With the return of G2 to family lands this past week, we’ll start with the father-son diet challenge part. Because I’ve watched my son’s approach to dieting and it’s really interesting. Almost Goggins-like hard core…
When left (gun-banning) Washington State, he was about 200 pounds. A week later he was at 184. The secrets he used to get there?
- Absolute keto diet. He figures that carbs, although really marketed and used in almost everything at the grocery store, are like poison to our (Ure family) body types.
- A typical keto diet can run a bit more than 50 grams of carbs a day, but in the opening round of his fat attack, he goes under 20-grams a day.
- This, he admits, is not without risk. You really can screw up your kidneys and what-not. See the article here for important cautions.Diet Review: Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
- Because he is serious about losing mode, he monitors his urine with “keto strips” to control risk of organ damage.
- He couples the keto with a hard intermittent fasting regimen, too. Which restricts eating to six-hours per day, or less.
- And yes – he’s lost a bunch. 200 pounds to 184 in a week.
As part of my learning process (it’s “interesting” when we get old enough to learn from our children!) I, too, went on the keto diet but nowhere near as extreme.
The intermittent fasting is “baked in the cake” with my schedule. Dinner at 6 PM (or earlier) and no food until after a morning column is written and posted. usually about 8 AM but many days it will be 9 or 9:30 AM.
The meals have been lots of veggies and a reasonable amount of meat – plus a mix of MCT and first press, unrefined, non-gmo coconut oil.
Amazingly: I have dropped almost 7-pounds since my last “serious carbs” moment last Thursday. From 226.5 down to 220 even today.
The Dangerous Parts for Old Me
Steak and asparagus one night wasn’t dangerous. No saucing the greens, though – so that was a change.
Last night, as another example, we wolfed down slow-cooked corned beef along with tons of cabbage and carrots. Delicious! Two small glasses of wine.
But I was still hungry. I am keeping my carbs much higher – like 65 grams worth – because at 74 you don’t do “big changes” – taking change slower is more reasonable.
Nonetheless, I was still hungry after dinner. So, a keto snack of 4-hardboiled eggs and what must have been 32 ounces of V-8. A slice or two of cheese and the last of hunger vanished…
That was a mistake.
Let’s just say that going from a low fiber diet to a high fiber and drinking veggie juice and along with the normal body changes transitioning to “fat-burning” and let’s just say things “got interesting” about 1 AM.
Now, take whatever you can imagine going wrong. Multiply it times 4.
The good news, such as it is? Ure has lost 6-1/2 pounds since Thursday, blood pressure is “in-bounds” and now that I’m into it, I may try to follow G2 down into the 170-range and get serious about holding there. Be a much better blood pressure zone.
Oh…and if your “wildest imagination” of keto-fallout didn’t include additional laundry and bleach? Go back for a rethink. High fiber, veggie juice, almost no carbs and a half gallon of liquid…yeah….
3Chuck may have gotten the Coronation this weekend. But I got the throne.
Feral Cats Report
No, doesn’t have anything to do with the shop, but a number of reader comments demanded I share pictures of the baby feral kittens who showed up this week with Mom. Here’s one of ’em.
I was fine with all this until I remembered that the feral father we’d dubbed “Sam” as in Siamese.
If you live long enough, you’ll have moments of terror when you realize the implications of your choices in life. See, this little guy is a “Son of Sam:” Anyone who followed crime in the mid 1970’s would remember the case. If you’re a child, details are here.
Ants and Uncle
There we were, watching the tomatoes and scallions, and tat soi and Swiss chard growing in the greenhouse. When Elaine pointed at the floor and said “don’t step there…” Good call, Princess!
This has led to virtually nothing getting done in the shop this week. Because with the kittens around the foundation wall of the house, we’ve been working on what to use to kill ants. Seems some of the granules will kill the ants but not the pets, but who can you really Trust these days, am I right?
Meantime, the second harvest of chard is imminent, though with the events of last night (ahem, and the laundry) we are eyeing these guys a bit suspiciously…
We shall see…
Greenhouse Work
Not 100-percent of my (remarkable) weight loss this week was due to keto. Part of it came from getting the 50-percent shade cloth up on the greenhouse and snugged into position. A pound or two of hard sweating.
The combination of the shade cloth and the swamp cooler is now holding temps around 88-F which works for most veggies.
