And less sleep. Hot again. Humid again. We got some rain in the late afternoon which cooled things down briefly, but it was mid 80sF by nightfall. I was soaked with sweat working outdoors, even with the cloud cover.
After getting D2 to the dentist and then to school, and a one hour nap, I started my day.
I did my scrap run, then a trip to my secondary to use the dumpster, then a pickup (three laptop roll around standup workstation COW things – no batteries, but did include old HP laptops. Two running winXP and one Vista.) I spent the rest of the afternoon at the shop working to scrap out the COWs. Today I’ll see if the laptops boot. Maybe they’ll have decent specs as they don’t look as old as the OSs would imply?
When the rain started, it was time to head home for a meal I didn’t plan or purchase. Carry out indian. Delicious.
Today I’ll get the kid to her optometry checkup and then to school, then I’ll probably nap. I’m way behind on sleep and really feeling it with the heat and humidity. After that, it’s more time trying to get stuff out of the house, out of the shop, and sold – which entails a lot of moving stuff around, sorting, and organizing.
Or maybe I’ll just finish the gantry that I didn’t get to because of the rain shower…
I’m sure I’ll be working on something. And thinking about stacking.*
nick
*I’ll call it ‘planning’.
Thursday. Good morning!
The early worm gets a haircut, and the gas struts for the fifth door of W1’s car replaced. Bonus- passed by the bakery for croissants for the mechanics, so got some for myself too! Will enjoy those later.
This evening will be evening two of red deer season. Didn’t see any game on evening one, but had beers and chat with the foresters and the other hunters. Learned things to my advantage. Meatspace, baby!
Tonight is bin night, so time to sort through the fridges and pantry to see what needs to go away. There are some yoghurts with a band of May 2025 that might be developing intelligent life. Still smell OK, and in an apocalypse, I wouldn’t hesitate, but Aldi is just down the road for the fresh fruits of civilisation, so in the bin they will go…
Have a good day!
I’ve been thinking of it like renting trailers instead of buying one. I rent different types for different jobs, instead of having to make the job fit the trailer I own. I will probably continue renting equipment. Still, it would be SO CONVENIENT to just hop in and do some job and not worry about planning and cost.
One of the problems of owning a trailer is where do you park it when you are not using it? HOAs hate trailers with a passion, so does your local Karen.
Re: IDScan data breach
@Nick
“Once more highlighting the problem with collecting the data- eventually someone will use it in a way not intended originally.”
When you present your drivers license as ID, the reasonable expectation is that it be used to verify your identity. NOT that all the information be downloaded without a authorization by a company that has no contractual relationship with you.
Someone breaches my front door they have no expectation of surviving. Neither does a company breaching my digital front door. It makes no difference if they sell my information or get hacked, the result is that it costs me in time and money either way, and my response is to want them dead. I don’t care what they offer in compensation after the fact—it’s not a transaction that I agreed to be a party to. If they are destroyed I have the twofold peace of mind that they will not be in a position to do it agsin, and as a horrible example they will give the next miscreants pause.
Or not. But if each one in turn gets the same treatment, we eventually get the point across or run out of s low learners.
Millions of records stolen. How much time and money for each person affected to defend themselves? How much in losses to thieves using that information? Make possession a death sentence, and then kill the melon farmers. Possession includes the companies and machines hosting the data. Die. All of them. The world will be a better place.
I see a lot of Good Germans still displaying their political allegiance among that demographic, mostly store clerks/cashiers inside the city limits.
Some of the stores even indulge the crazy by supplying armbands -er- masks with the retailer’s logo.
The party is over for at least two years if the Senate changes hands as well as the House in six weeks.
Republicans have been complicit in losing this election and the power of the Congressional subpoena.
Texas may be a clean sweep as far down the ballot as the attention spans of the Dem voters allow if the polls are accurate.
I am not going to vote for “MAGA” Mays for Attorney General. I may even vote for the Dem.
If Abbott loses, Gina! will be tough to dislodge, and the useless RINOs in this state will either run “MAGA” Mays, should he be in position, or, God help us, P. Diddly Bush in four years.
