Cooler and less moist. Forecast calls for a few days of clear, and I’m hoping for yesterday’s beautiful weather. It did get hot, high 80s or low 90s, but the humidity was less than 50%. Soooo nice.
That prompted me to do some outdoor work. Cut the grass. Sorta. Mostly. Details in yesterday’s comments. Did some cleaning up and some pickups. Moved some stuff around. Then, because I had the soldering stuff out, I got a couple of fixes done too.
I am hoping to do much of the same today. Pickup, sort and arrange, get some work done at home, etc. Rinse and repeat.
It’s baby steps, but still steps.
I’ll take my wins when I can, even if they are teeny weenie.
And I’ll take stacking as the easy way.
n
Good morning! Posting to beat Mr Ray in München to it…
It is a rainy day here, and a good thing too, the garden is parched. There is a heavy rain warning in effect at the BOL, where it has probably been bucketing down all night, and more is forecast until 14.00. I have to go there this evening, so I hope I am not met with flooding, either there or en route.
Did you know that it costs 60 bucks to get a simple one-page document translated from French to German? Nor did I. Gobsmacked. I could have done the translation myself for free, but it is for official purposes and therefore has to be done by a sworn translator, which I am not, although I might have been swearing a bit about this.
I am now wondering how I become sworn, as I don’t want to shell out silly money every time I need to produce this trivial thing. Grr.
And you did indeed.
I took a small trip with the host to an apartment they purchased. They are having the apartment renovated so they can rent it out. A small two bedroom, one bath, on the fourth floor walkup, with no balcony. I was there was the in-floor heating pipes had been installed. Today the workers had poured the floor and were installing the bathtub. There were some issues that the owner (my host) needed resolved. It took longer to get a solution than he planned. So I stood around looking dumb, and did a damn good job of doing so if I do say so myself.
I understand why Germans, and I guess most europeans, spend time outdoors and in the parks. They live in an apartment with no balcony and no real access to outdoor space in their living arrangement. It is like being a shut-in full time with no outdoor time. Getting outdoors is necessary for maintaining sanity.
The parking in Munich is just bunkers. Difficult to find a space, mostly impossible. Cars parked anywhere there is a space. Where the hosts live a parking pass must be displayed in the front window indicating they are allowed to park in the area as they are residents. Without that pass anyone parking must pay.
The hosts have a garage underground shared with seven other vehicles spaces (total of eight) and a couple of motorcycles crammed in the space. The car has to back into a sloped metal plate where it is just wide enough for the Audi if the mirrors are folded in. The metal plate can lift and store a small car underneath. A small car. None of the spaces are using that feature.
The garage space is incredibly cramped. It takes some maneuvering to get the Audi in, and out. Mr. Lynn’s F-150 would never fit, nor would mine. Even on-street parking would be hazardous. Everything is just so cramped.
There is nothing on the agenda today.
Tomorrow another former exchange student arrives for her birthday. She will spend the night. She visited us in June for a week in TN. Her and our host exchange student have met before. We took our host student to visit the arriving exchange student before the exchange student came to the U.S. It helps their nerves and the nerves of the parents.
We have seven more nights here before we have to depart. It has worked out well so far as we have been babysitting the kids. That is tiring as the kids are always doing something.
DEI TV.
As I wrote last week, it will take a while for all of the material greenlit during Woke to work out of the system.
Apple this time, p*ssing away money with Jessica Chastain who produces and stars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYQiGBupM8I
The YouTube channel where I first saw the trailer commented that stay-at-home mommies in Marin and other Prog strongholds (cough … Austin … cough) would pleasure themselves in front of the show but the audience would be limited beyond that.
They didn’t think they were going to lose the election.
The college expense CDs are about making sure we have the money at the credit union ready to go at the right time. They aren’t serious investments beyond making sure we get something and face a penalty for cashing out early by mistake moving everyday expense cash around.
