I can agree that it's stupid, but if you've never heard anything stupider then you need to get out more.
What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.
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I hear dumber stuff than that by 0900. Usually from my own mouth.
Finished a brick wall. I currently have no fingerprints. (working with brick slowly abrades your fingerprints. I'm spelling it out so I don't have to explain......) Does anyone have any special jobs that need doing?
Like the Oz government proposing a future crimes law. You can be locked up for 3 years for something you might do..... Did none of them watch Tom Cruise in The Minority Report? We know how the film ends. It's been out a while.......
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Same happens with a bunch of other labor categories. I know this because it hit a bunch of mariners when TSA came out with their TWIC cards (Transportation Worker Identification Credential, ends up being a glorified and less useful driver's license, but at least you get Pre-Check). People needed TWICs to have unescorted access to some parts of boats in operation or dockside. To get the TWIC, you had to be fingerprinted and go through a background check. Turns out a lot of engine room workers no longer had fingerprints, and there was a ~year-long mess while TSA figured out how to go forward without putting all of those folks out of a job.
See above. But then about 75% of what TSA does is stupider. The only thing worse are the people TSA has to deal with. While going through airport security last week, my boss passed a guy who didn't understand why he couldn't take his full-size bow and arrows on the plane.
Feels totally weird when you rub your fingers together and there's no resistance.....Same happens with a bunch of other labor categories. I know this because it hit a bunch of mariners when TSA came out with their TWIC cards (Transportation Worker Identification Credential, ends up being a glorified and less useful driver's license, but at least you get Pre-Check). People needed TWICs to have unescorted access to some parts of boats in operation or dockside. To get the TWIC, you had to be fingerprinted and go through a background check. Turns out a lot of engine room workers no longer had fingerprints, and there was a ~year-long mess while TSA figured out how to go forward without putting all of those folks out of a job.
See above. But then about 75% of what TSA does is stupider. The only thing worse are the people TSA has to deal with. While going through airport security last week, my boss passed a guy who didn't understand why he couldn't take his full-size bow and arrows on the plane.
I took my wife to the VA hospital for an appointment. 82 miles one way. Turns out I had the time for her appointment today and my appointment tomorrow reversed. I didn't have to get up early to take her. I had time this morning to work on the landscape lighting. This time I took a volt meter with me. I checked the end of the power cable I spliced in and had power. It had to be something else. I went to one of the fixtures and found it wasn't attached to the cable. I pulled the other two out and they weren't attached either. So instead of damaging the main power cable with the backhoe I must have pulled it enough that the three fixtures pulled loose at the same time. All fixed now. After we got home and had dinner we started going through our kitchen cabinets. There were things we didn't know we had and hadn't used in 20 years. For instance we had 11 wine glasses. We don't drink wine and neither does any one that comes to visit. Seven are going to Goodwill. We kept 4 just incase. We filled a box for Goodwill. Now the big news. At about 1:20 this afternoon I walked out of the garage and started down the walk in front of the house. I saw movement in the sky. When I looked at it I saw something white and then gray. Over and over again. As quickly as I thought what it was I dismissed it. First I thought a plastic bag. No. It was moving due East. The wind was from the South between 5 and 10mph. It wasn't being affected by the wind. Just as quickly I thought bird. No. We don't have white birds here. Besides it was changing color. I didn't see wings and it was going to fast to be a bird. It appeared to be tumbling to me. I watched it for 30 or 45 seconds and then went back into the garage to get my binoculars. That took 30 seconds. I timed it when we got home. And it was gone. I walked to the Eastern fence and looked all over the sky. North, South, above me, behind me and it wasn't anywhere. At the speed it was going it couldn't have gotten out of sight. The part that upsets me is that I had my phone hanging from my pocket. I should have videoed it instead of getting my binoculars. I'm 110% positive it was an E.T. probe. One of the tic tac's that the Navy saw was tumbling. To refresh. The first sighting I had last summer was a softly glowing circle of white light. It was across the street in the desert between 100' and 200' away. Two days later I saw a softly glowing red orb just outside our Eastern fence. About 60' away. I have developed a theory about those two. At first I thought they might be portals. But I didn't see anything come out of the first one and the second one was too small. I believe they were a way to do remote viewing. The gigantic craft I saw a couple of hours after I saw the red orb and made the 90* change in less time than it takes to blink had to be inhabited. The vehicle that flew down my driveway a month or two ago 20' from me must have been another probe. And now I see another one that flew over my house. What the heck is going on? What next? Will they actually land across the street and offer to take me for a ride. Or I'll be standing outside some night and be hit with a beam of light and pulled up into their craft? I hope they only want to talk to an Earthling and don't subject me to some invasive probing and that they put me back. I know some of you won't believe me or tell me I don't know what I'm looking at or I'm making the whole thing up for a giggle. That's ok. I'm positive that what I have seen can only have one explanation. And that is they were E.T.'s. What I don't understand is why the sudden interest in either our house or me.
