Warm to start, but supposed to plummet. We’re supposed to get a freeze sometime soon. Probably not until tonight though. It was crazy humid yesterday. Dripping wet and dew everywhere. Warm too. Pretty gross all in all. A bit cooler would be nice, but dropping to freezing is not nice at all.
Had my non-prepping hobby Christmas party. It went well and a good time was had by all. W even got a pretty great gift. She stole a Klein multi driver from one of the other ladies. That lady has the best luck finding the real, good gifts, and the worst luck with people stealing them. I think she had her gift stolen 5 or 6 times. She did end up with a nice set of Husky brand screwdrivers, but the Klein was better.
Today I’ll sleep in a bit, then do house stuff. It would be nice to get the tree up, and decorated. And I have to take a look at replacing the headlights on my Ranger. They are awfully dim. I’ve got replacements here but haven’t taken the time. Now it’s time.
I’ll probably do some freeze prep too. The sprinkler backflow preventer needs to be drained. I usually forget and have to rebuild it. Maybe I’ll remember this time.
In any case, the usual stuff is waiting along with some new items on the list. It’s a great life if you don’t falter. So don’t falter.
Stack.
nick
Gaudete Sunday. Good morning and rejoice! Light the pink candle on the Advent Wreath.
Happy days!
So Nick’s non-prepping hobby is actually Kleptomaniacs Anonymous.
Too bad. I was sure it was playing the bodrhán.
Is this the real SteveF, or is he really the downvoter and he’s just messing with our heads?
It’s a Christmas mystery. Stay tuned…
(… and thanks for the support, Steve!)
Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx.
Martha Stewart.
And, per the Legend of Jeff, Mackenzie drove the Bronco …
Further back in the mists of time, Marjorie Merriwether Post who inherited her father’s cereal company but built it into General Foods.
It could be argued that Post also contributed to building EF Hutton, the brokerage bearing her husband’s name.
Everything the Kardashians have is based on the patriarch being OJ’s “bag man”, carrying the knife out of the house in the golf bag, right in front of the cops and media.
Oprah had an affair with Roger Ebert while still a local personality in Chicago, which led to her syndication deal as Donahue started to falter in the 80s.
People forget how big “Siskel & Ebert” were until Gene Siskel died.
The local Faux News company owned station in Tampa held the contract for “Siskel & Ebert” just to bury the program at 5 AM on Sunday morning in the late 90s. This was partially to protect Fox movies from the Disney-owned review show but also because Roger Ebert’s mother-in-law was a powerful black Dem machine politician in Chicago whom many believe was involved in the rigging of the vote count during the 1960 election.
I often dismiss Dutch Bros. here as “DEI driven” success, but undoubtedly some female billionaires will emerge from the woman-dominated TSG Partners private capital firm which drove the chain’s national expansion and IPO.
Dutch Bros. has a new female CEO from Starbucks along with a more hip HQ location in Tempe, Arizona as of this year.
Well, y’all can forget getting any money from me from the lottery, ever. Out of 60 numbers, 30 on each ticket, I matched exactly one number that was drawn.
“Orbital Data Centers Will “Bypass Earth-Based” Constraints”
https://thelibertydaily.com/orbital-data-centers-will-bypass-earth-based-constraints/
“Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud has released a white paper outlining a case for operating a constellation of artificial intelligence data centers in space as a practical solution to Earth’s looming power crunch, cooling woes, and permitting land constraints.”
I just do not understand where the billions of paying customers are going to come from.
AI continues to look like an answer in search of a problem to me.
Take heart, Ray. What you’re doing is saving up your luck to use it all at once. Next time for sure!
59 F, wind is blowing 20+ mph out of the north, and totally overcast. Gonna be a nice day. Suppose to be 32 F in the morning.
I forgot to service the house septic tank yesterday so I will do that today after church and late lunch at The Taste Of Texas with friends.
And still no winner. Showing $1.1B this am. Get out and buy some more because….
