Cool bordering on cold, and warming later. Still probably clear and sunny. Which describes yesterday, and I hope tomorrow as well. It was high 60s, or low 70s in the afternoon which was nice. Nice to have that sun too, considering it started in the 40s.
Did my stuff yesterday morning. Picked up D1 from school because she didn’t feel well. Her best friend has a respiratory infection but is still at school and doing sports. Now D1 has a sore throat and body aches. She’s going today though because of testing before spring break.
Then I did my pickups. Got most of what I had outstanding, including from the scammer auctioneer who is open again. Empty warehouse and new staff- I’m not betting on them being open for long. Then I hit my secondary and storage to start gathering Hamfest stuff. I’ll need to do a lot more of that today.
Which brings me to today. I should be getting stuff out of storage, clearing a path through my driveway to get stuff out of the garage, and getting the last of my items out of my office and the attic. I’ve got to pickup the trailer and do an auction pickup in the afternoon. It’s going to be a busy day.
Not as busy as the actual Hamfest, but still, pretty busy.
And I’ll miss my non-prepping hobby meeting Saturday, due to being at the Hamfest…
Never enough time to do all the things… but hopefully this will help me to stack some money, and make room for other things. Both are good things to do.
nick
The core of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s popularity. Race swapping and Republican bashing.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hamilton-kennedy-center-run-cancelled-lin-manuel-miranda-slams-trump-1235290027/
Are the Kennedy loving in-laws still in town, hence the entertainment choice?
One year, I will get out to the Hamfest. I still have the pieces for my Stratum 1 time server project waiting for a soldering iron.
TSLA is back where it was before the election.
Buy the dip!
57F and sky is lightening…
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D2 loves Hamilton. Both kids used to watch the video of the Broadway cast for hours on end. I think the music is tedious and relentless (first act anyway.)
Some really great performances in service to a piece of revisionist woke dreck. I really don’t like the anachronisms, or race swapping, because if they are playing fast and loose with that history, what other aspects are they making up?
I generally like subversive, but I don’t see the things the show does as subversive theater. There’s a petulance there that is really annoying.
Then there’s the fact that Hamilton himself seems to have F’d up everything, yet still gets remembered, at least in the musical version.
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n
From Sarah Hoyt– https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/03/07/in-which-i-go-maha/
[it’s hard to find simple foods to eat when traveling]
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n
“Subversive” is still possible, but not from Lin-Manuel Miranda.
I’m starting to wonder if Jennifer Saunders doing subversive comedy cost Aardman an Oscar for the latest “Wallace & Grommit” movie.
Saunders put a subtle but brutal smackdown of Aardman into the “Absolutely Fabulous” reunion special last fall with an expertly cut table read of Julia Sawalha demonstrating that her voice hasn’t changed a bit since the pilot for “Ab Fab” was shot in 1992.
Aardman fired Sawalha from the “Chicken Run” sequel claiming that the actress’ voice was “too old” to reprise her role as Ginger.
A cartoon chicken.
There’s subversion in entertainment kids. The table read edit had to be expensive.
Saunders and her husband have long been on my heroes list.
well
1000011
Happy 131st birthday? 🙂
It’s a beautiful sunny, but cool, day at the BOL. Blue skies and a few sparce cirrus clouds way up high. F16s roaring at low altitude over the house, practising their strafing and bombing runs. The sound of freedom, baby!!
Downside of the nice weather. W1 can see the dirty windows and dusty surfaces at the BOL. I foresee domestic bliss on the programme for the weekend.
I don’t know whether it was the half-moon last night, or Ramadan, or whatever, but in the space of about 5km / 3 miles on the motorway last night, at least five drivers came right close to killing me or themselves. Apparently they had missed or willfully ignored the multiple illuminated 70km/hr (45 mph), then 50km/hr (30 mph) speed limit signs leading up to a roadworks zone with a reduction from three to two lanes. Absolute madness, travelling through the roadworks at full speed, swaying in and out of three, then two lanes.
ActBlue is Toast?
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/07/actblue-in-turmoil-n3800516
$16 billion raised since 2004. Most of it probably illegal. Make a list, cancel passports of the ActBlue employees.