Good old step one: is it plugged in?
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Renewed my professional engineering license for another biennium. Which required a bit of review of my professional development hours. You know what's awesome for CPD? Mentoring a TARC team. That takes 10 hours of webinar right off my requirements.
Earned a day of pay to afford rocketry
Had a doctors appointment. Did some pruning. Rearranged and counted ammo.
Set up more files for Sharon. Another big project that needs to be done before the end of the year. Record year, but it's taking it's toll.
Washed Ylojak, our 1993 Pontiac Trans Am:
Stored since 2020, just put new tires on it. Needs a new battery and the fuel system flushed. Old gas.
Washed our new Stealth toy hauler, got really dirty at the TRA/PHX launch last weekend, now it's mostly clean again:
Logan, our 2018 GMC 1 ton Duramax diesel is in the shop. Used Grosser, our 1998 GMC 3/4 ton to move the trailer, he wasn't happy, too much tongue weight:
Washed Ylojak, our 1993 Pontiac Trans Am:
Stored since 2020, just put new tires on it. Needs a new battery and the fuel system flushed. Old gas.
Washed our new Stealth toy hauler, got really dirty at the TRA/PHX launch last weekend, now it's mostly clean again:
Logan, our 2018 GMC 1 ton Duramax diesel is in the shop. Used Grosser, our 1998 GMC 3/4 ton to move the trailer, he wasn't happy, too much tongue weight:
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Little Brumby earns her keep.
On those terms, I should be put away for life.
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Online Christmas shopped, wrapped presents and keeping it generally low key as I am running my first 50K tomorrow. Soon a nice carb-o-lotta dinner and an early bedtime.
Let me know if you need any help fixing that washing machine....... Looks like too much of a project for one person....
Continuing renovations. Bath is now in place. More painting done. Starting to work on fitting the new shower screen. It is quite heavy so a bit difficult for one person.
Painted a powder-coated aluminium window as an experiment. Worked quite well.
Looked at the driving lights on the Jeep that stopped working. Looks like the switch has died. Very strange.
Mowed the lawn as it is growing crazy currently.
Inspected the paddock. New house is starting to happen. Stormwater drains and plumbing prep underway.
Painted a powder-coated aluminium window as an experiment. Worked quite well.
Looked at the driving lights on the Jeep that stopped working. Looks like the switch has died. Very strange.
Mowed the lawn as it is growing crazy currently.
Inspected the paddock. New house is starting to happen. Stormwater drains and plumbing prep underway.
Did more cleaning and organizing the garage. My wife has been going through all our Christmas stuff. We have been talking about donating it to a local church. Hoping they have some people who need it. We have been cleaning out our kitchen cabinets and drawers getting rid of stuff we don't need. The work continues. Goodwill is going to get a good haul. Yesterday I finished organizing and counting my ammo. Rebuilt the cats fort. I've been keeping them out of the garage for a few days because I needed to open the garage door often.
