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monsoon struggling
There were temperature records set: 31 days over 110 degrees, hottest overnight temperature ever at 97 degrees, hottest average 24 hour day at 104 degrees. right now, at 4:41pm, 110 degrees Thre...
Still sitting here.
It’s been two months since I’ve updated here. Just not much more than the usual nothing going on around here. I’ve finished reading “The Curator” by Owen King and “Quicksilver” and “The Big Dark ...
Bi-annual doings . . .
I finished reading “The Last Chairlift” by John Irving and “Old Babes in the Wood” by Margaret Atwood. Now I’m reading a new Owen King I found when I returned the other two books. Yes, that King...
Same old, same old.
It’s been six weeks since I’ve scribbled in here. What’s new? What isn’t? I found two new books by two favorite authors at the library. John Irving and Margaret Atwood. The last trip to the weed...
Climate chaos?
February is over. Normally it would have been warmer. The first ninety degree day of the year usually arrives in February. This year there wasn’t even one eighty degree day during February. And a...
Two more items.
For decades I’ve had two items on my “wish list”. I finally pulled the trigger and bought them. I bought the Silva Ranger 2.0 compass from Amazon for $57.77 and a Leatherman Wave+ from REI for $1...
Warming up!
December and January temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees on average lower than normal. And now we’re finally returning to normal temps. It is supposed to be up in the mid-seventies through the upco...
ChatGPT, Conversation #2
I think I’m going to need to be stoned to continue along this path. Really fucking high. Check this out: *Are you familiar with the three laws of robotics? * Yes, I am familiar with the three law...
ChatGPT, conversation #1
f(x)=x+2 f(x) is a function that takes an input, x, and returns the value of x+2. For example, if you input 3 into the function, it would return 5 because 3+2 = 5. Is there anything else you woul...
Another trip around the sun.
The new year started with an inch and a quarter of rain. A very pleasant all day and evening steady rain. Definitely won’t remedy the megadrought, but can’t hurt. It rained another quarter inch t...
Vitamin D!
It finally happened today. Noon to three. Three hours at the pool. Then a shave and hot shower. We should have three more days in the mid-seventies until the clouds and cooler days move back in. ...
Winter may be over?
Yeah, the last couple of weeks have been harsh. High’s in the fifties and lows in the thirties. Yesterday warmed up to 68 degrees. It may be 70 or more tomorrow. The water heater I’d taken out o...
Two more weeks gone.
Yeah, two weeks since an update. After I’d gotten my last grocery order for 2022 I figured the year end total. It was a grand total of $29.25 per week. Compared to $27.60 per week in 2021. Not to...
Crazy weather!
It started raining Saturday just before noon. It rained steadily until Sunday morning. It left an inch-and-a-half in the rain gauge. And then Monday I woke up to fog so thick I could barely see a...
Deliveries.
Yesterday was my usual Instacart delivery. And then Amazon delivered my photo album and my fountain pen. The fountain pen turned out to be a Hong Dian 525. I filled it with Waterman Intense Black...
Spending money, again.
I had nothing to read yesterday so I made the mistake, the mistake I usually make when I’m bored, of perusing Thriftbooks and Amazon. I ordered four paperbacks from Thriftbooks and a photo album ...
A 7 year read?
I finally finished “Masterpieces of World Philosophy in Summary Form” by Harper Collins, 1964. 1163 pages. I bought the tome at the library here for fifty cents either the first trip out here in ...
Only a half dozen.
I finished reading “Fall, or, Dodge in Hell” by Neal Stephenson. That is six books read this year. Two of those were re-reads. Now I’m back to the philosophy tome I’ve been reading since 2015. Th...
52 years ago . . .
it was written and it’s still relevant. Enjoy!
Starlink secured!
I had been given four screws from the same neighbor I’d been borrowing the ladder from. The feet of the Starlink don’t line up with the ridges of the metal roof of the carport. I had found a piec...
Stupid people!
The republican candidate for governor of this state believes the last election was stolen from the dumbass Trump. When asked about it she said, “We have the evidence.” When asked “What evidence?”...
Two years.
The Starlink is doing great. No dropouts. Connection has remained at 100%. Speed seems to be getting faster with time. And the first monthly bill was exactly $110. No taxes or fees. Yeah, $1320 a...
That was easy!
The check cleared on the 10th. Starlink said look for delivery within two weeks. FedEx dropped the Starlink on my porch yesterday. I borrowed a ladder from my neighbor, set the unit on the roof o...
An experiment.
I received the email from Starlink. I had placed my order and deposit of $99 on 7/4/20. Service is now available at Latitude 33.385. The price for the unit is $549, up from the initial offering o...
Routine.
I did my once a month, last day of the month, one load of laundry. I turned the page on the wall calendar. And this morning, the first day of the month, I ordered groceries. $78.94. I’m going to ...
