Veteran’s Day (US) – remember the day by day sacrifices of all who served and their families on this day.
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Cold. Damp. Windy? Probably. High 40sF most likely to start off, but maybe not getting into the 80sF today. Yesterday stayed chilly all day, but the sun was hot. I even ran the furnace briefly. Houston has a season where we run the heat at night and the A/C in the daytime… and we might be in it.
I did get some small things done, and started others. I did a little bit more in the ‘library’/’listening room’ by spraying down half the records with mold/mildew/viricide/odor killer. There was a faint smell of mold. I’ve found that spraying it all with Mold Armor makes a huge improvement. That’s every record jacket, front and back, and edges.
I then started on the pile on the back patio. I need to sort some out in order to re-stack the canned goods and other stored food. That’ll be a chore, and I don’t have trash can space at the moment for what I’m sure will be a lot of ‘breakage’. I can at least go through the stuff that has just piled up there.
[it is currently 11:11 and I’m writing my 11/11 post, fun! Not too long ago my odometer was 171717.7 More fun!]
Then I spent far to long messing with the free inkjet printer to see if I could get the tubes and print head cleaned out for use. The answer is yes, but something else broke and now the printer won’t even try to print. I’ll try clearing the error code and see if that works, but if not, I’m ordering something new.
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups to do and I’ll either keep working my list, or work on the list for the truck. I’ll have some domestic bliss in there too, and maybe make some dinner…
All in a day’s work for prepper dad. Somewhere in there I’ll stack something. (probably something from the auction pickups)
n
11:11 on 11 November. Armistice Day for most of Europe. A day to remember the fallen in the “war to end all wars”. If only.
11:11 is also the start of Karneval for some Germans. In fairness, Rheinisher Karneval predated WWI, and was used as a mockery by the Catholic Rhineländer of their hated puritan Prussian overlords. They still march about dressed as pretend Prussians today.
Wishing you all a good day.
Any time, effort or money spent on inkjets is too much, IMHO. I don’t like them.
More trouble and money than they are worth, even ones acquired for free. These days even a modestly priced laser printer can do the same, including colour, for less money and less hassle over time. If you need photo-quality prints, order them online or buy a proper ink sublimation photo printer.
Did I mention I don’t like inkjets? I don’t like them.
The tank crews quickly learn how to remove the speed governors on the Abrams.
“Doctor Who” is over. Even Disney, who trashed “Star Wars”, has walked away.
My geek/misfit friends and I discovered Monty Python, Dr Who, LOTR, and british comedy in general around the same time in High School. The shows were on late at night on WTTW, the Chicago PBS station.
Tom Baker is the only REAL Doctor. FTW!
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Thermometer says 40F but I see a dusting of frost on parts of roofs.
I should have harvested the herbs.
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Coffee should be ready. Kids are not. W is not. I’ve made lunch so I’m good.
n
The rain of all Sunday and Monday morning turned to snow noonish yesterday. Annoying. Temperature was slightly below freezing this morning, should get up to slightly above this afternoon. I’d planned to move the chicken run a couple days ago, then planned to yesterday, then planned to today, but the mud is an issue – I don’t think that I can get enough traction to drag the run 20 feet and I’m almost certain that the rolling cart which holds up half of the coop when I move it, would sink into the mud and not roll. Stupid weather.
I figure to keep them living out in the yard for another week or three before moving them to the patio but again it depends on the weather – I don’t want them out in snow that lasts more than a few hours but I can’t move the coop by myself 150′ over mud. In theory I could ask a neighbor to help. In practice, hahahaha. I can’t understand how a normal-sized grown man, with no debilitating injuries and not 80 years old, can be as weak and pathetic as my neighbors.
Air horn? Ice water dumped on beds? Handful of fire ants dumped on beds?
They stop only for drones.
Happy Veterans Day to the veterans of RBT’s Daynotes!
Base commandants generally frown on destruction of their paved base roads tho. NG, maybe?
