Warm again, and moist. Hopefully not raining, although the grass needed the rain. It would be nice to get back to mild Fall days, after the warmth and humidity.
I didn’t get anything done yesterday. Nerves in my back were pinched and I couldn’t get them to release so I mostly just laid in bed. Usually some stretching and hip rotation and whatever is misaligned will get fixed, at least to baseline for me. Not happening yesterday though.
Today we’ll see if it’s improved any, and then I’ll beat myself up moving out of my storage unit! Cuz I’m so snart. Stuff needs doing, and I’m the only one to do it, so whatever it takes…
That’s kinda the story of my life. I should be used to it by now.
Stack if that’s all you can do.
nick
I hope your back has improved, Nick!
Have a good Sunday, all.
Clever marketing. I’m not the only one who remembers that this is the 40th anniversary year for “Real Genius”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gSuKaKcqM
The trailer ran in front of “Sisu: Road to Revenge” when we saw the film at Alamo the other night.
59 F and overcast here outside the outer ring, the Grand Parkway, outside Houston. The city that wants to be Chicongo with all of the murders Friday night at various parties. Seems a few people stuffed 20+ round mags in their Glocks and shot up the places while leaving.
After a few days of rain it looks like a great day coming after maybe a little morning fog. Tule fog the scourge of central Cali.
Catching up on various reading this morning hit a real ROFL.
https://thevillagehemorrhoid.blogspot.com/2025/11/you-may-be-entitled-to-compensation.html
Well, the baking of Mom’s cranberry bread turned out great. So now that I’m off low carb for the week, it’s off to making cookies today.
I stepped on the scale this morning and was up 5 pounds from yesterday. All water weight, of course. I’ll keep eating more carbs until Friday, then back to normal.
Monday will be pizza for dinner.
I also have a scone mix that I’ll probably make for Thanksgiving breakfast. My wife has found a source for clotted cream over here. Well, as close as we can get on this side of the pond. It will have to do.
Good thing I don’t make my living guessing the weather. It’s still only 68F and it’s 930. Sunny with a little breeze.
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My back is KILLING me today. Feels like muscle stuff as my alignment seems ok, and it’s a broader pain. I’m going to try a hot shower and some stretching as soon as my coffee is finished.
Other than the pain and nausea it looks like a beautiful day.
n
Thanksgiving Week, and Black Friday cometh.
Local farm and fleet opens 5AM, but their flyer is out and on-line sales open 8am Wed. Civilized.
Wham-o on sale with rebate about 30% off.
DeWalt’s 20V Atomic drill and impact driver combo is $20 off the sale price of $169. Comes with charger, two batteries and a soft case. I’m not a fan of throwing cordless tools into a bag. I may mod a hard case if it becomes annoying. Note that this choice is not a slam-dunk. DeWalt’s website sux, and basic information like model number is not up-front like it should be. DeWalt seems to have a habit of putting a clunker in any tool kit combo and making it difficult to determine the model numbers contained therein. In this case, the Model 809 impact driver has a 64 rating from tool guys, whereas their 850 is high80’s and close to the Milwaukee full-size. Since I’m buying these primarily on size and reduced wrist-load, I’m willing to make the compromise.
Note to all the tool manufacturer’s: flashlights just make you look stupid and greedy.
Cashews and almonds on the list, too.
WOW! That’s been off the list for awhile. 😀
Gasp! Not FLASHLIGHTS!
posted onSat in error:
Documents: Letitia James Lied To Bank, Insurer In Alleged Mortgage Fraud Scheme
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/21/documents-letitia-james-lied-to-bank-insurer-in-alleged-mortgage-fraud-scheme/
She also lied to the IRS, claiming investment property.
I’ve yet to see an analysis of how much money the false statements saved Ole’ Tish.
“Gasp! Not FLASHLIGHTS!”
Not in general.
