Hopefully, no rain, and maybe even some sun. We got some light misty drizzle yesterday, and it was mostly overcast with occasional sun. We need slow rain, but didn’t get it.
Didn’t do much at all yesterday. Slept in, a lot. Then piddlefarted around the house. Read. Dammit. Didn’t want to lose momentum but there it is.
I’ll try to do better today. It’s the start of Spring Break, so the kids are home all week. That’s once they GET home. Still have youngest on a trip until late today.
I’m going to try to combine trips and do a scrap or trash run when I go to check on my rent house. I think today will just be fact finding, and I’ll get all the gear and supplies I need to hit everything at once. Or to come back with a contractor if the garage door needs anything scary done to it. Stored energy demands respect.
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With the decrease in global stability and upset to the status quo, I’m expecting disruptions and attacks. Hoping for nothing serious, but it won’t hurt to have food in the freezer and on the shelves. Ideally, having the ability to shelter in place for a few days or weeks without going out would be a good thing.
Dirty bomb in a shipping container, or VBIED attack on crowds or buildings seem to be the most likely major attacks; with self radicalized lone wolf attacks to increase.
Or they could be stealing as much money as possible and fleeing as the regime has other things occupying their time.
Prediction is hard. Better to be prepared for a broad spectrum of things.
Stack.
nick
What happens if Trump declares a national security emergency and pulls funding from SNAP to keep DHS running And gives the states IOU’s?
Bad “optics” for Tesla management. I don’t know if this is on the national wires, but the story has been floating around Austin and made the lead slot on Sinclair CBS news here last night.
I was too busy working to see last night’s local Faux News.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-6th-street-shooting-tesla-lawsuit-over-suspect
The response to the attack to the Gigafactory is pretty typical Austin.
Plus, nobody really knows what goes on inside that building since every employee signs an NDA.
My day started at 5 AM, but I’ve been working when I’m awake since 9 PM Thursday night.
It’s always something. Modern computers and software are so complex that sometimes we feel like savages worshiping cargo.
I was trying to play an online game with a friend this morning. I had been working online for a couple of hours, all no problem, but the game refused to connect to the server for more than a few seconds, then my computer would say it was off the network. Not just the game, but everything. I’ve played that game a lot with him, so it does work. Just not today – and taking the whole computer off the network was really weird.
Use Ethernet for the network connection for games if you can.
My kids burned out one of my spare WRT54GL routers playing games. 100 Mbps Ethernet. I put in a 1 GB switch to replace the router. We will see how that holds up.
I’ve got enterprise class switches in the attic. Full gigabit per channel fabric… and none of the household devices have ever pulled anywhere near a gig even during file transfers.
Our ATT fiber is supposed to be a gig, but usually is 750. Just now it was 850 down 400 up. That’s to a Houston server, so ‘last mile’ speed.
When I get the ubiquiti gateway set up and can see the traffic better, it’ll be interesting I’m sure.
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It’s a weird yellow outside, and overcast with some gusts. Didn’t note the temp.
Coffee is flowing, I’ll get some breakfast in me, then it’s time to see what my tenant has been up to .
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From my FEMA email, cadre availability… of 7 categories, how many do YOU think are a waste of money and resources? The real work is pretty far down the list of their concerns based on their staffing.
IM Cadre Availability 7 Cadres ≤ 25% Availability
Civil Rights: 24% (23/96);
Disability Integration: 19% (3/16);
External Affairs: 24%
(65/271);
Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation: 18% (117/644);
Field Leadership: 19% (22/117);
Hazard Mitigation: 20% (155/768);
Planning: 18% (62/345)
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I’d like to know what each of those has to do with Federal Emergency Management.
Put me in charge. I’d do a mandatory Saturday field test: Two hour shift on the sandbag auto-filler. Pass/Fail for 50% of your yearly evaluation.
You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie.
I’m having serious doubts about Vox Day’s mental stability.
Anti-Boomerism is one thing. I assumed it’s because he blamed his dad for giving him bad advice and then going to jail.
Snide condescension towards all males who were not handsome, reckless Division 1 athletes is another.
But his hatred for America, and instant belief in any anti-American propaganda, his constant writing on Russian and Chinese superiority in technology and culture, have gone way beyond any case of TDS I’ve ever seen. All the more glaring since he sometimes pretends to like Trump.
“You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie.”
Exam Question 2:
You’ve been fast-roped into the backwoods after receiving reports of armed looters. Upon landing your team discovers that you grabbed the wrong rucks, and the M16’s you thought you had are unsharpened fire axes. Fortunately you do have sharpening stones, and you have ten minutes to get edges on your only weapons and make a couple practice throws. If you man up the team will drop Plan B, which is tie you up for the bad guys with a note that says your family is a bunch of rich liberals.
10 points
Extra Credit:
Rambo brought his Buck 110. What are your instructions?
