Still hot and humid, but noticeably less so yesterday and hopefully today. Lows at night are the lowest since Summer started. I guess Fall is sneaking in. It’s time.
Did some office stuff yesterday. W was work from home, so my nap ate a bunch of the morning. Some poking around in the driveway and messing with my truck ate the rest of the day.
Today I’ve got stuff to do. I need to break down stuff at the shop and do a scrap run. I need a trash run too. Then I can move the giant uPrint 3D printer from my office to the shop. I made a place for it and a path. That will let me move and organize some of the mess in my office. I think I’ll put all the supplies and stuff for that printer on craigslist and see if I can move it along. I’d rather have a couple of smaller ones, and the new ones have more capability anyway. It would make a nice enclosure for a modern printer, it would just need a new driver board and build platform. As it sits, it’s locked to the manufacturer’s CAD software and proprietary filament.
I’ve also got to find a rear axle assembly for the Ranger, and decide if I want to just buy new shocks and leaf springs, or try to get them used as part of the assembly. It makes more sense to replace them with new, even if it’s a few hundred bucks more. Since I spent the money on the front end, I should spend the money on the rear as well, and just finish the project. There are nice axles in Austin listed online, but the 4 hits I get in Houston all say “call” for pricing. I don’t really want to do the drive if I can avoid it.
And there are the other things on the list. Hopefully I’ll have the energy and momentum to get stuff done this weekend.
Always be working… and stacking… and don’t falter.
nick
Saturday. Good morning!
Short shrift time. I have to get on the road: boats to be moved and beer to be drunken. Time and tide wait for no man…
Have a beautiful day.
I hope Mr Lynn is doing well. Didn’t have time to read yesterday’s comments to the end…
So what you’re saying is that your truck is currently a mulletmobile: Professional and presentable up front, what the heck is going on there in the back.
Someone who actually studied thermo and who cares more than I do can let me know if I get more cooling with less melting from the one big ice cube vs. several small ones. I just like how the big one looks. If I cared about that stuff I’d use my whisky stones.
Heat transfer is all about surface area, delta temperature, and the velocity of the surrounding medium. More is faster.
My heat transfer extra credit on the final was does the profs beer in the freezer cool faster standing up or laying down. Show your work.
Surgery is 930 am. I am going to buck my parents trend and get my gall bladder removed before rupture and sepsis.
The nurse told me my life is going to be different. Any fatty food will exit soon thereafter within 30 minutes. She had to give up pork. Sounds like fun. Not.
They will make four incisions and glue them back together. No picking up anything heavy for a month.
Depending on the can/bottle design, laying down.
Gut instinct based on surface area contact and familiarity with the evolution of can design because of a soda problem for the last 40 years.
My Thermal class was a trainwreck which most students barely escaped with a ‘C’.
I never had Fluids, which was bad because that section of the EIT was 15% of the score when I took the test.
I received an 83% on the EIT; passing was 71% that year.
Most of the undergrads in my program received a 75%.
The professor who gave me my only ‘F’ in college was taking the test for what I understand was the umpteenth time when I sat for the EIT. Apparently, among other sections, he couldn’t pass the Time-Value of Money part which dominated the test in the 80s after the 1984 tax ‘reform’.
“Tall Paul’s” 13% interest rates for 30 year mortgages also made financial engineering of anything built with borrowed money important.
We’ll be back there soon. And beyond.
Wake me when the 30 year starts approaching 12-13%.
8% is only interesting. That number will crater the housing market, but 13% was when 3/2 stucco cr*p shacks in Florida currently selling for $400k went for $72k new.
No more bat from the wet market.
Junior-year Thermo was taught by an African grad student with an accent so thick that no one could understand him when he lectured; we could get most of the words speaking one-on-one. I was horrified at my first C grade ever but somewhat mollified to find that this was higher than average in that class, that semester, and that’s not even counting the people who dropped the class because there was no way they could pass it.
