How do you know when you live in a big city?

Twenty some years ago I was working in Los Angeles, that when I noticed the rush hour sirens. Every afternoon about 3 PM the sirens started. At first I was like a moth to a flame running outside to see what was going on. My older brother ask, "What are you doing, it's only a siren." I could get over the amount of sirens every day. Living in Orange County I didn't hear the sirens like that every day. It wasn't until a few years later then I started to notice the sirens about 3 PM every day. It was slow in coming but it came as the county developed and more traffic.

Moving to the mountains and in a small town, I noticed the same thing, the 3 PM sirens. People coming from down the hill coming home a break neck speed rushing through traffic like it was some sort of race course. Every day there is the "they stopped and the others couldn't." Then there is the one car roll-over's or one car crashes. Going to fast for a turn, listening to the radio and changing the channel or talking on the phone and forgetting your on the road. I can't see how some one can be on the phone, driving and shift the transmission. Some how that doesn't make sense at all.

All in all, you know that the city is getting to big when you start hearing the 3 PM sirens.
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Quail are up side. They look so cool running around in pairs. Turkeys are on the fence picking feathers. I went down the road with the weed eater today. The birds love it. I can see them scratching through the cuttings.

I put some dried cherries on the porch today and the squirrels found them. There's only little scrapes left when I checked where I put them.

Well, time to kick back and take off my boots. I'm glad I took the time to clean up my old boots. If you take care of boots they can last a long time if you buy good boots. These are, my old good old climbing boots made by Lowa in Germany. I haven't seen any boots like this in any stores these days. I paid $225 dollars in 1972. I wonder how much they would cost today. Funny thing, these are 5 pounds each and these aren't my heavy boot. The other boot, my High elevation boots are two boots in one. You put on the first boot which you can use to walk around camp and stuff. Then you put on the other boot over the top. Lowa made a pair like that to go to the top of K2 and Everest. These are Swiss made for there Army. How about that, Swiss Army Boots.

Evening time to fade away

Nice sight, four quail feeding until dark. I was rather supprised to see them out so late. That must mean they live or are staying real close tonight. I didn't hear them fly away so I guess they walked home.

Rather productive day, even if I was limping around. I know I did well today, my body hurts, just a little more then normal. Still need to clip that screw off one of the squirrels houses. At least I got the ladders there to use tomorrow. Antenna is finally finished and working good. Still might try putting an amp right at the antenna but might have to pad it at the house. For living in the forest with the trees blocking the signal, its working rather well. I can get the San Francisco stations now, no great but I can get them.

Squirrels went crazy today. They got under the house and were fighting down there. At first I thought it was the Bobcat chewing one of the little guys. It turned out a young male wanted to mate and wasn't taking no for an answer. I think there was two males fight for this one female but not sure. I did see this one squirrel running down the road to it's nest but not before I noticed that it's eyes looked chewed out. It might look worse then it really is because there was a lot of dirt on it's face. I know the oak tree that the little guy lives in so I'll check on him tomorrow. Since my first year here when I noticed the minor patterns that they have in their faces, now I can tell which family groups they are from a far.

Had a visit from my Big Buddy around noon today. I was wondering what he's been up to. I see his antler are coming in and the skin is bleeding on the right side. That causes flies to get on their face and go for the blood. If only I could wash them down the flies wouldn't bother them. Later in the summer when their coats are thin, the flies take bites out of them. If you ever just see a deer standing there and all the sudden take off running it's either a fly, bee or wasp landing on them. Two years ago, Mr. Fuzzy antlers had a wasp sitting on his nose. The deer didn't move a muscle until the wasp flew off. Then again, while foraging with Mr Fuzzy Antlers he just bolted and ran down to the creek jumping and bucking all the way. So I can only guess it was a big bug on him.

Speaking of big bugs, I was one land on the screen while typing away one night. It was at least 3 inches long. The antenna were a couple inches too. I should have took a picture and tried to capture it but instead I flicked it with my finger. Took a couple of flicks to knock it off the screen.

