I’m really, really big on lean-to’s. Don’t know if I ever told you the story of the one on the east side of our “trailer” or not. But we had this existing wood porch that led to the front door. And it was made from real treated wood. The kind you could get “back in the day” that would send EPA – hair-afire and all – running for their Rule Books. This was back when certain wood treatments really work. Not like the salt-water bath stuff used nowadays.
To make a long story longer, when we got to a certain place in house rebuilding – the part right after I took out all the mobile-homie windows and put in proper double-glazed – resulting in lot of “leftover windows” to play with, that we decided over drinks one afternoon that the “porch” could be enclosed and insulated, and it would make a fine place for our afternoon confabbing.
The view from what was first called the “180-degree room” is nothing short of outstanding at this time of year. Despite the fact that the real field of vision is closer to 230-degrees when you’re well out into the room.
Looking up toward the northern yard fence – because in Texas land is big enough you have (property) line fences and decorative (visual break) fences – we watched as a party of 6-7 deer sauntered up and over. It’s getting to be the time of year when we actively discourage use of the gun range. The deer need places that they can learn (over a couple of generations) that on some lands. bad things don’t happen. At least until times become unbearably hard in the upcoming Depression.
The herd reminded me of a couple of other points: First being I am not too anxious to keep the front of the house in “putting green form.” Seeds are out this time of year, and the deer will need nutrition for the coming winter.
Thursday (U.S. time), though I’m not sure how Hawaii or the Cook Islands figure into it, Fall arrives. Means the deer will soon be in deer hunter sights.
For now, I will spare you the annual “By the time hunters pour money into gear, feed, whiskey for the blind, and misnamed “game cameras” – they could be eating the finest filets and Porterhouses; they’d be money ahead.
Burn Barrel Change
Another “changing of the seasons” cropped up this week: It was time to change-out the old burn barrel.
Out was the one that I’d experimented with in an effort to improve the airflow and reduce smoke.
The short answer is? Yes, it can be done by way of judiciously added holes around the lower third of the barrel.
The problem, however, is that when you use a burn barrel a fair bit is that the ashes fill up and soon overflow the ventilation cleverness. Hardly worth all the additional effort because you end up with fly ash all over the ground, anyway,
By the way, you can get a realistic sense of how the economy is doing by looking at Burn Barrel listings on Craigslist. Hereabouts they run from $10 to $15. Up in the (socialist) regions like Seattle, burn barrels are more in the $15-$30 range with around $25 being pretty common. But, now you take Miami! Wow: $40 bucks each and only one source.
I’m sure it all means something, but we’re not really sure what, exactly.
Cheap LEDs
Our next whine du jour is about the cheap-ass LED lights out of China lately.
See, we have track lighting in our little music and video editing playroom. Here, you can see one of the yellower lights on the right and one of the “daylight” versions on the left.
Far as I can figure it, the more yellow (lower number on the Kelvin temperature scale, like 2900K) the more likely the lights are to burn out. Out of six lights on this track, five burned out in a year of 3-hour per day use. Just about 1,100 hours on them..
The happy talk ads boasted these would be “10,000 hour” lights. We’ve hoping the daylight 5,000K lights (the higher the number, the more white (then into blue) will last closer to the ads.
In fairness to the solid-state designers, there is a world of difference between cycles and burn time. When you first turn on a light there is a momentary surge and that’s when things fail. For all I know, maybe the ads were right: If you turn on the daylight (2,900K) lights ONCE, maybe they would go the advertised distance.
Still, color us skeptical and trying another color hoping for better life in cycling service out of ’em.
Drier Mozzarella
Here’s a weird little kitchen experiment carried out this week: I noticed that we had run low on Mozzarella cheese to add to the meager amounts that come on our occasional frozen pizzas.
I didn’t feel like driving all the way into town, but the little convenience store 8-miles down the road has “string cheese” in their dairy section. “Well, what the hell?”
So, last night we opted for pizza. After slicing up 8-9 additional mushrooms which don’t seem to make it onto frozen “Supreme” pizzas, I diligently unwrapped the whole package of string cheese and got to work:
Surprisingly, it was extremely good. And about the only difference I could put into words was the string cheese was a little drier and firmer than the regular five-pound bags of shredded Mutz.
OK, yes, it was a little more work. And sure, it probably has more preservatives in it than the modern “ground contact” treated wood we were talking about a minute ago.
But for saving a half-hour? A stitch in pizza saves something.
