One year ago today: July 5, 2025, even the good ones.
Five years ago today: July 5, 2021, way to go, Buzz.
Nine years ago today: July 5, 2017, tuning out: it’s a gift.
Random years ago today: July 5, 2004, Phoebe.
Ah, feeling great, but I’ll wisely keep things low-key today. I have the dowel maker on the bench only to find the instructions are rather flimsy. The physics are fairly evident, so you can work along with me. Plainly not every piece makes a dowel and there is a left and right to the operation. It appears you run the wood one direction, then the other, or possibly a rough cut, then a finer shave. You can tell my looking most people are going to screw up with this tool.
I don’t have a lot for you today. Here’s an history church in Franklin It has been torn town and rebuilt several times since 1811, but it billed as the genuine real deal. Maybe the phony museum business in Franklin is much bigger than I at first thought. My plans for today are to watch “Citizen Vigiliante” and drink coffee. And pancakes, I already made pancakes.
Soon enough, boxes will take over this blog again, it is just the amount of exercise I need. And I’m getting closer to two final “small” designs. The spice box is nice, but dependent on finding a matching set of free knobs or drawer pulls. The smaller box, which I’ve taken to calling the “mini” is nice but kind of tiny to be practical. Maybe a desk organizer? All benefit from the Fake logo. I could not find a suitable laser printer this trip.
Funny, innit? We have another flurry of A.I. videos on single World War II topic. Japanese and German POWs being sent to prison camps in the US. The theme is always the same, they thought they would be killed, tortured, starved, etc. Instead they were all astounded by the great food and abundance. Did I say funny? Because not one of these ever portrays the opposite point that is being made. If these enemies had nothing, no luxury items, no basics for survival, why was it taking the USA years to beat them rather than just weeks. Oops, that’s one of those questions they do not like to be asked.
Found Money, not a household word, but my most famous account. It’s the money I find blowing in the streets. It has a sad legacy we can dodge for now. It’s the account where any unexpected money gets socked away. And the “White” account has over $1,500. This would include rebates, but mostly it is from my spare change bucket. The ADD (anti-dormancy deposits) are back and I have not emptied the bucket since August last year when I began feeling badly. I don’t know what is there but the box, a neat wooden box, feels over $60 heavy. That would be a good start.
How Elvis left the building.
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The vigilante movie is not what I expected, the plot is kind of disjointed. But the individual scenes are well done. As for the bad guys, talk about type-casting. Parts like the armored car shootout are overdone, but there is an good portrayal of the police shortcomings. I’ve pointed out before that police should be chasing criminals instead of handing out traffic tickets. Otherwise, they are too often nothing but thugs in uniforms. They cannot demand ID without due cause, so they call it a driver’s license, and nobody squawks. All they had to do was convince you driving was a privilege. You get the idea. The average person today believes the police have rights that never existed.
I’m examining the dowel pieces, they seem reasonably well designed but there is much they are not telling you. For example, the direction of the grain in the wood, the amount the end has to be tapered, and not to use a battery-powered drill. I’ve used a simpler device and have some idea what to expect here. First thing, this tool needs a nice wooden box.
Here are the old and new calipers, with arrows toward the broken part. I wasted too much time trying to fix the old pair on the left. As can be usual with used equipment, when I fixed the first problem, the next one came along. It appears there is something wrong with my 40x objective lens. I suspect it had been lowered into smudge, sure signs some kids were playing with it. Dang, a good new model is nearly $50.
I filled the birdfeeder and got ready to put some boxes together tomorrow. The right amount of exercise, I’m sure of it. I received a letter from LizJohn, it now takes 12 days for first class mail to get here from Vancouver Island, Giving computers to millennials was always a foolish idea. I mean, give them toys, but not tools. I’m reminded of that warning that supplying unlimited energy would be like handing a kindergarten kid a machine gun.
The fake news is again about the J6 people suing Nancy for $350 million. It’s bogus, but I’ve wondered why they’ve never filed a class action. Pelosi has the assets to pay. The big Antifa jail sentences continue in Texas. One tried to kill herself but no news on why she failed. Six of America’s least-educated cities are in California. Saudi Arabia has banned all Christian churches. A California man who won $2 billion in the lottery took home just $624 million after taxes.
ADDENDUM
I wanted a challenge so I took a peek at something I’ve used for years but never understood. Floating point numbers. This is where numbers, especially very large or small ones, are represented by a decimal number raised to an exponent. We are used to squares and cubes where the exponent is 2 and 3, but I do no comprehend number like 10 to the 6,145th power. I think I’ll leave that kind of arithmetic to the people who love such things.
I’m also paying more attention to ArriveD, which is the same outfit as the Lofty.ai people I could not get to speak real English last year. They claim they are liquid because you can always sell your shares to other buyers. I dunno, that is not quite the same thing, Tyler & Brandon. I’m reaching the same conclusions as with Caltier. The rental market is much more stable than the housing market. Rents don’t drop 20% in a crisis.
My attention fell on their Real Estate Fund. Rather than invest in shares of properties, this fund makes short-term loans to professional renovators and such. The loans are secured by the properties, though that is rarely a swift option in real life. I’m not to happy with Caltier sitting on things for over a year, but same thing, I am part owner of the properties. You always get your money, but it could take a very long time.
