Cool to start, stifling to finish. I have to say that sitting out in the heat watching the football game made me think I felt feverish. I just wasn’t comfortable, and this despite being pretty comfortable all day. Sure the sun was hot, but it usually is. I didn’t even want to sit out and have a tiny little fire last night. Today will be like that too, in all likelihood.
I got some stuff done, mostly pickups. I was tired. Not really motivated. And when I got back home, I stayed home even though I had a couple of hours I could have used. The parts I ordered didn’t get here, and I couldn’t face the shop with 90F+ temps. I’m weak.
Today though, it’ll be different! Yeah, maybe not so much. I’ve got a pickup between noon and three, but otherwise I’ll be working my list. I’m caught up on the internet, and with my auctions, so I’m out of excuses. If the fuses come in, I’ll head to the shop for at least a little while. If not, I’ll work here.
There’s no shortage of work to do.
Or things to stack, people to meet, or skills to learn. Get busy!
nick
HOA leadership is contingent on residing in the HOA, right? So if something were to happen to their house …
The way to handle Garcia and other criminal “migrants” (criminal aside from being here) from warm places, which is essentially all of them, is to put them in prisons in cold places. Greenland would be good. The northern reaches of Alberta, if it leaves Canada and joins the US. Set the prison thermostats to 60F.
Not quite immediately. First brand or tattoo “invader” on their foreheads.
One of my kin, around 60 and previously healthy-ish (had to have the gall bladder removed a few years ago) has had one cancer after another since getting the clot shots. Coincidence? Maybe…
I’m not at all tempted to say “told you so” despite this individual having been one of the chorus telling me to just give in and get the clot shot a few years ago, when the tyrants, the Karens, and the nannies (some category overlap may be observed) were making life as difficult as possible for us non-modified humans.
See also leprosy and a handful of other “I thought we were done with that” diseases.
I want to believe, but it is Disney under The Weatherman.
I don’t believe the uptake percentages of the jabs are accurate and that far more of the population belongs to the Control than we are led to believe.
The rot goes all the way up to The Orange Man in this situation.
Just wait until they start sending in dog poo for genetic testing. That’s a popular service in Florida.
Just wait until the test says that it wasn’t from a large dog.
I decided that since I was on kind of a roll I would do a bunch of computer things yesterday.
Printer setup, security cam setup, passwords checking, backups.
Failures, partial successes, successes, all for various unknown or unpredicted reasons.
Knocked off about 5pm with that same weird mix of frustration and anger.
You know, things really haven’t changed much since Win98.
Only thing missing was fiddling with a toothpick and DIP switches.
Which was often faster and more precise.
Our condo here started the dog DNA registration kabuki about 5 years ago. At the time, the fence wasn’t finished and any stray could and would walk in. I was poo-poo’d for mentioning it. After all dogs were registered at $25/per, not one turd was analyzed in a year. The requirement was dropped after a board change. Our money was not returned since a saliva sample was processed.
I wonder if the Hyundai battery plant management and sub-contractors will be fined by tRump. Almost 500 illegals and nobody knew about it? No way.
The TV show “Landman” is coming back. If you haven’t seen the Billy Bob Thornton led series, I recommend it.
RIP.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/entertainment/graham-greene-dances-with-wolves-actor-dies-hnk
Yes, Graham Greene is best known for “Dances With Wolves”, but I always wondered if Edgar Montrose on “Red Green” was his favorite character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjSX7L53Lxk
I got the two-stick clot shot for biz purposes+. I’m pretty sure I had the Koof before the shots based on symptoms. I don’t believe the shots did anything for me.
I’m about to get my second Shingles shot. The only option is mRNA. MrsAtoz is still suffering Shingles pain, so I decided to do it.
In other health news, we found a Primary Care Physician here and I’m going through an annual wellness check. The blood and pee show high sugars with everything else normal. I’m pleased with that being 70 and all. Colonoscopy scheduled for Oct 27. The prep is two 6oz bottles of magnesium citrate rather than the gallon mix of stuff. I can’t wait to see how that turns out. At least I don’t have to choke down a gallon like MrsAtoz did a couple of years ago.