“Nvidia-backed”.
The 2026 Midterms arguably ride on that stock reestablishing support and returning to a growth trajectory.
Hey! Why are you excluding me? I might be worth 10 000, if I sold a few gubs.
Putting AI Computers in orbit will also be a gambit to remove them from the ambit of jurisdictions that want to regulate AI. A generation of AI-assisted lawyers will get rich litigating that particular issue.
The Lebanese pound currently trades at 89408 to one USD. That means that if you have $11200, you are a Lebanese billionaire. Congratulations, and try not to waste it all on hookers, blow, and private jets.
9 AM and the temperature is 25F with 17 – 20mph winds. Expected high today is 29F. North AL is way too cold for me. Too bad I can’t afford to live in Hawaii.
Lunch, then septic, you have the order correct.
The Lottery Loser’s Club is a very big club.
What’s the going price for a Lebanese hooker? Asking for a friend.
No s….
Never mind
Q: Why don’t meteorologists have pron collections?
A: They have wind chill*.
*an abstruse if not arcane mathemechanical calculation which is of vital interest to die-hard nudists above the 35th parallet but of no earthly interest to people who dress for the weather. See also “Too Stupid to Come in Out of the Rain”
Just over 20F with 15MPH winds at 0930. I needed to do some work outside with my bare hands because I needed to manipulate small things. Within ten minutes my hands were hurting. Considering the damage to my hands and spine, the fact that I could feel my hands at all is most likely a Sign.
Jews murdered at Bondi Beach.
Atrocity.
Apparently stopped by a brave bystander who wrestled a weapon from one of the gunmen.
I intend to buy another set of 10 numbers. The odds of winning are astronomical for certain. The odds of winning are even worse, approaching infinity, if I don’t have a ticket.
Yep. I am a small time member. Total lifetime expenditure on the lottery is $100.00 over my lifetime. I have played the lottery exactly seven times. Two of those times was only $10.00, one set of five numbers, four of those times at $20.00, two sets of five numbers. I have seen people buy $200.00 in lottery tickets at a single purchase.
What annoys me are the people that buy groceries on food stamps, live in subsidized housing, utility assistance, then spend $100.00 on lottery tickets every week. They get the lottery tickets at the same time they buy their cigarettes. Really pisses me off.
I have no visions of really winning, anything. I did win $4.00, once. I had promised my son half of my earnings so I sent him $2.00.
In TN, supposedly the money goes to support education. Some money is spent on scholarships and the local school has had several scholarships awarded by the lottery proceeds. I don’t feel too bad and losing the money.
I have my doubts that all the money spent on the lottery in TN actually goes to scholarships. There are operational costs, overpaid staff, and probably some mismanaged money changing departments through questionable accounting tricks. Any government run program has corruption as an overhead cost.
High today is already been met, at 28F. Tonight we will get down to single digits. Fortunately for my area, and N AL, those types of lows do not last long. We are supposed to be back into the 50’s by mid week.
I took the new puppy outside this morning as part of the house training. Trying to get it in the dog’s head that doing her business outside is the way to go.
I fell on the concrete steps. I was not wearing long pants and scraped my leg badly on the edge of a step. A nice bloody rash about 3″ by 6″ on my right leg. I also managed to pull a groin muscle. The rash is now oozing a lot of fluid. This will be fun day.
We did not have a bandage big enough so we cut up a puppy pee pad and have that over the wound. Absorbent, and plastic outer coating to protect the clothes. Y’all can laugh, but it works.
You have it wrong. It involves that classic line from “Christmas Vacation”: “Shitt*r’s full”.
The scholarships are quickly becoming the ethical problem in multple states.
In Florida, 70% of the lottery proceeds fund “Bright Futures” scholarships at the state university system, which primarily benefit upper middle class families who could otherwise cashflow their kids degrees at the expense of those who play the lottery every week.
Bright Futures also has a minimum GPA requirement to keep the money flowing which encourages less challenging majors.
