Macabre Hammer

An article I thoroughly enjoyed, it brought back the interactions of all the times I visited family there. And the social undercurrent certainly reinforces why I do not handle sulking or "the silent treatment" well. Even though I'm not from there. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

When it happens in Israel it isn't sexual violence. The UN leadership doesn't have a problem with it. I encourage my friends on the "it wasn't as bad as they said" camp (which places you firmly in the Holocaust Denial Camp too) to read this. What are you afraid of? www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

More people should read "The Adolescence of P-1." To my mind and excellent, and in the end whimsical, study of an AI gone rogue.

Tomorrow is the first Sunday in months I don't have to be at the office. A bit of cleaning, a bit of cooking, an hour or two at the range (prob. time to renew membership), pulling most of my tax paperwork together. Should be easier than usual as markets have sucked this year.

My day today: 90 minutes to an hour aikido class. (Stopped at Kiddo's SLA home to renew her phone $.) 90 minutes home. 10 to Pik-A-Part. 20 to find a junked Camry, pry up the lid, pull the right rear light assembly. 15 home (after paying $33.) 25 to replace. Relaxo time. (They're $50 on eBay)

I got cousins in Israel. The branch of the family predates '48. Four generations now. Right wing extremists: I'm evil for not wanting them to be murdered. Left wing extremists: I'm evil for not wanting them to be murdered. The two wings of a stinking, feces smeared harpy.

Googledebunkers: Milo Rossi will in fact be doing his tour out west too, Dates will soon follow.

If all international embassies had a restaurant alongside, would there be less war in the world?

Dr. Sledge is awesome. I've got an 8hr road trip in about 3 weeks, and will inflict his studies on a daughter and possibly adopted niece (I have a lot of those as my crazy Aunt rep grows.)

I think if I ever date again the one test question I would ask: "Did you want to cry at the end of the Futurama 'Jurassic Bark' episode?" A "no, should I have?" answer is a flat disqualification.

Friends in the Smoke Zone: I lived through the CA 2020 fire season downwind in NV, AQI's in the 300-500 range. I have asthma. Get a cheap box fan for each room, and smoke rated furnace filters. Tape filters to back of fans. Run on high. (Only in the windows if you don't have AC) It helps a LOT.

Thank goodness for openlibrary.org giving me not only a title I never read, but a quote I need in the next couple weeks. Shifted from a clear fluid fast to mostly carnivore; I used to do this on the farm when knee or back parts hurt. Work has challenges. Training & AQI are challenging the physical.

Angry radicals and reactionaries, people raised without civics in education, all living in American Freedom are akin to fish in water. Like taking a fish out of the water, they won't notice it until it's gone.

Good morning! Paul the Arizona Blond Tarantula has returned to our driveway. I hope I can find a Palo Verde beetle to give her as a gift.

Tomorrow is June 4th. Time to share this as I do every year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2BX... "100 tanks along the square One man stands and stops them there. Someday soon the tide will turn and I'll be free..."

There's a side effect of the antibiotic Cefdinir that isn't on the insert list. Flatulence. Fortunately today is the last. Asthma seems to have tapered off, 5 day Steroid pack didn't turn me into a raving bitch. Got a new in box nebulizer cheap off local marketplace, goo supply scrip if needed.

This year at Mohave Pride, the interest in @pinkpistols.bsky.social and Operation Blazing Sword was through the roof. Had to print more pamphlets Sunday morning. Mitch, my FFL, gave me a bunch of additional stuff & stickers for the display. Might be sucked into starting a PP chapter in Kingman.

I meditate on the holiday on Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. Mom and Dad met in a DP Camp in Berlin in 1945. No exaggeration to say if not for the US Army I wouldn't exist on this planet. Mom liberated from Dachau. Dad from Auschwitz. Most Badass parents ever.

Just getting to the bench for the first time in months was a thing Cut and replaced lost stone in coworker's cross. It's not valuable per se but it was a gift. I made sure to notch the back of the stone so the glue holds it in place. Pendant: stabilized mammoth ivory and turquoise in sterling.

My answer: find a Daiso in your area. Go buy the Japanese export of Nacho Cheese Doritos. 10 item ingredient list, natural source of coloring, good flavor (but less spicy than I remember from 50 years ago) and cheaper.

Mohave Pride weekend after next. My first market in MONTHS. Last time I tabled a market, Silver was in the 20's. Currently in the 80's.

Yoga 9am. Aikido 11am. Should I do my 100 20lb kbell swings tonight? Probably should. Ok, I'm// have my last can of Wicked Grove Hard Cider (half a can most likely) after.

"What is depreciation?" "It's the value a thing loses over time." "Right. So here you use a journal entry to add the depreciation of the 2025 assets. The total." "ALL OF IT?" "That's right." "But..." I'm trying to grasp this. "That's not math." "It's not math. It's tax law."

Tuesday night, crazy fun at Henderson Aikido, Star Wars themed boken class with cheesy light sabers with sound effects. Last night, 150 swings with a 20 lb kettlebell before bed. (First time I hit 150!) Tonight is Thursday Disco Night class at CGBJJ. Never grow up. :)

1972 was the year that shaped the wire frame of my soul. All that came after was layers of wax filling in the gaps of my final form. Eventually I was cast, to what I am today in bronze, rage and joy.

Good morning! About balance sheets: In the midst of my attack of math anxiety yesterday Boss had me basically take one apart, add it back together. Balance sheets take net income, the value of what you own, what you put in, what you owe on, how much you took out, make assets & liabilities equal.

Final Diagnosis A. Breast, right posterior outer calcifications, stereotactic core biopsies: a. Senescent fibroadenoma with dystrophic calcifications. b. Nonproliferative fibrocystic change. c. No evidence of malignancy.

It's Crazy Time Saturday. Yoga in Kingman, followed by Aikido in Henderson. Then stopping at a burger joint for a treat for my brother's dog Harley, goodbye to her on Monday. She's a shepherd-dane, would play tug of war even with a potato (here w/fur&legs) and has bone cancer into her lungs.

Performative religious ritual is stupid. I put chrain on my Gefilte Fish because I like it, not because of anything the Talmud says.

Honk. youtu.be/u08E7c-FRbU?...

Mom had a gift of foreknowledge. Yes, she did try to leave Poland and move to British Mandate with her fiance but her dad refused to bless her leaving. Yesterday while walking to the office mailbox, I had this crispy sense on my skin, and heard Mom's voice: "'sgeit zahn a milchumeh." Whelp.

IYKYK

"Chosen" doesn't mean you're somehow better. It means you're the class nerd and the teacher expects you to help the bullies with their homework. Then you start taking self defense classes and everyone gets annoyed because you won't take being bullied anymore.

Yep. Took abt 22 minutes. Someone on X blamed the current excitement in Mexico on t3h j00z.