Not too long a read, and for those inclined to listen over read, a video is in the post as well.

We have a problem. You don’t know everything that’s going on, and if you start voting in populist candidates, you’re going to end up knocking out load-bearing walls that you don’t understand.”

That last was the end of the article.  Think about what the person is ACTUALLY saying,,, break it down into chunks if need be and re-read it.  

Gonna hat-tip to Francis for this next part/embed,,,,

Nothing new to me,,, been on that educational slide since 2008, have even said some of his points here, on occasion.  

NOW, go back and re-read that quote above and tell me; Do you feel represented by our “Democracy”?  (it’s NOT Democracy, and they keep shoving that non-truth in your face because “repeat the lie so often, it becomes ‘truth’, that which is accepted as ‘common knowledge’.)

Go to your county election board, volunteer as an observer or what not, get in the system to help confront whatever they are gonna try to do.   If you are in the BLUE cities, this action becomes even more important, because that is where the steal is going to to happen, ‘hardest’.   I have read where a couple of places have purged thier voter roles, to find them back in place the next day/week.   And that is something so easy for anyone with access and certian priviledges of access can do with a simple copy paste from a data file.   Hell, it may be written into the code to reactivate certaIn files with NO interaction from some ‘bad actor’.   Back when I was in IT, I wrote a very simple three line script for a windows unit to restart every night and to update only certain files, ignoring all others.   There were zero inputs for the staff to use as it was just computer running a monitor of patient charts for the nurses to see ‘in real time’.    All the chart activity was through other points.   To keep ‘glitches’ down, we had the unit reboot every night at dead shift switch over.

If I could do that, and I have little programming skill (or I would be doing it more for a living) why not have a certain file regenerate at will, whenever the  file is ‘fiddled with’.

(and I am sure there is someone that reads this, whom will tell me that its even easier than that,,,,  and I know it is, but I am so far removed from playing with windoze units, I’m rusty as hell on file management protocols.)

apologies for the digression there.

Back to that quote,,, IF factual, and I firmly believe it to be,,, then Trumped’s statements about “Deep State” are not strong enough.   This goes back to my opinion that there is a civil war going on WITHIN our government, between INtel and State, and some other groups, with shifting alliances,,,,

and what we get to see is just window dressings, just like the guy in the video illustrates; to keep us distracted and placant, given the ILLUSION of choices decided by people that have no accountability

and apparently no ethics either.

People like that don’t see us as human: they see widgets that make ‘money’ and will do whatever needs done to keep the machine those widgets power, running.

And I have no solutions for you.    Find the walls,,, when you see the walls, you’ll know and nothing I say or do will prove it to you otherwise.   But knowing the walls exist,,,  the rest,,,  dunno.   How to escape a prison planet?   Because thats the fact,,,  dunno,,,,

I was going to do a rant or something, but to be honest, I think the tipping point is past and the revival of AmeriCAN thinkers is well at hand.   I have no predictions about the upcoming (S)election cycle other than ‘they are gonna try like hell to steal it’ and

well

Dunno,,, what happens then may be the other tipping point in our history.

I’m watching the Kabuki theater and seeing signs of reality creeping in,  Maybe this time will spell out a different outcome.   Watch the numbers,,,   It’s gonna be obvious and I doubt that even the most loyal MSM is gonna be able to say ‘Fair and honest election’ with a straight face (even if Trumped wins, its gonna be so close that the numbers won’t match actual voater roles.)

I got nuthin today.    What I wanna talk about is unimportant and what I should discuss is not ringing my bell.   Feeling just a little sickened by the whole mess: the “democracy” chant (THIS COUNTRY IS NOT A DAMNED DEMOCRACY, QUIT WITH THE BULLSHIT PLEASE) the ‘fair and honest’ chant when the lies are so damned obvious. 

just wanna hit the water and keep paddling, set up camp and feel the REAL EARTH move under my feet. Thats reality, ‘that’ doesn’t give a hoot about us two-legged pest infesting Mama-Gaia’s skin.  it just IS.

thats where my sanity is, and the weeklong hamster wheel,,,,

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And damned glad I did.

Found ALL the little issues with my gear. 

And I’m gonna need a bigger boat.