Monday, the skin care clinic looks at a gone-south mole on my back. The doc thinks it is bad enough to be cut out, so that’s what I’m looking forward to on Monday. Analysis of the flesh to follow for confirmation. I’m not worried about that, cancer gets most of us in the end.
86F and part sun while I wait for my coffee. Between eating late, and my caffeine intake yesterday, I was fatigued all day, and up all night. 3AM is not when I want to finally close my eyes. And after that, 8am and 5 hours sleep isn’t when I want to wake… But I did. A whole 5 hours seems like luxury some days. Went back to sleep for a bit but now I’m up and moving.
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Somedays a bunch of small success is all you are going to get, and that’s ok.
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Is it just my youtube shorts, or is all the movie and tv content stolen by the AIs for presenting to me EXTREMELY violent? I haven’t been to a movie since harry potter, and don’t watch even old movies very often, with zero TV show watching… but it seems like everything in my shorts is crazy violent.
n
Illegals from Korea.
The big flaw with the revived “King of the Hill” is the replacement of Toby Huss with an Asian voice actor under pressure from Asian race pimps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqUSytyT7Jo
Toby Huss nailed the part. Anyone who thinks that portrayal of Khan is a cruel stereotype hasn’t spent any time around my wife’s family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y6SrxO0WOw
One might imagine that a Kindle would be delivered by Amazon. Wrong. “Picked Up By Shipping Partner, USPS Awaiting Item”.
Shipping via Bubba Express from Tulsa, Oklahoma, likely to somewhere in the Dallas or Houston metro area and then to the post office in Austin. And maybe in my mailbox on Wednesday.
Um…no. Wrong incentive. But then, I would never want to live in an HOA. You are just guaranteed to get petty dictators who want that little bit of power.
Shipping is weird.
I ordered some stuff from Walmart the other day. Since I am not Walmart Prime (or whatever they call it) I had to order $35 worth of stuff and it turned out to be three separate items.
So rather than combining the shipments I received on three different days: one USB key, one set of slippers, and one notebook, each delivered by a driver in a 12′ Budget box truck.
It can’t possibly be cost-efficient.
Yeah, shipping for a half dozen unrelated items in my last order was strange. I figure, given the choices to delay 1 day for these two items, 3 days for that one, 2 for the last, they were coming from different warehouses, with some coming from the same warehouse.
I take the$3 digital credit to delay an item almost every time it’s offered.
I’ve also noticed that if they combine items, the one you picked because it had next day delivery might not have next day delivery anymore. IE, they’ll delay the item to ship with another. I didn’t notice at first but now it’s happened more than once. If you need it right away, purchase that cart, then do your other shopping.
n
Time to get moving… I hope the fuses arrive today. They were the “next day morning delivery” item that got delayed for me this time.
n
Set the prison thermostats to 60F.
What prison thermostats ?
We don’t have thermostats in prisons in Texas. Why should anywhere else have a thermostat ? I doubt that prisons in Siberia have thermostats.
Beyond the power, the hideously distorted interest rate environment in the US combined with continued Dem campaign promises of a $20,000 first time home buyer credit has many people believing that their homes are potentially seven figure assets even if they live in a 3/2 stucco cr*pshack in Florida.
Yes, In fact I’ve had them (Amazon) combine orders from carts ordered a couple of hours apart. I don’t know what the cut off interval is: more than two hours and less than eight it seems.
Usually I don’t care, it’s a business and I understand their trying to save a couple dollars in shipping, but I try to keep it in mind if there’s something that I need right away. Even then Prime Next Day offen slips to two days or three days.
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The reason for my visit to Walmart was to renew my credit card info. And the reason I remembered to do that is because I happen to be talking to a local shade tree mechanic – ‘Dave the Volvo Guy’ – who was actually operating out of a decommissioned chicken house nearby, 100’x30′, sweet!
