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Still just an old guy trying new things. KF7LTT. Retired HM/USN

Election 2020–End Of The Republic

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I really believe that. The America that I grew up in has been dead a long time; but now the Country as a whole has gone Socialistic. I guess more people want “free stuff” then Freedom.

Well, y’all got it. Already reading headlines how Biden is going to do a lot of executive orders his first day in office to undo everything President Trump did. More power to y’all. Pretty bad when “Orange Man Bad” is more important than “What’s Good For The People?” Which is where the Democrats have been for the past 4 years. Dipshits.

So, I’m not going to obsess about it anymore. Y’all got what y’all want so I’m going to hunker down and survive the next 4 years. Don’t want to hear any complaints though. From either party. Democrats/Liberals voted these dipshits in, Democrats should have no complaints. Republicans let it happen so they have no complaints either in my book.

I will resist where I can though.

Was “doing stuff” on my computer the other morning when I started hearing a “grinding” noise. Thought it was the ice machine in the fridge since my office is the old Formal Dining Room. (Which we don’t need since we aren’t Formal Dining Room kind of people.) Wasn’t that.

Turned out to be the power supply in my computer. The fan would speed up, grind to a halt, speed up, grind to a halt. Uh, oh. We know what that means. I’ve seen power supply’s just die and never work again. I’ve seen power supply’s go out with a puff of smoke. I’ve seen power supply’s go out and take motherboard and everything with it. So I turned my computer off. Bummer!

Pulled a power supply out of a case I have in the basement and changed it out. 0545 and I’m changing power supply’s around! That’s dedication. But, it didn’t work either!

Pulled the drives out and attached them to the computer I’m switching to, but couldn’t get them to be recognized. Can’t just install them cause the “new” computer is  a small form factor and there’s just no room for another drive. So I put my old one back together and nursed the power supply through letting me copy everything off to a backup drive. Only took two days.

But, I’m back up and running. Now I just have to figure out a way to make my blu-ray drive into an external drive. Hmmm…

Took a couple of chicken breasts. Added salt and pepper and a slice of bacon to the tops. Let it bake for 45 minutes in the cast iron skillet at 300 degree’s with about 5 minutes of broiling at the end. SWMBO said it was a keeper

Today I’m trying two pork chops with salt, pepper, lemon juice (fresh squeezed!) and a dollop of mild salsa  All baked for about 40 minutes at 300 degrees in the cast iron skillet.  We’ll see how that works out. Luckily McDonalds is only 5 minutes away …

It was ok. Shouldn’t have used the salsa.

That Was Kinda Awesome!

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Raining fairly hard this morning. Stepped out on the deck and the sound slammed me in the face. Not the rain, but a zillion raindrops hitting a zillion dry leaves. Kind of a muted roar. Almost sounded windy but there was none. Neat!

So the Dog and I did our usual mile anyway. You just dress for it. Me in my poncho and him in his yellow raincoat. I was stationed with the Marines far too long to let bad Wx stop me from going out and the Dog doesn’t care. Rain, shine, snow, wind, it don’t matter. (Although I do wear my hard hat when it’s really windy cause I saw on the Internet that that’ll stop that tree falling on me from injuring me. You know: like our covid masks keep us from getting the covid.)

Otherwise, not a lot going on around here.

My Network/Internet connection started going slower and slower until, finally, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I mean: 8 hours to transfer a 1.2 Gig movie to my NAS. Rebooted a lot. Rebooted these wall-wort things I have that give me connectivity through the power lines. Rebooted the modem. Didn’t work.

So I ran a 50 ft cat-5 cable (don’t ask) to check if it was my computer or what. Wasn’t my computer. Soon as I plugged the line in and my computer found the connection everything jumped back up to normal. Yeah, that same movie file took 8 whole minutes but that’s way better than 8 hours.

Now we have a 50 ft cat-5 cable running along the wall from the living room to my room. Taped down across doorways, of course. And that’s probably going to stay there until I learn how to make my own cables (I have 500 feet of it I got at St. Vinnies for $15 and all the “stuff” to make them) then I’ll check into wiring my whole house. Come up from the basement or down from the attic?

Uploading all my “local events” pictures to Google Photo’s. I really need to pick one place and upload my pictures that I want to share to ONLY that one. I’m spread all over the place. Was supposed to be Flickr but they went expensive. Google Photo’s is actually easier than Google Drive. Way easier than my photo site that I maintain.

Anyone interested in pictures of old cars and planes?

Election Day. I have Q13 on in the background (only channel we get out here) and glance at it occasionally. Lots of businesses boarding up for the after-election violence that’s been promised by various factions. I really hope Trump and the Republicans win by overwhelming majority that can’t be disputed. Won’t happen, but I can hope.

