Rainy day reading material
What the Iran War might mean in this era of post-Cold War instability is that we are fighting BRICS War One—at least we are possibly fighting BRICS War One. Historians will one day write with certainty about how this conflict settled one group of problems and created an entirely new batch, but they’ll be looking with the clarity of hindsight. As this article goes to print, we are seeing things play out in an uncertain present. Regardless, it is certain that the Iran War is a conflict which will be bigger and more globally impactful than splendid out-of-the-way wars like President Clinton’s operations in Haiti. Link to article HERE
Another set of thoughts as to what the real world is doing, in counter to all the word salads of propaganda being spewed. I’ve stated it before,,, WATCH WHAT THE BRICS ARE DOING.
Toss into the culdron MONEY, RELIGION, DESIRE FOR POWER (just another spice of the first two, really) and large amounts of armament and surgical remoteness,,,, This witches brew has only started to simmer with an occasional boil: its nowhere near ‘ready’. I can only hope they keep the canned sunshine off the recipe, but seeing how there is this whole “Samson Option” laying out there, rarely mentioned, but never forgotten,,,,
Go Read, THINK,
I’ll have more, not so ‘serious’ stuff, up laters.
LLLLL!!!
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It’s a rainout,,, :-(
HUGE ThankYou in order to Lindsay B. Feel free to join us in comments or emails. If’n ya want me to write about something in particular, Fire off that request, I owe ya!
Its actually rainin’ today. Really Rainin’ so when the word came in (three minutes before my alarm was set to wake me) I didn’t feel (much) angst. I do have stuff I can make in the shop (one of those little jobs we had yesterday needs a couple gates) but when it rains like it is now, its nearly as wet in the shop as out. That roof leaks,,, Nothing like a water drop hitting your welding puddle to make for a bad day. Superheated steam and molten metal are not a good combination for skin integrity. (and yes I wear PPE, but not a full set of leathers, so some parts of me are sort of exposed.)
The kids are stickin’ close to house. The BoyKats are huggin’ the porch, looking mournfully at the woods. Don’t like that wet stuff, nopes, not one little bit. Mama is inside, as is Cozz; smarter or just not late enough? dunno.
Mamakat, 11 years old: her whole demeanor has started shifting to ‘matriarchKat’ and she doesn’t roam like she once did. Yesterday, as I was out working on stuff, she followed me around, having kitten-ish vibes, chasing bugs and blowing leaves, but wore out fast. By 6pm she was staying close to me, but finding places to curl up and snooze, Not play.
And I do believe, she has finally figured out the ‘luv you’ nip that other kats do. Used to be she would be feeling all luveedovey and CHOMP! then freak out because I yelled. (and more than once, was on the edge of needing stitches from said Chomp) Now, just little ‘these are my teefers’ nips and big buzzies since I don’t recoil in pain. I don’t know when the shift happened but its a decided thing now. I don’t cringe now when she is laying in lap and the head turns to me. That used to be sign she was getting ready to land the BITE on me. And the boys aren’t as paranoid of her psychotic episodes. I guess kittehs do that menopause thing too, and her hormones have settled down, FINALLY,,,,
as for the rain,,,, Looking at the national radar, looks like this is gonna blow through sometime today, and HOPEFULLY, we can get back on tracks tomorrow. No Time sucks, Some Time is better. Would really like to see FULL Time, but Talkin’round, we aren’t the only ones down. I was likely right that people are pulling means in tight, and seeing Diesel hit the $5/gal mark, its gonna get worser yet. Have some ideas on BlooTwuck and Vinyl Lettering ideas, and Label her as “Mobile SERVICES”, not just Mekaninkin’ stuff. Adjust my pricing as needed to get something flowing, build a base up. And try to keep overlap with the J.O.B. minimal. (Note: I held off on the lettering because I wanted to use Bloo for J.O.B. Bossman put his foot down on that (likely liability things) so now, Fuggit,,, Letter the hell out of her and make her my advertizing unit as well. Now, If I can get the sticker printer to communicate with the Lappy, I can do this meself and save some duhkies,,,, )
It’s still early in the day, not sure what I’ll be doing with rain and uggy weathers (called MUD)
More laters Love Y’all!
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Huge Thank yous in order
HUGE T’anks to Mike In FLA,,, you rawk brudda!!!
Another Huge thanks goes out to a patriot behind Candadian Lines; Steve Otto. Your E-hug has been recieved and a virtual hug in return to ya.
Keeping the bleg open for a few days.