A Side of Woo-Woo
The Documentary is called “17 Minutes of Life.” It’s hard to describe, but it was a powerful lucid dream overnight. It was (literally) about some External Greater Intelligence that was using the Life Review Experience (when people die) to capture the whole range of the (on Earth) human experience in a 17-minute documentary that each human provides in a kind of celestial Film Festival.
Remember (and you may not) some of the messaging that has been coming through in my dream work has gone to ideas that line out this way:
- There is Faster than Light travel around the Universe already.
- What travels is what we call a “soul” or “spirit” presence.
- When we are born as humans, we generally have two parts: An animal body (which the dreams have likened to a Tree). While the soul/spirit stuff is likened to a Bird which lands in the Tree.
- The Big Drama of Life is that aging overs time cuts down the Tree.
- But it’s the job of the Bird to capture as much on “mental-spiritual film” and take that to the Afterlife when we die.
- As a result, this dream explained, the “Life Review Experience” when conscious people die (life flashed before my eyes kind of thing) is like showing up at the Big Film School of Life and having your “bag checked” on the way into the editing class where you polish your travel documentary of time spent learning Earth.
- The result was (the one I saw early this morning’s lucid dream) was called 17 Minutes of Life.
It was (and this will read strangely, I’m the first to admit) far and away the most moving and emotional thing I’ve ever seen. By a country mile. Awake or asleep.
It was one of the Life Traveler Student’s telescoping down of an entire lifetime on Earth. And in those 17 Minutes you saw, felt, and actually experienced every possible human emotion, condition, paradox, and decision… It was breathtaking.
There had only been one particular thing different going into this dream session: I’d been thinking about a genuine precognitive experience I had years ago. This was the lucid dream where Elaine and I were on a road trip in Arizona and were staying at our fave casino in Payson. I’d gotten up, done the column, and came back to bed – and that’s where in an hour and a half nap – I had a by-God, for real, precognitive dream. About an auto accident involving others (not us) a road closure, a detour, road work with orange cones and driving on the shoulder…
This played our EXACTLY as dreamed 3-hours later. The fatal accident closed the road to Holbrook, AZ from Heber. So, our detour route took us to Show Low, AZ and then up the “back way” to Holbrook via Shumway and Snowflake. With the Construction work, cones, and driving on the road exactly as seen in the dream.
Which relates to last night, how?
My 6 AM casino breakfast played back. It was a slice of ham, couple of eggs over easy, cup of coffee, glass of milk, two slices of white toast, and lots of strawberry jam. Verbena scented soap, in the shower.
I was thinking about the meal as I went back to sleep after waking up around 2 AM today.
The key takeaway from it all? (Besides the incredible doc on human life)
Seems to me that the pathway t0 communicating off this plane of living is somehow triggered (or enhanced) by certain collections of flavonoids. In my thinking about it here in the waking state, and thinking back to that casino meal, the question is whether my precog deal was triggered by the collection of flavors of whole meal? Or, was it just an unlikely pairing of two?
Which certainly triggered a hell of a novel plot to think about: Religious prohibition on eating pork because on the off chance it’s consumed with something else (strawberry jam?) that somehow opens a comms channel for us “birds in trees” to communicate off-rock for a second.
During which time we can share an upload and also get occasional downloads.
Yes, very clear why Religions would ban certain foods and certain ways of thinking. Can’t have too many people at once realizing there’s something Much Bigger going on than the slop of waking life.
Next week, less philosophy and more hands on – promise!
Write when you get rich, full, and figure out your spiritual escape room keys that might be right next door to flavonoids . To open your personal portals…
George@Ure.net
I like warm-ish lighting. So, I buy not the warmest of “warm-white,” but a couple notches up the spectrum towards the cooler end. I always take pains to buy ONLY “dimmables,” and look for any indication of “Low RFI.” (Most packages don’t have an indication for that. Once I find a low RFI bulb, I’ll go back to the store and buy a bunch more.) Every light switch in the house is a “Futura” style — big, flat-ish rectangular rocker switches, and all have a little slider dimmer to the side. I leave them set for about 75% when I turn a light off. I haven’t lost a single LED bulb yet in well over five years.)
Same thing for the few tungstens left. Dim to 75% at turn-off. Hven;t had to change one out in a long time…
BEWARE! Getting low or no RFI dimmer switches and LEDs is a problem. No matter what the package says, it’s a crap-shoot. Some are good, some bad; and there’s no pattern. Buy EXACTLY the same thing in a month, and it might be different.
