Could we get another hot, sunny day without rain? Maybe today will be like yesterday and we will. It was over 100F in my driveway yesterday and the heat stuck around all evening too. It was still quiet warm when I went to bed.
I spent Tuesday morning at the computer, then picking up D1 from her trip. I got two pickups in on the way home from the airport. Took a bit longer than I thought it would, so afterwards I stayed home and cooked.
I cooked taco meat for dinner using a liquid pouch of flavoring, and then cooked two more taco dinners of ground beef, and two 1 1/3 dinners of plain ground beef. I vac sealed and froze everything but last night’s dinner. I’ll take them to the BOL with me as quick dinner options. Warm up the meat, add a sauce or flavor packet and pasta, rice, or tortillas and you’ve got a really quick meal without much effort. Granted that ground meat skillet meals aren’t that hard to start, it makes it even easier and quicker. It means I can have a hamburger based meal as easily as one from canned chicken too.
Since my wife’s been trying the sou vide cooker on chicken and vac sealing the result, adding some ready to eat beef to the freezer makes sense. I like to eat, and I like having options.
Having stacks gives me options. Get some of your own!
Today I’ll be doing more pickups. Prices have fallen again and I won more stuff than I expected to. One auction (the fraudsters) I’m basically winning almost everything I bid on with an opening bid, usually $1, or $2. They aren’t high value items, but I like saving $20 or $25 on things I’d buy anyway. The auctioneer at one of my pickups said she was doing the same thing. Good for us, not good for the seller, but they did it to themselves by acting unethically. There’s a lesson in there.
Lessons, like things that can be turned into money, are lying around everywhere, you just have to learn to see them.
Anything that helps me stack, helps.
nick
No. HR is always full of people hired for the sake of diversity and/or uptight white women with no other employment avenues for their skillset.
https://thingfinder.blogspot.com/2025/07/offbeat-humor_02083534778.html
too funny and too sad
88F and sunny. Maybe it will be a hot sunny day, like a normal summer in Houston.
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Tea is steeping, and I’ve got a microwave breakfast biscuit in the oven…
Time to get moving.
n
Another massive Minnesota fraud
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/another-massive-minnesota-fraud.php
Anyone foolish enough to bet that this isn’t the Somalis again would be foolsih indeed, and wrong.
This is the third major fraud conducted by Somali criminals (Somaligate Iii) to come to light in the past six years. [no charges yet, but is there anyone wiling to bet that it’s not major?].
Someone in Trump Administration needs to tote up how much it has cost to subsidize this tranche of “refugees”, add in the costs of their criminals, and advocate pulling their tickets and shipping them home.
And as this is the third grand scheme to steal billions from U.S. taxpayers with the State of Minnesota demonstrating bufoonery, incompetence, and probably corrupt malfeasance, it’s time to shut the federal spigot to Minnesota and install a special auditor to determine the extent of the thefts.
Note that during the Feeding Our Future (Somaligate I) trials it was revelaed that a lot of politically connected “little fish” did not get charged, including the wife of a Minneapolis city council member that apparently got away with $750,000. How about the feds send 500 or so of those spare IRS agents to Minneapolis to investigate and charge the small fry?
I mowed the driveway today. A mower width on each side, The center grass takes two passes. Also the area between the gate and cattle guard. It would have been a lot nicer if the self propel gizmo on the mower did more than spin wheels when off of the ground. Something else to fix. Three tanks of gas through the mower. It looks ok. The cut areas will green in a few days and look good.
I had the idea to go get supper from Captain D’s. It’s similar to Long John Silver’s. Some fish and french fries and a couple of hush puppies for the dogs would hit the spot.. “Permanently Closed”.
I won’t starve.
Let me add that the driveway is a little over 900 feet from the cattle guard to what we call the parking lot. That’s what I mowed today.
Then another 200 feet or so to the front door of the house.
No, Tim Walz Did Not Hire an Assassin to Kill Amy “Doorknob” Kloubucar.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/16/no-tim-walz-did-not-hire-an-assassin-to-kill-amy-klobuchar-n3804837
Sure, Dave. Cue the highlight reel of Tampon Timmie on the campaign trail and then say it with a straight face.
This is the same state that has a sitting state rep currently on trial for burgling her stepmother’s house. You know, the one that was arrested last winter before the legislature convened, and refused to resign? And a court system that conveniently waited until after the end of session to start a trial?
I hope Lynn is having a good day. For variations of “good” when none of it is fun and happy.
I know what I mean, I’m not coming up with the words. I’m not thinking of florid phrases like folks say.
Time to continue my strategy of retiring early. I hope @lynn is home safe after his long and stressful day, and getting some of the rest he needs tonight too.
n
We are destressing in Moms house right now. I think that we are headed to DQ for supper.
DC judges let Chief Justice Roberts know that Donald Trump is a bad dude
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/dc_judges_let_chief_justice_roberts_know_that_donald_trump_is_a_bad_dude.html
Roberts and the entire DC Circuit should be impeached, convicted, and jailed.
Since that won’t happen, the Trump Administration should inform Roberts that every action brought before the DC court will be appealed citing judicial bias.
