One year ago today: February 11, 2024, the new guitar player.
Five years ago today: February 11, 2020, planting a peach tree.
Nine years ago today: February 11, 2016, I scored “high average”.
Random years ago today: February 11, 2003, remembering Jill.
A day of slow everything. I was downtown to pay the phone bills, which includes my Internet access. It’s back to hot weather. I had spent the morning installing that starter bypass circuit. The delay was the switch. It turns out of that grab bag of spring switches, they have all been picked through and not a single NO (normally open) switch remained. For clarity, this is a switch that when you release it, returns to its original setting. That’s what you need for a starter, you release the key once she fires up.
Remember Chloe, the big cat, who passed away recently? She was at the vet when we lot her, so there was that bill on top of the cremation feel. It’s $700 and I think everyone who knows the situation can imagine what a strain this is putting on our system. The one consolation is we are not piling it up on credit cards to stave off defeat. There is hope because Trump is cutting off most foreign aid and corruption. Ha, the Reb associates with a lot of artsy types whom she reports deny all the accusations of rabid crazy spending, saying the usual “you have no proof.”
We’ve decided to put all new spending on a case-by-case basis for a few months. That feeling that something has to give is in the air again. On top of replacing the battery and the surprise utility bill, this will already be a lean and mean month. Be prepared for lots of box-building news. There is not much else happening unless Taylor dumps that jock and moves in with me. But she’s saving the best until last.
How is our librarian, Alice, doing? Small communities, no matter how backward, are never at a loss for gossip and drama. Alice read the blue book and tried to encourage her husband but he was offended by such “French whorehouse” ideas. She’s become friends with the renegade lady, Marjorie, who’s doing Sven, the mine foreman. On a shopping trip to Lexington, Marjorie invites her for a drink and guess who happens to be sitting in a fancy hotel dining room across the way as they exit the saloon? The father-in-law.
Again we see the disguising effect of paper silver on the market reports. Dealers everywhere report banks are buying up silver (and gold), a huge run on the market. But by dealing paper silver back and forth, the price remains just over $30. Where it will stay until the supply runs out. I’m watching, hoping. Google is on another rampage to get your ID. Log on to the same page with the same computer for years, and all of a sudden you need a security code, causing you to check the fake email set up for this back in 1999 to find it full of advertising.
Desert rose crystals (selenite).
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Almost a day’s work to do a so-so job. Here is the switch that let me down. I see now why they were on sale. They have an internal rocker with a tiny spring. When you hit the switch, it only makes contact while you hold it. I took this one apart but there was no way to modify it back to normally open. I should explain normally open is a term I know from robotics, the more usual name of this is a momentary switch. It is only closed for the moment you push it. I’ll find one in day or two, this is one of the few items that has dropped in price over the past few years. They still cost $3 for the cheap ones, mind you.
A Festus festival, an entire Gunsmoke episode with no shots fired. It’s story of this dude who neglects his family over a racehorse called “Jubilee”. They had Eddie Albert, worst actor of the 20th century playing a horse gambler. No gunplay but an excellent plot with plenty of lead parts for Festus. He tries to stop the dude from betting the farm. Utterly excellent photography as Festus leads his horse across a gully.
Let’s glance at what made it though my filter, which I modified to block these incessant azz-clowns with their chemtrails, magnesium supplements, and Palestinian homeland nonsense. (There has never been a nation called Palestine.) It’s not the point of right or wrong, it’s that people are weary of hearing the same crap over and over. Google reports the most searched phrase in DC is not “criminal defense lawyer”.
The Jeep company has introduced in-dash advertising. The ads come on your radio display every time you stop for more than a few seconds. How long before they become projected on to your windshield? Using Audacity (the earlier versions are better), I note the LAME encoder is no longer required. Turns out the patent on MP3s has expired. It was invented a long time ago but did not become a standard until around 2000 when an easy to use interface came along, remember Limewire? Having learned my lesson not to buy new technology until it is tested, I did not use MP3 until around 2007. And my motive was smaller files that were easier to use and copy. To this day, I have no reason to change.
