One year ago today: February 15, 2024, my one hope left.
Five years ago today: February 15, 2020, it hasn’t bloomed since.
Nine years ago today: February 15, 2016, 24% tax.
Random years ago today: February 15, 2021, Beat Buddy fails.
What a pleasant morning, I spent some time researching loading coils. Sure enough, the useful information is sparse. It’s the usual crap once you get past the shallow search results. Tons of material what they are for and how to connect them. But so far no work on how to identify or measure what you need. I think the barrier is that the properties of this device depends on two variables (frequency and current) and this tends to put the lower-IQ crowd of posters out of business.
With this talk of abolishing property tax, I’m reminded my taxes have doubled in eight years. There is room for improvement, for example I should not be paying school taxes and transportation taxes. What’s this environmental land management? I don’t think the people understand the other services when they demand no land taxes. I think what they mean is no more grabbing land for unpaid taxes. The County or City should just put a lien like any other creditor and collect the outstanding amount when the property is sold or inherited—but they may not seize or evict.
It was also a lazy day. After French toast, I lay back down for a moment and awoke at noon. Ain’t I a real go-getter? Then I did a dumb thing. I went to work, taking it easy. I tend to think and sometimes talk to pets that are not here any more, and lose track of time. So I don’t take regular breaks and I worked six hours non-stop. I will regret this tomorrow. Later, I didn’t have to wait that long, I’m weary clean through by late afternoon.
That Joan Baez song, “A Hundred Miles” was already a classic when I was growing up. I never heard the whole song until today. Haunting. I chose a documentary on the battle at Khalkhin Gol. Mostly unknown at the time, it changed the course of WWII. The Japanese stood little chance against the Soviet armor, airplanes, and massed artillery. The Japs decided America was a softer target. But, my focus was the weapons and strategy. The Soviets had mostly their older model BT tanks, mind you, these were superior to the Japansese Ha-Go.
What’s remarkable about this fight is the Russian attack was the distance from Moscow allowed Zhukov, the commander, free rein to mass his tanks over open terrain. He was well aware this untried tactic was being tested in Germany. However, it was his 500 tanks against 70 that won the day. He sent them in unaccompanied by infantry. He and most of the world thought that was the German method. He was wrong, and lost 170 of his tanks mostly to Japanese infantry. Against the Germans, most tanks were lost to artillery.
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The game camera is set up to identify whatever it is under the house. I set out a tray of bait. The tracks indicate it is a raccoon but scarily, the tracks have appeared in the daytime. This means an old or diseases animal. They are nocturnal and that explains what is big enough to tip over my 45 pound bird bath. If it dies under the house, that’s a problem, as I’ve grown too big to fit under there any more.
Here are the emergency wires I made up. They can be daisy chained to twelve feet. That should take care of 99% of situations. I did not get to raking the north side of the building, that is really prime shady work area. The prevailing wind pattern chokes the laundry deck with layers of dead leaves. I am seriously thinking of closing in the bottom half and putting up screens on the rest. Until then, there is a ton of other work that needs attention first. Taking down the old sidecar shed supplied a lot of spare lumber.
It’s now dusk and I’m too tired to go make coffee. Ah, wait ten minutes and I’ll be desperate. The work load today meant moving the ladder a lot which worked my shoulder blades. But if I dare lie down I’ll be awake at two in the morning. So, let’s check the news and a couple documentaries, maybe I’ll perk up yet. The radio was still on NPR this afternoon and I listened to the smash metal versions of some classics like Ronstadt’s “Your No Good” and I don’t mean the Van Halen cover. Somehow, the really dork versions came on while I was up the ladder so I couldn’t change the station.
Let’s recap. Argentina told the WHO to stuff it with their lockdowns. Trump cans 5,000 deadbeats over at Health & Human Services. It appears Biden’s bail-out pardons can be “vacated”, look out, toadies. DOGE people have entered the IRS building but no word on audits yet. Another 400 get the axe at DHS. Schools with mask mandates have been defunded. Two new top searched in DC are “offshore banks” and “BleachBit”. Taiwan quickly spots relocating hin the USA is cheaper than a 25% tariff. Number of houses for sale in DC up 643% in last three weeks. It seems some top Democrats have written letters to the SEC pleading them not to open their records to Musk. I wonder why is that?
[Author’s note: the housing situation in DC has a far wider reach. In real numbers, the past month has seen 4,000 houses hit the market. My filter was set to detect drops of $20,000. So I only became aware of the panic when prices began dropping by $200,000 and $300,000. The average drop is $140,000. Why is this serious? Because housing is a mortgage pyramid scheme, dependent on new suckers entering at the bottom. But there is no bottom. Nobody can even afford down payments and the banks won’t lend on housing with prices falling. Previous declines were slow enough to be called trends, often over ten or twenty years. But this is no decline, it is a collapse.]
Just in, DOGE has announced the termination of up to 15,000 IRS employees. Um, TMOR, I should point out that all government workers are on probation for the first year, sometimes two years. They can be fired for any reason, but usually it is for not fitting in. They are most of the terminations. The real deep cuts into entrenched Democrat moles has not happened yet. And not one arrest.
X reports scores of former FBI and CIA agents are purging their accounts. It’s funny listening to Democrats scream they are afraid Musk gets access to their personal data. Morons, I mean the guy used to own PayPal for crying out loud. On that topic, I believe an acquaintance of mine got his bank account hit for $4,300. I can’t ask, but if it’s true, he’ll say something. Because he was all about how other people were paranoid and how nothing had happened to him. Like most, it had already happened but he was too clueless to know it. I doubt he draws any link to his lack of security.
Computer security is much like DNA testing. You can take all the precautions you want to prevent your bio-data from getting into the wrong hands, but then your idiot brother gives a sample and your are screwed.
ADDENDUM
Looking again at the loading coil question, I think a starting place might be to rig up a test at some standard frequency and work up from there. Every source I read this morning was useless after the first new sentences. This is typical of the “brownie point” culture. Posting just enough to fool the uninitiated, I’ve now lived long enough to see it become a way of life. Still, unless I undertake a crusade, I’d best devise a plan. I think, since there are 2 variables, they must be connected by some formula. Next, I think, I should hunt around to find where I’ve seen that formula, then using that information, find a website that has a calculator to produce the results. Check with me later.
