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Six degrees this morning. A good day to curl up with a good bookworm.
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Runner up for OC image.
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Dang, y’all snuck in while I wasn’t looking, last I checked in was about 6 AM.
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As I posted earlier, it is downright cool here 50 degrees, the coolest morning yet this fall but it’ll warm up to the mid 70’s.
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This morning’s mission involves loading up Fay and going to the annual drive-thru flu shot service at the Bellville General Hospital.
Wish me luck. And/or say a prayer.
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Hammie’s #133 from last night is required viewing.
Surely the video deserves whatever top awards which are given for such creativity.
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Check out this Bad Boy, I spotted him on Bill Deloney Road, near the Little Claybank. He wasn’t real big, about 4′ but he was real fat like a Water Moccasin. He only had 4 Rattles and a button, you probably can’t see them but they are right beside his head on the right. Oh and you didn’t know, this is an Eastern Diamondback Rattler. This is the second one that I’ve seen on that road this week.
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Fay chose her “Stand Up For Betsy Ross” shirt this morning.
🙂
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Prayers up Shannon, I hope that Fay is doing OK.
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My # 7, I blew up the picture so you can see his rattles. They are by his left cheek, below his eye on the right side of the picture, kinda’ hard to make out but I could see them real good from where I was standing.
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How about that? The Homestead Exemption kicked in this year and the Taxes on the Ranch House went from $668 to $168, I like it.
BTW; this house and it’s 16 acres are worth a little more than the Farm House and it’s 40 acres and without an Exemption those taxes went from $485 to $514. -
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Well with a little help from Shannon, I kilt this thang. 😉
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Morning gang. Another bright sunny day developing out here, but at least the crippling heat is gone, and temps should be very pleasant today. I may get outside and try a little yard work. Also, it’s college football Saturday, so I’ll go over and check out some to today’s games to see what might be worth listening to.
I found this little thing from Power Line late last night, and I posted it with the promise to bring it forward today. The intellectually curious may get started on this and discover they have spent way too much time on it before they know what happened. Here’s last night’s post: OK, it’s too late Friday to do any serious analysis, so I’ll probably bring this thing forward tomorrow. I started looking into it and decided pretty quickly I’d better shut it down or I’d be up all night sorting out the data. Who knew that you could have fun with charts. Check it out. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-geek-in-pictures.php
I’m off to check for some pictures today. Meanwhile, you all have a great day, and more later.
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OK, here are the long awaited Picture of the Week from PowerLine. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-week-in-pictures-barretts-notepad-edition.php
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#15
Celebrity fly was the best. 😀
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“You’re born with nothing,
and better off that way,
Soon as you’ve got something they send
someone to try and take it away“That’s because idiots like him vote for totalitariancrats like Harris-Girl Groper.
He’s too dense to see the irony in his own lyrics.
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All flu-shotted up.
Fay walked down our ramp and back up – no chair.
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I think they bought some cheap or used needles for the Flu shot drive-thru.
Dang.
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Bringing forward Living the Dream. Just rewatched and noticed the Tide pods.
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Charts and graphs seem to be of interest over at Power Line here recently, so here is a brief of some Venn diagrams. They present a visual idea of what rows and columns of numbers look like, making the pictorial image or visual of what the data really look like. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/celebrating-the-birthday-of-john-venn-creator-of-the-venn-diagram-with-what-else-some-venn-diagrams-3/
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In case you missed it in his lovefest with George Stepsinit the other night little girl Groper Joe says he supports an eight year olds right to choose their gender.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1317135753722228737
Why is Groper Sniff Joe looking up? Is the teleprompter bolted to the ceiling?
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#15,16
Nope, I think the Mazie Hirono death test was the best.
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And now, for the rest of the story with Vin Scully.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheVinScully/status/1316883931799629826
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“I have seven children. I’m used to answering stupid questions all day.”
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You know that totalitariancrats are completely f’d in the head when the most pressing issue to them as a parent is if their 8 year old can “choose” their gender.
Sheezzzz!!
Savage is right.
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I didn’t get to participate in the big Trump Car Parade today in Bellville. I’ll have to wait to hear from my County Chair to find out how many participants there were.
It looks like about fifty of them ended up at the Trump Burger restaurant.
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#18 Shannon
Nice to hear that Fay did well on the trip to get her flu shot!
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I wonder what kind of head spinnin’ my beloved East Texas aunt is experiencing these days?
She’s as liberal as I am conservative, and a heckuva lot more close minded. Her beloved Obama could do no wrong. If she could’ve erected a shrine to him, she would have. The idea of Biden being busted for corruption may be more than she can handle.
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The idea of Biden being busted for corruption may be more than she can handle.
Not to worry. They’ve already got a familiar explanation: Russia did it
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Shockingly streaking into my top five all time favorite songs.
The rest of the list is just going to have to move down a notch.
Play it again, Eric.
/Gently boogie-ing down the aisle at Home Depot
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My cousin didn’t make it to the Trump boat parade last week after all. He’s down in the keys this weekend for spiny lobster season and just sent me this pic. NSFW
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32. Very nice
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#19 – I just sold them a bunch of needles that I picked up off the street on my recent visit to San Francisco. I boiled them for a couple of minutes before taking them over though. That should make them sterile enough shouldn’t it?
