One year ago today: July 30, 2024, eyes.
Five years ago today: July 30, 2020, electric becomes routine.
Nine years ago today: July 30, 2016, okay with canned peas.
Random years ago today: July 30, 2018, I miss the club.
To start, let me dispel the rumor that you cannot make au gratin potatoes in the microwave. Better yet, double the recipe, use half & half instead of milk, and butter instead of margarine. It will help you meet the day. Sweeney is helping by infuriating the blue-hair-nose-ring bunch, and if you ask me, she isn’t even all that pretty. Her jeans are not small enough. Find your own pic today, this is all I have for you. MicroSoft in the news again for blocking accounts like LibreOffice. These are apps that can open and use MicoSoft files, which MicroSoft has tried to combat by changing the file format. If you get stuck, read the addendum for a workaround.
Which brings up the public purse. Do the math, the tariffs have brought in $14,000 per US taxpayer. But I still don’t see my $5,000 DOGE rebate. Ever heard of the Yarlund Tsanpo? It’s the world’s highest river. In Tibet, it empties into the Brahmanputra. The Chinese want to throw a dam cross the deepest part of the canyon. That could politicize the only major water source of Bangla Desh and other worries as the place is an earthquake zone. The stats way it is three times the size of the Three Gorges, which has already slowed down the rotation of the Earth—by just over half a micro-second. Nor is Tibet happy about China’s domination.
Still putting the laser through some paces, I now recognize dozens of products, particularly coated metal, that have been “printed” in this manner. It will also print messages on paper money. In two passes, it will burn your favorite phrase right through the paper, but leaving these little filaments that hold the paper together. Kind of neat and non-erasable. Interesting, if the machine is on-line, there is a certain words it will not print unless you [do something I’m not going to tell].
Watching a video on the final stretch of border wall from the west to the Rio Grande makes me wonder if it was designed by DEI hirees. It has been breached by ordinary cutting tools something like 3,000 times. Cut one beam at the bottom and the thing swings out of the way. Anyway, I took a closer look at the dimensions of standard picket lumber the smaller size has no pattern that matches the Golden Ratio. To make it fit the bird species most common here, the existing birdhouse design needs 6 piece 4-1/2 inches long, and the maximum size is 4 inches. There is only so much you can do with birdhouse design.
A close look at the accessories for the laser show a table with adjustable parts that basically start the laser from a predictable spot. For now I’ve learned to eyeball the pieces which is well enough for cutting on item at a time. I cannot find the directions to set the laser to coordinates, unless it is some tedious process in the back of the manual. I see the markings and a small screen for Cartesian values. If I can build a base that fits the unit, it will also speed up the mechanical focusing process.
And just when I need it, the Rural King site is down. We are shopping for another “chicken coop” heater off-season. I know they have them, but I’m not even setting out before I know the store is still there.
Highest mountain in Texas.
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The daily high point gets mentioned, and today it was a drive to Winter Haven. While it could be my finally slowing down to normal, I have a motive. Duty binds me to report I cheated. Y’day I did not follow the daily exercise routine from physio. And this morning I somehow got all the way to now (late afternoon) with zero. It’s not the same as just no pain, because even that situation has a side-effect, it let’s you know the potential for hurt is lurking. Kind of a reminder not to get too comfy. I don’t know if was skipping the day and going direct to the Festus movie, but I took all of today to enjoy this first truly twinge and pang-free day in years.
Despite a boom, the Fed has refused to lower interest rates. Why? Because it would also help Trump. The days of the anti-Trumpers are numbered. (But I could care less, I do not borrow money.) I subscribe to the theory that the way you acted during COVID is exactly who you really are.
As a back-up, there are some 7/8” staples. But on thin wood, the tool must be held quite parallel or the same poke-through problem occurs. I also chatted with the lady who now owns the lumber yard and there is a possibility of some shelf space, or even the boxes as displays or a tool box. I already have the jigs to make the Z-box with a lid, but where did I put them?
ADDENDUM
The creep who beat the Cincinnati woman unconscious was released on $400 bail, the police chief saying it was the fault of the bartender who over-served. (Turns out later that was from an earlier arrest, this time bail is $500,000.) MicroSoft is using file formats to force users into an illegal “lock-in” situation. You see this with MS 365, which uses the .docx and .xlsx suffixes. The damage is when you save the file without noticing the X, then try to open it later. It took me a moment to realize they are just zip files. It’s cumbersome, but if you really need your data, change the suffix to .zip and decompress it. If MicroSoft gets pissed, you tell them I said it was okay.
This, however, is not my endorsement of Linux. Linux had the opportunity to make that the most friendly of operating systems. Instead you got messy versions by the dozen, cryptic “mainframe” command lines (very easy to confuse with DOS/cmd), some bullsh about “flavors” and “distros” and no way to isolate drivers (and other operating components) into a simple directory structure. You know, where you can easily find them. God forbids Linux to give anything a name that is a descriptive commonly-used English word.
(Hint: Four candles.)
