One year ago today: November 17, 2023, Toohoolhoolzote.
Five years ago today: November 17, 2019, Kaiser anniversay coincidence.
Nine years ago today: November 17, 2015, without credit cards.
Random years ago today: November 17, 2008, the bass neck is fake.
Noon. I'm not moving until then. The Kaiser is driving a pick up truck and that makes it easier to get things moved. The new fridge is a piece of junk and the door has to be slammed, but it was the only one left that fit the kitchen spot and delivered. My only plan for today is a McDonalds shake (they can't call them milk shakes) and maybe a Sunday drive with the dog. I make pancakes out of all the boxes and bags of gluten-free flour, some of it since I was here last May. Where are all my batteries around here? I buy them, it seems, by the caselot but never find any. The deer camera requires eight, and they last around 24 hours a set. My flash drive, the one the Reb picked up from the library, was lost in the KIA fire.
Later, by repeatedly turning the phone off and on, I got the correct menu to display. Here is Chooks posed at the dam.
The deer cam reveals something sad, but it's over so I'll give you the facts. Sammy was mostly healthy, but shakey the past while. We knew he had dementia that caused him to howl at night, we thought it was nightmares. We knew Sammy was going blind and deaf, but he was very much with us, and that was what the camera revealed. I've not shown it to the Reb, but at night little Sammy could not see at all. He would stop yelping when you picked him up but what was really happening is knew you were there. When he woke in his sleep, you could see the little tyke thought he was abandoned. He's in a better place now.
The new computer will not accept my flash version of Word or open the files saved in Pages. So I'm composing them directly into the blog, meaning you'll have to return often the next day to see the finished product. It's a hallmard of these late-learning computer people at the big software companies that they cannot leave well enough alone. Not one entirely new or ground-shaking concept in 30 years, but they call themselves genius. How, renameing a file gone from a 3-step to a 4-step process and the latest version of Paint is a bitch to use until you figure out where they've moved all the same old commands.
The bridge to Pag.
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Two long hours at the dam gave me time to reflect on life. I'm not crochety yet but I have to consider shutting down, I figure, about half the things I am into and plan for the time shortly when all I can do is the easy ones. If you've read some of the early entries here, you'll know that although things could always have been worse, they should also have been a lot better. That begins with how I should have at least been paid for the work I did, but in fact, never received a penny from the years wasted on that farm. It was beyond my capacity to believe anyone could lie or cheat their own that way. There are too many morons out there who think the day you turn 18, you are responsible for your own destiny. I guess they think Barron Trump make it on his own. I did begin to invest when I was 26 but several times lost everything. That does not have to happen often before you accept you will be poor in the short run unless a bolt of pure luck strikes you.
Now if you think I got troubles, what about old Kamela? She blew a billion and a half bucks on the last few months of her campaign. I've warned and complained a long time that sooner or later the whole charade of getting elected was a matter of how much money you spent was ending. And now she's stuck, apparently cannot even pay her staff wages. Turns out she spent $2.5 millioin for Oprah's endorsement and equal amounts hiring celebrities. By comparison, Trump spent pennies and he's cut off the use of public funds that the Democrats were illegally using to campaign. So Harris can't begin to pay back her donors, much less all the favors still owed from as far back as 2016.
ADDENDUM
Here's a video of a mosquito genetically altered so its proboscis cannot penetrate human skin. This is your prime example of science stupidity. It is the wrong way to mess with Nature. Sooner or later a mutant mosquito will evolve that can penetrate the skin with super-efficiency. It will be the one that survives and passes the gene on. Wanting the day off, I have a small list of topics to look up ranging from wood working to how to number theory to half force me to take the day off. Rumor has it Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the New York Times and their ilk for defamation. That could, since they have the assets, put them out of business. It would be a tough fight since he's a celebrity, but he did promise to reform the way existing law makes it so tough for individuals to sue big offenders.
What's this hype over the social platform Bluesky? We get barraged by report of millions switching from X, but no real explanation exists that would convince me. I glanced at it and think it is another of the same but with a set of advanced filters and controls you can use to cut off pests. This is supposed to make users happier, in the sense that one time, long ago, social media really was fun.
Here's a video of a drone swarm. These are a commercial display, they are not weaponized. But the techology exists to make each of these drones a killer, hunting individual soldiers and using instant coordinated countermoves to anything the victim tried to do, the drones can even dodge bullets.