Not that I have the same problem as SteveF faces. I’d be the one making the mistake since I run the checking accounts receiving our respective direct deposits incredibly tight.
I was just making an observation about the upside to higher rates.
The CD I cashed last Spring for expenses was over 5%.
We saw the tail-end of the Eclipse. Being in the mountains, the moon didn’t rise until fairly late, so the total eclipse was already over. Still a nice sight 🙂
A certified translation? That does get expensive, because the translator is legally liable for the accuracy. You’re paying for their insurance…
If it’s some sort of standard form, though, you might be able to make a deal: “Hey, it’s the same thing every year, so…”
“… eats shoots, leaves.”
Or was it
“… eats, shoots, leaves.”
Since we left Florida and nearly went Bankrupt in Vantucky, the B*tchy Doctor’s Wife runs everything with regard to money, “empowerment” be damned.
There’s clearly more to the story…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15079257/Shocking-new-photos-bush-campsite-Tom-Phillips-children-hiding-Exposed-things-children-country-not-be.html
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64F and 90%RH !! Wow, coldest morning in a long time.
Time to get the kids out the door and some coffee brewing.
n
When Spare Kid* was staying with us a couple years ago, a classmate was on a video call with the girls, trying to ask for a date with Spare Kid. I stepped into video range and announced that since I was standing in for her parents**, it was ok with me for her to go out and I wasn’t going to do the “cleaning the shotgun” nonsense but he should be aware that she’s under my protection and he should also be aware that not only did I used to kill people professionally, I also killed people as a hobby***. The date went off with no more than the expected awkwardness and missteps.
I’ll note that this male classmate was notorious for having hit on every girl from two years older to three years younger … except for my daughter. She wasn’t interested in him but wondered if she should feel offended at being the only female aged 13-19 who hadn’t been flirted with – she’s objectively attractive, no stinkier than normal for a teen, and no more obnoxious than the usual teen girl. I suggested that perhaps me being her father was the problem. “Oh. Yah. That’s probably it.” Angst resolved.
* One of my daughter’s friends, who lived with us off and on for a few years.
** Which was true, though I immediately afterward contacted her father to check that it was ok with her actual parents.
*** Which were true statements, though misleading.
SteveF, LOL!
Nick,
nosyinquiring minds want to know, how did D1’s date go?“I have a 45 and a shovel.”
The boy is in private school, polite and shy, came to the door and met me… so that was a good start. He is as tall as D1, or very close, and seemed nice in a nerdy way.
She says it was a good date (dinner at a place down the street from us.) She’d like another, but wasn’t sure if he’d be asking as he said she was “crazy” (in context, a good trait.)
She was in a pretty good mood this morning so if there was social media drama, it must have been “good” drama.
n
I forgot “I doubt anybody would miss you.”
FFS, all the facilities I’ve had any medical tests from in the past year have all decided to start spamming my inbox with “newsletters” and “did you know” emails. I checked the ‘email ok’ box for test results, and communications about my appointments, NOT marketing.
Why does everyone that I’ve had the tiniest and mostly impersonal interaction with, feel so entitled to my time and attention? Who is telling them that this is a good approach?
n
I got my second shingles shot over the weekend. Just the usual sore arm I get with all shots. Pneumonia next. I’ll have to look up if it is mRNA.
I had my gone-south mole biopsied on Monday. The clinic said it doesn’t look like killer skin cancer, just the kind everyone gets: basal-cell carcinoma. Results in two weeks and then decide how to treat it.
Ugh, I was wrong about colonoscopy prep. I still have to drink 3 x 16oz tubs of aqua with the shit-juice. Times 2. Ugh. End of October. If they snip out polyps, can I save them to make soup?
I think I had to drink my gallon of stuff in something like 12 hours. Finish up about 1 hour before appointment. I would drink as much as I could. Wait a couple of hours and try again. I think I got all but about 2 ounces down. I told them I missed the last two ounces and the nurse said that was not an issue, if my last discharge incident was clear. I said it was. I did not get much sleep that night.
