One year ago today: January 16, 2025, it is unique.
Five years ago today: January 16, 2021, my real picture window.
Nine years ago today: January 16, 2017, Lem, the prisoner.
Random years ago today: January 16, 2004, a day at work.
The daily silver cycle has become predictable. I just don’t have enough silver to take advantage of the manipulation pattern. She was down to freezing overnight and I don’t have the cash for that kitchen heater. I still make coffee and grub, but get back to the heated office pronto. Trent checks in from Orlando, this New York weather is another thing not welcome here.
I admit it, I made coffee, saw the kitchen had done down to 45°F overnight, and snuggled back under the electric [blanket]. And stayed there until early afternoon. What’s this, another explosion in the Atlantic Northeast? I got ten bucks the State starts with an “M”. That’s where disrespect for Boomers began and the first to try maintaining the system with a smart phone. The fires are the “find out” phase.
I made up a grand batch of chicken fried rice, then slapped together the cat box from scraps. It’s not ready, but this is what it looks like so far. The question is what are the odds of all your 20V batteries going dead at the same time? The answer is, if you live in Florida, surprisingly good. This photo shows the day’s work, I didn’t get much else done except a burn barrel full of wood scraps and sawdust, some of which has been accumulating as long as five years. That is how I found all the scraps, it was a zero-beer fire. I have five Yueng-Lings in the fridge but she was cold enough I didn’t need the help.
Last day I wrote cat condo. I meant cat studio. This is a one-bedroom studio, you can see the doorway into the private quarters. There will be an entrance cut on the wall to the right once I get battery power. The carpet is not yet installed. The flooring is raised to allow circulation.
Things may look random but take a closer look at the sunlight pattern on the deck. The overhang is designed to allow the winter sun onto half the lounge area. As measured at this latitude by sextant. In summer, full shade.
If I knew what I was doing when I started five years ago, I would have bought tools differently. My advice to newbies is decide on the maximum size of stuff you want to build. To me, this cat studio is the upper limit. I would buy a radial arm saw, a compressor and air tools, at least eight clamps, and a cordless screw driver. Yep, that is how I would start today.
With the money I saved, I’d buy the best coffee maker I could afford. How are you doing with the vacuum tube PDF to XLS conversion? Not so well, I see. For me it is hinging on some subtle differences between the FIND and SEARCH formulas. If you’ve gotten this far, you know the trick is to treat the space after the two decimal points as the delimiter. But as you step though the row, you must accumulate the length of each previous string to each starting point—and it does not work right. The game is still on.
Salton Sea State Recreation Area.
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Ha, fake news but hilarious. Europe screaming for US military aid to defend Greenland against American aggression. That has got to be fake but there is little doubt Democrats would go for it—they have an established kick-back system. I went over to the old club to find a larger than usual crowd, that is, payday at the mines. The usual housewife contingent was there wit the same housewives doing the lesbo dance routine. The whole room including their husbands has learned to ignore them.
My plan was just to drop off the Polaroid One-Step for Wilford, but when I set it on the counter, all kinds of people took notice. The usual comment centered on how they all had one as a child. Interesting, everyone who spoke up must have once been far richer than I could have imagined Turns out these eBay for $150 smackeroos. I hung around for a couple hours, just sitting there, no pencil, no paper. A few women came over to see if anything was wrong.
ADDENDUM
The CROWS III system got my attention, but despite being in service by the thousands since 2013, there is very little hard info. It’s an aiming system that allows lasers, missiles, and guns to be remotely operated with a joystick and a computer screen. It surprises me the military did not have this twenty years earlier. That’s the rig you see on top of tanks and humvees, depicted here.
As shown, these are connected to the rather unique 50 caliber US machine gun. That weapon is a study in itself, more like a small cannon. When mated with the CROWS it is devastating. The computer calculates the ballistics, and range with reports that 95% of the bullets now hit the target. It’s noteworthy this is the first time in 100 years somebody thought to hide the gunner, who up to how always had to get outside and exposed to snipers.
Apparently part of the lasers job is to suppress or blind other people who are using lasers. It is adaptable to missile guidance but most of the systems are on tanks and trucks, at around $200,000 each.



