Cold again, warming later. National forecast has it clear for the next day or two. But it will still be damp. It got chilly last night, and was cool all day in the shade. I wore a hat and sweatshirt to work outdoors.
That’s for what little work I did. I did take in the last two sets of Christmas decorations. And I wrapped up all the extension cords and light strings I had waiting around after taking them down days ago. I also put stuff back where it belongs after the tree guys moved it all out of the way. So not a lot of work outside, but some small things got done. I don’t really decorate for St Valentine’s Day, other than some cute gnomes and a couple of indoor things for the kids.
Today I’ll keep poking at the office and house stuff. I’m going to try to get a load from storage and a few bins from the house over to the shop. I need to do a couple of listings too. And I can do a pickup but will probably wait until Tuesday so I can combine trips. I bought a couple of small things for the kids.
My buying has slowed WAY down. It’s a combination of needing less (since I’ve bought so much) and that the auctions haven’t had a ton of good stuff lately. Even the sketchy auction that looks most like some sort of money laundry is listing cheap items, and listing them individually, when it used to have a lot of big and expensive items, and case lots. I don’t think anyone is dumb enough to pay $1 plus fees for a 68c can of cat food– especially when the MSRP is in the auction listing.
It’s looking a bit like when stores would put 20 identical items on the shelves to fill in the gaps where there should be other product that they just couldn’t get. Which our HEB was doing in a couple of departments last time I was there. Not a good sign if it wasn’t just a bad timing issue, btw.
I’m interested to hear if anyone else is noticing shortages or empty shelves.
On a personal note, doctor visits have eliminated a couple of concerns, and we might have found the root cause of something that was unpleasant for me and it’s trivial to fix. We’ll know for sure in another week, and when the labs confirm it, but I was accidentally taking a massive overdose of vitamin B12. That was causing some immediate symptoms, and some long term bad effects. IDK how it happened, I think I changed brands and the one I’ve been using for several years is about 10 times stronger than the one I was taking when I started (and when I’d decided on 6 tablets.) I never noticed or did the math over until just recently when I discovered the issue.
Meds, supplements, preps, and routines all need to be periodically reviewed. It’s easy to make a mistake or fall into a habit, or to have circumstances change; and what was a good thing can become a bad thing. Or you could just be spending time, money, and resources on something that is no longer beneficial.
Stack, but also review to make sure you are still doing what you need to do.
nick
Good morning!
Thanks for the reminder about the medication/supplements, Nick. Always good to review periodically.
I wasn’t feeling great recently – mostly just a bit lethargic. When I mentioned it to the cardiologist during my annual checkup, he took me off some blood pressure medication. As I had lost a fair bit of weight in the year gone by, it turned out I was over medicated. I count one maintenance drug fewer as a small win.
Have a good week, all!
The therapist said to write letters to all the people I hate, telling them why, then burn them.
Now that’s done, what should I do with all the letters?
45F this morning. Coffee is ready, egg sandwich is in the microwave. Some days it’s just easier to heat up the premade breakfast.
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one kid was up before me, the other is still hiding in her bed. Time to poke the dragon.
n
The end times, the end times!
Starlink for the win!
This guy drives past [what looks like he thinks is an ICE facility under construction] and notes if there are any new vehicles and records what companies are doing work there. I’m sure he isn’t the only one, or the only place.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dtw5cYmxlNE
n
I poked around at the genealogy site Oldguy linked.
They have a bunch of almost right, partly right, and contradictory info about my mom and grandmother. Nothing about me, but a couple of things about my dad. I’d say it’s a starting point but not definitive.
n
Added- after the starting point I just did a quick look at google and found several links to chase. Up two levels on maternal grandfather, and an obit for granddad. Trailer fire, not hotel. FD had been called to the residence two prior times, third time was the charm. The article blames a “faulty oil heater” but also notes that the propane tanks were fine.
The article also says they were trying to find out if he had family. Looks like a drifter doing occasional farm hand work.
n
https://www.findagrave.com
has a ton of relationships and other info
Just a reminder, if one was needed, that you shouldn’t trust anything you find on the internet, or in books, unless you can verify it, and maybe not even then.
But I imagine the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect will strike again.
Was a Sonic Super-Weapon Used during Historic Raid to Capture Maduro?
Too bad the rest of the story isn’t:
And then things started turning black and falling off.
Walz, Frey, and the rest of the Minnesota Dems: “Protest! Resist!”
Trump: “Send another 1000 agents.”