I’ve heard Ramsey rant about Tennessee’s lottery-funded scholarship program and how it is similar to Florida’s with regards to the ethics, but I’m not familiar with the percentages dedicated to the scholarships.
Probably more than for a hetero one…
New Study Suggests Racoons are Showing First Signs of Domestication
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/12/13/new-study-suggests-racoons-are-showing-first-signs-of-domestication-n3809858
see also Sarah Hoyt’s photographic proof.
@SteveF
Depending on the task, modify a cheap pair of gloves by cutting off some fingers. Just be sure your fingers are not in the gloves at the time.
Sydney…
What odds that Akram is from Bonnyrigg?
Mr Ray’s lottery is probably more certain.
Not laughing, sir. Take care.
What is the point of a racooon in the house other than a desire to fulfill some crazy Disney-fueled fantasy?
Racoons would just end up being bigger versions of hamsters, which are loners and retain a lot of their wildness despite being commonly sold in pet stores for decades.
You should. The wife and I both thought it was funny. The makeshift bandage, not the fall.
The less challenging majors are proportionately of less use to the body politic. We don’t need more social worker, polisci majors, or anything on the “east” side of campus.
But the biggest bang for the buck would be directing money into the trade schools. We need electricians, machinists, auto mechanics and other skills that do not require a 4-year degree.
Having cut a lot of firewood from downed trees in wooded areas populated by raccoons, checking trunks that are more or less horizontal for raccoon scat before firing the chainsaw is highly recommended. Giving them free range to human living quarters without killing and stuffing them first is not on my list at all.
I have several pairs of half-gloves. I didn’t think I’d need them because it’s not that cold out. And I’m stubborn enough to finish what I was doing rather than stop mid-way to get the gloves. And I didn’t realize that my hands hurt until I was done; I’d noticed the fingers stiffening up but just dealt with it.
try not to waste it all
– are you implying that the list of activities following the admonition are a WASTE??? Pishaw sir, pishaw.
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54F here and wife says the wind had been blowing like crazy. Not doing much at the moment.
Coffee is ready. I’m debating if I should make a waffle. I WANT a waffle. But maybe no one else does.
I could have some honeybaked ham with eggs…
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Lower back is kinda sore today from the standing all day yesterday. I need to do some stretching soon.
Japan had a national infatuation with raccoons. It didn’t end well.
n
I stocked puppy pee pads for first aid, like putting one under a limb to soak up fluid while cleaning an injury. But SOMEONE saw them and since we didn’t have a puppy, threw them out. Of course I didn’t know until I needed one and couldn’t find them. Then it was “what do you mean you had a use for them…”
n
I wouldn’t know anything about such things, Nick.
At a certain point, market forces will dictate what comes out of the universities, but “scholarships” like Bright Futures delay the day of reckoning.
Friends in Florida just sent their kid here to study a graduate degree in Music at UT after finding the market for the skills imparted by an undergraduate degree program at FSU lacking at home, with education spending limited by the Florida “Save Our Homes” exemption plan limiting tax revenue growth.
Texas public school funding places high priority on band and football, and the parents’ hope is that a UT Masters in Music will land a position teaching in a band program somewhere in this state.
Of course, the parents won’t move here and give up the kind of property tax homestead exemption which Texans can only dream about.
Hello Skynet! Just provide the nuclear launch codes and Bob’s your uncle.
Get well soon, Mr. Ray!
Oh, lunch in my neighborhood. That’s quite a haul for you.
OTOH, I’ve eaten there once. Expensive but worth it.
Lower extremity wounds, even minor ones, are not to be taken lightly once you are ‘of a certain age’… too much potential for bad things (TM) to happen.
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Decided on ham in scrambled eggs. W ate them like she’d never had a meal, so they must have been good. 🙂
n
I thought AUS was a gun free paradise?
