One year ago today: January 9, 2024, hard part’s done.
Five years ago today: January 9, 2020, because they are repairable.
Nine years ago today: January 9, 2016, fearsomely expensive.
Random years ago today: January 9, 2022, countless counties.
Today I fought the cold and the cold won. Wiser than to start anything like a new box, where I would be standing still a lot, I thought to get work done kept me moving. I was raised out west and I’ve worked when it was forty below. But the damp got me to quit before I was tired. Shall we review the highlights of the day since that’s all we’ve got. I finally got over part of my grief and moved JeePee’s last home out into the yard. I always have too much stuff inside the house. My goal was to free up space, which went okay.
Before I record the day, take a glance at this restored steamer trunk. Why is the lid bulged, the “camelback” design? One rumor was it made it easier for the owner to identify, but that doesn’t make sense if everybody else did the same. Another theory that makes more sense is upper class passengers did not like have lower class baggage placed on top. I don’t know the answer, but I apply Occam’s Razor to say if your trunk had to be placed on top, it would be the first unloaded when the ship docked.
Even with the sun on my back and regular breaks for hot coffee and tea, it [the cold] was getting me. The new overhead heater is more efficient and can keep the office toasty. Even zipping inside regularly to completely thaw out was not effective today. I uncovered journal entries for November 11 and 12, 1994, good thing I flipped to that back pages of an otherwise old empty scribbler. I describe the hardships of my early travels in Venezuela, where the entire economy to me seemed based on unbelievable poor standards. Eventually I learned the local ways, that it was just another place of averages with everything geared down to basics. Just in a third-world way, a process many interpret as “culture”.
All day long there was a heavy pounding noise in the distance. A sound like a pile driver, except there is no use for pile drivers in this part of Florida. No bedrock. The neighbor by the church was also revving some motor all afternoon. Merchan, the anti-Trump judge has allowing recording equipment into the courtroom for the first and only time in the Trump trial. It’s a publicity stunt to ensure there is a permanent record for the Demtards to broadcast world-wide. Extreme cold weather is being blamed for a drastic drop in Chicago weekend shootings.
Brass ingots.
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How dull was today? There are signs of boring, like this picture from the Weather Channel, you can’t get much duller. Today, the Moon is 231,171 miles away (surface to surface). But why the mention of the weather report? Look in the lower left corner. Says the phase of the moon is waxing gibbous. But the symbol shows a waxing crescent. I seem to be the only one of the Weather Channels millions of viewers who has noticed this. Millions.
The older journal entries just mentioned were again done by voice-to-text. And it is a great disappointment. It really is not much different than ever. You’d think by now, decades into the technology, they would had solved many of the quirks an smartened the thing up. Nope. One super flaw is the software is incapable of filtering out steady background noise. I generally have a fan running on one corner that it will not ignore. I’m going to be running and air conditioner or heater most days in Florida, so up yours, MicroSoft.
As for the speech recognition, it still sucks. I may not be the world’s greatest bass player, but I speak flawless, unaccented English with as perfect pronunciation as you will ever find—and voice access still gets it wrong around 20% of the time. It may take A.I. to improve it. Because it sure has hell has not gotten any better since the first time I used it back in the 00s. And the punctuation, forget that. It has a hard time putting a period at the end of sentences. If I don’t want my memoirs to be lost, I have to pursue learning this, hoping experience makes it better. But if it has trouble with my speech, it’s a piece of junk to begin with.
By 9:00PM it was freaky cold. The news out of California solidly accuses the government of complicity with these big fires. The whole scenario has a familiar pattern. As before, I would never stop anyone from helping those people, but I would not compel anyone to do so. It plain looks too obvious that these fires involve major political figures. You don’t get that in most other parts of the country.
Let’s read what got past my filters. Okay, 65% of Canada admits immigration was a mistake, now that they’ve lost their jobs, their majority in the eastern cities, and have lost even their rifles, they wake up. Scientist warn that climate change will continue to cause fires at prime real estate locations. As we predicted so long ago, as January 20 approaches, it’s amazing how fast the liberal left starts wiping their asses. Today’s winners are:
34 police come forward to state Penny’s “choke hold” is standard.
17,000 doctors are bellowing mad about RFK being appointed Health Secretary.