I bought this set last year from Costco, on sale for about $25:
Duracell 1500 Lumen Work Lights, 3 Count
https://www.costco.com/p/-/duracell-1500-lumen-work-lights-3-pack/4000295187
Unfortunately, by the time I got around to using them and being impressed, they were out of stock everywhere.
Three lights, three included USB-C charging cords. Has a USB-C out port to act as a power bank. Rotating magnetic base with carabiner clip and 5 modes. I was doing some work in the basement, attached the magnetic base to a furnace duct, and had good light for more than an hour. Discovered a feature that I had not noticed before: Once you select the mode and leave it there for a few seconds, pressing the button turns it off with no need to cycle through to get to off.
Picked up some cheap 4xAA-powered 1000 lumen worklights a while back. Pack of 2 for $5. Base doubles as a handle. No magnets, but might be worth a retrofit. Bought five packs at the local home imp, and they are out of stock, too. (Learning curve still has positive slope, if shallow–better to buy when you see them and return them if they suck).
My reading of this was strictly in the context of multi-tool kits with interchangeable batteries. Usually, those lights are cheap and poorly designed.
FLASHLIGHTS qua FLASHLIGHTS, though, is another matter. Who doesn’t like FLASHLIGHTS?
You Devils are all gonna pay.
Whoa: Major Foreign Propagandists Utterly Exposed After X Glitch Reveals Account Locations
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/11/22/whoa-major-foreign-propagandists-utterly-exposed-after-x-glitch-reveals-user-locations-n2196457
Elon could put a stop to most of this shiite if X simply identified accounts as US or OUS. No need to give specific locations.
On a case-by-case basis a political account could be flagged as “non”–the Polish wag above could be “non-Gaza” for example.
The Slavers Call for Reparations
https://www.pacificresearch.org/the-slavers-call-for-reparations-we-go-on-metaphor-alert-again-as-au-and-eu-debate-history/
What is best in life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos
What is life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnHYjxvxZA&list=RDOtnHYjxvxZA&start_radio=1
Our high school drill team performed What Is Life at basketball halftime. Short skirts over knee high white leather boots kicking head high in the strobe lights. High school was not always tough.
This came on my feed next:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEbYtL_086o&list=RDOtnHYjxvxZA&index=2
“Hey, Cooter! That LeBron kid is down at the gym keepin’ the white kids from larnin’ to play basketball!”
“Well, heck, he can’t even dribble! But let’s go down to the crick and keep his brothers from larnin’ how to swim!”
https://hotair.com/larry-elder/2025/11/23/michelles-hair-raising-theory-white-folks-stop-blacks-from-learning-how-to-swim-n3809177
Back is feeling better with some movement and a little stretching. I think I’ll try hot shower next followed by a bunch of gentle stretching (almost wrote ‘gentile stretching’ which would have been accurate, if weird.)
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W is in the kitchen cleaning out cabinets and throwing away food. She wasn’t keeping track of how much or what- which breaks my long term storage data points, and my running total of breakage. I have explained to her that I want to know what is going bad, and when.
data point. Canned peach pie filling seems to have the same issue canned peaches have, ie. cans failing way sooner than other foods. Two cans failed after only 4 years. One swelled up and pinholed, one just mildly swollen. They were in the ‘cool dry and dark’ place.
Dry baking mixes do a lot better in the heavy plastic ‘retort’ pouches than in the thin plastic bags inside cardboard boxes. Even 10yo mix probably would be edible, but there was a sharpness to the smell that says it wouldn’t taste right. Processed seed oils in the mix… 5 year past BB had an ‘old’ flavor when I tasted the mix. More oils in the mix, and a slight color change away from white. Again, probably still edible, but not tasting ‘right’.
It’s gonna be months before I know were stuff is, and what isn’t there anymore.
n
A beautiful morning, clouds gone, snow on the higher elevations.
