Probably be warm and maybe even hot. Definitely gonna be moist. Yesterday was pretty hot, although I hid from it as much as possible.
Started feeling sick yesterday and it’s hitting hard today. Classic cold symptoms. I’m taking airborne and trying zicom which is supposed to shorten the misery. Body aches and chills started last night.
OF COURSE I get sick when I have a weekend to get caught up on things. Joy. My only strategy now is to kick it as fast as possible so I don’t fall farther behind.
Everyone talks about D Day, and no one talks about today. I’m guessing the horror really started to set in the next day. I was remiss in not mentioning it yesterday, but we have our own reasons to remember the day. Smaller, but still important.
Hug a loved one. Stack that.
nick
>>Started feeling sick yesterday and it’s hitting hard today. Classic cold symptoms. I’m taking airborne and trying zicom which is supposed to shorten the misery. Body aches and chills started last night.
For an instance of the common cold I’ll go on to the generic zinc supplement (it’s Zicam) at the recommended dosing. Seems usually to help a bit but could just as well be a placebo effect. I specifically take only the oral dissolving tablets as the nasal formulations no longer contain any zinc.
Late comment from yesterday…
>>No idea where to even start looking, or what sort of dr to see.
@nick… https://www.mayoclinic.org/
Also…
https://hospitalcareers.com/career-profiles/diagnostician
Hoping for a quick resolution for D1 and your family.
Get well soon, Mr. Nick. Your daughter, too.
On Disney: Daughter #1 and Granddaughter are currently at Disney World – Tokyo for seven days. A bucket list item. They are having a great time and report animatronics and rides are better than DW Florida.
On helicopters: No major accidents over twenty years of flying X-fingers. I have not maintained my ratings.
On lasik: It is going on 10 years having it done (thanks, Mr. Ray). I skipped the Vegas “LASIK starting at $699/eye” billboards, and went with the highest rated eye guy in Vegas. $2,000 an eye which included extra pre exams and care and a year of post care. My vision is still holding.
Waiting for the first pundit to compare Elon Musk and H. Ross Perot…
https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/media/msnbcs-jen-psaki-sees-47-dip-in-ratings-last-month-compared-to-alex-wagner-rachel-maddow-nielsen/
MNBC should sell itself to CALPERS. I’m sure the retirees of Cacafornia would consider it a great investment.
Tokyo also kept Splash Mountain intact and still has Tex Ritter featured prominently in the Country Bears show.
Tokyo’s Haunted Mansion is identical to Florida, with the components having been fabricated at the same time, including the fake elevator room.
However, I don’t think Tokyo got the Hatbox Ghost or the enhancements to Florida’s Mansion which were made in the last 15 years, including the animated Hitchhiking Ghosts.
Both got rich being wards of the US Government.
My current employer bought Perot Systems in 2009 and held it until H. Ross started circling in the drain in 2016 because … Texas.
The purchase ended up being a huge financial trainwreck in the end.
The Micron 2.5″ SSD in my road laptop is starting to get up there in age so I tried a Samsung 2.5″ drive this week.
The fan in the laptop never stopped running with the Samsung installed, and the speed was not significantly better than the Micron due to the aging SATA interface.
The Samsung will go back to Newegg on Monday. I’m procrastinating dealing with all the teeny screws.
Temporarily up.
Entire body is sore, back and sides especially. Fever broke last night, or early this am. Still have headache, and the coughing is brutal if it gets going. Makes my head hurt with every cough.
Just had a donut. Gonna drink coffee to avoid the caffeine withdrawal headache, and go back to bed.
Weather is partly cloudy and 85F.
I really hate being sick.
n
The British Government survived the new season of “Clarkson’s Farm”, but the show definitely took serious shots at the Starmer regime and the plight of farmers in the UK.
I saw the “glitch” streaming the last episode yesterday evening and wondered what was up.
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/tv/clarkson-farm-season-four-rachel-reeves-523353-20250607
Clarkson’s health was obviously an issue in the latest season.
We just watched ep5 of season 4 last night. I made the comment that he was looking rough. He definitely has fewer days ahead than behind, but if he doesn’t take care of himself, those days ahead won’t be many.
Clarkson had stints installed recently, after filming for Season Four wrapped, but those are never a permanent solution.
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago. Apparently, the reason that men’s prostate start growing with age (causing all sorts of problems) and a likely reason for the cancer → is perfectly well-known and at least theoretically preventable.
The testicles produce testosterone, and send it via vertical veins into the main return vein to the heart. So it mixes with a huge blood supply and is distributed throughout the body. Only…evolution hasn’t quite caught up with our upright stature. Those veins do have valves in them to prevent backflow, but those valves aren’t up to the task over decades. The same reason that many people get varicose veins in their legs.