As we like to say here in California:
“There’s gold in them thar
hillsAugust Halls of Congress”.I can see how kids would follow in the family business, but if they wanted “no kings” then they’d have to have “no royal families”.
Like so much else, it’s “rules for thee, but not for me.”
n
The Kennedy dynasty has run out of gas, and P. Diddly Bush failing to climb the ladder in Texas might be the end of that family as a political force on the national stage.
Nothing lasts forever.
Soros named his successor. The brits are going thru their process. Who’s running Aussie?
Germany is awakening their roots.
Canada is riding multi-culti to the ground.
France is lost.
The middle of the continent, (ex-hungary) is inconsequential on the world stage, and mostly lost to internal invaders.
The Rus and surrounding ‘stans don’t matter much to the rest of the world.
China is a kleptocracy masquerading as a military junta.
The really old european families have been well diluted but maybe someone is working toward their rise??
n
Purchased Turbo Tax from Amazon. But, no download link. I had to contact support and get the link to Intuit to download the software. I downloaded and started my taxes. Several forms are not ready which is generally normal for Turbo Tax. These forms will not be fully ready until about the first week in January. A lot of that delay is due to congress not fully finalizing the tax information. That fact that some of us like to plan before the year ends, is lost on those cretins.
What I did notice that is different this year is an additional $6K per person for anyone born before January 2, 1961. That is all calculated on Schedule 1-A (a new form), part V, Enhanced Deduction for Seniors. That deduction, along with itemizing (lots of medical and donations), actually puts my taxable income below the poverty level for two adults.
Taxes, even for a simple person such as myself, are entirely too complicated. Were it not for Turbo Tax I would be paying someone to do the taxes. The risk of mistakes doing the forms manually is just too great.
Today being Veteran’s Day, I have been scarfing up all the freebies I can get. Breakfast at IHOP, extra breakfast (saved for later) at Wendy’s, doughnut at Dunkin’, car wash at Pure Magic, Chicken Salad Chick for lunch, Freddies for a meal card good until December 31. This evening dinner at Applebee’s and maybe another doughnut.
I’d do that, except (a) it didn’t occur to me, and more importantly (b) it would require leaving my property and interacting with people. Ew. It was bad enough that my wife talked to me twice so far today.
Sweet.
I added up the interest payments from t-bills a couple of months ago. Almost three grand.
That’s all I have, SS and 401k, t-bill interest plus a little more from Savings, and a whatever form from Amazon for the stuff I get from the Vine program. They don’t tax all of SS, I think.
Maybe I can qualify for food stamps? I don’t want them, I don’t need them, but I’ll look just for the grins. Maybe I can get my nails did.
I use OLT for taxes. http://www.olt.com/ Free. I found it on the IRS website a few years ago.
The knee is almost normal which is rather nice when using stairs and oh, walking. My left eye was puffy this morning and felt like it was full of goo. Eyeballs look normal. The swelling mostly went away a couple of hours after I got up. Still squinty.
My shoulders are dang, sore. Like from toting sacks of concrete mix and driving t-posts sore.
Heck of a fall.
Base commandants generally frown on destruction of their paved base roads tho. NG, maybe?
Nope, there are not any Guard Marine units that I know of. There are Marine reserve units though that meet up once a month to shoot machine guns and throw grenades. And take occasional eight month trips to foreign shores.
I just figured that you have an 18 year old driving the tank, anything can happen. It was not the first time, all of the asphalt roads on the base were “choppy”.
“Top 6 features in Windows 11’s November 11, 2025, update — AI, Start menu, and more”
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/top-7-features-coming-on-windows-11-with-the-november-2025-update
“On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, Microsoft is scheduled to begin the rollout of a new Patch Tuesday update for the eleventh month of the year for Windows 11, which introduces various significant features, several improvements, and bug fixes.”