Well, better see how the sauce is doing. Doing "SPAG" tonight. To lazy after today. Foots throbbing, back is stiff and I'm starting to slouch, neck is going out too. Guess it's going to be a night with PBS and the Nova programs.

Will my copy of "Apple Quicktime" ever stop asking me if I want to update?

Word of advice....

Always leave enough food outside for the critters. If they know your home and didn't come out, they become revengeful. They start chewing on anything and everything like Kenwood speaker grills you have on the porch. Didn't matter there wasn't any food value it was my value to them that the squirrels attacked.

I had a squirrel a couple years ago take a brass water fixture up the tree and drop it when he was over me from some 100 feet up. As I went for the nozzle, then I was attacked by red ants where the squirrel dropped the nozzle.

I also had them run off with one glove and then hide it from me. Drove me crazy looking for it


Still trying to recover from the fall the other day. Been sleeping a lot and not moving to fast. I feel like I've been in an auto accident. Have to keep reminding myself, I'm not a kid, I'm not indestructible, and what I see on TV I can't do. (Ha-Ha)

Lower left quadrant is still hurting and been having the skidders since I fell.

It Not Facsism if you do it right.

Fascism \ Fash-iz-em \ n 1: often cap: the body of principles held by Fascisti  2: a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and race and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

 

When You hear the bush-it that come out of the republicans, I wish the news services would use profilers to tell who is telling the truth or lying. Maybe use stress meters to see the lies. I notice that the republicans tend to be very animated when it comes to head movement.

 

I had a friend that every time he was lying he would tip his head. In watching the cop shows, they say looking up and you are making it up and looking down and your lying. If you turn your head diagonally to keep your eyes looking forward isn't that the same as looking down?

 

UNITED STATES of AMERICAN, Inc.

 

Today they call it reform but it's reform so the rich get richer and the poor and middle class eat it. As Mrs. Helmsly once said, "Rich people don't pay taxes,"  and the republicans are working to make that happen too.  They did away with inheritance taxes which would have been only paid by the top three percent.  In the bankruptcy laws they made it easier for the rich to claim bankruptcy and hide there money but the poor need to pay back every last dime. Next they will be asking for their first born sons, oh they are and they send them off to war. A war for oil. To make the rich richer and the poor without sons.

 

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Darn bi-focals, took a step off a latter today and ended up on the ground. It looked like it was a just a step down and turned out to be about six feet. I ended up on the road laying they stunned. I don't know if I was knocked out but I was stunned. I'm still feeling stunned and the pain is coming. It felt like a shock wave ran up to my brain. My hip hurts and back isn't doing the best. I was hungry before that but not anymore. I feel sort of tipsy like I've been drinking. To bad I stopped that 20 years ago. My left wrist is cramped up from trying to break my fall. My right wrist is cramping. Think I'll lay back on the heating pad. Took a hot shower and that felt real good. I don't know why my lower abdominal area is hurting too but it does. Doesn't look like I'll be doing to much tonight. I wanted to paint the trim on the bedroom door but it can wait. I have the door just about done. That's going to be an expensive door when I finish fixing it. It might have been cheaper to buy a new door. The door should look good with the burlap on it.

 

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Pinheads send the flu to the labs in 18 countries. It only took 6 months to figure out it was a real dangerous. They said they are documenting the destruction of the flu vials but can't guaranty it. 

 

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Bob

 

Air, you can't live with out it.
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What a good day to be a live until I ran out of gas.
Gas can $10 bucks, gas $5 bucks.

Went to church today, what a first in a while. As in the song I once heard, does a ritual make it right. They were talking about "The Hunt." What I saw there was real Hollywood. Selling Jesus as a commodity. A good show but what it make me think of is the physics of the universe. I think Jesus was an understanding person. Far to all and placed blame where it was needed. Then a movement saw it could be used to make money. First knocking off the trimming of the males for a little cash. Then it was Jewish light in diet. Give some more money and you can eat what ever you want to. Now it's lights camera action and the show is on.

