I got a job as an instrument operator at Stonehenge because in a few days we are going to have to move all the stones clockwise 30 degrees to set it from Daylight Time to UTC.
Whoops!
Sorry. It's Halloween and not April Fool's Day.
My bad.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
I'll be leaving town for a about a week to go to England
Monday, October 30, 2023
Another day.
A friend of mine went back to school for a couple of courses. He's in his late 60s and has changed careers which makes sense if you know the guy.
Anyway, he asked me to write down things that effect older people and I sent him a few. Health for me is not an issue because the Doc is pretty good about letting me know what to expect as I age.
The thing on the list that he said was the most important that I mentioned was current technology. He's been running a flip phone since Day One and I have a smart phone which doesn't mean a lot.
I've figured out enough about the smart phone to get it to do what I want it to and that's about it. Of course I was the same way with my VCR back in the day and I'm the same way with my ham rig. I can do sideband and CW on it and that's all I need. I don't care for digital.
Still, the amount of technology out there increases daily and it's sometimes confusing to a lot of the elderly.
I'm aware of all the scams out there and I refuse to bank on line just for that reason. One slip and I could take a damned hard hit.
When a banker tried to push me into on line banking I told her the ONLY reason I use her bank is because they don't pressure me to do on line banking and she started to say something but clammed up about it fast when I gave her 'the look'. She figured out that maybe she didn't want to have to explain to the branch manager why some old man withdrew six figures and said he was taking it to someplace that wouldn't hassle him.
I'm not too bad but it's really rough on a lot of older people.
As for my friend he's figured out how to do things most people think they need an need an app for. Getting an Uber or Lyft comes to mind. He has a number that will get him either one of them and he has set up his account on line. Works for him and I considered making the switch myself.
Everyone and their cousin is always telling me to 'get the app' and I figure if I got everyone's dopey little app I'd fill up the entire drive of my cell phone inside a couple of weeks. What do I need the app for some dopey little convenience store I stopped at while in South Dakota when I was just passing through? I might as well download the app for the Mount Everest Expedition Supply Store in Nepal for all the good it will do me.
As of now I have most of my marbles and as they begin to trickle out of my skull it's going to get harder and harder for me to deal with things.
I just found another hole in the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Near the end when the Nazis open up the Ark of the Covenant and all that scary weird stuff starts happening Indy tells Marion "Don't look!"
Bull$hit. Marion should have melted or whatever. There's no way in hell Marion could have survived that.
When's the last time a woman was told not to look at something and she didn't look at it?
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Well I decorated the bathroom.
with a Queen Nefertiti shower curtain, a similar bath mat and seat cover. On top of the toilet there's a canvas picture of King Tut's death mask which is really a nice piece. It jumps out at you.
To the right of the medicine chest is a picture of Queen Nefertiti sitting on a throne being attended to by servants on a boat. I call that one 'Queen of de Nile'.
It looks pretty good and when the Mrs. complains about King Tut staring at her when she's sitting on the toilet I'm going to ask her if that makes me some kind of weenie wagger or something.
Then there's the clincher. There's a coat hook I am going to install inside the bathroom door so you see it when you close the door. It's going to have a leather jacket, a brown fedora and a bull whip hanging from it.
It's actually a pretty cool bathroom if you ask me.
Inspiring.
Actually I figured if it was sheetrock, tile and vinyl I might as well have fun with it. I'd actually prefer a white drop-in one fiberglass room consisting of a sink, toilet, tub and shower with a built in pressure washer and a floor drain so as to make it easy to keep clean but it is what it is so I may as well have fun with it.
You have to look at things for what they are.
It was in the early to mid 80s and I watched a film that a couple of guys had made about looking for sunken treasure. It was a self-made movie and wasn't all slick and polished like a Hollywood production.
Still, it was pretty cool and well worth the price at the Opium (Orpheum) Theater.
It was what it was. It was a movie made by regular guys with no previous experience and had a few moments of fuzzy photography and some broken continuity. but to me it was rather interesting.
Of course the usual gang griped about it and said it sucked because even though the reviews and word on the streets said it wasn't a regular polished movie they griped because it wasn't a polished Hollywood production.
It is what it is.
I have seen a couple of threads on shooter's boards where someone got a rifle from CMP and went nuts because the rifle was used and dinged up a bit.