Traumatised witnesses reveal how CIVILIANS had to step in for ‘underprepared’ POLICE during Bondi Beach terror attack that left TWELVE dead – as timeline of massacre emerges
The video is enraging. A single person with a handgun anywhere nearby could have ended the shooting and saved lives.
n
The equivalent in Austin would be Steiner Ranch. The menu is similar as are the prices.
Last night’s dinner was at the new Round Table Pizza in Round Rock.
The crew needs more practice with the oven in Round Rock. The franchisee’s locations in New Braunfels and San Antonio have it figured out.
You know what we really need? We really need orbital power satellites. Maybe a dozen gigawatt beams. We should put them under the control of the AI to ensure that the system is optimized by the second.
Either Australia’s gun-banning legislators, executives, and myrmidons are too stupid to understand history or statistics, and therefore should not be permitted to manage their own finances and other adult decisions, or they are deliberately setting Australia’s public to be massacred, and therefore should be executed for treason. It would be interesting to see which they identify as.
Christmas Rom-Com interim report:
Can recommend (Which means I was able to watch the whole thing):
Did not finish (About 10 minutes each):
Going to see a live stage version of White Christmas tonight, and I’ll continue to intermix Hallmark-ish stuff with classic (to me) Christmas movies like We’re No Angels, The Shop Around The Corner (based on a great Hungarian play), She Loves Me (Musical based on the same play), and Christmas In Connecticut.
Coincidentally, the same Hungarian play Is the basis for Judy Garland’s In The Good Old Summertime and Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan’s You’ve Got Mail.
Eventually we’ll watch some of the Christmas Carol movies. My favorite is George C. Scott, GF’s favorite is Patrick Stewart, but I have room for Michael Caine, Alistair Sim, and others.
Sex robots.
They just can’t sell it as being about sex robots because the build out will require ~ $6 Trillion of currency debasement for the benefit of a relative few.
All of Tony’s businesses socialize the costs and privatize the gains, but sex robots will have a really limited number of people who benefit while the costs are an order of magnitude beyond anything he’s done before.
The Jesus Truck was a relative bargain coming at the cost of the US auto industry.
I’ve noticed that. And have been poo-pood or called jealous when I point it out.
coming at the cost of the US auto industry
– naw, that’s giving them FAR too much credit. The auto industry was killed by sameness, globalization, and crazy amounts of regulation.
The sameness comes from hiring all your designers from one school, taught in one technique, and then passing the result thru the gauntlet of mandated features and compromises caused by the need to meet regulation (mpg targets and streamlining, forex.)
When styling is all similar, and features are all similar (because they are purchased from subcontractors), there isn’t any reason to stick with a brand or manufacturer. Financing, local dealers, and other factors become more important. And then the race to the bottom starts, and design starts to converge on one point.
Add the shift from producing cars, then selling them, to producing objects that are used to get buyers into financial obligations and making money thru manipulating money, and you have the current situation.
There are still exceptions. For a while.
n
My office neighbor just sent me a picture of my office where the feral pigs got me last night. They tore a half acre to shreds next to the front pond.
He also sent me a picture of coyote #20 that he has shot this year. He is using a suppressed .223 with a N-Vision Halo XRF thermal scope. $9,495.00 !! ! ! ! !
https://nvisionoptics.com/product/halo-xrf/
Today’s Tyler Durden cowardice protecting a mainstream source on what’s coming in higher education.
I’m surprised that the “low earnings” percentage is that small.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/education-dept-warn-applicants-aid-schools-low-earnings-grads
LawDog on the Sydney atrocity.
“Zone 2”
https://areaocho.com/zone-2/
“With this news, Salt Lake City is now a Zone 2 city- authorities have ceded some measure of lawful control to Antifa.”
https://areaocho.com/zones/
Whoa, some very serious concerns there. And way too many Texas cities are on that list.
The entire I-35 corridor in Texas belongs in Zone 3. The only real difference in Austin is that you will not get a fair jury in Travis County under any circumstances where it is still possible in more rural counties.