The tid bits of the Bible and the way it's used is like saying Newton said, an apple fell there fore it must be fruit. And since it's fruit it has to be sweet fruit. It must be a color we all like too but with out an observation it a good fruit. That's a good deduction isn't it?

I keep looking at String theory and my idea of what I'd like to think it's more descriptive of it that is nodes. Interference patterns like a hologram. It's a matter of just knowing where the big bang started and where we are in relationship to where we are now. Everything we see is from the past. We need to find a way of projecting the way things are now in the universe.

Google Looking at me

What about data mining?

I was just think, again, that the "Patriot Act" where as the government gets to check out our reading habits at the library, is more then just that or could be. We know how credit card companies use our buying habits to predict what your going to buy next. Even what food you like and car you drive and want to drive. Where you want to go on vacation. Did you ever think what OnStar does for the government? It's like LowJack keeping track of you and your car. What about that cell-phone? A little GPS sending unit that keeps track of your where "abouts" going from cell site to site. As they used to say, close enough for horse shoes and hand grenades. Now the government is using data miners to predict your habits too. Is he a terrorist or could he be one. What's he reading on the web? What politics do they want to hear. What will they believe. It's a media circus and the G-Men are pulling the strings. They sold us a war and blamed it totally on the people that were suppose to know what's going on in the world. When they called it a rush to war, it was because if we hung out to long we would find out the truth and then no war. Right now the government is fighting the VoIP companies becasue the signals are encrypted. You can do that with your e-mail but like anything it can be cracked.

 

Tom Delay said it was ten year in the works but in Mike Moore's movie it's evident that no one read the bill that they were signing. I guess you can compare it to the credit card companies telling you 0% interest, then the fine print says for 6 month. Then after that the annual interest will go up to 18 percent. Then more fine print, if you screw up in any other part of your finance your rate will jump to the max of 25% annually. They used to call people like loan sharks but that was when life was still the American Dream and you could have one.

Good morrning "Critters"

Event one's here, well not everyone Bug Buddy and four of his friends. The boy's really didn't hold back from me today. Big Buddy was always in the front of the pack. One of the guys which I should call him "Mister Magoo Eyes" because of the loose skin around his eyes. You really can see the emotions of the deer when he looks around. They all have little buds starting on their heads. Wish I could find out where they drop all their antlers. They still have their winter coats but that should thin soon. One of the turkeys was trying to protect the pile of grain I tossed but that didn't keep that long.

 

Have one hungry squirrel on the porch already. No hens yet.

 

The Republicans keep saying the Demarcates need to put a fix on the table but it just shows that the Republicans have nothing going on. The Republicans are a bunch of whinny name callers and that is getting old. Bush keeps telling people to invest in stocks and bonds but what if they are all junk bonds like what went down during the first Bush administration. That's when they Wall Street walked off with 7 trillion dollars. Sure they were fined but it was only $1.2 billion dollars which just shows you how insecure the stock market is and how much you can loose.

 

Bush wants to give us a "New Deal" it's "kiss your ass good bye deal."  If I didn't know better, it looks like he's trying to make the world so unstable so the rich can pick up the pieces after the worlds economy collapses. He got his drilling in Alaska, He's still working on drilling in the "Rocky's." Why aren't they going for the oil off Florida, because Jeb says no, no he want' Jeb to look good enough to run for President then they will start drilling there. If you ask me, Bush wants to send everyone into poverty for low wage workers. It's not about just the old but there is a lot of people collecting because they became disabled or parents have died. If anything we need to cut the retirement founds going to Congress and the Senate. For every one congress person, you could take care of a 100 people. Congress people are generally rich people anyway so why do they need to take such a cut of the taxes.

What a great day.

Foot is killing me but I did get a few things done around here.

Had my big boots on the Lowas.

 

Turkeys hung out most of the day until dusk.

It's fun watching the birds but I found a dead robin.

I think he died of the cold.

Don't know if it might be something else like some virus.

 

Worked on a couple antennas.

One for the alarm and the other for the TV.

