Still hot and humid. National map has us in the clear for the next couple of days. Clear HOT sun. Summer. Just gotta survive it.
Did almost nothing yesterday. I was wiped out without enough sleep and a couple of fitful one hour naps doesn’t cut it. Plus, I worked hard enough to lose about 3 pounds. Gotta get that back.
Today I’ll do the other stuff I didn’t do yesterday, mainly a dump run and a pickup.
And I’ll work the list.
Stacks ain’t gonna stack themselves.
nick
Tuesday. Good morning!
It’s going to be hot here too. Sunscreen time.
My buddy is coming over later with his industrial brush cutter to help me with a corner of the garden that needs preparing for a lawn. We’ll cut down the wildflowers (W1: “weeds”), then weed-kill the sprouts that reappear, before adding loam, tilling and sowing grass in September.
Oh, and work!
Have a good day.
Would it be worthwhile to look for anything their senior people say and broadcast it to their customers? Probably most of them are careful with their online words but you need only one.
I don’t like your attitude!
I backed off my alarm a few more minutes because we’re getting farther from the solstice. Woke up at 0430 anyway. Bah. Opened the birds up at 0500, came back in, turned on my computer, and saw the note I’d left myself: Fill water tank first thing. Bah. Went back out and filled their water tank. Ref yesterday’s comments about memory.
Obvious coffee deficiency.
If your household has a subscription to the Crunchyroll streaming service, try an episode of “Dandadan”.
I recommend avoiding consumption of any liquids while the show plays. It isn’t so much about what you will see, however, as much as it is the dubbed English dialogue.
To be fair, not all anime is pr0n.
The C suites at public utilities loved those Man/Woman of the Year awards and schmoozing at the dinners.
I’m not sure about what the situation was in Houston/Texas, but, in Tampa, the Shriners were big into that grift with their event pavilion, hosting the endless dinners as a way to generate income for their activities. The racket got so lucrative with Walter Industries, Florida Progress (power company), and GTE Florida, among many others, that Bloomin’ Brands bought the facility and ran it in the 90s.
A couple of scandals in the 90s brought down the mandatory contribution push at a lot of companies, but, even when run honestly, the United Way is a horribly inefficient charity.
Round Rock has a big Emerson Electric office not far from my employer, on the other side of the freeway.
I’m sure if you dig hard enough, you would find some interesting extracurricular activities being pursued by the employees working in that place.
Austin is a freak show.
When I was in the USAF, while donating to United Way was “optional”, not doing so resulted in some really shirty(-r) assignments, such as picking up rotting seaweed at Langley, painting yellow curbs in the middle of July on Randolph AFB, and other such tasks. I absolutely hated donating and did not several times and suffered the consequences. The USAF went so far as to
demandsuggest a deduction from the twice a month paycheck. I thought what I did with my money was my business, but I guess the USAF thought differently.Not always. My pool was built in 1975. It is a big hold in the ground, lined with cinder blocks, a layer of plaster, then four or five layers of pool paint. Surprisingly immune to leaks and holds water quite well. Pools of that time frame did not use plastic liners or fiberglass. My pool is 8 foot deep at the deepest and fiberglass pools are not that deep.
I did suffer a major leak, five inches a day, last year I had to hire a company to find the leak as there were no visible cracks. The company said they could locate the leak within 6 inches, and they did. The discharge line from the pump to the pool had cracked. Of course, the crack was under concrete about six inches down. $2K to fix the leak.
I had to drain the pool twice for the repair. Each refill was a $750.00 water bill as the city charges the sewer based on water consumption. Dumping 25,000 gallons takes three days and a huge sewer bill. At one time the city would adjust the sewer portion of the bill. But that changed with no notice from the city as now to get the adjustment a person has to ask the city for permission before doing the fill. The fire department will not fill pools.
Offended here? I don’t think anyone of the regulars get offended easily and most understand the true intent. But then Chicken Boy sometimes makes me a doubter. (Was that offensive? Suck it up buttercup. Wait, I did it again. My bad.)
The wife and I are going to do the walk under the bridge in West Virginia this Thursday. A small trip to celebrate the 51 years. Will travel on Wednesday, spend the night, bridge on Thursday, boat trip on the river the same day, spend the night, then head home on Friday.
https://bridgewalk.com/
It is a one-way trip across, shuttle back to the other side. Takes about an hour to do the walk as people walk slow and stop for many pictures. We have a 9:00 AM start time to avoid the heat of the day.
