Snow Blowers
I’ve moved away from having any 2-Stroke gas-oil mixtures in gas cans. I don’t use enough of it. I purchase it in one gallon tins. This means there is never a question as to the right gas can to use to feed a motor.
We have a few gas cans around. Unfortunately, the one with gas for the mower and snow blower lost its spout cap.
This means that dirt got into the spout. When we filled the mower and snow blower, the dirt got into the machines, which required a carburetor cleaning.
They also replaced a cable and such. In their nice warm workshop. Then the blower got wet. Water got into the cable housing. The temperature drops. Water in cable housing freezes.
Now I have a running blower, but I can’t engage the augers.
Thank goodness for propane torches. It only took a few moments to get it defrosted enough to move. I’ve poured oil into the cable housing in hopes of displacing the water. I’ll find out later.
Wicks Burn Too
The last time I went to use the kerosene heater, it wouldn’t work. I need to replace the wick. If you run the heater until it is out of fuel, it consumes almost no wick. But if you extinguish it by dropping the wick, it will smolder and consume the end of the wick.
I have spare wicks, but it is a messy, smelly task to replace. Fun for tomorrow.
Unelected
It is astonishing to me to hear Democrats screaming that Elon is unelected. Yes, he is unelected. And he is doing this president’s bidding.
Just like your unelected bureaucrats do your bidding.
He might not be on the government payroll, but he has just as much right to do the bidding of the President as any other unelected bureaucrat.
He’s looking at classified data!
So what? If that data is classified, then the people who are looking at it have the proper clearances and the need to know.
Tough.
The issues they keep raising, “we don’t know what he’s doing!”, and “He’s going to use YOUR sensitive data!” are non-starters.
Look, this guy is the wealthiest person in the world. If he were to “steal” every penny I have, it wouldn’t make a noticeable change in his wealth.
I trust him a hell of a lot more than I trust an unelected bureaucrat.
Clocks
You can’t make a stratum 1 NTP server for less than $75. The board, the GPS, the antenna, the case, and the power supply all add up.
I believe I can make and sell a clock for around $150.
Reporting On Trump
It really isn’t going to happen here. Something happens at noon. I write about it at 2100. It is published at 0630 the next day.
And there is an entirely new thing Trump has done.
SCOTUS Watch
The Court is still doing work. They are still issuing orders. An interesting set of Orders came out Thursday night.
The Acting Solicitor General (Trump person) asked for the briefing schedule in some cases to be held in abeyance. In all five cases, the Court said, “No.” This means the cases will proceed as originally scheduled.
We still have not heard anything on Snope or Ocean State Tactical.
I expect to have the cases denied with one or more statements. The other possibility is that the Court might decide to issue an opinion without briefings or oral arguments.
They do this when they GVR a case. Normally, they tell the inferior court to do the case over in light of some recent opinion.
What if, and this is just hopeful wishing, the Court decides they don’t need to hear the cases? What if they feel they can write an order?
We know that the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated. The two cases got here by the inferior courts twisting words to say that “assault weapons” and “magazines” are not arms under the protection of the Second Amendment.
The Court has the power to vacate the inferior opinions and order a new opinion.
We live in interesting times.
Question of the week
If you could afford it, would you book a state in Trump Tower, Gaza?
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