Cool and clear again. I hope. Because yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day. Smelled fresh. Barely hit mid 80sF. Sunny and blue sky. More please.
Did my pickup after installing the new AAA battery. It started without issue a couple of times. Poisoned the rats. Well, I filled about 6 or 7 bait boxes and placed them around the patio where the rats are. The rats will poison themselves, technically. They love that poison so much they ate through the box to get to it in the garage.
Then I took D2 to see the show. She had a chance to talk with her favorite teacher, and saw a bunch of old friends. It’s a tradition for the former students to keep coming back and seeing the new kids at that school. The first kid we saw was an 8th grader when D2 was a sixth grader, and they knew each other and said hi. There were a bunch of other kids both older and younger that she knew too. I got to chat briefly with my head sound guy kid from the last two years. He’d come to see the show too.
The school really fosters a community among the students and the drama teacher exceeded that by orders of magnitude. It’s a big part of why I take the time to help out.
Meatspace baby.
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups, and I needed to move some stuff between the house and my shop. I’ve got my non-prepping hobby meeting tomorrow, and it’s our quarterly “swapmeet” meeting. I’ve got stuff to sell at the shop. I also need to move stuff for my next auction to the shop, and get some of the stuff there that is going to the BOL. I am tentatively going up Sat. afternoon and coming home Sunday. The next time will be next week for Thanksgiving, but I don’t want to wait another week for some of this stuff.
Speaking of, I need to figure out what I’m going to do about Thanksgiving dinner. Hmmm.
And I need to work on my client’s upgrades and my plan for my buddy’s fun shop cameras. Busy day. Most of them are.
Stacking is the easiest of the things to do…
nick
I have stable versions of MS Office that run on my desktops. The newest one is 2007 IIRC.
MS has brought millions of workers jobs to a halt or partial halt with their you-will-never-own-it, frequently “improved” thoroughly AI-corrupted forced-onto-the-cloud p.o.s. Note that MS just laid off 60,000 American workers and kept their taxpayer subsidized H1B “essential to obscene profits”.
If Ford or GM bricked 400 million cars the lawsuits would be crowding the courts within a day and the owners would be looking forward to a multi-billion settlement that enriched legions of Democrat attorneys and limited their damages to a coupon for a popsickle.
How many grad students are already planning papers—co-written by AI—quantifying the downtick in economic activity? Will they also quantify the uptick in “Big Code” contributions to Democrats in congress to stave off consequences?
More later. Gotta go answer email.
OK, Jeff. You win. Take what I stated out of context. Well done.
The Supreme Court members are elected for life and are not up for any nomination or confirmation during their service. That is markedly different than congress, senate and president, where election occurs every few years (senate 6 years, congress and president 4 years). That is serving for life in my definition, maybe not yours. (Although some could counter that many in the legislative branch serve for life.) The Supreme Court is the only branch of the government where the members are not elected.
Anyone, in any of three branches of government can be removed for not “good Behaviour”. As for impeachment removing someone from office, Clinton was impeached on December 19. 1998, for what could arguably be deemed misdemeanors and not “good Behaviour”. He was not removed from office. Donald Trump has been impeached twice, but he got reelected. Trump was not removed because the senate overrode the congress. Clinton was also saved by the senate. Impeachment by congress is not automatic removal from office as the senate must approve the impeachment by a 2/3 vote.
Even if a member of the Supreme Court is impeached, that does not automatically remove the person from office. Removal only can only occur after conviction by the senate, which is the governing body that confirms the Supreme Court justices.
I don’t think that would happen for anyone already on SS. I see congress raising the ages or reducing the amounts for upcoming applicants. To that away from existing recipients would push many into complete poverty.
54F, sunny and clear. Chilly willy.
And the kid left the house barefoot. And came back for her shoes. Barefoot.
n
Yesterday was 84F and windy. Desert wind moving to the west pulled in by approaching low. Only 73F predicted today and rain coming after 4pm. Fall weather.
Fun and games starting with lots for me to do and W1’s list (for us/me) keeps getting longer. W1 had me pulling bins of Xmas to the patio. Some of that is heavy and I’m not getting younger. D1 helping and pushing the agenda. She already decorated for Xmas at her house – way too early for me but the are both gonna drive me nuts. TG at her house and two days later MIL’s 100th birthday at ours.
Aren’t holidays suppose to be joyful? BAH.
To TAKE away.
Several of my neighbors have their Christmas decor at least started, and are turning on lights at night. It’s early.
I get that people want to feel a bit of joy and if the decor helps, I’m ok with that. But it’s early.
I also get that people might not have time later, with Thanksgiving and the week off. But it’s early.
n
Putting up the lights and refraining from turning them on before the season is a difficult concept for the public school attendees taught instant-gratification for 14 years.
Well D1 didn’t do any outside. They have Govee lights like me and SIL never does early anything. I’m sure they are on HW still but I haven’t been over at night. Yesterday was gardner so Mr Turkey came off the lawn and because of the winds I didn’t put him back yet. And my lights are still amber. Speaking of winds, they blew lots of debris off the neighbor’s unkept palm trees on to my freshly mown lawn. Can you ever win?
You neighbor won! He doesn’t have to clean up leaves.
n
– M$ certainly factors this into everything they do.
n
”Godzilla” isn’t Marvel, but watching “Godzilla Minus One” is necessary to fully appreciate the plot threads “Minus Zero” wraps up according to our kids.
Netfix has “Minus One”.
We got the tree and a couple of large decorations down from the garage rafters this morning. The wife wants to start the decorations early. Why? I don’t know and am afraid to ask.
I am getting my son and his wife two new iPhone 18 Pros for Christmas. I have to time the delivery for a day before our trip to his home. I also need to get their old phones as between the two phones they are worth $650 in trade.