I may be abandoning Microsoft entirely. My copy of Office 2019 that my wife uses on her iMac became read-only. A certificate expired that Microsoft will not renew. A piece of software for which I had a perpetual license is suddenly not perpetual. Shame on Microsoft. I have version 2021 on my MacBook and on my desktop. I suspect those will be made non-operational at some point in the future.
The wife I am transitioning to Pages which is good enough for her needs. Pages will open MSWord documents.
When Microsoft expires my “perpetual” license on my machines I will abandon Microsoft completely. I will purchase a Mac Mini to replace my desktop along with an external enclosure to house both of my 2TB M.2 SSDs. I refuse to get Microsoft 365. Truth be told the apps that Apple provides at no cost, Pages, Sheets, etc. are more than good enough for my needs.
I’m offended! I’m traumatized! I need a safe space!
“I’m offended! I’m traumatized! I need a safe space!”
Check to see if the local BLM has any extra.
Check to see if the local BLM has any extra.
– spoiled children do not like to share.
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Sunny and already getting hotter. Back hurts so I’m out of bed. Need to stretch for a while.
But first, coffee and breakfast.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jjs-proposed-55-billion-talc-settlement-may-lift-remaining-overhang-shares-says-guggenheim
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@Nick – any experience with one of these? https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-250-lbs-Adjustable-Foldable/dp/B0DTT9M5ZV/ref=sr_1_6?crid=1IX1N93AYQ1CX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Wh9uXePzjFQkJDPPhf1vE0j7BQs6eBPclQmVTXeVadKZNcj-nokW7fFk-qznjiL9jASpmzTAEZQVTLPuIBONpvtrR7TVhlwhrUPxL4I7TUvWbHyykiKcczCs-4avRYnNW0PJBPGwOsqFDXTZeL43hHWrIYBR-Z5_z9rNCV93fhgPpExZH-MX4Zk9QSDyZAbKRGnhQFc2YQg9mCih9KZV4P7YcYNWubPF3SkvWhZmywtadNN5PwuqKT2RX24WwogXXna9J8T-eFq9IkswJBdN84ArTZJ3cFkKWziOHAETjgo.PpDSuptSfZ3FAo-B5Hw55ZisEr_I3iJE3eC6pi7El9o&dib_tag=se&keywords=back+exercise+equipment&qid=1785247575&sprefix=back+exercis%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-6&tag=ttgnet-20
I have a bulging disc at L4-L5. Have had it for years, actually. After trying everything else except surgery, that piece of equipment is beginning to transform my life. I’ve been using it 3 days a week for a month and a half and the results have been promising. I am generally pain free for longer periods. I’m hoping for more improvement over time.
I can still hurt my back by overdoing it, or even just bending over, but the last time I did that earlier this month even that was milder and recovery was quicker.
I received an email from our mobile provider yesterday. We signed up for a special deal, with a “lifetime guaranteed” price. The mail yesterdays says, oh, they’re improving their services (by some completely irrelevant increment), so we will have to pay for that improved service. Ahem.
I’m sure the fine print on the contract explains that “lifetime” refers, not to my lifetime, but to the lifetime of that particular set of services, which they have now ended. Or some other similar weasel-wording. But the understanding of the customer must carry some weight.
Anyway, I sent of a registered letter stating that we don’t want the improvement, and do want to retain our “lifetime guaranteed price”. The interwebs show lots of other annoyed customers out there as well. Be interesting to see what happens.
I have a friend still doing minor engineering work. He dug out his copy on CD of Office 2007 the other day…
If I had gotten stuck helping make the newsletter for my Non-prepping hobby I probably would’ve borrowed it from him, or more likely tried to use Libre office. The deceased had done a lot of work, I assumed that it was a template from the national astronomical league – but apparently not. I don’t know that the people volunteering to do it now understand just how much work something like that is. My guess is we will get a much shortened version, not the labor of love.
@ITguy, thanks for the link. I use an inversion table at the BOL and it helps. I’ve tried hanging from my kitchen island to do the stretch that machine facilitates, and it’s small (ish) so it might be a good fit for me. Rotating my hips and using a yoga roll (foam log) to get traction across the hip and lower back in the morning has helped but must be done daily or the pinching pain takes over.