Someone at a major retailer should design a mask with a built-in analyzer for illegal drugs, downloading the information via bluetooth.
Pass the info to the marketing AI, and have targeted sales texts offering a little pick me up from the pharmacy or snack/coffee bar. Probably need to combine it with the IR laser analyzer that reads your breath as you walk in the door.
Currently trying to get D1 out the door while letting D2 sleep in.
Eye doc at 9 means some extra sleep for me too, if I can nap for a half hour… and I’ll try.
78F
n
Old classmate left Cali for Texas, moving to Plano. Saw the shiite going dow there and has been in Idaho for ten years.
Rinos should get the treatment John Kay wanted for pushers.
I see very few people wearing masks (ie, the blue paper face diapers which serve no practical purpose). The vast majority of those who do are Oriental.
I let the hens out for a few minutes. Several were in the coop when I opened the gate but all came out except the one actively laying. They ran to get the kitchen scraps that I set out. om-nom-nom. When I went back to the run 20 minutes later, two were in the coop (one laying and one standing and staring because she wanted to be in the One True Laying Bay) and another was staring up the ramp because she wanted to go up. Once all of the birds were in the run, several who’d been out ran up the ramp and there was some squabbling and several were ejected. I left them to figure it out for themselves.
Overnight temp was low 40s here, probably high 30s up at the family house. I’ll need to turn on the heat, put a new battery in the thermostat, plug in the heat tape around the couple pipes in the cellar, and put up the storm windows. (I like the 150-year-old farmhouse but it does have some drawbacks.) Probably don’t need to turn on the second-floor space heater yet. Definitely need to figure out how to take the one air conditioner out of the window. This one has a frame which is mounted in the window and then the internals are slid into the frame. I can’t figure out how to get the guts out of the frame. After fiddling with it for longer than I care to admit, and going outside to check from there and then back inside to check from there more times than I care to admit, I couldn’t figure out if there was a catch I can’t find or if it’s just stuck. There are several spots for screws to hold the guts in place but the screws were all removed. Could force it but don’t want to because that would probably break something. Annoying.
If you put shock collars on the daughters, you could wake them more easily. Make sure they’re on different frequencies so you can zap just one if appropriate. #FollowMeForMoreParentingAdvice
This is the primary reason I don’t own a small travel trailer.
My hobby club owns a trailer and they’re squabbling about where to park it. It only gets used a few times a year, but it’s full of expensive gear so needs a secure place. Even secure places get robbed and vandalized.
If you’re paying to store it, that’s $1200 a year or more outside. Covered is more.
We have the Mainland Chinese showing their allegiance to Number One Son Fauci, but we also get the LGBTQXYZ people living here and working in retail who still wear masks on the job.
I can’t decide if it is irrational fear or DSA politics, where DSA = Daddy’s Savings Account, the money they actually use to live while waiting to “catch a break”
I could try the dual function training/anti-bark collars. Zap them when I feel like it, and have the collars zap them when they make noise….
n
I still see masks, sometimes outdoors, and on the bus. Seems nuts to me.
n
FIFY. Yes, there is no doubt that Redumbo’s are complicit in a midterm loss.
I see a few diaper-faced in the casinos. Usually OriAsiansTM. There is one caller at our favorite Lady of the Dauber church who always wears a black face diaper. It is always pulled down off her nose making it completely useless.
Keeps their halitosis confined…
n
Even before the Sickness Kabuki, Mainland Chinese loathed Americans, believing that we are all disgusting.
Watch old “King of the Hill” episodes and pay attention to what come’s out of the mouth of Khan, the Thai neighbor. That was the prevailing attitude even before Covid.
The new “King of the Hill” neuters Khan. I think the change in voice actor makes the character less sympathetic because he now sounds like my wife’s Number One Cousins.
My new Dopp Kit carry FLASHLIGHT:
Olight Oclip 2 Ultra
The red/UV is handy for a night light and looking for cooties while traveling.
Yes, I’m an Olight fan boi.
That’s fine. It’s becoming mutual more and more, the more Americans are exposed to Asians.
If only their food wasn’t so tasty.
n
We have the recipes. They can all go back from whence they came.
