One year ago today: January 24, 2025, a quarter of my pay.
Five years ago today: January 24, 2021, the company car.
Nine years ago today: January 24, 2017, the panes rattled.
Random years ago today: January 24, 2004, unopenable packages.
What is that aroma? It’s a mixture. Blueberry muffins in the oven, curried rice in the microwave, potatoes boiling in bay and dill, gravy, a medley of onions, celery, and chopped chicken in the pan, and all the coffee you could want. Yes, I know, mmmmm that bay leaf. Plus key lime pie in the fridge. This may be my last weekend, so why conserve? Let’s find some morning news to make snarky comments over.
Another ICE shooting, some clown pulled a gun during an arrest. The Democrats will soon elevate him to sainthood. Bondi, head of legal stuff, announced she has sent the arch-criminal Tim Walz a letter. Strongly-worded, no doubt. That’s it, nothing else interesting. What a fruitless waste, I may opt to find some Monty Python youTube. This is not shaping up a productive day.
I slept all day, but I did find you this clip from last week. It is an updated view of the cat studio, this time with the round door cut out. Feral cats may not take a liking, but something will eventually move in. The dimensions are too small for a raccoon. Don’t laugh, since I took ill in November, this is neater than my place. My housekeeping lately is best described as “there appears to have been a struggle.” Did I already use that one?
There is something unusual. Around half the sites where the cardiac test stickers were removed have become surface abrasions and are not showing signs of healing. One in particular has become worse, but is now stable. How strange and I’ll keep things monitored. Maybe I’ll watch Johannson in “Lucy”.
Later, I finally watched this strange movie. Alas, no real shots of Scarlett without a ton of foundation garments. But the plot makes more sense if you are familiar with physics, evolution, and the real Big Bang.
Wait, this just in. The guy shot by ICE was a brainwashed liberal. At 37 years old, his parents had to phone him and tell him to behave. He was carrying a 9mm pistol. There is speculation the agents could not hear anyone saying the gun was disarmed because of all the liberal screaming noise. We may have this shoved on us for a while to come, how he was an American citizen and had a gun permit. Watch for a new law stopping people from turning their phones into premium lines that charge spam callers by the minute.
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Florida is sold out of all supplies. Storms that don’t get this far south are the cause of many mild winter days. I doubt this spell is any different, but taking no chances I inventoried 34 servings of coffee. I’ll be fine. And SPAM, the only ration you can trust when the power goes out. I’m taking needless chances here due to the tight money situation. I don’t know if my propane unit works or if I have any gas. Cold spells don’t usually bother the electric. So, let’s do a star sight.
Now we offset for the 9 minutes 31 seconds past the hour by adding 2° 23.1’, so Altair is positioned directly above 158° 11.2W by 08° 54’N. That translates in Googlespeak to -158.1792 longitude and 54.8640 latitude. Somewhere near Kodiak Island in the Alaskan archipelago. Let’s zoom in. Aha, we have non-wilderness nearby. Welcome to Perryville, Alaska, population 88, Wiki reports the median income for females is $38,750 and for males, it is $0. I’ll let you figure that one out for yourself.
More interesting is the booming nearby metropolis of King Cove, population 792, it is site of the former Peter Pan Seafood processing plant. Famous mostly for not paying t
he fishermen, the plant lost millions before being shuttered last year. The staff learned of losing their jobs via Facebook, hooray American innovation! Juneau assures us that King Cove remains “rich in cultural heritage”.
There is a well-done drone video with Journey as the backing track. To help you immerse in the King Cove ambiance, minus the fish-pong, of course.
ADDENDUM
Here’s a gif generated directly off an Internet video. My first. It’s a command well-hidden behind the PrtScr key. I’ll describe the usage, if it works right you will see a gif video of two doggies.
1. Find some footage you like. You do not have to record the whole thing.
2. Leave the footage on your screen in a convenient central location.
3. Ensure you can work the start button. (You can stop the recording any time.)
4. Choose the PrtSc button and find this tool box. You want the little camera icon.
5. Click on the camera and drag the cropping rectangle over exactly what you want.
6. You have 3 seconds to click the start button where you want.
7. While recording, be ready to click the red RECORDING dot to stop.
You can leave the screen running after you hit the red dot, you are done. Now find the ScreenRecordings folder. It is usually in your Videos folder. There are also snipping and audio tools, but you can play with those on your own time. Designed by GenXers, the controls are finicky and non-intuitive. The resultant videos are MP4 and cannot be edited using classic MovieMaker. Duh.
The app may show a watermark, but it disappears when you replay the clip. The file will not loop, but I'll figure that out over coffee later. If I'm around, that is. Gawd, I'm getting fateful. You may ask, why did I not just make a mini-videoo of all this instead of spelling it out? Because that would be demonstrating a trust in Google that has never existed in the alert mind.
