Gonna be a day or two before we see receding waters.

Typical February flooding herebouts

To Say yesterday was fun-n-interestin’ would be not so accurate.

Interestin’ CHECK

Fun,,, not so much

Long story, Started the day with water out the whazzooos,,,  Water from the sky, water off the ground, water in the winds, water water water,,,,

Three places in my drive where the water was crossing the road because it was faster than the culverts could handle.  

Me, sittin’ at home, occasionally checking the river gauge,,,,

Four-thirty-ish,, I get the call.

‘Um,  you at home?”

YUP

“can ya get ahold of Burnout and come in,,,”:

I’ll try, be there soonest.

Move the shop equipment to higher ground day..

Move Son Of BOSSMANS basement to higher ground.

Personally, I think they dodged a bullet this time, and that water wasn’t going to get as high as USGS was predicting.    BOssman goes by thier website (that uses predicitve models) where-as I use the river guages and watch national radar reports.     It was starting to taper off by 11pm last night and hadn’t entered the shop floors yet (the low spot on the property)

Anywhoos,,,, mad scrambles to clear gear to higher ground, move pallets of concrete mix to flatbed trailer and cover, move this, that, the other and its multiple twins of redundancy,,,,   

Finally made it home around 1am,,,, My back is killed,,,   Burnout and I were the only Emps to show up ,,,    

Did I mention my back is killed?       Yeah, its gonna be a rough couple of days as things get untwigged down there at the lower points.

Getting ready to head out and see what the river valley looks like under daylight.     I didn’t have a good view of it in the dark, creepin’ home on the RRrightofway.  Yeah, more than enough water that my usual road home is under water.

More later,  maybe pix,,,,

From way back in my time machine,

One of those great balladiers of the 70’s and 80’s .     I absolutely agree Mr Joel; 12 was enough,,,

So much good news this week.    More and more is coming out.   and ONE really big point that even Elon has came to: much of what is ‘active’ in our current Government is so archaic, even the DOGE teams are going to be hard pressed to find and fix.      Iron Mountain storage facility is still millions of reams of PAPER FILES,,,, Things that are not even all that old, time wise, but in hard format, not digital,,,,  It would take an ARMY of techs with scanners to upload all of that information,,,  Maybe the AI can cross ref it in record time,,,,,  

But thats just the start as one other person that was active in the system back in the 80’s wrote about.    How much of what is digitially archived is in COBOL or SQL, on digital tape or even those monstrous 8″ floppy discs (that have like ZERO memory in relation to our current tech)

Tulsi sworn in     AWESOME

RFKjr sworn in  AWESOME

a couple of the other cabinet picks made the cut and are sworn in, to include the new Education,    

Its time to observe, watch closely, and be ready to say ” Um,,,, THat AIN’T why we hired the boss, you need to get back on program” or be ready to cheer and whoop with abandon when they start firing up the chainsaws ,,,,,   

I think everyone agrees at this point, we had a miracle happen this year, but its on US to keep the ball rolling, and to keep those “hired” on the correct path, TO INCLUDE TRUMPED HIS-SELF.    SO far so good, but things could start to spin out a bit as the enemy starts getting their collective shit together instead of running around with their hair on fire.   They came close with the two judicial moves this week (THOUGH,,,,, I do believe the one was ‘scripted’ by insiders to set the stage for SCOTUS intervention and securing precedence)

Active observation, ready to fire up the clarion call to keep the kids in line if needed.    Thats our job now.     Yes, there are some things they are doing that I look at and scratch my head over, but things DO work a bit differently at that level.     And maybe some of those head scratchers are ‘deal making moves’ suggested by the boss.   Work ’em up then shut ’em down.      (lots going on in the Krainian theater that are giving me the heebie-jeebies, but there IS that upcoming meeting between Putin, Trump and The House of Saud,,,,,)

update on my status,,, getting better, slowly, still a slog even though I have beaten the bug.   It did a number on me.    Some good things to come out of it, but I will elaborate later in other posts on that.

cold frigid and wet weekend forthcoming and my plans are currently to stay put and little to nothing, other than some exercizing to stretch muscles and lung power.    No kayaking,,, too soon in my recovery, too cold.    Soon though,,,,

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Damn!!! That Bug really did me in.   FYI,,, STAY HYDRATED!!!   That was my problem with my busted T-stat.   Got dehydrated and started going into hyporthermia.   Could NOT stay warm, even sitting in front of the woodstove.   Would start to feel warm and as soon as I moved off, COLD CHILLS kick back in.    Core temps were measured and 95.7 ain’t good,,, my usual is 96.8 (not the average of 98.6, go figure) but that extra degree drop off was precipitous,,,,   Cliff like!!!

WATER,,,,,

For good measure,  toss in a 1/2 cup of cider vinegar (per gallon) and 1/2 cup of honey.    Gets electrolytes up and actually quenches thirst, not just flushing the system.