Interesting point. After switching the house over to LED lighting a few years back depending on the alignment of the stars some last and some don’t. The rural COOP power is extremely dirty so there are the biggest UPS/surge protection units I could get at the time on just about everything plugged in. Whole house UPS/surge protection is too big a project for now. When we still had POTS service all you had to do was think thunderstorm and the phones would get fried. Dimmable lights and switches are on the project list. Thanks fo sharing.
If you have a spare breaker on your main panel, install a Siemens FS100 or FS140 surge protector. You can surface mount it on the wall beside the panel. I dropped out of the bottom of the panel with conduit and a couple of nineties. Make sure you have someone trained do the connection in the panel.
I agree that all electronic loads (including appliances) should have a separate surge protector strip (preferably 1 ns or faster). LED light bulbs have to rely on the whole house surge protector.
Ferrites can help. Arthurs Bradley’s whole house high current ferrites go in the service to your main breaker:
https://disasterpreparer.com/product/custom-emp-ferrite-for-home/
Arthur has a gazillion DIY videos on his website.
The way the ferrites work, you only need high current ferrites where the individual conductors are separated, like on your main panel, or your car. For a receptacle plug-in surge protector with a cord, you clamp around all three conductors, so any clamp-on ferrite that will go around the power cord will do. I use 3 mix 61’s and one mix 31 for a surge protector power cord. Arthur has some ferrites of his own spec on his website, if you feel uncomfortable winging it with a parts supply like Mouser.
Don’t forget surge protection and ferrites on off-air signal cables.
A couple of Winters ago, yeah, I think it was THAT Winter, the electrical service wires across the street that provide electricity for our house SOMEhow crossed and every single wire, plug, fixture and appliance had 220v applied to it until I could kill all the power at the breaker outside. Thank God it didn’t happen while we were sleeping otherwise no telling what – or when – we would have woke up to it all. It was the weirdest thing because I couldn’t figure out for a while why the lights were flickering and things were acting wonky until I got a crazy idea and stuck a voltmeter in one of the wall plugs and it told the truth of the matter. I thought we’d lost every appliance in the house but all we lost was a few of the incandescent bulbs and eventually, maybe, the LED ceiling light in the kitchen. One of the two LED strips in it went out so I turned it in under the Lifetime Guarantee and got a replacement. First time holding on to all that paperwork in the junk drawer ever paid off!
I kept the old LED fixture with it’s one good strip of lights and when the fluorescent light in the cellar melted down this past Summer I replaced it with that old LED fixture. One strip of the lights fills that cellar’s space much better than the old fixture did by a long shot. I’ve replaced several fixtures in the ranch house and continue to replace them in the light sockets of every house I have to take care of when the old lights go out. They SEEM to last a long time, use hardly any amperage, so perhaps the cost is worth it. Sometimes you have to do some serious shopping to get them to fit under the glass flutes of some of the old fixtures we have but they’ve always worked very well in those places so far. You just have to get used to the one second delay before they light up when you flip the switch.
Bill, what’s most likely to have caused that anomaly of near 230 volts on a 115 volt circuit is a bad/corroded/broken connection of a service feed line neutral to ground! If there’s a high load on the opposite phase, it would lose voltage and the other side(lightly loaded) would go way overvoltage. It can be a dangerous situation, and can cause all kinds of failures. Of course, this should never happen, but it does.
The service wires coming to our house are ancient and one even droops down across ALL of the suspended wires between the two poles across the street. It would make your eyes fall out to see it! I complained mightily to the AEP repair people when they were here but they only slightly pulled up the slack and left it.
Oh, the coffee kicked in. I see what you’re talking about now.
Well, what I remember is that testing the plug, it was one of the old ones with no ground port, I got 220v on the meter. It wasn’t between one of the other ports and ground.
I prefer 3200k light with high cri (color rendering index) for less eye strain and converted lights to tungsten halogen before leds were available. 3200k leds are about impossible to find but cri above 90 is available and worth extra money both for comfort and accuracy when judging colors. If the light is high cri it will certainly be noted on the label. The warm white leds usually put out a few more lumens than the cooler colors do.