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35 ELG
Yes, but, would you try to knock the barbs off with an emery board next year?
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You can pull the little plugs of steel wool out of the abandoned crack pipes and use that to polish the barbs off the needles. Waste not, want not!
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The always lovely Evita Duffy reports at The Federalist.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans hate modern architecture.
These findings come in light of the possibility of a Trump administration executive order, appropriately named Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, that would require that new office buildings in Washington, D.C. be classical in design. Among other things, the order would revise the 1962 “Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture,” which forced modernism to be the official government building style. In response to the leak of the potential order, a bill entitled the “Democracy in Design Act” was proposed by House Democrats to overturn it.
If you don’t remember Evita, daughter of former congressman Sean Duffy, this tells her story. -
Earlier this week I decided to make a batch of chili. I’ve been using chuck roast but dang, it’s expensive now! So I bought a flat iron steak, which looks to be a cut of chuck, but cheaper. Cut it up into chunks and gave it a rough chop in the food processor. Turned out really good!
Making the base from dried chilis is time-consuming so I got smart and made a double batch and saved half for the next time.
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Aight, Shannon. Ya got me hooked on Eric. He kinda reminds me of Keb Mo, but with a lot more depth. Not sure how I missed him all these years.
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A Candidate at the Center of the Moment
When Wesley Hunt spoke to two dozen curious voters in the backyard of a suburban Houston home on a cool night in September, he had just come from his doctor’s office after donating plasma for the possible treatment of others who had been infected with COVID-19.
He told his doctor, “I’ll be here every week in this chair, if you need me to be here every week in this chair.”
In that doctor’s chair and later in that supporter’s backyard, the black Republican running in a swing district found himself at the center of the American political moment in so many different ways. From race relations to the pandemic to the political fight for suburban Texas, Hunt says his personal experience with each topic brings a level of understanding that leaves him uniquely qualified. And at the center of everything is a place the West Point grad and former Apache helicopter pilot seems comfortable.
What are his chances against the ghastly Lizzie Fletcher ?
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What are his chances against the ghastly Lizzie Fletcher ?
After the last two elections I’m not even gonna guess. Based on 2016 I did not expect democrats to take the House in 2018. And Republicans picking up a couple senate seats makes it even more confounding.
It could be a massive blue wave where the evil ones take control of the White House and all of congress, and our Republic is dead. Or Trump could win, Republicans could hold their contested senate seats and pick up the Michigan and Alabama seats, and retake the House with people like Hunt.
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It could be a massive blue wave where the evil ones take control of the White House and all of congress, and our Republic is dead. Or Trump could win, Republicans could hold their contested senate seats and pick up the Michigan and Alabama seats, and retake the House with people like Hunt.
Agreed.
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Eric Clapton playing in Tokyo, 2001, full concert.
The man knows how to put on a great show.
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I have a dream … that Hunt beats Dizzie Lizzie, Joe Collins beats Mad Maxine, and the Queen is dethroned by Wendell Champion.
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That’s a good dream.
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If the House flips it will be because of candidates like Alek Skarlatos.
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College football is underway, and so far, 2 ranked teams have lost their games. ATM is taking on Mike Leach’s Mississippi State beginning here shortly. Miss State has underperformed after opening its season with a win over the LS&U Tigers, which has been a disappointment to me. But it is Leach’s first season, so they are still getting used to the new system and that system also requires certain personnel types which may not be fully developed yet by Leach. So let’s see if Leach can get his mojo going and spook the Aggies, or if the higest paid coach in the world, Jimbo Fisher can earn his keep and win. Aggies should win anyway, but as they say, you never know for sure and that’s why they play the game.
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Houston, TX – A new poll released today by the Hunt campaign shows a competitive race in the 7th District between incumbent Lizzie Fletcher and challenger Wesley Hunt. Fletcher and Hunt are in a statistical tie with Fletcher holding a slim 2% point lead, well within the margin of error of 4%. It also shows Hunt with a stronger favorability margin than Fletcher and possessing a more enthusiastic base of support.
Polling memo with more details can be found here.
This news comes on the heels of Thursday’s announcement that Hunt out-raised Fletcher by a more than 2 to 1 margin in the 3rd fundraising quarter. Hunt Campaign Manager Jim Hilk released the following statement along with the poll.
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This is from the Cook Political Report. Charlie Cook is a Democrat, but he had a history of being fairly accurate until 2016 when Trump blew his data out of the water.
These days, it’s tough to find good news for House Republicans. But there’s a sleeper race bucking the trend in southwestern Oregon, where a bona fide anti-terrorism hero is running against 34-year Democratic incumbent and Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04). A month out, both parties now regard the race as competitive and are spending accordingly. Last week, Cook moved this race from Likely Democrat to Lean Democrat. I think, at the least, it’s a dead heat.
For years, the underlying swinginess of DeFazio’s 4th CD has been masked by the weakness of his GOP opposition. In 2016, President Trump lost Oregon’s 4th CD by just a tenth of a point. But for five cycles in a row, Republicans nominated wacky “alt-scientist” Art Robinson, who opposed public education, believed urine held the secret to human life extension — and lost by double digits each time.