San Antonio within the city limits is Zone 5. This is with the full support of the local military base commands.
The Demings political machine is in charge of Orange County, FL. Jerry Demings filed to run for Governor of Florida next year, and all of Florida would quickly become Zone 2 if he won or a RINO similar to Jeb! took DeSantis place.
Clearwater, FL is the jurisdiction of that “church” which includes Tom Cruise as a prominent member. Pam Bondi is not openly a member, but she had their support running for FL Attorney General.
I would include the entire Columbia Gorge, from Portland to Pendleton in the “Zone 4” category. Maybe there aren’t fatalities yet, but, back in the day, the Rajneeshis quickly took control of The Dalles, and Google is dominant out there now.
Pam Bondi and then Governor now Florida Senior Senator Rick Scott (RINO-FL) gave you “Treyvon”.
Never forget or forgive.
34F at dawn, some high clouds, but probably 65F today.
Up at six, out the door at seven for shopping, home at 11:15, groceries put away by 11:25 and a sit down with third cup of coffee.
And that’s a long time on my feet without some ibuprofen for the back.
For some reason the sherriffs were out in the rural(ish) west valley this morning, one cruiser had someone pulled over on the way into town, and another had someone pulled over outside of town on the way home.
At a guess there was another horrible fatality this weekend because somebody didn’t stop at a four-way stop out here and they are making a (temporary) show of force.
I picked up a 3 x 5 piece of quarter inch thick plexi glass yesterday, used, and I’m going to play around with a carbide insert 60T saw (tooth wider than the main blade) and see if I can make some decent looking storm window/noise deadening inserts. I really haven’t messed with trying to cut the stuff since probably the 1970s and I remember it as being a real PITA.
The market force that is coming is declining enrollment due to lower birth rates. Explains a lot about how hot universities are for foreign students and illegals.
Cheaper to just import live ones from SE Asia.
Ten years from now I can just see the public service announcement: Don’t share your sex robots.
Add a few lines:
Projected student loan debt after 4 years:
Projected monthly payment:
Projected monthly gross income of average graduate of selected degree program:
Projected monthly net income after taxes and student loan payment:
https://hibid.com/lot/277594964/chicken-roosting-bars-with-2-swings–pine-wood-chi
@stevef, the little fluffy butts need Christmas presents too…
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@EdH, I’ve done a LOT of cutting of various sheet plastics. Razor sharp blade is key, after that, iirc ATB blades are very good for acrylics. NO anti-kickback features, and not an aggressive tooth angle of attack.
https://www.amazon.com/Diablo-Fine-Finish-Blade-Wood/dp/B00008WQ30?tag=ttgnet-20 is an example of what I remember working very well.
That said, almost any carbide blade can be used with varying cut quality. Slow feed rate so you aren’t jamming the teeth into the material, but fast enough to not melt and gum up. Don’t let the work vibrate against the fence or blade. Use a feather board if needed to hold the sheet (assuming a table saw.)
USE A FENCE. Totally critical that the cut is straight.
Various sources claim that arsenic gas is released, and it does smell like almonds, so a fan blowing across the cut and some ventilation is probably a good idea.
And finally, masking tape on the cut line can help with chipping.
n
BTW, resist the temptation to wipe the cut edge with a solvent to ‘smooth it out.’ Micro cracks will draw in the solvent and create real cracks. A quick sand with 60grit and a quick pass with a flame can be effective, or start at 120 grit and go up a couple more grits as desired.
@EdH
Compare the blade specs with this:
https://www.freudtools.com/products/LU94M010
IIRC, the negative hook angle is the most important.
ATB is probably sufficient for the thinner sheets.
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And what @nick said above, except:
Various sources claim that
arsenichydrogen cyanide gas is released, and it does smell like almonds, so a fan blowing across the cut and some ventilation is probablya goodan excellent idea.Sunday bedtime.