Other than lawn mowing, a look at the calendar view of the local forecast suggests that we are in ideal gardening weather for the next couple of weeks. Plenty of water from the sky and moderate temps- actually a bit less than last year.
Shop List Today
A while back I mentioned Brisqi.com which is a lightweight, mainly offline Kan Ban board tool. I’ve been using mine daily and one of the tabs will give you an idea of “what’s on the boards” for today:
With Kan Ban tools – imagine thinking back to the game Solitaire. You get these “cards” and you move them into columns. The main thing for me is the left column is my “blue sky/brain dump” column. Then a Today column. Over the second half-cup, I go through each of the “work areas” of life, and move a few cards from “blue sky” into “done before dinner” column.
Yeah, it’s probably a bit much to “kan ban your life” – but it allows me to continuously monitor my own progress and not get bogged down in minutia. As a result, next Sunday “the Plan” calls for:
Yeah – part of the day out here in the woods will be the fun project above.
In the meantime, though, got to run.
I feel another appearance on the throne is demanded…
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
10 Foods You Never Knew Had This Much Protein!
Peas, spinach, pumpkin seeds, cottage cheese, quinoa, lentils, Reggiano parmesan cheese and more…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv-o3DHphYU
I love quinoa and rice cooked with chicken broth.. cottage cheese..
Lentils provide nutrition that other vegetable sources do not. This makes them a candidate for storage.
“Ants hate Vinegar. The smell of Vinegar will cause them to stay away from it or permanently leave the house. Ants crawl in a straight line, marching towards the food sources. The Vinegar solution will interfere with these pheromones, and the ants will get lost. Of course, ants will try to leave the place rather than getting lost.”
https://paynepestmgmt.com/does-vinegar-really-work-to-help-get-rid-of-ants/
wow.. I didn’t know that one.. thanks for sharing.. around here in the wastelands.. we have wasps.. like biting insects and garlic.. crush the garlic then make a tea bag and put a few cloves in the two gallon container.. spray your yard with it.. you do the same thing with ground up cloves.. and soak that.. wasps don’t like that..
Works on Vampires too.
Or take a brown paper bag and stuff it full of — anything.
Then hang it outside where it won’t get wet. Wasps and yellow jackets see it and think it’s a hornet’s nest… then fly elsewhere quickly.
Apple cider vinegar with a few drops of Dawn added, can be used as the base solution to capture/kill wasps & yellow jackets. Add a little boric acid and apply directly to an ant hill.
Speaking of, the big, black ants showed up in/around my kitchen sink yesterday, for the first time in several years. One dusting of boric acid on the top of the backsplash and the windowsill and -=poof=- gone within a couple minutes and haven’t seen them back (yet). Time will tell, but boric acid is the pet-safe, child-safe go to for any kind of crawly bugs, because they take it back to the nest or hill, where it dissolves the colony. I’ve heard it said that when the queen melts, the workers move elsewhere, and will never come back — their collective intelligence brands that spot as “possessing evil spirits…”
All this stuff except the boric acid thing are old wives’ tales. I have no idea whether any of ’em work. I do know the boric acid did chase the ants out of my kitchen and is the preferred method for killing roaches. Whether the ants cometh again remains to be seen…
‘Giant Roach Hunting’ in the darkened kitchen sink… use Dawn diluted 50% in a spray/squirt bottle. Hit the roach directly. The detergent blocks their oxygen access immediately. They struggle or run just a little bit before exhausting energy reserves and die on the spot. Cleanup is just a little bit of detergent to wipe up.
wow I didn’t know that one either..thanks ray..
Keto. Started a keto sort of eating life style at about the age of 77/78. No problems at 20 grams to kick in the carb burning. But, read up on effects as you will want to monitor yourself. I did take some extra salt after pushing the lawn mower around with some extra water. Bit dizzy (as normal??)
If you increase your level of activity (manual labor, walking behind a mower, etc.) you can increase your carb intake so the cool beer after mowing tastes very, very good and no adverse effects. Or so I understand.
Watching your carbs along with Intermittent Fasting (at least 12/14 hours between dinner and break-fast) seems to be good as a maintainence plan.
Cheers and hang in there for the up-coming ride.
Aunt Fannies Ant Remedy!