DeFazio said the other day that Alex Skarlatos raised more money in the last quarter than he had ever raised in an entire year after being in office for 34 years.
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Cook moved the Skarlatos/DeFazio race to Lean Democrat instead of Likely Democrat. It’s a dead heat.
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Six degrees this morning. A good day to curl up with a good bookworm.
6C(ommie) or 6F(reedom)?
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Aggies should win anyway, but as they say, you never know for sure and that’s why they play the game.
Never bet on a game where the ball bounces funny.
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#54 Pyro: Either way, that is darned chilly.
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Yes, the flatiron steak is simply one of the several muscles that you usually see in a chuck roast. Should be great for stew or chili.
All beef is insanely expensive.
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57. The meat holds its texture together really well. Doesn’t disintegrate into meat mush.
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How to brainwash a nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnecu-tiFX0&feature=emb_logo
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Bizarre that no one is televising LSU/FLA.
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I kinda like using a hamburger/coarse-ground chili combination. Some of the hamburger does indeed disintegrate, intensifying the beef flavor.
Damn I want some chili.
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Back in the 1970s after I discovered fajitas and there wasn’t a single restaurant in Houston serving them, my friend Robin and I used to buy them at the Matamoros Meat Market on Washington Avenue and then take them straight home to start marinating and cooking.
49¢ a lb. …all day long…
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14-0, Ags.
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58 Hamous
I was going to buy a chuck roast and run it through the processor to make chili this weekend, but all Costco had were these huge roasts at $10/lb. I couldn’t believe it. I think the smallest one was $46.
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LD2 made me a ‘Noona’ necklace on my last visit. I’m wearing it today, because it makes me smile.
Love those girls so much!
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Heh.
Most of the time, the host lampoons conservatives, while inviting on panels of mostly left-wing commentators to talk about the news du jour.
That explains why Adam Schiff was blindsided by Bill Maher laying into him about how terrible their home state of California has become under Democrat rule.
Maher began by saying he needed to “b**** a little” about how Democrats were running things.
Then the host continued, “There is an exodus. California businesses are leaving the state in droves. In just 2018 and 19, which were economic boom years, 765 commercial facilities left, 13,000 between 2009 and 2016. Look, I came out here in 1983. I found paradise. I love California. I do. I don’t want to leave, but I feel like I’m living in Italy in the 70s or something. Super high taxes, potholes in the road, fires. I don’t know what I’m getting for my super-high taxes.”
Maher asked Schiff straight up, “What do you say about that as a California representative?”
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#66 Shannon: A progressive state is the exact opposite of that which will attract and hold profitable PRIVATE businesses.
I am convinced that Adam Shiff-Haole believes that my statement above is false and he does not have the intellectual agility to understand why he is wrong. Maher, on the other hand may realize that Socialism sucks for the masses but he doesn’t care, he already has his pile of money so he believes that he will be among the ruling sect.
The empirical evidence over the last 100 years of experiments in over 30 different countries around the world yields this conclusion: socialism fails and causes failures in those countries that implicate it in direct proportion to its implementation. -
#60 – that’s because the game was cancelled.
#66, 76 – Shifft Head is married to George Soros’ daughter or something close like that. What else do you need to know – he “feels” however Soros tells him to feel.
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Grope and Sniff Joe supports 8 year olds determining their gender.
Demonic.
The Goops should be all over that.
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Grope and Sniff Joe loves Gretchen.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gretchen-whitmer-is-the-best-governor-in-america/
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If he had a toothbrush mustache he’d look just like Adolf.
And why not he espouses just like him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-fd02WTJg&feature=emb_logo
Totalitariancrats are very dangerous.
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intensifying the beef flavor
Get some unsalted beef stock at the grocery next time. I use Kitchen Basics. It’s like a buck or two a quart.
You can reduce it down to less than a cup and it won’t be salty. It gets really intense at that concentration.
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huge roasts at $10/lb
H‑E‑B had a sale on chuck roast last week for $2.49.
Right before Christmas, Costco usually has rib roast in cry-o-vac on sale. I usually get one and dry age half for a rib roast and cut steaks out of the other.
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I went to Kroger today to get some things. The produce department was woefully stocked – missing produce, limited produce, or past-its-prime produce. I got some tomatoes and some generic bagged salad lettuce. The bagged stuff looked fresher than the shelf stuff.
But they had a sale on their meat. I hadn’t intended on buying meat today, but…
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Today was my lovely Brides birthday so I posted a few pictures over yonder, my favorite,, second favorite.
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Happy birthday, Dave’s Bride!
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Night all.
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Bizarre that no one is televising LSU/FLA.
Casualty of the rona.
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There is no joy in Mudville
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Sunday morning coming down.
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Mornin’ Gang
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A very nice 56 here this morning. Yesterday was nice 50 at daylight with a high of 78.
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BAWHAHAHAHA,…… Maizie Hirono On Dem Difficulty Connecting With Voters: We Know So Much.……..BAWHAHAHAHAH,….Stop, my sides are splitting. The hilarity starts about 1:25. And yes Virginia these arrogant IDIOTS really believe that they are smarter than you.
