Maybe we’ll start to see some cold coming in… or maybe not. They pushed our forecast back a bit. School district cancelled sports and extracurricular events this weekend, so there won’t be any busloads of students trying to move around on Saturday night. It’s still reasonably warm during the day though. It was grey and misty all day yesterday, and I think today will probably be similar.
I did some stuff around the house in the morning, including working on finding a new meeting place for my non-prepping hobby. Community rooms are kinda pricey and most won’t book recurring events. I might have found something though.
In the afternoon I did a pickup, then took a load from the house to the shop. I really need to spend some time there, and get stuff sorted. With uncertainty over any rain it’s hard to move stuff in my pickup truck. Even yesterday with only threatening skies and heavy mist, stuff was wet by the time I got to the shop.
Today I’ll continue working the list. I’ve got a couple of pickups and I need to go by my secondary. I’ll pick up the natgas heater I have there and bring it home just in case things do get chilly this weekend.
Preps, I’ve got ’em. Stacks too.
Build some resilience and some choices. Stack.
nick
Friday. Finally. Good morning!
Busy bee this morning. I have the afternoon off, so I have to cram a day’s work into the morning, on top of catching up on all the stuff that came in while I had yesterday afternoon off. TPTB have no sympathy for the idea that when one is on leave, one should receive less work overall. Ah well.
I have something to which to look forward, at least. Tickets to hear Schubert’s “Great” symphony in C-Major and a cello concerto by a 20th-Century French composer, Henri Dutilleux. I know nothing about the cello work, but one of my grandmothers was a cellist, so perhaps it will speak to my genes. The promoters are clever, they always put the lesser-known work before the interval, so that people will attend the whole concert. If they put the modern stuff after the interval, people will leave during the break and not return. If anybody is curious, the concert is being livestreamed at https://www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de/videos at 20:00 German time, which I suppose is 14:00 EDT for the colonial types among you. The conductor is the famous Kent Nagano, whom I have not seen live before, so I’m looking forward to that.
No more time for chatting. There’s work to be knocked out before I can go play. Happy days!
Back in early December (or late November, not sure), my very-not-technical brother-in-law asked me to install Linux on their computer. I hope that no news is good news, because I didn’t hear anything from him until last week. Anyhow, we’re going to try some remote support today, because he says he has a few questions. I’ll be curious to see what the questions are…
We have a strange Superintendent situation here in Round Rock ISD.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-school-board-reinstates-scandal-ridden-superintendent
I think it comes down to who the bond ghouls support in those jobs.
Plus, no one wants to be rayyyyyysssist.
Round Rock ISD just successfully floated a $1 billion bond issue.
I wonder if Des Moines schools go for spending on as much nonsense as Texas ISDs.
Winters like this are not when I miss my 1969 T-Bird with the 390 and carburetor.
61F. MOIST.
Coffee is ready. Kids are not. They are moving though.
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– one of the signs of upcoming conflict. People/nations are taking sides, forming new alliances.
n
THEY MUST GO BACK
https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-wednesday-they-must-go-back
Dots. Connected.
Killed the same day. “Caretaker burnout.”
Because this always happens.
n
–literally Hilter .
n
Opposite of ‘grey man.’ American by birth only.
n
Can’t give an AF.
-6℉ (ambient) in my northern flyover state this morning. I still opted for shorts. 😎