That beam should make things come in a lot better.

 

The little squirrels can't stop eating.

One day one of them will explode from eating to much.

 

Haven't seen any deer in the last couple days.

Bobcat was here last night for the turkey and chicken bones.

That could have kept them away but I have noticed when the weather is bad they come around.

 

All and all the day was rather warm and sunny.

Hope tomorrow is as good.

Maybe I'll hang the TV antenna.

 

Right now, getting tired and need to eat.

Then maybe sleep or watch a movie.

Nothing on the Tube but junk so I might put in a DVD.

Marburg Spreads in Angola as Death Toll Hits 174

By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for stepping up measures in Angola to halt the further spread of the deadly Marburg virus, which has killed 174 people mainly in the north of the country.

The United Nations agency said a first case of the incurable disease had been found in Kuanza Sul, the sixth province in the northwest to be hit, while a suspect death was also under investigation in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

There was an unusually high death rate among the 200 cases identified since October, mainly in the northern town of Uige, with an overwhelming number of initial cases striking children under 5 years old, the WHO said in a statement.

"The situation right now in Angola is not under control yet...This is still a health crisis at the national level and requires a profound commitment both from national authorities and the international community in order to contain this disease," Mike Ryan, director of WHO's alert and response operations, told a news briefing.

Some 50 international experts have been deployed in Angola, where 27 years of civil war have left weakened health systems and staff untrained for coping with a major epidemic, he said.

By isolating victims and tracing their contacts, officials were "breaking the chain of transmission" in Uige, he said.

Two deaths have been confirmed from Marburg in Luanda, a teeming capital of 4 million people, where six more cases are being investigated, Ryan said.

There was no evidence of transmission within Luanda, where the two deaths have been a 15-year-old boy and a nurse, he said.

But Ryan noted the densely populated city saw "movement and exchange of people between all areas of Angola," adding: "Therefore it is crucially important that the surveillance systems and isolation units have to be fully established in Luanda, both to maintain confidence in travel to Angola and also to protect that population. That is ongoing."

Separately, the United Nations issued an emergency appeal to donors for $3.5 million to combat the virus, one of the most virulent pathogens known, over the next three months.

The rare haemorrhagic fever, related to the deadly Ebola virus, is characterized by headaches, nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. It is spread through close contact with bodily fluids including blood, saliva and semen.

The outbreak has surpassed the previous record of 123 deaths in a 1998-2000 epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The hospital itself in Uige, a town of 500,000, may have contributed to spreading the virus, according to Pierre Formenty, a WHO expert on haemorrhagic fevers.

"There is a possibility ... that the hospital served to infect children who came to be treated there. It is not confirmed, but it is a hypothesis," Formenty told reporters.

Twelve health care workers were among the total 200 cases.

Medical anthropologists were enlisting tribal leaders to inform the often illiterate population about the dangers of contracting the disease while caring for the sick or preparing bodies for burial, Formenty said.

"Our simple message is very clear: don't touch sick patients and don't touch bodies," he said.


04/08/05 09:52

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Still raining.....

Well, having a bad weather day, again. The sky is getting lighter but the storm is still moving this way at 10 miles per hour. From what I hear on the radio there is a tornado and severe storm warning until 6:50 PM.

Now that Terry and the Pope have past, what about that "Marburro Virus" in Angola? Just a passing threat or something to worry about. Well, it's in Africa and for the most part it's been hands off for the white countries. Let them run themselves into the ground and let the White's pick up the pieces when the worst is over, I guess. They say this virus is worse then the E-Bola virus. Wonder why it's not in the news?

Been going over some of my old notes and videos. Forgot so much over the years. For that much the world has forgot so much. It's day to day and hour to hour and not year to year, no long term planning. It's what's the price of gas today. "Oh, by the way, we are going to drill for oil in Alaska's wild life sanctuary."

I can hear the 2 meter hams coming up the hill complaining about the weather. Good thing I'm inside.

Going to cook a turkey tonight, not one of my buddies but a store bought one. 12 pounder. That should last me a couple weeks.