Features & details
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Intended for indoor use where ants appear
Safe around children and pets when used as directed
Hard working with a fresh scent that actually smells good; each bottle is 16.9 oz
Manufactured in the USA; free from harsh chemicals
https://www.amazon.com/Aunt-Fannies-Spray-Indoor-Single/dp/B07B8X9N8P
Also can try;
https://todayshomeowner.com/pest-control/guides/diatomaceous-earth-for-ants-complete-diy-guide/
Says supposed to kill ants &;
“Safe, Natural, and Organic Pest Control”
Damn! I forgot about DE. It works on any crawly things (both bugs & slugs, but unfortunately, also worms and night crawlers). It is sold bulk, in pound bags, in every garden store in the country, for slug-removal, for a fraction of the cost of bags or bottles that have labels on them…
HideyHo G,
Wow, talk about clearing the decks , the poop deck that is. https://youtu.be/8ur_PW5SH3Q
Yeah getting naughtical wit it this AM.
Le poupe or stern (rear end)deck. Think maybe next time you go for a thunder clapping “Rush” in the middle of the night, you might want to try something a little less harsh…like “Smooth Move” from Yogi tea…a more gentle “colon blow” -https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kirwxvfQL._AC_UL400_.jpg
The following infomercial helps explain everything regards bowels – “colon blow and Ure in the morning” https://youtu.be/Ku42Iszh9KM
Better to keep things moving…specially round Holidayz as mr hankey warns in following clip..https://youtu.be/h7Av0A8b_BM
May Ure Days always be ‘smooth’, Peace.
A truck I learned with fire ants in Nirth Carolina that also works on ants up here in Ohio……Grits. Pour some regular uncooked grits around the ants and apparently the ants eat the grits and they blow up inside them. I know it’s kinda brutal , but it works. If you’re lucky, an ant feeds it to the queen ant and that’s the end of THAT colony. I don’t kno what effect it has on cats. Me and Rebel the Dog don’t like cats anyway! Good Luck!
Very good idea — inexpensive and checks all the boxes…
That’s why people don’t throw rice at the bride and groom at weddings anymore. Birds eat the rice and they die when it expands inside them.
Geez, learn to type! ?
Which ptriculr werd wuzzunt spelt rigt
Lol!!!
I am actually working on the one rack of the cube hydroponic system… I was going to try and make the fold out hoop greenhouse that I had originally had planned to make.. the cube five racks.. fold out green house as part of the shipping container the racks slide out on a telescoping rail to make a greenhouse in one shipping container at four foot by twenty that could produce as much produce in a quarter acre of land.. anyway.. when I checked on the price.. wow.. well the bottom of the barrel can’t afford to build it.. I remember back in the old days I would make fold out play houses for the kids our of freezer boxes.. LOL.. the kids loved them.. and you folded it up to slide in a closet for easy storage.. Long time ago someone asked me what I would do as an easy shippable and able to be dropped into the wilderness by parachute emergency shelters.. the cube came to mind and that was what I submitted.. ( the prize that would be officially adopted.. would have bought coffee money for many years and eased lifes trials LOL unfortunately they chose another and since they got all rights to the submission.. you seen it come up later on down the road.. I am sure that is what would have happened to the cube to.. )
back to the cube.. anyway.. I only ended up having enough to make one rack not the telescoping.. but once I get it up.. I will share photos.. I was thinking of taking some cardboard and making a mini fold out hoop .. just so a person could see how it works..Kind of like my plant shipping… ( G knows how I did that.. I have been doing that for decades to.. today you can buy something quite a bit similar .. LOL they charge twenty something dollars for what I do normally for a quarter LOL they are easy self contained growing units.. ) like my roof mount wind turbine .. I cut the pieces out of a cereal box had a friend laser cut the pieces.. its been on the roof for a long long time.. you can now buy those manufactured for about four hundred dollars.. It is kind of fun to see things I had thought of come to life.. I finally quit a couple of years ago now in submitting ideas.. ( the only one I got anything from was a coffee company.. and I guess it would have been a life time supply for an average coffee drinker.. for me it was only a couple of years .. but at least they said thanks for the idea)
yesterday was a busy one.. I put in over a hundred hills of potatoes.. wow.. and took out my pepper plants.. now lets see how they do.. I still have to till a few of the beds.. ( years ago I bought a sunny jo tiller.. small electric and dam that thing has been awesome.. I paid nineteen dollars for it ) https://snowjoe.com/products/sun-joe-16-inch-12-amp-electric-garden-tiller-cultivator?
wow.. I don’t think you will find one now at that price.. LOL money well spent to..
