Mon. Nov. 9, 2026 – rushing headlong towards 2027…

Cool and wet is the forecast for today and tomorrow. Doesn’t mean I’ll get rain, but it’s likely to be cold and grey. As it was yesterday. We are in the ‘rain and T-storms possible’ part of the national map. I’m hoping we don’t get rain here.

I did get a few things done yesterday. I did a little more work on the golf cart. I could have done the project as I originally intended, just get it moving, but decided to do at least a half decent job on the body. That and other obligations means it’s taken a lot more calendar than I hoped, but not many extra hours. I’m only working on it an hour or two at a time.

I did a few small things too. Still haven’t refreshed the poison bait in the bait boxes. It’s not a favorite task, so I keep putting it off. Now that it’s cold though, I better just do it. I don’t want Señor Raton to decide he wants to be warm in the house…

I’ve got a doctor appointment this afternoon and pickups this morning, so I should have some time late in the day to do a few of the things on my list. Maybe. Depending on weather. And motivation.

Motivation I’m lacking. Stacks I’m stacking.

nick

10 Comments and discussion on "Mon. Nov. 9, 2026 – rushing headlong towards 2027…"

  1. Denis says:

    Monday. Good morning!

    Good luck with the medic, Nick.

    Back at base, and running several loads of laundry in-between working. We don’t have a dryer at the BOL, and November weather is not propitious for drying on the line outdoors, so I filled a sack of laundry and took it back to base with me. Two machine loads won’t quite do it all.

    Reminds me of my student days, with the (perhaps not very) regular pilgrimage to the coin-operated washeteria down the road. Contrary to the movie trope, no siren ever came in there  to disrobe and wash her unmentionables while seducing me. Ah well.

    Busy, busy, worky, worky today. I need to do some admin today too, such as filing a tax return. Joy.

    Have a beautiful day! You too, Chicken Boy 🙂

  2. Brad says:

    Then the Republicans had them for TWO years and did nothing with them. Probably because lots of Republicans were named in them.

    This. The two-party system lets you vote on which side of the clipped coin is up – but it is the same clipped coin either way.

    – – – – –

    Here, we will eventually be voting on the new agreements with the EU. The pro-EU politicians are doing their best to get the contracts in force – anyway they can – before the vote. Why? Because they will almost certainly be voted down. There are two huge issues:

    • Something like 2000 pages of legalese that basically no one fully understands. Be assured that the EU has worked some things into the contracts that we will not like.
    • Dynamic adoption of EU law. Any regulation the EU passes applies to us, unless we explicit opt out. That’s something like 800 regulations per year. If we do opt out, they can apply penalties. That’s just not something any sovereign nation should ever consider.
  3. drwilliams says:

    If the US Senate votes for Thune again they should all be promoted to new positions 1.83 meters below grade. 
     

  4. Greg Norton says:

    I’ve written before about the idiot leftist husband of my wife’s associate physician in Vantucky whose job as a “spirits blogger” we supported out of our household’s bottom line and eventually contributed to my “it” moment about the place.

    How does someone financially support a “spirits blogger”? Did he ask you to pay website hosting fees? Buy him products to review? What you’re saying doesn’t seem to add up. 
     

    What is an “IT moment” about a place?

    As I wrote, I’ve been through it before. You want to bore the room.

    If you have something different to observe about lefties and hard liquor, particularly in the Northwest, please share.

    WA State had state-run hard liquor stores until 2012. OR still regulates sales of “spirits” which protects a craft distiller industry chock full of Progs.

  5. Greg Norton says:

    If the US Senate votes for Thune again they should all be promoted to new positions 1.83 meters below grade. 

    The alternative to Thune when Cocaine Mitch stepped down was Rick Scott (RINO-FL). 

    You don’t want that.

  6. Greg Norton says:

    Jensen was shipping AI stuff to the mainland through some third party cutout I seem to recall.  There was a hole in the export control laws.  

    It was legal, closed now, but very much against the spirit of the thing, which tells you a lot about him.

    The Mainland isn’t supposed to have H100 chips but they manage to get them anyway. 

    I don’t think that the Nvidia CEO had any part in the violations beyond approving the H200 for production.

    The H200 can go to Mainland China under certain restrictions since it is theoretically “crippled”, and the GPU module in the servers is plug-and-play compatible with the H100.

    The swap is not simple, but it is possible for anyone to do who is, as the late George Carlin used to say, “handy with tools”.

    The real issue with Jensen’s Bang Bang is knowledge of what Nvidia is not disclosing publicly which could affect the stock and, in the US, everyone’s 401(k) and pension plans, now heavily invested in the Monkey Trick.

    What? You believe Nvidia has executed flawlessly and will continue to do so?

    Swee … well, you know the rest.

  7. drwilliams says:

    If the US Senate votes for Thune again they should all be promoted to new positions 1.83 meters below grade. 

    “The alternative to Thune when Cocaine Mitch stepped down was Rick Scott (RINO-FL). 

    You don’t want that.”

    I doubt the results would be any worse, but it would seem that out of more than 50 senators there would be an alternative who could support the president. Or bury them all–head down so they can see where they are going–and start over. No SAVE Act and a refusal to nuke the filibuster and get real work done–was this a referendum on Trump or the base unmotivated by a majority of do-nothings?

  8. SteveF says:

    Embrace the power of “and”.

  9. lpdbw says:

    Contrary to the movie trope, no siren ever came in there  to disrobe and wash her unmentionables while seducing me. Ah well.

    If you study the mythology and folklore of sirens, It seldom comes to a good end.  In fact, it usually ends up with dead sailors.

  10. Nick Flandrey says:

    63F and overcast.    I have coffee brewing and food in the microwave.

    Time to stretch, eat, excrete, and beat feet.

    n

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