One year ago today: December 18, 2024, three tail fins.
Five years ago today: December 18, 2020,Facebook Google cartel.
Nine years ago today: December 18, 2016, south through Mulberry.
Random years ago today: December 18, 2006, once they get outdated.
Doctors’s orders, I do nothing today. That aroma is chicken corn chowder, man’s got to eat as well as drink coffee. I was in the morning cool setting the squirrel cam to catch them on the railing. Found out my heavy duty tripod, which must be adjusted with tools, isn’t high enough. Then I laid out the base for the compressor damp, hopefully you can imagine the zig-zag path I’ll train the sound to follow. There’s a close-up of the skid cutout, which saves me a step. Seen on the far right in one photo is a piece of the frame lumber, which you may also spot as recycled.
Now you are going to want to see the tripod, so here it is. This is the outdoor unit which is well-worn in and now requires more than hand-force to work the leg extensions. I’ve rarely used the full height, which is just under eight feet. This is moments after sun-up and kind of reveals the paradox concerning the amount of work and effort around here to plan out a day of doing nothing. Scout around, I know that tripod picture is nearby because I had to go get my pliers. That's right, it takes planning to take a day off around here, folks!
Hey, my attitude is that actually doing nothing is worse than some light activity. Walking to the kitchen and back does not count, Ken Sanchuck. And you still owe me $1,200. But the way I figure it, you probably owe lots more and it’s caught up to you by now. Let’s check the news filters. The Internet is overdue for a shakedown, in a way it is like the early English industrial revolution, where each machine was custom built. There were cases when passengers and cargo were held up for a week because of a broken bolt.
It was not until something like 1850 that somebody figured out the answer was standardization. In fact, I read somewhere it was nuts and bolts that were first made interchangeable. That’s were American mass production took off—they did not have a vast hundred-year-old factory system that needed to be converted over. For those who follow such things, you know that fancy Nescafé I bought for Xmas? Well, a third of it s gone already.
Nothing newsy, but some trivia. Fifty years ago 91% of women were married by age 30, today it’s 32%. They are not being asked, most common reason given by men is the ease with which women can divorce and get half your stuff. Or as RofR put it long ago, this is what happens when you let shysters turn marriage from a religious ceremony to a binding contract with every clause against the husband.
Australia by satellite, 2006.
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Mitch is again in his element. In Canada it is the middle of winter and hikers beware. If you see some dude with a flask of vodka going downhill at 30 mph, that’d be Mitch. He swears by the cold as much as I swear at it. See that microware tower in the background? That might as well be an oil rig because he’s in Alberta. He moved there direct from Houma (near New Orleans) and never came back. That was more than fifty years ago. Count ‘em, fifty.
A reminder that Caltier Fund 1 subscription closes in 12 days, so I’m finally going to get some kind of straight answer what that means. The contentious point is that although they quit paying out in March due to some SEC requirement, they have not told what that is, or why they have not paid out from general revenues. The contact clearly states we are part owners of each property and their newsletter makes it clear they are nearly 100% occupied by long-term tenants. The income up to March has been adequate, but adequate is not the reason people invest.
Gas in Los Angeles is around $7 per gallon as we receive news the Governor is shutting down two more refineries. I don’t follow California much. Gas will likely hit $10, meaning many people will be working for little more than to buy gas to get to work. Yet, the place continues to elect Democrats and/or allow them to rig elections. Until they stop that, nobody’s going to help them.
Two news items I have an opinion on. The Brown shooting and the suicide attempt in Peru. First, what is a 48-year-old Portuguese doing still in a US university? That has wasted taxpayer smell all over it. Second, the thug (van der Sloot) who beat a girl to death in Aruba for refusing him, needs to be punished for wasting our time. Even if he gets out of prison, he will be sent to the US for a twenty year sentence for extorting money from the girl’s mother. Even keeping such people alive is against the will of the people.
Who loves these on-line skip tracing people that want so much information that you would have to already know where the missing person lives? That’s the other thing, if they all use public information, why do we need such services? Another thing I disagree with is welfare offices in Hawaii. Why not open a branch in Disneyworld?
