One year ago today: November 5, 2024, heated seats,
Five years ago today: November 5, 2020, Smithville.
Nine years ago today: November 5, 2016, one incredible day!
Random years ago today: November 5, 2008, “admirably attractive”.
Here’s your reminder that in Florida you are never really alone. This juvenile must be new, still trying for a midnight snack at the bird feeder. The pole that’s blocking him is now shod completely in squirrel-resistant cladding, so he got nowhere. But I’ve heard him out there the last couple of nights before I set up the camera. I had to make sure what kind of critter it was since I could hear it sounded bigger than a possum. Maybe I’ll set up in the path along the north, as you rarely get just one visitor.
The Kaiser has moved and is actually closer to the new address in Franklin, TN. Remind me everybody is getting boxes for Xmas this year, ha-ha. Actually, no kidding, everybody seems to like and compliment the design. For now, let’s make my grits special and get that central subfloor down. Or else those of you who said the new stove would never happen will be almost right. What? It just grits with chopped sausage and onions, and a chicken bouillon cube. Because grits by itself is like, mostly water.
I ran out of data again, odd because my useage has gone down from the summertime. So I was downtown and it cost me another morning. Paying the bills took until past noon. That’s partially me, from when my back hurt. I learned to walk at a more measured pace and on no tme it becomes habit. While pain is fleeting, you don’t want to do anything to provoke it. Next thing you know, instead of walking, I find myself moseying along. I guess it makes sense.
At the WPM, I learned if dismantled pieces can be made less than 20 pounds, then just leave the old stove at the curb. I removed all the loose panels in no time and got under the limit. I might disappear for a couple hours, all this felt a bit like lifting weights. Unless Taylor walks in that door, I’m curling up with a book. Meanwhile, McDonalds is rounding off change due to a shortage of pennies. I have some they can have for $1.49 each limited time offer.
The audiobook “Buried Secrets”, while having a predictable plot, moves well and is rather current with technologies and techniques, and even mentions the Mercury project, the government’s cover up of sneaking black ops money into risky investments. But it goes further to delve into the nature of those projects and sticks to believable facts all the way. Yes, America is 10% owned by Saudi Arabia and all our major defense contractors are Chinese-owned. The point is, these sales took place at the highest levels so I’m not surprised how this plot may be based on fact.
And it is so nice that the rich have their own private therapy clubs where their kidnapped kids can bathe in complete luxury until they get well enough to become token chairpersons of the family business.
The Tonga alphabet.
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How about a number of firsts for me? This is a pinion gear drawn and cut with the laser. I’m now cutting some more complicated patterns now that I’ve seen it can slice through pizza cartons. The trick is to slow the laser down, which can be set to less than the text box will allow by adding a decimal point. What did we learn? I arbitrarily chose DXF files and downloaded the shapes shown here. The pink background is just for contrast. There are four cut objects shown.
The patterns are not designed for easy size changes or cuts below a certain minimum. Those two box pieces, for example, can only be cut from a sheet that is some ten times larger than shown here. As you zoom in to make the pieces fit your cutting table, they get further apart. Worse, they cannot be cut separately. But this is not new technology, there must be something out there that works better.
What’s not in the book? Watch for hot spots. The laser is hard to adjust to cut through the substrate without scorching whatever is underneath. Compared to the “branding iron” designs I made from jpeg files, the DFX is super-fast. And, it follows the contours of the design where the jpegs zip back and forth across the one surface, like an old dot matrix printer, constantly turning the laser off and on.
There is one site called LaserBiz that pops up on every search, but I’ll avoid it. These sites are full of pictures of the laser model cuts, and that site sets off every virus signal I have and my AdBlock software will not allow the pictures to display. Some of the printing is Cyrillic, so it might be another of those Russian assholes who think they are clever at this.
