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71F and 95%RH with overcast and gusts. Got just a sprinkle of rain yesterday.

I’ve got a bunch of errands to run today, so mostly it’s up to you guys… anyone watch the Oscars? I worked in the business and never watch them. Add the political element, and I’d go out of my way to avoid them.

Seems that there are larger and larger chunks of popular culture and society that I avoid, either passively or actively. Not sure if that’s just Grumpy Old Man Syndrome, or general pushback against people and institutions who don’t share my values.

nick

Anyone in the extreme weather zone, stay warm, safe, and dry. This is why we prep. Weather is much more likely than global systemic collapse… if you can’t deal with the weather, you won’t be ready for anything worse.

I put up some hints for staying warm late yesterday in the comments. We’ve got at least a couple of readers stuck in the bad weather. One I left off is to keep your caloric intake up. You’re body needs fuel to stay warm. This is incidentally where most of the “buckets-o-disaster-food” fail. They assume crazy low calories per person per day in order to get their day count up. Day count sells buckets, but it doesn’t keep you warm if you’re starving slowly.

Lots more to do outside today if the rain holds off, currently 72F and 90%RH and kinda grey.

nick

60F with 75%RH in Houston. Chilly and damp in other words. Good time for outdoor work.

Got thru all my obligations yesterday and they have left me feeling like I was in a cement mixer with a dozen bowling balls. So out of shape it’s criminal.

So I’ll limp and shuffle thru another day packed with kid stuff, and try to get a little garden work in.

I hope all those folks up north learned a lesson from the last ‘winter’ and got some preps in order. I’ve got a feeling that most didn’t.

n

Well, it’s Friday again. And according to my 6yo, it’s Eeyore’s birthday. He’s 15. Maybe there will be cake.

58F, 91%RH and breezy with partly cloudy skies. We’ve got outdoor school stuff this afternoon and evening so I hope it clears and stays clear.

Lots of errands and running around today.

In wider news, what did they think he meant when he said “Put America first.” ??

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/furious-world-responds-trump-tariffs-vows-retaliation

” Furious World Responds To Trump Tariffs, Vows Retaliation”

“Trump may think that trade wars are “good and easy to win” but the rest of the world disagrees, and judging by the barrage of reactions overnight from China to Europe, is rather furious ahead of Trump’s import tariff order.”

And then there is this, which is a mile from my rent house…

“Heartbreaking remains of missing woman who died while trapped in the WALL of her home when she fell through her attic and lay undiscovered until the house went into foreclosure three years on”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5452367/New-homeowners-discovered-missing-previous-owner-wall.html

I’ve been in a lot of attics. I’ve done a fair amount of residential construction and remodel. I have NO IDEA how one “falls thru a loose attic board” and ends up in a wall cavity large enough for even a small child. There just aren’t wall cavities open to the attic that would fit an adult woman. Something stinks here.

and with that,

I’m outta here for the day.

n

65F, windy and cool. I guess we are on the edge of a weather system. I’m getting a bit tired of rain.

Spent most of yesterday on a client site, and will return today to finish up some details.

A quick scan of headlines and I see more of the same. What’s missing? Anything about flu.

Thanks to Miles for a sure sign of the coming apocalypse, Aussies almost beat Texans at BBQ on our home turf!

And by following a couple of links there on the other side of the world, I see that child rape is not just a local thing, and the people of the community are just as befuddled and sheep-like as ours. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-01/relatives-say-they-failed-girl-who-was-raped-in-tennant-creek/9496742 I note especially the calls for more policing while at the same time, “Locals are now speaking out about their ongoing fears for the safety of women and children in one of the most heavily policed regions in the country”

The cops and .gov mouth the same platitudes “full responsibility” “but we’ve made improvements” “blah blah” while local leaders tell obvious and self-contradictory lies “”There’s a big issue for the community, sexual violence against children, under the age of 14, 15. We don’t tolerate that,” he said.” Yet they DO tolerate it, and they DID tolerate it. This is all happening within the community. Earlier in the article the family says it had “expressed concerns” and the cops and child welfare had both been to the home MANY times. Yet they tolerated it. Allowed it. Each now blaming the other and “alcohol.” Wherever you go, native peoples are destroyed by alcohol, and their communities wallow in self pity and blame.