CMP constantly warns people that these rifles have come out of various armories and have been used, reused and abused for decades yet some chowderhead gets mad because he didn't get an unissued perfect rifle out of some imaginary storage place where the brand new old stock rifles are cached. (at the price of a beat up rifle which he likely purchased)
I had one that was in pretty good shape straight out of the CMP armory. I did rebarrel it and expected I would have to when I bought it for such short money.
Still, my expectations beforehand were realistic.
A lot of us would be a lot happier if our expectations were a bit more realistic.
Friday, October 27, 2023
A case where the public wrote the ads
was when Dos Equis ran the 'Most interesting Man in the World' ad series. After the first few ads ran they set up a website and fans of the advertising campaign submitted ideas for his lines.
The ad campaign was apparently successful because they picked the perfect kind of guy he was supposed to be. 'Interesting' proved the be a perfect choice.
He wasn't the biggest, strongest, smartest, best looking or badass. He was the most 'interesting' man in the world. It proved to be a perfect choice.
The early ads were pretty good, too. Actually they all were but the early ones had grainy black and white flickers of some really off the wall stuff. One had some guy chopping a hole in the ice of a frozen body of water and the instant the hole was chopped and cleared a guy clad in an old fashioned union suit popped out of it from under the ice carrying a couple of good sized fish and just walked away.
At work and in places men congregated someone would often bring up the latest ad and everyone would either grin or counter him with a funny line from another ad.
"The police question him often because they find him...interesting."
They ought to have found him interesting because he speaks fluent French...in Russian.
Here's a few:
Thursday, October 26, 2023
An open letter to a framer that did a job for me.
You know who you are:
Good job!
Better yet, EXCELLENT job!
A couple of days after you reframed my garage door opening I went to trim it out with coil and a brake.
It became very obvious that you took your time to select the wood you used on it because it was STRAIGHT. Everything you did was straight and square.
Sheet metal brakes don't lie. When they make a bend it's straight and when I installed the covering over the trimmers I didn't have to float any of it. There were no bows or cupping in the wood. The pieces I built fit flat and perfectly.
I also didn't have to fudge the corners, either. Same held true for the header. The aluminum piece I cut for that fit like it had been machined.
I don't think the term framer really fits you. Mechanic is a better choice of words. Framing mechanic.
Damn, you do good work!
Your assistant that assembled things was no slouch, either. The job you two did was clean.
I was kind of loath to cover up such clean work because clean work needs no trim. I covered it with coil to protect your work.
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We return to your regularly scheduled blog.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
If your college degree hasn't given you enough value to pay it off then
then why should I (the taxpayer) have to cough up?
It makes no sense to me and I wasn't the one that chose a degree in dance studies, fine art or basket weaving. You did and there's no reason the taxpayers should have to cough up so can it. Can it right now.
On the other hand, they ought to eliminate the college loan plan entirely and watch tuitions drop like a stone and make college affordable again.
It's such a scam. Tuitions rise, people get loans and enslave themselves in debt and the colleges spend the money on stupid stuff. Eliminating the loan program would force colleges to sharpen their pencils and stop throwing money around and return to their purpose which is giving a person a good education.
Monday, October 23, 2023
I wonder that happened to the captain of the USS Texas that flooded some compartments to give his ship a list
to be able to raise his guns a two degrees more so as to be able to get more range out of his guns when he was bombarding the shore a few days afer D-day.
I suppose he was respected for his improvise, adapt, overcome attitude. Get it done!
I suppose he did have legal ground to stand on because his orders were pretty clear. He was given a target and orders to destroy it.
They didn't say how or give him any limits so I suppose he could have squirmed out of a courts martial that way.
Still, that's pretty cool.
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One time I pumped a barge off unevenly to keep the Chicksan (steel 'hose' used to transfer cargo) because the Chicksan would have hit the overhead steel bar used to attach hoses to the manifolds. Once the barge came up enough I evened things out and continued normal operations.
I was a newbie and I guess the list got the attention of the captain when he got up to pee.
He came charging out and when I explained what was going on he grinned and complimented me for showing initiative instead of shutting down and waiting for the tide to come in. He also said we should keep quiet about it because the office would over react as the often did.
Yesterday's cooking extravaganza.
Or the Great American Chop Suey overload.
I have not had it since I left high school and about 40 years ago I got the recipe from a woman that worked in the school cafeteria and she said her recipe was reduced to family size.
I tried making it from memory and actually did a pretty good job of remembering the recipe and making it.
One problem.
I should have cut the recipe in half because I forgot that she said she would freeze half of it which makes sense. However in regards to her idea of family size, afterwards I thought it over and remembered she had 11 kids to feed.