What’s this, a Bruce Willis film I have not seen? Pirated or free on-line, of course. I know about the decline of movie theaters and how it is blamed on everything except the $12 popcorn and the $9 bottle of water. We are about to watch “Cosmic Sin”, but after I drag the stove parts out to the curb. A late afternoon cloud cover and I got all the really heavy trash out of the back yard to the front curb. Also the two parts of the stove, although one was a mite over the 20-lb limit. I got the brushes trimmed and kudzoo uprooted all around the mailbox and dug up the linden shoots from where they should not be.
Inside, I got the old flooring up and out the door. It will be reused, but it is sliced into two-foot widths whose weight I could handle back in April. A full sheet of the permanent flooring is down but expect another delay. The piece fit so well that I’m going to buy another sheet and make some cuts to use those for the entire main work space of the kitchen. It was $108 per sheet a few months back but now $64 for top quality. The kitchen is that important around here that I’m going for the best. Expect that for a while after, the floor will be plywood, a décor choice not that uncommon in my youth.
This Willis movie really sucks. It’s a string of clichés, humans turned into bullet-proof zombies the men soldiers want to kill and the women soldiers want to nurture. Low budget effects, bad acting and the dreaded Q-Bomb. It was one of the few movies I did not bother watching. The Prez reports from the frozen north that bands are hard to find there, smack in the middle of fiddle-banjo country. He mentions Scranton, which I’ve heard of only, I’ll look it up later. Same as me, he goes to jams. One sporting item is the tunes he now jams—they are the top 3 or 4 we had arranged, including tunes like “White Liar” and “You Better Kiss Me”.
That makes sense. I never played those before our duo, which makes them arranged from the ground up, which makes them exceptional jamming material. So we would both have the most experience playing those versions to accompany others. Doing things right is an indelible experience you can’t get any other way. I also sent a note to Ray-B who has not been heard from in a month.
The MSM is at full volume blasting the great Democrat “sweep” of some local mid-terms. It’s generally known they cheated again, using standard Democrat methods. Counting machines breaking down and running out of ballots in red districts, and ballots containing the blue candidates name more than once. It’s a sign of what to watch for, however it is acceded that Republicans made a serious mistake running a non-White candidate against a White opponent. I wonder who came up with that one.
The investigation into the jewel theft at the Louvre reveals that the password to the security system was “Louvre”. I don’t know what to make of reports that 3/4 of users that switched to A.I. have reported production incidents, that is, costly coding errors. There is an old programmer’s saying that in order to teach a dog, the one thing you need to know is more than the dog.
YouTube has really gone downhill with the advent of A.I. Most documentaries are now cartoons with animations that reflect the inaccuracies of the narrative, most of which seems lifted from wartime propaganda. I not sure how the finances work, but this crappy downgrade would indicate A.I. is a money-saver for the posters, but at the sacrifice of quality. Also, many videos I have bookmarked over the years such as vacuum tubes, tank treads, and how-tos have disappeared. I take that to mean there are some maintenance costs that cause them to gradually fade away. The pay-per-click or view system plainly encourages material geared to the very lowest mass mentalities.
ADDENDUM
A couple of blog quirks explained. On older posts you see a separate “Home” link. This is because when Google took over BlogSpot, their home button took you to their home. Most links are at the end of sentences, this is by design, so that when you return, you are at a known spot. While formatting this blog for Android would be a formidable task, I do use the obscure “blockquote” to display lists where possible. The famous indented paragraphs are still placed manually, with so far an estimated 155,400 times, but you are worth it.
The placement of quotation marks here often breaks the rule for end of sentences, which is largely due to the bad performance of the search-and-replace feature, but also because it is more blog-friendly by making it clear I am punctuating the clause or phrase, not the whole sentence.
The evolution of this blog style is not as influenced by other media as most. It remains primarily a journal of what interests me, but yes, I notice I have moved toward favoring technology over social issues. And there is no escaping that Trump has made politics, or the fight against it, now a part of daily life.