Y’all Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!

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SWMBO and I hosted a 50th Anniversary party for her friend (and husband) today and it went rather well. I guess. Some of her family showed up and not one punch thrown or bowl overturned on one head or anything.

Not like where I grew up around Los Angeles. There, it wasn’t a good party unless some of the above happened. I remember a wedding party in a downstairs apartment that ended with everyone punching each other out, men & women, that even got folks fighting up and down the stair. THAT was a party! And it was so easy to start; all the best man had to do was take the bride to bed AT THE PARTY and the fight was on! (Go figure!)

I wonder if the “lucky” couple stayed married?

Which brings to mind that SWMBO’s birthday is coming up at the end of the month AND our (even year? 2020 so yeah) 34th anniversary is December. Many is the year I combined her birthday, anniversary, and Christmas all into one giant present ($200 Jo Ann Fabrics card or such cause Quilters are easy to by for; fat quarters anyone?) but I think I’ll surprise her this year and “forget.”

Which she’ll believe cause I’m Old. It’s surprising how easy one can make their life just by claiming “I’m old and I forgot.” (Kids, don’t try this at home. Your Parents will know you’re BS’ing them. Unless you’re, like, 70 and your 95 year old Mom is still alive. And maybe you ought to ask her just what was she doing to have a kid at 15 anyway? That’s why she was so strict with you!)

Happy Halloween!I wasn’t always Old. It just kinda sorta happened over time. Snuck up on me; as it were. I swear I just woke up one day and BOOM: Old. Hell, now I can’t even get off the damn floor without making noises. Old Guy noises. And I’d better do it in the right order of there’ll be hell to pay: First, roll over and get on hands and knees. Yeah, I know it hurts but you gotta do it. Now, Right foot under you. Left hand grasping whatever is handy (see what I did there). Right hand pushing down in concert with the right leg trying to extend. GET YOUR LEFT LEG UNDER YOU!!! Now, still bent at the waist lift your head up and, OMG, you made it. Without calling for help! (Wait! I’m dizzy now.)

Otherwise, things are going SSDD. Wx is getting colder (and wetter is on the way). Tonight we (stupidly) turn the clocks back so it’ll get dark really early from now to next June. I think I’ve found the department where I can apply for all that daylight we’ve saved over the last Century though, so maybe I can get some of that and sprinkle it over my house on those really dark days? One can hope! It might be class action suit time …

Goodbye, Sean. James Bond hasn’t been the same without you. Thanks!

Cool Dark Wednesday. Get Used To It!

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My Ex-Renter.My lovely-young-bride (SWMBO) of danged near 35 years, doesn’t let me climb on the roof anymore cause, somewhere, somewhen, I got OLD. WAY klutzier than I was even 20 years ago. (And I’m not sure if I’m not insured or she just hasn’t got the payments quite caught up on insurance. But don’t tell her my suspicions.)

So, imagine her surprise yesterday when she returned from dropping her friends off at home, to find me 55 feet up in the air working on my tower and antenna’s.

She did not look happy when she got out of the car. But, my neighbor with the man-lift brought it down and we finally got the top section of my tower, with antenna attached, up and bolted securely in place. And, other than one cable being 10 feet too short (damn!) it went well. Even repositioned the security cam I have up there.

Beside, what’s to worry about a 68 year old (me) and a 75 year old (my neighbor) being 55 feet up in the air? What could possibly go wrong?

Noticed that the slimy fuckers in Philly are rioting because a Black man with a knife 222bbcharging the police, got killed. I guess the fact that he HAD A FREAKIN’ KNIFE and was CHARGING THE COPS doesn’t mean anything. No Cop should be made to stand and maybe get killed.

USPS Worker Charged With Dumping Ballots: Yet we’re supposed to trust voting by mail for America. Which I don’t as long as there’s a Democrat alive. I’d almost rather vote by UPS/FedEx than trust the US Post Office. Better yet, let the FBI handle mail in voting since they can’t seem to handle anything else. Or, maybe not.

So get off your asses and take yourself down to vote in person. And don’t let any Democrats handle the collected votes. It’s already going to be (crazy would be an understatement) after the votes cause you know the Democrats are going to contest every vote in every State and drag it out. They’ll steal it if we let them.

Maybe we ought to get out and demonstrate FOR President Trump immediately after the election to show Democrats that we were serious?

I see Cher and Reiner are up to their usual. WHY do any credible News agency continue to give these has-beens print? Oh, wait. Credible News Agency. That’s where I fucked up.

Anywho, SWMBO is off to the Genealogy Library so I think I’m going to my shop in the basement and work on that piece of wood my neighbor gave me. It’s going to make a nice live-edge table/shelf.