Call a spade a spade
and I’m calling this for what it truly is right now.
DISTRACTION
Yah, its a problem, and one that has oodles of problems behind it. Mostly, WHAT should be the definition of Citizen, followed by what DUTIES and OBLIGATIONS are granted Citizens over non. (Note , not RIGHTS,,, though there should be a deliniation of which rights are Natural and those granted. Natural rights are those defined by the Bill of,,, But thats going off a tangent I need a full day to write about, and not the subject of this post.)
BUT,
The timing,,, Pure distraction from a Shitty fuckin’ war we should never have dipped out wee-wee into, the growing concerns that a problem child of a small nation of troublemakers have way too much pull in far too many houses of power world wide. The stink of a file dump that STILL is not pulling in arrests or indictments (and that said list may have MANY ties to the problem child small nation,,,)
And the growing threat of a time bomb Economic BOMB, thats starting to look more and more like the timer is close to running out.
Da was telling me last night,,, one of my cousins was planting this week (late IMO, but hey,,, better late than not at all. Just means lower yeild) and was griping that a 50# bag of fertilizer was over $30. I made mention that he is gonna consider that CHEAP here come next year if things continue the path they are on. It may even be that he will be lucky to find it at any price, this time next year.
Time to start fishing and catch carp to plant with the seeds.
OK, maybe not quite that time yet,,,
Here is what I find telling about the stink in the first link. That we are so far compromised as a country that there are people within the borders, people that were born here, raised here, have never traveled more than a 100 miles from place of birth, and have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what citizenship means,,, They know they are Americans, they’ve been told so thier entire lives: but ask one what it means and “Deer in headlights” is the look you get. They don’t know. They were told this, but it was never explained. “Civics” was a course during my HS classes, and was phased out of curriculum sometime in the 90’s. Not gonna ask why,,, wouldn’t do me any more good to ask that than to ask why they eliminated the insane asylums.(same people/mentality that did one, did the other, and the end results are ALL around us now, aren’t they?)
DISTRACTIONS
get your financial house in order if you can. Mine is promised to others for some indeterminate time for the nonce, but if things go teats up,,,, Well, ‘when the ship lifts, all debts are paid’.
Gotta get to the J.O.B. watch the distractions, but keep an eye on that bouncy ball called the economy too. Its the more telling thing.
Love y’all
LLLLL!
(, ‘)
App-real Fooo’zzzzz
no jokes here today,,, fair warning, most of what you find on the nets today is likely 1/4true, maybe,,,
Update on the Da: Appointment went well, did another round of steroid boosters and given the greenlight on surgery IF Da wants to go that route. He decided to hold off until the next follow-up to decide on that (GOOD!!! Three Cheers from the Kids Table!!!) He was also told that he can quit the PT IF and ONLY IF, he continues the exercises on his own. He’s been good about it so far, and with the weather turning for the better, I can see that becoming a habit on his part. He wants out of that house and to get out of that house, he needs to MOVE,,,, Movement is whats going to improve him, not sitting and wallowing in pain and misery
(I may have just given some of my history away right there LOL)
Chasing down property owners: Yeah,,, that one is startin’ to scare the ever lovin’ fuck out of me. One peice that Da is interested in, in particular, has me questioning my sanity to ‘stay put’. See, lady died, willed her prop to her grandson. He in turn ‘sold it’ to a pawnshop for some stoopid silly low amount (to pay off his dealer I hear, but thats gossip mind you,,,) Literally sold a property listed at 30K for $2000. Well, said pawnshop is no longer in business but thats the only addy we have to work with. Said addy was showing some signs I know and AVOID like the plague. No signage out front other than the old ‘pawnshop’ sign up top. But a streetlamp at head level, lit during full daylight hours. Front door unlocked but into a small ‘security vestibule’ painted all black and a guy met us there looking as thuggish as his overweight ass could look ( I carry a thuggish look on my scowling face in the norm and this guy was trying to out thug me I think.) What we found was an underground poker hall. And they weren’t real keen on our being there and asking questions,,, and I saw Thuggy come out and take a pic of the license plate as we pulled out. He’ll have one of his po-po bought and paid fors run it for him, to make sure we weren’t undercovers.
