Irons in the Fire

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Saturday, January 01, 2022

Well, it's dry

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but a lot colder.  Not going out if I don't have to.  I'd suggest you do the same and have a look ...
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I have no idea where this idiocy took place,

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but the 'instructor' needs a major readjustment
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It's wet, and cold, and probably some patches of ice on the roads later,

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which means Security Staff would be happy to spend an hour or so roaming around sniffing and peeing on things.  He was not real happy about ...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Well, it's raining, and there's a front coming in,

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and I was too tired to bake cookies(dammit), so instead I labored at gathering something to distract from the general suckiness out there*

In which that lying bastard admits what a lot of people were pointing out, oh, more than a year ago?

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“But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as oppose...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Speaking of the medical/public health profession,

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"Why won't you people follow the Science and do what you're told?" Because you bastards lie.  Repeatedly. And so we have n...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

I get really tired of the medical profession...

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"We have to reschedule the call you were supposed to get tomorrow because we're short of staff because of the Wuhan," How abou...
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As to our effing Professional Journalists whining that people don't listen to the news,

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But, man, did the media oversell the vaccine. In a March 29 broadcast, Rachel Maddow said, "Now we know that the vaccines work well e...

Absolutely true

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Back in July of 2020, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he was banning all large gatherings in New York City e...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Lot of response to the tumbler test,

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thought I'd expand in another post. My old vibratory tumbler still gets a lot of use.  I like to use it to give the brass a first cleani...
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A rotary tumbler test

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This is one I put together a long time ago and lost track of.  Couple of updates added. I've been using a vibratory tumbler to clean bra...
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Losing faith

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This is that semi-uberpost(for me at least) I mentioned a while back.*   I've mentioned before that Dad spent a long time- 32 years to b...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

It should be noted the current NY governor

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is just as big an asshole as the previous.  So are a lot of the other clowns in their legislature . The remarkable part of this story is Pe...
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Common problem: "I thought everybody knew that"

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And I do fall to it at times.  Widener's blog has a lot of articles on basic 'here's what this is', one that just came out i...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

One last thing, about a doctor

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I hadn't heard anything from the cardiologist about that day of tests, and was figuring on calling them Monday.  Then, on the 23rd, I fo...
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Ok, I've got some loads to test again, and one to refine, and

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brass and all.  Now I've just got to get some other things taken care of, and enough sleep so that when I'm done with those I'm ...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

I will admit that there was something I somewhat considered buying for myself,

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but I don't actually want is that badly, and if there's anything I really do NOT have a need for(barring running into gargoyles) it...

And as the last 'For the season',

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And then to bed, because this holiday has been stressful

Always a welcome part of the season

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That's some interesting engineering

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