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A fantasy

This morning's news about two more GOP senators' announced opoosition to the Trump-dont-care bill was such good news that I should be content. And I am, but I remain pissed that the Reoublicans should have made it a close thing!

And a nasty fantasy formed in my otherwise-charitable mind: it is such BAD news for Trumpsky and for his minion Senate Majority (gack!) Leader Mitch McConnell. One might imagine both of them promptly dying of richly deserved heart attacks!

Mind you, I am not wishing it upon them. No, actually, I think it's GOOD for them both to hang around a while, seeing the collapse of their unconscionable efforts to screw their fellow human beings.

Let it be known (this is about you, Rand Paul!) that true conservatism would not delight in denying health care to "the [Biblical] least of them" -- as I read on a hand-lettered sign at an anti-Trump demonstration yesterday. That is just mean-spirited selfishness: "I've got MINE -- so the poor bastards can go fuck themselves!"

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Posted by Jean Marie Ward on 15 Jul 2017, 17:44

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Monday's Work and Some Queen Anne's Lace

Got a lot more of the yard mowed Monday evening.
I also pulled up two or three bushel basket-loads of weeds from the strip flowerbed along the gravel lane and from around the row of mailboxes.
When I saw the QAL coming up in the grass behind the mailboxes, I just didn't have the heart to mow them down. I so wish I could get it to grow in my flowerbeds rather than out in my lawn.
They did leave me with a problem though: Other weeds came up with them! I spent the better part of thirty minutes right before dark last night pulling up some young Johnson grass and poke-weed from amongst the QAL so that my Hubby wouldn't be tempted to weed-eat everything right down to the ground.

When I finally got my evening's quota of mowing down, it was nearly ten o'clock but my chores weren't done yet. Hubby reminded me that I needed to go fill up Shadow Cat and all our empty gas cans because gas prices had begun jumping thirty cents a gallon this afternoon. Luckily for us, there's a nearby convenience store that is nearly always the last one in town to raise its gas prices. (I paid $2.09 a gallon rather than $2.39.) So now our truck and car as well as all our motorized garden tools are full of gas. What surprised me were all the people who were there filling up their cars and gas cans even that late at night.

After I got my gas, I went to the Subway and got myself a footlong steak and cheese sandwich--overstuffed with lots of veggies naturally--and there were a lot of people in there too. Seems like I'm one of a large crowd of people who wait to eat their suppers until AFTER the sun goes down.

Got home, sat down to watch a Netflix movie while I ate part of my sandwich. I managed to eat a third of it before I fell sound asleep.
Woke up at two am, loaded up the dishwasher, sat down to eat some more of my sandwich while I tried to watch something else on Netflix and I fell asleep again!

So that's my cure for insomnia: Eat a Subway sandwich while watching a Netflix movie. Works every time for me. Almost as good is one of those long-playing rain and thunder recordings on youtube.

My tweets

  • Mon, 12:20: It's a lovely day in London, so I'm writing a column while sat on the roof, surrounded by a flock of screeching swifts.
  • Mon, 12:40: A couple of German naval helicopters off down the river; guessing they were heading home after the RIAT.
  • Mon, 13:04: RT @Darmour_MSFT: For the #AzureStack admin, there are 18 infra roles in the new #DevKit. Check on their status in the admin portal. https:…
  • Mon, 14:13: Cross platform dev in Eclipse with C# support. https://t.co/uQVrbeT3zw
  • Mon, 14:20: RT @chbid: I've told this before, but when I suggested the idea to JNT he stared at me blankly and said: "Chris… the show's called *DOCTOR*…
  • Mon, 17:49: RT @maryjofoley: Reminder: MS is live streaming its Faculty Research summit starting 8:30 a.m. PT today. Lots of AI presentations: https://…
  • Mon, 18:13: Today's @bing image reminds me of Kathleen Ann Goonan's Nanotech Quartet, particularly the third volume, Crescent City Rhapsody.
  • Mon, 19:44: Back up on the roof as the day starts to cool off.
  • Mon, 22:07: Shepherd's Delight. https://t.co/Nl8XtaHur2 https://t.co/j00xo5d5TS
  • Mon, 23:52: RT @bilalfarooqui: Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself. We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal…
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“I wonder how this baby sounds”

“Ah. Like a mix between an electronic device on the fritz and what I imagine a baby raptor sounds like. Got it!”

I see, so it speaks fluent power drill.

The alarm seems to be going on your small furry device.

even after reading the comments I was not prepared

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Stuff, I has it

Somebody on Freecycle posted a couple of items the other day. I asked and got both.

Turned out they lived less than a mile away, and on the bus route that goes past here. When I headed out last evening I had to wait about 7 min for the bus. Got off about a block and a half from their place. I scooted in, got the two bag s of stuff and loaded in in my folding cart.

As I got to the street I could see the bus coming about six blocks away. I didn't make it to the stop but the driver had seen my alternate waving and running and pulled over to let me get on.

So that was about as short as a run could be.

What did I get? A grocery bag full of blank CD-Rs *in cases*. That'll come handy come Christmas.

I also got another grocery bag full of old software they'd cleaned of their shelves. Various old games a lot of home office stuff, and lots and lots of driver disks. Got several copies of some things. Like 7th Guest.

I'll paw thru them some more and eventually pass on the stuff I have no use for.

Gotta pay special attention with the driver disks. A lot of ones for vid cards have games to install to demo that graphics quality. So I'll be doing a lot of digging for those.

And tomorrow I need to head out to the computer parts place I've been using for years. They're going out of business, and I want to get a few things while they are in stock. A couple of PCI gigabit ethernet cards for a couple of boxes that don't have it built in, and an HDMI to DVI cable, so I can use one of the monitors with a DVI connector as a backup if the TV dies.

May also be meeting someone at Powell's later in the day. Haven't heard back from them yet.

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