One of the best parts of the whole procedure was the aftermath. The colon is inflated with nitrogen gas and the nurse told me when I woke up that I could fart. And oh boy was that a good one. 25 seconds of the theme from “The Bridge on the River Kwai”.
I think they send them off for a biopsy. But you could ask.
Good news!
I know someone who asked for the bone from his hip replacement. The surgeon asked why he wanted it.
Answer: for his dog 🙂
Fingers crossed for the least-negative possible biopsy result, Mr Atoz.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15081077/Washington-boy-school-shooter-arrested-manifesto-guns-seized.html
over a dozen AR pattern rifles, and at least one AK, couple of wood stock rifles… lot of skeletonized lowers.
They don’t look like 3d printed guns, they look like regular (if impractical) rifles. The article avoids actually saying 3d printed guns, just “parts”.
I’m a bit confused by the shelving in the pics, as it looks like pvc pipe, and should be sagging under the weight of the rifles.
A couple of things I”m sure of– none of it “belongs” to a 13yo. None of it was purchased by a 13yo.
Unless it’s all airsoft.
n
And PSH of “terrifying”. If someone has a lot of purses, cars, or homes, it’s “envy inducing”. Lotta nice guns and it’s “terrifying.”
“Israel Launches “Precise Strike” Against Senior Hamas Leaders in Qatari Capital”
https://thelibertydaily.com/israel-launches-precise-strike-against-senior-hamas-leaders/
“(The Epoch Times)—Israel has conducted a strike against the senior leadership of Hamas in Doha, Qatar, according to posts by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Qatari Foreign Ministry.”
Big gas tanks on the new F-35s that radar cannot see. Israel is getting their moneys worth out of the planes. Wait, we gave them the planes for free.
Somebody needs to remind Qatar that you do not stand next to the man throwing fecal matter at the man with a gun.
FFS, all the facilities I’ve had any medical tests from in the past year have all decided to start spamming my inbox with “newsletters” and “did you know” emails. I checked the ‘email ok’ box for test results, and communications about my appointments, NOT marketing.
Why does everyone that I’ve had the tiniest and mostly impersonal interaction with, feel so entitled to my time and attention? Who is telling them that this is a good approach?
n
It is their new Hedge Fund owners. They are running the show now.
“Tesla unveils Megapack 3, Megablock battery storage systems as car business lags”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-unveils-megapack-3-megablock-battery-storage-systems-as-car-business-lags-154257699.html?guccounter=1
“Tesla says the Megapack 3 uses the same inverter and fire protection system as the Megapack 2, but has a more simplified thermal bay for heat dissipation, which includes 78% fewer connections and more power (5 MWh versus the prior battery’s 3.9 MWh). New cell technology is also in place, with supply coming from the US, Southeast Asia, and China.”
“Tesla says the Megablock is designed for 20 MWh of storage, with a 25-year life and more than 10,000 charging cycles. Tesla claims the product is 23% faster to install than an equivalent setup, with up to 40% lower construction costs. The Megablock can operate in temperatures from -40C (-104F) to 60C (140F) and has a site-level density of 248 MWh AC per acre.”
“Tesla projects it will start building the Megapack 3 at a new factory in the Houston area in late 2026, with an annual manufacturing capacity of 50 GWh, roughly 10,000 Megapack 3 batteries.”
Interesting. The temperature range is very interesting, it must have low density lithium batteries.
“Climate Fact-Check August 2025”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/09/climate-fact-check-august-2025/
“Debunking the latest unscientific fearmongering on hurricanes, wildfires, the Great Barrier Reef, ‘heat stress’, doomed bananas, & the alleged invasion of fire ants!”
My home is hurricane free for over one year now !
I wish that I was fire ant free, those little monsters are everywhere in South Texas.
Get someone to start the Fire Ant Challenge on TikTok. How many can you eat in ten minutes? Get the retards in Texas – there’s got to be at least a million of them, right? – to dispose of the little monsters.