Monty Python noted that about 60 years ago.
I got two offers for mom’s house yesterday, $300K and $350K. I countered $450K to both offers. The $350K offer verbally accepted the $450K and will be sending a contract through soon.
And of course, a last minute hickup has poked its ugly head up. Dad added a sunroom, 40 feet by 25 feet, to the house in 1997. Now the Windstorm insurance people say that the sunroom was not properly permitted and they maybe will, maybe will not cover any windstorm damage to the sunroom. This is freaking crazy as the sunroom is totally integrated into the house. My insurance agent is checking on this.
The dewpoint is down to 70 F (45% humidity). It felt nice outside at noon until the thermometer crossed to 101 F at 2 pm.
“Alex Jones Returns To Former Infowars Studio”
https://www.alexjoneslive.com/2026/09/24/alex-jones-returns-to-former-infowars-studio/
Wild. This story is never ending.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
I am not going to vote for “MAGA” Mays for Attorney General. I may even vote for the Dem.
Are you going to vote for gun grabber Talarfreako also? I see his mother is looking for a house for the two of them in DC.
Paxton is spending money like water now. And he is not a RINO at all.
“Gun Rights Groups Slap Blue State’s Glock Ban With New Court Filing”
https://thelibertydaily.com/gun-rights-groups-slap-blue-states-glock-ban/
“(The Daily Caller)—Hours after Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation in May that could ban the sale of Glock pistols, pro-Second Amendment organizations announced they would file suit to have the law thrown out as unconstitutional. In a response filed with the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), National Rifle Association (NRA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said that there was no historical basis to ban firearms because criminals illegally modified them.”
All of the blue states are gun grabbers.
OK, a friend of mine bought a 100 acres of farmland over in Wallis, Texas. So she goes over there several times a week with her two boys to check on it and ride her 4×4 around. The land came with some cows and she bought a pregnant cow to experience the joy of owning a pregnant cow.
So her pregnant cow delivered the calf last weekend and the calf is too weak to stand up to suckle from momma. So she went to the feed store in Wallis and got their advice and bought a bunch of stuff. And she took the calf home. Yes, her home. She is feeding the calf to strengthen it and taking it back to her farm daily to see if it can stand up and suckle from momma.
She showed us a super cute picture of the calf laying on her sofa last night while she was feeding it. The group of us suspect that the calf is going to become a house pet.
Will the cow accept the calf if it wasn’t with her right after birth?
Will the cow accept the calf if it wasn’t with her right after birth?
Dont know. She is taking the calf over there daily and trying to get it to suckle from mom.
Well, they’re TRYING to force a mid-term loss. We’ll have to see how it works out.
Had to bottle feed two calves a few years ago. They were the two lightest of their cohort that went to the locker.
Can’t imagine one in the house on a sofa. City folk.
If the calf can be housebroken, it should be fine. Couches which can hold two “People of Walmart” can easily hold a grown cow.
Republican PACs are spending money on Paxton’s behalf whether they like him or not. The US Senate race is at the top of the ticket.
I’m not voting for Talarico. I’ll hold my nose and vote for Paxton, but I’ve been over “MAGA” Mays since the runoff.
One more serious storm and anyone living out there will have to self insure.
Florida’s insurance carriers were all insolvent when we left.
If the calf can be housebroken, it should be fine. Couches which can hold two “People of Walmart” can easily hold a grown cow.
She is 6’0″ and weighs about 160. Her husband is 6’8″ and about 260 or so. Both are retired Army. The 10th grader is two inches taller than me and may weigh 150. The 8th grader is closing in on 6′.
So I suspect that their furniture is sturdy. They have a 6,000 ft2 house with a six car garage around the corner from me. I love their garage, it has two 16′ wide by 14′ tall doors so her husband can drive his lifted 4×4 F250 in one door and out the other door.
Governor Wes (is) Moore needs a distraction from his budget failures.
Plus there is the collapsed bridge fiasco.
Two and a half years after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge southbound span collapsed at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida Man was driving pilings for the new bridge.