And it’s all aggravated by lifting and carrying weight out in front of my body. Also bending.
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@bob, did that copy of Visio I sent you work? If my bin of old software doesn’t work, no point in keeping it…
Visio was such a useful product and was the basis for some very custom tools for certain types of design and layout that A/V vendors used to provide, and there really isn’t an open source or even paid alternative.
Visio, Sketchup, and autodesk’s Sketchbook, with Paint.net for cutting and pasting and resizing stolen images used to comprise my daily toolkit for drawings and documentation in my job.
I just realized I haven’t used any of them for a couple of years, except Sketchup very occasionally, and paint.net.
I could probably switch to linux and just have those first three on a windows partition or maybe running under wine.
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@EdH, did your friend’s survivors get his PC unlocked? unless the drive is encrypted there are several methods that are straightforward that I use fairly often.
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@Nick;
As of Saturday night the club secretary, the poc for this, hadn’t heard back from the family about it. She left a few messages, but the widow is in poor health to start with and no-one wants to harass her. The last R had heard they hadn’t located his phone either. Since he passed in his sleep at home it’s probably somewhere in a car or the house.
It is Apple ecology stuff, Macs & iPads I believe.
In a matter reminiscent of some of your hobby club issues someone mentioned that everyone is using their personal emails still, and when someone else (not me) suggested that we go to club emails for the president, secretary, and so on to avoid issues – there was a lot of pushback.
Yeah, I don’t get the desire to mix club and personal business. If you have to publish the email for any reason, now your personal is out there… and there is no business continuity when the officers change.
They all seem to think it’s a hassle but you can just forward the emails to your personal account… or check the club account a couple of times a week. Nothing in a club needs an immediate response with 24/7 access.
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Cracking the mac stuff is outside my experience. Windows being a ‘work’-centric OS is easy to crack because IT has to do it all the time.
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Nick yes it does. Unfortunately, it’s been so long that I forgot how to use it. Looked up a couple of tutorials and got a bit of progress, then other things became a higher priority and I haven’t gotten back to it.
thanks for sending it to me
@bob, you’re welcome. I’m glad it still works.
n
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peepsplosion
I submitted the word a couple months ago. Never got any feedback. Thought to check it this afternoon and there it is.
“Henry H9 Provider Review: .360 Buckhammer at 100 Yards”
https://www.henryusa.com/the-henry-repeater/henry-h9-provider-review-360-buckhammer-at-100-yards/
“Four factory loads, 120-plus rounds, and a walnut and blued steel lever gun built to fill a freezer.”`
I need one of these. Just ignore the three lever action gubs I already have. And I need one of the new S&Ws.
https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/s-w-model-1854-walnut-lever-action-rifle-scoped-combo-45-70-govt
No scientific basis, yet J&J gets mugged for $5.5 billion by the trial lawyers, who will keep half and donate a large chunk to the Democrats who are largely responsible for their grift.
We’ll start with the commies but we have not forgotten the lawyers, who have given us many daily reminders–like gas cans.
I thought a peepslosion described a gas leak in an Easter candy factory.
@Lynn
Man who have three calibers knows what to load; man who has many calibers…
I aspire to one handgun, one semi-auto long gun, and one bolt action, plus three loads for 12’s.
I’ll never quite get there due to sentimentality.
Another day, another 800# of rock.
Depending on the whims of the landscape architect (me) it might be that the owner (also me) has to buy another forty or fifty bags for the laborer (me, again) to put down.
At least we are all getting to the point where pulling out existing work isn’t as big an issue.
“It Is Going to Be a Very Difficult Winter if the Global Energy Crisis Is Not Resolved Soon”
https://economiccollapse.report/it-is-going-to-be-a-very-difficult-winter-if-the-global-energy-crisis-is-not-resolved-soon/
“(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Unless some sort of a miracle happens, the world is facing a severe energy supply crunch in the months ahead. Since the war with Iran began, we have been able to function normally because we had huge inventory buffers that we could rely on.”
“But now those inventory buffers are nearly gone, the Iranians have been attacking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthis are preventing Saudi tankers from getting through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Ukrainains have been relentlessly attacking Russian refineries. As a result, we are potentially facing a very difficult winter.”