He mentioned that he was buying heating kerosene from tractor supply at $17 a gallon and I told him that he could get it from Walmart, delivered, for $11.
I also sent him a link for the Chinese Vevor diesel truck heaters, since diesel is about five dollars a gallon around here I think. it does require 12V power and venting, but he’s a mechanic, he can figure that part out.
We also talked a bit about 3-D printing.
He does use it on occasion for small hard to find bits: the caps over the bolts on the strap hangers in vintage Volvo’s are very hard to find and he will make those.
But he says that on the vintage Volvo forms people are quite angry that some are passing these off as OEM rather than replacement.
So he tries to walk a fine line of making it nice enough that people who are paying him to repair their vintage equipment aren’t disappointed, it matches what they have, but not claiming that it an actual vintage piece.
he also does a bit of vintage camera collecting, Minolta I think, and says it’s pretty much the same thing there: a lot of anger about a lot of fraud.
My tracking numbers are messed up. I have a couple of DVDs set to arrive on Monday. The Kindle on Wednesday. Perhaps both packages are shipping from Tulsa. Why not, Tulsa is somewhat central. But not with the same USPS tracking number.
I don’t know how the Kindle is being shipped. Hopefully not via the UPS Get To The Gate And Drop Package Over The Fence Company. Rain or Shine, no plastic bag if it is raining.
Mysterious are the ways of Jeff, the former quant from DE Shaw.
Tractor Supply is much more “corporate” than Walmart if that is the concern.
Both Tractor Supply and Dollar General are 99% owned by institutions. Walmart has significant individual ownership of the stock.
Vevor diesel truck heaters, since diesel is about five dollars a gallon around here I think. it does require 12V power and venting, but he’s a mechanic, he can figure that part out.
— follow up with him if he goes that route. I picked up two of those, but haven’t even really looked at them yet. I did bring some diesel home so at least I had a chance to use them if needed.
WRT kerosene, I just checked, and my lowes has it for $50/5gal jug, pickup in store. I will order some as it never went on clearance that I could tell. that’s what I was waiting for. I used my kero heater in the garage at the BOL last year. This year I’ve got the propane wall heater, but I’ll probably still use some kero and should have it in stock for the heaters anyway.
n
Will do. And similarly I didn’t use mine this last winter because it was so darn warm. The small kero heater – not the big one – was enough.
I actually just gave the diesel fuel (5gal) away to a neighbor with diesel farm equipment, I figured after eight months I didn’t really want to use it myself, and I will get some goodwill and maybe some farm fresh eggs.
BTW, I previously reported that Yahoo! Finance no longer reports institutional ownership of a stock by company, but that only seems to be the case when the shares are minimally held by individuals, as is the case with Tractor Supply.
Walmart’s page still shows institutional ownership by company followed by a chart of specific funds.
I still believe the change is related to Cracker Barrel, more than 100% held by institutions if you allow for float.
LA backs off on giving the Kamel protection.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-06/lapd-ends-protection-of-ex-vp-kamala-harris-after-criticism-of-diverting-cops-from-crime-suppression
Screwsome not talking
The Secret Service doesn’t protect Dan Quayle, who was in office during Gulf War I and currently the oldest surviving Vice President.
I’m about to get my second Shingles shot. The only option is mRNA. MrsAtoz is still suffering Shingles pain, so I decided to do it.
My mother keeps on getting shingles even though she has had both shots. Turns out that the effectiveness of the shingles shot is only 40%. I do not know if that is the mrna shot or not.
I believe the killed virus shot ended this year or last year.
Yup. Most of us here are old enough to have used dialup modems. Dip switches and jumpers.
9600 8,N,1 FTW!!
And AT command sets…
n
Ah, so the “one little mistake” that the first article mentioned was drug smuggling.
50g doesn’t sound like much to me. It used to be $100 /g in the 80s. Can’t be that much more now. ME has not tolerance for foreigners with drugs though.
n
Big River sent a “Shipped” e-mail. The order of two DVDs that were coming on Monday was combined with the Kindle order. So the matching tracking numbers is not a mistake.