Sort of a short day today. Two jobs, one setting posts for a fence, the other, a repaiir job. EVERYONE was thrown at them and why it ended up being a short day. We all know our shit, and there were no corners cut, but not so much to do as make a full day. Sigh. I DO KNOW, Son of Bossman has been running rampant trying to drum up more work,,, He’s been taking the Advertising Kia everywhere, while doing estimates and the like. He’s trying, but when the markets are running scared (except for the inflated and manipulated WallSt thing),,,,
Yeah,,, I get it. I’ve a feeling that is part of why I’m getting no feelers yet. (and I need to get out more and broader Business card dumps. Been doing them, but its early in the game yet,,, Don’t give in to the failure daemons.(persistent little nagging irritating voices from the darks,,, Hatez ’em!)
As for the above image. We, The People, KNOW this shit happens on the regular. We hear things, we talk, compare notes, and one guy is even spending time in jail for COPYING Mdm Peelousy’s portfolio Choices. Why are these fuckers NOT being indicted for RICO violations, Insider Trading, etc etc etc?
Its a big Club, and you ain’t in it!
And ain’t nuthin’ new under this sun, is there? I recall reading a phamplet many years back; “The boss of Tammany Hall“… Notta much changed since, except maybe the VOLUME of it. And the fact that they no longer even try to keep it on the sly.
Guess I just chose the wrong end of the stick. And thats ok, I doubt I could live with myself being that filthy on the regular. Like one local guys truck sticker says “Dirty Hands, Clean Money”
Looking at the great wide world, stuff in the ME, that I am NOT going to discuss, except to say; if you see something that looks horrible and is being spun HARD by the media, STOP, SIT, THINK!!!! Things are not as they seem. That Big Club is scared silly by the reactions from The ME and other countries. The Whole NATO thing was so outside of their calculus (though anyone watching the numbers over the last 30 years coulda told’em,, that treaty is a dead elephant stinking up the halls.) Anygobstops, don’t wanna go down that road here,,,,
Here’s a ‘investment tip’ for ya. Besides the THREE B’s1, I’d do a little setting aside of things like Portland and Quicklime. If things get really wonky and sideways, building permits are gonna be history, and one could build extra heating stuff onto their house with local materials, but that cement thing may be hard to come by. Add in a 10% mix of quicklime (yes, it takes much longer to ‘cure’) will make your project ‘self healing’. And there may be another reason for that quicklime,,, it does wonders at covering the smell of what you can’t bury,,,,
Fact is, I can’t tell you what direction things are gonna take: I don’t think ANYONE could at this stage. I do worry, and its because I DO CARE, and its become quite obvious that there are Entities in the great wide world that DO NOT. In some ways, I am saying “Emulate them” and cover your ass. A little here, a little there. Like right now, with my bleg. Note I said I was gonna use the extra to keep the kids in feed. Didn’t say squat about little old me. Reason, I have my Feed ends covered (and the kids to some extent, but Mama is one picky bitch.) I’m just rotating some stock through and will re-up when things get ‘not so tight’. Stuff like Fuel: I do need and should have prior, work on, at least, a 30Gal reserve. I even have the barrels: one for transport and one that would be elevated,,, Just never seem to get around to it. That list that never ends, with the evolving priority chain,,,, Thats my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
Alright, now I’m babblin’ and ramblin’ and being discombobulated with my hyperactive three braincells. Time to send some sedatives to at least one of them. Small brew tonight. (my reserves of Guiness)
Cheers to y’all
LIVE
LOVE
LAUGH
LEARN
LOAD!!!
1 Beans Bullets and Bandaids.
modulation of frequency
Trying REALLY hard to modulate my frequency away from the “Scarcity” mindset, and damn if that ain’t the hardest thing to do when the bills are piling up during what looks to be a weak MONTH,,,
I say that, and of course, weather being what it is, could change and change my attitude with it. See, last week, Son of Bossman canceled two days due to rain (that we saw very little of). THIS WEEK, we are forecast to have another two days of crap-tastic weather (and my sister in Colorado is getting snow a couple days prior, so the wet stuff is likely to hit here.) I fear that we are gonna get cut short AGAIN,,, and there are very real indicators that our work load has slowed more than a little. Signs of the times. People are getting scared and holding those duckies close to the chest.
And I spent part of my evening talking to the CC company about making a late payment this go-round. Because life sometimes bites back,, and this time, she took a chomp.