That's a lot of American chop suey! It filled a 12 quart stock pot to damned near overflowing! I felt like the guy that brought home a brontosaurus home and realized it was going to be brontosaurus stew, bronto chili, bronto pot pie,r oast bronto, baked bronto, fried bronto, bronto spaghetti sauce for the next twenty years.
I gave some to a neighbor who was amused at my plight and then instantly called a friend over for dinner. I told him to bring his appetite. He did.
He took one bite his face lit up and he replied "Goulash! I love it! I ate it as a kid and you nailed this batch."
I'm going to freeze most of it today because it should make pretty good bunch of quick, good tasting meals for the next ten years.
I do that when I make a big pot of chili and freeze it in one of those sandwich containers which is the perfect size for a single serving.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023
I was right about the valve.
I just tinkered with it and got it reset to a level that is scalding hot like the old one was. If I feel like it I can boil myself like a lobster I can go downstairs and reset the heater to about .0001 degree below blistering.
Setting the heater to that temperature will insure I don't scald myself. It will be MY PERSONAL safety, as set by me and NOT some manufacturer trying to prevent a lawsuit.
That will enable the shower to be able to accomplish its mission and save energy without being a slave to the ass covering of the manufacturers and/or the government.
After I reset the valve the test was that when I set it to hot that the volume of water decreased substantially. This told me that the cold wasn't being fed into the outlet (spout and/or shower) as much as it had been.
I'm in business. It now works as good as the old one.
One of the distinct advantages to a tankless heater is you can take a long shower without having to reset the heat as the temperature in the hot water heater tank drops. If I set it to a setting it will hold the setting a lot better.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Hot water heater report. Shower.
Adequate.
I think the blame lies with that stupid valve that was chosen by someone else that chose it because it said 'energy saving' and 'safety scald proof' on the box.
Update I can get a decent shower after I set the hot water heater to 140 but I'm still going to try and reset the valve. the loss between the heater and the shower is too great.
Friday, October 20, 2023
My hot water heater started leaking and today I get a new one.
I'm going to go the tankless route this time and have it professionally installed which is fine by me.
I think that it will make my gas bill drop a bit because I won't have a pilot light running 24/7 and it won't have to keep 50 gallons of water hot 24/7. It's 'on demand'.
I do know that it will use a lot of gas for a short period of time but I think it'll work out in my favor.
We shall see what we shall see.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
I finally got my garage door dialed in
after a day of screwing around with the directions proved to be a waste of time and effort. I wanted to get the camera set up when I discovered there was one.
Set, reset, sunset, and so on and I guess somewhere along the line I did something because the directions assumed I would know my way around the app I downloaded on my phone.
So I dragged the laptop down into the basement and got in touch with the chat. The chat person was patient and worked with me and I did as told and at one point was told to remove the camera, unplug it, plug it back in again and reinstall it. I described the process and she said that the damned thing HAD to have a decorative ring. Mine didn't so I took a picture of it and sent it to her.
She gave me a number and told me to talk to so and so and I did.
The guy I spoke with sounded like he may have been from India but his accent wasn't too bad and from what I gathered after I gave him my serial number he went into the opener program and fixed whatever it was from his office. He only told me to do a couple of simple things and BINGO! I was in business.
Of course this means the garage door company can see what I'm up to at their leisure but that only goes so far.
It merely means that if I want to make moonshine, meth, or hack somebody up in the garage all I have to do is drag them into the back part behind the opener so I guess I only gave up a little bit of privacy.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
I do NOT have a chip on my shoulder.
I carry the whole damned tree.
And not just any tree but an entire California Sequoia.
In fact I carry the General Sherman tree. Google it.
My shoulders are broad.
So I told someone a couple of days ago that aske me if I had a chip on my shoulder.
I just popped a breaker which means nothing
because I went down into the basement, walked over to the panel, reset it and was back in business.
I had unplugged the offender when the breaker popped and now I have a lamp to rewire which won't take but a few minutes but I digress.
Anyway, the whole thing was a real non event because I keep my breaker panel areas clear.
I didn't have to move 16 boxes, three crates and Aunt Mildred's coffee table and two chairs to get to it. I just walked down to the panel, opened it and reset it. It was that easy.