I was curious .. what the challenges today were LOL LOL… so I checked just for SAG.. ( shits and giggles).. and it pretty much hits with my what fifty year old rant LOL LOL LOL LOL… not like I haven’t submitted this one before LOL LOL LOL.. I tell everyone.. LOL LOL LOL..what a laugh.. oh what if.. LOL like the mirror flingers.. shoot them mirrors up into space the reflect the light back to the sun LOL LOL LOL those are the idiots that get the hey that is the best damned idea I ever heard of LOL LOL LOL
“Challenge Overview
The $15 million Energizing Rural Communities Prize challenges individuals and organizations to develop partnership plans or innovative financing strategies to help rural or remote communities improve their energy systems and advance clean energy demonstration projects.
The application period for Phase 1 closes on May 24, 2023.
This prize is part of the $1 billion Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) Program, created by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). The ERA Program supports projects that improve the resilience, reliability, safety, availability, and environmental performance of energy systems in rural or remote areas of the U.S. with populations of no more than 10,000 people.
Through workshops and community input, the ERA Program has found that two of the biggest barriers to improving energy systems in rural or remote areas are developing the necessary partnerships and securing financing.
The Energizing Rural Communities Prize has two tracks, both following a two-phase timeline:
The Partner track—with a $10 million cash prize pool—will support plans to connect rural or remote communities to government funding, technical assistance, or a network of partners that can help implement clean energy demonstration projects. ”
Wanna hear my fifty year old rant again LOL LOL LOL .. PROMOTE solar back up systems to the people.. if they finance the unit.. then ten years of service rate freeze.. or … give every home owner that is willing to have it installed a ten kw system.. ( the cost well under what one of those big wind turbines cost.. and would generate well over a thousand new jobs)
build solar towers starting at the furthest point from the power plant.. a six Megawatt tower one hundred feet tall forty by forty three sided.. would cost about ten million plut the tower costs.. which I don’t know but for three billion my guess is you could at least get a couple hundred of them.. starting at the furthest point from the power plant and work back to the power plant.. be the tree.. the tree is the most efficient power system.. each leaf produces a minute amount of electrical charge.. that stimulates photosynthesis..you still need the roots or the power plant but each leaf individually could be utilized as a mini grid..
the problem with it.. is that doing that would secure the grid.. but would be totally against all the business models of stuff big buck billies pockets…
I could get into the other half.. green scape buildings.. bring down global temperature increases brought on by human advancement and to bring down the co2 level the increase of green growing would do some of that.. but co2 filters would have to be implimented to cover the co2 processing of every car and animal.. seven trees to every man.. fourteen trees for every car.. a co2 filter.. ( now you can make them out of clay.. which is cheaper.. ) on every lamp post solar powered.. no energy.. a new product would have to be made and more jobs for those servicing the filter systems .. anyway.. it isn’t like I haven’t said it enough and it is something I would’t even mind if someone did it and it being my idea.. that would secure our nation and the people and help ..anyway you all have heard me rant and rave on this for a long time.. around the ole homestead everyone sayd NOT AGAIN lol maybe I rant on it to much..
oh the prize on that one is what fifteen million if they pick the idea.. come on.. well at least the DOE did buy me a drawing set once for one of my designs.. LOL.. it was to make low cost solar heaters in the seventies.. there was a workshop.. and I have been getting invites to go to the coming up expo..
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Still experimenting, Chuck – more details (and likely changes) to come.
Some browsers, like Brave, have an internal ad blocker. You can go to the settings and under “Shields”, set an exception for Urban or others. Just list the domain in the “Shields Down” block. I like Brave – it’s as good as it gets for a general purpose free browser.
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One interesting twist would be if Urban could detect the session cookie for PN and bypass ads for subscribers. Of course, that would require cross-domain cookies and would break other things. For now, I’ll just wait the extra second or two for the ads.
Thanks George. Remember a few years ago and the man in the yellow construction hat ad I got like 7 or 8 times in one article and it wasn’t Curios George’s man in the yellow hat? That’s when I installed an ad blocker. Glad your having success with the diet.
I’m trying out a new diet myself. It’s the if it tastes good spit it out diet. I’ll keep you posted!