I bought a few other DVDs. They are supposed to be here today. Gotta love the splitting of orders /sarc . Tracking a few hours ago said something like 4:30 to 6 pm. Pretty much their normal time. I just looked and nope, ain’t happening today. “7:15 PM – 10 PM” just does not happen. Even if I am the last stop, which I doubt because I’ve seen the inside of the truck a few times, it’s about an hour from here to Round Rock. Just to Round Rock on Highway 29 at I-35. I don’t know where the Amazon warehouse is actually located.
Tomorrow is fine. It’s not like I lack DVDs to watch.
Speaking of DVDs. I watched Dogma last week and again the other night. There’s a lot of threads in the movie and I missed plenty on the first viewing. Oh, yeah, heresy all the way. I suppose. Pretty decent movie. Not a huge amount of cuss words but not a movie for kids. Actors include Alan Rickman, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, Salma Hayek. Someone here mentioned Salma the other day. Now I know why! Also George Carlin. And Chris Rock who, of course, had to do his tiresome “oppressed negro” shtick but otherwise he is not a bad actor.
I like it. It’s on the Keep stack.
If you support the lack of border enforcement, then you support child sex slavery.
And these are only the ones who were caught at the border.
n
I kinda miss poking around in config.sys and autoexec.bat. There was another, the name escapes me, where a new video driver would bork Windows from booting with video. But you could edit the file from DOS and fix the system. System.ini I think. The precursor to the Registry.
Poking at stuff in the Registry now a days is just not the same.
Good times. Toothpicks poking at dip switches and all..!
See also: A man’s house being raided and his AR-15, Glock, and almost 500 rounds of ammo being reported as an arsenal.
Thirty or so years ago TV news reported an armed robbery. “Suspects are reported as being heavily armed, with 9mm and 357 pistols.” “Heavily armed”, right. That’s what I carried when getting groceries. When expecting trouble, like when bounty hunting, I sometimes wore a raincoat with a folding-stock 12 gauge under my armpit. I have it on good authority that having a large bore staring you in the face is very intimidating, especially when the guy telling you to calm down is strong enough to hold a Spas 12 like a pistol. I’ll note that the bail jumpers never gave any trouble that I recall. In fact, half the time, more than half, they didn’t realize they were overdue for court, or didn’t realize what the paper meant, or some other non-intentional absence. Believe it or not, the people who miss court appearances and get bail enforcement agents sent after them tend not to inhabit the right-hand side of the intellectual bell curve. Anyway, they weren’t a problem but sometimes their cousins or drinking buddies were.
50 grams is what? Pushing 4 tablespoons? That’s a lot of nose candy.
I remember the stuff running $100 a gram. And someone in the dorms scored for like $50 a gram. Worth the trip from Edinburg to Corpus Christi. No idea how much he bought.
But I had a friend that knew this kind of stuff. She took a little taste and said “you were not ripped off”. Because we didn’t know much beyond “coke is cool”.
Some folks get off to coke. Me? It’s like lots of coffee. Enough to get the shakes.
I am watching the new “Alien: Earth” on Hulu. Totally freaky with aliens (yes, those aliens) and consciousness transfer of humans to synthetic bodies.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/
Freaky, yup. Especially the children moved into synthetic bodies.
And Timothy Olyphant is the creepiest synthetic of all.
“Anger spreads over homeowner charged with assault after fighting alleged intruder; Canadian cops double down: ‘Don’t engage’”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/anger-spreads-over-homeowner-charged-with-assault-after-fighting-alleged-intruder-canadian-cops-double-down-don-t-engage
“As Blaze News recently reported, a Canadian homeowner has been charged with aggravated assault after fighting and injuring an armed male who allegedly broke into his Lindsay, Ontario, residence in the middle of the night last month.”
“Amid the growing outrage — including from Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said “something is broken” in the system when one is punished for self-defense — the chief of the Kawartha Lakes Police Service fired off a scolding message to the public on Facebook, calling the criticism against cops “unjust and inaccurate.””