Hillbilly Mafia is a REAL THING, don’t ever let anyone tell you its a fable or bullshit. People die around here for knowing something they shouldn’t or saying something to the wrong ‘type’. Coyotes have to eat too, same as the worms and fish.
I’m not concerned about them running Da’s plate (we were in his truck) but I DO try to avoid those situations as much as I can. I want Da to forget about this property ASAP, but thats not in my call. He needs SOMEWHERE and he is doing some digging of his own. I can only hope that that one ain’t the end result. Too many redflags attached to it now and ‘just buying it’ won’t remove them, not for some years.
BlooTwuck stuf: Bidness cards are in and in my paws. Still need to make her a solid addition to my little world, but thats forthcoming with a block. How long out, No-idear,,, close though. Gonna hold off on putting the cards out, except to a select few, for the time being. I really feel Bloo is not ‘just’ the transport of tools, but something of a ‘brand icon’ as well.
anywhoos,,, Its getting late, the sun is approaching the horizon, I’m drinking tonight (didn’t sleep for shit last night, want some help tonight) and I have a small fire in the pit and a lawnchair facing the sunset. A little ‘chill out and enjoy’ is in order.
LOVE
LAUGH
LEARN
LIVE
LOAD!!!!
Jokes on me
Not QUITE April Fools day,,,
But more the fool me,,, or not, depends on your perspective.
Today, was the beginning of the war on weeds at the homestead.
A full month early this year. We hadn’t seen springs this mild in years, and my yard, heck, the whole daggum place ’round-heres, is taking off, blooming out and goin’ GREEN!!! (not the libtarded version, but its natural state.)
EVERYTHING is waking up. The Dogwood at the end of my driveway is even a week early in blooming out. That tree is usually quite punctual about blooming on Easter Sunday, and yet this year, EARLY,,,,
I have no idea what this portends for the summer. Likely going to be a scorcher and drought. It’s already been quite dry this year. It sometimes hits middle to late February, but didn’t this year. March has seen very minor amounts of precip, to include one heavy snow at the start, but that was about it. (minus the occasional shower or two, scattered about and quite short and very localized)
A few years back, we had one hell of a wet start to July, and then didn’t see drop one for 5 months. That was the year I did run out of water here at the stead. I’m hoping that isn’t the case this year. But, I’m preparing for that eventuality, just in case. Considering putting a few extra 55’s up the hill, possibly even down here at the house and load them up. If need be, I can back feed to the tank up the hill though I prefer using gravity,,, (its that ‘up the hill’ thing. Dry years tend to be heavy tick infestations and I don’t like TICKS,,,, (does anyone?) Theres a bit of wilderness between house and water tank; rabbit haven, and that means TICKS)
FYI, my current tank is a 350 gallon ‘farm hauler’. Its hard plumbed in, so ain’t gonna move, but thats the extent of what I have on reserve. Currrently, its in overflow (usually is) When I see that overflow cease, I start to pray for rain. If I see it stop for a full month, I go into full worry mode. Two months, Scramble mode. I want to avoid scramble mode this year.
See, I DO pay a water bill. Just not in the same currency as most people. It takes work to make and maintain a system to tap into a clean water source. Unfortunately, nature gets a say in things too.
On other fronts,,, its looking like this is going to be another year of ‘limited kayaking’. So much shit going on, and getting time away to play is going to bbe short and sweet when I can get it. Already have a couple of scheduled camp outings, and those will likely be near the extent of my getaways. Not happy about it, more resigned to the situation. Maybe next year after all the dust settles down from this’un.
oh, but the water and wilds CALL,,, they do,,, Caught myself more than once, eyeballing the camp gear and kayak-gear and thinking ‘just load it up ad go for a week, ain’t no one gonna miss ya!’
yah,,, duties and obligations,,,, Like paying bills that don’t wanna go’way, taking care of Da, Needing to work to pay those daggum bills (that I brought on meself,,, yeah,,, Hi Foot, Meet Fast moving chunk of lead! )
grump grumble (pulls out rocks glass and bottle and considers,,,) sigh,,,, not tonight.