“In this update, the company is making available the Start menu layout that uses a new unified interface. In addition, this release brings the new Administrator Protection security feature and the option to show the battery percentage next to the new battery icon.”
“Also, there’s an updated version of File Explorer with a new “Recommended” section that replaces “Quick Access.” Voice Access gets a new fluid dictation feature, and Click to Do for Copilot+ PCs is gaining a slew of improvements.”
Hopefully the AI is local and not handing your private info back to Microsoft India.
“Calif: Antifa and other leftist agitators storm TPUSA event at UC Berkeley”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/calif-antifa-and-other-leftist-agitators-storm-tpusa-event-at-uc-berkeley/
“A sold-out Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, erupted into chaos as hundreds of leftist protesters gathered outside the venue, throwing punches and clashing with police and attendees in a scene that left several people bloodied and at least four arrested.”
“Regarding the arrests, according to the outlet The Berkeley Scanner, “four remained in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with bail ranging from $10,000 to $20,000, according to booking records.” However, other local outlets in the area have also reported that around seven people were arrested.”
“The Monday night event — part of a campus tour dedicated to the late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September — featured speakers like actor Rob Schneider and Christian author Frank Turek.”
If the various governments do not stop the violence, the students will stop it themselves.
I doubt that any of the Antifa were registered students at Berkeley.
My father interviewed at Berkeley in 1963 to be a Chemical Engineering Prof there. He got a real bad vibe back then and turned down their prof offer, we went to OU instead.
Last night’s movie was The Shack. It was in the batch of movies I bought from a lady on Facebook Marketplace a few months ago. Unopened. It looked interesting.
It’s got a bit of church stuff but that’s just part of the story like “living in Kansas” is for The Wizard of Oz .
Why is God a woman like in Dogma? I guess George Burns wasn’t available.
Decent movie. It’s a pretty movie, nice scenery. To the Keep stack to watch again. The sound mixing was a blur. I may as well have not had a center channel speaker.
https://www.amazon.com/Shack-DVD-Sam-Worthington/dp/B06ZY6F9GX?tag=ttgnet-20
The IRS don’t. It depends on how much is made from other sources such as earned income, interest and dividends. About half of my SS is taxed. I also have to deal with RMD. So far pulling from one account is enough. The older I get that may not be enough so I will have to scrape from other accounts.
The IRS will get their money. The old advice of putting money in tax deferred accounts and pay taxes later when income is less, is a bunch of worthless advice. I get stung just as much now as I would have paying tax on the money when it was earned. The ROTH IRA was not an option when I put most of my money aside. Converting my IRA’s to ROTH would suffer significant tax consequences. I less the pain by pulling untaxed money in smaller amounts.
But I get angry when I see myself paying thousands in taxes and that welfare queen with her unmarried “baby daddy” pays nothing and gets a refund that is twice I am getting. Yeh, I ran the numbers using a typical welfare queen. The leeches (did I get it correct Mr. ATOZ?) continue to suck from the government and give nothing.
Last night’s movie was The Shack. It was in the batch of movies I bought from a lady on Facebook Marketplace a few months ago. Unopened. It looked interesting.
It’s got a bit of church stuff but that’s just part of the story like “living in Kansas” is for The Wizard of Oz .
Why is God a woman like in Dogma? I guess George Burns wasn’t available.
Decent movie. It’s a pretty movie, nice scenery. To the Keep stack to watch again. The sound mixing was a blur. I may as well have not had a center channel speaker.
God is a woman in the book “The Shack”. The author did that to shock the reader on purpose. Glad you like the movie, it is incredibly faithful to the book.
https://www.amazon.com/Shack-Where-Tragedy-Confronts-Eternity/dp/0964729237?tag=ttgnet-20
The book changed my view of Christianity. For the better I think, made me not so legalistic.
“A strange signal has been detected from mysterious interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves closer to Earth”
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/11/a-strange-signal-has-been-detected-from-mysterious-interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-as-it-moves-closer-to-earth/
“Astronomers have picked up a radio signal from a mysterious interstellar visitor speeding through our Solar System.”
