One year ago today: September 30, 2025, a busy enough day.
Five years ago today: September 30, 2021, thieves, amplifiers, pipes.
Nine years ago today: September 30, 2017, the thrift near Parrish;
Random years ago today: September 30, 2007, there was a pub.
Y’day was cancelled (which is not to say I did nothing the whole time), but this morning was the payoff. Other than and easy sore throat and hourly dry cough, I’m back to my 40% level. Big French toast and coffee meal to get me going, I know to pace it. I was up at 5:30AM and worked with my filament tester, making you this video. This is not patentable or that inventive, but it is remarkable for my skill level in April of 2016. I recall the devil of a time I had with this gadget, and how until now how I forgot it.
I burned nine laser labels using the disks from the biscuit joiner. I won’t use them unless a new project asks for them. The joints are nice but they are not strong enough on pieces big enough to warrant joining in the first place. And again pondering what I could have with the laser that isn’t competing with the dollar store. I lack imagination. But I did have a go at the part of this device which will not work, the pilot light. It is connected in parallel with the of/on switch and it tests okay with the bench supply. Y’know, I read somewhere that LEDs won’t work if they are “overpowered.”
But, where did I read that. Anyway my bench supply is limited to a an amp, but the transformer here (leftmost in the picture) is tapped of 120V. I need to find that formula. But later, it’s finally the end of September and I need a nap. By pure coincidence, the mileage on both my vehicles has passed the 2/3rds mark of my projections. The KIA is at 197,000. Comparatively it is in much better condition overall. Tampa reposts a big jump in used are prices based on three-year-old units. But if people will spend $32k on a used car, there is no talking sense to them.
Tel Aviv claims a high-jacking was avoided on a flight from Dubai, but most American are wary of any such reports. To many false flags and inside jobs. My electric bill is $85 more than last month, but I’ve also been home more to run the A/C, so it’s a bargain. The successful Starlink launch is the first of 26 more to place what is basically a whole new duplicate Internet it place. All banks, media, retail, and government will shortly move on to it. Overnight.
Government-issued digital ID will be required to access this new system. That is why Trump’s announcement of amalgamating today’s 29,000 government websites and databases into one big central system is so timely. Content and participation will be 100% government controlled. The old Internet will not survive for long.
Then again, there is an aspect to the one-big-database concept that would please me. It’s the ability to bill people directly for their political views. That’s a direct replacement for the current unfair tax system. The only people who support it are living off it. I would love to see it replaced by a system that bills people for their “causes”. You like single mothers on welfare, you pay your share along with the other like-minded.
This is something new that has never been tried before. It could not have been done in the pre-computer era. But if fully implemented, I believe it would cut wastage in half. Like they say, a staunch Republican is a Democrat who just won the lottery. “Yes, but now it is MY money.”
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Further analysis of my utilities show the increase is totally electric. $112.89. I may install a timer in the shed, as twice I forgot the compressor on overnight, though generally, billing rates are 18% higher over just the past two years. Remind me to drop in to see my real estate lady soon as this flu is over. This month also coincided with a meter-reading that carried a $53.37 correction. There goes the October mini-travel budget. That, and still no reliable guitarist. Not a peep from either, like Florida, mostly talk.
Mind you, the holdup with Steve is his job. I have a solution for lack of practice time. Book himself as an open mic and see who shows up. Most of the low-musis budget clubs are clustered in his area. Hang on, let me look at his list. I’m back, yes, we have more than enough material to pretend I’m an itinerant bass player who walked in. What we lack in musical finesse is easily clobbered by the presentation once we get into the music. I’ll send him a note. Everything musical in Florida is a long shot.
Here’s something, in 2025 Seattle passed a minimum wage bill for restaurant workers, and attached it to adjustment for inflation. That means in 2027, busboys and dishwashers will be making $22.14 per hour. Already, 450 restaurants have closed. But I see the other side of the coin. These outfits underpaid their staff for so long it became standard operating procedure.Many more will close and it serves them right.
It is seven weeks to election and politics is mingled with everything. This is no ordinary mid-term, so I’ve been watching. It is astounding that the Democrats are still making the same promises they have never kept. They are all for lower gas prices, sure, until they win, and it shoots up to $12 a gallon as they try to force people to buy electric. The impression I get it is they think it is working, just listen to their timed press releases. Due to the Internet, it is not working. Every time, for instance, they post gas is $4.50 under Trump, some smart aleck posts those $7.50 prices under Biden they hope you had forgotten.
That was JZ on the phone for 42 minutes. Mail from five days ago is just arriving, and that’s the first-class stuff. I’m glad he called, even though he dropped out, the guy has far more medical knowledge than you’d guess. Confirmed it was a sinus infection, but baterial, not viral. He always heads for emergency where I see it as a last resort. He says I’ll be okay by Friday and to not worry about spreading it, I’m past incubation. This got us to talking about the changes in the past two years. One thing we both remember is how Alaine, his sister, never introduced us to her young single, slim, attractive, career girlfriends. Bless her heart, but she will only set up meetings with the very worst of women. No skills, no schooling, no spirit, boring, unattractive, you name it, not one redeeming quality.
She means well, we would be upgrades (to say the least) for any men those gals would ever meet, but Alaine does not see that it is a massive step down for JZ or I. The worst ever was that time she thought a good match for me was a lady at the supermarket. A 56-year-old grandmother bagging groceries who had just got out of a mental hospital. But, I can’t blame Alaine because this has happened to me a number of times. And it makes you question what your friend must think of you to think such baggage is a good match.
Remember my hatred of Greyhound? They are still up to no good. The company is tightly held by anonymous owners whose attitude is that only losers still ride the bus. And get a load of Lamonica, the black lady who got 17 years for blocking and ICE agent. She gets pregnant thinking it will keep her out of a prison cell. Wrong Some smart aleck wrote they should just “keep the niglet in jail, it will save time.” Hey, I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
ADDENDUM
I’ve was millennialized today. One thing about power supplies, AC to DC, is that they can’t easily be tested with a probe. The emit a fierce amount of AC waves that don’t let you get near the DC leads. So, one relies on the datasheets, and it was millennial time. My quests in an E190248 submodel HF48209. Easy, until you meet the goof squad. They all write that the transformer is 120VAC to “240”. 240 what? It doesn’t register volts, but it probably is. That is not the point. These days when you ask for a datasheet, you get some ass-clown’s company that’s trying to upsell you to a thousand. Up yours, millie, I searched for a datasheet, not your stupid order form.