I like to use the led tape. The one I found comes in an adhesive backed 5 meter roll and uses 9.6w/m @ 12vdc. +90 cri but needs a dimmer that is made for the led, not a normal household dimmer and 4000k is as close as they come to 3200k. Tape, connectors and accessories are on ebay, zon and electrical supply stores, some transformers come with a ferrite already in the line. The aquarium light I made 3 years ago is like new with a timer that runs it +/- 11 hrs a day in 2 shifts. The kitchen counter line of lights has a barely noticeable odd flicker lately sometimes but I suspect that is the touch operated dimmer, hopefully a $5 plug in replacement. Some of the variety store bulb replacement screw-in leds had to be replaced after a year or 2. Don’t tell the wife, but the kitchen transformer has enough amps to anodize small aluminum parts.
One other thing I’ve noted is that leds and their transformers get warm or even hot. By dimming even an imperceptible amount they run cool so I also overshoot on the lumens desired and add a dimmer. The nice thing about leds is that the color temperature doesn’t change when dimmed.
Geo U: The noisiest rf thing in the house is now the “smart” electrical meter. You had once talked about improvising a (grounded?) screen to block rf to living areas, any idea on mesh and type of metal screen? window screen, lath, stainless, copper, brass mesh? fm2s 60hz was the only hint of possible frequency on the meter.
It’s not the frequency of the meter (60 Hz) that is the problem.
It’s the harmonics from the inside.
Recall, a normal sine wave? Well, they are relatively clean – and don’t have a lot of harmonic content.
However, the misnamed smart meters use a lot of digital processing and this is virtually ALL square wave.
And square waves are about the dirtiest kind of wave there is in terms of generating harmonic content.Which is why if you bring a spectrum analyzer to the party (or a wide band receiver) you will see so much coming off the meters.
I’d refer you to “The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life by Becker and Selden on Amazon for more details.
thx for the rabbit hole. I Did figure the rf block sorta, but now i have to buy a $600 lifesaver necklace along with a spaghetti strainer and $70/L paint. All I wanted was to stop the Apple magic mouse from going spastic.
Bedmate says “Becker is a technologist, not a scientist and so phbthtt.” I say maybe that is what it takes to cut thru the bs and business that has an interest in hiding profit killing facts; she weakened a little. Jury’s out.
Annyhoo, U get to run parallel to your 120s, grounded 12v circuits off the solar array with dimmers to get a f’n light in revenge for that rabbit hole. See ya in (X hours)
maybe you’ll get a stetzerizer for chrismas.
take care o yerself
We leave the Southern most pasture unstocked mainly for the deer but also because, #1, we don’t want any livestock to be visible from the county road and, #2, the fence along that county road isn’t so great. We’ve had goats climb over it in the deep depressions between hills.
What the deer have learned long ago is that seeing my pickup doesn’t really put that much of a scare into them but any of the hunting lessees’ trucks will make them look for cover. I don’t hunt them from the truck and, this year anyway, I was doing some feeding the last part of August to save as many as I could. One poor young buck would wait in the trees close by and run right up to the molasses tubs I was using for feeders as I was filling them every day. His pelvis was sticking out all over the place and his antlers didn’t develop well this year so I quickly became his best friend in the whole World.
I was an avid hunter up until my late 40s when the fact that squeezing the trigger and experiencing the blast became the signal that all the fun was over and it was time to work. Never dreamed, while in my youth, that having my own ranch and never hunting on it, other than varmints, would come to be. I think I’ve taken a grand total of two deer since the ranch has been ours – and one of them was because it was caught in the fence and had broken its leg. The granddaughter always begs for ‘backstrap” every year and I keep promising I’ll try and get a good one but always wind up being swamped or the hunters are on the place so I usually won’t go out while they’re here. I do need to take the grandkids out and teach them to hunt and clean a deer now, though. Can’t let that skill die with me.
My family and the community lost interest in deer hunting when our family doctor was killed in a deer hunting accident in Minnesota.
It happens. Was it on public lands or a private property? Either way, when you get a number of people on the same plot of land the chances of someone getting shot goes up. Just like the freeway, there’s always a person out there that is a danger to others.
I write down my lucid dreams [ sometimes ‘normal’ dreams as well, if interesting enough.] I can remember my lucid dreams for a day, or more.., then they fade away – I can recall that I had the dream, and may a snicket, or two of what it was about., but it is gone. I also write down what I had to eat that day. Any consumable. Vitamins / supplements.., how much coffee, or did I cut back that day., Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, booze.., anything that I can remember. [ This was suggested to me.., ]
Two months ago I collated 14 different lucid dreams and studied the list for any correlation for ‘chemical change’. that may have triggered or help to trigger, a lucid dream. I found nothing. There was nothing repeatable.