“Using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, researchers detected hydroxyl radicals (OH) around the object on October 24.”
“‘These molecules leave a distinct radio signature that telescopes like MeerKAT can pick up,’ explained Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who has been studying 3I/ATLAS since the summer.”
“Analysis of the molecules suggests the surface temperature of the mysterious object is around –45°F, and that it measures up to six miles in diameter.”
“‘This absorption signal constitutes the first radio detection of 3I/ATLAS,’ Professor Loeb added.”
The space aliens are trying to communicate with us. I wonder what they are saying ?
Ray and other vets: Outback Steakhouse: Active Military/Veteran’s Only Offer: Aussie 3-Course Meal
Kevin Smith wrote “Dogma” with Holly Hunter in mind to play God, hence the line referencing “The Piano” which makes less sense in the finished film.
@Ray Thompson
They’re not freebies Ray, you’re paid up.
Thanks to you and every veteran.
Beverages not included.
Bloomin Brands is all about the booze sales. Their peak was the mortgage bubble, when people buried lifestyle in HELOCs.
Demanding payments for patent infringement.
We’d like to talk to you about your extended warranty.
Yep. I hope the Redumblicans win the midterms and tRump works a total overhaul of the IReffinS. That would be lasting legislature. There are several Fair Tax proposals already worked out.
Getting more money back than what you owe/paid has to stop. Zero back is the bottom line. That is income redistribution: a commie principle. The Kommie Kids (Shot Girltm, Mamfukstiki, etc.) will use this as a “chicken in every pot” scheme to sell “socialism”.
Kill everyone.
Kill everyone.
Compared to some, I ain’t paid shirt(-r).
Any time I go to a VA clinic I am many times in the best condition of anyone in the waiting area. Generally scruffy, moving poorly, signs of substance abuse, not very literate with lots of swearing. Whether this is self inflicted or from the mental destruction from combat, maybe a combination of both, I don’t know. Most of them are Vietnam vets based on the inevitable cap.
Soldiers coming back from the sand pits are treated well today Those coming back from Vietnam were treated like monsters to be shunned . Walking through an airport, getting called a baby killer, being spit on, denied service in restaurants and shunned, was not a good feeling.
I feel quite lucky to have survived the Vietnam conflict with my mental and physical facilities intact. I saw some really bad stuff.
I often tell people I consider myself one of the luckiest Vets. Twenty years and I missed Grenada, Panama, Gulf I/II, Afghanistan, etc. Simply by being in the right unit at the right time. I am overjoyed SecWar Hegseth is de-pussyfying the Obola/plugs military. Letting fag/trannies serve as women almost destroyed our military by creepy Rainbow Alphabet people.
Kill, crush, destroy, and eat dead babies.
“Rare ‘Cannibal CME’ Set To Slam Earth, Raising Risk Of Ground-Level Radiation Surge, Threats To Critical Infrastructure”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/rare-cannibal-cme-set-slam-earth-raising-risk-ground-level-radiation-surge-threats-critical
“Three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the sun in recent days are expected to merge into a powerful “cannibal CME” and smash into the Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, triggering intense geomagnetic activity that could make the northern lights visible across much of the United States.”
“”As many as three CMEs are approaching Earth, including today’s fast-moving X5-class CME from sunspot 4274,” SpaceWeatherNews wrote in a report on its website.”
“The website that tracks solar flares continued, “There is a chance that the three CMEs will merge into a single ‘Cannibal CME,’ a potent type of storm cloud that could cause a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm when it arrives on Nov. 12.””
Ruh roh.
I missed all of the big shooting wars but was peripherally involved in the 1990 gulf war. And had my involvement in a couple other things.
