One year ago today: October 26, 2008, Fishing Hall of Fame.
I managed to create an editable file with my junky equipment. Today’s photo is a still from that, my newest production, “The Hialeah Five In Concert”. You can see all five with myself at the far left in the hat. Many thanks to Jim, next to left, who managed to put together five people from such differing backgrounds. If I didn’t mention, the class has voted to continue after next week. That’s a real vote of confidence.
Wallace and I have a fridge full of barbequed chicken, which was handy since another spell of hot weather kept me from doing much more cooking. Although I did bake an apple pie from a frozen shell and canned slices. Hey, you can slave over the hot stove, I’ll work the can opener. It was the cat and I on the computer most of the day, creating the video. Six hours and the result is 17 minutes and 52 seconds of footage.Not that I have anything good to say about Hewlett-Packard printers at any other time, but not only do they have 800 different cartridges, it is impossible to get the ink out of one and inject it into another. I had some older units for a printer I threw out years back. I decided to give it the old college try. No way, HP doesn’t like that. The cartridges have a sponge filling that makes the ink bubble if you try to draw it out. It’s what you expect from those people.
I’ve met another vocalist slash guitarist. He’s a dog groomer in real life but knows about ten chords. Good enough for me and here we go again. I dropped by Jimbos to make a computer delivery and he recognized me from Karaoke (up at Capt. J’s). Turns out he is a fan of country, which helps immensely, but he’s got no transportation. That’s not the barrier it once was. (Turns out the barrier was his inability to stay out of jail.) (And later, he seems to be always wired on something.
Tomorrow is hospital day. It should be common knowledge that I have a heart condition normally associated with old age. But, but, I'm not that old! The panel is still out as to why I have it, and they are going looking once more. If they find zilch (again), I’ll be home by mid-afternoon. The biggest symptom I have is the inability to walk more than twenty minutes, although I can ride my bicycle all day. You see, the depth and range of Florida potholes notwithstanding, a bicycle is low-impact exercise.
The cat still has dermatitis, so I dropped into the library. Note that the Hollywood, Florida, downtown library has 3 books on biology but over 200 cookbooks. The cat books seem to mention every obscure and rare cat disease and condition except the one my cat has. Be sure such facts don’t, as it were, get under your skin, or stay out of Florida. This place is geared toward a sub-standard low-IQ half-bastard rat mentality. They have no more use here for intelligent people than the phone company.
Today’s trivia is some military facts. The closest that Germany probably came to victory in WWII was with the U-boat campaign. Tanks also need steel, but what I was curious to learn is that the new generation (of Type XXII) boats were the equivalent of 30 tanks each. I take this to mean either the boats were very easy to build, or that tanks are a far more complicated proposition. Or that I know nothing about engineering.
I was reading a passage about German plans for victory after Stalingrad. The world has generally been taught that after that battle, Germany had no hope of winning and was only fighting because they were Nazi fanatics. Not so, they developed weapons that could very well have turned things around, although they didn’t seem to realize the enemy was doing the same. I did not know that almost 50% of American Lend-Lease aid went through Vladivostok and the Japanese could easily have sealed off that port. They did not do so, it seems, in return for a Soviet policy of not allowing US bombers to operate from their territory.
ADDENDUM
One more item, this time from the Falklands War in the early 90s. Britain was highly miffed at Canada for canceling large shipyard orders, thereby tipping off the Soviets that aluminum was not a suitable metal. The destroyer “Sheffield” had been hit by an Exocet (anti-ship missile) and sank after burning for six days. What I did not know is that the Exocet warhead did not explode. It was a dud. The unspent rocket fuel was the culprit. My theory is the Canadian Armed Forces figured nobody would notice because of their funny way of spelling “aluminum”.
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