Thur. Apr. 9, 2026 – I look at Iran and I see dead people…

By on April 9th, 2026 in culture, decline and fall, march to war

Cool, crisp. Warming later, and getting humid later, but still gorgeous. Like yesterday. I broke a sweat standing in the sun, but the breeze was cool. Drove around all day with the windows down.

Got a small nap in the morning, then did auction stuff before heading out. Wife had me on a mission to get free stuff from the neighborhood group. Aeron chair, genuine Herman Miller, free. Yes please. She will use it at the BOL for her desk chair. Did a pickup. Sold some scrap. Dropped off some trash. Met with my auctioneer. I need to find a new auctioneer. Home to feed some extra kids and crash from the carbs. Oh so exciting!

Today I’ve got pickups I can do, and office stuff that has to be done. Mileage. Invoicing. Insurance stuff. More indoor stuff while I just want to be outdoors in the nice weather. It was like San Diego yesterday.

I miss San Diego weather. And the food. But most of my friends have moved on too, and Texas is growth while Cali is decline. The world turns.

No regrets. Stack.

nick

4 Comments and discussion on "Thur. Apr. 9, 2026 – I look at Iran and I see dead people…"

  1. Denis says:

    Thursday. Good morning!

    The weather looks like giving us another beautiful day, the penultimate workday of my Easter week off, so today I need to get up and get some stuff done, including getting myself a haircut, if possible. 

    I have gardening to do, shelves to hang, a garage that needs tidying out, a wardrobe ditto, plus W1 wants to go for a bicycle ride. Not sure how I will fit all that into the time available, but I will have to try…

    Have a lovely day!

    PS. SteveF, do please try to stay out of captivity. I don’t have many openings in my schedule for rescue missions, but needs must…

  2. Greg Norton says:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/raising-child-now-costs-about-303000-study 

    – they keep using sloppy language conflating the size of the child with the age of the child.   I bet raising a LARGE child is even more expensive.   Big teen boys eat a LOT more than petite teen girls

    More like sloppy editing and writing with AI “assist”.

    Where have you gone Perry White?

    “There’s only one ‘p’ in rapist.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QNMMrAx-I

    Of course, large farm kids in flyover country can really pack away the groceries.

  3. Nick Flandrey says:

    63F and should be clearing later. 

    Poked the kids.  Left the wife sleeping in.  I don’t have a death wish…

    Snack is packed.  

    Morning.   Overrated.

    n

  4. Nick Flandrey says:

    WRT Iran, hasn’t it been a walk in the park?   Their entire leadership is dead.  We own the airspace.   They don’t have a navy.   They are attacking their neighbors instead of us for the most part.   

    People talk about how expensive it’s been.   The cheapest solution would have been one tactical nuke.   Is that what people want?

    It’s possible the extent of their buried fortifications was a surprise, and that is something that someone should have been keeping track of.  Secret lairs are secret after all, but moving millions of tons of rock should be visible from space.   Assuming there really are buried fortifications.

    At this point we can be sure they don’t have a working nuke or we’d have seen it…   see also, Israel still exists.

    In a few months, or a year, we might be able to calmly judge effectiveness.   I think it’s a little to early to declare defeat.

    n

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