And we might have a slightly cooler day to do them. It was pretty nice yesterday, just a bit warmer than I’d have liked, especially in the sun, but humidity was a bit lower which helped. I’m hoping today is even cooler and drier, as that would really help sell the idea of Fall. Still 79F when I went to bed though.
Did my volunteer effort at the middle school. District guy brought a piece of gear to swap out for the dead one. The dead one did have some slightly swollen caps on the PSU board, but I’ve seen worse in running gear, so IDK if that really was the issue. In any case we swapped it out and were back up and running. We made a couple of additional changes that will help the kids with some minor but tedious issues. I’ll be going back next week to go through every mic and channel and make sure it’s working. There isn’t enough time to share anything with the kids AND troubleshoot.
Spent the afternoon doing a couple of pickups. I got a “Relax the Back” lazyboy style massage chair for cheap. Now I need to decide where it will live. I’m thinking bedroom, but it might replace a bigger fatter chair at the BOL. That would make a bit more room in the living room area. I’m sure my fisherman buddy would like a new chair.
Today I’m sleeping in as the kids’ have the day off. Youngest still has an event to do tonight, and I have my hobby meeting on Saturday, so no heading to the BOL. I might still go up by myself Saturday night to do some work, and cut the grass. We’ve all got Monday off so I’d have a normal weekend up there.
Later today I’ll do a pickup or possibly two, and then work on the cart or my office. I couldn’t find distilled water at the HEB, so I’ll have to figure out where to get some, or get out and run the distiller I have tucked away. I’d like to top up the cart batteries and see if they take a charge.
I’m sure there will be other tasks tacked onto my list.
Keep working on it. And stacking. Ebola and global conflict are still out there.
nick
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Denis is about to say, “so distill some”, or “Where is Nick, and what did you do with him?”
when
Nick lives!
Less good news: somebody in Bavaria has shot and killed two officials who came to inspect his lawfully-held firearms. Expect even stricter rules for lawful firearms owners in 3, 2, …
The mind boggles !
What exactly were the two officials coming to inspect, and why?
Watching old “The Lone Ranger” episodes and Mr.Atoz is in this episode, “Six Gun’s Legacy”, first aired 11/24/1949, 14 months before I was born.
I bought the truck in August of 2021. The sticker on the windshield says oil change due at 29,024 miles. I took my grocery store bag of trash to the neighbor’s can at the road. Mostly k-cup pods and two dog food cans stuffed with k-cups. I don’t make a lot of trash.
This morning the odometer shows 28008 miles. As much as I drive, just a bit over 4000 miles in five years, I don’t think I’ll ever see 80085 miles. So today is going to to do for the odometer to display “BOOBS”.
I’m amused. I think I’ll take a picture.
During my tour at the Pentagon, one of the first words of wisdom I got from the One Star who was the head of our operation: “Major, we write the rules, we don’t have to follow them.”
@Paul:
They used to advise (shop class 55 years ago) that you should change the oil every year, regardless of mileage, because of water absorption. I don’t know if that is true for modern oils, particularly the synthetics.
Tubi and Pluto have all the great early shows. I’m currently plowing through “I Dream of Jeannie” after going through “Hogan’s Hero’s” about three times.
I see it more as an O-plan situation. “This is how we thought it should go when we considered how we would hypothetically do it.” No one expects that plan to be followed to the letter in reality. It’s a framework.
They have until December to issue a new set of rules.
Some Major in the chain of command is likely receiving his orders now to begin the rewrite, allowing the SecWar to choose… everything.
But we don’t have anything you need…
Actually, a veterinarian seems like a good idea, treat them as animals. Maybe a bolt to the back of the head?
There’s a tool made for human killing in small meatpacking operations that is basically a sledgehammer that has a .22 blank cartridge that propels a bolt out of the face. Hit the animal on top of the head with a hammer and the bolt scrambles their brains
Too humane for this case.
I have seen that technique used on the neighbor’s farm when they had a steer butchered. Only this was a .22 long rifle (I think) that was fired into the skull. That animal dropped immediately, no pause, no flinching, no blood, no reaction, just “poof, you’re dead”. The butchers immediately hoisted the carcass by the hind legs, slit the throat and begin collecting the blood. Knives started slinging, every few strokes on the carcass were accompanied by a stroke or two on a sharpening stick. Within 15 minutes the animal was skinned, quartered, and hoisted into the truck. When the butchers left there was zero evidence an animal had been killed. Nothing was wasted.