I couldn’t have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich an hour before bed to trigger a lucid dream. I am still writing down what I consumed prior to that night’s dream, but for me at least, I can’t find any connection.
Speaking of cheese there’s a new ‘milk’ alternative coming to market. New ‘cheese products’ and ‘prepared cheese foods’ should follow.
Major change coming to supermarket shelves after breakthrough – would you drink it?
Retailers will be stocking dairy products that aren’t milked from animals by 2023, Aussie startup Eden Brew has revealed.
Unlike alternatives like oat, almond and soy, the new products will be largely identical to milk but grown using fermentation instead of squeezed from a cow.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/milk-supermarket-australia-eden-brew-lab-milk-drink-073427511.html
After the past two years is ANYbody going to trust something coming out of a LAB??? Keep squeezin’ and tippin’ those cows! Hell, I haven’t even tried Almond milk yet!
Ditto.
Virtually all soybeans and almonds grown in CONUS are genetically-modified, so unless I’m dying of starvation, I’m not ever likely to drink almond (or soy) “milk…”
When they play back my life, I don’t think I’ll recognize it. As I’ve gotten older, NOTHING is as I remember it. But I’ll probably doze off anyway….
I’ve either got dibs as a fly on the wall for George’s or reserve a copy of the video depending on which one of us goes first. But, yes, you’re right about not remembering things at least as others do when we reminisce. There’s so much I’ve forgotten that my brothers talk about I often wonder if there are gaps in my implanted matrix memories – and I’m the oldest.
Phew great news shared on the main network Sunday morning news show….
The new pole on our present administration is gaining in popularity as one of the best presidents ever.. a shoe in for the next election..
I laughed till I peed my pants. Thankyou LOOB
G,
whole lotta shaking going on – that was a 7.2 in Tieoneon..USGS downgrade is FRAUD =- dangerous and fraudulant. That is 4- 7 ‘s in 2 weeks time span in same area – Pac ring of Fire = highway to hell?
? read, not words on a page – signs in NATURE..after all its in You, and You are in it.
what do you think Four 7.0’s in 14 days time, starting with Chynah on the 5th, means ?? besides ground shaking violently and a big ass slow roller.
Gots to ask myself – why am I standing still when scheisse be moving and shaking ? I certainly dont know squatta, why I alwayz be asking my Spirit every night for a insight..
* All that space NRG pouring into Earth core past couple of weeks seems to have sped up CSR(corespinrate)..feels like that badboy is heating up. “like a wheel – gonna spin it”
https://youtu.be/oLBfdyJ3cpw
There’s no telling what you’re going to find on the confiscated Russian yachts –
https://www.bing.com/search?q=faberge+egg+found+on+yacht&qs=UT&pq=faberge+egg+found&sk=UT1&sc=10-17&cvid=94BF2EA51B53489788232798EF4462FE&FORM=QBLH&sp=2
Several stories about a Faberge Egg finding on a Russian super yacht. I wonder if any Russian state secrets will be found there, too.
Time to stir up the anti-vaxxers. I’m through with Covid jabs for the foreseeable futures, but the non-egg Flucelvax influenza jabs are available locally at CVS. Most of the techs there have no idea what Flucelvax is, so make ’em show you the box. There is an egg vaccine with a very similar name. Flucelvax has low drift in manufacturing compared to the egg vaccines, which makes it worthwhile regardless of your egg allergy status. A singe jab of a high accuracy vaccine beats a double stick of half-ass vaccine.
Yer gonna keep playin’ that lotto til ya “win” aren’t ya? I tell ya from the heart n____, we’re gonna miss ya when ya win that big prize.
“Hell, I haven’t even tried Almond milk yet!”
Don’t bother. It doesn’t taste anything like milk to me. I still can’t figure out how they found the tits under an almond to milk it.
Maybe when the Elite are finished with creating nothings from all the something’s, these folks will step in and build something from all that nothingness.
(Is that Hope or sarcasm? I’m not sure) lol
https://bgr.com/science/scientists-create-matter-from-nothing-in-groundbreaking-experiment/amp/
“There is Faster than Light travel around the Universe already.”
Yes there is. It is called… Consciousness. Instantly be… anywhere, any time. This answers for Einstein’s ‘Spooky action at a distance’ that ‘violates’ his idea of nothing moving faster than the speed of light. The Mind moves faster than that. Moving bulky things around is clumsy and time-consuming and energy-wasting. Consciousness moves without hindrance and delay and without need of a gas fill-up along the way.