Over the years I've helped friends and neighbors that are not all that house savvy and one thing I have noticed is that in many cases having to get to a breaker panel means you practically have to call a moving company to get all the floor to ceiling crap stored in front of the panel. Generally it's something like a crated engine block or cases of lead yo-yos. Things of that nature unless one is unfortunate enough to run into something like a gigantic intertwined table and chair legs that are tangled up like a Chinese puzzle and must be carefully disassembled.
In that case you're kinda screwed.
Years ago I threatened to get some red and yellow paint and paint a red and yellow striped area on the floor below the panel with a red box in the center neatly stenciled with 'Breaker box. Keep clear.' but I didn't have to because my other half did a pretty good job of keeping it clear.
To find out why the blog is pink just cut and paste this:
http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-feminine-side-blog-stays-pink.html NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF TODAY'S ESSAY
One of the things that goes along with retirement is
simply throwing things away.
I still have more $hit than a Christmas turkey and it's annoying from time to time. Right about now if I had my druthers I'd either move into a small sailboat somewhere warm or even a small (but not tiny) home somewhere that's a bit warmer.
I just tossed a lot of old papers that I will never need. The headache around that is shredding them because they contain too much information. It's somewhat of a slow process.
A lot of the paperwork about my career went away and when I looked at most of it I wonder why I even bothered keeping it. After I got my AB (Able Seaman) ticket I didn't need the study guides and things of that nature. I had the ticket. Same holds true for when I got my ticket stamped 'Any unlicensed deck rating including AB.
It did make sense for me to keep my captain's license paperwork and study guides because I might have wanted them to upgrade various routes and tonnages.
Then there's the X-ray that's over 20 years old that I can't for the life of me understand why I didn't $hit can it when it got to be five years old. Hell, after a few months if I needed one they simply would have taken another. Gone.
I still have files I will likely never use but there's a dim possibility so I suppose they should stay around for a while but not forever.
There's a lot of $hit I should get rid of still and I suppose I will over the next period of time.
One of the things about going through various boxes I just recently opened that were packed up after the fire is the accumulation if just plain stuff. There was a lot of 'So that's where it went! I haven't seen that in 20 years!'
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The basement and garage now have a calming effect on me because they are clean and uncluttered. It's a good feeling.
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Tomorrow or the next day I shall do the final mowing of the lawn and run the mower out of gas and park it for the winter. That, too will leave me with a calming effect.
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Monday, October 16, 2023
One of the things I refuse to do on the air
is discuss any religious or political issues because I deem them as being a divider and not a unifier.
The possible exception is a net I am on but that's pretty much a given that we're all supporters of the 2nd Amendment.
The rig is the place I go to put it all aside and simply go in the air and forget about everything.
Everyone needs a place to do that.
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In other news,
I was listening to the Swain's Island station to get louder enough to work because the pileups were massive.
He went down for a few minutes to take a break and when he got back he gave his callsign and I reached over, keyed the mic and threw out my call.
Bingo!
$hithouse luck...or patience. Same difference.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Garage door openers have sure gotten a lot more sophisticated.
The old one used to have a keypad and a couple remotes and that was about it.
The one I just had installed has a camera and WiFi that turns my phone into a remote whereby I can open the door from anywhere that has cell service which is practically anywhere.
I can't figure out any reason I would want to open my garage door from Phoenix or Florida but I can.
There's also a camera installed that supposedly works when the door is open.
I did download the opener into my phone because I figure that when it's rainy or wet I could have it open when I'm about a half of a block away and the crummy weather is coming on.
And that is all I have to say about that.
Got it? Nobody is going to come and save you. You're on your own.
Friday, October 13, 2023
Someone asked me what I did with the plywood I used to cover my garage door opening
and was disappointed to find out that I let the garage door people haul it off.
He said I should have saved it and used it to make a sign to be put in front of some construction project in the next township.
COMING SOON
Black Orchid Gentleman's club
Girl! Girls! Girls!
24/7
Interesting point and I know the reason he suggested putting it in the next township over. It was because a couple of years ago the township refused to let a dog grooming shop open because they were afraid of the noise of dogs barking.
If he did that (I'm sitting this one out) it would be entertaining to watch the screaming and carrying on that it would entail.
It would be a shame if someone sat down and thought for a second or two and remembered that the likelihood of the township opening a strip club in the township limits was pretty slim after they refused to allow a dog groomer to open.
Or worse yet, if someone called the township and asked what was going on.
Then again if they did ask a reliable source they would not be able to piss and moan about a non event and make fools of themselves.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
In the famous words of Moses...