I see this as all part of the larger problem of failed liberal and progressive policy. No matter where you go in the western world, you see ‘do gooder’ policies concentrating poverty and crime, increasing helplessness. You see the victims calling for more outside intervention, despite that being the problem in the first place. More cops, when you are already one of the most heavily policed areas, are probably NOT going to solve your problem. If you find yourself at the bottom of an unwanted hole, first you need to STOP DIGGING. More of the same failed “solutions” won’t reverse your situation.

nick

71F and 95%RH, with sun and fluffy clouds.

Nice day, if a bit humid.

Picked up 8 bags (2cu ft ea) of soil yesterday to refresh my raised beds. Got some pepper plants, and zucchini in pots. Need to pick up some manure. I’m working at a customer’s today so I won’t be getting them planted yet.

Got 2 more coats of cold galvanize on my antenna mast (pipe) and found 2 fence clamps that will work very well to mount it.

Ordered some hinge parts for the driveway gate project.

Spent an hour talking to an old friend on the phone. If the universe butt dials your phone to someone you haven’t talked to in a while, consider it a gift, and TALK. Don’t pass up the opportunity, you might not get it again.

Stuff to do, better get to work…

n

63F with 98%RH and overcast today. We’re on the edge of a front and will either get rain or not.

Seems that Germany has finally acknowledged that there are in fact “No Go” zones in Germany, joining Sweden in the Blindingly Obvious Olympics.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-27/merkel-finally-acknowledges-german-no-go-zones-vows-eliminate

To deny reality is a lefty and progressive trait, but eventually reality intrudes. FFS, CHICAGO has no-go zones for ordinary people, and certainly USED to have them for cops. Most of our worst cities have areas the police will only enter in pair or in force. To think that Euro cities, who’ve imported millions of lawless immigrants from primitive tribal cultures DON’T is pure fantasy.

The question now is, are they realizing their mistake, or is the plan just advancing to the next phase. I suppose it depends on how cynical one is, how one answers that question.

In news closer to home, more ridiculous and dishonorable info is coming out of Coward County Fla. This may be the event that drives a change in doctrine across the country. I hope so. In every other industry we learn from disasters and apply the lessons paid for with blood to prevent and minimize future disaster. Let that be true of this one.

nick

54F and 99%RH this fine drizzling morning here in tropical Houston…

Felt a bit off all day yesterday, mild headache and a bit of dizziness, so I went to bed early.  Feel much better today.   We’ll see if it lasts.

I doubt anyone out there has as many active kindles as I do, but I found out something interesting.  It seems the publisher can limit the number of devices you have a book D/L’d to at the same time.   I was trying to load up a kindle with all 16 books in one series when I got the notice that it was unavailable for download.  Google suggested that there were secret limits on the number of devices, so I got on a chat with Amazon support.

Turns out there is a limit, it can be anything from 3  up to 99 according to Saed, the CSR from my chat.

Amazon’s tool for online management of content on different devices sucks dead bunnies.  You can easily PUT content on your devices but not REMOVE IT.  Nor is there an easy way to see at a glance where your content is.  Others have noted that there aren’t any real tools for organizing your content either.  It seems they got to “good enough” and stopped.  Meh, it’s still the best pure ereader out there, despite its flaws, and I doubt they considered someone with 15 kindles when they were designing their systems.

On a political and media note… I’m not ready to say this kid Hogg from Florida isn’t genuine (don’t really buy into the ‘crisis actor’ thing) but something isn’t right.  There are too many pictures of him laughing and smiling, video of him rehearsing, and he’s suddenly EVERYWHERE.  He may just be a sociopathic opportunist, or he may be something else, but random ordinary person number 7 he most surely isn’t.

nick

Rainy day, dark outside, and the kids let me sleep.

So I did 🙂

n

73F with 93%RH and overcast this am. Lots of kid stuff to do, and work on the rent house, so “talk amongst yourselves.”

nick