10 points
My Warsun T7 FLASHLIGHT is dead, in a strange way.
I can put it on a charger, and it charges. It turns on and works. I turn it off after a short time, and it won’t turn on again until I put it on the charger again.
I bought it in September. Amazon returns expire after 30 days. Amazon says to contact the seller.
Google-ish searches came up with links showing a 3 year warranty, but the warsun.com website doesn’t seem to exist any more. I get search results, but no working links.
I like the form factor a lot. It’s nice to have the side light, and the strobe. It’s not perfect, the light isn’t really that bright nor focused. It replaced my pen-shaped, well, penlight which wears holes in my pockets and jeans.
I don’t have any problem with going back to my penlight, but I’d like this new one to work.
Added: Brave search gave me bad links. I used Google, and it gave me the same results, but links that worked. Working on warranty issue now.
>>I just suddenly realized that I have not had a blood test with A1C, choresterol, and PSA in 18 months. I am overdue.
Don’t forget the…umm…in-office part of the prostate exam.
Just a friendly reminder :O
My dot Indian female GP doctor does not do the prostate exam. I have to go to a urologist for that.
Ugh, looked at the forecast for here.
Up to 80F by Wednesday, 90F on Sunday.
Outside mowing the back 40 this morning.
“Pentagon identifies seventh soldier killed since commencement of Operation Epic Fury”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pentagon-identifies-seventh-soldier-killed-since-commencement-of-operation-epic-fury/
Well, crap.
And we have lost four F-15s now. Kuwait shot down three accidentally thinking that they were Iranian SCUDs and Qatar ??? has done the same.
Maybe the Air Force has decided to get rid of their F-15s the hard way.
With the decrease in global stability and upset to the status quo, I’m expecting disruptions and attacks. Hoping for nothing serious, but it won’t hurt to have food in the freezer and on the shelves. Ideally, having the ability to shelter in place for a few days or weeks without going out would be a good thing.
I have about 400 to 500 cans of food stacked in the pantry. That will get us by for a while before hitting the freeze dried stuff. The wife is freaked out. I told her that we can buy them today but there may be rationing by the end of the year.
Dirty bomb in a shipping container, or VBIED attack on crowds or buildings seem to be the most likely major attacks; with self radicalized lone wolf attacks to increase.
Apparently most of the Iranian terror squads in the USA have deradicalized and joined our hedonistic society. None of them have done anything to date that I know of. Or the FBI and CIA did their jobs and took them out quietly.
My kids burned out one of my spare WRT54GL routers playing games. 100 Mbps Ethernet. I put in a 1 GB switch to replace the router. We will see how that holds up.
At the end of the day, the fanless equipment still needs a fan to keep cool on heavy duty days. Our software was known for melting the first 80387 chips that were fanless in 16 Mhz. I was telling customers to pull off the case side or top and direct a 12 inch fan on it.
My day started at 5 AM, but I’ve been working when I’m awake since 9 PM Thursday night.
Are you getting comp time for the self induced bugs by your teammates ?
Hahaha! Lynn make funny.
My Warsun T7 FLASHLIGHT is dead, in a strange way.
I can put it on a charger, and it charges. It turns on and works. I turn it off after a short time, and it won’t turn on again until I put it on the charger again.
I bought it in September. Amazon returns expire after 30 days. Amazon says to contact the seller.
Google-ish searches came up with links showing a 3 year warranty, but the warsun.com website doesn’t seem to exist any more. I get search results, but no working links.
I like the form factor a lot. It’s nice to have the side light, and the strobe. It’s not perfect, the light isn’t really that bright nor focused. It replaced my pen-shaped, well, penlight which wears holes in my pockets and jeans.
I don’t have any problem with going back to my penlight, but I’d like this new one to work.
Added: Brave search gave me bad links. I used Google, and it gave me the same results, but links that worked. Working on warranty issue now.
Anything electronic made in China is highly suspect for a long life. It might work out of the box but I doubt that any warranty action will be made.
She may not know how to do the exam.
You might already live the future of General Practice. Your MBBS will see you now.
“ABC’s Unscientific Attack on Trump and CO2”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/08/abcs-unscientific-attack-on-trump-and-co2/
“ABC News repeatedly botched the science of a major regulation “to fight climate change” while falsely accusing President Trump of “rejecting” and “wiping out” “science.””
“Per the academic book “Carbon Dioxide Capture for Storage in Deep Geologic Formations,” CO2 is “generally regarded as a safe and non-toxic, inert gas. It is an essential part of the fundamental biological processes of all living things. It does not cause cancer, affect development or suppress the immune system in humans.””
“Natural processes emit about 770 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, while human activities emit about 41 billion.”
And both of those CO2 annual production numbers are highly suspect just due to volcanoes and other such items not controlled by anyone or anything.
Anything the media does is highly suspect since they made a car blow up by putting a lit road flare in a gas tank and claimed that it self ignited.
The answer is no.