I finished moving the project cars today, and mowed (real short) under their spots. I also compacted the trench again where I’d added fill. After that, I sorted a bunch of fence posts and lawn bricks etc into neat piles and mowed under the freed up spots. The back yard looks better than it has for about ten years.
I had “planned second meal” steak (since leftover steak is a null concept) for lunch. There was no desert, which isn’t that much of a hardship after a good steak. Coffee with cream AND sugar will have to do. Shortly.
I recently discovered Portuguese Egg Tarts at Walmart, which are a sweet custard sort of dish, rather than savory, which is what I expected. I think I’ll need more of those.
There’s a saying to the effect that “Primaries are about ideology, Elections are about winning” that I’ve see quoted a couple of times online lately. People “voting their conscience” about one plank in a platform have cost the party of stupid so many elections…
Based on my experience hand raising many calves, rejected and weak, the mother will not accept the calf. Raising the calf is now in the hands of the people and the calf will see the people as it’s “parents”.
Which is generally not a bad thing. Hand raised animals are OK and we had three or four all the time at the farm. The animals would run up to us in the field and want their head scratched and would lick us. But putting one in a house, nope, nope, nope. The volume of waste is significant, and house training is very difficult. Cows are not known for intelligence.
What the people should now have done is the mother needs to be milked, at least once a day. Otherwise, the built-up milk in the udder will spoil and cause an infection that is difficult to treat. Not to mention the pain it is causing the mother by not having the milk drained. The milk should be dumped on the ground as it has too much added junk, antibodies and such, destined for the calf.
One more serious storm and anyone living out there will have to self insure.
Florida’s insurance carriers were all insolvent when we left.
If you live in a Texas county next to the Gulf of America or the next county over, you just about have to get Windstorm insurance from:
https://www.twia.org/
Hmmm.
For some reason lately I’ve been missing the custards that I used to get at a (now long defunct) bakery in town. The supermarket bakeries don’t seem to have anything fresh in that vein, everything is shipped in frozen. Walmart never crossed my mind.
When I was in high school and mentioned to a classmate that our beef in the freezer came from cattle my uncle raised on our farm, I was asked how I could watch it grow up and then eat it.
My answer is that by being around them as they were growing, I became aware that there are animals on this earth who were so breathtakingly stupid, their only purpose is food.
Also don’t give them names. Of all the livestock I’ve ever had, only a handful had names, and they weren’t food. Billy Bob and Henrietta the goats, and Chester the lame Muscovy duck, and Sally and Polly the donkeys. Oh, and “Gloria” the peahen, who got her name by being the only one who survived the winter. Now I’ve got “I will survive” stuck in my head.
Based on SteveF’s chickens, I wouldn’t be running to assign them names.
You’re familiar with lawn rollers, right? That’s what you want. It’s not always easy to find a lawn roller that you can borrow or rent. People of Walmart to the rescue! Get a People of Walmart and roll him/her/it to compact the stone, lay fill, roll with the People of Walmart, add turf, roll. If you get the order wrong and the People of Walmart is buried, well, nothing of value was lost. There might be a squishy hillock in your yard but fungus will eat it before long.
Neither are People of Walmart!
My birds don’t have names, they have descriptions. Most descriptions are based on physical appearance (“Grey Head”) but two descriptions are based on personality (“Troublemaker”, “Bully”). My daughter selected those two; I hadn’t bothered.
Regardless, I recognize them all by sight and know their personalities. I don’t feel particularly attached to any but don’t plan to butcher any. They’re egg birds. I got 39 eggs from seven birds in the past week, which is slightly down from the late Spring high and probably slightly over what I’ll get in the middle of Winter. When one dies, I may butcher her but probably not because it’s an awful lot of work and fresh-butchered, organic chicken isn’t that much tastier than regular ol’ chicken from the grocery store.
Mr. Atoz is on METV this evening.
The 4H sale at the end of the fair was brutal for the kids in the beef category. The animals these kids had raised for the last year, spent hours each day with the animals, then sold at the fair. The animals are taken back to the stall, tied with cheap rope, then within less than an hour hauled off to the butcher. A lot of tears were shed that night.