“Most people do not understand how dire things have become because they are still operating as if there was no energy crisis at all.”
The problem in the USA is not crude oil stocks, the problem is that we have shut down too many refineries in Hawaii, California, and the East Coast. Diesel is in short supply world wide and people outside the USA are willing to pay more than people in the USA, even with shipping charges.
And the refineries in the USA should be converting to making heating oil instead of diesel very soon.
I am beginning to think that diesel in the USA will be $7 or $8 per US gallon by December. That is very bad since all of our goods are moved by truck or train, both powered by diesel. And the games that the EPA has been playing with our diesel motors is causing rampant failures in diesel motors with less than a 100,000 miles on them, motors that used to last 600,000 miles routinely.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“How to increase Birth Rate – Lessons from Tokyo”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/21/800073305/community/how-to-increase-birth-rate-lessons-from-tokyo/
“While frequently, you will see people pointing at Japan and South Korea as the prime examples of birthrate declines. While both have been hit extremely hard, they are far from outliers. All of the developing world is being impacted. So, this begs the question, why and what can we do about it.”
“First let’s look at some top level numbers. First take a look at fertility rates by country. List of countries by total fertility rate – Wikipedia”
“The first thing that becomes clear is that while Japan is quite low at 1.22, even Canada (1.33), Italy (1.20), UK (1.54), US (1.62), China (1.02) and 124 of the 236 countries are below replacement rate of 2.0. Even less if you use World Bank numbers instead of UN numbers. Scanning across the countries impacted, it’s easy to see something is fundamentally broken in the developed world.”
So Japan is subsiding having kids and is changing their work culture so that fathers come home instead of drinking all night. Does not sound like a bad idea.
Fortunately for your productivity, 800 pounds of rock will give you all the energy you need.
I think it’s historical reasons mostly, the club became a regular 501c thing I think in the 90s and it was just easier for people to use their personal stuff at the time. AOL mails and long defunct local providers.
A lot of the inner circle who really keep things running have been doing it that way for a long time and they don’t want to change and I think they’ve earned the privilege of doing it the way they want to – but it is going to cause trouble now and down the line.
We do have a volunteer IT guy, and there is an online presence and contact number now anyway.
But it’s just a small club, it isn’t a big deal.
“Asia’s EVolution: How Mongolia became a dumping ground for Japan’s hybrid electric vehicles”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/toyota-prius-mongolia-ev-battery-policy-5867711
“Over the decade, Mongolia has been flooded with cheap, end-of-life hybrid electric vehicles (EVs) from Japan. The final instalment of a CNA series on Asia’s EVs looks at how the country could be turning into a green technology dumping ground.”
““Basically, if we don’t have our motorcycle around, we just use the Prius,” Tuvdsuren explained as he navigated the open land from behind the wheel, shifting his animals in a tight flock.”
“Nationwide, hybrid vehicles account for 45 per cent of Mongolia’s total vehicle fleet of about 1.5 million, according to the Ministry of Road and Transport Development. ”
“The vast majority of these are Priuses, attractive because of their reliability, cheap and available spare parts and fuel efficiency that offsets the high cost of petrol. ”
Wild.
remember the video of the mob in Minneapolis breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle, ammunition, and documents?
“Local man steals rifle”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/07/local-man-steals-rifle.php
Half the average sentence specified in the law, and damn the public’s right to know.
How the Fauci diaries were discovered.
https://x.com/mirandadevine/status/2082108999911309571
Fauci doesn’t have the chops to “computer”.
He had help.
The help doesn’t have an auto-penned pardon.
Squeeze. Squeeze hard. Squeeze in the name of crimes against humanity.
“Starship Flight 13 – Where’s The Kaboom?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EN5Jsl_G0I
The second flight of the Version 3 Starship on July 24, 2026. Very successful flight of the largest spaceship ever built.
Ice in the engine turbo pumps is a very bad thing.
Fauci doesn’t have the chops to “doctor”.
Can he reject the pardon and plea the fifth tomorrow?
Well, that was an interesting phone call from the dealer where I purchased my vehicle.
