are large, mine is 20 by 21 feet, the small offices are 14 by 17 feet.
“Up close, the platform delivers power in a way that is both manageable and authoritative.”
Yeah howdy.
1200fps with Wilson Combat 180g XTP.
Stock is $1200. As refined I’d guess $2500-3000 sans holster.
I would love to shoot one–I’m pretty sure my wrists would not love me after 20 rounds.
My six inch barrel model 629 is a freaking cannon. .44 magnum rounds leave the barrel with a two foot long fireball. I had a guy shooting his 9mm next to me move 20 feet down the firing lane after my first shot. And yes, 12 rounds is enough for my wrists.
Hey. I might be crazy. What’s new?
There is a nice 2002, I have to look at the title to be sure, , Jeep Cherokee sitting in the carport. TWO DOOR. It has about 230,000 miles, and a newish battery and even newer tires. It looks great. The driver seat is worn but not a big deal to fix. The headliner is sagging in spots. Not a big deal to fix.
He quit driving it when he went out one day and the serpentine belt broke. “I’ll just drive the van.” I have always thought that was an odd thing for him to say. So it has sat for 2.5 years. I keep the tires aired and the battery is on a trickle charger.
It runs great. Does not use any oil.
I told one of the boys “it’s yours” but heck, after two years it’s plain he don’t care.
I don’t know the Blue Book. Don’t care. $1000 cash and it’s your Jeep. You have to come to Burnet to get it.
Plus there are a couple of older larger Cherkees projects that were never finished. I have the title for one, the other is parts. Free.
I was wrong. It’s a 2000 Cherokee.
So what are these six sexes that James Talarfreako keeps on talking about? Knowing this weirdo, I am not sure that two of them are male and female.
Home recovering from my second cataract surgery.
I would have posted hours ago but I needed to sleep off the drugs.
All seems to be ok.
Michael McDaniel enunciates clearly:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/why_i_carry_a_concealed_handgun.html
Property Taxes Might Be on the Way Out in This State
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/06/02/property-taxes-might-be-on-the-way-out-in-this-state-n2677103
Florida, of course.
No state income tax, and dialing back property taxes.
Like to see the study that details how they plan to extract the money from tourists.
Beyond the two statistically prevalent genders, chromosomal abnormalities such as Kleinfelter’s could be interpreted as separate biological sex categories.
The trans member of the rank and file who broke the union at the Death Star in 2009 claimed to have Kleinfelter’s, but he/she never produced a medical professional willing to speak on camera during the PrimeTime Live special devoting the entire hour to that one story.
Things that make you say “Hmmm….”: The union gave up within 24 hours of the show airing.
“Dallas Judge Moves Proceedings Online After Supreme Court Ends Mask Mandate”
https://texasscorecard.com/local/dallas-judge-moves-proceedings-online-after-supreme-court-ends-mask-mandate/
“After the Texas Supreme Court ordered her to withdraw a courtroom mask mandate, Judge D’Metria Benson announced proceedings will move online and jury trials will be paused.”
Why does she not quit? She is just making things harder for the rest of us.
Home recovering from my second cataract surgery.
I would have posted hours ago but I needed to sleep off the drugs.
All seems to be ok.
Congrats ! So which lens did you go with?
“The Greatest American Cars of All Time”
https://www.motortrend.com/features/greatest-american-cars-of-all-time
I have zero disagreements with this list. And moreover, I want to own a copy of each on the list. Except for the Dodge Caravan, I already owned two of those pieces of junk.
LOOK: Massive Cocaine Smuggling Tunnel Busted By Authorities
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cameron-arcand/2026/06/02/look-massive-cocaine-smuggling-tunnel-busted-by-authorities-n2677112
Why don’t we have a “Pound a Pound up the Pooper Program” in place?
And send a ton of RDX back down the tunnel? Set off a couple of those at tunnel entrances and the Mexican neighborhoods studiously ignoring the narco traffic would look like anthills as they flee. Pick them up on satellite, dial up the multi-spectral imaging, confirm with GPR, and send to robo-crawler with a payload.
Scoop: Platner heads to D.C. for senator meetings and fundraisers
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/graham-platner-maine-democratic-senators
please, please, please, please!!!!
All the Democrat senators should like up for photo ops. Even better if he takes off his shirt and shows where the tat used to be as proof of his reformation. Yes, Chuckie, bring the grandkids.
“Kids Acting Like Kids?”
https://areaocho.com/kids-acting-like-kids/
“The so- called “teen takeover” trend expanded this past weekend when a large group of “teens” headed to Clearwater Beach and immediately began attacking people before it ended with gunshots.”
Yeah, if a bunch of Amish kids suddenly show up where I am at, I am not longer there.
“Bill Gates Admits Over 20 Extramarital Affairs Allegations Surfaced During Divorce from Melinda”
https://slaynews.com/bill-gates-admits-20-extramarital-affairs-allegations-surfaced-during-divorce-melinda/
21 ? 100 ? 200 ? 1,000 ? 5,000 ?
Good luck. I had good success with mine except one lens had to be redone in a month. Something about it shifted. Of course, I had to pay again and pay another $800.00 for another lens that insurance refused to cover.
