Brad Enslen

Today’s quote:

Because when you make stuff, you improve yourself. And we need you in fighting shape. YOU MUST BE A WHETTED BLADE READY TO SLICE THROUGH SHENANIGANS, CHICANERY, AND GARBAGE.

– Chuck Wendig

Daily quote I should have posted last night but fell asleep:

Because creation is #resistance. Making things is additive. And in a subtractive time such as this, you must balance the void with its opposite. That is an act of defiance. And we need more defiance.

– Chuck Wendig

Good morning. Drinking my morning coffee and reading timelines. One of the electric kettles arrived last night so I put it into action this morning and it worked great. So all is well, the disruption to the morning coffee routine causes some stress but has now been healed.

I expect Trump to withdraw further from the public realm of rising protests and unrest. To retreat behind barriers, guards and yes men into a bubble divorced from the real world.

Today’s quote:

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.

– Bob Hope

I’d been reading discussions for a few weeks but I could not visualize it. Now Getting started with FeedLand makes it easy. This is worth exploring. I’m just getting started. Have fun.

These water kettles: the one that finally quit working was from 2017, so a good run. But I remember most water kettles were goose necked and stainless steel on Amazon back in 2017. Today far fewer are goose necked and most are black in color with some avocado green (yuck). Fashions change.

Trump is down in Florida on his golf course because he’s hiding.

Asian noodles with hot dogs in some kind of sauce for supper. No dessert, I just didn’t feel like it.

Today’s quote:

America is fallen. aмерика struggles to emerge. Now is the time of monsters.

– Blippy the Wonder Slug (on Mastodon.social)

Drat! My goose neck electric water kettle quit working after years of service. I’ve ordered a replacement which is about as close to the original as possible. I don’t want control buttons on the base, just heat the water to a designated temp and shut off for pour-over coffee and tea.

The quote I forgot to post last night:

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

– Benjamin Franklin

Got my first of two shingles vaccine shots. Second one after 60 days. Better get it now because Roadkill Robert is in charge now and who know what could happen.

Let’s be honest. You are always going to be the Coyote in life, never the Road Runner. Now wait right there for the anvil.

The exciting thing this week happened on Wednesday, when somebody spammed my guestbook here on Ramblinggit.com blog 5 times. Now the guestbook is remotely hosted so it’s not even on this domain so go figure. Bots don’t care, bots gonna do what bots do.

Daily quote:

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

– Benjamin Franklin

Dang when this particular blog goes down for a couple of hours, it’s like I feel like I need an emergency backup blog. But finding a blog host that has Comments is difficult. Bugs me.

Today’s quote:

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

– Benjamin Franklin

Are we there yet? Has Trump’s Liberation Day happened yet?

Test 2. Ignore

Testing publishing. Please ignore.

Trump has a couple of minions trying to calculate the cost of taking over Greenland.

He needs to also calculate the rest of his bucket list of follies:

1. Cost of taking over Canada.
2. Panama Canal costs.
3. Cost of war with China
4. Cost of tariffs
5. Cost of undoing Musk/DOGE screw ups.
6. Trade war with EU.
7. Costs because our NATO allies won’t buy US arms.

I like it when billionaires like Elon Musk, waste millions of their dollars and get zero in return.

Markdown is in the house. Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish

I knew it was popular with blogs, I didn’t know it was infiltrating word processor formats.