Once the valves wear out, there is actually a backflow through the veins, forcing the testosterone out through the next best route: through the prostate. Which then gets a huge does of testosterone before the stuff finally makes it into the main blood supply. That huge dose is the cause of the various prostate problems. The treatment would be to block or cut the veins leading to the prostate.
Apparently, this hasn’t really be studied. I suppose the question is: where would the testosterone go afterwards? Possibly causing other problems?
Stents. (Before you say it, I am a rectum orifice).
I have a couple of Samsung external SSDs. They are warm all the time thus constantly consuming power.
All of my laptops run Micron/Crucial SSDs, but I thought I would see why people liked Samsung.
No problem. At least you aren’t Hermione Granger about it like the troll gets when it is one of the cabal’s female members writing the post.
That is impressive. It automates the procedure, and removes the need for human skill. It also has a different way of directing the laser energy, which can produce better results. I don’t see any downside, other than the presumed cost.
Medicare pays all but $250, my annual deductible, of the cost according to my eye dude. The cost could be $5 million and I don’t care.
Well, yes I care, but …
Started feeling sick yesterday and it’s hitting hard today. Classic cold symptoms. I’m taking airborne and trying zicom which is supposed to shorten the misery. Body aches and chills started last night.
Starve a cold and feed a fever is the old wife’s saying. Of course, you could have the new Koof.
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/new-covid-variant-summer-surge.html
AARP drank the Kool Aid a long time ago.
Everyone talks about D Day, and no one talks about today. I’m guessing the horror really started to set in the next day. I was remiss in not mentioning it yesterday, but we have our own reasons to remember the day. Smaller, but still important.
My wife’s uncle came over from Scotland in July ? and offloaded several cargo ships with 300+ supply trucks onto the Mulberries. They proceeded down the destroyed roads following Patton’s tanks in 2 to 3 feet of mud, sometimes only making 2 or 3 miles a day since the trucks were continuously getting stuck. When they crossed over into Germany a couple of months later, they were met by a couple of Panzers who destroyed the entire supply convoy. In her uncle’s words, “They had a bad day”. So started the Battle of the Bulge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbours
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago. Apparently, the reason that men’s prostate start growing with age (causing all sorts of problems) and a likely reason for the cancer → is perfectly well-known and at least theoretically preventable.
The testicles produce testosterone, and send it via vertical veins into the main return vein to the heart. So it mixes with a huge blood supply and is distributed throughout the body. Only…evolution hasn’t quite caught up with our upright stature. Those veins do have valves in them to prevent backflow, but those valves aren’t up to the task over decades. The same reason that many people get varicose veins in their legs.
Once the valves wear out, there is actually a backflow through the veins, forcing the testosterone out through the next best route: through the prostate. Which then gets a huge does of testosterone before the stuff finally makes it into the main blood supply. That huge dose is the cause of the various prostate problems. The treatment would be to block or cut the veins leading to the prostate.
Apparently, this hasn’t really be studied. I suppose the question is: where would the testosterone go afterwards? Possibly causing other problems?
Yup, our bodies have a design life of 45 years. Everything after that, you are on your own.
AARP drank the Kool Aid a long time ago.
Just ignore the Koof vaccine crap. You already know that it does not work and that it may have horrible side effects.
I’m off for the weekend, which is the first non-vacation entire weekend I’ve had scheduled off in over 7 years. The catching up for me will be managing the knee high grass around the house, and general house chores when the power comes back on.
“To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)” by David Weber and Chris Kennedy
https://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Heaven-Out-Dark/dp/1250907411?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a three book series of an alien invasion science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Tor in 2023 that I bought new on Amazon. I suspect and look forward to that there will be more books in the series as the third book ends on a mild cliffhanger.
I’ve got vampires in my alien invasion science fiction book ! Prince Vlad Draculya, aka Vald the Impaler, lives ! Or some variant of living as he has been composed of nanobots since the middle 1400s. He does not drink blood but he did kill thousands of Turkish muslim invaders into his beloved eastern Europe in the 1400s. And his nanobots are solar powered so he does not eat and is virtually immortal.
The first book in the series detailed an invasion by the Shongairi in which they used multiple kinetic weapons from orbit on every city on Earth of 100,000+ people and all military bases. Half of the human population of Earth died in a matter of minutes. Due to the fact that the Shongairi space ships could only attain six times the speed of light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and they did not know that we had progressed from an agrarian society into a very industrialized society.
As the first Shongairi troop ships were landing on the Earth, they were destroyed by F-22 stealth fighter jets. As soon as the F-22 jets landed at their hidden airfields, those were also destroyed using kinetic weapons. After the Shongairi troops rampaged through the Earth population remnants and killed half of the survivors from the initial attack, the vampires appeared out of Eastern Europe. The vampires were virtually indestructible and rode back up on the outside of their landers to the Shongairi space ships in Earth orbit. They then boarded the space ships and proceed to kill all the Shongairi invaders in orbit.
