February 26, 2025

Yesteryear
One year ago today: February 26, 2024, Sammy is ailing.
Five years ago today: February 26, 2020, not the best.
Nine years ago today: February 26, 2016, that wire spool, my starter,
Random years ago today: February 26, 2015, atrocious bank fees.

           Here is part of the amplifier circuit that determines if I can build my own acoustic bass. It’s using parts from my last trip to Skycraft and this rainstorm is my first chance to get some serious experimentation happening. Remember my first trip to Skycraft to get those 2N2222 transistors? Sure enough shortly after, I found my two missing packages of the things. This is why I want boxes and I put a hold on 90% of all purchasing until I get a decent inventory. Shown here is also the jackknife I liberated from the Reb. Turns out perfect for stripping small wires. She will NEVER get that knife back.

           Trump finally said it, the European Union was formed to screw the United States. Trump continues to pulverize the Deep State by closing field offices, a hiring freeze, and ending reliance on outside contractors. I view this as a preliminary to harsher moves. He knows the civil service is the enemy and he must crush them before anything else, including deportation of anchor babies, can begin. Buffy, the vampire gal, has died at age 29. I was unaware she’d had a liver transplant, a condition associated with advanced alcoholism. She was also vaxxed and pushed others to get vaxxed.

           Such a nice day, I opted to finish the laundry wall rather than work inside on boxes. It was good exercise, here is a picture of my $50 wall. Two window cutouts and 40 fence pickets are the major pieces. Lots of staples, the pneumatic tool is very easy on the small compressor. I have some small pieces to finish, make that later as I worked into the evening. There’s a spot where it gets chilly but you cannot turn off the fans or the mosquitoes will get you. Also, there was a truly horrid jazz festival on the radio and I can only take so much of that dissonant, grating, caterwauling.
           The church neighbor was going to chuck out two metal cabinet doors. I rescued them, the correct size for outside shelves. Once again, I worked over five hours without taking a real break and I will regret that before long. I just don’t feel tired and have pretty good flexibility. I don’t even thing twice about reaching up to close the rear hatch on the van—something that required careful exertion even a year ago.

           till, I have not learned to really go slow, trusting my physiology to pace myself and that has let me down. Shed wall is nice, but all of that lumber had to be lugged off the fan and around the fences into place. I made five trip and even that is a trade-off. I would have put the hillbilly to work. I have not found his location yet, but it is likely Frostproof. There is no help available now that he’s gone, likely forever.
           I’ve got two more age-related troubles to report. My inability to see things on end is now very severe, but confined to small nearby objects. It’s odd, if I put a pencil down facing away from me, I can’t see it. I tested by looking once I find the object. I see the shelf and surrounding items, but not the pencil. Unless I lay it down across the desk.
           Another is knocking things over when I turn away. I’m fine with tools and materials, as ling as I see them. But with increasing and noticeable frequency, as I turn aound and walk away, something winds up on the floor. It’s as if my mind is telling me I’m as skinny as I used to be.

Picture of the day.
Belgian train station.
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           Here is the last of one Linden tree, blooms and all. This one grew directly in the walkpath to the red shed and I finally walked around it one too many times. It was contributing nothing, don’t worry about the wood and flowers, trust me, linden trees are not on the endangered list around here.

           ime for some plumbing repair. I have a leak somewhere under the kitchen floor. II noticed it too lake in the dark to do anything so that takes care of tomorrow. The only access to that part of the floor is the kitchen, which involves moving everything out of the way to get at it. We’ve done this before for the electric wiring.
           Later, I heard definite water leaking, but there is no plumbing under that section of the floor. Maybe we will finally get the new hot water heater working after all. The good news is there are only two pipes in the kitchen and it is all easy to repair CVPC. I’m in the mood for a chicken and horseradish sandwich.

           It seems there is a reversal of fortune with nautical almanacs. I use the “blue book” and sales have been rising. This bucks the trend that on-line and free sources should eventually kill the paperback version. The logical reason for book sales would seem more people are aware of the danger of relying on other media. While the almanac is pretty dry reading, every time it has been reviewed it gets five stars, no pun intended.

           How is our original Jason Bourne doing? It’s dragging, I see now the plan was for a television series. Now the Canadian woman is an enemy of the state. They seem to be able to book into luxury hotels with false names, which is the way it should be. Hotels are the worst for presumption of guilt.
In the news we have reports of FBI offices and cities openly defying the law. Seems to me the leftoids think they are going to get away with another 2016-2020 slowdown game. But they had the Deep State to protect them.
           There is no fixing such people, they must be fired without pension. All of them even the parties that knew it was wrong and said nothing. Where they feared losing their jobs, now they must be shown that is a certainty. Anyone who feels sorry for them should be reminded of what they did to the pipeline workers.
           The WHO may be folding. If so, they lasted one month without free US money. And rumor also has it the government employees who are being canned are losing their pensions. Now that is real progress. Today’s list says it is the ones who raided Mar-a-Lago. The ones who stole Melania’s underwear. They deserve pain, long and enduring. When asked about the Epstein files, the reply was that on Friday we get some of the flight logs.

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