“The Columbus Affair: Perry Rhodan #80” by K. H. Scheer
https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Affair-Perry-Rhodan-80/dp/B0014G3CYU?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number eighty of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands with several spinoffs. The English books started with two translated German stories per book translated by Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110. The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 88 of the German pamphlets written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Der_Fall_Kolumbus
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/88#
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.
The Druufs have an outpost on Earth. And the Druufs have created a tunnel between their universe and Earth’s universe into which they are pouring thousands of fighter spaceships. So now Perry Rhodan has to appeal to Atlan, the hidden administrator of the Arkonide empire behind the robot administrator, for 10,000 fighting spaceships. So now the position of Earth is known across the galaxy. Atlan sends the ships but the Springers show up also.
Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome “Mutineer’s Moon” Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)
Lynn
Forget DEI. In the end, Cracker Barrel will be another Southern chain bankrupted by biscuits.
Waitress! More bread!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cracker-barrel-had-serving-day-153129558.html
Wasn’t this done (with a male lead) a few years ago? Just like “High Potential” struck me as a gender-flipped version of “The Mentalist.” Which was inspired by and inspired a small host of ‘the civilian consultant out-detectives the detectives’ all the way back to Sherlock Holmes?
Not that I’m entirely complaining; I’ve enjoyed many of them if they’re not too preachy.
Aye, there’s the rub.
Aye, there’s the rub.
– and without the happy ending.
n
The recent run of consulting detective series started with “Sherlock”, which is still the best of the lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8_YQ7_Jo8k
“But you know what I’m asking for, don’t you Mr. Holmes?”
“I believe I do.”
“Charlotte Dem. mayor faces backlash after urging for ‘compassion’ for suspect who brutally stabbed Ukrainian refugee”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/charlotte-dem-mayor-faces-backlash-after-urging-for-compassion-for-suspect-who-brutally-stabbed-ukrainian-refugee/
“The murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who recently moved to the United States to escape the war, has garnered significant outrage on social media after emerging last week due to the gruesome and unprovoked nature of the attack.”
I have no words.
OK, two words: tar and feather.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Rough justice. Street justice.
The police exist to protect the accused criminal so they can get their presumption of innocence. They only incidentally protect the rest of us.
They have shown time and again that they don’t have a duty to protect, and FOUGHT to prevent anyone from attaching a duty to protect to them.
Every offense will become a capital offense.
n
Fire ants are easy. Unleaded gasoline. Because you can’t buy leaded anymore. The fumes sink into the nest. Do not disturb, just pour somewhere between a cup and a pint of gasoline right into the center of the mound.
Kerosene works. Charcoal fluid works. Gasoline is best.
Yeah. So you have a dead spot in your lawn for a few weeks You have dead spots of grass where the dog poops, too. . But you don’t have fire ants. Your call. I always went with the dead spot of lawn while living in Austin.
I don’t have fire ants here. I do have some vicious and evil little red ants that will try to eat you but they are not fie ants…. no blisters and I have lots of harvester ants.
Gasoline is cheap and it works.
Tar and feathers for the mayor. A rope or simply a bullet for the killer. And while we are tarring and feathering the mayor gather and include the judges that set this crazy man free several times.
Charlotte. HQ city of the Too Big To Fail Bank steeped in DEI.
The poster child for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome says “How Dare You!”
Bold of you to assume that the poop was left by dogs. My dad’s policy is that if you can’t stand on your front porch and take a piss without the neighbors seeing, your neighbors are too close. This policy can be extended.
Yah.
Some claim that the unstated goal of police department procedures throughout the nation is increase the level of crime and thereby increase the level of fear in the citizenry, in order to justify ever-greater government control. I doubt that this is an actual goal of any but a few Macchiavellian manipulators, but let me break out my old rubric: What would be different if that were the goal?
Just remember: When faced with an enemy and a traitor, kill the traitor first.
