Cool, warm, hot, what does it matter? Well, I can plan for the heat and do stuff in the morning or evening… and I can chart the passage of time. We are definitely cooling overall, but still getting warm in the afternoon. It was in the 90sF yesterday, and still 80F at 8pm.
I got some stuff done. The drywall mud was still wet in spots, so no more work on that but I painted a media storage tower to be used as a lego kit display. I couldn’t take the fake woodgrain so after a second coat, now it’s ready for use. I also sorted some cordsets and other bits for the generator connection project. For some reason, all the commercial cords have a 4 prong twistloc with a tit that points in, while my generators have a tit that points out. I do think I have all the parts now to do the connection, just waiting for a little bit cooler day.
Oh, I did find my spare propane bottles. I filled three the other day, and I thought I should have more around, since W couldn’t find spares at the BOL. I figured the three were from the BOL, but didn’t see more here. WEEELLLL, they were in the driveway, in a corner, behind some stuff. Three more full bottles. I’m guessing that there are plenty of bottles still at the BOL, they’ll just be in the heaters, so three will go back to the BOL along with 20 or 25 gallons of gasoline on the next trip.
Finally got a chance to pull the fake logs out of the fireplace and see what I need to do to put in a quick connect for a MrHeater. I was thinking about a valve so the fake logs would be usable, but I found a big vertical crack in the firebox. Until that gets fixed, no fire in the box. I’ll just disconnect the logs and attach the quick connect if needed. Of course, I have the hose here, but left the quick connects at the BOL. The actual heater is at my secondary location, but I’ll bring it here and put it in the attic soon. Then I’ll put it all together in one place so we can connect it if we have another cold snap that takes out the power too.
Today I’ve got to do a service call at my client’s house. I’m guessing we’ve got another bad hdmi port on the Denon AVR. He says there hasn’t been any bad weather, so it’s probably not a surge, but we’ve already lost one port on that receiver. I think it’s time to start looking for a replacement for the Denon receivers. They’re too dang fragile anymore, and not cheap. Failing that, I might stick a cheap piece of gear between the endpoint and the Denon, like an audio extractor or a 2:1 splitter and hope it eats the surge. The system is pretty solid at this point, only having issues after bad electrical weather, at least typically.
Then I’ll work on the list some more. Unfortunately, my voice was a bit husky last night and my throat glands are a little swollen and sore. D1 may have infected us all… If that’s the case, I’m not getting much done in the next week.
Stack while you can, you never know what’s coming next.
nick
Your MBBS will see you now.
No academic ties either beyond the figleaf provided by the AMA, and JAMA is not peer reviewed research.
The US MBBS schools are still in the planning stage, but buildings either exist or will shortly.
Colonists only.
Further enshittification of everything.
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57F this morning. That’s getting down to “brisk” for us. Still 80% RH, but that’s a lot less moisture than at 80F…
Leaving D1 asleep. She isn’t really responding to the ABx so she must have something viral. Joy.
W is tapped to take D2 to school, I’ll probably pick her up. We got used to D1 driving pretty quickly.
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Time for coffee.
n
Possibly de-orbiting junk, which seems a lot more common than I ever considered.
n
My generation wanted $20 Reeboks. Mission Accomplished.
Some states are so desperate for GPs that they will allow an MBBS to use the MD initials with certain conditions.
Licenses from those states are how the VA is staffing clinics with MBBS right now despite regulations prohibiting practioners with those initials after their name.
Colonists are horny for Austin so the VA clinic here is at the forefront of the scheme.
A pleasant 47F this morning. I cracked some windows overnight since we are supposed to reach 80F later today.
Last night’s high clouds have cleared, it would have been a chance to see that morning comet, if I knew.
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Space debris is possible, but aeronautical more likely.
The de-orbiting debris statistics is composed mostly of SpaceX’s planned disposal of Falcon 9 2nd stage’s (152 this year) and old Starlink Gen1 satellites and that is overwhelmingly over the southern oceans.
Nobody de-orbits over NA deliberately and there is notably no NORAD warning or report of anything big enough to survive re-entry and damage an aircraft.
The chances of it being a meteorite are about the same as a “Mr. Irrelevant” taking his team to the Super Bowl.
Go Niners!
Inspired by something I just came across: If you do Elf on the Shelf in December, you should also do Doll in the Hall in October. Take a porcelain doll that your kids already think is creepy or haunted and keep moving it around the house. At least once, sneak it into bed with one of the kids late at night.