Roberts can either figure out a way to reign in the judicial insurrection of be known in history as the emperor who fiddled while the courts burned.
I just had a wild thought. Mom’s in a wheel chair, right? Daughter is whatever functional with lymes? (I really don’t know.) (Not trying to be an asshole.)
Maybe daughter can move in with and take care of mom? Mom’s not lonely and mostly, she’s at home, Daughter has “something to do”, a purpose, I guess, if she needs one.
Sounds better than moving mom out of her house and into your house. Or spending every weekend forever and ever amen driving down there.
We moved mom in here. She seemed to thrive. Lots of attention. But her actually cooking? Her liking and saying so about what was cooked for supper? Nope. I would not do it another way but parts of it was not exactly great.
Tho watching her on a scooter in Walmart and giving not a shit about clipping corners was kinda fun.
It doesn’t take a lot to make a dog happy. A milkbone cooky after morning walk…..
Open a can of “beef gravy with chunks” and glop a heaping tablespoon onto their dry food and stir it in.
Buddy the Beagle says “OMG, the BEST supper EVER!!!!”
No looking to see what the other dog has, it’s heads down chowing until the pot is empty.
Making the dogs happy makes me happy. Shrug.
We are swarming the DQ.
Mo money for the Gecko.
Don’t forget the Blizzard afterwards.
Yum, blizzards. Invented a whole new category of food- they should at least get some credit for that.
Their burger though, “homestyle” means crinkled edges. I rotated one patty until the crinkles lined up exactly with the other patty. Not so “homey”.
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did a lot of driving around today. I will have a lot less to do tomorrow.
n
It will be interesting to watch the reactions as DQ supplants the various fast food restaurants at Pilot/Flying-J locations over the next decade or so. McDonalds seems to be the dominant name associated with the company right now.
Based on the article I linked earlier in the week about the ruckus in Colorado, it appears that the Gecko is still serious about taking on Buc-ee’s.
Just So We’re Clear Here – Mexico Threatening to Sue US Over Illegal Who Dove Off Pot Farm Roof
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/07/16/just-so-were-clear-here-mexico-threatening-to-sue-us-over-illegal-who-dove-off-pot-farm-roof-n3804855
Mexican national was in the U.S. illegally, risked his life to flee apprehension by federal agents, slipped and fell to his death.
My condolences to his family, but they are about 1/10 of the condolences to the American citizens who have been murdered, raped, robbed, assaulted and been otherwise victimized by alien invaders whose violation of our borders has been encouraged by sovereign nations which do not put up with such shiite and treat aliens invading their own countries very harshly indeed.
Mexico is worried that the money their invading army sends home will decrease and destabilize their country
Squeeze those remittances. Destabilize away. If Mexico fractures there are parts that I suspect would break away and request U.S. protection and negotiate for territory status and a path to statehood.
>>Their burger though, “homestyle” means crinkled edges. I rotated one patty until the crinkles lined up exactly with the other patty. Not so “homey”.
The DQs in our town are all ice cream only…so no onion rings 🙁
Mo money for the Gecko.
Don’t forget the Blizzard afterwards
After we swarmed DQ with 11 people, 30+ soccer people walked in. Maybe 40+ people.
Who knew that the DQ in Port Lavaca was the hot spot to be. I thought it was Whataburger when the 2,000 shift workers get off at 7 pm from the plastic pellet plant and come across the bay bridge starving.
I just had a wild thought. Mom’s in a wheel chair, right? Daughter is whatever functional with lymes? (I really don’t know.) (Not trying to be an asshole.)
Maybe daughter can move in with and take care of mom? Mom’s not lonely and mostly, she’s at home, Daughter has “something to do”, a purpose, I guess, if she needs one.
Sounds better than moving mom out of her house and into your house. Or spending every weekend forever and ever amen driving down there.
I wish my daughter was somewhat functional. She is zero functional.
I will eventually move Mom into assisted living. The question is when. One month or twelve months.
My parents have 5,000 ft2 of junk in the house. But some of it is worth quite a bit of money.
The DQs in our town are all ice cream only…so no onion rings
Sacrilege !
“When it absolutely, positively has to be in orbit…”
https://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-it-absolutely-positively-has-to-be.html
“This morning at 2:30 AM EDT, SpaceX launched their second load of Amazon’s Kuiper satellites, 24, into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.”
That had to hurt.
The big boys wouldn’t be where they are without their egos, but at a certain level the ego just gets in the way.
I’m still p!ssed about costco getting rid of Amex. Ego has destroyed many companies, and built many many more, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and do what other people want. In this case, the shareholders.
SpaceEx is a bit like the company the main character owns in the john Ringo books that I call The Maple Syrup Wars, but he calls something eles, Troy Rising? They are so dominant that they pretty much have to help try to develop some competition, or .gov will step in and break them up which would mean humans are trapped on this rock.
It also demonstrates how far ahead SpaceX is.
n
Time to get this big boy to bed.
n
“This morning at 2:30 AM EDT, SpaceX launched their second load of Amazon’s Kuiper satellites, 24, into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.”
Amazon had to launch now or lose their license.