One year ago today: November 20, 2020, weighted input isn’t new.
Five years ago today: November 20, 2016, teamwork mostly sucks.
Nine years ago today: November 20, 2012, average age, 36.
Random years ago today: November 20, 2011, St. Augustine, by scooter.
I think it is possible for some people to become addicted to anything, but today I read of a new one. Tanning. It mainly affects old women, and includes the artificial tanning booths. Finally, a month later, this morning I’m fatigued and staying in bed. It’s also chilly. It’s 7:30AM. Check back later. 10:30AM, still no better. This is the kind of tired I mean, where sleep doesn’t help, you are too weak to get mobile. Like half the workforce. Still, I decided on a big dinner, so the turkey breast and rice are ready, the veggies are thawing.
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Forcing myself into action, I raked the back yard. This is my fifth year of not finding some kind of ground cover that will thrive there. The faux pistachio trees have done a fine job of creating shade, though you can’t tell much on this drizzly and overcast day. The red shed is at the center, it is getting quite nice inside, imagine, they said it was a goner. The fence to the right, I installed. Behind it is scooter storage and a lot of yard gear.
I hate Win 7, but it is required to run my publishing software. One hallmark of stupidity is how MicroSoft, realizing millennials don’t know how to file things, has changed the way the unit stores files. They never could leave well enough alone. I’m intolerant of stupid ideas because I am a programmer and know the drill. Every shavehead that comes along thinks he’s discovered what you rejected long before. As I’ve said, we live in a world of truth by majorty rule. It does not matter what is false or broken, the computer era has enabled a majority to push the crap on you. Remember the lumber tags. They are not new, what’s new is somebody AOL enough to do it.
It’s plain most users have no clue where their files are, trusting MicroSoft to find them. Now THAT is stupid. The auto-sort on save flag is elusive, I’ve never bothered to find it, but it alphabetizes your files without being asked. It should put them at the bottom of the list in case you are not finished with them. Oh, and 50 years later, MicroSoft has still not eradicated that idiotic feature that when to scroll to the bottom of you file list, it jogs over to the right side of the window. When they fix that, I’ll soften my opinion to admit that they are not all entirely jackasses.
Another super annoyance is the delete function. I do not use the recycle bin, I configure my deletes to be permanent and regularly delete with Agt. Ransack to be sure. But damn Win 7 seems to randomly move files, especially video files, to the bin. I almost lost all my Halloween gig videos because, get this—when Windows moves the files by itself, they no longer show up on that ridiculous search text box. Fortunately, I remembered to check the bin, for all I know that will also autodelete, proof of how thick-headed MicroSoft has always been. They never did have a proper file search feature. I was able to recover the videos but was that pure luck?
The W57 monstrosity.
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Moving all that hillbilly gear took an hour, but I got my second wind and decided to continue with the north shed siding. My overall goal on that is no rush, but to put up at least four panels per day. Once I got going, shown here, I wound up fitting nearly a third of the height. This is a somewhat posed picture to show the process and give at least some proof I’ve been working hard.
The hard part is dismantling the pallets. You can’t just get in there and start prying and hammering. The lumber is too dry and will split. The shortest pieces I must salvage are at least a foot long, two is better, three is really good, and four feet, ideal. But I’ve only got a couple four-footers this week. This is hurricane prep and emergency storage. Central Florida is a ways from any liberal troublemakers, but never trust what comes out of Tampa.
There are no windows in the walls, just a peeky hole on the door which is mainly for checking the weather. I may equip the inside with a propane heater and stove, but that’s not planned for this year. In mid-December, I’ve penciled in a four-day trial sleep to check first-hand what it would be like to live in this bunker-like structure. There’s nothing stopping me from putting in solar panels and such, but that’s for a dire emergency which does not seem likely around here. Are those famous last word? Well, I’m a thousand percent better prepared than most people who only talk about it.
Yes, there is Internet service and basic DVD player. One concession is that electric power is needed to be comfy. It is the utility that is most unreliable, but also the one the power company is best equipped to restore rapidly. Despite all the strapping, angle iron, bracing, and thick siding, the shed is not as solid as I’d planned. I can still “wiggle” it visibly. The back of the structure will have similar siding, but I don’t bother staggering the joints and matching up patterns like you see here. If it still isn’t that rigid, I’ll add exterior braces in some attractive pattern. The shed is between two massive tree trunks and cannot move side to side, plus I’m considering bolting a couple 4x4 beams right across the top exterior into these trees to be super secure.
ADDENDUM
Whoa, look at the mainstream media suddenly blurting out brief clips of facts on the Rittenhouse trial. It’s all damage control, they know that if they are sued for defamation, the recent plunge in their ratings could spell bankruptcy. Sorry, CNN, it is too late for posturing and apologetics.