Recently, my Army son asked something about my time on active service and I told him that I can’t talk about it for, let’s see, about another 40 years. “What? What on earth were you doing?” -shrug- Can’t talk about it. I did mention that IIRC it was classified for 75 years unless someone declassified it. There were probably non disclosure agreements, too, but I don’t remember – I had a stinkin mountain of papers to sign, everything from a will to acknowledgement that I’d adhere to local customs (which I hadn’t been briefed on). I do remember that a number of the forms were classified. That is, the acknowledgement that I’d read something was classified S. Good times, good times. Anyway, my son said that that fits with a few things I’ve said and a few things he’s seen in the course of his (highly classified) job. Say no more, say no more…
When I was involved in AlAnon, The Shack (book) was highly recommended by just about everyone.
I made it just a couple of chapters. Not my cup of tea.
What I got from it was foreshadowing to the point of beating a dead horse. Nothing that grabbed my attention or interest.
“A Day for Damnation (War Against the Chtorr, Book 2)” by David Gerrold
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553277650?tag=ttgnet-20
Book number two of a four book science fiction alien invasion series. I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Bantam Spectra Books in 1989 that I bought used on Amazon because new is not available. I also own a trade paperback copy published by Timescape Books in 1984 that I bought new. I own copies of the following two books and plan to reread them soon.
The book is dedicated to “for Anne McCaffrey, Gigi, Todd, an Alec, with love”. There is also a thank list for several people including Jerry Pournelle and Richard Fontana, I suspect alpha readers and discussion buddies.
This is very hard sci-fi. Do not pick up this book without having many hours available to you to finish it. Once started, the book sucks you in gradually so that you say, “just one more chapter”. When you finish the book at 5:50 am the next morning, you will be exhausted as if you had just run a 10K. This also applies to the three follow-on books.
I have read this book at least 5 times. Maybe 8. I lost count many years ago.
The first book starts off with a series of plagues that devastate the human population across the Earth. Then the weird plants start growing everywhere. Then the huge one meter to five meter long alien carnivorous worms show up and starting eating people, cows, horses, etc. The worms are very difficult to destroy without a combat rated flamethrower.
In the second book, Jim McCarthy is now a lieutenant in the Army Special Forces. And things are getting worse. McCarthy and Duke are drafted into an expedition into northern California to investigate secondary and tertiary worm homes but their assault helicopter crashes when the Chtorran airborn plants cause the jet engines to fail. Then things get interesting.
Gerrold has claimed many times over the years that there will be a fifth book and a sixth book and a seventh book. I will believe it when I see it. He stated once to us on his email list that book 5 is so insane that he just could not finish several chapters in the middle of the book. However, there is a taunting preview of book 5, “A Method for Madness”, at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060321170726/http://www.gerrold.com/chtorr-5/page.htm
I am hoping that if Gerrold does not finish the books then his son will publish the books when he passes on. Who knows ? Gerrold is very sensitive about people asking when he is going to publish the remaining books in the series.
My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)
Lynn
Nope. I claim that title for myself. 21 years in the Navy. I enlisted in 1968, chose an aviation specialty, and went to technical school; was selected for a DIFFERENT specialty and went to THAT school. I was finally assigned to a VP (fixed wing ASW patrol) squadron. Our P-3 Orion aircraft were clones of the Lockheed Electra airliner, and WAY too big to land on a carrier. (Although the Navy actually landed a C-130 on a carrier, and it worked.)
I applied for and was selected for an enlisted-to-officer program, went to the University of Kansas for 4 years, and was commissioned. Went BACK into VP squadrons. 21 years in the US Navy, and I only spent 3 nights on any ship. And NOW you’re going to tell me that my shipboard time doesn’t count, because it was the RMS Queen Mary which is WELDED to the pier in Long Beach, but I say a ship is a ship!
21 years. 6000 flight hours, including a lot of boring “staring at the ocean” time. Now I’m retired, and TriCare is WAY better than Obamacare.
I am the luckiest vet in the USA, and I thank you all for letting me defend you.
It is hard to believe I am now retired longer than I served. Gotta suck that milspec pension for every cent it has. That was the contract.