Stop installing games on my tablet.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
I worked an Iraqi station last night.
Which was an ATNO (All Time New One) for me.
Before bed I got a call from an old shipmate and mentioned it to him and he asked me if I would send for a QSL card if the station had been Iranian in light of current events.
The answer is yes.
Ham radio to me gets me away from the political and racial bull$hit in life and the person at the other end is not a friend nor an enemy but just another ham.
Ham radio was shut down by the government during WW2 so this is moot but had I worked a German, Japanese or Italian station in, say, 1943 I likely would not have mailed them a QSL card but I certainly would have had one filled out, stamped and waiting to mailed the day after the surrender was signed.
Hell, I bet that Iraqi has any number of Israeli stations in his log and probably some other worldwide Jews in it also.
The rig is where I go to get away from much of life's grief and discontentment.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Another day in the life.
I'm gonna hit the market and then do a little work on the upstairs bathroom today.
Parts are due in later today for the garage. I have to heat tape the water inlet and I am going to try and figure out how to rig a garage door opening warning.
The old garage door had a funky chain drive that chugged itself open or closed. I could hear it open or close.
The new one had belt drive and is too damned quiet. I want to rig up some sort of chime or something that will let me know someone is opening it.
What I DON'T want is some sort of annoyance that will stay on a long time. A quick chime will work.
Actually a shot from a klaxon would be ideal.
The alarm is due in this afternoon and the heat tape is due in a couple of days. The heat tape project won't take me a long time but I bet the sensor I ordered is going too require some tinkering.
We'll see.
Monday, October 9, 2023
Not again. Another outrage.
Just because someone died that doesn't make you Darth Vader.
I was in a parking lot going into the market for a loaf of day old bread to serve a friend along with a Rochester Garbage plate.
A glance in the mirror showed 2 cars on my 6 in the lot AND my text alert went off expectedly and I wanted to give a quick yes or no one word answer.
A quick glance showed me there were 4-count 'em-4 empty pregnant woman parking spaces in front of me. While it is against the law to take a handicapped space the rest of them, veterans, pregnant women, employee of the month and so on have no real legal status. They are simply courtesies made by the store owners.
I dove into one, grabbed my phone and let the other two drivers pass me by. I had barely stopped when I saw some busybody walking past wave at me and point to the sign. I rolled down the window.
"I'm waiting for my 8 month pregnant wife," I said.
"Really? You look a little old," he said.
"I widowed a while back and remarried. I married a woman of child bearing age. I'm going to be a 72 year old first time father."
He looked shocked. "Really? At 72?"
"Absolutely, I said.
"Wow. A father at 72. That sounds kind of irresponsible." he said, again none of his business.
"I should be OK. I've got my mother genes and she made it to 98 and if I pass too early we're financially secure. The child will probably keep me young."
He looked at me thoughtfully and said nothing. I had him just where I wanted him. He was out in the open and preoccupied. Time for the kill shot.
"I'm hoping she gets her driver's license later this week so I don't have to drive her around anymore." I said, innocently.
The horrified look I got back was balm to my soul, music to my ears and gladdened my heart.
Years ago I thought God hated me because he made me have to deal with stupid people and busybodies. About 10 years ago I realized that God loved me because by sending me stupid people and busybodies he had given me an endless source of entertainment. I wish I had realized that a lot earlier.
I answered my text, pulled out and drove off leaving the parking spaces as I had found them. All four were still empty.
The place was too crowded so I didn't bother finding a parking space and get my loaf of day old bread.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
A tankard is 16 ounces.
A flagon is a little more than two tankards.
I always wondered about that until I decided to look it up.
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I see that Israel is going at it with Hamas and the Arabic nations are getting wound up.
Someone said Israel should take 200 yards of Gaza for every Israeli that gets killed and flatten everything in it and turn it into grazing land for their animals.
Interesting take on it. Makes sense to me.
Wonder where things are headed now that we enter cold and flu season
I'm seeing a small increase in masks being worn by the usual suspects.
I just ignore them and hope to hell it doesn't catch on because I have no intention of playing that silly little game again.
I'm with George Carlin on this one.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Don't know what I'm going to do today....yes I do.
Weather looks pretty good and it would be a good day to trim put the garage door with trim flashing. It's maintenance free.
I checked everything yesterday and it looks like they did a damned good job of keeping everything straight so I see no major problems.
They also tacked the weather stripping in such a way I'll be able to slip the flashing under it and set the nails myself.