Apparently, the outage in AWS is really causing problems with Amazon. Who would have thought? I don’t think that Amazon has fully resolved the issues. If’n I twere a guessing person, some configuration file got loaded into the routers that borked the routing and really messed up the connections.
Diwali. Someone’s head isn’t in the game if I had to guess.
The holiday is a serious “get sh*tfaced” event for non Muslim colonists, both here and back home.
@SteveH
Do you play Cobra in the Henhouse and Cucumber Under the Cat, also?
I traumatized my kids for life when I took Elf on the Shelf out to the garbage can in a fit of rage in Vantucky as they watched. I’ve told the story here at least once.
Chinese mother-in-law being stupid and testing the limits. I’m sure you can relate.
I wish we’d never started with the stupid elf. It’s all the wrong things, impossible to stop once you start, and the cuteness wears off FAST.
n
No, actually. My wife’s parents were always great. Quite a few culture clashes but they did not arise from selfishness or dumbassedness. (Not until the m-i-l got senile, but that’s hardly her fault.)
Certainly not. The chickens and the cats (when I had them; don’t now because the wife is mildly allergic) are innocent bystanders and can be useful. Children are not only annoying and useless but deliberately annoying and useless. They deserve a little payback.
Also, my chickens kill and eat snakes when they find them. Small snakes, anyway. The first time I spotted them doing it, I would have rescued the snake if I could, as snakes provide a useful service, but it was pretty battered by that time. The other time, there were only a few pieces by the time I noticed.
“How to spot a dragon that just used a shapeshifting spell.”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJT62TO7j8-v2WzRSYdFx9eP1Ani-Tvn4pmyiVMsGJa8nd0q0blflGXJRIHfMKm_pnRrnkJ5VyL4QNS0GqIJ2wkBUcqIfv9wDUhmsjqaPZ4IhQog1DPwWPOp-yEQvhk2kH9EB2FNkR408W9MCi6Mh5WGabZaR2JTcvM3cfQ9-5A6ZILyzNYRdRx4-QHA/s683/Meme%20-%20shapeshifting%20dragon.png
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/10/memes-that-made-me-laugh-282.html
“Helen Andrews Warns Feminization Threatens Civilization Itself”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/helen-andrews-warns-feminization-threatens-civilization-itself/
“There has never been a society in which women have held as much political power as they do today, Helen Andrews says, as she described how unique and revolutionary this is. The Great Feminization only took place in the past five to ten years. Andrews backs it up with facts and says we might not be done yet with the feminization.”
“She said every field except for a few will continue to be overwhelmingly women. Many fields like academia and psychology are majority women. Feminization is wokeness, she says, and then explains how that is the case.”
“As she explained a political system dominated by men will go by facts and objectivity, but by women it will focus on emotion and subjectivity. That isn’t an ironclad rule, she explains since some individuals fall on one side or the other.”
“Women may be changing the bedrocks of our civilization as they have an outsized impact on the political landscape. It could threaten civilization and the rule of law. She explains what that means in reality.”
“A thoroughly feminized society will threaten civilization itself, she believes. She asks some great questions.”
“To solve it, all we have to do is take the thumb off the scale and stop favoring women over men.”
Not good.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Senate Democrats block Republican plan to end government shutdown for 11th time”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-democrats-block-republican-plan-end-government-shutdown-11th-time
“Seven senators did not vote in the latest round, including Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who has been siding with Republicans to end the shutdown.”
I suspect sometime in January that this will come to an end. I am not sure what the end will look like though as I suspect that the filibuster rule will be modified or thrown away.
Also, my chickens kill and eat snakes when they find them. Small snakes, anyway. The first time I spotted them doing it, I would have rescued the snake if I could, as snakes provide a useful service, but it was pretty battered by that time. The other time, there were only a few pieces by the time I noticed.
Yup, descendants of velociraptors.
Look at a side-view of a TRex next to a side-view of a chicken.
Then compare with a side-view of a stegasaurus.
Now look at the time when TRex lived and the time when stegasaurus lived.
TRex is closer to modern birds than to stegasaurus in both morphology and chronology.
Range hood is installed. Not vented, maybe later. The outlet under the sink was exactly as much of a pain as expected.
Tomorrow, maybe lights under the sink and in the cabinet where the pots live.
Kind of sore tonight.