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Working on my second cup of HEB Texas Pecan Coffee, good stuff.
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Well, I was up ’til midnight. I worked late on bookkeeping (WHY OH WHY! won’t that bank account reconcile???) and finally called it quits. Took some melatonin, yet still woke up around 4:30 and never really went back to sleep.
Sometimes the melatonin works, and other times it takes the night off.
So, I’m up, drinking my coffee, and getting ready to start breakfast. Handsome Son and Lovely DIL are coming over for dinner tonight, and we’ll be watching “Trump Card” together. Sometime between then and now I should be taking a nap – except I’m a horrible napper. I just have a hard time falling asleep during the day. Today may be an exception. I’ll just have to wait and see.
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Oh, I showed Hubby the Week in Pictures. He’s not totally tuned in to the current events stuff, so some of it I had to explain and some of it I just said “go on to the next one”. He’s doing better with the current news since he’s been listening to more talk radio. Handsome Son’s been doing the same, and the two of them have long conversations at Hubby’s shop, so I hear.
He did get some guffaws in. He told me I need to send the Chuck Norris “court packing” picture to Handyman, who has guns. He’d appreciate that one.
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Morning gang. Very pleasant out here this morning, and yesterday’s winds have laid down now. Both football and baseball were entertaining yesterday, and while all the outcomes were not necessarily to my liking, there were some good games to enjoy. I don’t have any sports on my TV, so I have to listen in on the radio and paint my own pictures in my head about what’s going on. Fortunately, many years ago as a high schooler, I listened to all the Southwest Conference games brought to us by the Humble Oil and Refining Company on the radio, and Kern Tips would always be broadcasting one of them. Kern could paint the scene and the action with words that you could visualize just as if you were there live and in person, and I could always dream of being in one of those big stadiums on a brisk fall afternoon with roaring crowds and players performing magnificent virtually, impossible runs and catches as described by the announcers. So I can still listen to a ball game on the radio and enjoy the action without TV. Book readers and story tellers could paint visuals in the consumers’ mind, TV and all the visuals took all that away. It limits the imagination to one single reference – that which you see with your eyes versus what all you could imagine when reading or listening. Oh well, there will always be some of us throwbacks I guess.
Anyway, here’s hoping that you all have a great day. More later as it develops.
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Some FBI video was leaked to a Fox affiliate. It has the wannabe Rambo Rangers in Michigan training in their grand plot to kidnap Governor Cruella Whitmer. It’s a live fire episode in the unit’s mighty assault vehicle…a PT Cruiser.
Much mocking and ridicule ensues. One guy called them Meal Team Six.
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Here’s a sample. I went over to copy this to bring it over here and started watching and got mesmerized and forgot what I was doing over there to start with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQ_J4Z2Jv4
SWC highlights from 1957 narrated by Kern Tips. Probably every high school team in the state viewed these SWC highlight films and dreamed of being out there on that field. Somhow I was fortunate enough to make it there, but it wasn’t nearly as glamorous and I had thought it would be. Just a lot of hard work, sweat, and some skin and blood. If I had known then what I know now, I would probably have been scared to death, but I would not trade that experience for anything.
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I was shocked the fall day we drove by Kern Tips’ home and my father said, “Look, there’s Kern Tips out working in his yard.” He had an old two-story house on a huge lot on Memorial Drive near Silber and there he was with his wife raking his own leaves. I thought a man as famous and important as Kern Tips would have people to do all his menial chores.
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Good morning gang. It is time to be mobile and productive, I think I’ll start a batch to fermenting.
L8ter.
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6F(reedom)
13 F this AM. Harvesting chickens today.
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A might cool to be slaughtering chickens.
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If Trump wins again, there won’t be enough psychiatrists and anti-depressants in the world to deal with this.
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Just great.
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Yes, a might chilly, but you don’t want to slaughter chickens in the summer heat, like the last time I did it.
It was definitely the last time I did it.
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The peaceful BLM Democrat protestors at the DC Women’s March let this young woman know how welcome all women are at their event. Her name is Isabella DeLuca.
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It was definitely the last time I did it.
I told her that if she ever gets out of the egg business again, it will be the coyotes who dispense with her production hens.
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Ninety Nine! Teeing her up, who’ll it be?
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She made a chicken stew right away and I wouldn’t go near it. I don’t think I ate any kind of chicken for a couple of months.
It took a couple of days to get that stink off of my hands.
Others would say that I’ve had my hands in much grosser situations.
They would be wrong.
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I had a critical failure using my fastferm fermenting jug. The yeast collection ball (which sits at the bottom) cracked. Fortunately I have another jug/ball assembly so I just grabbed that one. Fast Ferm has a design flaw, because this is the 2nd time I have had a failure in the same place. Why they would choose to undercut below the threads is a mystery to me. The undercut makes that the weakest point in a high stress situation – not smart. I have already sent an email requesting to buy 4 more of these balls. I intend to call them tomorrow morning and try to get them to expedite the shipment. Perhaps they might be interested in improving their product, who knows.