Go through the FBI and DoJ files, get the names of everyone that looked at those files and failed to pursue the obvious crimes. Fire them, charge them, strip their pensions. Find them guilty and imprison them.
Shrinking government one felon at s time.
I noted a higher than average number of major crashes around Houston yesterday too. The route google had me take was zig zagging all over town to avoid them.
n
I got a gut-punch of a call yesterday. My phone rang with a call from our long-time CPA. When I answered, a female answered. She identified herself as our CPA’s (Ed’s his name) sister. Ed died from injuries in an bad automobile accident. He passed away in the hospital from his injuries. We weren’t besties, but it was alwas enjoyable sitting down with him to discuss the World. He was a couple years younger than me.
Ed’s sister stepped up to refer all of his clients to new tax professionals. I’ll get a release form from her so our tax returns can be assumed by a new tax professional. Our first order of business will be to file for extensions for our returns.
This is another reason to take SS sooner rather than later, as Mr. Ray says. Enjoy the money while you still have time. When you hit 65, there is not telling how long you have. Several high school friends croaked in their early 60’s.
We lost two in the high school class between updating the bios and having the reunion a month later.
Another friend was down 30 pounds in three months after narrowly avoiding “the widow maker”.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/07/here-we-go-again-judge-orders-trump-to-pay-usaid-orgs-by-monday-n3800521
Articles of impeachment for Judge Ali. Right effing now.
My CPA, EA, and tax preparer died this year and we didn’t even know she was sick. She’d been doing my taxes for over 20yrs. I thought she was grooming a replacement in her office, but her husband sent out email saying he’d return any paper anyone had sent, and that was the end of it.
W did ours this year based on the previous 10 years, and the software. I don’t think that is the wisest course of action, but finding a new, good tax pro is hard. Most of them aren’t taking new clients.
n
child abuser
took the easy way out.
n
Grad rates in accounting are down, and Texas has this strange attitude about vets and accountants needing to have an A&M diploma to hang out their own shingles.
I’ve never seen Hamilton. I did enjoy the Heinlein-esque Probability Broach novel by L. Neil Smith. Hamiltonians were the villains of an alternate history anarchotopia. Mostly teen friendly.
Similarly Alongside Night by Neil Schulman also establishes an anarchotopia with a teen protagonist and with the FBI director as the villain.
I believe the Trump administration had to know the inferior court onslaught was coming. And they had to know that Robert’s would try to avoid dealing with it until he couldn’t.
My guess is the administration is playing for time, for a particularly egregrious judicial over-reach before acting. Rope-a-dope.
This one seems to qualify.
Not that even more egregious wouldn’t be expected soon.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/07/journalist-awarded-by-zelensky-calls-for-trump-assassination-n3800524
It’s entirely an accident that the next arms shipment to Ukraine is going to ship to Israel instead.
**sigh**
I switched devices and started posting on yesterday’s thread, again.
Not moving them.
Got my pickups done. Need to unload the truck, go get the trailer, and start reloading.
And stop at one more storage unit, where I think I have some antennas stashed.
n
“3. How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective”
Let me guess: Facedown in the mattress?
I don’t know, you need to ask Ditty. He is in the same cell block.
“Watch out for dangerous snakes hunting cicadas, Texas official warns”
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/copperheads-texas-cicadas-20203907.php
“Cicadas are an easy meal source for this common venomous species.”
Yup, you will know when you step on a copperhead. They are swift and will bite without waiting for you to jump off them.
Every “defiant” bureaucrat needs to be fired and arrested. POTUS has complete control over them. I hope that SCOTUS will follow every lawsuit against POTUS and be ready to rule.
i hope Sotomayer retires and Trump picks a 30-something that gets 5-stars from Alito and Thomas.
Then Roberts can concentrate on his needlepoint and Barrett can decide if she wants to spend three decades being the smart one of three while having to give equal time writing dissents to Jackson.
The way it use to work around here was he cooked breakfast and I cooked supper. For the last three years, minus this last year, once in a while he would say the burner has gone crazy and that’s why the bacon is burnt.
I never had a problem and put it to his macular degeneration and HI and LOW are separated by OFF.