Many of our politicians, “thought leaders”, and éminences grise today are wretched. Americans and Brits are starting to get fed up and talk about various forms of resistance.
I’ve seen a few people saying or writing “Make defenestration great again”, with the implication that going out the window will result in death or maiming.
That doesn’t go far enough. We need to make our would-be leaders fear the Johan de Witt treatment.
In the last few years I have seen more unmitigated crap come out of the mouths of women in STEM fields than can be believed. As a society we either clean this crap out and revoke degrees of people that obviously learned nothing and got passed along on DIE programs, or we start accepting the real-world results, which will include buildings falling down, control system failures, bigger an bigger medical disasters, etc.
It’s not the biggest problem, but it’s enabled by two of the other problems: credentialism and plagiarism.
And as always, one of the first questions to ask is how deeply the ChiComs are involved in promulgating the rot. One indication may be to look at how their own systems have been undermined, and one indicator may be to look at the gender balance in the students they send to study in the U.S. and a look at their background. A wild guess would be that the M:F ratio is heavily weighted toward the former, and the female side is heavily weighted toward those with military backgrounds.
If T Rex or his relatives had survived we might have a tradition of fried tyranosaur on Sunday and be driving up to T Rex fil-A.
‘cuz you know they do.
Make public gibbets, great again.
Pass on the livers, tho.
You know, I used to be six feet tall ( okay, 5′ 11.75″ as a senior in high school ).
I was measured today at 5′ 10″.
Yikes.
Don’t worry about it. You’re the same height as you ever were. Global anthropogenic warming (which is real! and we’re all gonna die!) is making the rulers stretch, so inches are longer than they used to be.
The CS program in WA State where I did my first pass at grad school chose a black out drunk female alcoholic single mother of six as their Summa Cum Laude graduation speaker in the Fall of her Junior year.
Failure was not an option for the faculty from that point forward.
Would they be open on Sunday?
With eight different fathers.
One guy fathered all the kids, but she started at 16.
Apostolic Lutheran, an extremist cult. Keep ’em barefoot and pregnant.
The ex- got out from under a tremendous amount of child support after the local paper published her Intel salary as part of the school’s PR.
“Would they be open on Sunday?”
Of course, with trailer parking for takeout and a forklift to load. Average tender weighs 100-150 lbs.
I just saw a nice evening comet in the canon 12×36 binoculars, C 2025/6 Lemmon.
Easy to find, a nice green coma. Maybe a degree in length in just past astronomical twilight.
Probably almost naked eye if a just a bit darker around here.
Half an hour ago it was short sleeve weather, now it’s 58F. I was underdressed and really shivering in shorts and a T-shirt.
Who Funds Antifa?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/who-funds-antifa.php
ayup.
Pretty sure I saw that on a Sunday morning cartoon years ago. The car tipped over.
“The Flintstones” – in the opening credits. Fred goes to the local drive-in for rack of ribs.
The Flintstones premiered in 7:30PM CST primetime on a Friday night (Sept 30, 1960) and started airing Saturday morning in 1966. (I remember the premiere but had to look up the details. Did not know that ABC did not broadcast in color until the third season–irrelevant as we did not have a color tv until 1964.).
Made chicken noodle soup. Out of chicken carcasses, so started with Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Broth, added carrots, misc veg and spices. Used the pasta machine to make noodles and cooked them separately. Used Sam’s Club Rotisserie chicken, both white and dark meat.
Noodles in the bowl first, then chicken, then the soup stock. Keeping the parts separate prevents the noodles from getting soggy and the chicken from cooking to tough, flavorless chunks. Recommended.
I made 7 smoked turkey legs for dinner, with Stovetop Stuffing ™. All the family prefers the dark meat, but D2 prefers the taste of plain turkey to the smoked. Said it tasted like ham. To be fair, it wasn’t the ~$7/pound name brand smoked legs. Still, it was easy and a nice change of pace.
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Had a tiny little fire while re-reading Wen Spencer’s Black Wolves of Boston. It’s been years since I read it and I don’t remember any of it. The sequel is finally out, so I thought I’d re-read it. The start is tough, but it’s getting better.
It’s 75F out and very comfortable. I’m actually chilly in the house at 73F. I know it would be much damper and cooler on the dock at the BOL.
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D1 was feeling better tonight and made brownies from a box mix. They were so good I’ll be suffering from all the sugar tomorrow. And it was worth it.
Time now for a shower and bed.
n