I did my shopping for Thanksgiving, picked up a 15 pound bag bird, some potatoes and some stuffing mix, a backup pie in case one isn’t brought, and the usual ingredients that go along with the meal, onions, celery, etc.
I’d say about $100 or so, not going crazy. Using the Albertson’s ad saved me about 50% there.
Crowds were forming but we were in and out reasonably quickly.
I did see two traffic lights and one four-way stop run.
-scoff- A 15-pound turkey is a chicken with pretensions.
I have a turkey in the freezer and one thawing. Plan to pick up another in the next couple days. Cheap protein.
Cheap protein.
– not that cheap. In the last dozen years, my HEBs haven’t ever discounted turkey after a holiday. They don’t over order, and they don’t have to dump it later.
It’s about the same price as chicken, maybe little cheaper.
n
I’ve gotten almost no billable work done in the past week, about 12 hours’ worth. Some of that is because I’ve had a number of chores and errands which needed to be done right then, such as putting the chicken run back where it’s supposed to go and rounding up the chickens. (Stupid weather.) Some is because of “issues” in the house, most of them directly or indirectly because of the mother-in-law. Most is because I’ve been averaging three-and-a-half hours’ sleep per day for a couple weeks (because of the mother-in-law and the aides making noise) and it’s catching up with me and I’m unable to figure out what I’m supposed to do for any but the simplest work tasks.
So the real question is, how did the Joos cause these problems?
For the past month, frozen Butterball turkey has been $0.97/lb at the Aldi I normally go to. The sign on the freezer said that some other brand as 0.79/lb but there wasn’t any the two times I went. I haven’t been in any other grocery store in several months but probably will tomorrow.
I don’t think I’ve seen any chicken, whole or parts, under about $1.19 in six months.
Did CA Park Official of Limit Firefighting Efforts to Contain Palisades Blaze to Protect Native Plants?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/22/did-ca-park-official-of-limit-firefighting-efforts-to-contain-palisades-blaze-to-protect-native-plants/
Lahaina and Pacific Palisades: Put the woke in position to block public safety and lose billions of dollars in property and kill people.
Next time we have a large forest fire how about having a green weinie roast?
The deliberate hindering of disaster relief is bad, but let’s not forget about a number of deaths from governors and state health departments deliberately putting sick people into nursing homes in 2020. So far as I know, there has not been a single arrest for those deaths.
It’s back on. If you look at the profile of any Twitter/X user, you can see the “Joined” date; click on or mouseover to see the “Account based in” (country or region) and the “Connected via ” location.
And I am LOVING seeing all the fakers and where they REALLY are.
ALDI’s private name brands are generally good quality.
Excess goes to the Central Texas Food Bank and similar organizations. Writeoff.
I worked a shift last year after Thanksgiving where we inspected/sorted big crates of sweet potatoes from HEB into five pound bags.
My current employer insists on a certain amount of volunteer time annually which is one of the checkboxes on our job review. The Food Bank is popular because they are well organized, the shifts move fast, and every shift handles something different.
What’s your relationship with your GP? Can you have an off-the-record conversation with him/her about the sleep issue without ending up with an automatic referral for a study on your chart?
You don’t want it to continue if you have cognitive issues.
how did the Joos cause these problems?
— well clearly they used the HAARP array to activate the chemtrails in your area to bring out the latent PSI talent in you, which disturbed you enough that it led to the psychic break that you are currently experiencing – ie your belief that there are causes for what people experience as “reality”.
As soon as your epigenetic potential fully activates, you should return to your normal baseline state of hypervigilence which you have been programmed to consider ‘soothing’.
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Seriously though, I’ve seen what happens when sleep deprivation psychosis hits and I recommend avoiding that, even if it means sleeping in the car or a hotel, or a tent in the back yard.
n
Those two paragraphs were impressively babblerific. Unfortunately, I can’t grade it any better than A- because you forget to mention manifesting, crystals, or synergy.
