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.

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 charging 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.

I saw the strangest thing this morning.Went outside before the sun came up. There were the Pleiades to the West, Orion and Betelgeuse to the South. North there was a satellite. And another. And another. And another. I counted over 40 of the things all in a row following each other across the sky. Most all pretty evenly spaced at about a hand across. Fookin’ weird!

So I looked it up, if course. Elon Musk low-Earth-orbit satellites to get us Internet. It was almost kind of pretty but I can imagine the damage being done to some astronomical studies and all the photo’s taken from Earth. Mixed feelings. Pretty but annoying.

And that lets y’all know how often we get to see the stars around here. These sats have been up for months and I’m just now seeing them. As a matter of fact, I disassembled my telescope a couple of years ago because every time a astronomical phenomena was scheduled to happen, clouds would move in (sometimes only an hour beforehand) and we can’t see a thing. Couple of years ago I even had to drive down to central Oregon to view the total eclipse. (Was worth the trip!!!)

And, of course I forgot to finish and post this last night. Must have been tired.

I see the “tolerant” left took on “Jews for Trump.” I think every time they do shit like this they turn more folks towards voting for Trump. Y’all keep it up! I’m so looking forward to the violence after President Trump is re-elected. Hopefully the authorities will open up our ability to respond in a sufficiently fatal manor. Fatal for the rioters, of course.

Facebook is preparing it’s own brand of censorship, voter suppression (if you’re conservative), and election interference. I’ve been FB free for about 6 months now and I gotta tell y’all: Life’s better! Sure, I don’t have as much contact with my Mom’s side of the family (which I DO miss); but I also don’t have anger issues from reading stupid shit posted by people that should know better. But don’t get me started.

Looking forward to our crappy Governor, Inslee, (POS) making life harder before he’s replaced. But, I’m also thinking that most of this “pandemic” crap will stop once the election is over. Unless Dems win. Then you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! I’d support another revolution.

Washington (State) is already 2000% over norms for snow in Eastern WaRshington and  over 1000% snow norms for the northern Cascades. Does NOT bode well for general Wx this winter. Still, I’ve lived in Western WaRshington so long that I prefer snow to rain any day. (And I’m a Southern California boy! The only snow we got as kids was when Dad would drive us up to Mt. Baldy for the day. Then we warmed up at Seal Beach afterwards.) Got to where I can’t stand rain.

So, now that everyone has panicked with the COVID, how are y’all gonna react when the seasonal flu hits? Dipshits.