One year ago today: April 12, 2022, best birdie bath control.
Five years ago today: April 12, 2018, predicting lumber prices.
Nine years ago today: April 12, 2014, eating gold.
Random years ago today: April 12, 2017, I had the good years.
Ethylene oxide. Ever heard of it? Me neither. This warning label appeared on a spice jar over at JZ’s place. Is it a bogus selling point? Let’s look it up. Ah, I just remembered where I’ve seen it. An ingredient of anti-freeze. Our trusty friends at the EPA say it can be “used to clean anything”. That includes around 50% of all medical instruments. Industry-financed studies show it isn’t dangerous, so the latest guidelines are to protect new workers only. Old workers, up yours. One more thing, since the theory is that this compound evaporates completely by itself, it is not listed on the label as an ingredient. Isn’t the government wonderful?
This blog is plenty of work and I know how you appreciate it.
So take an extra coffee break and let’s see what adventures today causes, if any. Up early on the laundry roof, I must go into town later. Accompanying me in the yard are the Downeys and Reds, politely taking turns. They know where to find the goodies. Overnight, I caught an trespasser who was flummoxed by the steel and foam on the shed. A rat, but too young to be the raider of the past weeks. He gets a van ride to the code inspector’s neighborhood later this morning.
Those of you following this blog are miles ahead of the curve. Today various medical journals finally admitted that doctors were receiving bribes to inject patients with COVID poisons. Of course, they call them something else. We knew this in 2020, why are they just owning up now? Because most of their readership and membership are doctors, that’s why, and they see the writing on the wall. In Europe, you spend too much money and you got to jail. This is what happens when you vote left.
Holmes, the Theranos blood-test scammer, is off to jail for 12(?) years. She’s “39” so that means, Toots, it’s socially speaking a life sentence. I reviewed 30 recently (they say) pages of British enigma intercepts. This follows the claim that by 1943, the British had cracked the German code and were reading top-level dispatches. I say that is a complete lie. Every intelligence department knows very well how to salt real dispatches with false information to see if the enemy reacts to it. The Brits are trying to tell me that in during all of WWII not one German even suspected what was going on. Bullshit. Pure, unadulterated bullshit.
I’m re-watching “Europa, The Last Battle” Part 8, the part that addresses the evidence against the Holocaust, torture of the Nuremburg defendants, and the manipulation of photos from the eastern front. This blog has pointed out how communism does not strike for the head, but rather takes over the administration of a system. By the end of WWII, the number of Jews in the US, British, and Russian armies was a formula for revenge on Germany. Most confessions were beaten out of the Germans, who signed confessions in English which they could not read. There is something familiar about that and the reports that come out of Palestine.
Simulated Mars habitat.
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Two and a half hours, that’s when the rain began. I was up on the canopy, it turns out there was a slight ridge where I’d pushed the plywood tight and it could not be smoothed by pressure. So I strung out the oscillating saw and that took a half-hour right there. Both 20V batteries are dead and I have a tarp over the deck just in case. This means an afternoon off, for paperwork that is. I’m looking closer at TURO but it looks like a lot of work for what is really $166 per month, yes, a guesstimate. That’s still better than bank interest but be careful, lost effort is as gone as lost money.
$36 for ink cartridges but most of the accounting setup is done. That means enough to analyze what TURO is really saying after sifting out the bullshit. There’s a rule of thumb about business income. When you pay all the bills, what’s left over is known as your net income. I introduce a new term. “Spendable income”. It is one-third of that net. Look at the businesses that fail because they cannot get over a scrunch. There’s your correlation—spending more than a third. It is not that gloomy, as the third accumulates, but that’s a different subject.
One issue is the year of the car. The Civic is a 2015, and a browse of the TURO site shows dozens of 2020 or newer cars. Extrapolating the price shows that older cars have to compete with prices as low as $48 per day. This view shows a Miami offering, a Slingshot, for $220, but the only people who would rent a topless vehicle in Miami are people who had never rented one before. Or spit and firecracker collectors.
I got the chasing around done in the rain. Good move. That January money order did go missing, and it is now to be replace sometime in the next six weeks. Welcome to millennial America. Before they came along, it was two weeks. I examined an iPad9, which has a lot of apps including a Word-compatible item. But no video editing software I could find and of course, if it is not porno or gaming, the staff boys have no clue what apps real people use. And did you see that PBS has followed NPR is leaving Twitter? They got their panties in a knot when Musk labeled them what they are: publicly-funded. That means they get to steal taxpayer dollars.
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One day, that is 24 hours, and the tea light is visibly weakening. That’s 96 hours to go to meet the packaging claim. This unit was chosen from three because it initially lit up the best.
I’ve got a few minutes of the audiobook “All The Colors of Night” to finish. It’s borderline boring, all the usual crime story clichés with a psychic aura twist. They finally get around to it in Chapter 38 of around 40 or so. Interesting because it is entirely from a woman’s point of view, but a specific type of woman.
The adult kind who live in a teenage fantasy world where sexual enjoyment is determined by whether it creates and ensues a relationship. And pretending sex does not exist until the last moment. Even then, it is approached obliquely (she gets him under a table in the library basement by speculating there might be an earthquake). The author reveals her own, I dunno, missed opportunities or something, so much that it hinders the moment. She's off in phantasy land while he's just getting it on.
She has a self-centered take on what is basically a known situation, with known motives, and a known outcome that’s so predictable that she is living in some kind of dream. She sees herself as a good girl who has just had so many bad experiences with so many men that she now has "rules" that might have made a difference in her distant past. Folks, at age 21, virginity passes from an asset to a liability. If there are any surprises, I’ll fill you in tomorrow. They still have to find who killed her father with crystal poison or something.