“What travels is what we call a ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ presence.”
Same answer as above.
“And in those 17 Minutes you saw, felt, and actually experienced every possible human emotion, condition, paradox, and decision… It was breathtaking.”
In ‘The Beyond’ we experience greatly enhanced and ramped-up emotions and sensory awareness. So say many who have had NDEs and who were astounded by what they experienced Over There.
“Seems to me that the pathway to communicating off this plane of living is somehow triggered (or enhanced) by certain collections of flavonoids.”
There are various ways to nudge our personal consciousness out of its Earthly straight-jack into the World of the Light. (Actually, we’re already in the Light World now but our filters block most of that out). And yes, traveling to various distant locales while still dragging around our wondrous meat sack.
“… very clear why Religions would ban certain foods and certain ways of thinking.”
Religions are nothing but a control mechanism for the ego and benefit of the few with personal delusions of power and faux godhood (not talking about spiritual matters, but the human bureaucracies that grow up around spiritual things and take all the life out of them).
Once we get our heads and thoughts out of the gutter of politics and other useless thinking… we begin to get on the magnificent road that leads to magical places and ways of being.
And having a better diet is good for more reasons than one.
I agree with you on consciousness and spirit, but there’s more.
https://www.sciencealert.com/4-cosmic-phenomena-that-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-science
I like the Quantum Tunnel … think I’ve been there. (Yes, Seriously)
It’s a 100 miles each way to the warehouse store on the other side of the island. I usually get three of the cheap pizzas at the food court to split up, bag, and freeze at home. Yes, there is ALWAYS string cheese in the fridge. Individually sealed packet sticks last a long time, and it is perfect to tear up a stick of cheese for two slices of frozen pizza.
I use almond milk. Doesn’t rot fast like real milk. Soy Milk is a plant estrogen and disastrous for males. Lady friend of mine complained that Soy milk made her boobs hurt. I told her about the plant estrogen thing.
I discovered something about my dreaming this morning. I am frequently up before the crack of dawn to take care of some bathroom duties. Years back I had to be to work at 4am, and sometimes the body remembers… Now in retirement, I just go back to bed and retire. This morning I realized I was having a dream in the early morning after going back to bed. Never noticed that before. Seems I never have overnight dreams… or at least do not remember them. But now I can watch for the early morning ones as I drift back off to sleep.
Regarding pizza, I shred my own using a flat cheese grater. I find the cheese is higher quality and doesn’t have the flour on it to prevent it from clumping in the package. In other words I actually tested this. I did buy a brand name pre shredded cheese and compared the same cheese in a block that I hand shredded. The hand shredded cheese is better.
Generally though I like to buy
an higher quality Mozzarella shred it and freeze the excess I don’t use and save it for next time.
Please look on the ingredients list of the pre shredded cheese and compare it to the ingredients list of a ball of Mozzarella. I strongly suspect the pre shredded cheese contains cellulose to act as an anti clumping agent.
Great tip!!!
Seems like you are passing up a full freezer of deer meat. Harvesting the meat now while it is available, making jerky, steaks, etc. makes sense now. A good vacuum sealer will help keep the meat tasty in the freezer for a couple of years. When the SHTF, there will be so many bullets flying at the deer, you won’t be seeing any in your yard.
Tomorrow is Queen’s funeral. Many will mark it.
130 yrs ago England had a royal funeral, one who I was named for because my Grandfather liked the name;
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) and grandson of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but did not become king as he died before both his grandmother and his father.
https://www.factinate.com/people/prince-albert-victor-facts/
rest in peace,
God save King Charles.
Just a thought for everyone: The other day I was in ABQ and tried to do a bit of shopping. I went to Dollartree and it was closed early with a handwritten note. I then went to another one and it closed early due to a shortage of staff. I went to a Walmart and there was some kind of ruckus with lots of security flashing at the entrance, and I found out that it had closed early. I went to a Murphy’s gas station and it had a note saying closed due to lack of staff. Then I went to a Maverik station and it was a zoo with cars backed up all over. I went inside and got on a long line to pay, and there was just one cashier(it was a big place)! That was it – after paying and filling up, I went home. This is most unlike America as I’ve known it. There are still homeless folks begging on the freeway ramps, but there are no employable candidates to hire!
God help us all. If you’ll need something, get it now, and do it during normal business hours.
It is everywhere.
I got my security clearance about the same time one of my kids got hired at the local cstore.
My clearance process was 4-pages, followed by a couple hours long FBI background dig.
