One year ago today: December 16, 2023, you can’t do that now.
Five years ago today: December 16, 2019, drones are old news.
Nine years ago today: December 16, 2015, monopolized or outlawed.
Random years ago today: December 16, 2003,in the real world.
Ha, I got the XP version of Word to work on this computer. This continues my lifelong policy of never having bought any software from MicroSoft. I never said they were wrong. I said they were evil and I don’t like the way they do business, selling software that does not work right, quashing legitimate competition, and a dozen other policies that should never have been. One being the fine print. Selling you something that you do not own. If you are using Windows, even if paid for it, the app is not yours. When you sell the computer, you are legally supposed to uninstall the program and return it to MicroSoft. You can’t hate these people enough.
You bet I’m grumpy today and no end of it in sight. I lost a good friend that kept my spirits above average for the past seven years and that cannot be easily forgotten. I’m getting around again but this has not been easy. I’m not the emotional type, but when I do commit to something, it stays that way. I talked to JeePee when in the room with him and miss the activity. He could tell when you were looking at him that far away.
Unable to focus on much else, I’ve slated the day off. Sometimes, like y’day, I’ll do better in the afternoon. Take that clock on the birdie wall. It has been on standard time since I returned. Why? Because when I walk out in the day, I’m going to the shed or the silo, I see the clock, and remind myself to set it. Aha, when I’m working, I return and it is past dark. I don’t see the clock. It doesn’t get set. How do you like them apples?
Even then, I was reminded of JeePee as I opted for the most dignified cremation I could afford. It’s quite nice, a plain small wooden box, more fitting a pet than an urn. Taking inventory today, we have $118 left for Xmas but now it’s likely I’d stay at home anyway. I don’t often take anything under my protection, but once I do, well, the story tells itself.
I had to compose a set of letters to cove all bases should anything else befall us before mid-January. While there is no change of destitution like in my younger days, there is still a real pinch felt here. But I have a disbursement from tube sales and $100 of returns to Wal*Mart, including the TCL flip-phone, which could never be set to ring loud enough if you put it in your pocket. I also issued checks in advance to get around the 20 day wait for international mail. In all, we’ll be okay but the international mail situation had me looking at how other people are dealing with that delay, which I am convinced is intentional.
Mostly they are using electronic cash, which will come back to bite them in the ass. I mean snail mail and bank clearing times. I believe we looked at these orchestrated delays some time ago. It’s a bit like the post office delaying mail that does not have a zip code, you know, they once promised not to do that. So guess which organization is fastest at moving money around the world? It’s not the London, Hong Kong, or New York banks. It is not the Deep State or even the Mafia. We are talking people who can move a hundred million in a wink with no oversight, no records, no taxes, and no disclosure. The Vatican.
This led to another click on Vatican affairs. It seems they may be teetering. It costs a pile to run a world-wide secret organization behind a façade of religion. And there are signs. Revenue has plummeted follow the latest round of Papal wokeness. Real people don’t like it. On top of the sex scandals that bankrupted some churches, the Vatican bank is now on the money laundering list for disguising billions (some say) in assets from creditors. Then there’s that butler who stole the documents about all the in-fighting among the bishops and other big shots. It’s not looking good for the Pope these days.
Bunker houses in Albania.
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Here is a view of JeePee’s observation tower. It was amost ready for him to explore. He loved the challenge of climbing and this would likely have been a source of immense amusement to him. It was just being fitted for final size, he never got a chance to play in it. The unit was matched to his new habitat. Another thing he liked was height and when on the top tier, he would have been able to look down on people who were sitting. When used by itself, the tower would rest beside the birdie temperature and time gauges, directly visible from inside the back bedroom.
Another school shooting and I got twenty bucks says it is another White Christian school. Those people after gun control do not kill their own. It’s a paradox for the Democrats. They will scream Trump won’t do anything but Harris would have. They are stuck having to pull their usual stunts before January 20th hoping everybody between now and then forgets it is Harris still in office. Ha-ha, but then in a way, it makes sense. The whole world is already behaving as if Trump is the one in charge.
My opinion is only 10% of the people on welfare need it, Trump should begin cutting off the able-bodied. When the get hungry like I was, they’ll take a better look at those jobs Americans won’t do. Otherwise it becomes the same old progress of charity begats dependency begats entitlement becomes government office begats corruption.
America is waiting for Trump to go after that disgusting E.J. Carroll, who by the way, has not received a cent. She must be squirming along with Stormy. The hitch is that these women were just the patsies, we’d like to know who financed their accusations, that is, why did their claims get Trump into court where they should have been exposed at the start? This got my mind off recent events and I read up on other crimes. It does not take long to notice that, like any legal industry, the crimes of forgery and fraud work much better if you have a rich daddy and study your crime at university. I’m reminded of the Bre-X gold scam in the 90s. This would have been impossible had the geologist also not known the exact chemical ratios of how to salt gold into the mining cores. It’s not like you can find a book on this at the local library. Or smuggling antiquities, which takes years of university study, then a ton of experience detecting fakes. You don’t get that kind of exposure working in a lumber mill in Montana.