very little forward movement this week. At least on the property exchanges side of things. Da is showing improvement as I noted when I watched him at PhysTherapy yesterday even. Moving far better than he was just two weeks ago. Have an ortho appt tomorrow: more than likely they are going to keep him at the PT thing, but he is hoping they suggest going forward with surgery. I didn’t bother to bust his illusion: I’ll let the Doc do that. And I could be wrong,,
ZERO forward movement on Bloo. Thats bothering me a bit and I want to get out there and fix the unfixable. I fired her up yesterday (and she starts SO EASY,,,,) and she was smoking like a professional fog machine in less than a minute. Checked her oil levels and she has used over a quart in the last few weeks and never moved from her spot (I move her around a little to keep the tires and rotors from ‘aging’ in bad ways.) That leak is getting even worse. I do believe that I have a cracked manifold, and I could pull it apart to check, but I am at the point of “Just swap a block” and be done with it. Go through this current block after and see what I can find. It may be worse than what I imagine (usually is when it comes to Teats and Tires.)
As for the Great Wide World,,,, After I saw an email talking about the NasDaq ‘booming’, I decided to turn off ALL the feeds for a couple of days. Certain signs, like marekt movement, tell me how fake and gay this shit really is.
But before I killed the feeds, I caught this,,,,
Now, I have seen a few of JP’s vids, and he can be funny as F!,,, but I was never a subsciber,,,
But this,,, I watched it and ALARM BELLS started going off in my head. About the only time someone drops all protocol and ‘changes’ like that is under SERIOUS intimidations. I wonder what they threatened. His Banking? His Family?, If you havnen’t watched it, do so. Something is WAY off in this’un.
And it could be a propaganda hyped move on his part,,, I won’t say that’s off the table. Seems like, if thats the case, its one hell of a gamble. Or a calculated shift in venue (but why shift venue if the one you had was working, and his was,,,) DUNNO,,,,
I can only say this,,, The alarm bells I was getting only reinforced the thinking I have had of late about our “Greatest Ally, EVAH!”,,,,
Alright, tomorrow is Fools Day,, I have to take a half day off to attend to Da’s needs, and its looking like its gonna be a mad scramble of such. Weather is calling for Rain first thing, and it may be that tomorrow is a full day off (which I wouldn’t mind for the extra time to attend to things, but really need the hours,,,,, Its a catch 22 here,,,,)
More laters,,, Love y’all
LIVE
Laugh
Learn
Love
LOAD!!!!
Rule one of Blogging
Post something everyday.
been lax a time or two on that note,,, Not that it matters, my numbers fell into the basement in 2012 and have stayed there. Sometimes a link might double them up (or more) but it never lasts, I might pick up a new reader or three from the boost,,, Maybe.
Don’t care much about the numbers anymore. This is my central airing out place, occasional foray into ‘how to’, or just blabbering about nuthin’ and enjoying being me for a moment without the weight of the day to day
Stuff in the world right now,,, I can’t say for certain, but I am catching gleams of ‘enlightement’ coming from the Trumped orb. Me thinks the boy is starting to come to grips that he was the “mark” in this current game of Cups. (if you look around the room and can’t find the mark, YOU’RE IT!)
Reason I say that?
Missles launched at Diego Garcia on the 20th, a 4000Km trip for them, from a country that supposedly hadn’t that sort of tech. Now,, Am I saying they couldn’t have lied,,, No, far from it, the whole MullahRegime was neck deep in liars, and justified in such by their Ideology of ‘fooling the Kafir’. But I have to say, when someone from high up in Irans IRGC or whatever that group is, posts up, “Hey, that DC thing against the UK/US base? Yeah,,, that wasn’t us,,, ” You scratch your head a bit. If it had been them and they were trying to make a point, wouldn’t they WANT to claim it? “Yup, fooled you rubes,,, we got long range stuff now”
Or was this a broken arrow within ranks playing footsie with toys and had an oopsies?
Or was this an attempt at a false flag by “Our Greatest Ally EVAH!”? Seeing how Trumped continues to try to pull his ass out of this fireants nest he fell into; it makes sense that some agency in the Mossad groups decided ‘this Goyim needs to be scared into doing our bidding, again.”
I don’t like Trumped,, I have never made any claims otherwise, but I DID think he was the best answer available,
At the time.
I’m questioning that now, not just because of all this Iran shit, but because it’s looking more and more like he is NutJobyahoooz toy poodle on a string. Leader of the Free world, my ass,,, Not if someone can pull your strings and make you bark.