As soon as the sun rises it's off to Homeless Depot to rent a brake.
I had one but it burned up in the fire.
While I have the brake there's a couple of other projects I can take care of, also so it'll be a pretty busy day.
Friday, October 6, 2023
Basilone. Part 2
The garage door looks great.
Anyway, after his army hitch he tried a few things as a civvie and it seemed nothing fit. About a year before Pearl Harbor he joined the Marine Corps and took off like a shot. He dedicated himself to the Corps apparently and did well.
Funny in a way but I gathered he was one of those people that found himself a niche for himself in the Marines.
He was a man of his times.
I'll finish the book and see if I've called this one based on what I have already read.
I'm not going to get into the details of his MOH stand at Guadalcanal as there have been countless volumes written on it.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Another book came in that I bought on a whim.
I finished 'Taken Captive' and now as I put it down the mailman delivered me 'I'm staying with my boys which is the John Basilone story. It's supposedly one the books Speilberg used to base 'The Pacific' on.
I'm early into it and already I'm beginning to wonder if Basilone's legacy was saved by him getting killed on Iwo Jima.
He did an enlistment in the Army before he joined the Corps and between the two he seemed like he was floating with no real purpose. He also seemed to be less than enamored with his army hitch which made sense because between wars the army had no real money and conditions for GIs sucked.
That's where he picked up the moniker 'Manila John'. Actually it was kind of a boxer's handle that stuck with him. He loathed being in an outfit that had standing orders to head for the hills if the Japanese attacked which was pretty much the pre Pearl Harbor case in the Philippines.
The Army in the 20s and 30s was a last ditch home for a lot of people during the depression. It was a place of 3 hots and a cot coupled with a bad time and a lot of 'make work' to keep the troops busy instead of training them because they had no money to train them. It was a crummy existence.
Anyway more later because the people installing my new and improved garage door just showed up.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
I'm on another reading kick
I'm trying to find accounts of Japanese prisoners of war that were held in the Untied States.
I'm finishing up 'Taken Captive' by a Japanese soldier that was held in the Philippines for the last year of the war but I want to find accounts of people held stateside.
It should be noted that the Japanese prisoner that wrote 'Taken Captive' said that he lived better than either in the army or would have had he been in Japan during the war.
He mentioned his unit in the Philippines fed him a piece of pork weekly and he had meat at least daily while in captivity.
I just want to read a couple accounts of stateside POWs.
There are enough German accounts and the cultural difference between Germans and Americans isn't very much, looking at the big picture. Even so the Germans were stunned with what they found in the States as far as wealth went. I can only imagine how the Japanese felt when they discovered what it was like in the States.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
When you are on the air with a station just outside of London
ask the operator what day they have to move the rocks at Stonehenge 30 degrees back to UTC from Daylight time.
It confuses some of them.
Monday, October 2, 2023
Got it. destroyed it.
Every now and then when you buy underwear you run into a pair of skids that was cut wrong or something. When you wear it your junk wiggles out the fly and a few times a day you have to wait until nobody's looking and fix your shorts.
It's a nuisance and the only way to stop it from happening is to simply get rid of that pair.
For a lot of people it's not really a headache. When they find it they wait until they shower simply and throw it away.
My problem is that when I shower I go into auto pilot and simply stuff my worn skids into the hamper without a thought. IE rinse, repeat.
Anyway yesterday I declared war on them and instead of trying to remember I simply stopped what I was doing yesterday when I discovered I was wearing that particular pair and changed them and destroyed the offender.
The scissors were handy so when I had it I cut it up before I threw it out to insure that there's no mistake and no rescue attempt made to save them.
Years ago I pitched a pair into the kitchen wastebasket. My wife spotted them, pulled them out, examined them and they looked OK to her so she threw them into the hamper. It did turn into an argument about her trying to save me from myself.
Cutting them up is a smart thing to do as it insures they will not be a part of a rescue effort.
Yeah, finding that pair and junking it is a small thing but sometimes small things can be big annoyances.
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Update. My breakfast was well received yesterday.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Looks like we're going to have another go-round of vaccine.
No thanks.
I think I'll sit this one out.
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There is a small folding steep stool in the kitchen and I am looking at it right now.
Someone asked me why I had it and I pointed out that I am not the tallest person in the world. For example I have a hard time reaching into the cabinet over the refrigerator.
It's one of those things like a pistol or a fire extinguisher.
I don't need one often but it's certainly nice to have when/if the need arises.
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