Oh Canada !
Amazon showed up! The dude was sorta weird. Colored guy in a rented U-Haul van. A Ford. It drives ok. Perfect American English. More gums than teeth when he smiled. Friendly guy but there was an odd vibe. I asked and they are getting almost $23 an hour now. With a raise coming in a month.
I now have a movie called “Attraction”. As Natasha would say to Boris, “Is Russian movie dahlink!” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HGNRJ53?tag=ttgnet-20
Sounded pretty good. So I also bought the continuation of the story “Attraction 2 Invasion”.
Yeah. Both “new” because saving almost a whole buck buying used from a Goodwill joint in Random Place, USA, and shipping takes eons vs directly from Big River is a simple choice.
Anyway. I’m going to watch a sci-fi movie and listen to some Russian. Through the stereo with the Rumble Rama cranked up. Is good plan, da? Ja!
I doubt it is going to be easy like watching Downfall. I simply do not know. To me, German sounds like English but most all of the words are wrong…. if that makes a lick of sense.
And while buying movies like a fool, I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FJ39CHO?tag=ttgnet-20
“The Dark Knight Trilogy (Special Edition)” . Don’t know what the special stuff is about. Reviews are positive. But with all of the Joker memes I see, the movies must be worth watching.
The woman must be a complete and utter idiot to possess coke in Dubai. She’s probably a party girl some Arab sent out to get HIS illegal dope. I would tell her to pay $100,000 in court costs and then she can leave. Start a GoFundMe.
Yup those bleached eyebrows and speaking manner creep me out. I wonder if he will survive the first season.
In the middle east, if you are a young female, the old adage of “ass, grass, or cash, no one rides for free” comes to a new generation…
going to dubai to be an ‘influencer’ is the new going to russia to be a ‘model’.
Sexual slavery and trafficking is alive and well.
n
First, stop with the “alleged” stuff.
Second, it’s my stuff and if you want to steal it, steal part of my life because I worked for the money to buy my stuff, I’m going to do my best to stop you.
I’ll deal with any mythical “alleged” intruder by dumping his dead body out back. Or on the side of the road. Buzzards gotta eat. Give the birds a week if it’s raining and run the shredder mower on the tractor over whatever remains.
Bullet holes in the walls? Spackle and caulk.
What? You break into my house? No one knows you are here.
Behind the paywall, but this is the sort of thing..
n
Since things seem stable today I went ahead and re-partitioned the Time Machine drive from the Intel → M4 move, and restarted a new Time Machine backup.
TM follows the hardware, so you can’t keep the same backup….
Partitioned it into two pieces, since 5TB is overkill for a 1TB system drive.
Facts are scarce, but it has been said that the intruder and the home owner knew each other and were not friends. What went on between the two might have been more than self defense, While the home owner has been charged, the Crown may not proceed to trial. There is a lot that the cops (and Crown) are keeping to themselves. Up to now, the courts have upheld the right of a home owner to use force (on occasion lethal) when the owner has legitimately felt their lives were in danger. Either the Crown drops the case or they have been acquitted.
But this case is weird.
“Free Kittens”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87979472_2926706320718774_117146598798000128_n.png?w=546
From:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/09/06/dances-with-memes-2/
“Frankie Muniz Teases “Pretty Shocking” ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Reboot: “People Will Be Surprised””
https://deadline.com/2025/09/frankie-muniz-teases-malcolm-in-the-middle-reboot-shocking-1236506874/
“While Frankie Muniz is remaining tight-lipped about the forthcoming Malcolm in the Middle reboot, the actor-turned NASCAR driver teased the four-episode revival will be “pretty shocking” to audiences.”
“Malcom In The Middle” was a great show. I expect Disney to screw it up.
However, there is no way Reese made it adulthood. That boy was a disaster. Maybe if he went straight into the military, he would be a major general now.