Loreena McKennitt’s “The Mummers Dance” showed up on my YT today, 4m11s.
Pretty sure they meant 1h 4m11s.
You Are Old, Father William
But don’t worry. You’re still a sweet Summer child.
Ditto. 21 years active duty, 35 years retired. 🙂
Wow, ordered 10 gallons of Kerosene from Walmart today, mid-morning, it just arrived!
$11/gal, about the same as last year.
Hmm. Only 8 gallons there.
OK, two gallons arriving later.
21 actice duty, 40 years retired. So I too have been retired for longer than I served. I didn’t expect that to happen.
Tricare is good but I want to hang the person that decided that hearing and vision care are not part of health care.
You Are Ancient, Father Ken.
You Are Archaic, Father Bob.
SteveF; Thank you, sir! And sometimes, I really feel that way.
Interesting. I am eligible for hearing (I got hearing aids through the VA). I get vision and dental through the VA. Why do I get it through the VA and not those on tricare?
I know Medicare does not think hearing, chewing, and seeing are necessary health items as none of those are covered through Medicare.
I was in the first cohort to be required to register for Selective Service when it was reinstated. Took the Navy tests. Faulklands War era. I asked the interviewer where you hid from incoming on a boat. (The UK ship had recently been sunk by a hand carried missile). He said “First of all, it’s a ship. Second of all, if they’re shooting at you, you die.” I stopped getting calls after that interview.
Then the “peace dividend” led to the great RIF, and ROTC or even walking into the office was no longer even a possibility. The wall fell, and there was even less desire to grow the Armed Forces. Grenada happened and a bunch of SEALS died. Ol Pineapple Face got a late night wakeup, but there wasn’t a lot of stuff going on.
By 2002/2003 I was working for a sometimes defense contractor. I built stuff for Camp Pendleton’s [stuff that needed to be redacted] and workroom. General Hagey told me it wasn’t too late, but at that point I was 5 or 10 years past max age of enlistment… I just had a baby face (also bad knees and bad eyes.)
After that I did what I could to support the GWOT by building command rooms, and various simulators, along with the occasional mystery project for some 3 letter agencies.
I was a child of the 80s and I slipped right thru the cracks. I did spend much of my later working life “military adjacent”…
I was fortunate to learn my trade from some great guys who had some crazy stories to tell, but they never did. Those guys are aging out now too.
Those of you who did serve have my admiration and gratitude.
n
Probably because of your disability for the hearing. Vision and dental vary based on disability. I think I’ll hit the nearest VA clinic and try to get an appointment for a vision checkup. They’ll probably tell me I make too much and the next appointment will be after I die. Maybe there is an ombudsman I can talk to at the clinic or hospital in the Vegas area.
RetardedsRetirees get Tricare For Life for free as a Medicare wrap-around, but it also doesn’t cover hearing, vision, or dental.Between my Social Security check and my militiary retirement check and with no disabilities I make too much to qualify for any VA benefits. I have a VA ID card somewhere but the few times I tried for vision or hearing benfits I was not qulaified for an appointment.
Ditto for me and MrsAtoz. We are in category “F,” which is where you get an appointment after you die.
The latest Kindle update (for new Paperwhites) borked deDRM using Calibre. You get the dreaded “kfx-zip” error, meaning deDRM failed. There is no update for the plugin, and there may never be one.
I just bought two books without checking/thinking from Amazon and got the error. Fortunately, the books were already on the high seas, so I acquired the epub version. And, the books are only a month or so old, so someone is actively sticking it to Amazon. They are probably uploading the books they buy on Kobo or any other service except Amazon.
I guess I’ll have use my Kobo account to buy books since they can still be deDRM’d with Calibre. I want to support authors I like, but if they are Amazon only, bye bye.