The annuity is playing in the AI circle jerk.
We were told unofficially this week that the future largely depends on the Midterms and how big the anti-AI sentiment backlash really grows before November.
The Thermo professor at my undergrad program was a big deal at the Tampa Anheuser Busch brewery just up the road, and ChemE students studying in his program got a courtesy interview from the company upon graduation.
The big problem with the Thermo class was the prof trying to develop his own textbook on the subject using us as guinea pigs.
Every time I see JJ Abrams “Star Trek” movies, I get PTSD from that class. To save money, JJ filmed the engine room scenes at night in the landmark Busch brewery in Van Nuys which was undergoing a retro fit in the mid 2000s.
I know what a Busch brewery looks like inside. The only items missing from JJ’s movie scenes shot in the big room were the Sun workstations.
I do like the movie, unlike many other hardcore “Star Trek” fans.
Super Glue. Literally. Medical grade Cyanoacrylates.
How did the commercial go?
“The country’s gone crazy … crazy for Super Glue.”
MrsAtoz’s surgeon told us there really no dietary restrictions. Digestion is slower, so stop eating well before bedtime (no snacking) to give your gut extra time to digest. She eats whatever she wants, and she is Latina and eats lots of pork and greasy food. If she eats past 6pm she’ll get nausea if she sleeps before 10pm.
Lynn, praying for a great surgical outcome. That you are healthy with your history is a testament to modern medicine and good living. Remember, the greatest revenge is staying healthy and outliving your enemies.
Yes indeed Lynn, wishing you the best possible outcome.
n
86F and sunny. House is empty save for me and the dog.
Breakfast is eaten. Coffee is half gone.
Time to do a quick sweep of the intarwebs and get to work.
n
LMFAO!
Discovered Camera Roll Shows What Really Went Down at State Dinner With Chinese President Xi
Throw in “CNN banished from Air Force One” and “The tRump Strait (Hormuz)” and PLT heads are exploding all day long.
David Axlerod tried to dig tRump for hosting Xi. Immediate flashback posts show Obola kissing Xi, Arab, commie, and Rooskie ass. He probably BJ’d them all.
@Mr. Atoz – Is “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” worth the time?
It is one of the better episodes, with little DEI and “puppet” nonsense. If all the episodes were like this, the show would be a lot better. I still don’t like the pussification of Pike with his cooking, apron, and weak leadership. Also, another time-travel episode. And a Black Hole Space Baby is pushing it. Who knew there were White Hole vaginas.
The finale hints that something happened to one of the characters for next season, but then the timeline was “restored,” so that may not happen at all.
The surgery went great. I was number 1 of 12, same surgeon doing an assembly line. I have already been up and walking around the place. They are making me stay the night until i pass gas.
I have broken the family curse, no rupture and no sepsis. Mom at 60 and dad at 86.
Will Uber Eats deliver from Taco Bell?
Glad it went well. Tomorrow the discomfort will raise it’s ugly head.
Excellent news, Mr Lynn. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.
Boating today was fun. The weather was nice, and the wind in the correct quarter, so we sailed, rather than motored it. My buddy runs a dry ship, so we had to wait for landfall for a beer, but I will survive that trauma. He did a nice bit of parking in tight quarters at the destination, and my line handling was competent, so we didn’t let the side down in a strange harbour.
W1 did taxi duty, and bought cheese and housewares while she waited for us. Fresh fish dinner and a fine wine rounded off a nice outing.
Breakfast at 09:00 and check-out by 10:00, so time for beddie-bye. Goodnight!
CBC Suspends Jewish Journalist for Daring to Expose Pro-Hamas Protestors
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/09/26/cbc-suspends-jewish-journalist-for-daring-to-expose-pro-hamas-protestors-n4957665
I’m past tired of this bullshit.
From now on I treat Canadians and American Libtards just like they want to treat Jews.