City cops defend the fiduciary interests of the incorporated entity known as “The City” first and the Constitution second.
Texas had to pass a law limiting annexation during one recent session of the Legislature because San Antonio’s Socialist city government was getting aggressive about expansion into unincorporated areas at the behest of the local military commands, who were tired of dealing with the counties placing limits on their night training activities.
Yeah, gasoline for ant beds bothers folks. Pollution and blah blah. But my experience is gasoline is 95% perfect. Fire ant poison seems to just make the nest move.
Next down on the list is uh…. I forget the name… I know the smell… Ortho something…. a couple of ounces makes a two gallon bucket of what looks like watery skim milk. Aphids eating your rose bushes? This is the stuff to use when Orethene fails.
Malathion. Nasty stuff. Smells like poison. Duh. Kills the fire ants, too.
Diazion granules are useful, too. Sprinkle around outside of the house for scorpion control. Seems to not be available anymore. The local scorpions appreciate that. Me? Not really thrilled to be here at my desk and look over to see a 2+ inch long scorpion coming at me. Yeah, I’m a hater.
Oh, yeah. NCNB bank. North Carolina National Bank. AKA the No Cash for Nobody Bank. Dirtbags. They “merged” with Bank Of America, mostly I think, for the name. Still dirtbags.
Most of the mergers to build that bank to is present size were sold with lies and promises to the communities which were never fulfilled. Deep resentment still simmers in WA State (SeaFirst), Florida (Barnett), and even Northern California.
Lately, every time I roll up to the ATMs at the local branch to pay my wife’s Visa, one machine or the other is always out of commission. The drive thru teller windows have been shuttered for five years.
As a data point, tonight’s ribeye roast was sent to freezer camp in Dec. 2020. Not even in a vac sealed bag, just buried in the deep freeze in the store’s saran wrap.
Delicious. Not a speck of freezer burn, no texture change, and did I mention delicious?
Brownies from Dolly Parton’s mix, since the oven was hot.
Yum.
n
Here’s a radical suggestion: She could ask him out and buy him dinner (assuming he paid for the first date). Or, even more radically, invite him to your house, chivvy the rest of you to the family room for the evening, and make supper for him.
I think I’ve mentioned here* that a fair few of my daughter’s (and Spare Kid’s) acquaintances and (former) classmates would talk to me and get my thoughts on something or explicitly ask for advice.** I’ve been gently (compared to my usual) suggesting that a return to traditional values and approaches might lead to better life success and happiness than current culture would bring them. Concerning dating and marriage, girls might do better to take a more traditional approach. Date some, with an eye to marriage and his potential for stability, rather than lots with an eye to fun for the weekend. And the girls should definitely think about what they bring to the table and work on improving that, rather than arrogantly assume that their mere presence is enough. And, of course, career first. Think about settling down once their career is established and they’ve met their personal goals.
I’ve had approximately zero success in getting teenage girls to look away from girl-bossing their way to their life goals, even in a Christian school with devout parents who don’t like the way the culture is going. Well, more power to you, ladies, and I wish you all success and happiness. But I wouldn’t bet on you finding it.
I don’t mean to overstate: not all of the teenage girls that I talked to think that way (or at least didn’t say so to me), but those who were inclined that way wouldn’t be shaken from it.
* My memory is shot, on account of sleeping so little. I think I’ve mentioned that, too, but don’t remember for sure, for obvious reasons.
** Which shows either calamitously bad judgment on their part or, just as likely, the dearth of adults in their lives whom they trust to give honest, if not necessarily good, advice.
“True Self-Defense Story: ARMED RIDESHARE DRIVER GETS CARJACKED”
https://www.deltadefense.com/offers/62433e864bb31/
“Being attacked while picking up a fare is likely a rideshare driver’s worst nightmare. That is exactly what happened to Scott Javoroski one winter night in Milwaukee. As one man pretended to press a weapon — which turned out to be a cell phone — into Scott’s neck, the other attempted to drag the driver out of the vehicle. Scott’s training as a martial artist and USCCA member helped him keep cool and respond with no loss of life.”
