One year ago today: November 1, 2023, mostly band talk.
Five years ago today: November 1, 2019, walkies!
Nine years ago today: November 1, 2015, rare motorcycle camper.
Random years ago today: November 1, 2017, not rich, not famous.
It’s not looking good. Joe, who people forget is still the President, has disappeared from public live, the Ho has gone to ground, the usual Democrat last minute scandals have fizzled, together causing an eerie silence out there. They are planning something massive and have pretty much missed the deadline for direct attack. I surmise they will combine their 2016 MSM smear tactics with their 2020 attacks on the infrastructure. Their problem is that Trump has learned how to govern, so sparks will fly.
Here is a picture that the Establishment does not like. A convoy of 56 Amish show up in North Carolina and begin building shelters for people who lost their homes in the hurricane. This location is Black Mountain, it says. FEMA said it would take months to get any relief into the area. The Left is saying Trump said Cheney should be executed, but what he said was she should have to fight in the wars she so ardently supports. Something like “Let’s put her with gun barrels pointing at her face and see how she likes it.” Along those lines.
Later in the day on NBC, Democrat apologists are saying Biden’s “garbage” remark was due to his lifelong struggle with stuttering. Harris has authorized IRS agents to use deadly force, that is, to shoot people who don’t obey orders.
Planning well in advance for Tennessee, I began transferring some of the gear from the KIA, which is fully equipped with everything—but most of it will not fit in the Hyundai. I got a bedroll, some supplies, and a load of animosity over what Biden did to the American dollar. This trip will cost me $900 and I’m not planning to buy anything. More than twice the cost of 2019. I stopped for one of my rare treats downtown today, a small vanilla shake at McD’s. It cost more than a Big Mac Combo five years ago. The shake was $4.27. I also bought some small hardware for the box I’m building. Two hinges and a latch. $19.97.
Some years ago I looked at private rail cars. Expensive as hell to store and move, but with the money it must be an incredible way to travel. I’ve often wondered why somebody has not invented a rail car for transporting special busses that drive off and on rather than get shipped like cargo. That’s when I discovered cabooses for sale. But they are usually parked as novelties. Whenever I visit a railroad museum, the caboose displays are a favorite. Why does not somebody design a caboose camper. Train routes are usually scenic.
Well, build a small siding near a fishing lake or natural attraction and rent the cabooses as cabins. I’m just speculating, I that railroads consider cabooses to be very dangerous. And renovating these things reportedly costs a fortune. Anyway, just a thought.
Rachel, NV
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You know that corner on Hwy 17 SW of Winter Haven? The location is jinxed. All four corners are a commercial no-man’s-land. I figure whatever they tech business majors these days all determine that to be prime real estate. Wrong, and you can drive past the crumbling hulks of former enterprises that were plainly abandoned. But, that never stops people from trying and there is a spanking new Shell station sitting there. Literally, just sitting there.
I examined the wood I stained over the past few days. Somehow, I’m not doing as good a job as I should. For most projects, I use two coats of stain and two of clear finish. I follow the directions but still get a finish that doesn’t hold up to close inspection. Does this mean I finally get to go to finishing school? Sincerely, I would like to do better at this. Once again, the ton of on-line videos do not address the issue. For example, even running over the dry surface with 2000 grit paper still leaves it unsmooth to the touch. Plus, if you reflect light at the right angle, you can see it is not even.
Nothing to report, it was the quietest day yet. A little too quiet on the election side of things. Where is the usual 11th hour attacks from the Left? Where are the MSM smears? Are they that confident of a steal? Or are they preparing for an aftermath. Don’t know, that’s why I went on-line and watched the best of Bourne Identity. The way he smashes up all the bad guys. One guy against all the evil in America. Trump is up by a 30% lead in many states and as much as 10% in states that were formerly Democrat strongholds—yet the MSM still continues to portray the contest as a “sprint to the finish”.
The way this works is the corrupt poll workers have traditionally been a job populated by the Democrats most loyal indoctrinees. That is, middle-aged black housewives. But most sources attribute the huge swing in black votes to Trump to the way inflation has hit that very group the hardest. Once again the only station that comes in well enough (until I find a replacement radio antenna) is 540 AM, so all day I get barraged with politics. While I’d rather stick with blogging, there is no doubt the outcome of this election will change America.
And while I don’t know this Mark Cuban character, I get a laugh that he has been asked to quit doing pro-Harris interviews because of the anti-Harris backlash he creates. It must really suck to get to the point where you know people who need all the help they can get and they still tell you to get lost.
ADDENDUM
Ha, who recalls over the years that I’ve had a glitch in my DMV records that has two wonderful effects. It means nobody I don’t like can find me that way, and it means I’ve been under the radar for over 40 years. Well, it just came back into play, I received the correct documents with the same error. No matter how many times it gets corrected, the next update restores the error. The authorities have become so confident in their records that I see they have changed the rules. I am now good until 2032 unless they change again and if I live that long I’ll no longer care.
For clarity, I am not against, for example, jury duty. But I am totally against the abuse of using government files to generate those lists. The only people who should be jurists are those who give the okay, not from a hidden condition attached to some other document, like a driver’s license. Much of my objection is not, say, the actual jury duty, but allowing records for one purpose to be used for another opens a can of worms at the bureaucratic level that never goes away. I don’t believe it is the government’s business who owns a car or bank account, and in fact, there should be laws preventing them from finding out. Those who disagree may enjoy living in a police state, myself, I don’t.
