Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Texas Rangers - 2023 World Series Champions



The Texas Rangers just won their first World Series in franchise history 4 games to 1 over the Arizona Diamondbacks.






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Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy, voted out.

The speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy, was voted out after a push led by Rep Matt Gaetz. No solid plans for the new speaker have been made public. Many names are being thrown around. My vote would be for Rep Marjory Green. A dream appointment would be General Michael Flynn.





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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Lori Lightfoot will vacate the Chicago mayor's office in 2023

The New York Times has just reported that the current mayor of Chicago, Illinois, Lori Lightfoot, has lost her reelection bid. Lightfoot, who has been criticized for her inability to put a stop to violent crime in Chicago, was only able to obtain 16.5% of the vote and failed to make it into the runoff for the office. Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas gained 35% of the vote and Brandon Johnson was able to snag 20%. Both Vallas and Johnson will face each other in a run-off on April 4th. 




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Thursday, February 23, 2023

7.8 magnitude earthquake devastates Turkey and Syria.

On Feb 4, 2023, earthquakes (magnitude 7.8) devastated parts of Turkey and Syria. To date, over 47,000 people have died due to the destruction caused by the quakes. The earthquake is reported to have had a magnitude of 7.8. There was no main epicenter for this disaster. Instead, there were multiple epicenters leaving long stretching cracks/canyons in the earth. There are those who say HAARP technology could have been involved in causing the quakes 







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Sunday, January 10, 2021

January 6, 2021



Last Wednesday was quite the day. Several weeks ago, President Trump threw out the call to attend a protest in person at the Capitol building in Washington D.C.

The day came... and it did not go easily. By the end of the day some of the crowd had gained entry to the Capitol building. Protester Ashli Babbit would be shot dead inside the building at close range by Capitol police. Another protestor, Victoria White, was beaten to death by Capitol Police.

The MSM would place 100% of the blame for everything squarely on the shoulders of President Trump in the days that followed. Twitter deleted his account, Facebook followed suit soon after. The social media website 'Parler' would have its app removed from the Google Play app store. Apple would do the same within a day. Facebook canceled The President's account citing the safety of the American people or something like that.

Nancy Pelosi says she is furiously preparing another impeachment first thing Monday morning, followed by invoking the 25th Amendment. Her goal is to have The President removed and not be allowed to run for public office ever again. 

The President addressed the nation promising there will be a peaceful transition of power on Jan 20th. He also let it be known that he will not be attending the inauguration.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Work from home - EXTENDED...

It's 8PM Tuesday night. I just logged in to work to finish up an acceptance criteria' document for the tester that will be testing my latest code change. I want to finish it up tonight so I can get it to her first thing tomorrow as I want to take the day off, or at least work till around 9AM when I hand over the team on-call duties to the next person.

Looking in my inbox there was an email from our CEO. They are extending our mandatory work from home (WFH) policy through May 31. May 31 is a Sunday with the next day being Monday June 1, 2020. If in fact we do go back into the office that Monday we will all have WFH for 11 weeks.



It does take some getting used to. I usually start work pretty early (like 5 or 5:30 AM to 6AM) and knock off around 3PM. My wife is a public school teacher and at the start of all this she was up pretty early as well, not as early as me though. As the weeks went on she discovered none of her students signed on till... "later on" (Kung Fu Panda quote). So, she started sleeping in a bit later and starting around 9 - 10 AM. This gave me several hours of quiet time which is nice.

So now we are into a pretty smooth groove. We both are stopping around Noon to have lunch together. It's really nice to eat with someone and be eating cooked food. I will say though... I am missing a 'very ocaisional' double cheeseburger from BK, parked next to a very well-shaded park listening to a podcast and doing a word-find puzzle #CreatureComfort. Life is long and we'll all be back into our old routines soon right?!

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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Cast iron pan surfacing

Call is quarantine boredom if you want. I've actually been wanting to smooth-out this pan for a long time. I have a set of wrenches for my right angle grinders but I'm missing ONE OF THEM! Guess which one... THE ONE I NEED! Anyway, I just got an adjustable wrench for my grinder to take off the worn out grinding wheel to put on this 80 grit flap-disc. So on with the project. I smoothed out a cast iron pan a few years ago with a paint stripping wheel that chucks up on a corded drill. It turned out great! I got this 10" pan about a year ago and have used it now and then for this and that but you don't really get the non-stick benefit till it is smooth on the inside. Well, now it is! If you don't have cast iron pans I suggest you get one or two. They're cheap and last forever. Smoothing one out does take some work, this took me about 45 minutes today but now it's done, now it's time to cook and eat my piggies!











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