Apparently, Toyota has some deal with the dealers and the state, new this year, where the dealer has to collect the state sales tax from the sales of new vehicles. The dealer screwed up, big time, and now has to fix the problem. I will probably have to send a check to the dealer to cover the taxes, complete the registration, and get the title. The dealer should have known better.
Dealers lie.
I bought my son’s 22 Mustang in 2024 from a dealer outside of Atlanta. They collected sales tax as part of the transaction. They caluculated it correctly, too. When I went to register in AL I didn’t owe any additional tax (I wold have to pay if al of it wasn’t collected).
Comments on golden eagle errors in Wyoming’s wildlife action plan
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/28/comments-on-golden-eagle-errors-in-wyomings-wildlife-action-plan/
Probability approaching unity that Big Wind paid for the misclassification.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, you’re serious?
The dealer collects sales taxes? For Tennessee or Georgia?
Duck.ai sez:
but, YMMV. Duck.ai also sez
Perhaps the dealer is not being entirely truthful in their allegation that you owe additional sales tax so they can make a few extra dollars. Your sales receipt should help out. You could always copy/paste the sales contract summary into duck.ai (or your favorite AI) to get more info.
AI companies are buying up rare and out-of-print books and shredding them
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/ai-companies-are-buying-up-rare-and-out-of-print-books-and-shredding-them/
A poorly written article without references and largely full of b.s.
The “About the Author” link leads to a list of articles with nothing about the author. Smells like AI itself.
Two comments:
Flock allegedly wiped evidence of its VP accessing the system, tuning in to watch little girls in a gymnastics class
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/flock-allegedly-wiped-evidence-of-its-vp-accessing-the-system-tuning-in-to-watch-little-girls-in-a-gymnastics-class/
If I had a little girl in a gymnastics class and discovered a Flock camera observing, there would be multiple surgeons trying to figure out how to get Flock cameras out of colons.
I bought my Highlander in Atlanta. Basically the same situation as yours. The dealer should be able to calculate the sales tax correctly. I found a TN state site that allowed the calculation. What I don’t know is what price they use. Does that include dealers fees, or just the cost of the vehicle. The trade-in is known.
For TN, where the vehicle is to be registered and licensed. This is markedly different from when I purchased my 2003 F-150 in 2003 from a dealer in Atlanta. I had to pay when I registered the vehicle. No hassle.
What I don’t like is I had to pay a GA registration fee ($18.00) and will have to pay a TN registration fee. By my calculation the taxes in TN should be about $4K.
Yep, no dissenting opinion here. Dealers also don’t much care about the customer when the deal is completed and the vehicle leaves the lot. I hate buying vehicles for that very reason.
There was no tax charged for Georgia.
I found a site for TN sales tax calculation for new vehicles. With calculations specifically for my county.
I received an email earlier today for a Kernel developer job at Flock Safety.
Remote. Flock has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco.
I did, and the amount is $1,500 higher than what the site for the state of TN specifies. The amount used is the same, the tax rate for my area is 9.75% but that is not the tax rate used for vehicle purchases.
@Ray
I am just back from the North America trip I mentioned I was planning some months ago, and the New Gorge bridge was on the itinerary. Impressive bridge and geography. Some of the ‘rain’ I experienced in WV was ‘impressive’ as well.
CNN is accused of trying to ban any mention of scandalous Fauci diaries after stars including Dana Bash gushed over egomaniac Covid expert during pandemic
– no media bias tho…
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“I received an email earlier today for a Kernel developer job at Flock Safety.”
All employees of companies developing surveillance products should have multiple cameras in their work spaces delivering free public feeds. Bathrooms should probably be exempt–cameras will be installed but not activated them unless meetings happen–trust us.
Well, ol’ Six Gender Jimmy has got himself into a heap of trouble with the Blacks in Texas. He ain’t been going into 3rd Ward in Houston nor South Dallas and they don’t know what a vegan is. They do think that trans kids are weird and TalarFreako fits right in there. Big Momma ain’t gonna vote for some weirdo who says that God is non-binary, whatever the hell that is.
So, Ol’ Six Gender Jimmy is gonna go preach in 3rd Ward and in South Dallas. And, he is going to drop $25 million of walking around money in the Black communities. I predict this is too little too late but, I am probably wrong as usual.
AI companies are buying up rare and out-of-print books and shredding them
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/ai-companies-are-buying-up-rare-and-out-of-print-books-and-shredding-them/
A poorly written article without references and largely full of b.s.