Ants do not like talcum powder. They will not march through it. Theory is that the talcum is so fine it acts as an abrasive on their body and they dehydrate. It will kill the first few that walk into it and the rest will leave. Used this around my cats and critters successfully. No experience with fire ants though.
the same with bentonite clay powder.. they have an exo skelotin and it dried them out and they die.. we have been using that for years and years.. around the base boards.. not heavy light.. now in some old historical books.. that was a common practice to keep evil spirits out of dwellings.. HMMM.. snake and spiders comes to mind.. the legends appears in areas that had huge poisonous snake bite history of people being asleep and snakes coming into the house and biting them as they sleep.. they would sprinkle heavily scented herbs and ground cinnamon ..
That’s what Boric Acid crystals do, also. Non toxic. We use it for roaches mainly. Crystals pierce the exoskeleton and the bugs dry out and die.
Food grade Diatomaceous Earth seems to have the same effect of killing small six and eight legged critters. The sharp edges seem to cut their exoskeleton and they either die or avoid. It’s safe to eat for humans and apparently all common pets. In fact, it’s recommended as an internal parasite cleanse. DYOR!
I’ve used it with success. A little goes a long way. I rarely see a bug or spider these days, but that could be from many things.
Limenone, orange oil, tangerine oil…a tablespoon in a gallon of water: Spray.
Seems to kill little ants instantly and keep areas clear.
Powerful stuff. Remember squeezing an orange peel and lighting it?
No shit? I never learned that and Major and I (and his late brother) as kids in the 50s would make incredible incendiaries as a matter of course. Some charcoal, shotgun shell powder, Sulphur, bag of sugar (alum and twine for time fuse) we could have a whole afternoon of fun blowing things up.
Nowadays, we’d be terrorists. And being White, you can imagine the odds of retaining freedoms, right? Thank God the Statutes of Limitation have run out…
OMG! If I detailed the explosive concoctions I made as a kid I would be on the ATF terror list also!
lol lol lol…
yes I am right with you guys on that..
I will never forget spearaminting with mold spores.. concocting a what new life form lol lol called mom in the room.. cat was playing on the floor with a cat toy..
it looked like a dandelion seeds.. said look what I made mom.. and blew the spores..the cat started doing spasms and died.. mom screamed took it all away and burned it up in the burn barrel..
I can relate to that when I showed the grandkids how to melt stone with the sun..dam I thought they were going to burn the house down.
I refuse to teach them anything that could be dangerous now. so after the inferno. I decided to show them how to make ice with the heat of the sun..and we made a solar beer chiller
Hmmm, my homemade gunpowder sounds a lot less dangerous than LOOB’s “gain of function” experiments.
At least I built a cannon and black powder rifles to “discharge” the evidence…
there is a family 2 blocks down and 3 blocks up from me. they are trying to start a little farm and sell their vegetables. Their set up looks great. They had 3 nice looking mature chickens running around . I stopped to visit and to wish them luck. I commented on the chickens and they said they got out ,no where to be found. No feathers in the yard. I figure human critters got them. Hawks or coyotes would leave feathers I think.
If chickens are disappearing without a trace it could be the hawks. Hawks swoop down and snatch chickens off into the sky. Once the hawk has the chicken up there hundreds of feet they release the chicken where it lands and takes its place in the circle.
Large groups of chickens have guards watching the sky. Less than 10 forget it.
But who knows? When I need to see something I throw a cam on it and wait.
“and now that I’m into it, I may try to follow G2 down into the 170-range and get serious about holding there.”
You have been very kind in sharing your list of points for healthy aging. I follow many of them. Now I want to share one with you. Don’t do it. Losing another 50 pounds may be ok at G2’s age but at your age is unhealthy, too hard on the system and just plain dangerous.
I am not a doctor George but speak from experience of watching two senior friends do that kind of weight loss and get very sick. If there is a doctor on this forum, perhaps they can give you proper medical advice but my advice is cut it off at 200 at most.
Great idea BIC- thank you! Maybe 10 lb a year or something – like it went on, lol
Roger that! Good advice. I dropped 40 pounds following Keto a year and a half back. Started feeling like I had the crap beat out of me all the time and then Covid visited. Between pneumonia and kidney issues that almost got me. I am certain the Keto diet knocked my immune system down. Just do as you have been. Watch your BP and limit your food intake and keep moving. Shouldn’t be too hard for you. Somebody else mentioned my favorite diet plan if it tastes good spit it out. I cut back Ms. Betty’s homemade cinnamon rolls at the Executive Committee meetings to once a month.