Mehbe not cuz of the fishies though,,,,

Volume and speed,  more volume than speed.   Fully loaded, Lyssa maxed at 4 and cruised at 3.4.  Those are BlueJeans numbers.  Granted, it was wyld water day and paddling uphill slows a body down,  but I could feel how sluggish she was.   Aft waves had more control over her than usual: might have been a balance of weight issue, she was pretty loaded,,,

Longer is faster, longer with higher decks means more (or in my case, better loaded) gear.  Needz a bigger boat if I wanna get serious about playing with kayakamping,,,,

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Back at the Buffalo now.  Lyssa n gear all loaded up; just takin’ a minute to re-orient meself.   Just paddled 4 miles of open water, straight line right down the middle of the lake.  No boat traffic to speak of today (yet).   Time to go home and set it all back up and get some fans blowing the moisture out, get some other stuff cleaned up (including me).

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and home now,,,, porch looks like a damned rummage sale with gear stretched out on lines to dry and a tent set up on one side.   Voo is truly cunfuzzed about all the smells of woods and lake and fishes and Dawg only knows what else was out there.   At least he isn’t trying to mark everything as his,,,, I might get a bit miffed if that leg hikes up,,,,

I’d love to give y’all an exciting story of adventure and what not, but,,, Hell, I was cooped up in a tent for 12 stinking hours, mostly sleeping it away, sitting out storms.   I think there were three that blew through overnight.   I know come 5 AM, it was silent as the grave out there, no boat traffic, no winds, no thunder, no flashing dancing lights in the sky.

and WET!!!  

And I figured out, a tarp does NOT work as a ground cloth for a tent.   The only thing DRY around that campsite was UNDER THAT TARP and everything over it was wet or damp as hell.  Including inside the tent.   I had standing water under the sleep-pad when I packed out.   SO,,,, Either the tent had a leak (one very small one I did see) or I kept tracking it in with me when I braved the downpours to take a leak (most likely scenario).  Normally when I camp, I use a rainfly and a hammock.   I would have done so this trip, but I wanted that ‘wet test’ of the tent.   If I am kayakamping, there may be times where I won’t have access to trees that will support a hammock so I keep that tent as an ‘alternate’.   It didn’t fail, but my ‘delight’ in it is less than stellar.   I do like my hammock though, so I am a bit biased.

All in all, was a good shake-down run of my gear, and only one item is getting changed out.   Would like a folding skillet instead of the 10″ kitchen skillet I took, but it worked, worked well and stowed “well enough” (that handle was the glitch in stowage.) 

No bear run-ins (did see tracks on the beach) no punked skunks trying to raid my food,,,,      Actually, I didn’t see a damned thing as for wildlife yesterday.   I did see a flock of geese on the wing this morning, but that was it.   I guess all the traffic ran everyone under cover,,,,

Home, safe, dry and clean; all the gear is getting in the same shape, slowly.

and tomorrow is socialists day,,, Thinking of my post for that and will tap it out laters.    

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ROFLMAO UPDATE!   Finished putting the last of things away, rolled up and back in thier respective bags, and RRRRuuummmmBBBBLlelleesss!!!   Bam!!! Kentucky Monsoon hits,,,, Sitting here on the porch watching the water fall, but it sure is a pleasant change being able to look out at it while dry, compared to being cooped up in an enclosed tent with only hearing (of which, mine is faulty) to warn of dangers.

Good start, WYLD waters, loved the paddle out.   

About 2-ish, I started looking at camps.   3-ish, was setting up and getting squaw wood for my fire.   Good thing too.

As  I was getting a good bed of coals for cooking, I heard the rumbles,,,,

As I was finishing that meal, (mmmnomnomnom) the first sprinkles hit.  

and here I am, 6 oclock, stuck in a tent with rain.   A SMALL tent at that.   You can see it in the above pic, single man tent, with a vestibule area, where all the stuff that can’t get wet is hiding out, as there is no room inside with my long-ass carcass.  The PFD and dishes are outside hanging from a tree, my little camp chair is out there too; leaned against a tree so as to not have it puddling water. (I brought everything except the kitchen sink,,,,  Even brought my keyboard 😉  )

Lyssa is on shore, pulled up high behind a bush and layed on her side so no water build up in the cockpit.