I’ve given away quite a few Kindles, mostly to preteen or teens whose parents wouldn’t let them get a phone or tablet. (Plus one which was intended to be a loan to my brother so he could read a handful of sci-fi books I’d bought, but which apparently transformed into a gift.) I’m down to three working Kindles, Gen 3 or Gen 4 as the others died or got broken (because I prefer buttons to touchscreens). I won’t buy another Kindle. I’ll get other book readers or a generic tablet (button-driven eInk by preference), stop buying from Amazon, and live a perfectly satisfactory life.
I should add, you can’t use the 2.x version of Kindle For PC (Windows 11) trick to download an azw version since Amazon made the app borked with the latest file format.
You will own nothing and like it.
Austin…
Texas city sparks fury by trying to divert millions from ambulances and firefighters to the homeless
Kill all the commies. Kill all of them.
You come at last to The Wisdom of Steve. Welcome, friend!
wow.
n
Best not to mess with chemists, coders, or real engineers.
MacGuyer was a pansy physicist
“Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025”
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/
“As of June 30, 2025, we had 332,915 drives under management. Of that total, there were 3,970 boot drives and 328,348 data drives. Let’s dig into our stats, then talk about the meaning of failure.”
“The failure rate has increased: The failure rate has changed, and by quite a bit. As a reminder, last quarter’s AFR was 1.36% compared with this quarter’s 1.55%. (Interestingly, the 2024 yearly AFR was 1.57%.)”
“That new drive energy: Say hello to the 24TB Toshiba MG11ACA24TE, joining the drive pool with 2,400 drives and 24,148 drive days. That means that we’ve hit the thresholds for the quarterly stats, but not the lifetime.”
“Toshiba MG08ACA16TEY (16TB) – Finally, our Toshiba model is the most interesting of all. It’s less than four years old (44.61 months), and has 5,145 drives in the pool. And, this quarter is clearly a change from its normal, decent, AFRs.”
“What that means for this drive is that it’s actually not a bad drive model; and, given the ways we and Toshiba have worked together on a fix, we should see failure rates normalizing in the near future. And, this also goes back to our conversation of defining a failure—in this case, while the drives “failed,” the failure wasn’t mechanical and was based on something that we’ll be able to fix without replacing the drives. In short, don’t sweat the spike and pay attention to the long arc of performance on this population. We expect to see those drives happy and spinning for years to come (and with better performance, too). ”
Wait, they had a software failure on some Toshiba hard drives that is being fixed by flashing the drive firmware ? Scary stuff that is.
In remembrance of friends and allies.
I was in the Armed Forces for just over 6 years. No deployments, not even overseas postings or TDY. Here I’m considered a veteran, and if there is a reason I have to disclose that in day to day business, I will often here the obligatory “Thank you for your service.” Makes me feel like a fraud, but saying anything about that makes the other person feel bad and it gets awkward. I don’t generally tell people anymore.
I read in the news Canada is trying to expand part of our Reserves (specifically the Supplemental Ready Reserve – The last to go before the press gangs start up) by 300,000. They intend to encourage public service employees to sign up for this, and provide a 1 week orientation on guns, trucks or drones to prepare them for military service. That’s one more small, or perhaps mid-sized, indicator that there is something serious coming. Our Liberal masters hate having to spend money on the military.
I had such a bad customer service experience with a Toshiba netbook computer that I’ll never buy another Toshiba product again in my life.
That was 10 years ago. My mother taught me how to hold a grudge.
My ex-brother-in-law, Big Papi, works for a company who designs and builds briefing rooms as well as security systems for DoD facilities.
Good Lord, maybe you know him. Again, Big Papi is the whitest white guy I know.
I’ve seen way too much of him lately with the wife’s nephew living in town.
My in-laws are trying once again to force the issue with regard to my ban on their presence at my holiday table with the occasional exception granted for Grandma.
It won’t be too long until similar headlines start appearing for AirBnB.
Someone is coaching active duty to get discharged with some kind of disability. All of them seem to come out with something these days.