And here I’ve been thinking you were a retired medical type of person based on something you’d posted a long time ago.
Anyway, yes, I agree with you. Don’t know why the body starts piling on the pounds after 59-ish but it’s a very real thing. “The Gut” prevails.
I began to worry when I blew through 200 at 5’7″ or so and this past Winter I hit 232 when I should never have gone past 220 but with all the good stuff lying around during the holidays and nothing to do there should be no surprise there at all. With the heat and work, though, over the past 6 weeks I’m back to 225 now and hope the trend continues. (I’ve got 2 new pair of 38″ waist sized jeans that I need to get into. The old 38s must be stretched out but brands vary quite a bit in how they fit.) I’ve at least cut back on carbs but there’s a container of cinnamon roles sitting on the bar that seem to be disappearing ever so slowly in the mornings. I absolutely MUST have some kind of sugar in the morning! I love a can of V8 juice spiked with lots of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper at lunch time if I’m back to the house by then but the best way I’ve found to trim pounds is eat a good, substantial breakfast – and never go back to the house until you get to a stopping place at the ranch. I can feel the body start to burn the fat after a certain time of working but that’s when I need to be careful otherwise I slip into hypoglycemia and that can take at least a day to get over. I carry a Gatorade along with me for getting over the slumps like that and it works, plus if I can skip a good lunch I don’t have the mid-afternoon slumps nearly as bad as I would if I have something in my stomach like a sandwich or similar.
I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, but smother those ant hills with diatomaceous earth powder. Won’t hurt the mammals and will destroy anything with an exoskeleton. Granted, it doesn’t work superfast, but it DOES work. Hope this helps a bit.
“Nonetheless, I was still hungry after dinner. So, a keto snack of 4-hardboiled eggs and what must have been 32 ounces of V-8. A slice or two of cheese and the last of hunger vanished…”
When one is losing weight, you must come to grips with ALWAYS being a little bit hungry. It is your body trying to get you to ‘eat up’ to your present weight for support. If you eat until you are no longer hungry, you are supporting your present weight. Calorie counts are important. You need less calories than your body ‘wants’… so it will burn some fat to make up the difference. A little hunger is a good thing. Drink lots of water. Twice in my life I have shed 30 pounds doing this intentionally. Then there was the diverticulitis/colon resection liquid diet. After surgery I was down 40 pounds. I’ve moderated that somewhat now. Key aspect of ‘dieting’ is will power. It’s like being an alcoholic going to AA. Every day you say ‘No’ to your addiction of ‘feeling full’ after eating.
now I’m on the sea food diet.. oh misspelled..see food..I like to cook and at my age I won’t be trying to impress anyone. so at my age why not enjoy life
NASA has their own ‘spy balloon’, and it is monitored from…..
Palestine, TX !
https://blogs.nasa.gov/superpressureballoon/2023/05/02/more-science-imagery-from-superbit/
And George didn’t tell us he was part of the Super Secret, more secret than the CIA, US Balloon Spy Network, that is hidden in plain sight in the very out of the way small town of Palestine Texas!!
Obviously his “ranch” way out of town, even MORE remote than the town itself, is their secret operations base … shoot not even his neighbors would suspect that HE is the lead spook who is running the Spy Side of the US Balloon Program which is using NASA as it’s cover.
No wonder he put in a Starlink dish … he needs to be able to download and upload all the secret data that is coming into his secret operations base!! without a telltale T-1 line from the telephone company having to be installed going directly into his so called “shop”.
Good job George, you even had “ME” fooled … but no longer!!
You were reading my mind, S2, but I didn’t have the guts to say it.
Gotta protect my clearance, you know. :-)
Timely read on substack:
https://billquick.substack.com/p/if-something-cannot-go-on-forever
George, addition to the tiredness theme…
Along about 7:30 this eve CT the foggy headiness and dragging fatigue lifted. Out of the blue. Now wide awake, feeling energetic. WhyOwhy now? Needed that all day today, yesterday and the day before. Am in SWLA.
Was going enter this as a reply to my earlier submission but that is nowhere to be found.