It’s getting kind of chilly to be sleeping outside without informed preparation. However, it’s previously been suggested that I sleep in my chicken coop. The coop is normally over 40F at night even when the air temp is around 20F, so that’s a lot more practicable. Kind of cramped for someone my size, but I’m sure I can deal with it.
“Iran Demands Climate Cash to Reduce CO2 Emissions”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/23/iran-demands-climate-cash-to-reduce-co2-emissions/
“Iran is currently facing ecological catastrophe caused by drought and misallocation of public resources. But apparently climate cash will fix the problem.”
Eat radioactive dirt and die.
A good day to be a Bears fan.
A great day to be a Cowboys fan.
And an even better day to be a Steelers and Eagles hater, savoring the thought of both teams having to drag their richards out of the dirt and take a long, cold ride home.
Iran can eat radioactive dirt and die. They tried to kill my friend in college, just because he was related to the Shah. They have continually attacked my business. They are not good people.
<b>scoff- A 15-pound turkey is a chicken with pretensions.</b>
Yes, sad. But there was a lot of turkey left over last year. Six people, everyone over 60… There is a backup turkey in case we get notice of additional guests.
That was me suggesting the chicken coop. tongue in cheek, mostly, but maybe a cot or bed in a warm garage or a rental rv in the driveway?
Any direct experience with fanny packs/cross-body bags as holsters?
I’m looking at this and this but it really looks uncomfortable at the neck.
I really should bite the bullet and switch to AIWB carry. But my pocket .380 is so comfortable. It’s just so limited in stopping power, capacity, sight radius.
I’ve got a friend who’s carrying a murse nowadays, which seems popular among hispanics, and I’m old enough not to much care how it looks. Moving my glasses and phone to a bag could be actually helpful. And I could carry an IFAK, or at least a CAT Tourniquet. I just finished my stop-the-bleed training and I’m homologated. I even have a certificate!
The alternative could be a normal IWB holster and a shoot-me-first vest, I suppose. If the weather is cool enough.
I have been working on some composite images of the senior football players for 2025. The coach requests the images to give to the players at the banquet. I charge $50.00 for each image. Not nearly enough based on the time I have to expend finding the images (they are mine), putting the images together with cropping, placement, selective erasing, etc. That cost also includes the printing of the 11×14 image (which I try to get a coupon for Walgreens to reduce my cost. I don’t do it to make money, but to support the football program.
https://www.raymondthompsonphotography.com/Seniors
There are currently three images. I have six more to create. I will do that over the Thanksgiving break for something to occupy my time. The copyright on the bottom will not appear on the final printing.
Dressing for CCW. Yep, that requires careful thought. I’ve tried many
ideas. My preference for a Commander sized 1911 and my skinny, smallish 130
lb frame definitely factor in. Also, a Leatherman and flashlight pouch get
priority as, really, they are much more likely for everyday access. So that goes on the RH belt. The gub, therefore, is in a paddle style OWB in crossdraw. I theorize that is somewhat surprising to an opponent, observer. I can draw LH if my RH is busy. I prefer restaurant booths with my left side towards the wall and a view of the door.
So, cool, cold weather is easy enough. Hoodie, overshirt, vest, whatever. I’m liking “Legendary Whitetail” shirt/jackets. Clever name for Chinesium. Summer, now, there’s the rub. Typically, I’ll dress in loud Hawaiian or other over the top pattern, tucked in shirt, denim vest and cargo jeans. Pockets! Fortunately, as a retired fart I can be “workman chic” rather than “office casual”.
For the hottest days, a reflective, light weight HiViz work safety vest and a less obnoxious shirt and a ball cap keep things covered. Not green! But suggestive that I’m going to work somewhere.
If I’m REALLY needing the item to be invisible, I’ll swap to a SIG 938, a nano sized 9mm 1911, and the LH CCW denim vest pocket.