I have a hard time believing, in today’s competitive environment, that they would intentionally make a defective product to sell more replacement parts and irritate a whole bunch of existing and potential new customers in the process. -
Chicken & Sausage BBQ youth fundraiser at the church today. Smells mighty good sitting on my front seat.
No cooking today! Yea!!
I also have tickets for the same thing at the Catholic Church next Sunday. We’ll see how the Papists measure up and I’ll report accordingly.
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Good morning Hamsters. Wonderful S
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Good morning again Hamsters. Problem logging in again today with the website delay in connecting, some words left out of posts or only partial ones. This has been going on for over a week. Sabotage?
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#94 Hammy
I caught this in the comments below the screaming mad woman:
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJrMy father does 90-minute rallies across the country 3 times a day and CNN wants to give Joe a participation trophy if he stands up on his own for more than 5 minutes.
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And this one:
The Hunter Biden emails were fabricated by the same Russian operative who beat up Jussie Smollett, wrote homophobic slurs on Joy Reid’s blog, and hacked Steve Scully.
I love reading the comments. Some of the best burns and best humor can be found there.
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Under non-COVID circumstances, this weekend would be our church OctoberFest, when new members from the previous year are celebrated.
It is an all-day worship/food/music/games/auction affair held at our glorious ninety acre Retreat Center just outside of Bellville.
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Once again, I have missed out on a legitimate GOOD MORNING to all ya chickadees on the Couch. So how about a GOOD AFTERNOON?
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The Catholics also have an OctoberFest on a different weekend.
I’ve always wanted to attend theirs (but never got around to it). Because they serve beer at theirs.
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I’m always running a bit late on Sundays, because I make coffee and work the HouChron sudoku before I even turn the computer on. I hope I can get motivated to get out and do some yard work today. Seems a nice day for it, with chance of rain increasing during the week.
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The OctoberFest event in my neighborhood had somehow morphed into a winefest. Although this year, the wine part of the hoo-hah was played by a mixed-drinks truck. Still, we had 40 people out for it, and most people had their masks dangling below the chin.
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Well, I attended the novus ordo mass at my parish today. I told Hubby that after attending 3 Latin masses, I felt like I was in kindergarten. Today was a celebration of the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, a Doctor of the Church. She’s kind of a big deal. I’m sitting there, having just finished my rosary (which I almost had to yell at points in order to keep my focus over all of the noise from people talking and such before mass), and I suddenly hear saxophone music. Now, I play the sax. I still have my sax. This, however, sounded like lounge music and I’m thinking WTH? I look up at the screens and there is the image of St. Teresa and the singing of a prayer called “St. Teresa’s Bookmark” starts. Then the processional starts.
We go through the mass, and I find myself getting annoyed that the choir does its usual job of not knowing when to quit. Father is up there waiting for their song to end. He is patient, I’ll say.
We get to the homily, and I know that our pastor is a Democrat. With all the ruckus in the Church right now, thanks to Fr. Altman, et al, for waking up the folks, our pastor decides to not take a stand. Instead he tells us that we need to pray and look at the two parties, and then decide which one most closely aligns to the beliefs of the Church. I know that since he’s from Mexico, he’s thinking that immigration is the most important topic, whereas I’m thinking of all those butchered babies and the socialism being shoved down our throats. It’s all I can do not to get up and walk out, but I remember that I’m there for Jesus and not the pastor.
As I pulled into the parking lot, I noticed a car next to me – and a visiting priest was gathering his stuff. I haven’t been to our church in months, so I didn’t recognize him, but we often have priests doing masses for our pastor. I was eagerly waiting to see what he was going to be like, since he had a Trump sticker on his car. Alas, Fr. Sellers didn’t get to speak. I have found out that he helps out often, almost every weekend. It might be good to see if I can catch him doing a homily. I need to find out what his relationship to our parish is; if he’s going to be permanent, Hubby and I may want to stick around instead of changing parishes. It’s something we’ve been discussing.
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I got to see my Church Friend who lost his father last week. He said his mother is now realizing just how empty the house feels. He’s staying with her for now, and all of the kids are trying to slow down her efforts to clear out the house. That will keep her from feeling so alone and give her more time to adjust mentally to the void in her life. CF says she’s doing well, considering. Both of the parents are strong people of faith, and that certainly helps when dealing with a loss like this.
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Shannon
With all the churches in Sealy and Brenham you could probably get out of weekend cooking from now till the end of the year.
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R.R. Reno’s gig at First Things includes writing the monthly column The Public Square. It usually includes two or three short essays and some even shorter blurbs on the issues of the day.
I have linked to sections of it in the past, but his October effort is worth reading the whole thing.
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Well, we did 10 birds but were not happy with size so we will put it on hold for 2 weeks. It may be warmer then I hope.
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On the return trip on a weekend to bounce grandbabies on my knee. Made the obligatory stop at Buccee’s to top off the gas and saw my first girl Boy Scouts. I can assure you that the troop leaders’ shoes were indeed sensible. Am now finishing up a socially distanced lunch at the Sonic in Groesbeck, which assures its customers that on Thursday night Varsity games they will remain open until 11:00. One of the many reasons I take Texas 14 on this trip rather than the Interstate.
