And yet more,

I need to clean this stuff out more often

I need to get rid of more stuff, so

there may be some repeats from the past

This morning reminds me that it's a good thing (additional stuff)

I was able to retire.  Because if I had to make an 8-hour five days a week job* I just might die.  Or wish I would.

Seriously.  The front that came through yesterday was bad.  Lately, when I first get up the knees are pretty good, start troubling after being up and around some; this morning they ached just getting up.  The idea of putting on the work attire and heading out... no, thank you.  Part-time is about all I can do.  Oh, I could do full-time if I had to, but it would suck.

Added:

I'm very aware that, not that far back in history, I'd have died at about 30 when my appendix suddenly decided it wanted out.  For that matter, an infection last year came closer than is comfortable to punching my ticket.  Raising hell about bad medical advice/methods is necessary, so is acknowledging really striking advances.  Until antibiotics people commonly died from that infection, and others.**  Nobody dies of tetanus now unless they, for some reason, cannot or will not get the vaccine(one that actually works).  Other things like that.  My bitching about all the pills I'm currently taking doesn't change the fact that I'd be far worse crippled without some of it.  Not to mention being able to see thanks to some of those methods and techniques.

Speaking of advances, I'd asked the eye surgeon what they used for scalpels; most of what he uses is diamond, which can be polished to incredible sharpness and smoothness.

Thus ends the addition.

 It's supposed to warm a bit the next few days, more around normal average, and maybe I can get some yard stuff done.  Which would be nice, both to be outside in the sun and clean the leaves and such up a bit.  Hopefully.

This concludes todays bitching session.

*That's not counting the days at the old profession when something happened and had to get in early or stay late.  Also not including the "I need to take a while now to do the PT stuff."

** A while after the infection episode a guy at work asked why I'd been gone, I told him about it.  When I named the bacteria, he actually paled a bit and said "That's what killed my uncle!"  Even with antibiotics, if it's not caught in time, or you happen to be a bit more  vulnerable to it...

Sounds like a real long-range thing

Which I could not afford to feed.  But still interesting.
It’s usually loaded with a hand-crafted low-drag 1,690 grain solid copper bullet, which it fires at roughly 3,350 fps. The projectile itself is roughly 4 inches long, with driving bands and an aggressive rebated boat tail to reduce base drag.

The sectional density is around 0.70, which is an astoundingly high measure of the mass-to-diameter ratio. It’s very heavy for it’s caliber, nearly a quarter pound.

The ballistic coefficient is about 1.85, which is an astoundingly high measure of how aerodynamic the bullet is during flight.

More on the Twitter Files,

and a link to Taibbi's stuff over at Powerline

Plus another bit of interesting at another post:

Biden Administration officials asked Twitter to ban me because of my tweets questioning the Covid vaccines, even as company employees believed I had followed Twitter’s rules, internal Twitter communications reveal.

Part of the weirdness related to weather, I guess

The left knee has been aching/hurting worse than the right.  Since the right had the surgery in October, that just doesn't seem right.

I'm not sure whether to sit here going "Hurry up Spring!" for warmer temps, or dread it for the dueling weather fronts.

Added: the bit of warmup from the polar surge had started, and today we have a new cold front, which seems to be the cause.  Oh yes, I want spring, even if it brings tornado season.

And, just because something with an ending line like this has to be shared,

That show 'Forged in Fire'? Something I've wondered about

 Lots of shots of blades being quenched, but nothing on tempering.  No chance for dramatic video, or they don't want to bother?

To you folks who actually pay attention to my rants and "Look what I did!" stuff,

Merry Christmas to you all, and to yours.

And if you're reading this today, and you have people to be with, stop reading and be with them.

And, for the season, a little extra fa--la-la

for this evening

The worst of the cold is past here, but still not an evening I want to be out in

So let us get to this seventh eve stuff

Ok, tryout of the Berry's bullets

I tried a few the other day, but had a lousy rest(that's my story) so I loaded some more last night and tried them today.  Did have a better rest, somewhat troubled by having a damn cold draft on the back of my neck.  That being out of the way, indoors range at 30 yards.

the 200-grain Berry's plated bullet, 11.9 grains H4198, ten rounds.  

I'm happy to say the one to the right was called as off.

Second load,

Powder was 11.7 grains CFEBLK, five rounds.  Using the first stadia line below the center dot put it on at this range.

I'm happy with these.  Looks like those will work well as a general practice subsonic loads.

Just how stupid are a lot of 'renewable energy' types?

"Let's cut down trees and turn them into pellets to burn instead of using coal! Because we can grow more trees, and pay other countries to cut down THEIR trees and sell them to us!"
On December 15, Australia became the first major economy worldwide to reverse itself on its renewable classification for woody biomass burned to make energy. Under the nation’s new policy, wood harvested from native forests and burned to produce energy cannot be classified as a renewable energy source.

That decision comes as the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and other forest nations continue gearing up to harvest their woodlands to make massive amounts of wood pellets, in order to supply biomass-fired power plants in the UK, EU, Japan, South Korea and elsewhere.
Yes, burning wood is SO much nicer than using that nasty natural gas, or oil, or icky nuclear plants to produce energy!

And why might the do such stupid things?  I suspect money.
Australia, by its decision, is taking a very different course than the European Union, where woody biomass — despite growing public opposition — remains defined as a renewable energy source, is heavily government subsidized as a result, and makes up 60% of the EU’s renewable energy mix...

But don't get too excited: they're still fixed on the 'zero emissions' idea while having fits at the idea of nuclear, so I suspect this idiocy is just being replaced by other enviroweenie idiocy.