I’ve been listening to the Euradio Christmas Music day today, or at least as much of it as I could.
The selection has been excellent, lots of Christmas classic songs and carols to sing along with, but also plenty of Christmas-themed music I had not known before. Really interesting. It should be available on various public and internet radio broadcasters, including in the Americas. There is still time to catch the final hour or so…
My thoughts tonight are with the victims and the injured of the Islamic atrocity in Sydney, their family and friends. Sadly, not news of great joy and goodwill to all men…
Goodnight.
I bought curtains. They look nice. The two spare bedrooms are almost 2 degrees warmer. That’s extra nice.
Well, I shoved the old curtains in the washer and then the dryer. Just habit I guess. Today I went to fold the laundry and hey, wait, WHY? I have eight or ten sheer panels plus four each of light blue and light green lacy looking curtain panels.
I’ve had the sheers forever. Since 1978. The other curtains date from 1993 or ’94. From Wal-Mart, when most everything was Made in America, so, not expensive.
None are good to use as shop rags or mopping up dog pee. Maybe wrapping outside faucets. Why fold them? And stash them in the bedroom closet already stuffed with beach towels. extra bath towels, a few quilts older than me, and extra bedding?
Stuff the curtains in an empty dog food bag and say goodbye.
China joined the WTO in the mid 90s. That’s when a lot of textile and clothing factories closed in the US.
Levis last domestic plant closed sometime in the 2000s. Then the denim mills in Columbus, GA shut down and the machinery sent to Japan.
arsenichydrogen cyanide gas is released,– as JEP used to say, we don’t always need to be told, but I I do often need to be reminded.
Yep, brain fart. Arsenic was what the females did to become grieving widows, cyanide smells like almonds…
There are blades specifically made for acrylic sheets, but if you’ve already got a blade with high tooth count, none of the anti-kickback NON-teeth, and a reasonable [hook angle, thanks!] angle of attack to the teeth, and you watch your feed speed, you should be able to get good results.
If you get too much chipping reduce the height of the blade above the material. Note that this can increase the pressure needed to feed, increase the risk of kickback, and heat the material more.
As a last note, some people will use kerosene as a lubricant, but that applies more to edge routing than cutting with a circular blade.
n
Is anyone surprised that someone this f’d up mentally would chose to end her life?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15380443/The-hours-Mary-Magdalene-Surgery-addicted-social-media-star-left-shoes-plunging-death-ninth-floor-Thai-hotel-balcony.html
The pictures of her as a young lady show she was pretty, and very normal looking. But I think Dr Drew would suspect abuse because then this happened…
People in her life failed her.
n
Sadly, not news of great joy and goodwill to all men…
– some belief systems and cultures are incompatible with western civilization.
n
interesting that someone tracks and monetizes this.
n
Universities have been hot to enroll foreign students and get that internationsl tuition dollar for over a decade, especially engineering and CS departments.
Any mid-tier state school CS program with a non-thesis Masters is going to be a student visa diploma mill, filled with Colonists, most of whom show up the first semester with zero knowledge of any programming languages besides enough Java to do Spring and C#.
My Masters program taught the Colonists remedial C++ as they were teaching the undergrad intro courses using the same language.
I was told my one administration type, “Great computer scientists are not necessarily great programmers.”
Thanks everyone for the advice on cutting the plexiglass, in particular the cyanide comments noted!
The day got away from me and I’ll have to unbury the table saw, find a blade (pretty sure I know where they are) and make a bigger wing, but hopefully this week there will be enough time.
The European colonial powers of the 18th and 19th centuries had it right: people from low-trust societies must be ruled, not treated as equals. Small numbers can be brought into the high-trust societies but only as an underclass.
Tony had the carbon credit grift providing him with the R&D money not only at Tesla but SpaceX as well.
Stellantis in particular got in particularly hard with “gas guzzler” fines and payments to Tony as they tried to keep the Charger family saloons on the road with V8s and big V6 engines, even in the base model.