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I’m not keep up but as I was scrolling through I caught Hamous’ #94 and if you missed it, you have to see it! Un-Damn-Beliveable!
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Chicken & Sausage BBQ
Sounds like a winner to me but since I got my deck finished and the grill out of the Carport and back in place. I’m gonna, singe a couple of Angus T-Bones, about 1 ¼ pounds each, bake Irish/Sweet taters, the wife will throw together a salad with spinach, maters, cucumbers, onions and sweet peppers. Yup, Life is Good in my World.
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FWIW; I am very please with the deck and it is much better than I’d imagined. Ole Mike sure does good work. I sent him off with some Fig Preserves this time, the tractor shed was smoked Bambi sausage links and Jalapeno Summer sausage. 😉
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Her Highness will turn 70 next month and I’ve decided to buy her a smart TV. Space is limited to 50″ maximum and I want to stick with Samsung or Sony. I want to spend less than $500 because I also want to get a small wireless speaker system.
Any suggestions ?
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I don’t usually have a Twitter link problem, but I just can’t get Hammie’s 94 to connect.
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Good Grief !!! C’mon Man !!!
MAJOR VOTER FRAUD
4chan discovered a major bug in Oregon’s online voting system that allows anyone to change someones registration & vote.
If you know someones Name & Date of Birth, you can change their vote. pic.twitter.com/v892mckpK6
— Matthew (@WhjteHovse) October 18, 2020
Somebody has already gone in and changed Portland mayor Ted Wheeler’s vote to Trump.
Here’s the 4chan page.
Twitter is already blocking this.
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Spent one hour on my long driveway with the blower. Sacked up quite a lot of tree debris, most puzzling of which were gazillions of small red spheres, like tiny dried berries, don’t recall ever noticing that before. I need to take a handful of those over to the 80-y.o. neighbor and ask if he knows what it is. Or maybe I could put some in a pot of soil and see what emerges.
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124 Shannon
It’s okay. You’d need to have a double shot of whiskey after watching that anyway.
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I wouldn’t know how to buy a smart TV.
Some have pre-settings (or whatever you call it) for various streaming services. Are all smart TVs capable of doing everything and some aren’t?
I don’t have a clue. It doesn’t really matter because I use an antenna on a tall pole.Hell, I lost my broadband service due to a change in landlord ten months ago.
Our phones haven’t been updated or backed-up since then.Not a happy camper.
If I could afford to move this house to Millheim, I would. No broadband problems on that high point out there.
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I never trusted electronic systems. You can cheat with paper ballots, but at least they can’t be changed. Just stuffed.
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I have a 10 year old Sony. No complaints.
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My daughter in Portland has indignantly informed me the information in my #125 is all a bunch of hoohah.
I told her I saw it on the internet so it must be true.
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I did buy the Sony Blu-Ray player and it works fine with the old Magnavox 42″ LCD screen TV we have in the study. El Gordo was right about Netflix though – it’s mostly garbage anymore.
This woman is hitting a milestone birthday and she has all the clothes, jewelry, furnishings, oriental rugs, paintings she’ll ever need or use. This smart TV is the only thing I can come up with she would really enjoy. If it were up to me, I could watch the TV we have for years.
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#124
I don’t usually have a Twitter link problem, but I just can’t get Hammie’s 94 to connect.
It glitched on me too, making me think it was so HOT that it had been removed. But I tried again and it went right through. MUST SEE! Maybe it glitches because half the USA is recommending it and/or clicking on it.
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#123 – Ask around on this topic. And do some research. I’ve got several tips of do’s and don’t do’s. Don’t buy one of those soundbars or one of the “theater in a box” systems. They do not have the sound enhancement and power output that you most likely would want, although admittedly just about anything is better than the speakers that come on your TV. Any real speakers that you buy, like bookshelf speakers, towers that sit on the floor, etc. will require an external amplifier to drive them – the power output from the TV connections alone do not have enough power to make them fire. The range of amplifiers is unlimited, from something simple from Amazon for under $20, to AV amplifiers in the low thousands. The inexpensive amps must have a input source, so that would mean that your TV will need an output source – most use bluetooth for the output as the amps have built in bluetooth receivers. If you have an existing stereo system, you can connect your TV sound to the stereo as its amplifier will drive the speakers. Make certain that your TV has at least 1 HDMI/ARC connection. This will assist greatly in trying to connect to sound systems. Do you just want better sound that the TV speakers afford, or do you want the really great sound that is available as a result of HDTV? That plays a role in what kind of sound system you might look at. Frys has some sound room set up that display these things.
My home theater is a DIY system. I have a Roku device, an Amazon Fire stick, a Blu-Ray player, a mini-computer, and an old fashioned VCR hooked up to it. The AV amplifier has 4 HDMI inputs, a few RCA input jacks, and assorted stuff back there, as well as built in AM & FM receiver. So all those devices are connected to the AV receiver/amplifier. The AV device outputs through an HDMI cable to the TV, and of course, the HDMI cable carries both video and audio. The the AV device splits off the audio and directs it to a speaker system (in this case, it is called a 5.1 system) which means it serves 5 speakers (two in front, two in back and 1 center (5)) and a sub-woofer (1). Of course, you can get by with 2 speakers in front and be fine. If you are connecting something like the old VCR through RCA jacks, you have separate audio and video connections, and that is where the HDMI/ARC connection comes in.
