March 6, 2025

Yesteryear
One year ago today: March 6, 2025, more boxes.
Five years ago today: March 6, 2021, something to hide, ha-ha.
Nine years ago today: March 6, 2017, refurbished.
Random years ago today: March 6, 2009, Pete the Rock.

           Begin week six of recovery and I have a few mild signs of improvement. Howie was over to see if I need anything. As usual, we got to talking machinery and such. I learned something new, you know those pneumatic spikers for house framing? They use banks of spikes which have a yellowish tinge. I wrote that off as part of the galvanizing treatment. Wrong, it is glue. Turns out the nails were able, over time, to work loose due to their smoother surfaces.

           As the nail is driven in by the piston, it gets hot and I can verify that a few times over. The glue is designed to melt and grip. Makes sense. And I now know that Howie has a tool I can borrow. He liked the way I used screws instead of nails on my fence panels and now we have the most wind-resistant fences in the neighborhood.
           Howie also has an alert about anesthetic, another peril they omitted to mention. His sibling required a series of operations. Apparently this progressively dulled the taste buds. And did so in a peculiar way. The first few bites are great and then the food becomes tasteless. This is exactly what I experienced in the hospital.

           The squirrels gobbled a week’s supply of sunflower seeds out of my best feeder. They can’t tip it and pour the seeds like they used to, so today we set up the game cam and discover their latest antic. I was up early but too drained, though I watched what I could find about the killing of the Iranian dictator. Strange they got him, the most heavily guarded man on Earth. I have a theory on that. It is based on US military intelligence, which is based on the slickest and most secret brand of snooping in history, called Google. They just did not know how advanced we are in that department. That was the first of three mistakes made by Iranian security.
           Next, they seem to have ignored the US lead in drones. The reports of how it was the Ukraine or Iran leading the world in drone warfare overlooks the fact drones were invented here. The way the Iranian radar system was taken out on day one spells out their defenses were overwhelmed, which means drones. It seems the Ayatollah was likely moved between bunkers via deep tunnels around central Tehran. They got him anyway.

           The videos showed a block of flattened buildings with little collateral damage. This tips us off they only knew his general location. So they bombed them all. I heard the nonsense about the bunkers being bomb-proof. Fools believe that old tale. Even Winston Churchill knew the trick was to drop a second bomb down the hole caused by the first.
           Later, cancel today. A trip to the pharmacy put me out for four hours. That’s another downside for me, a disruption in sleep schedules makes days disappear. What happened to this week? I do not remember. And last month is already a blur. On the other hand, it’s easy to recall the Shahed drone that is just now getting the latest press coverage was reviewed here back in 2022.

Picture of the day.
Tuba museum.
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           I had to invest in bandages, $27 these days. The trip downtown was exhausting, so continued watching “1408”, the haunted hotel movie, which reverted to cliché bits I did not care for. What was more amusing was “Bullet”, the audiobook. Once you get past the girly-talk, it has a real plot. I can only take so much about what she had for breakfast and how sensible her shoes were. She goes to visit people who knew her murdered parents to discover there were only two bullets fired.

           The one who killed her father, which went through him into the door frame, and the other went through her mother. The killer could not find it, because it was in her neck all these years. Now we have the possibility if the bullet is removed, modern forensics may be able to find new evidence. This could take a while, as we first have to listen to a few disks about all the men who are chasing her. So far, that is her doctor, neighbor, co-worker, ex, the newspaper editor, and some guy I already can’t place. All putting the squeeze on her.
           No surprise this trip downtown (the local CVS closed) tuckered me out, so pause for a nap. Seeking distraction, I saw a few seconds of a Trabant, reputedly the worst car in the world in its time. Following the link, I found the old movie “Man From U..N.C.L.E. which I’ve never seen. Not the TV show, the movie. I see it is a modernized version, where the women have acting talent instead of looks. Sad.

ADDENDUM
           How are home sales faring since I last looked? Told you, prices keep rising while sales drop off. There has to be a break. I don’t think the bust will be big enough. Houses should cost around $80,000 in my opinion. And of course I would like to see many a bragging home owner shot down in flames.

           The thing that I notice is the slowdown of institutional buying. Where is Blackrock? Another item is Caltier. I had to quit checking right around the time the offering expired. It was too exhausting by mid-December. I was also about to change the log-on and contact info when I got laid low. I had the Reb check and there is a problem. One aspect is that she will not quit using Google and that prevents me from logging into the e-mail unless I get a passcode on her phone every time.

           She says we are losing money, now I cannot log on, Caltier rejects my password. My understanding is they invested only in positive cash flow buildings, so I expect there should be dividends. Normally, I would have been in Tennessee on December 5 to take care of this.
           We also talked about monetizing several companion features of this blog, such as the countless videos you never see because they are real time and people. It boils down to youTube and TikTok. I dislike TikTok because of that “Internet” thing about requiring constant new input to get paid. That is, you cannot upload a bunch of great content and sit back for the royalties, the way it should be. They want a minimum input each period that turns membership into a job. These sad people have no idea how badly they are sewering themselves in the future.

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