I did it to me yesterday. While turning it down and down and down to stop the macaroni from boiling over there was a snap/click from the control knob and then the burner acted normal. With his hearing he may not have heard the snap/click.
I have a little project.
Bye! NY FBI Field Chief Who Vowed to ‘Dig In’ Against Trump Fired, Marched Out of Office As Bagpipes Play
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/07/bye-ny-fbi-field-chief-who-vowed-to-dig-in-against-trump-fired-marched-out-of-office-as-bagpipes-play-n2186383
Identify the cryers.
I did it to me yesterday. While turning it down and down and down to stop the macaroni from boiling over there was a snap/click from the control knob and then the burner acted normal. With his hearing he may not have heard the snap/click.
I have a little project.
I have a 2 lb hammer if you want to borrow it.
“Don’t Let Your Guard Down”
https://areaocho.com/dont-let-your-guard-down/
“I spent years telling everyone who would listen, and some who wouldn’t, that the US was being subjected to an attempted coup. I pointed out that Antifa and BLM were carrying out attacks and ambushes like they were receiving professional training, equipment, and funding. This Central Florida cell is a prime example. The entire thing was following the CIA insurgency manual. Many people thought I was nuts. They told me that my tinfoil hat was too tight. One prominent blogger publicly laughed at me.”
“Now seeing all of the things that DOGE is turning up, it turns out that I was right. Our own government was trying to toss out legitimate elected officials and take over. They were using our own tax dollars to do it.”
“Don’t think that it’s over. Trump has given us a brief respite, but they will start up again. Soon. Perhaps as soon as the run up to next year’s elections.”
It has become very obvious that the dumbrocrats were funding their election money from illicit money stolen from the USA government. Now it is becoming obvious that many members of Congress, both sides ???, have been making themselves rich with illicit money stole from the USA government. Some people need to be prosecuted, their assets seized, and go to jail.
“Spring Forward Tomorrow Night and Fun Facts”
https://www.carpro.com/radio-blog/spring-forward-tomorrow-night-and-fun-facts
Stop the insanity !
Barbara Legoa will be next.
She was on the short list for the Payola seat, but Trump realized he wasn’t going to win in 2020 and moved up Barrett from being on the list for the Roe chair, where she would have been more appropriate.
Legoa would have been Payola to DeSantis for keeping Florida red in 2020.
Legoa is also a name in Dade County, having served as Elian Gonzalez uncle’s lawyer in the showdown with Reno.
Jackson can’t write. Hermione Granger Kagan has that duty for the liberals.
“FCC Wants Alternatives to GPS, Raising Possibility of Starlink Involvement”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-wants-alternatives-to-gps-raising-possibility-of-starlink-involvement
“’Continuing to rely so heavily on one system leaves us exposed,’ says FCC Chair Brendan Carr.”
Wait, I thought some college prof figured out how to GPS over Starlink without even getting an account ?
“Musk Says South Africa Banned Starlink Because He’s ‘Not Black’”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/07/elon-musk-south-africa-starlink-satellite/
I am wondering when the shooting will start in South Africa, when it becomes just like Rhodesia ?
“U.S. Halts Aid to South Africa “Immediately” as Trump Offers Fast-Tracked Citizenship for Persecuted White Farmers”
https://thelibertydaily.com/u-s-halts-aid-south-africa-immediately-as/
“(ZeroHedge)—President Trump on Friday announced the stoppage of all federal funding and foreign aid to the country of South Africa. The State Dept order went out on Thursday, and on Friday Trump took to Truth Social to blast the country’s “terrible” treatment of its farmers, which has included “confiscating their land and farms” and “much worse” (an apparent reference to the years-long trend of White farmers being killed).”
The police have stated Gene Hackman’s wife died a week before him from hanta virus. They think Hackman’s dementia was so bad he didn’t even realize. He probably died when he fell in the mudroom.
“When Is It Really Legal To Draw Your Gun?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYynEB4Tblg
“Do you know when you have the legal right to draw your concealed carry weapon? Brandishing — or worse, firing — a firearm in the wrong situation can land you in serious legal trouble. In this short informational video from Concealed Carry Magazine, former law enforcement officer and “Top Shot” competitor Chip Eberhart outlines the five pillars of legal self-defense.”