I have and like to have around a 10-15 liter/pound sling bag or laptop suggestive shoulder bag. Not like SteveF’s 40 lb backpack, but full of goodies for the slings and arrows of everyday life. Most useful when traveling out of state as the airline’s “personal item” since the gub has to go in the “checked” bag. I have gotten out of the daily driver habit as, well, parking lot security is problematic.
I like my IWB 4 oclock holster. Just behind my strong side hip, it tucks into the hollow of my buttock. The holster I have keeps the grip of my M&P SW Shield 9mm tight to my body, with a forward cant. I carry one extra mag on the other side in a repurposed SOG Multitool sheath. I always wear an untucked collared shirt with a pocket as a ‘cover garment’. Sometimes it’s hawaian, usually it’s one of the fisherman brands.
Until my eyesight started getting better, a pair of cheater glasses in the pocket was a good excuse for the shirt, and I’ve been carrying long enough that everyone just knows that I always wear a shirt over my T shirt. The pattern usually hides any printing.
The size and shape fit my hand well and I’m accurate with it. FBI stats say that almost no one ever reloads during a fight, but it’s nice to have it after.
The one time I carried in my briefcase, I was paranoid about setting the bag down and losing control of the gub.
I think I’d feel the same about a fanny pack.
n
I’d say that manifesting works, at least for me, mainly because I’m out in the stream of stuff that is the world, and by focusing on something it’s easier to see it or recognize it when it passes by…
It absolutely is nothing but woowoo bollocks the way the white girls on instagram ‘practice’ it. Nothing comes to you sitting in lotus in your bedroom except sore hips and ass.
I’ve been doing it for years without even knowing it has a name.
n
It helps that my religious belief in synchronicity and serendipity dovetails with manifesting. When one is balanced and centered, one is able to move in any direction with equal ease…
Bedtime now tho…
n
Excess goes to the Central Texas Food Bank and similar organizations. Writeoff.
I worked a shift last year after Thanksgiving where we inspected/sorted big crates of sweet potatoes from HEB into five pound bags.
My current employer insists on a certain amount of volunteer time annually which is one of the checkboxes on our job review. The Food Bank is popular because they are well organized, the shifts move fast, and every shift handles something different.
Are you kidding me ? Highly paid staff has to go find a volunteer job to do ? Can you do this volunteer job on company time ?
What in the world in going on in corporate America ? Have the pansies in HR taken over everything ?
Any direct experience with fanny packs/cross-body bags as holsters?
I’m looking at this and this but it really looks uncomfortable at the neck.
I really should bite the bullet and switch to AIWB carry. But my pocket .380 is so comfortable. It’s just so limited in stopping power, capacity, sight radius.
I’ve got a friend who’s carrying a murse nowadays, which seems popular among hispanics, and I’m old enough not to much care how it looks. Moving my glasses and phone to a bag could be actually helpful. And I could carry an IFAK, or at least a CAT Tourniquet. I just finished my stop-the-bleed training and I’m homologated. I even have a certificate!
The alternative could be a normal IWB holster and a shoot-me-first vest, I suppose. If the weather is cool enough.
I just carry in my right pocket in a Sticky Holster. The gub butt pokes out of my pocket in shallow pockets so I buy for deep pockets. And the whole setup prints on my jeans. For my Ruger GP100 seven shot .357 I use “Sticky Holsters Concealment Holsters for Men and Women – LG-4 Large – Fits Large Revolvers, Kimber K6 3, and Similar up to 3″ Barrel – Suitable for Left and Right-Hand Draw; IWB or Pocket Carry”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D7NZPQ6?tag=ttgnet-20
For my S&W Airlite 360PD five shot .357 I use “Sticky Holsters Concealment Holster for Men and Women – MD-5 – Fits J-Frame, Kimber K6, Ruger LCR, and Similar Revolvers with up to 2.25″ Barrel – for Left and Right-Hand Draw; IWB and Pocket Carry”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MQC6MU?tag=ttgnet-20