Oh, Well…
Since the materials list to re-roof our home come in at roughly half what I had feared (that’s the danger of physically going to the manufacturer’s plant and personally getting a bid for materials *heh*), it looks like the roofing project is on for this summer.
Oh, well. At least I get to buy some cool tools and equipment to make the job go faster/safer. ILIWAPCT, don’t you?
Looks like it’s time to start rounding up the crew… 😉
Eric Holder Needs a Dope Slap* from the Folks Who Run Comic-Con
*It’s IMPORTANT to stamp out vote fraud, Mr. Fraudulent Attorney General, so listen to this Comic-Con advice and let States do their job:
“…avoid awkward moments by having proof that you are the guy whose name is on the badge.”
Get the Department of INjustice OUT of enforcing Vote Fraud and into aiding the enforcement of legitimate polls!
*sigh* This Is What Happens When People Interfere with Evolution
If it weren’t for people interfering with evolution, tomorrow could be a Much Better Day with many, many thousands of people who ought to be living in “Assisted Computing Facilities” (“Here, dearie, let me make that mouse click FOR you… “) having locked themselves out of Internet access via their own stupidity. But no, the dumbasses HAD to warn ’em… *grumble, grumble, gripe, complain*
Internet blackout looms for thousands: What you need to know
Dumbasses! Just think of the bandwidth NOT freed up because of warnings like this!
Running Lat(er)
*heh* So “Spring Cleaning” got out of hand and has run on into “Summer Cleanup” with bags of clothes and unused furniture making their way to charity and boxes of “stuff” still being sorted with discoveries of tools, electronic equipment, as-yet unread books and scads of other stuff floating to the surface out of storage areas to be sorted into Keep-Give Away-Toss piles. Oh, and meanwhile tons of lil (and some not so little) landscaping/yard jobs that’ve been *cough* “deferred” for some time resulting in more summer sun than I’ve seen for a few years… and bunches of home made charcoal, etc.
But it’s kinda fun to turn up lil gems like this from time-to-time:
Beats the socks off the other labeling measures we’ve been taking. The thing’s been packed away for more than a decade, unused–never used! (Ordered it just before a major “event” in our lives and just never got around to using it. *shrugs* Casio is still selling the thing and has even updated the software for 64-bit Windows.)
What with all the “lost” tools I now have to integrate with some tools gleaned from a barter deal earlier this summer, the garage cleanup is also looking more and more urgent. *heh*
Need to get all this sorted out before things cool down enough to put on a new roof and paint the siding, though. Now those lil chores should be loads of fun!
Countdown…
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Was an expression of hope for change, unanswered.
However Did I Live This Long Without This Stuff?
This is just a short plug for a product I like a lot. If you’re not into “handy-mannery” *heh* stuff, just scroll on by.
Seriously good stuff. I have yet to find any Caig Labs cleaner/degreaser/contact enhancer for electronics and simple electrical connections that I do not like, but this stuff has rescued electrical circuits I have not yet found time to replace and noticeably improved connections made by electrical tools and small appliances. Where humidity can be an issue (bathroom, kitchen), I now consider it a must for lighting fixtures and anything plugged into outlets–IOW, any electrical connections.
Seriously good stuff.
No, Caig Labs doesn’t pay me anything. I’ve used Caig Labs’ DeoxIt products for a number of years with great results. I just started using this a couple of months ago and keep on liking it more and more.
Reason #1,367 Why I Like Living in America’s Third World County
We’re sorry.
There is currently no air quality measurement or forecast taken by the EPA for your location.
“We don’t need no steenkeeng nanny”. We’re perfectly capable of deciding on our own if we want to breathe or not.
In Defense of Elitism
I shun the idea of typical contemporary elitism derived from heredity, attendance at the “right” schools, big bucks in the bank (or under one’s thumb) or association with political power for its own sake. But, in The Revolt of the Masses (1930?), Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a strong argument in favor of a genuine elite. A brief sample:
“…we distinguished the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter the one who makes no demands on himself, but contents himself with what he is, and is delighted with himself. Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life. Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. ‘To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.’ (Goethe)” – Ortega y Gasset
Much of Ortega’s description of genuine elitism evokes echoes of Viktor Frankl’s humbly transcendent “pursuit of meaning” found in “From Death Camp to Existentialism” (later revised and expanded as “Man’s Search for Meaning”) wherein he describes an existentialism counter to that common to such as Sartre, filled with hope and even joy in the midst of terrible circumstances.
“Oxymoron” Reified