Now even V6 engines in family cars are no more.
Chrysler is down to a minivan and nothing else in their lineup.
carbon credit grift & “gas guzzler” fines and payments
– hence my comment about regulation. Without ridiculous CAFE and EPA ‘standards’, that wouldn’t have happened. Anyone was free to get in on the grift, some others tried, they just couldn’t make it work.
n
Management monitors badge swipes at my current employer. It is up to the individual manager as to how much the swipes or lack thereof count in an employee’s review.
When I worked for CGI, pre pandemic, the requirement for the company to receive the local tax breaks from Bell County and the City of Belton was that employees be on site to work every weekday with rare exceptions to work from home.
The CGI “Onshore Delivery Center” in Belton was only profitable due to the tax breaks from various levels of government.
And “onshore” was relative, the center designed to give certain client companies a warm and fuzzy that at least part of the process involved a US workforce.
The left protected Tony as a special case up until last year. Now they protect Rivian to the point that Biden signed $6 billion in loan guarantees on his way out the door in January so the company could complete their plant in Georgia with plenty of jerbs at opening regardless of how long the positions actually last.
My phone battery adventure….. I turned Data off. Without the various Google stuff doing whatever, I got almost 14 days from a full battery charge.
Pretty good. Google Play and etc Google stuff was using a third of the battery.
So what did I do?
Well, checking the phone battery stats at 10 days:
Usual battery life is 10 1/2 days max. From 100% to 5% charge.
From a full charge with Data turned off, after 10 days I have 52% battery remaining.
I’ve had three calls from unknown numbers. Did not answer. No voice mails. 12 txt messages. Two photos with flash.
Google Photos popped up to tell me I have pictures to back-up. Cool.
40% Phone idle. 5% Mobile network standby. 2% used by System. 1% used by apps.
Then, with 50% battery….
Missed 2 calls. 1 voice mail. Received a few more txts. Yabbered on the phone for a while. Phone says 2.5 hours of talking.
I’m happy. It seems I can turn Data off and I still have a usable phone for calls and txts. Google stuff complains but really, I don’t take a lot of pictures so Google can FO with the constant updates and BS.
I turned on wi-fi and stuff updated in a few minutes. Then I turned wi-fi off after Google Backup finished.
Your mileage will vary.
Try K9 Mail to manage your non-Gmail IMAP accounts on Android.
If I set the options on the program to only download mail when I am actively using the app and request an update, I get much better battery life from my Android phone.
I played with K9 and a couple of other progs for mail a few few years ago. Meh. The phone’s built in mail program is “good enough”.
Then again, I’m using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.24 on my PC. It’s a lot like Outlook98 but I still miss ctrl-d to delete a message. I don’t miss the pst file getting wonky with corruption. Even if T-Bird pukes, my saved mail is all in plain text files.
I don’t use GMail. I have an account because it seemed I needed one when I bought my Galaxy S2. But hey, can’t be paul at gmail.com. So I went with paul78611 at gmail. Name and zipcode. It works. I check it for mail about once a year.
I have my domain and website and e-mail. I don’t need or want GMail. paul at remsset dot com works.
>>The “Ford Crew” ads also make me wonder exactly what the company is actually trying to sell — the trucks or the girls in the tight sweaters and high tech insulated coats emblazoned with the Ford logo.
@Greg, you forgot the “/rhetorical” tag 😉
>> Lessee… Cash prize of a billion is about ½. Taxes take another ½ of that, so net in the neighborhood of a ¼ billion: $250 million. Yep, such problems to have.
>>I would be pleased if the government funded itself with lotteries and bake sales only.
Just “brownies” at the bake sale, right?
We did not have a bandage big enough so we cut up a puppy pee pad and have that over the wound. Absorbent, and plastic outer coating to protect the clothes. Y’all can laugh, but it works.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Be like everyone else and make a Youtube video !
