Another little step toward the Slammers

He's absolutely right:

Which means the laser weapon the Israelis just put in service, and the stuff we're(and lots of others)working on, became a lot more affordable, and needed.  All we need now is a powergun to simplify the fueling of such a weapon.  

And that will change lots of things.

Not the best way to lose weight

Under the heading of 'had I but  known', one of the first two things saying "Hey, guy, you've got a problem here" was when I started throwing up.  As in everything.  Including 'take a drink of water, ten seconds later you're sticking your head in the trash can(it's got a bag and it's closer than the toilet)', over and over, including the first couple of days in the hospital, by which time the anti-nausea meds took effect.

Seriously, worst throwing up I've ever been through.  I lost right at ten pounds, which I have not regained.  I promise, that's not how you want to lose weight.  And I think my stomach shrunk some through all this, so it may work out to be a long-term loss.

My problem at  first was that allergies, which for most of my life didn't much bother me, the last few years have been a lot worse at times.  And I asked a couple of people who've had long-term bad allergy trouble if theirs ever affected them this way, headache and some upchucking, and they said 'Yes', so that's what I thought it was.  Boy, was I wrong.  And I really waited longer than I should before talking to medical people*.  I'll try not to make that mistake again.

*Dad and Mom have both been really bad about that; I think it's part of what  killed Dad.

Wirecutter put this up, and it deserves

to be spread around

Two very talented and skilled people, downright incredible

They know at least one of the people playing games with the autopen

In a jaw-dropping revelation that should shake every American to their core, former Biden advisor Neera Tanden has admitted under oath that she — not Joe Biden — was in control of the president’s autopen for nearly two years.

A top White House aide, utterly unelected and unknown to most of the country, had the authority to affix the President’s signature to official documents, including sweeping executive orders and controversial pardons, all while the nation was led to believe these were the deliberate actions of the commander-in-chief himself.

“As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she testified. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."

Note that the statement said to come from Biden to excuse this was
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” a statement attributed to Joe Biden claimed earlier this month in response to the congressional investigation, and dismissing the investigation as a distraction by Trump and Republicans.
'Attributed to' does not mean "He said it to a reporter".  So did he actually, or not?

Well, that's encouraging

some talking with a friend who's a nurse.  She said I should figure on it taking a week of time for every day I spent in the hospital to get to full recovery.  So about another five weeks.  Yuck.

So, to distract myself from that, I provide you with this stuff today.  Some are a bit old:

I'm assuming that's Minnie's seat

Later, folks

Yes, I'm trying to get back to more blogging

Trouble is between recovery and regular stuff I'm supposed to be careful about, and some family stuff that can just eat time...  It's hard to get much done here.

Throw in seeing a doc who has nothing to do with the recent excitement and hearing "What happened?  What problems are you having?  Wow, you're really lucky, I knew some people who had that happen and-" followed by various amounts of nastiness they're sometimes still fighting with.  Yeah, some fun thoughts to carry around.

Right  now I need to get some grocery shopping done, which I'd hoped to do yesterday but wound up with the whole day tied up.  And since eating is a bit more important than yelling about stuff, see you later.

Possible followup to Iran exiting the nuke club:

"We may find out how many sleeper agents snuck into the US under Biden & Co."

And, if you're counting on the EffingBI catching them, I think you're putting too much trust in those clowns.  Yes, there are some honest, dedicated agents there; there are also scads of politicized asshats, and if you trust them at all you're a fool.

So if you sometimes carry, this would be a good time to.  Just in case.

And, as the Bee reminds us of that 'boot in your ass' saying,