“In this true-story video, Scott Javorski and his attorney, Amy Scholz, break down the harrowing tale with Concealed Carry Magazine Executive Editor Kevin Michalowski. The three discuss what Scott did right during the encounter as well as what could have gone horribly wrong.”
“Carrying a gun in his car may have saved this driver’s life”
“Scott did a great job.”
“Except for one small thing…”
“Though Scott never fired a shot, it’s what he did after the threat had passed that could have landed him in serious legal trouble…”
I do not have USCCA gun insurance but I am thinking about it with all of the crazy district attorneys out there now. The base system is $40 per month which is expensive.
I did a lot less shuttling of The Child recently, since she finally got her driver’s license, and of course none in the past week or so since she went off to college. I’ve been using some of that time by starting to work out again. I’d kept busy with mowing and shoveling and carrying things hither and yon but haven’t lifted weights, ridden a bicycle, or used my cardio machines in almost a year – too busy, no time.
When I use the cardio machines, I usually watch movies. (I hardly ever watch movies except when I’m exercising.) I resumed watching the MCU movies in order, picking up at Thor Ragnarok and now starting Shang-Chi this evening.
Yowzers. All of the bad things I’ve heard about the direction Marvel/Disney have taken things in the past eight years are true, except that the movies are even worse than I’d heard. Even oxygen-starved, I don’t think I can put up with the nonsense. I’m thinking of plonking Shang-Chi at 23 minutes in, dropping the rest of the MCU, and watching some old classics or at least something not from Hollywood.
Speaking of which, here’s a recommendation: Mortal (2020), a low-budget film out of Norway. Norse mythology in the modern day. Surprisingly good. I’m pretty sure the dialog was in English, but it might have been in Norse with subtitles; I understand Norse well enough and might not have noticed non-English speech.
The power of the girl boss lies in where your 401(k) plan gets invested.
Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street may eventually fire Taco Julie from the Cracker Barrel CEO gig, but they will replace her with an exact duplicate. They have many similar companies under their control which don’t lack for the personality type.
Shang Chi. Simu Liu is the poster child for Number One Son.
Any of the old Fox Marvel movies are light years better than the current Disney product.
Listen to what Hugh Jackman has to say near the end of the montage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50BJGMHboo
Or Sam Raimi “Spiderman” at Sony.
I was watching some video of the containers that fell off that ship in San Diego. Pretty crazy.
Last I heard nobody was hurt, which is good.
There was a great line by a commenter: “With over 50 containers fallen into the water the insurance company may declare “General Average” as the total cost is now expected to soar past the $500 mark in Temu merchandise”.
Long Beach, not SD.
I think I’ve mentioned here* that a fair few of my daughter’s (and Spare Kid’s) acquaintances and (former) classmates would talk to me and get my thoughts on something or explicitly ask for advice.** I’ve been gently (compared to my usual) suggesting that a return to traditional values and approaches might lead to better life success and happiness than current culture would bring them. Concerning dating and marriage, girls might do better to take a more traditional approach. Date some, with an eye to marriage and his potential for stability, rather than lots with an eye to fun for the weekend. And the girls should definitely think about what they bring to the table and work on improving that, rather than arrogantly assume that their mere presence is enough. And, of course, career first. Think about settling down once their career is established and they’ve met their personal goals.
My 42 year old son tells me that all of the women that he meets are only concerned with money. The minute they figure out that he is not a millionaire, they walk away. I have told him that the best place to meet women is at a Church of Christ church (mine and my wife’s denomination that we grew up in, not the same church) but he does not believe me. He says that things are so different now from the late 1970s when his mother and I were dating different people and ran into each other in 1981 in a church group. I do not doubt this but I figure that meeting a lady in church gives one a better chance than a bar.