The “About the Author” link leads to a list of articles with nothing about the author. Smells like AI itself.
Vernor Vinge predicted this in his wonderful “Rainbow’s End” book.
https://www.amazon.com/Rainbows-End-Vernor-Vinge/dp/125084150X?tag=ttgnet-20
The words “Kernel developer” probably mean they are looking for Rust on the resume, and I don’t qualify.
So Japan is subsiding having kids and is changing their work culture so that fathers come home instead of drinking all night. Does not sound like a bad idea.
I have the impression that Japanese drinking culture is like something from the American 1940s, heavy and no opprobrium for drunkenness unless you can’t be at work the next day.
But then again everything I know about Japanese culture comes from Godzilla movies and a few Japanese anime and manga.
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Which brings up a exchange I saw on X a while back:
Irate Japanese Guy: “I’m so tired of American’s coming over and acting as though everything in Japan is just like Anime and Manga! What if I studied Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner cartoons as the way to act before visiting America?
Chill,American Guy: “Please do! You can stay at my house, it’ll be lit!”
In case you didn’t already know, in real life, girls’ schools are very seldom attacked by tentacle monsters.
“So you’re saying there’s a chance” – famous American Philospher, Lloyd Christmas.
I have heard of training excluding books and articles published after 2022(?) to avoid AI ‘slop’ contamination. Could be an urban legend.
I didn’t plan ahead for supper so tonight (and tomorrow, no doubt) it’s rotini and some sort of frozen meat sauce I picked up a while back.
The Kraft shredded parmesan with a BBD of 2/2026 had liquified and got tossed despite refridgeration. A package of Lucerne shredded with a BBD of 3/2026 was OK.
Prepping for the win!
Unless you see an obituary for me, in which case not so much a win….
“ALDRETE: Sen. Lindsey Graham – Who Shared a Deep Connection with San Antonio”
https://texasinsider.org/articles/aldrete-sen-lindsey-graham-who-shared-a-deep-connection-with-san-antonio
“Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas — Whether people agreed with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham or not, there was no questioning his sincerity. He was open to honest dialogue about border and immigration concerns, as well as economic policy with San Antonio’s business and political leaders. San Antonio’s relationship with the late began during a visit he made in 2010. At that time, I thanked him for his willingness to speak openly about the need for immigration reform.”
“His response has stayed with me ever since.”
“He said it was easy for Texans to support immigration reform because it is part of our border state culture – but he then added that his state, South Carolina, is home to the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, making it riskier there to publicly support Immigration Reform.”
Interesting.
One of my great-grandfathers was a member of the Klan here in Texas. He was also a farmer and a Baptist preacher.
“On August 12th We Will Witness a Total Solar Eclipse, a Rare Parade of 6 Planets, and the Peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower”
https://americafirstreport.com/on-august-12th-we-will-witness-a-total-solar-eclipse-a-rare-parade-of-6-planets-and-the-peak-of-the-perseid-meteor-shower/
“(End of the American Dream)—It is not often that we get to experience three major celestial events on the exact same day. On August 12th, a rare parade of 6 planets will be visible before sunrise. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune will all be lined up across the morning sky.”
“The only planet that we will not get to see will be Venus. Subsequently, there will be a spectacular total solar eclipse that will be visible in much of the northern hemisphere. And after the Sun goes down, the heavens will be teeming with shooting stars during the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. It truly will be one of the most memorable days that astronomers have experienced in a long time.”
It will probably rain that morning here in South Texas.
Also see:
https://www.space.com/where-to-see-total-solar-eclipse-2026-maps
and
https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/dont-miss-perseid-meteor-shower-2025-peak-aug-12-13-heres-what-you-need-to-know
In case you didn’t already know, in real life, girls’ schools are very seldom attacked by tentacle monsters.
I saw the “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” movie! That 200 foot long squid could go anywhere it wanted to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea_(1954_film)
I saw a “Talarico for Texas” sign nailed to a tree in the Heights today.
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Had a tiny little fire but the heat of the night soaked in eventually and I came inside. Time for a shower and bed.
Lost almost 5 pounds between the week I spent at the BOL working and this weekend. Maybe I can put some muscle back on.
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