I’m dry, I’m safe, and I’m BORED!!!  LOL   good sleepin’ weather as the old timers like to say.   Not hot (now) comfortable in the tent with the sleeping pad inflated and a nice pillow  the rainfly is doing what rainfly’s should do, keep the water OUT,,, and the pitter-patter of rain on it will help me sleep, if I weren’t all wound up like a top.  Too early for bed dammit!!!

Limited signal here, hard to upload pics, and weather app is sluggish as all get out.  Can’t see the radar to find out how long this is going to be on me.  Earlier I checked and it showed it rolling off over night, and clear early morning.    Just have to get through till then right? and hope it doesn’t change for the worst between now and then.

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Recall the broken Kat thing?  Mentioned that Zoomies is a scaredy-kat about mice. That Mama is ‘semi-retired’ from the mouser game.  Will watch them and only pounces when they happen to cross paths, but won’t pursue,,,

So I bought THIS (yes I get a kickback if ya buy)

DAMN GINA!!!!

Knew I had mice,  but the first kill shocked me! (Not the trap, its occupant)  damned packrat!!! Big’un too!!!   I’m certain the batteries took a hit pushing those electrons through that brute.  Minus tail,  must have been 3 1/2″ long.

Since then, its been a steady stream of ded-meeses.  4 so far.   Damned Kats rilly have been suckin’ hind teat at their jobs.  I’ve a handle on the situation now.  With cold and wet months coming,  the woodland residents wanna move in even more so than they have,  and I may just pick up a second unit.  Cleaner and apparently MORE reliable than spring traps.  They walk in, they don’t come out on their own.

Muhahahaha!!¡!!!

Sure would feel a tiny bit better than the walking on the sun I have been doing today.   Its DAMNED HOT,,, Running abouut 70% humidity maybe higher (reading the gauge in the house,,,)  and sweat just beads and rolls off.

And Oh-boy, to be back in that time of life again…

You can never go home,,,,  When that realization hits, its profound.   Its not that things aren’t there (may be, may not be) but YOU are different as well.  I learned that lesson repeatedly over the years.   It’s getting a bit easier to swallow, though I will never like the taste.  

I haven’t changed, but I know I’m not the same,,,

The illusions we create in our heads to hold onto what WE THINK reality is.   So many of us, individual, and yet, so connected by existence,,,

And the crazy of the world is infecting us all, in no small part due to that inter-connectedness we share.   Once upon a time, the insane were sequestered from “general pop” to limit any spread,,, Those doctors that did this may not have thought of it as a spreadable disease, but they took steps as if it were.

Those things we feel in our gut? Totally real: our guts are just as much in tune with ‘reality’ as the instinct laden Kat is.   Listen to those ‘gut feelz’, they may not be clear as to what they are warning about, but they are NOT wrong.

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Back to the J.O.B. this AM, and said culprit was dressed down by Bossman,,, and said asshat tried to throw ME under the bus wheels.   Said that all the problems were present the entire time he was using the gear. (and bossman told him flat out to stop lying.)

Me, personally, would have told him to turn around, leave, and not come back.   Bossman is much more charitable than I.    

BUT, said asshat is going to be assigned to some work detail I am in charge of, and, well, I may not hold grudges, but I never forget getting a knife in my ribs either.   Dude will be on my shitlist for a LONNNNGGGGGGGGG time.  Try to throw me under the bus?   WHILE I WAS STANDING THERE,,,,      DUMB, SUPER STOOPID DUMB. 

breathe,,,,,,,

Long weekend forthcoming,,,, probably already covered it.  Still haven’t made my plans final yet.   Weather is somewhat in question, and another aspect I hadn’t considered: TOOLS.    Not sure I am comfortable leaving Buffalo parked in a strange place for a couple full nights/days, unattended and no security (other than the occasional park ranger/sheriff doing a drive through,,,,)  Not going to take them out TODAY, but I may hold off on going until Satyrday morn, and unload my box here, on Friday.   I could just un-ass the whole box, but that thing is damned heavy,,,  I has a lot of tools I bring to the table no matter where I go.  (and the truck only holds a small percentage of the tools I have available.)

