Oh, my aching inflation
I was poking around the economics sites on my list after this article on Zero Hedge, and I found this on ShadowStats. Folks, that’s 15%…
Month: January 2022
Report from the OP, January 27, 2022
(Two housekeeping notes: One, while I’m not ready to show my real face, I think I’ve dropped enough information that someone could figure out the…
Solar Panel Testing Update
I’ve retested panel #2, tested panels 3 & 4 and updated the results.
The struggle is real
We’ve all heard the saying “The struggle is real” until it’s become a joke. I’m thinking that’s going to stop be so funny soon. I…
Fine Art Tuesday
Let’s stretch out on the subject of dance. Today, we’re we’re going to look at b-boying, otherwise known as breakdancing. b-boying started out possibly in…
Report from the OP, 1/24/2022
Remember, collapse is a process, and that process can move slowly or swiftly. Right now, it feels like we’re picking up speed. I feel a…
It’s somebody’s birthday!
For a change, the birthday of John Moses Browning, who designed the 1911, M1917, M2, Hi Power and many other guns, is not slipping my…
While I’m busy
Sorry, the meat world has been a busy place. Nothing of import, just busy, busy, busy. In the meantime, you need to watch this.
Fine Art Tuesday
It strikes me that, in our current times, Franz Kafka should come to mind. In many ways, Kafka was one screwed up individual. Born in…
Report from the OP, January 15, 2022
Today, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, all eyes are on the weather. After two winters of no winter precipitation other than cold rain,…
I learned something today
I mentioned last week that Daughter and Son-In-Law both came down with the OMGnicron last week. Not a big deal and both were feeling pretty…
Fine Art Tuesday
As a child of the 70s-80s, I came to jazz music in my 30s, via a coworker, friend and golf partner. Of course, I never…
Powering up
(Note: Astute reader Robert noted that I’d made a mistake in my table. An open circuit can have no amperage, since by definition that’s a…
Happy Anniversary!
It’s been 1 year since the best behaved riot/insurrection/attempted overthrow of the government/selfie opportunity of the century. Remember your fellows still held incommunicado, without rights…
Even peppers get old
First, go read this piece by Wayne Bosak at SurvivalBlog. I’ll wait here. When you’re a young man (or woman) in your 20s or 30s,…
Need a reason?
This is why I have a rule about fuel in vehicles-“3/4 = empty”. It used to be the old “1/2 = empty”, but I changed…
Fine Art Tuesday
Finnish painter Fanny Churburg was born in 1845, the third child of a physician father and a mother who died when she was 12. This…
No escape from the Wuflu
Just when things have made the smallest move back to “normal”, it seems we get a new variant of the Wuflu. As you’ve seen by…
Wee-e-e!
For those of you who may think this post is all gloom and doom, I commend you to James Howard Kunstler’s 2022 predictions. I pray…
Today’s Earworm
I’ve been working outside today. It’s been nice, temperature in the 70s, cloudy and a good breeze as a front tries to blow through. And…
Happy New Year!
Despite all the predictions for a terrible 2022, I’d like to wish you peace, prosperity and blessings for the year to come.