Anyway, a sound system can get out of hand pretty easily. I don’t have a TV in the bedroom, but I’ve been considering one, and if I do that, I’ll probably buy a couple of bookshelf speakers, a cheap receiver with bluetooth input, connect them up for less than a hundred dollars, and be entirely satisfied. But you can see the range of money and sophistication available in this stuff. Check out home theater systems for a good overview, and go from there. As to TV’s in the 50″ range, I think the 4K models are now coming down in price pretty well, I haven’t looked at them in a few years, but BFF’s TV went out and we are going TV shopping tomorrow when I get to big D.
I do like Fry’s for my equipment purchases, and I do not like Best buy. OK, hope some of this makes sense.
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Well that is strange! Lil Sister texted the wife and asked if she wanted company this afternoon, so we told her to come on over and if she stayed for supper it would be T-Bones, taters N salad. She liked that idea so I ran to the store to get another T-Bone and she arrived about 4 PM. First time I’ve even spoke to her since BIL’s Memorial. Her and the wife went down to see about the hens and I’m firing up the grill.
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Texpat, about the TV, if I have the time I’ll ask the boy he keeps up with this crap religiously and always knows what is the best performance to price. That said, you’ll likely have one before I can get back to you.
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This just popped up: Ole Dave with his lovely bride @ PC Beach Florida, Memorial Day 1983. 😉
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I have a Bose system that’s probably 20 years old. The remote is broken and it doesn’t have the modern connections. I would like to get a new stereo system. I used to keep up with that technology but no longer have a clue. Guess I’ll need to educate myself.
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#138 – Those Bose speakers will be just fine. Hang on to them and toss all that other crap away and get some new. All the electronic wizardry in the world won’t do any good without good speakers, and Bose is still the top of the line.
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This just popped up.
My first Covid mask.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/vJ7-XQmfTxe5Eh-uC4mn6Q.nREXl9_kugJL_cD5FMovAV
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139. The problem is the Bose speakers have a non-standard connection to the receiver. I don’t think I could find a receiver/amp I could connect to. There are five speakers that all plug into the bass module, then one cable that plugs into the receiver.
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Between ElGordo’s soldering iron and Super Dave’s expertise, I think they can fix you up, Hammie.
Ship them to:
El Gordo
General Delivery
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Bones could build you some speaker boxes but I think he gave up woodworking for bourbon and bread manufacturing.
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I’ve always wanted to attend theirs (but never got around to it). Because they serve beer at theirs.
What kind of broke-down fake Oktoberfest do Lutherans run? How can you have an Oktoberfest without (lots of) beer?
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You can’t weigh them before you whack them?It may be warmer then I hope.
You are aware that it’ll be November then?
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The Police in Hearne are very polite. Even if they DO park right after the sign that says the speed limit is 55 after its been 70 for the last 22 miles.
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Just got an update/count on the yesterday’s Trump Car Rally and Parade in Bellville.
75 vehicles
13 motorcyclesThat’s more than the typical Austin County Fair Parade.
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The Police in Hearne are very polite. Even if they DO park right after the sign that says the speed limit is 55 after its been 70 for the last 22 miles.
Approaching Brenham from Bellville is a similar situation. You top a hill and it drops from 70 to 55.
There is just enough time to slow down but tourists aren’t usually paying attention.But since (according to my brother) I have become my father, I’ve already started slowing down before I crest the hill.
But unlike my father, I slow down so that I can sadistically watch the others slam on their brakes or, better yet, get nailed by the Brenham cops.
Especially the ones who tailgated me for miles while I was doing 73mph.
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You can’t weigh them before you whack them?
It may be warmer then I hope.
You are aware that it’ll be November then?
Weather can change here pretty dramatically. It can be -35 on Monday and +40 on Tuesday.
Half of them looked ready but when they were processed they were a disappointment. We have a system and each person has a job. By the time the info got to me I had 10 done. So I stopped.
I was working mostly outside. The cleaning crew were in the heated garage.
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Well I used to be all in on home theater systems but twice it went out of date and I had to upgrade. No way to run wires to rear speakers in this home on wheels and WiFi meant keeping them charged so I went with a nice sound bar with a subwoofer and I love it. Only the audiophiles look down on you. And San Saba.
If you are interested I can see which one I have, much research went into this but once I got it it went out of my brain. 😀
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What kind of broke-down fake Oktoberfest do Lutherans run? How can you have an Oktoberfest without (lots of) beer?
Well, if you arrive early on the pretense of helping the cookers, you discover that there is plenty of beer available, over there in those coolers in the trees. It just isn’t served to the paying public.
We’re poor Lutherans, not obscenely rich Catholics.
Can’t afford the insurance serve beer. Even free beer.
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150 GJT
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There is nothing on Free TV tonight except Ferris Bueller on CBS.
I’m taking bets….
I say Fay won’t last 8 minutes.
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For the curious minded
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Well, if you arrive early on the pretense of helping the cookers, you discover that there is plenty of beer available, over there in those coolers in the trees.
