Yes, the stock market is closed. Good Friday, don’tcha know. But this warms me to our first Agenda Item. What’s so “Good” about “Good Friday?” To cite from Wikipedia (Etymology entry): “‘Good Friday’ comes from the sense ‘pious, holy’ of the word “good”.[13] Less common examples of expressions based on this obsolete sense of “good” include … Read More
American Justice no longer works. It leaks. And the indictment reports about Donald Trump speak directly to this point. If you’re just onboarding, the NY Post reported Donald Trump indicted in Stormy Daniels hush money probe by Manhattan grand jury. Other media have some differences in the charges. The Post is over two dozen, CNN … Read More
Ah, the Country Life. Yessir, if you live in the Big City, it’s a dream. Why, just imagine! Eating fresh food out of your own garden. Pure country air. No traffic noises. Low stress. Ultimately relaxing and rewarding…. Well, no. Not exactly. During our ShopTalk Sunday adventures will tell you the upside – and the downsides … Read More
Someone stole an hour of our lives overnight. Running the clock forward with Daylight time which is so scammy… We don’t have a “measure, cut, join, finish” project to revel in today. Because the weather was perfect Saturday to take on the greenhouse rework. See, over the winter it grew and grew and turned into … Read More
Our “Monday on Tuesday” ponder is this matter of whether time is a pure notion, or one vastly misunderstood. I mean, conventional thinking is that time is relatively linear in how it works. You go 5,280-feet in one minute and it’s a nice 60-(statute) miles-per-hour. Over large spans of time, therefore, linearity seems to work. Scales … Read More
Actual progress around the Ure joint, even with the house guest this week. Elaine’s son is an extremely useful fellow. Having run something of a Home Handyman Service before going to work for the post office. Hard to explain to people sometimes, how useful (and valuable!) that wide range of “hands-on” work can be. Seems … Read More
Sheesh. Not a fun week for Ure. Turning 74 this month, I thought the Sun was supposed to come out, not go falling apart on us. And golden years? Pah-leeze! Got up at 3 AM (*brain on fire, couldn’t sleep) Friday morning. Wrote column, futzed around, ate and then my neighbor showed up and in … Read More
Although we are able to snipe occasional lunch money in this pig of a stock market, the amount of real Truth out there is getting harder to find. Data! Market futures slipped a bit on this. Meanwhile: Do I believe Labor Department data “Series Id: LNS12000000”? Because if you did believe it, you’d be agreeing … Read More
Ok, sitting down after a day of working on post-storm chores. As you will remember, the ice storm took us almost offline, except that now I understand why a tablet and Starlink are so crucial to people in Ukraine. They work great. Able to look over comments and approve things along with the odd post even … Read More
Fine tuning of prepping is in the works following the major ice storm in East Texas this past week. Today, a discussion of what we got right and what we got wrong. Very interesting “school” the universe provides! Plus, in our ChartPack, that alternate count of the (Elliott) wave structure from a few weeks back … Read More
Officially most of the outages should be back up today, but not us…at least so far: The good news is the solar is really cranking and sun is in the forecast. Rany lines out and started cutting wood – tons of it to clean up. Food is good, doing the odd post of Kindle is … Read More
But we did have a big (26″ diameter) tree go down in the yard of the house across the street from us. Taking down power. Except across is 600-feet out here, street is single lane dirt and oil sand road, and we’ve been on backup systems since: Went out and talked to the lineman who … Read More
Old Ure is tired and sore today – because knocking on the door of 74 (in mid-February) it’s not part of God’s Plan to be riding roughshod on a tractor moving wood. The wood, of course, came from removing two 100-foot plus trees with a diameter of over 40-inches. Two additional 90-footers, too. While sliced … Read More