One year ago today: June 8, 2024, relearning eBay.
Five years ago today: June 8, 2020, not academically taxing.
Nine years ago today: June 8, 2016, seethe, not simmer.
Random years ago today: June 8, 2013, we tried, back in 1996.
The plans for today may not fly. First thing, an order came if from New York for some rather rare Zenith power tubes. I never knew what these are for, but they are heavy duty in a metal can. Which affords me the day off. Decisions. Let’s glance at the news. I told you Trump was setting the libtards up for a taste of their own medicine. They figured they’d call out the National Guard on Trump and now their own riots and violence created the opposite. Some 2,000 infantry put things in order instantly. The message is clear—Trump now has the confidence and support to use troops. This could spell doom for the professional troublemakers who depend on local police sympathies and indecisiveness.
Here’s a view that confirms I am literally up past my eyeballs in boxes. You can see my eyeball in the upper left, ha-ha. What a wonderful pastime. I took $25 out of the kitty and called it a day. A stay at home day, I suppose I could do the movies, but instead watched some older on-line offerings. Have I finally succeeded in training myself to stay at home? It’s a nice place to be but this place needs a good spring cleaning and yard sale. By early afternoon got my $25, meaning things are changing for me more now that in the past ten years. It had to happen but I already regret not having enough time to really accomplish things in this life. But, that’s what happens when you spend the first half of it just trying to get on your feet.
“Flying Tigers” is back to more drama than needed, but I remain impressed by the attention to detail. Although the Chinese who faced the Japs spoke Mandarin, these actors speak Cantonese. The dialogue is also very proper, but it has been so many years since I had anyone to speak with, I barely recognized basic words. So many missed opportunites. No box sales this week, by the way. I’ve developed a sore thumb but can’t so far place what part of the operation is at fault. It does not affect my bass playing.
The Imperial, Augusta.
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There is no news out of Los Angeles. Have the riots stopped? Either way, it was well-played by Trump, soon nobody will feel sorry for these illegals. I was in the shed a couple hours and finished some other boxes. It has finally become routine and I now prefer working with the pneumatic stapler. Once you learn to turn the piece instead of the tool, you get pretty good at spacing the staples consistently. I’m making a generally better-looking box.
I reviewed the vacuum tube database and calculated the storage space for the expensive tubes. I need the rest of the space back. I’m glad things are quieter, but I miss the party life, being on stage, getting paid for having fun. No word from Roberto in two weeks. That’s nothing in this business. Now that I really like the tune “Only Daddy”, I can’t sing it and play it in E, the original key. I have some options but the song is best played in E due to the string spacing.
The new detective audiobook is a cut above the usual. Very well-produced and the theme is unusual. This kid from a church mission gets killed. Here’s my theory. The kid was released from death row by the Innocence Project. He got a settlement and used it to fix up his mother’s house and donated the rest to the mission. I figure the mission is a front and everybody who works there is in on it. The kid was snuffed by a rival cartel. But I’m only on disk 2.
I’m craving something new to read. Some new topic to exercise the brain. Later, we have more news of riots in Los Angeles. It is about deportation and it is a battle the illegals will lose. Once the total deportations reach a couple million, it will impact every election of any size. And if they get all ten million out of California, the Democrats will never win again. America is watching.
And silver approaches a high at $36.59. The highest price ever was $49.95 in 1980 with the Hunt Brothers. But very few people paid that much, if I recall around $40 was usual. But in 1980, I didn’t have a pot to piss in. In fact, after living expenses, I was operating at a deficit, sustained only by tip money from a third-rate bar band whose people I can’t even remember.
I recognize the MRI unit at the clinic. They bought it used. I see the typical machine weights 20,000 pounds. Used they average a half a million each. I once looked at becoming a radiologist tech, the older machines are a maintenance money pit. It is 10:50:09 GMT and Aries is directly above 42°42.8’W. A star I never heard of called Gacrux has a sidereal angle of 171°59.8’W at a declination of 57°13.9’S. Googlewise, that is -214.6816° by -57.2224°.
Again we are south of Tasmania, around half-way to Antarctica. I know this place, the nearest land is McQuarrie Island. There is a research station and an airport. The rocky island was covered in moss until the introduction of rats, rabbits, and mice. These varmints were finally exterminated over seven years, ending in 2014.