Been changing my front side bus clock and it seems to speed up the computer. Not sure if it's hurting anything. If I can I'll keep pushing it until it's not going to run any faster but stable. So far the front side bus clock is set at 142 and that works out to 284 and that pushes the system to 2.0 gigs plus as it says in easy inspection. Good thing I have lots of fans in the cabinet. Think I'll get off line and push it 2 more and see what happens. The worst is that it locks up and I have to rest the BIOS.

Lot of one car accidents out today. Morons racing home in the rain rolling over.

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WET Out

Yes it's raining again. Critters are outside getting a bite to eat. Some of the hens are walking up onto the porch but the squirrels chase them off. Sunflower seeds are everyone's favorite. I still see them eating corn and bugs. The bug patrol is when they are scratching the leaves and looking of the good juicy bugs.

 

Think the pentax battery is dead. Can't get the LCD to come up. Was trying the 500mm lens on it since something isn't working well with the Canon's. I'll figure it out but not right now, it's raining and I want to just lay down and stay warm. Such a nice green outside with the low soft light. I'd need a long exposure to get one of those. Maybe I'll try it with the 10 second countdown.

 

 

 

Bob

 

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Didn't get to much rain last night. The thunder storm was a lot of bite and barking too. I broke my toe as I went to the door to see if there as a strike. The thunder and lightning happened at the same time so it was real close.

Have two ups units going, now. One will be just for the alarm system. The other one will drive the computers. It's just a matter of power distribution. Going to try to make something that would be more solar over the next year or so. The wind turbine with the pulse generation of power. Not to many people use this system since I seen it used on a BSA motorcycle.

This "March Madness" is a great marketing ploy. Myself, I can't see it. I liked playing sports growing up but I can't see sitting on the couch and getting fat.

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Dream Speakers, again.


Been thinking of making the same speakers but using 10 inch speakers and miniturize the cabinets. Need to do the math to see how the back pressure works out. See if I can get things in phase.

Usually this works good with Foxfire but this time it looks better with IE.

Ohhh, my little toe.

The first lightning strike knocked me off the couch. I ran to the door and looked outside to see if a tree hit the house or if the lightning bold hit any trees. My right ear is still ringging. The lights went out and I could see the flash of the bolt. I tripped on a bunch of tool boxes that I'm going to take down to the tool shed. Well, those tool boxes stayed right there and my toe cracked into it. The power has gone off and back on a half dosen times so far. I have my laptop set up on the ups unit but I'm one the big computer right now. It looks like the cell has moved over us. The rain is still coming down on a 45 degree angle. There was another flash about a half second away. going to get off this computer befor I loose power or get hit. Need to check NOAA site for strikes.

Long day

Had to take a mid-day nap today. Put in the new spot light, light in the kitchen. Started that at 7 AM and finished around 11 AM. Had to take in my Saturday morning NPR Station.

Was thinking about Greene's 11 dimension string theory, which I like to call wave node theory, it's just a little cleaner that way the way things work out.

Been thinking of a way of setting up a multi-visual astronomy base here. Going from low frequency to light. If I could get the e-ray maps to fit to my system it would give you a good view of what's out there and what time it is. The question what time is it really? Speaking relative to the rest of out known universe. Based on the big bang and constant expandtion, there must be other "universe" out there too. It's just that we never over lapped or maybe we did and haven't seen them yet. They are to far in the past. It's to bad we can't make a computer model to place the universe as it is now, in real time. No lag time like the edge of the big bang. Some where in space there is a large shock wave traveling out there. Wonder if it's slowing and at what progression. We know the heat decay.

Rain is on the way, going to check NOAA before I get off here. Need to find out if I can do some of the concrete work to seal the one side of the foundation.