Junior’s hiring process was a 56-page employment application, followed by a 4-day background investigation by the company’s staff PIs.
EVERYBODY searches unsociable media and runs an NCIC arrest check before they hire anyone. A hustler can pull about $30/hr delivering pizza. AFAIK this is the highest-paying job a dopehead can land. Drug use disqualifies a prospective employee both because underwriters don’t want to insure druggies, and employers don’t want to hire unreliable employees.
I know SO..MANY..PEOPLE who work menial jobs because they refuse to quit smoking dope or dropping pills. I know so many more who flat refuse to work, because they have been able to game the State and Federal welfare agencies to the point they’ve no bills and no expenses, and thousands of dollars in aid rolling in every month.
Dude, I remember when you had that dream and all that happened! Remember you posted a picture of a yellow belly dump behind a blue tractor truck and that day I started driving a blue tractor truck with a yellow belly dumper on it.
Wow! That is a cool ponder, Mix of flavors induces psychic dreams? I’ve never thought about that before. Definitely worth considering. Cool. Thanks for sharing.
I think Roger Waters might actually read Urban Survival. Haha his show last night may be the best show I’ve seen in 2022 and is in my top 5 of best shows I’ve ever been too. I may have seen Clif there. If he was sitting in section 1 on the floor. I was running the gate the band entered in. Roger went on stage another way. Everytime they give me autographs and picks and stuff like that. I give it to a fan out there. Gave a couple picks away last night to a few younger kids.
Clif if you were there sitting next to the dude brown leather jacket, you have came and said High. Might even introduce you to Roger. He was there a couple times next to me.
I’m really good at spotting Waldo in a sea of faces. Hahahaha.
Definitely was one big rant show against the powers that be and not a single presidential politician be them democrat or republican didn’t get roasted. Especially Obama and Bush.
Only has to toss one dude. Super good show.
Thanks for the info. I will eat sushi tonight and see what I see.
A few new items of interest that normally are not in my persecution. There was a 5k run at the beach yesterday morning while I was down there having a smoke and coffee. I saw a fella in a Shark custom pass an Asian midget fella both running the race and I thought that something you don’t see every day. I’ve actually never seen a 3 foot tall Asian midget before. Ever. Hmmmmm. A midget Asian. With his little cheesey Asian beard and everything. Still no match for Shark Boy. Because he passed him. Not really fair though. Midget Asian has to take more steps because he has a smaller stride than Shark boy.
And two Kite surfers today at the beach. Pretty cool. And running into an old home town girl last night at the show. When your from a small town in Alaska, population less than 7500 is always a treat.
Well off to the gym, then I have some service work to do. Back to the grind tomorrow afa I know.
Good Stuff George. Good stuff.
Truly I am Blessed and Highly Fortunate! It is my hope you are as well.
Que ~ Like I love Country Music ~
https://youtu.be/ELZNClmKX1E
Kane Brown
Uhem perspective not persecution. Stupid Auto correct . I guess AI ain’t that smart after all. LOL!
George,
“The anomaly has occurred.” It appears as though the “window” placement in your video editing room parallels that of Occupant 4305 at the 11 minute mark. “Thank you for your cooperation.”
https://www.roderickgadaev.com/17-minutes-short-film
I had never heard of that movie – wow! You could push me over with a feather rtight now…
When meditating alot some people suggest to eat meat and root vegetables (potatoes, beets, onions, etc ) when you feel the need to be more grounded. I didn’t find this especially helpful but maybe eating less of these things would be helpful in lucid dreaming
For those of us who have been perplexed by the absolute insistence Biden, et al, trying to force us into a conflict with Russia, I’d offer a possible reason:
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/
I can’t speak to the truth of this at all. It’s something I came across on the net and I just don’t know. Perhaps our geopolitical experts can comment as to the likelihood of this being a major factor in the ongoing escalation of this conflict. According to the author, it’s just another intervention to prop up the dollar.
“For those of us who have been perplexed by the absolute insistence Biden, et al, trying to force us into a conflict with Russia, I’d offer a possible reason:”
Oh I have an idea why…My personal opinion is HE may be a Moronic perverted creep that no one would want near any of their children.. but he isn’t totally stupid either.. he has some smarts It takes some skills to convince a population to keep him in the power circle when he has no practical work life as a citizen experience but still was able to convince all the stupid people in Delaware to actually believe he was a good guy to keep him in office at the feed troughs of corruption for what sixty years.. he has never had to work for a living it has been handed to him.. In the end it isn’t about Germany .. it is always about the business model.. Look at all the wars we have been involved in.. what do they focus on.. gathering more for the puppeteers.. and the business ventures those in charge of the USA . are involved with.. they paint some rosy picture.. but it isn’t about that and when the money or resources dwindle we walk out leaving the good people at a loss.. people hurt killed and maimed fatherless mother less child less.. their homes destroyed.. their lives turned upside down..