So, Gonna put up the Bleg again, I hatez to do it, but any little extra help would be greatly appreciated. Whatever help y’all send, is kitteh food n pupper rations. They will not starve, but I am cutting it that close to the bone this time around.
If that link is a problem, let me know in comments or email. I have other options, (though PayPal wants me to start a business account for donations,,, Venmo works better)
Anywowsers,,, I am doing my part as I can, attempting to sell the transmission out of Donor Truck to a local that needs one. He doesn’t move, Donor Truck DOES,, to the scrap yard. Every little bit,,,
LIVE
LOVE
Laugh (I’m trying, really truly,,)
LEARN (every daggum day!)
Load,,, (slipped I did,,,)
Sonday and domestic duties
so not much too add to things. Laundry already out of the way, little things needed here at the homestead.
Mower pulled a fast one on me yesterday. Was using it to mulch up all the leaves that poplar had dropped in my yard, when suddenly ‘just quit’. Went to restart and noted the carb had came loose and had a bolt hanging out in the air away from the block. Yeah, they don’t run when all they suck in is air. That fuel thing is kind of important to the suck, squish, bang, blow busyness model. A fourstroke engine doesn’t make a very good compressor (valve timing is all wrong for that.)
Some links provided by commenter Honestly233,,, go check ’em out
Keep in mind your inner peace. ALWAYS. The less inner peace we have, the worse the world becomes. The two are tied together, I am convinced of it. This weekend has been, not just me busting my hump on things around the stead, but bustin’ me noggin’ trying to figure out why my shit is falling apart. It’s that inner peace thing. The more uptight I get about the Bills, the worse my income gets. And I can track it!!! Bad feels about the bills, the next week is ALWAYS a weak week. The harder I think of ‘work-arounds’ the less likely they are to pay off. I need to relax, and
GET OFF THE NETS FOR A BIT.
Today is 30 straight days of posting for me. I hope y’all are getting something from my missives. I do, even if its just a chance to air my thoughts, see them in print and straighten my butt out. (correction 31 straight days,,,,)
Like dad said to me this morning, discussing his latest grocery store trip. 4 Kiwi fruit, $1.99EACH, and he was saying how the things grow on vines, and the people that collect them up might only make a nickle per,,, I said, “between them, the buyers, the shipping, the wholesalers, the end distributors, yeah,,, everyone makes a nickle a peice, and we pay mad money for not much of anything. And its only gonna get worse Da. Things in the world are taking turns and NO ONE knows when the bottom drops out.“
Its that shit right there that is disturbing my inner wonderful happy self,,, (wha? you thought I was grump 24/7/365? Shame, Shame,,, I’m actually a nice guy! when I wanna be ) I try, but getting away from it is nigh impossible most days. Unless I turn the phone off, stay at home and bury my head in the sand,,,, That ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. and when it DOES happen, It’s likely that EVERYONE is gonna be in the same boat, and without choice: no nets, no infrastructure, no power, no fuels,,,
Maybe, in some small way, a collapse would be good for the sanity of this hooman race,,, and we are ‘race’,,, we race here, there, everywhere, but unlike ants, we have no coordination. and it shows.
ANywuzzabangerbubz,,,, I has a lawnmower that demands my attention, a redoak laying in the woods that needs pulled up where I can get at better, and a list that never seems to get smaller,,, (Hi B! I feel ya brudda!)
Its back to the mines tomorrow (FIngers crossed) and more trying to figure out how to make end A meet End B, and not tie a knot in End C to do it… I got this,, it just might not be all that comfortable
Y’all take care, Loves ya!!!
Live
LEARN
Laugh
LOVE
LOAD!!!
Not sittin’ on me dumpus
three trees down one already cut up but need new blade for saw. Hit some barbedwire buried in that oak
They aren’t going anywhere fast and I’ll get to them again soonest.
And for lack of a better place, I have two blocks sitting in Buffalo. Glad as hell she is a half-ton rear-end. Even so, she’s squated down a bit. Those beasts is HEAVY. Once the new out building is in place, I will find better locations for them. The 4.3 will be under that car-port near where Buffs nose is currently sitting. the 5.7? Dunno yet. But it won’t’be in Buffy’s bed.
Still need to unload the enJinn hoist out of Bloo. but right now,, ,BREAK TIME.
I think I earned this beer.
more laters
LLLLL!!!