My favorite episode was Dewey, Bea Authur, and ABBA singing “Fernando”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GMZ2DEUE6c
‘NETL researchers gasify plastic waste with coal and biomass for improved hydrogen-rich gas production”
https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2025/09/netl-researchers-gasify-plastic-waste-with-coal-and-biomass-for-improved-hydrogen-rich-gas-production/
You know what you have left when you remove the hydrogen from plastic ? Salty coal.
I followed the link to Sarah Hoyt’s memes.
TIL the word aibohphobia. Fear of palindromes.
In other news, it looks like I’ll be getting my new amateur radio callsign next week. The one I requested is a palindrome, at least in morse code.
As an example, AA5NN is di-dah di-dah di-di-di-di-di dah-dit dah-dit.
If you prefer dots and dashes, thats “.- .- ….. -. -.”
I had to mess with dip switches lately to program a Chamberlain universal remote to open our garage door with an old Genie screw drive mechanism.
The Chamberlain universal remotes sold at Home Depot are so chintzy that they leave the DIP switches off the circuit board but don’t specify that on the external packaging.
“Dogma” was sadly out of print for about a decade until Harvey Weinstein finally sold the rights to pay his legal bills.
Heresy? That flick is a frigging love letter to the Catholic Church and all of its weirdness.
Salma Hayek’s money line about “Home Alone” being a deal with the devil has all but disappeared from YouTube.
John Hughes went from penning sh*t like “Class Reunion” and “At Ease”, a bad TV series, to writing the scripts for “Mr. Mom” and “Vacation” within a year.
No other explanation suffices.
A line from “Mr. Mom” lives forever in the Win32 SDK.
I think I’ll go sit by the water feature and have a tiny little fire…
unless it’s still 86F.
n
Except for the recasting of Khan’s voice actor, Disney did not screw up “King of the Hill”.
A “non binary” sibling. Really?
OTOH, David Anthony Higgins is back as Craig.
Watch the linked video closely and you will see the Higgins brothers pre-“Malcolm in the Middle” and Jimmy Fallon sidekick duty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBZMngx97o
If you just can’t get enough of King Cotton as “Roscoe”, he returns for “Tapeheads” end credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsrw2glbrY
“Spanish fly girls.”
There are big chunks of pop culture that I missed mainly due to travel and work, but also because I didn’t have an interest.
Malcom in the Middle was one. But even going back, Dallas. Or forward, the show about the geeks? Never watched Friends, Sex in the City, or Seinfeld either. I’m familiar with some of the tropes and even some scenes, but I don’t think I ever saw a full episode. DS9. Any trek more modern than TNG.
Family Guy, Sponge Bob. The Space Chicken thing on MTV?
Episodic tv peaked with Hill Street Blues, and everything since has been pale imitation. Prove me wrong…
😉
n
Annoyances. We moved our Internet and mobile numbers from a premium service to a discount service. Run by the same company. You’d think that would work, but no. First, turns out that we are now being billed for Internet for both services. Second, my wife’s mobile contract couldn’t be cancelled before the end of September, so that’s when the changeover was planned. But the premium service turned her number off a month early (oops). Rather than fuss about it, the new service just agreed to turn her phone on early. And now…we get a bill from the old service for early cancellation. Somehow I expect this will take months to sort out…
On the more positive front, today is hops harvesting day 🙂
Silly you, always the optimist.
If you want a real life challenge attempt to deal with Comcast/Xfinity, probably the second worst company on the planet. Their website is a prime example of a lousy interface and poor performance. Comcast/Xfinity does not give a rat’s rear end about their customers. I despise them.
Yesterday was a trip south (I think) to a lake that is on the edge of the alps. A large lake with lots of boats. There is a small island, Rose Island, that used to be the home of some kings. It is now part of the Bavarian state. We did a lot of walking.
Pictures, updated, some removed, some added, of the trip.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Germany
The kids are, well, kids. About the same as the U.S. Sibling rivalry at times, best friends other times, the occasional meltdown. The older girl protects the younger boy and watches out for him. They are both intelligent, well cared for, well taught by their parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Island_(Lake_Starnberg)