It takes a couple of days for the bounceback to stabilize, and I have had up-down moments, but they are getting thinner and shorter.    Still have a hack, but its a productive one, and clear. The sinuses are clear, but I continue with the saline rinses (they frellin’ work!!!)

and I lost 10 pounds

Likely some of that is water weight,,,   But I haven’t really ate much in 5 days either: no appetite.              Da come up the hill, with something for me to try: the very smell of it caused my gag reflex to kick in.   Not that it was bad, but my body is sayin’ “FOOD? Ohh to the hell NO!,,,, “

Until this morning that is.   Growllies going on, and a hollow spot below my left ribcage that wants attention (and more than a damned cup-o-coffee dude!)

Been trying to keep up with things, but I am finding getting some information is harder.   Like trying to keep up with whos confirmed and who is still in hearings.    Utoob ain’t helping because the algorithm will show you the hearings and ONLY the streaming ones, and those are WEEEKS old in most cases.   Then a Giggles search will pull  up 2020 nominees or some such,,, ya gotta dig, and even then, the articles are from last week of January, and MIGHT be updated,,,,,

and with the preponderous amounts of energy at my disposal….   I manage about 3 minutes of that shit and I am exhausted,,,,

Been trying to sleep, A LOT,  and only in the last 24 hrs have I started seeing more than a few minutes at a stretch.  HIt a fulll two hours straight last night,    So The body is getting back in balance; still a bit more to go.    Later today, I am going to hit the park and just walk the perimeter, get the blood flowing and maybe help drive some more of this crap out of my chest with the effort.  

My camalbak is my friend again,,,,    Ain’t goin’ nowhere without lumpy on my shoulders right now.

I ain’t Twenty-sumpin anymore, despite what the brainium thinks,,,,,   

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PS: I know I Give Francis fits with my Grammer,,, a little background; I had a series of New England Grammer Teachers in my formative years, YES, I do know proper grammer,,,

I am also a contrarian, more south-western than Yank, and am surrounded by Southern’s that will look at you all side-eyed if you go correcting THEIR grammer (or lack of)  

Besides,,, when I apply the full grammer code in my writing , it always feels stilted and stiff and I prefer to leave it at the curb for reference only.

Thats my story and I am stickin’ too it.

Issues with MY operating system. Personal T-stat is wonky,

Need a reboot and a patch,,,

more then

Day started good, after the “longest night of my life’   Cripes, it seemed like I was up every 15 minutes hackin’ and wheezin’    Felt like the night went on forever,,,,

Finally, daylight,,, Felt better

for a spell

by noon, temps on the rise and aches in the joints, dry hackin’ cough and dribble from the schnoz,,,

Gonna forgo the alkyhaul tonight,,, The hangover was threatening blown capillaries when I was hacking.   BUT, I am jumping in that hot shower, bundling up fit for a hibernating bear afterwards, and jumping under a pile of covers and blankets.   

I want this shit GONE,,,,

and  y’all are likely aware that this was the nicest day in February to date, (likely in 20 years,,,) and No, I did NOT go to the lake.   I din’t do much a’nuthin,,,, but be sick and achy   

I am the worst patient,,, all of my Ex’s will concur on that note.

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Wild weather swings will bring out the buggies,,,

Some will have learned new tricks to foil an immune system,,,

Burn-out came to work early this week, hacking dry cough, no noticable sinus drainage, but that wracking cough

Now, I has it: mild fever, hacking cough from the sinus drainage down the back channels,

Chicken soup, grilled cheese to absorb the soon to be consumed alky-haul, so that it lingers a bit longer in the system, not overwhelming me into a stupor.   Whole idea is to make my body just a bit poisonous to whatever critters are trying to take up residence.   Oh yah,  That chicken soup,,, GARLIC BABY!!!    Fresh stuff too, not the powder in a jar crap.    Had enough in it, it had a mild burn while eating.    Definite bite.   Gonna be a funky BM later tomorrow, but if it works to drive off the invaders,,,, GTG!!!

Not gonna touch the fun stuff in DFrickinC right now.   if you read Kunstler, or TL Davis, go do so, both have bettter points than I am capable of currently.   (and won’t be able to see straight in 10 minutes to read or type, so,,,,)

I am going to say, when someone posts in comments (as they have) essentially saying ‘four years of ‘stolen election’ and now its flipped,,,,  Guess it doesn’t count when its your side’

Dood, Get a life,  LOOK, at the evidence being exposed at just how corrupt the FedGov has become,,, IT IS ALL OUT THERE, AND THE LIST IS GROWING DAILY.  To include Censorship programs and propaganda funding, and a whole SLEW of shit that if taken in context, is blatant money laundering schemes.    The only question becomes “Who Benefits(ed)”   A lot of people on this side of the screen and my neck of the woods are starting to get mad enough that they want to see ARRESTS, TRIALS and more than a few are calling for ‘more terminal’ sentences.

The People spoke when they Elected TRUMP,,, He is doing something that I have NEVER EVER SEEN in an elected official: He’s keeping his campaign promises. 

If thats ‘Crazy’,?   GIVE ME MORE!!!!!

Kay, time to pop the cork, down the swill, and BURN THIS BUG TO THE GROUND

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Drunken update,,,,   I would LOVE to see a parody of REMs ‘ TEOTOTWAWKI’ with the word “Democracy” tossed in for world,,,   I am quite sure there are some oarady artists capable,,,,,  

Time to pass out,,,