The police have stated Gene Hackman’s wife died a week before him from hanta virus. They think Hackman’s dementia was so bad he didn’t even realize. He probably died when he fell in the mudroom.
I know quite a few people in this situation where one person is helping another person maintain their independence. I am surprised that this does not happen more often.
It probably does. Hackman was a celebrity, John Doe is not.
Good grief, what a traffic mess around Dallas and down I-35. Over 90 minutes in delays just to Round Rock.
I was trying to remember what I was going to get from todays mouse dirt cleanup.
Hanta Virus.
Bah.
Well, six traps baited, hopefully I have an honor guard in hell.
– baby ducks at pcmag apparently. EVERYONE wants alternatives. My .mil contractor magazines have been looking for years. Almost every article mentions working in a “GPS denied environment”.
I’ve mentioned it here several times in the last couple of years.
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I had some work to do for an oil company in Bakersfield and they had had several cases of Hanta virus on property. The main exposure was blowing dust off transformers. I asked that they clear out all the above ceiling insulation so I could hang my stuff and run cable. They decided not to, since you needed a bunny suit per their SOP on that site. The first tile I lifted had a mouse nest in the insulation about a foot from my face. I walked off the job.
After a lot of back and forth, they called the guys in the tyvek and cleared it out. THEN I went back to work.
Not messing around with that sh!te.
n
I have the truck and trailer loaded. Not quite as big a load as some years, but still sizable. It was low 80s and very humid today. I’m wearing shorts tomorrow. I hate having my pants sag from the humidity when I’m moving around.
Tired. Need some dinner.
Guess I’ll make some.
n
I just got
goodgreat news on the VA TDIU application. The VA site shows that I have won the appeal and have been granted TDIU. I now will get paid at the 100% disability rating; tax free. I got a substantial deposit for back pay. It took six years to get the back increased to 40% which qualified me for TDIU (70% overall, one item at 40% or better). It took seven months to apply for the TDIU and the appeal of the first denial.I was scheduled for a C&P exam but the examiner said no, they would use existing records. Apparently, this examiner was good and favorable to veterans and said the right words.
It is a good day.
OK, I may have spoken too soon. The back pay is for the back, something I was told I would not be getting, by the VA and the veterans service office. The VA website is confusing. It shows the claim, then shows it closed, with granted status. But the VA combined two claims and only one is granted. The original effective date on my back injury claim award was November 2024. Now the effective date is April 2017. Somewhere the VA moved the effective date. I was told by the VA on the phone, that back pay was only to the effective date and an increase in rating does not qualify for back pay.
Thus, I got good news from the VA, not great news.
Damn, I jumped in with both feet and almost drowned. I got excited about the deposit until I started doing the math. Something did not add up. Now I know why.
It is a so-so day.
Jeez, wanted to print some business cards with my callsign on them and it was hoop a rama time. I feel like a yap dog in the circus.
My old but functional MS Office won’t connect to the mother ship to download a template. The Avery site template to match the cards just opens as text and code in Word. I ended up using the avery online tool, which requires an account, and email addy, and then lets you d/l a pdf to print. I must have done that last time, because FFox logged me in to the account I didn’t even know I had.
Then figuring out how to get the printer to use the sheet feed instead of the cassette…. FFS, took the better part of an hour.
It didn’t used to be this hard.
n
time for a shower and bed.
I’ll see you at the Hamfest, or when I get back.
n
“Hey, EPA, Why Not Regulate Water Vapor Emissions While You are At It?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/04/hey-epa-why-not-regulate-water-vapor-emissions-while-you-are-at-it/
“I will admit that the legal profession mystifies me. Every time I say anything related to environmental law, one or more lawyers will correct me. But I suppose “turnabout is fair play”, since I will usually correct any lawyers about their details describing climate change science.”
“Lawyers aren’t like us normal people. Their brains work differently. I first suspected this when one of my daughters took the LSAT and gave me examples of questions, most of which my brain was not wired to answer correctly. I became further convinced of this when she went to law school, and told me about the questions they deal with, how lawyers can impress judges just by being novel in their arguments, etc.”