He was engaged to a Catholic girl back in 2004 when he joined the US Marine Corps, she promptly ditched him upon his telling her so. About half of his USMC buddies got divorced during their two deployments to Iraq, he was very dismayed over that. I suspect that those two life lessons are really coloring his view of marriage even though my parents were married for 66 years minus two days, my wife’s parents were married for 40 years and her mother passed away suddenly at age 58, and my wife and I have been married for over 43 years now.
My 37 year old daughter actually went on a date the other day with some guy that she met online. Her first date in maybe two decades. They met at a place over in Katy where you paint some pottery. Yeah, strange. The dude works in IT at a company in Katy.
I figure that my chance of having grandchildren is about nil now. My daughter cannot have kids anymore and my son does not like overbearing women.
Listen to what Hugh Jackman has to say near the end of the montage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50BJGMHboo
“Bye, video.” ???
I’ve been watching a ton of videos about modern women and dating. Since I have two kids headed that way. The entitlement some of these people have, and the delusions running in their heads are crazy.
The stuff they say in their own words, in public, on the internet, is astounding.
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BTW, D1 has a fever and came home from school sick today. Body aches, sore throat, 100.5F fever, and not a happy camper. I jokingly mentioned mono and now she’s convinced she’s got it. This despite saying there was no kissing…
So maybe that was a false statement…
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To her credit, she doesn’t want to miss class, because she feels like she’s barely keeping up in biology as it is. District policy is no school unless clear of fever for one day.
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It got pretty warm this afternoon. I noticed that my oak tree is HEAVY with acorns this year. FAR more than normal. Dunno if that’s significant but we have gotten a lot of rain this year, maybe it’s triggering the need to reproduce after some drier years. Or it could be because 1/5 of the tree blew down last year?
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Time to wrap up and head to bed.
n
‘Intel CFO confirms that 14A will be more expensive than 18A due to High-NA EUV tool — Intel expects 14A process to offer 15-20% better performance-per-watt or 25-35% lower power consumption than 18A”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-cfo-confirms-that-14a-will-be-more-expensive-to-use-than-18a-intel-expects-14a-fabrication-process-to-offer-15-20-percent-better-performance-per-watt-or-25-35-percent-lower-power-consumption-compared-to-18a
“Intel’s 14A manufacturing technology (1.4nm-class) technology — the company’s first fabrication process that was designed both for Intel and its foundry customers from the ground up — will be more expensive to use than the company’s upcoming 18A production node according to Intel. The reason for that will be use of ASML’s next-generation Twinscan EXE:5200B High-NA lithography machine with a 0.55 numerical aperture optics.”
“”14A is more expensive than 18A,” said David Zinsner, chief financial officer of Intel, at the Citi’s 2025 Global TMT Conference. “It is not significantly [more expensive] in terms of investment. [But] it is a higher wafer cost, for sure and partly that is because we, we are expecting to use High-NA EUV tools in 14A, which was not the case in 18A.””
Huh. Just another reason for Microsoft to move to ARM for Windows.
“Potential Federal Investigation of Texas A&M Over Transgender Indoctrination”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/potential-federal-investigation-of-texas-am-over-transgender-indoctrination/
“Brian Harrison shared audio he says is of TAMU president Mark Welsh defending teaching transgenderism.”
“Texas A&M could face a federal investigation following revelations that a course instructor removed a student from class over objections to a discussion about exposing children to transgenderism.”
“During the video, the professor in question attempted to teach about a so-called “Gender Unicorn.” This “Gender Unicorn” further introduced topics such as “Gender Identity,” “Gender Expression,” and “Sex assigned at birth.””
“The subject was introduced as part of a discussion for how to present these concepts to children between the ages of three and twelve. The student said she objected to the topic in class because of her religious beliefs and an executive order from President Donald Trump.”
Sigh. This is not the TAMU that I graduated from in 1982.
“It’s always the suit’s fault, never the actor.”
I hear ya.