Noem: “Send another 1000 agents”
10,000 Soros-funded protestors fly to Minneapolis.
Minneapolis torched by mob.
Frey, Walz, et al : “Resist! Protest!”
Trump: “Deploy sonic weapons. Turn them up a notch.”
Wow, there is a ton of stuff available now that wasn’t available last time I looked at any genealogy online.
I was able to follow mom’s paternal line all the way to her original ancestor’s arrival in 1663. Mom’s indignant response to me one time “Don’t call us hillbilly, we’re DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) makes sense. That must have been in the family lore the whole time. Which is funny as mom could only go up 2 generations, and she had the name wrong at that.
Slavery and tobacco growers in the past… but started as an indentured servant.
n
you shouldn’t trust anything you find on the internet, or in books, unless you can verify it, and maybe not even then.
– the funny thing is, if you allow for spelling variations, the older sources are more definitive than modern contemporary sources. Census, church, and tax records were official and carried weight. Phone records and credit report addresses not so much.
n
Sounds a lot like whatever the Russians have allegedly been using on other countries’ embassies for years, and also whatever the Serbs used against their own demonstrating public last year.
Official =/= accurate
… as demonstrated by DNA analysis of skeletons and alleged descendants or between man and alleged great-grandnephew. The analyses don’t tell you where the genealogical break took place, only that it did and that someone –cough– cheating wife –cough– lied to the person creating the records.
It does happen. I believe I read recently that DNA extracted from his remains after exhumation showed that Richard III wasn’t the son of his supposed father, Richard of York.
I read fairly recently that long-term analysis of parental height to children’s height indicate that about 15% of children are NOT the children of the supposed father. DNA testing only goes back about 30 years, so before that, there wasn’t much that a “father” could prove about a cheating wife.
I have doubts about my younger brother sharing the same father with myself and my older brother. I don’t see much, if any, resemblance between us. My mother, after the divorce, was, ahem, quite the wanderer. It was not a sudden change in lifestyle by my reckoning. My father was definitely known for his adventures and that is what spawned the divorce. It also led to his termination from the sheriff’s office when video surfaced of my father and two other deputies being granted favors by a female prisoner.
Written 500 years ago with full double-entendre intended. Now apply to all genealogy records.
Based on my personal experience, and the 86,000 members of survivinginfidelity.com, I’d say the 15% number was about right. 15% births implies about 30% cheating women.
Optimist
This link is to X.com.
But here’s the full text from Brian Ward, @GodsRiddles
My case was denied cert at the USSC. In essence, the court held that it’s ok to force employees and patients to take experimental drugs, or deny them basic rights like transplants, long term care, and employment for refusing them..
Enjoy your chains, America. We fought a good (and expensive) fight.
Well, I figure ⅓ won’t cheat, ⅓ can’t (no access, too fugly, too dominated and monitored by the men in their lives), and then there’s the other ⅓.
– haha
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15455641/African-country-sees-snow-time-25-years.html
NIMBY. Yep, me too. No one wants this shite.
Wealthy Santa Monica residents outraged after ‘sober living facility’ quietly moves FIFTY strangers into neighborhood building
The night before Thanksgiving, strangers unloaded from vans into the vacant building on Ocean Avenue for what locals would soon learn to be an unpermitted sober living facility.
n
Well. I can’t find the bluray sata drives I put aside to upgrade my pc, so I was just gonna pop online and order one.
NONE at microcenter. No optical drives at all according to the website.
Amazon – some lappy drives for ~$100, internal sata full size ~$220.
$220!
I think I’ll look a bit more before spending more than my kid’s lappy cost.
n
Get a USB Bluray drive that can be plugged in when needed?
Yeah, I’m checking on the stack of external drives to see if any are bluray.
n
Minneapolis has been planning its insurrection for a long time
On of the signs of a coming civil war/ insurrection/ revolution is that the opposition builds a parallel governing structure.
On the right side of the blogosphere, we’ve traditionally thought in terms of US doing that as we see ourselves as the side that isn’t in power. Trump’s election changed that.
The left is implementing the things they need to fight the G, even though they’ve BEEN the G for most of recent history.
They’ve been training the trainers and developing their cells and lines of funding and communication for a couple of years now.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone here.
n
Are those Ultra HD BluRay drives?
Sony licenses the drives and media but also owns a studio as well as Alamo Drafthouse so a big price increase wouldn’t surprise me.
I paid $40 for a LG drive pre tariffs.