But I don’t envy Trumped his position one wee bit right now. He is very much the item between Hammer and Anvil right now. Sadly, if that hammer falls, we all suffer.
And I can’t see any GOOD way out of it for the US,, We pull out, Vietnam and Afghanistan all over again. Not just egg on our faces this time. Nopes,,, this’uns gonna be for all the Reputation cards. Our word is rapidly become shit in the world view, and this mess in only making it worse.
And its looking like most of our allies in the Gulf, even the tentative ones, are gonna be under Iran’s thumb if we fuck this up: and oh, it is so looking like its gonna be a complete fuck up.
We are losing BILLIONS in equipment over there. Planes getting shot down, but worse, Destroyed while on tarmac. Three AWACs type planes,,, current value 600Million EACH, and the planes are BBQ on the tarmac.
We lost some in air refuelers too.
Our warships are essentially parked a 1000kliks offshore to protect them and its looking like that (if those long range missiles were Iranian) is still too close.
And then there is the near total blackout of information FROM Iran,,, The Nets are blocked and only the occasional VPN link up from inside. Some are saying its Hell on earth there, but there are all those damned missiles flying all over the damned place so someone must still be operational.
No good way out. escalation may bring other big players,,, and I say that as MAY,,, I have doubts. Most of those players have had their stomachful of wargames, and don’t want or CAN’T jump in.
ANywhoooszzzamigabubbum,,, My two cents from todays reading around. It ain’t good, looks worse, and might be so, but right now, All we can do is ride this wave and hope that we don’t smash into the coral reef just below the surface.
LLLLL!
(, ‘)
Slight torpidity with a scattering of apathy.
Lots to do, no motivation to do anything.
Parts of me wanting to dive into homestead improvements, and a very real part of me saying ‘why botha? gonna move and sell and have to do it all again,,,’
That little voice is the one winning the war right now. It’s Sonday (Palm Sunday at that, but thats another discourse.) Time on my hands, and
MEH!!!
Part of this is getting it into my head that “THIS IS THE PLACE”,,, With Da moving, my desire to ‘Be-gone!” has taken on new life. Fact that my BadCuz is still suckin’ atmo doesn’t help none either,,, Don’t wanna say too much on that note as I don’t need karma kickin’ in my spiritual doors at 5 am, every night, for years on end. Fuggem! He ain’t worth my time nor thoughts.
Time to fill in some blanks. Da moving: told y’all this part. Da moving to MUCH smaller place (as in, his drive is an RV type domicile. NO, BTDT and I am leaning on him hard towards foundations and set walls.) ISSUE: lots of STUFF that isn’t going to be sent off to goodwillsalvationarmylocalpresbytarianthrfit matkets. Some of it is even mine,,, Tooling, foundry stuff, welding rig,,,
Solution: da is buying the storage building (actually, handing me the cash to buy it, I have to do the hunt and get stuff.) that will be HERE on this property.
And y’all already know about the property thingy on my end. Or at least that its somewhat in question right now.
Yeah,, that,,, See, this is where buying Bloo is really biting me. I went way over the top on her, trying to get her back on road, and my finances are tapped. I am making inroads into knocking them down, but its gonna take time, And here is my beef. Had I not done that, all of this other stuff would be a nothing burger, a small thorn in my bum and thats about it. BUT, since I am eyebrow deep in debt of my own doing, I can’t slip on the work hours or I really start to squeeze other parts of my life. And, most of what I need done is only open working hours during the workweek.
NO, this is not a BLEG. Just airing my thinks.
NOW. There is a solution to all of this. Forget about ‘getting out of here’ and suck it up. DO WHAT IS NEEDED NOW, let Universe decide if there is another direction I will take and let HER decide to smooth the transition later on. Just bide my time now.
Seriously, NOT A BLEG. I just think better when I can see the words in front of me, and not try to organize the symbology in my head mentally. Thats why some of my posts are so damned scatterbrained,,,, it makes sense when you read through, because you are following along with my thought processes as I get them organized IRL. BUT, if you were to try and dive into my head, best have a liferaft, PFD, Drysuit and PLB, cause its freckin’ mess in there.