Sounds like the KC’s.
At the turkey fries on thanksgiving, they’re out there at some ungodly hour getting everything ready. Once they get all the fryers heating up, you’ll hear the first pfffffffttt of a beer being opened.
At 7:30.
AM.
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Hey, out here where we have no terrestrial TV and very limited, static charged radio, you gotta do red neck engineering to get any kind of news from the outside world. Now surely one could take those Bose speaker wires and cut off any type of proprietary plug in and make it work on just about anything.
As to sound bars, I may have been a little overly critical. I’ve just always thought that they were too expensive for what you get, but most assuredly there are some good ones, and as I said earlier, anything is better than the speakers on the TV. The sound bars also have their built in amps, so they are pretty much plug and play and don’t take up much room, no wiring to run all over the place, etc. Expense versus sound quality is my criticism, but then again, I’ve got all day to mess around with wires and stuff.
OK, now I’ve got a letter stuck on one of my computer keyboards. so here goes. First, I’ll take the back off, which I’ve already stripped the heads on two of the screws so that will be a hassle. Then, I’ll screw around with the insides and clean it up a little bit, then put it back together with a couple of random screws missing, then play with it a bit and probably discover that the problem is a scratch in one of the little circuit boards or something, then toss it in the trash and order a new one. Of course, ordering a new one to begin with is what most sane people do, but what can I say. I’m just drawn to the hopeless causes.
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Trump
Vote for me and kill the virus,
Vote for Biden kill the economy.
He’s killing it in Nevada.
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I got the clear impression that my stepdaughter was wondering why I hadn’t responded to her last four texts when she said, “At least say hello sometimes.”
My response:
“Sorry.
We’ve been kidnapped by aliens.
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OK, the keyboard is back in service. I think it just had a little bubble in the plastic circuit board looking thingy and was not making contact with one letter. The keyboard has a Lenovo sticker right in the center on the back of the keyboard with all the spec and stuff on it, and sure enough, when I removed the sticker I found another little screw that was keeping the thing from coming apart for inspection. Sneaky. But I went ahead and put the sticker back on so that the next person who decides to take it apart will discover that problem too.
Rice is supposed to play a football game this weekend against MTSU, but no fans will be allowed into the stadium. Now I hear that there will be no radio and no TV as well. Wonder if they will have a scoreboard or keep score, or statisticians. Someone has to man the cameras for instant replay for disputed calls. This is getting crazier and crazier.
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EG
Thanks for all the highly detailed, manic, audio-visual geekery and wonkery advice in response to my request.
I can’t reach your level. It’s just not that important to me. I will distill all the input and data down to something I can live with and make a decision.
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So they’re still playing football over there?
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Rice is supposed to play a football game this weekend against MTSU, but no fans will be allowed into the stadium. Now I hear that there will be no radio and no TV as well. Wonder if they will have a scoreboard or keep score, or statisticians. Someone has to man the cameras for instant replay for disputed calls. This is getting crazier and crazier.
Honest to God, this country has lost it’s ever-lovin’ mind.
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Well it looks like y’all had a lot of fun in my absence, sorry that I didn’t have time to chime in but what a day and we had a fine visit with sister and she consumed all of her 1 Lb+ T-Bone. See Y’all in the morning,…..and YES! It is past my bedtime. 😉
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The infamous Marching Owl Band is said to have exited the galaxy back in January.
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#160 – Then get a sound bar.
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Good night, y’all.
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Honest to God, this country has lost it’s ever-lovin’ mind.
Election 2020
Freedom vs Tyranny
Order vs Chaos
Building vs Destroying
Good vs Evil
Life vs Death.Vote Harris-Groper Joe if want tyranny, chaos, destruction, evil and death.
To Hell with the Newspeak Media.
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It’s very late.
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Morning gang. Early to bed, early to rise. Today is a travel day to Big D, so it’ll be afternoon before I’m reporting back in. BFF is a big baseball fan, so we will be watching the World Series. She also likes to enjoy Ball Park chili cheese dogs, and as much as I would like to stuff my face with chili cheese dogs, I’m going to stay true to my diet routine. So, I’ll bring all my food and prepare it myself while I’m up there. I can already anticipate conflicts in the kitchen, but I’m pretty sure we’ll get the routine straightened out quickly. Also, her main room TV went out, so we’ll make a couple of re-start efforts and then head out in search of a new one with the plan being to have it up and running by tomorrow night. I absolutely hate to start out on a trip only to have to stop for gas before I leave, so I always without fail make sure the tank is full the day before a trip – except for this time, so I’ll have to stop for gas. A bad omen changing the routine.
In other news, it’s too early for the web gurus to be up posting, so I’ll just remain ignorant a while longer. BTW, somebody on here told me I had to vote for Cornholio for some reason, so I did. Now he’s out spouting off about how he does not support Trump’s policies, etc. I knew he is a snake in the grass to start with, but I voted for him anyway, so I should not be surprised that he turned around and bit me right afterwards. A true weasel. Do what you think is right, but I’m disappointed that I cast my vote for him.
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Second!
On vacation and still get up at five o’clock in the damn morning.
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Third?
Morning Gang, El Gordo and GJT.
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