The second book in the series details how the horribly damaged human population on Earth has to rebuild, both the population and the facilities / infrastructure. But they have an advantage, the now empty Shongairi space ships and several Galactic Hegemony neural educators. Vlad Dracula has taken one of the interstellar space ships with a crew of several hundred and is headed 200+ light years to the Shongairi home planet to pay back some of the damage that they did to Earth. And one of the few remaining state governors of the USA has become the USA President and is planning on creating a one world government to fight the Galactic Hegemony.
The third book in the series goes through the Terrans taking the battle back to the Shong System. And to other star systems under control of the Galactic Hegemony.
David Weber has an excellent website at:
http://www.davidweber.net/
Chris Kennedy has a website at:
https://chriskennedypublishing.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,353 reviews)
Lynn
xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
https://xkcd.com/3099/
As a thermodynamics specialist, I love it ! However, if their insulation is real good then it won’t work.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3099:_Neighbor-Source_Heat_Pump
“Union president reportedly detained and injured in ICE raids in Los Angeles”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/union-president-detained-injured-ice
You know, messing with federal officers doing their jobs will be dangerous to your health and freedom. That guy is being arraigned with a federal magistrate and will spend time in their pokey.
That is impressive. It automates the procedure, and removes the need for human skill. It also has a different way of directing the laser energy, which can produce better results. I don’t see any downside, other than the presumed cost.
Medicare pays all but $250, my annual deductible, of the cost according to my eye dude. The cost could be $5 million and I don’t care.
Well, yes I care, but …
I figured out recently that the federal government is paying for around 50% to 60% of the people’s healthcare in the USA now. Medicare (funded), Medicaid (unfunded), VA (funded), federal employees (funded), Military (funded), etc. We are well on the path to single payer healthcare.
The stats vary, but somewhere around 1 in 19 people are on VA healthcare.
“US judge approves landmark $2.8 billion NCAA settlement with athletes”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-judge-approves-landmark-2-8-billion-ncaa-settlement-with-athletes/ar-AA1Gfoz3
I just do not see how the NCAA will continue to exist with all of these multiple billion dollar lawsuit settlements. There are many more lawsuits against the NCAA out there.
The stats vary, but somewhere around 1 in 19 people are on VA healthcare.
I saw recently that Medicare is at 63 million people. That is 20% of the country, including me. Medicaid is very close to that number also.
Well, I’m not on .gov healthcare, although my costs and options are controlled or at least significantly impacted by the .gov choices.
I’ve had some soup. If I don’t move much I just feel achy. If I move it tends to trigger the coughing, and that hurts.
I feel better generally, except for the coughing.
I think I’ll head back to bed though.
W is out preparing D1 for her driving test. Backing up and parallel parking both need attention.
D2 is holed up in her room.
When I wake up, I’m reading the next book in the LitRPG series. It’s getting more interesting as more takes place on earth. The technical aspects of the book, proofreading, typos, etc are pretty loose. There are editing errors, autocorrect errors, and stuff that proofreading should have caught. I get the impression it is very quickly written and published. That’s the modern way though.
n
Shoot, Medicaid is now 78 million people. No wonder the federal government is going broke for a huge unfunded program that costs over a trillion dollars per year.
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medicaid-and-chip-enrollment-data/report-highlights
“We Have Full-Blown Anti-ICE Mayhem in LA Again”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/07/we-have-full-blown-riots-in-la-right-now-n2658366
“They were AWOL for hours yesterday, but now the Los Angeles Police Department had to be mobilized citywide as anti-ICE clowns ravage the streets. There was mayhem when Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out their lawful orders to find and deport illegal aliens—leftists didn’t like that, leading to another episode of chaos. These people surrounded and stormed a Department of Homeland Security building, which led to vandalism, and the LAPD was nowhere to be found.”
“UPDATE: The National Guard will be deployed later tonight.”
Los Angeles is having riots again. Seems like an frequent occurrence for them.
My heart bleeds. Where’s that tiny violin?
I’m a University of Illinois alumnus. I’ll grant there was probably cheating that deserved punishment, but not the death penalty. Then, when the years-long punishment finally ended, they took away our mascot (Chief Illiniwek.)
…and the horse they rode in on.
The NCAA is like NASCAR. If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.
The NCAA is like NASCAR. If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.
How are they going to cheat now ? Everything is legal now.
Up. Eating some stuff.
Right now my worst issue is back pain. I really can’t lay down this long. Even with no other issues, a couple hours extra in bed hurts. This is brutal.
My plan is to do the same tomorrow, and maybe I’ll be 80% functional on Monday.
No me gusta.
n