The apple tree that fell over last storm I propped up and it seems to be growing again. Thing I'll give it a vitamin fix tomorrow. I just hate working in pouring rain. And to think, there was a day I'd think anyone that couldn't drive a bike in a driving rain or snow storm was a woos. Must be getting old. Had to use bi-pods to set the tree right. Those days of muscling up a tree with out aids are over. Bi-pods, tri-pods, pullies and ropes and cables are the way to do it. It takes longer and I never thought I'd be applying physics this way instead of making tin cans land on a dime. Wonder how Robin's father is doing, he did do the equasions for the "Apollo" moon trips. Some thing cool to through on your resume.

The other Robin, Wonder if she still where's the ring I gave her. That was a love that just went wrong but we needed to grow. Wonder what would have happened if we would have gotten married. It would have been a real difffernet reality.

Great Observation

The little fuzzy thing I thought was an ugly cat turned out to be a Bobcat. Just a bit bigger then the house cat. Looked like it had a mind of it's own and was using it.

I hooked up my squirrel cam. Not to good at night but good at dusk settings. Going to set it's focus real close and put a pile of seeds in from of it see how many pictures I can get. Close-ups!

Wrist are still feeling funky after the two cortisone shot in them. I think they will feel better in a couple days.

Still working on my horizontal TV antenna.. Just doing a bit of beefing up and making it a bit stronger and more directional.

Happiness is a working calculator!

Bed room door is almost finished. Need to do some shaping and sanding. A little filling of the molding and screws.

Need to do some chain sawing after this last rain. Got 12 - 14 inches in a bucket which works out to 12 - 14 feet of snow up top.

Living here it's either wet, wet or dry, dry, dry weather. Prevention of water damage is very important. Also, dry wrought is an summer destroyer. It's amazing that anything is still standing here after 150 year. The stone work was don good. The Victorian houses did a good job of following good building practices. I've seen some wood work that is failing after just a few years. Craftmanship is something that is dying out.

Week in review

There was a few more jolts in the Indonesia area. I know a person there and she seem to give me a real and different take of what is going on when the earth shakes there. Speaking of the earth shaking, PBS just had a special on earthquakes in the cascade range. Which is a fault like the one that made the Andes where the Incas go. "Carve up a hill, for a ship to land in the Andes, PARK IT, PARK IT." Excuses me, couldn't resist Frank Zappa humor. Ha, they even named a rock after the place, "Andisite". Which is a rock that comes from a subduction zone, just like the subduction zone that runs along the North West coast. Did you catch the week in review? Bush says all life is precious and then signs a bill to drill in a "Wild Life Sanctuary." Sanctuary, isn't that like going to a church or being in a church? You seek "Sanctuary to be at peace or to run from danger. Mean while around the world 90 plus countries hate the United States and want to do everything they can to get rid of it. Now to tie this all together. Gas is up, thinking are down and the world can live with out us again. Yes it gave us another warning this week. Remember what happened to the world the last time Krakatoa past some gas. (1400's 1800's it blew ash around the world for 150 years the first time thus calling it the dark ages. In the 1800's the shock wave was heard around the would and dimmed the sun for two weeks. I'd like the two week version rather then the 150 years without sun light, make it hard for plants to grow.)

 

 

Bob

 

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Cheaters always prosper.
and good guys always finish last.

 

 

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

I was taking some close up pictures of moss and flowers. What I forgot to rmember is to look what I'm laying in and on. I'm sure this is going to be a good case of posion oak. There are some bumps on the back of my neck and head that are killing me. I'll have to call the doctor tomorrow,

Well, no more flower pictures for a few days. The rain has started. I had to do some dirt moving the last few days. The rains really was coming down in the last storm, about 9 inches. I noticed a oil film coming down the hill from the east side. Also the rain gutters don't tip down hill. The water is leaking into the house from the south side and I just had the celler dried out.

Been getting a lot done here as far as the closet goes. I can put 10 more boxes of cloths in there.
Well, on coat hangers. Still have about six boxes to unpack. I need a 1x12x5 feet for the shelf. I used a couple of thos parts of the closet orginizer. Going to put some more shelves in the second bed room. Need to do some thing about the closet in that room.

Well, well, Jordan's on so it's getting close to bed time.