On my phone, running android 8, Verizon, so “featured up”. The calendar app shows stuff like birthdays, American holidays and Christian holidays.
Without Christian holidays, no display of Easter or Christmas. What most of the other holidays are, I don’t exactly know. I mean I know what Ash Wednesday is but the rest is mostly guessing by the name. Mostly, tell me when it’s Easter.
Anyway. I have Phases of the Moon. It’s installed and enabled. It quit working two weeks into August. I’ve turned it on and off and it totally quit working. Googling for an answer to a problem with their software was a waste of time.
I can live without it. The grandfather clock shows moon phases and it’s maybe a day off but close enough.
As for “android 8, Verizon, so “featured up” it’s stuff like reading about the phone, there’s an FM radio in there that uses the headphone wire for an antenna. Not like I need that. It’s supposed to be able to scan QR codes…. nope…. they took that out of the camera’s software. Google Pay? Nope. Wi-fi calling? Nope. No error messages.
I don’t care about Google Pay. Just thought it would be cool to mess with. I fixed wi-fi calling with an Ooma box and forwarding calls from the phone to the Ooma number.
I’ll get a new phone someday. When the current battery life goes south. Something un-locked and unmodified by any carrier. No Apple, I don’t care to learn another OS.
Lazy Saturday.
Good to hear Lynn’s operation went well.
It’s not the end of Summer yet but it’s not “open the oven and singe your eyebrows hot” for the last few days. So, a/c is still nice.
Excellent news! Get well soon!
It doesn’t matter. With the finale of “Lower Decks”, all of the Secret Hideout “Star Trek” has been declared non-canon except for the animated series and Frakes’ “Those Old Scientists” episode of “Strange New Worlds”.
Good news, Lynn. May you live long and prosper. 🙂
Uhura also referenced Pike as “Admiral” in the future. We know that is not canon, but, again, the timeline was restored. Pike’s fate is sealed. At least he gets to live happily ever after in TOS.
Will Uber Eats deliver from Taco Bell?
Glad it went well. Tomorrow the discomfort will raise it’s ugly head.
I had a liquid lunch with coffee and a solid supper of excellent pancakes, turkey sausage patty, scrambled egg, and peach slices. I shared half of it with my wife. I have been farting all afternoon. My wife is laughing and pleased.
I am still at the hospital running a slight fever and on antibiotics. Looks like the gall bladder was infected after all and getting ready to burst with thickening walls.
I have not taken any pain meds since the surgery. I started at 4 of 10 and currently at 2. So much better than the 6 that I walked in the ER with at 7am yesterday.
There’s a mode I’ve never seen any of my wives in, at least for that reason. Speedy recovery to you!
Good news, Lynn. May you live long and prosper.
Thank you for the wish and the quote. I love Star Trek even with the recent kerfuffles excluding Picard.
My Aggies are getting stomped by LSU.
How can I learn this power?
Spent a half hour pulling on body panels and the truck looks a lot better. The tailgate latches on both sides and the taillights fit better. I may skip the bed swap…
Then I headed to the shop and spent a few hours breaking down stuff for scrap. Made a trash run as the light faded, and headed home.
Was talking on the phone with a friend on the drive and when I got home, and noticed two quad copter style drones fly over. Slow and low, and nearly silent. They came from outside the neighborhood, over flew it, then ended up over the Beltway. Eerie.
Costco chicken for dinner. W made a shopping trip. I’ll admit, it does feel weird not doing it. Strike continues though.
@lynn, glad to hear you had a successful surgery. I hope the recovery is smooth and fast.
n
Spent a half hour pulling on body panels and the truck looks a lot better. The tailgate latches on both sides and the taillights fit better. I may skip the bed swap…
People expect a truck with over 100k miles to have dings and scrapes on it.
However, I managed to back my dads 1976 F350 into parking garage support pole. I got a rubber hammer and beat it back out and then spray painted it with rustoleum. Dad never said a word as I did a good not perfect job. Dad traded it for a 1977 front drive GMC motor home that we loved. Which, my uncle wrecked.