Tricare is pretty bad.
>>Sonder, once valued at over $1 billion and hailed as a rival to Airbnb, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on Monday after Marriott International terminated its licensing deal — forcing the company to wind down operations immediately.
Sonder, hmm, never heard of them. Always thought of VRBO as Airbnb’s main competition
All of them seem to come out with something these days.
– from what I see in locals and online, anyone who is coming out since the start of the GWOT has some legit disability by any reasonable standard. Hearing loss, knee and joint problems, lung issues… Just ruck marching is damaging, and anyone carrying 85# across uneven terrain is going to be tweaked in a dozen bad ways.
One of the kids from our community pool is out of the Marines on a 100% after only a year or two. He went over a low wall in full kit during a training mission*, landed badly, and crunched up a bunch of stuff in his neck. I haven’t seen him in the last couple of years, or talked with his parents to see how he’s doing. He was looking at a bunch of invasive and scary surgery, but delayed for second opinions and options.
*training imported allies on US soil
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>>It won’t be too long until similar headlines start appearing for AirBnB.
Umm, Airbnb has revenue streams that they “choose” not to advertise…for example, poke around next time ‘a friend’ arranges for some paid for company…
It won’t be too long until similar headlines start appearing for AirBnB.
– all the amateur real estate speculators that bought property on credit and with leverage to be used as AirBNB, are already getting squeezed out of the pool.
By the time the seminars start, and the suburban housewives band together to ‘get in on it’ it’s time for everyone else to get out. Conveniently, those ladies provide the pros with a nice exit strategy.
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There are a lot of legitimate cases. Then again, there are a lot of illegitimate claims.
My wife sees both daily.
Wednesday. The sun is rising, and so should I.
I didn’t notice any Aurora from the CMEs, but I did sleep fitfully in the early part of the night. Maybe we humans have some residual sense of solar storms?
I did notice that my mobile phone was acting flaky and needed a reboot this morning, which is unusual.
Wishing you all a beautiful day, even SteveF and the chickens!
By the way, the hydroxyl ion radio message from the not-comet has been decoded. It says “42. Slartibartfast.”
I wish I believed that. The supposedly conservative CDU is still allied with the leftist SPD, and still makes noises about outlawing the AfD. Which makes exactly zero sense: how can you realistically outlaw a party that 30% of the population supports?
Remember the Islamic fellow who drove through a Christmas market last year? He is finally in court, and the defense (and media) are labelling it as a “right wing” attack, and trying to attach it to the AfD. Here’s an English language article about it – you really only need to reach the first bold-face line under the headline. Of course, they are also trying to downplay the obvious religious motivation. I mean, why else would a follower of Islam choose kill people at a Christian event?
They either have an issue on release or they will have one down the road. I’m sure it’s not connected to anything, but I have a list of friends who worked around aircraft, vehicle or ship maintenance who have since developed environmentally caused illnesses, radar and radio techs who developed cancer, and combat arms who developed either or both. Not to mention physical trauma or mental health issues. I think 10 percent would be a fair number for people who avoided all the available disabilities. The current generation is maybe wiser than mine was, and aren’t accepting that they should shoulder the weight of those problems without assistance.
The problem is: people develop cancer or whatever. Life is a lottery, and there isn’t always a root cause, but people naturally want someone or something to blame. Plus, of course, free medical treatment is a big motivation. No shade on Mr. Ray, but he has detailed his efforts to get higher and higher disability recognition.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take care of vets, but not every disability was caused by service. I have a cousin, retired marine pilot, with severe back problems that have been attributed 100% to his military service. IMHO, the real root cause? He did serious body-building for 10 years or so, including steroids. He literally got visibly shorter during that time. I’m sure being in the marines encouraged that behavior, but still, is it really 100% service related?
That seems to be the nutshell the problem lives in. How do you differentiate between service-related issues and life-related issues? There seems to be a pendulum effect regarding how that question is answered, depending on who’s in power.