One thing I do expect this weekend: LOTS of boat traffic.   And that means dancing waters for me.   YAY!!!   

Even if I don’t go camping overnight(s), I am going to play in waves, dammit!!!

Live like tomorrow is judgement day. Learn as if you were never taught a thing.  Laugh to peel the paint from the porch eaves, and LOAD LOAD LOAD,,,, then do some more.

The post on the drones this morning,,,   Didn’t spend a whole lot of time on it as I was put back on core drilling today.   Reason: the others managed to fubar one drill to death and destroyed one of the $600 core bits.    These aren’t the diamond core drills: they go through stone just fine, but you hit that Re-bar,,,, just stop, STOP!   Nopes,,, they thought they could cut through that shit.    Might have been what ate the drill up,,, Dunno, but its burned up, let the magic smoke out and all.   Not even a week old.

And the bone heads did all of this in the five days I was NOT on the job.

There were some other issues at hand that I am not listing (too many TO list,,,) and to say that WHEN I see the culprit next,,,, well,   A dressing down is in order.  BUT, the best thing would be Bossman and Son of doing the dressing down,,, 

I don’t see that happening for reasons out of my control, and don’t like it.   Dude is costing us, slowing MY side of the job down since I am either fixing his screw-ups or being put in his place to take over,,,    grrrrrrr

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back to the drone thing.    LOTS and LOTS of options available.   Honestly, for most people/preppers, a simple sneak and peek drone is likely the top of the list of what they would need.   IF that route is what you are looking for, then DO get the simple cheapy-cheap ones that only operate on a wi-fi broadcast.   300′ range AT BEST and usually quite a bit less.    Yes, that is one option you want to take when learning this thing, because it doesn’t ‘fly’ like a plane even if the controls are similar.   You want to find the under $100 toy to play with to learn.   I did, and I had my sights on bigger, faster, better; especially in the FPV side of things, but circumstances changed (and yes, I am giving the hairy eyeball at Trumped for that because it was his Tariffs that made getting certain hardware out of my reach, at exactly the time I had just started shopping.)  On the side of that though, In some ways, I am also thankful for it, because that is one DEEP DARK hole you throw money into.   Much like boats,,, A hole in the water you toss cash at.    In the case of drones, a hole in the air, and sometimes, they don’t come back,,,,   (EVERY remote aircraft comes with an unknown expiration date.)

And what they are doing with stuff these days???

Just look at the SIZE in the first five minutes.   Think of what can be put in one, think about the number of controls on most helicopter type controllers (Like 14 channel radios!)   You only need 3 to fly most models,,,, 4 if you are running ‘closer too real life’ with ailerons.   Drop bays, triggers, you name it, are simple add-ons.   And the clarity/signal of the FPV transmitters is more robust from just 8 years ago.   We used to get signal break up just going past a tree; now they are solid even at long distance (so long as line of sight still)

sigh,,,, getting my creative juices flowing when I have other things to I’m obligated to (KAYAKS!!!).   

But there is a learning curve in everything, and drones/FPV/ autonomous units have a BIG learning curve.

If you couls start a channel on YT like Flite-test did, it could pay for itself, but most of us have things we call JOBs that kinda get in the way of the fun stuff like that.   (and OH man AM I LOOKING FOR MY ESCAPE POD FROM THE HAMSTER WHEEL)

ANywhoos,,,, If you are thinking you need to add a drone to your preps,,, spare yourself some lucre and get the cheapy-cheapy one to learn, terrorize the local cats and get GOOD at controlling it BEFORE you jump in whole hog and get one of those high-speed lo-drag racing drones that have as much tolerance of ‘oops’ as the Hindenburgh did.

watch the following ONLY IF you don’t get motion sickness.

That takes some skills.   hard won skills even not knowing how many drones he demolished learning what NOT to do.

Get the cheapy first,,,,

and find the local drone geek and pick that brain, make alliances, and VERIFY allegiances.   Most of them are quite liberal in indoctrination, but very libertarian on the beliefs.  Find the ones that are open minded to ‘what if we do X?’ and start building that Rebel Airforce.

More up in AM, not droney stuff.    Just thinks stuffs

Trying to not let the world at large get under my skin or deep into my cranial region.

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