I think it comes from choosing the right wife.
Not a skill I’ve managed to acquire, unfortunately.
Ice cube update.
I don’t drink every night, so tonight I decided to try out the new “clear” ice cubes.
Results were not up to my expectations. I used the little cubes, about 1.5×1.5 inches, and they were ⅔ crystal clear, and ⅓ white and cloudy.
Next attempt will be to get them out of the freezer before they freeze that last ⅓. If that fails, I’ll go back to the harder method involving breadknives and mallets. My GF is willing to do the cutting, so I suppose it’s worth it. I was just hoping for a lower effort approach.
New scotch is Glencoyne 10 year old single malt. Don’t hate it, won’t buy it again. May be Glenfidditch time again, but I hate to spend the money.
Power tools? My first thought would be a circular saw with a dedicated blade, very fine teeth. Second thought would be a Dremel with a cutting disk but I don’t know if the abrasive would come off into the ice, something you presumably wish to avoid.
What about an electric carving knife?
Soldering iron to score lines which you can crack the ice along?
I think it comes from choosing the right wife.
Not a skill I’ve managed to acquire, unfortunately.
It was pure dumb luck on my part. My three rules for a marriage partner were:
A good fourth rule that I accidently discovered is being willing to forgive me no matter what. And that goes two ways. And that is related to rule #1, the foundation of our marriage is Christ’s Church. We have retreated there many times in low points of our marriage.
I am imperfect and know it. She is imperfect and knows it. I am an arrogant risk taking jerk and she is not.
She has told me if I pass away before her then she will not remarry, that I have worn her out in 44 years.
She will get a mansion in Heaven. I am hoping for a garage apartment in Heaven.
Rule #5 might be love and tolerate her family regardless of how crazy they are. Her brother was my best friend for two years before he introduced us. After she and I started dating, he told his sister to go easy on me as I had just broken up with a girl because I did not love her. And I still dont know what he meant since he was murdered three months after we got married.
Rule #6 might be take a long hard look at her mother. Is her mother a good woman? Is her mother respectful to her husband? Does she treat him right? Does she treat ALL her kids right?
I loved my mother in law and she loved me. She was a good and honest Christian woman who would cook special treats for family. She loved me and her other son in law like she had birthed us. It really hurt me when we buried her in 1993 at the age of 58. We buried her next to her son and her parents by I-20 out in Merkel, Texas.
Tiny little fire was nice. It’s 76F and feels very comfortable outside.
Saw another, or maybe one of the previous drones working almost due east of my house. It was hovering in place for a bit, then headed north gradually gaining speed. Moved like a quad copter, but all I could really see was the lights. Without lights, it’s surveillance or death from above, and you’d never know.
It occurs to me I should get the scanner back on. Maybe the interop channels would have some chatter…
n
It is the end times! Lions lying down with lambs…
Enjoy it while the dispensation lasts.
There are a couple of great lines in The Madness of King George about the appearance quality, and quantity of the king’s stool…
n
Jeez, I need to go to bed.
n
>>@lynn, glad to hear you had a successful surgery. I hope the recovery is smooth and fast.
Ditto.
>>They will make four incisions and glue them back together. No picking up anything heavy for a month.
I’m pretty sure H-E-B will deliver to your house. Stock up on pints (of ice cream.)
>> They will make four incisions and glue them back together. No picking up anything heavy for a month.
>> Super Glue. Literally. Medical grade Cyanoacrylates.
Nah…go with Flex Seal…just think about Phil Swift and the skiff. 😉
>> It occurs to me I should get the scanner back on. Maybe the interop channels would have some chatter…
Mine is sitting in my “to be listed on eBay” bin…
Police Dept. now uses Motorola APX NEXT radios with full‑time encryption.
‘Need to protect identification of law-abiding citizens’ is what I heard.