I was kind of in that category. Safeway usually bought my steers and did for six years. Once I was in the local store and there was my picture, along with stacks of steaks, piles of ground beef, and some other parts, in the display case. The sign stated that the store proudly supported 4H and was selling my animal. Yeh, that was rough.
H&I, another Weigel network.
Pre-Polaroid Mariette Hartley is in that episode as well.
Ian Wolfe also had a recurring role on “WKRP In Cincinnati”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6OaUtYu28
I AM MRATOZ
I had the oil changed in my truck today, I can do it, but the transfer case makes it a real b*tch, $40 is worth it to me to have Scott do it.
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Filled up afterwards, gas is $6 and change, but diesel is $8.40! The guy behind me was filling up his second gen Ram diesel, said he got about 25 miles per gallon, but uses their little Toyota for most commuting these days. Uses it (the truck) for horse trailering and the like.
Then the kid at the opposite side of the pump joined in, said he was on his was to Neenach to fix his ancient 90s era Dakota that had the rear axle clip fail the other day, the axle started actually coming out as he was driving.
I’m pretty sure it’s the longest it ever took me to put half a tank of gas in my truck.
You’re right, sigh. The two stations are next to each other and I get them confused.
Horrors!
I emptied a bottle of Scotch tonight. Balnellen Sherry cask, a go-to of mine.
I’m down to one unopened bottle, a brand I’ve never tried before. Glen something that’s not Glenfidditch or Glenlivet.
Scotch has been added to the shopping list. I’ll buy a bottle of some random single malt and a blend like Duncan Taylor or The Famous Grouse. I found The Famous Grouse by reading WEB Griffin’s excellent The Corps series. Lynn might like that, though it’s not scifi. May be about time for my biannual reading.
The good news is I’m trying a new technique for special clear ice cubes, a refinement of my old proven but difficult method.
Old way was to put 2 ½ inches of water into an Igloo cooler with no lid, place it into the deep freeze, and 24 hours later turn it out onto the counter. Use a dedicated bread knife to cut it into crystal clear cubes about 2x2x2.
New way is to put silicone cube molds into the Igloo and freeze those.
The trick is that if you freeze from the top down, all the impurities are forced into the bottom fraction of an inch. The rest of the cube is crystal clear.
I learned that off of youtube, and it’s true.
Lucky you. METV is on a side frequency of the local Faux corporate-owned station, but I have to keep an antenna in the attic aimed at Kileen to get H&I.
If it rains, I’m not watching “Star Trek”.
Weigel runs both channels as well as METV Toons, Catchy, and Dabl.
Dabl seems to be a dumping ground for all of the black sitcoms of the last 30 years.
A note i forgot to add:
I just started the new method ice cubes this afternoon. I’ll let you know how it works out tomorrow, if I remember. The old method is foolproof, but quite a bit of work.
When I was drinking, I went from Jack and Coke, to Jack rocks, with a splash of Coke, to Jack rocks. I liked the coldness mixed with the burn. It didn’t stay in the glass long enough for the cubes to melt.
Never did like scotch, and yeah, tried some very nice ones. It’s the part that makes it taste like scotch that I don’t really care for.
Had my tiny little fire early tonight. I really want to get some sleep. The napping, especially interrupted by other things, really doesn’t work well. It’ll keep my functional, but it doesn’t feel great.
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Finished assembling my gantry and pushed it up the driveway to the back of the donor truck. Pretty sure some @sshole is going to send me a nastygram from the HOA. They can bite me.
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n
Why would you put the most fragile members of our society under the care of severely mentally ill adults?
Once you start lying about reality, all the other lies become easier.
and yet he was left alone with the baby.
n
– what’s his immigration status? Who let him walk around there?
you are not protected by your zip code. TPTB have made concerted efforts over decades to make sure the ordinary good people of this country are infiltrated and penetrated by the filth. It’s even in building codes in places like Chicago. And it’s legally facilitated by traffickers like Catholic Charities.
And it will all end in fire if the good people are pushed hard enough.
n
I’m headed to bed, perchance to dream…
n
A Portuguese colleague introduced me to breakfast at the Portuguese bakery. Pasteis de Nata are my nutritional Achilles heel ever since. Mmm.