I don’t remember any drugs except a Valium 30 minutes before and some eye drops. Recovery was going home and resting to avoid straining the unaffected eye.
Yeh, it was probably piece of junk like all Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep products. But the van was a trend setter that influenced a lot of subsequent vehicles from other manufacturers.
And that jerk Marsha Blackburn has been calling my phone, I refuse to answer. I have blocked the numbers but each time it changes. The call goes to voicemail, and that lowlife political sponge leaves a message. I don’t want to her from her in any form. What gives them the right to invade my space with phone calls and messages? I did not vote for her, will vote against her, writing in my own name if necessary, to avoid showing any support.
>>We have been walking a new path in our neighborhood and I have been amusing myself with how many of our neighbors have generators now. About a third of the houses on the three mile walk. And several of the generators are the 32+ kw liquid cooled generator like my 38 kw generator.
Yeah, my **** generator is bigger than yours!
The annual week horsing around with Ann Winblad was written into the prenup before the boy genius got married.
You know it is bad when Warren Buffett suddenly put a lot of distance between himself and Gates.
I received a text from my brother that had apparently been “re-imagined” by the AI on his phone, something confusing about ‘Nick the Pipe’ in his neighborhood.
And to which my other brother replied are you sure it wasn’t “Sos the Rope“?
A Piers Anthony character from a book published in the 1960’s….
Should I be happy or concerned that I recognized it?
So old that there’s apparently no e-book version of it.
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Update: apparently some construction workers had nicked a gas pipe in his neighborhood, a lot of emergency vehicles on site, but no explosions or flames.
No battlecircle, alas.
Weaponless.
I found that series to be a bit depressing, in the end.
Can’t remember the name.
““Total Robot”: Stunning Video Shows “Android” James Talarico Voicing “Rehearsed” Claim, Word-for-Word”
https://thelibertydaily.com/total-robot-stunning-video-shows-android-james-talarico/
“(WND)—James Talarico, the Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate against Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, is now being accused of being an “android” after voicing a “total robot” rehearsed line about Republicans secretly supporting him.”
“Podcaster Matt Christiansen posted side-by-side clips of Talarico uttering the same claim, virtually word-for-word, to MS NOW and CBS News on May 26 an May 27, respectively.”
“Talarico, in stereo, states: “I’ve gone to every corner of this state (Texas) over the course of this campaign, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville and everywhere in between, and I can’t tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, ‘I’m not a Democrat,’ like they’re in the Witness Protection Program.””
Wow, Talarfreako is a freak show.
Same here. I don’t remember much about it, but remember being upset that Anthony killed off one of the more likable protagonists.
The 60s era PA novels could be rather brutal.
Anthony was a strange writer, he had a good eye for plotting and interesting world building, but his writing was kind of pedestrian. Not bad, just kind of dull. Deliberate?
The Piers Anthony trilogy was called Battle Circle.
His stories are OK. I liked them as a preteen and early teen but got tired of the frequent contrivances to make the plots work the way he wanted. On the plus side, he was very prolific, sold untold millions of copies in all, and supported his family for decades without, he says, ever suffering from writer’s block.
What are “PA” novels? Typo of YA? (I’m a Dvorak typist and P is next to Y.)
I missed the obvious clue Lynne left as to the name. Oh well.
I think the negative feelings I have are due to my desire for all things to work out right in the end.
I understand that life is not like that. But my carefully curated literature can be.
PA stands for post apocalyptic.
I was a teenager (a young one) when these came out.
My memory of it is pretty vague, but yeah, Anthony was well known to push a series until it no longer paid, sequel after sequel. Even then I didn’t think he was a first rank author, but I did enjoy his stuff in moderation. Particularly when I could get a lot of it for free from the local library.
I think the Xanth series went on for decades, for example, I only read the first three or four.
I got a lot of the Piers Anthony books (and Anne McCaffrey’s Dragon series) because my mom saw that I had a lot of them and therefore I must like them and therefore she bought me some as birthday presents and such. She didn’t notice that I had a lot of them because she kept buying them for me rather than because I was choosing them of my own accord. Well, she meant well…
Piers Anthony wrote some creepy stuff (in an introduction) about teen girls with suicidal ideation liking his stuff, or being his best readers. It was weird enough it stuck with me for decades. I did like his series about a body guard or companion with a fighting style meant to look accidental and bumbling…
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I’m in the hotel, waiting for my dinner to settle before getting an early night.
Nice weather so far, not too hot. The smell of salt air is nice. I miss it.
n
Beyond the two statistically prevalent genders, chromosomal abnormalities such as Kleinfelter’s could be interpreted as separate biological sex categories.
Gotta be the Kinsey 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
That is some freaky stuff there.
Line up sheeple!
Even index fund investors are going to get sheared on SpaceX, however. The final currency distortion is underway.
Someone at work was talking about Ferrari vs. Lamborghini today, and I don’t think they were joking around.
Talking about your stock grants is a fireable offense, however.
The final currency distortion is underway.
You lost me ??? There have been many currency distortions in the USA since the beginning of the Republic. And there will be many more.