>>I bought a Bosch 300 dishwasher from Home Depot and had them install it yesterday. They also carried off the old dishwasher. $1,400.
The scrap value of the old one should have gone up as well…
Did the absolute minimum today. Chilly willy out there. I did open the valves on the sprinkler backflow preventer. I stood up the decor that got blown over. I checked the weird noises in the kid’s car… which were the power steering pump and some underbody air dam being rubbed by the tire.
Ate yesterday’s leftovers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Didn’t work on my truck because it was cold and I was feeling sore. Wimp.
Oh well, I did get some reading done, and bid in some auctions.
And we got the tree set up. Not decorated yet, but in the room and the lights work.
D2 is baking an apple pie. She mis-read the recipe and put in 4 teaspoons of cinnamon instead of 1/4th TSP. Same with the nutmeg. 8 instead of 1/8th. The amount of nutmeg finally caught her attention and she figured out the mistake in time to get most of it out of the bowl, and wash the apples off. It’s still gonna be a HEAVILY seasoned pie.
Who knows? Might be great.
I’d like to have a tiny little fire tonight, but I think I won’t enjoy it if it’s too cold.
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Put up reflecting panels, surrounding as much of the fire and you as you can manage?
Hmm, you never know what you’ll find when you actually look.
Paywall but the link is enough
Ilhan Omar’s chilling ties to ‘The Butcher of Hargeisa’… and the buried secrets that prove she’s LIED to America
Ilhan Omar presents herself as a refugee from failed dictatorship. But historical records suggest she was a lot closer to tyrants who were massacring civilians than was previously known.
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“Murder Investigation Launched After Two Found Dead at Actor Rob Reiner’s Home”
https://thelibertydaily.com/is-rob-reiner-dead/
“According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, crews responded to a medical call at the home at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time. Upon arrival, first responders discovered a man and a woman deceased inside the residence. Early reports described the individuals as being approximately 78 and 68 years old, though authorities cautioned that details remain preliminary.”
“Heavy speculation online points to Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, being the victims as the ages released by LAPD, 78 and 68, match the ages of the married couple. Local reports indicate one of their sons was taken away from the house by police, though this is also unconfirmed.”
The DM is reporting Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in their home.
And the zerohedge headline says it was the son.
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I’m heading to bed. I’ve got stuff to do tomorrow.
n
I guess Captain Kirk must have had low sperm count, considering he was chasing aliens weekly, and only had one alien fall pregnant.
The music industry does generate female billionaires, like Rihanna and Taylor Swift. Barely billionaires, but still.
Or, where to hide kiddie corn out of anyone’s jurisdiction. Nobody’s going to do a no-knock warrant raid.
Stage production of White Christmas was not bad. Some rough moments to suspend disbelief and plot changes to adapt to a live performance, but it got better as it went along.
The Hobby Center has 30-06 (no firearms) posting, and metal detectors and bag screening. I feared as much and left my gun in the car. Def teh sux. Metal detector didn’t pick up my 4 inch folding knife, so my pea-shooter might have made it through.
Took forever to get out of the parking garage, but only about 20 minutes to get home once I got on the streets.
Parking was $20 in the garage. Valet would have been $35. On top of $130 for tickets, and I don’t know how anyone without senior discounts can do this.
First time I’ve been inside the 610 loop after dark in about a year.
Sadly, not news of great joy and goodwill to all men…
– some belief systems and cultures are incompatible with western civilization.
– some belief systems and cultures are incompatible with
westerncivilization.Fixed it for ya.
Monday. Dark. Awake when I should be sleeping-in; work habits spoiling my days off…
Ah well. I can read this site and one or two others, then get up and steal a march on making breakfast. Nick’s D2’s apple pie ingredient measuring mishap puts me in the mood for something with cinnamon and nutmeg. French toast, maybe… Hmm.
I could turn on the news, but I don’t want to start the day by hearing how many more poor people have died in Sydney.
Wishing you all a good Monday.