I did an experiment years back. Kept a notebook with me and would write down what subject my brain was on ‘right now’ and the time. I figured out my brain runs about 63 tracks, non-stop, and only pays attention to the one foremost in the moment, but there is evolution on each track as the day goes by. Its an intuitive thing, or at least appears so externally. Finding solutions to issues at hand in strange ways, not because I am lucky or that strongly ‘the MacGuyver’, but because a couple of those tracks are busy thinking behind the scenes on the problem without my conscious state being aware of it. I just see “problem” and the mind gets busy back there in the archives, dustbins, and databases of ‘where is that part?’ with one track looking for alternative ‘parts’.
in modern parlance, “Thats my superpower”,,, My ‘kryptonite’ is SOCIAL INTERACTION,,,, never do well in groups larger than 5 and lower if I personally know less than that. It took me many years to be able to “Fake it”,,, thanks to the Entertainment stuff I did, I did have to learn to fake it, but it takes a toll. The longer I have to put on that front of ‘extrovert’, the longer my recovery time, and big reason why I live on this hill.
The downside to having so many tracks running ‘autonomously’,,, Sometimes they get bored and start doing strange things,,, Like digging up Thermal Mass stoves, and every iteration that can be thought of along those lines under circumstances less than optimal (since 9 outta 10, my circumstances are far less than optimal.)
Here’s what gets me. Inidividual homes,,, (by the way, this is track change,,, bear with me) The more I research, the more I realize all of our homes here in the FUSA are bad compromises, designed for the benefit of Economic Current. We call it ‘currency’ but the reality is, if exchanges aren’t taking place, our economy collapses on itself. And that is the whole point behind all the “Codes” and “Regulations” in building homes. I found when building mine, since I wasn’t going to tie into the grid, I didn’t need ANY permits, not even for the Septic tank. No permits, no inspections,
Downside being, no insurance will cover me either. The best I get is ‘renters Insurance’ for the contents of my home, not the home itself. I get that: You built it, you own it, your problem not ours.
In hindsight, Had I to do it all over again, I would not be building a stickframe home. There are better alternatives to building, that are more energy efficient, and surprisingly CHEAPER, and have long histories to longevity. Seeing that I wouldn’t need permits or inspections or any of that, WHY NOT?
I ain’t looking at making something for the front of Better Homes and Gardens. I’m a bachelor grumpy cuss curmudgeon hermit with a serious inclination towards frugal to the point of pain,
And I am the lazy bastard that will figure out how to work three times as hard now so I never have to work hard again. Like Thermal mass stoves that run 85-95% efficiency vs the 25% efficiency of a modern wood burner. a 2 hour burn in a TM stove will last 24 hours and burn 1/4 the wood of a steel box stove. Less cutting splitting stacking in the long run, just more work in the now. Add in an earth berm type home with 20″ thick walls that will maintain a 55F temp year round with ZERO effort, and that TM stove gets even more efficient. More effort, less cash, more efficient in long term in all seasons, and less electric needed for the day to day. Why are these NOT being pushed harder?
MONEY
but I already harped on that. Not many companies are going to want to build homes in this way as they make no money on it. Governments won’t be able to get kickbacks from the new regulatory rules and manufacturers of the ‘latest and greatest’ compromise.
Seriously, think about it this way. UP TILL after WWII we had no zoning, no building regs, and in most cases, NO contracting companies to build homes. Most people built thier homes using a majority of the materials located on their property, or bought from a local lumber place (L:ocal Saw mill cutting local timber,) In some places, like the great plains, the only material to be had was sod, and a sod home was good enough that people were able to survive winters where MINUS temps were months in length. Maybe they were primitive and lacking, but, and I have said it and said it here: WE GOT LAZY AND SPOILED.
Since i moved to this place, I have slowly quit most of the toys everyday Joe and Jill take for granted. I have no TV,, No Cable, No Microwave, Very limited amounts of power available for things, and I do pretty daggum good. I tend to run my backup Genny once a year out of Guilt, not need. My biggest expense, energy wise, is my propane. A 30# tank of propane for my stove will last almost a year. 6 months for my water heater (on demand type) and a 100# will last three weeks continuous use for my wall heater. (and I only run continuous when the temps hover near the 40 mark,,, below that I burn wood.) Had I built this house as earthbermed wall, that last number would be closer to 6 weeks.
Hey Dio! Where’d ya get the HippyCrak you been smokin’?