While you've got a digger, put in ground source heating pipes. The ground source pipes bit...... You won't get a second chance at the same price........
Good idea, but I don't get to direct the contractors. I am going with a standard air cooled condenser unit.
They don't cool the house well when it gets to 44C, like yesterday.
Our existing house has ducted a/c with a standard air condenser. It actually works on the hot days of 45degC+ and over. I guess it is a matter of the cooling capacity of the unit. I always go one size larger than recommended, just to make life easier on the cooling units.
It even worked well on a 49degC day about ten years back.
It even worked well on a 49degC day about ten years back.
You know what works really well on a 49 degC day? Emergency evacuation.
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"I'm just thinking about all of those years I wasted collecting stamps."
-Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
-Read a number of Seneca's "Letters on Ethics." Fantastic stuff.
-Read a number of ancient Greek Cynic anecdotes - one read "To an envious man who was looking very glum, [Bion] said 'I don't know whether something bad has happened to you, or something good to somebody else." - another one read: "When asked if one should marry, [Bion] said 'If she's ugly, you'll find her hard to bear, if she's beautiful, you'll find you have to share." People apparently haven't changed all that much over the past 2,300 years.
-Saw the latest Hayao Miyazaki movie "The Boy and the Heron." If one likes Studio Ghibli films, it's definitely worth seeing.
-Bought a Byzantine coin featuring Romanus I, who looks like someone you wouldn't want to mess with. Had metal bands been around in the 10th century, he had the look to start one.
-Saw some friends I had not seen in a long time. It's nice when people don't vanish permanently, as has happened in a few other cases.
-Played guitar for the first time in months. Thankfully, I had not forgotten how to make music come out of that sound hole
-Listened to some Bob Wills, Andrew Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Boswell Sisters, and others who I can't recall off of the top of my head.
-Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
-Read a number of Seneca's "Letters on Ethics." Fantastic stuff.
-Read a number of ancient Greek Cynic anecdotes - one read "To an envious man who was looking very glum, [Bion] said 'I don't know whether something bad has happened to you, or something good to somebody else." - another one read: "When asked if one should marry, [Bion] said 'If she's ugly, you'll find her hard to bear, if she's beautiful, you'll find you have to share." People apparently haven't changed all that much over the past 2,300 years.
-Saw the latest Hayao Miyazaki movie "The Boy and the Heron." If one likes Studio Ghibli films, it's definitely worth seeing.
-Bought a Byzantine coin featuring Romanus I, who looks like someone you wouldn't want to mess with. Had metal bands been around in the 10th century, he had the look to start one.
-Saw some friends I had not seen in a long time. It's nice when people don't vanish permanently, as has happened in a few other cases.
-Played guitar for the first time in months. Thankfully, I had not forgotten how to make music come out of that sound hole
-Listened to some Bob Wills, Andrew Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Boswell Sisters, and others who I can't recall off of the top of my head.
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Don't matter that you can't recall. 'Cause, Bob Wills is still the king.
Ate latkes. Made for me in lieu of cake, as this is my birthday on the Jewish liturgical calendar.
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Did some Metal Earth today.the Apollo spacecraft is next.
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This was so much more than 5 miles harder than a marathon. I botched my pacing and paid in the last 10 miles.
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I've been busy the past 2 days- yesterday I bought a new garage door opener and installed it. I also bought 4 2x4 boards to build a small bit of handrail around the opening where we have ladder access to the attic. My wife wants to use the space above the garage to store some things. I may work on the handrail tomorrow. This morning I adjusted the door opener for up and down travel. I tried programming it to our old exterior keypad but couldn't get that to work so I ordered a new one through Amazon to match the door opener brand, it was delivered about 5 hours later. I bundled up the old opener to set out by the curb for garbage pickup, or scavengers. Later today I got out Christmas lights and put them up around the edge of our roof, that involves lots of climbing up and down the ladder. Tonight I cooked steaks on the grill for dinner.
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