“Far as I can figure it, the more yellow (lower number on the Kelvin temperature scale, like 2900K) the more likely the lights are to burn out… Just about 1,100 hours on them..”
I have seen no difference, although it is possible. Our eyes see better under the 2300/2700/2900°K lighting, but lighting that’s between amber and “soft white” has to draw more power and be more-intense to appear to be as bright as 5000°K+ light — i.e. it might take a 12w 2700°K LED to make a light which appears to be as bright as the light a 10w 5600°K emits.
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“The happy talk ads boasted these would be “10,000 hour” lights. We’ve hoping the daylight 5,000K lights (the higher the number, the more white (then into blue) will last closer to the ads.”
Not likely. The bulbs I use outdoors are either 5000 or 5800 degree, 28w bulbs. I have yet to have one last more than 19 months, either photocell-switched or always on.
I used to get 10+ years out of my incandescent bulbs.
Somebody got the idea of building a rectifier into a “button” which could be attached to the base of a medium or mogul base light bulb before you screwed it into its socket. Because the rectifier attenuated the available filament voltage, a 100w bulb would have about the same glow (and manufacture about the same amount of heat) as a 55w bulb on straight A.C. I would run 100w bulbs wherever 60-watters were called for, and 200w bulbs wherever 100w bulbs were appropriate. (40 years ago, 100w incandescent bulbs put out 1710 lumens and 200w bulbs put out ~3290 lumens.) The rectifier caused the bulb to “soft-start” when you flipped the switch, put out much less heat, and be less-susceptible to spikes.
The ones I used were called “The Button.”
The only company still making them today is PowerDisc
( https://powerdisc.com/ )
How ’bout a news dump?
Euro Zone Inflation Confirmed At 9.1% As Energy, Food Prices Surge
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation hit another record high of 9.1% in August, EU statistics office Eurostat confirmed on Friday, driven by sharply higher energy and food prices, and was likely headed towards double figures. Consumer price inflation in the 19 countries using the euro rose 0.6% month-on-month and by 9.1% year-on-year, the highest rate since the euro was created in 1999.
https://www.oann.com/euro-zone-inflation-confirmed/
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On 60 Minutes, President Biden Admits His Student-Loan Order Is Illegal
On 60 Minutes this evening, President admitted aloud that his decision to transfer up to a trillion dollars in student-loan debt to taxpayers without congressional approval is flatly unconstitutional
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/on-60-minutes-president-biden-admits-his-student-loan-order-is-illegal/
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Marijuana Retail Licenses in New York Are Going First to Those Convicted of Drug Crimes
New York regulators want people who were affected by marijuana criminalization to get the first licenses to sell recreational pot in the state, an effort to redress what they see as the harms of the drug war and to prevent large companies from dominating the market.
https://archive.ph/haNN8#selection-229.0-229.266
Data Broker Helps Police See Everywhere You’ve Been with the Click of a Mouse
SAN FRANCISCO–Millions of Americans’ everyday movements can be traced by police with the click of a mouse and possibly without a warrant, thanks to a data broker that’s selling phone geolocation data to state and local law enforcement, an Electronic Frontier Foundation investigation has found.
https://www.eff.org/de/press/releases/data-broker-helps-police-see-everywhere-youve-been-click-mouse-eff-investigation
Billionaires back new media firm to combat disinformation
A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.
Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.
The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM.
https://www.axios.com/2021/10/26/soros-hoffman-disinformation-tara-mcgowan
Biden Declares U.S. Troops Will Engage In War With China If Taiwan Attacked
President Joe Biden (D) declared during an interview on Sunday night that the U.S. Military would engage in war with communist China if China attacked Taiwan, a statement that was quickly walked back by the White House.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-u-s-troops-will-engage-in-war-with-china-if-taiwan-attacked-white-house-walks-back-statement
The WH Staff “walked this back,” but it is the fourth time Creepy Joe has said it.
If I were Xi, assuming I didn’t absolutely own Biden, I’d assume he would fumble the U.S. into a war with China over Taiwan…