The wife’s back surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. We need to be at the hospital at 06:00, which means getting up at 04:30 as she needs to shower with antibacterial soap, and fix her hair.
The surgeon is putting in two or three spacers and fusing some bones together to stop the pinching of some nerves.
A delivery person stopped by today to deliver a back brace that we must bring with us to the hospital. Also included is some type of battery powered electrical device with two electrodes that are to be placed on the back and used as many hours as possible, including while sleeping. She will have to use that device for six months. It is supposed to stimulate bone growth. Day surgery, we should be home 16:00.
I will quickly max out my Medicare and Supplemental insurance copays and deductibles. I fully expect the surgery to billed at about $30K, probably $15K for the surgeon, and $15K for the hospital. What the final payment is I have no idea. My maximum is about $1K including deductibles.
And I’m currently enjoying above-freezing temperatures in January. Chinook is a real thing, but this is the first time I’ve experienced one this far north. When I lived about 600 km further south it was a normal part of winter, but it’s unexpected here.
“What you expect is climate, what you get is weather”.
Alberta, Canada: Line to Sign and Leave Starts Over Here
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/01/12/alberta-canada-line-to-sign-and-leave-starts-over-here-n3810759
Petition has been started to trade Minnesota for Alberta.
https://x.com/MPelletierCIO/status/2009835267109335191
With a lot of bloodshed and a lot of treasure and resources and weapons falling into the hands of our enemies.
ICE agents should spend the next week 24/7 driving though Minneapolis playing a recording of the horn music that Ms. Good (deceased) was playing last week. Blows some whistles to top it off.
“It’s our new policy. Consistent with local custom, we honk the horns to let people know we’re in the neighborhood.”
A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is ‘Ten Times Worse’ and Will Cause ‘World War III’
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/01/12/another-nick-shirley-video-is-ten-times-worse-and-will-cause-world-war-iii-n4948176
@Nick – I may have an internal DVD RW drive available.
I ordered the DVD RW by mistake, and when I contacted Newgg about an exchange, they just issued the refund and told me to dispose of the drive.
Of course, this was pre-tariff so things have definitely changed.
Weiner dog for the win!
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/2010474840440881485
Maybe this year I’ll get back to the wiener dog races…
Those floppy ears flapping as they run thru soft soil, dragging their breastbones to make the weirdest looking tracks, can’t get enough. Too bad there is horse racing in between.
n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKzkIlOe8mw
Scott Adams says he has only days left. Front page of the DM.
I hope he enjoyed his run. He seemed to for the most part.
n
@greg, thanks for the offer…
I’ve got several DVD writers including with lightburn, although I don’t anticipate writing anything or using lightburn. Iightburn was great for CDs in the car, as you don’t want to put stick on labels on them. Did our wedding music CDs that way once my uncle brought the issue to my attention.
I would like to have bluray to rip some stuff, but I can just keep ripping DVDs for now. If I have to pull the whole machine, it would have been nice to do the upgrade instead of just repair. I wore out the dvd drive that came with it.
n
Got my second data breach notice in a week. 3rd in the last month.
Latest is from my credit union. Prior was something medical, supposedly.
Since I was in the big OPM breach, all of which is on the dark web already, I’m not really sure what benefit it is to get the credit monitoring. But it’s free for a year, so why not enroll?
First world problems, but I bet killing a few 3rd world savages would actually end them.
Just sayin’.
“First world problems, but I bet killing a few 3rd world savages would actually end them.”
You have to find them first, and there’s always more.
Better if the CTO of the company wakes up naked in a blacksmith shop, scrotes on an anvil, forge at temperature, facing a wall of hammers and other tools.
Yeah, the cartels are having no problem in finding drivers for the cigarette boats for example – despite the previous dozen+ getting smoked.
I accidentally stepped in a pile of LinkedIn tonight. Now I need to clean my shoes.
It’s like BlueSky, but with an H1B based work/career focus.
Sites such as Ancestry.com are also a good place to store pictures and memories/written material. Free at the basic level.
Another place to do that is at the https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/ Family Search site, run by the LDS organization, but free to all (and no proselyting, I believe). That page allows you to search for anyone – it may be that there is already some information there on your family.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/united-states/ has my birth year wrong. Interesting.
I’m calling it a night.
Too much sitting around and not enough doing stuff today.
n
“Father of ‘Ancient Astronaut Theory’ Erich von Däniken Dies at 90”
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/erich-von-daniken-death-00102440
I remember my mother reading his “Chariot Of The Gods” book in 1968.