Yea, I get it, this post sounds like something straight outta “mother earth News’ donuT? I get on these kicks. Learn shit-tons of stuff, and file 90% of it to my archives in the back of the brainium. This is why I tend to have answers for stoopid shit when things go wyrd.
Its why I know I will survive when the rest of the world loses its shit as the bottom falls out of the economy and the enclaves turn cannibal no-go zones.
Thats not intended as a bragging point,,,
I sometimes envy Robinson Crusoe,,,, (funfact: many of my favorite books involve lost at sea/desert isle type situations. Like “the Martian”,,, that one sucked me in FAST because the protocols the protaganist had to deal with were so unique to that situation,,,,)(read the book, never seen the movie.)
Ok,,, its Sonday, I’m lolligaggin’ here, spouting at from the hip about nuthin and everything and TOTALLY avoiding what I should be doin’. I beg your forgiveness in this post, (AND NO!!!! DO NOT SEND ME MONEY, THIS IS NOT A BLEG!!!)
Do LEARN though. There are options to our world that TPTwB would rather us forget. Mostly so that we are completely dependent on the system THEY designed and profit from. But I digress
LEARN
LIVE
LOVE
LAUGH
LOAD
Sleep in Satyrdaze
late start for me. needed one at that. Still adapting to time shifts a bit, and feel lethargic most mornin’s ( MOAR COFFEEEEEEEE!!!!)
woke to ALL of the kids sittin’ near the bedroom door/passage, lookin in wide eyed and longin’ (you wake him up, no YOU! I ain’t wakin’ him up, GET THE DAWG TO DO IT!)
Like the little shits are starvin’ or something,,, HA!,,, just off schedule and thats nearly catatclysmic in pet world.
Awfully quiet here at the shop. Usual voices are missing. Issues? or just nothin’ to say (unusual that!) chime in, let the old dood here know y’all are ok, or if I pissed ya off or sumpin. I know some of my writing has taken a ‘not centrist’ bend lately (and believe me this; what I am writing is very toned down to the thoughts in me head) So, if’n you got pissed at my take, I’ma gonna ask ya to think about what got me here before you go condemning me as heretic.
It’s all Fake and Ghey!!!
From the religions to the politicikians to the money we agree has ‘value’. And those that run the shell game want to kill us.
I was in that first wave, the only one that was considered a success,,,
Was it?
I recall saying to one of LTs while boating back to the Tarawa, “we’ll be back sir, this shit ain’t over by a long shot.”
9-11
Patriot Act,
Affy and Iraq repeatedly
Complete failure of Command and Infrastructure while leaving Affy to show just how fucked up our military had become since 1945
And here we go again,,,
this is the left hand doing swirlies in the air to hide the right hands grift and grab during the magic trick.
And yes, I am getting more and more convinced that our “elected” are bought and paid for by a small tribe of haters, and the evidence keeps mounting.
It ain’t the country thats the problem, its the mindset of superiority. I don’t like narcisists, (who does?) but it seems they are the ones running this shit show.
Dunno , no Idear, But I do know the “Distraction Machine” is suffering some breakdown,,, they can’t generate enough outrage to keep the eyeballs on what they want us to be outraged about.
People are seeing that the curtain is ripped and failing, and more and more are seeing the humpbacked big-nosed string puller behind it.
roll with it,,,,
The ONLY rule you need to know to survive anything. Roll with it, don’t fight it, go with the flow, RELAX!!!! Tightening up is resistance when you need flexibility. Flexibility is PREPS, MINDSET, and WILL: you must WANT to survive or the rest is for naught.
And another point,,, there are things here behind the shop that are more than distraction enough from the world stage. Stuff is starting to line up correctly; likely won’t be a bad as we first made it out to be. (we, sisters and self) and my trials of BlooTwuck are settling down some too. More on that laters when I KNOW for certains. Note; even if not, I am not letting that drive my angst anylonger. it works or it don’t and I ain’t gonna lose sleep over it.
I’m 57, supposed retirement is only 8 years away, and look at what has happened to the world in ONLY 8 years,,, Time moves fast, and only increases velocity as the years roll past. Einstein missed that point in his theory of reletivity,,, time isn’t SET, its fluid as fuck and unlike fluids DOES compress,,, I ain’t got time to fuck with the world at large when I haven’t even managed to get my shit straight.
LLLLL!
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