One year ago today: June 23, 2025, BangBang.
Five years ago today: June i23, 2021, dictated by what works.
Nine years ago today: June 23, 2017, real life is cheaper.
Random years ago today: June 23, 2009, living off a few hits.
This is a day for me to build specialty boxes. Taylor is at some sort of kick-off party, it’s a phase she’s going through. Me, I’ve learned and it is quiet time, by the way I have zero symptoms today and will be lifting things all morning. I want boxes for my cables, spare batteries, and the general junk any working man will accumulate. Did you know I hold the unofficial National Title for the number of broken small drill bits? That is why, on this afternoon’s shopping trip, I will purchase sixteen more of these in various sizes—all of which will soon have their own storage box.
What you see here is first the laser cut. This is actually three identical passes to provide enough for a good grip. The second panel shows spooning the liquid putty into the pits. There seems no easy way to get it only into the lettering, remember I’ll learning all this just now same as you. In the last pic, I try so smooth the surface, but it causes a smear that obliterates the pattern.
That was a good morning’s effort, thanks for the moral support. I played some of my favorite word puzzles as I philosophized whatever happened to my can of green paint when I hit on my highest scoring word ever, “augmented” for 1,009 points. That’s beating out 138 “champions” who we know are mostly using A.I. Nobody consistently comes up with 19-letter words every day if you ask me. The suspect word today was ‘disrespectabilities’, although I would believe it if I saw him do it.
At least I’m getting my money’s worth. Not so for ABC, the worst of the fake news operators. Trump has sued them for slanderous reporting time and again, and this time Trump has got them for presenting the $16 million repair bill for the Reflecting Pool as corruption. ABC failed to mention Obama had spent over $35 million on the same project with no visible repairs. These ABC people are slow learners and Trump continues to put the money received into public and charitable causes.
Wrecked Montreal stadium.
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Few know of the Kra Canal but the concept is over 300 years old. Even the Suez guy looked at cutting a 24 mile waterway across the waist of Thailand. That’s a long ditch but there are no real mountains in the way and there is a new backer—China. It’s said the biggest opposition is from Singapore, which would stand to lose billions. The Malacca waterway, other than it military value, is a pirate-infested gauntlet. But don’t expect much, the cost would likely approach $40 billion and take 10 years to complete.
Chintzy fence pieces, that is what I saw in the lumber place today. These look a bit like fence pieces, but they are only 35” high by around the same length. Too cheap for anything, I’d though they were for decoration. The literature says they are for yard use. Harumph, you can pretty well step over them and they would not keep out 90% of dogs. Selling for $10 a foot, says the card “above ground portion only.”
94°F. Nope, we are not going out there today, unless it is an emergency like a coffee outage or if Taylor wants to play hopscotch. Where is that box of Columbian roast, oh, here it is. I paid the wifi bill and came straight home, only to flake out under the A/C. See those blocks around Lil Texas? I bought of them instead of going to the movies. I mean really, “The Death of Robin Hood” and the Michael Jackson story ain’t getting my twenty bucks. But carrying those ten blocks twenty feet over two by two totally winded me.
Have you ever tried to get a nail to bend just the say you want it? I finally said to hell with it, I’ll bend the nail tomorrow using the bench vise and then glue the damn nail in place. This is why you sometimes get these thrilling pictures of the strap-hinge installation procedure. I’ve had these moments my entire life, it’s just that fifty years ago they were not the main event. Right, Judy?
ADDENDUM
G.I. Joe is 62 years old today. Here is a shot from a Trump rally this week. It is getting difficult to simply point at the news without seeming pro-Trump. In reality, I think the guy is a bit of an ass—while seeing that is what got him elected because that is what was required. Still, he’s a bit overboard rubbing the Leftists nose in it, maybe he should at least wait until after the mid-terms. Then, after what the Democrats did to him and his family, he has every right. Here is a photo that by itself illustrates what is about to happen to the Democrats in November, the Democrats often try to fake such scenes. But they are far too dependent on obvious hired help.
Later, I tuned in to Gab to see. Once again, politics dominates but there is a persistent presence of posters who seem to think everybody is still intensely concerned over what they perceive as the unfinished business of COVID. On they go about the source, the funding, the evil of hesitancy, and rehashing the same narratives from 2020. They must be getting paid. I say the only people still obsessed with the topic are the heavily vaxxed and boosted who have not died yet, barraging the world over their stupid life decisions.
Sadly, it looks like Gab has gutted their one true attraction—the anonymous posting of memes with often-drastic messages. They seem to have capped the number of posts unless you reveal your identity, so all the really good material is no longer present. Let me pick the articles that interest me.
Trump has more than learned not to confront the entrenched Democrats head-on. He’s weaving an elaborate plan to undermine their support, both voters and money. Today he fired six bureaucrats from the intelligence agencies—out go the Deep State mall cops right before the elections. Trump has some master plan in operation and things are well past the stage the Democrats could ever hope to regain any legitimacy in our lifetimes. They are desperate, the world has seen this situation before.
India is moving to deport all Muslims. Do they know something we don’t?