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A Rabbithole fur’ya
prolly not for e’rybody,,, but watch with an open mind
and now that y’uns have Quantum Physics 101under y’urn belts. Lets go see what the ancients had ta say,,,
Ok, time for me to slam ya upside the head with some chit,,, in that last vid, did any of it sound sorta familiar to ya?
should. Jesus was, by mere evidence of his words and practices, a HERMETIC teacher. He was raised in the hebrew faith, but his travels taught him even more. Some say he went east to the Hindi and Buddhist teachings. Others say to Egypt where Hermeticism was quite dominant. All three of them teach much the same thing the quantum scientists are discovering/proving over the last 100 years.
Nut shell: this reality aint real, no matter how persistent it feels. Say you ‘are’ and so it is,,, might take a bit willpower though. And the underlying, pervasive DOUBT will always beat your ass. Master it and you master the whole simulation
i’m gonna tell ya now, I haven’t mastered shit. Not even that of living a ‘proper’ Life (seriously, I’m an Odd, I live as a hermit, single with only a handful of friends over the last 18 years,,, Is that ‘normal’?) So take the above as whatever you want Heresy, potential truth of the whole, whatever, I, ME, Personally, think its all tied together and while I’m not totally sold on the “Simulation” theory, too much of it holds water. Granted, you can’t verify a negative… There really is a chocolate cake the size of a basketball circling in the rings of Saturn. (see, can’t prove it, can’t prove it wrong,,,) and yet in the same breath, I have had instances where the only conclusions that made sense was “divine interference” or that whole simulation thing where thoughts direct the energy field into something coherent: both just as equally plausible as the other. I can think of TWO instances that I documented here or one of the other two blogs I wrote in over the years.
One was getting my RV with literally nothing but my very existence. Had a chance to move to Texas and get better work. BUT,,, I had to have a place to live out of. I could park, but I had to have a camper/RV. (and I wasn’t making squat at the J.O.B. at that time; a few bucks above MinWage. Fuggit,,, look on Craigslist anyways,,,, Found an RV, couple coming off the road, wanting to live with grandkids, Need a truck, willing to trade tit for tat. Well, No truck I was willing to part with or that I thought was worthy of thier needs. Days later, saying nothing to No one- Da GIVES me his Dakota, and at that point, I tell him about the RV. “if thats what you want, ok,,, but be careful.”
Second time was while IN Texas. 20 miles outside of Lockhart, which is 50(?) miles outside of Autistic Austin Tx… Spending two weeks at a time working for Pickdawg, seeing no one between times. Goin’ a leetle krazy,,, Caught myself talking to the scorpians one afternoon. Looked to the sky and said “I just wanna dawg” and moved on. didn’t think another thing about it,,,, Until that weekend when Pick came out to pay me, direct me for the next two weeks and go to town with me for materials. That was when Voodoo showed up on my doorstep, acting like he had known me since his whelping days. Chocker chain and about 2′ of 1/4″ aircraft cable that had been chewed apart. But no tags. We asked around, but no one knew of anyone with a missing Catahoula Curr. And he was just a babe, maybe 5 months old
Like attracts like. Wanna be the negative naysayer,,, prolly gonna pull in a bunch of negativity.. Be positive, envision yourself as such and such, with conviction, and it will be. I know that from my Audio Days. I had zero background in it, but dammit, I wanted to be the guy at that krazy looking desk with al the knobs and buttons. From my first ‘stagehand gig’ to where I was running my own production company was 2 years. From there I went Regional National with another company (hard to break through that barriar by self) And when it all fell apart was after I had lost sight of WHAT, and started focusing on WHY and had no answers.
Now, this is just my opinion, but I strongly feel, and the above information synchs well with it, all of the Krazy in the world has so much to do with the fact that so few have FOCUS, and the Algorthms are warping how people view thier place in this ‘non-reality’. Get enough confused and things shift to SHIT, and we get countries trying to Enact the Book of Revelations. It’s pretty common knowledge among people such as myself that the Ill of mind, narcisists, and such, are MUCH better at envisioning thier realities because they are not hampered by the chains society places on most: the chains of Guilt and “I don’t deserve those blessings”. Look around: doesn’t it seem like the world is being ‘written’ by some warped psychopaths?
Anywhooos,,, its Satyrday, I has oodles of stuff to do. ALready moved Bloo-Block up here, sitting in the bed of Buffalo for the nonce as I figure out better placement. Trees to fell and cut into blocks. Mowing 80% complete already. And an inconvienent oil leak on Bloo to track down, potentially fix if not too complicated.
And of course, keep the three braincells bouncing around these krazy idears of mine.
More laters,,, Love y’all
LLLLL!!!
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