Not just my kids. Of all of my siblings, only one has or is likely to have grandchildren. And a significant (in the statistical sense) number of people around my age that I talk to are saying the same. On the girls’ side, they’re putting careers first and family maybe someday, and some significant fraction just don’t want kids. On the boys’ side, they’re quite reasonably cautious about getting married to a modern American woman in the current legal and social climate. As I mentioned above, I don’t want to overstate, but even 10% of either sex opting out of commitment and children is enough to tank the birth rate … which is what we’re seeing.
Lo-o-o-o-o-ove fever.
That’s what dating is for, right? Not to add to your stress* as the father of one or more teenage girls or anything.
* I’m lying.
I hear ya.
Not just my kids. Of all of my siblings, only one has or is likely to have grandchildren. And a significant (in the statistical sense) number of people around my age that I talk to are saying the same. On the girls’ side, they’re putting careers first and family maybe someday, and some significant fraction just don’t want kids. On the boys’ side, they’re quite reasonably cautious about getting married to a modern American woman in the current legal and social climate. As I mentioned above, I don’t want to overstate, but even 10% of either sex opting out of commitment and children is enough to tank the birth rate … which is what we’re seeing.
I see lots of old people. Especially every time I look in a mirror.
Yeah, to be an old people means you are one that lived.
Kid thinks calling me old is the worst thing in the world. To me, it means I lived. I’m the survivor. 33 years past the point I expected to so far. And almost 40 years past the life changing motorcycle accident on I 65 in Indiana one summer night.
Three bike accidents at the hospital that night, and we were the only ones who lived.
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I was 40 when I married for the first time, and I’ll be on social security when the girls get to college. We hit replacement, but the calendar kept us to 2.
It’s possible they’ll wise up and start having kids.
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Now it’s nighty night for nick…
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Yeah, to be an old people means you are one that lived.
Kid thinks calling me old is the worst thing in the world. To me, it means I lived. I’m the survivor. 33 years past the point I expected to so far. And almost 40 years past the life changing motorcycle accident on I 65 in Indiana one summer night.
Three bike accidents at the hospital that night, and we were the only ones who lived.
I have owned four motorcycles. Two CB 350s, a Nighthawk 750, and a Honda Valkyrie 1500 flat six with six carbs and solid lifters. They do not call them donorcycles for nothing.
My worst bike wreck was on my brother’s offroad bike. I jumped a small hill and nailed an unseen telephone pole guywire line at 30+ mph. In the air. I still have the scars across my chest and right arm. Before I got fat, you could count the strands of the metal cable on my arm. But, I was originally going to hit the guywire with my neck. I managed to turn the bike in midair. I don’t remember hitting the wire but I do remember waking up and the bike was laying on top of me, still running.
When I had my little Honda 50 (don’t laugh) I used that little machine to transport myself to different hay hauling jobs in the area. It functioned nicely on the country road and was cheap to operate. I used hay hooks, very sharp, in doing the jobs.
One time coming home I came around a corner and two cars were occupying both lanes. I headed for the side of the road and was unlucky enough to encounter an irrigation ditch. Down I went. One of the hay hooks dragged across my chest slicing muscle and exposing my sternum. A lot of blood. But the damage to physical muscle was not too bad.
Neither of the cretins stopped to help.
It was some strain to get the machine out of the ditch with some torn muscles but somehow I managed. I went home and was afraid I would get in a lot of trouble and loss access to my little machine due to the accident. I used lots of scotch tape and taped my chest closed. There is not scar. Attributable to the extremely sharp hay hooks and the clean cut one of the hooks made.
When I left for the service I sold the machine and never had another donorcycle.
I saw a fox leaving the office tonight. They are rare but definitely hanging around South Texas. I see one at my parents house a lot.
I hope D1 will feel better soon. Sounds like date cooties to me.
I believe Mas Ayoob used to recommend the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defence Network. They seem to have been folded into another outfit now, CCW Safe. Might still be worth a look: https://armedcitizensnetwork.org/