Monday, April 04, 2005

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.

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Latest NOAA Pictures

Latest NOAA Pictures




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.

Saturday, April 02, 2005

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.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

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.
 
 

Sunday, March 27, 2005

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.

What a week!

What happened to the past week, as a mater of fact what happened to the past two or three weeks, I let my computer set the time "Automatically": but it doesn't seem to work since I re installed everything getting rid of those pesky programs, My hibernate doesn't work. I need to figure out this modem sharing.
 
Well, Easter tomorrow, guess I'll do some painting. The pains are still going on the right side of me. Still I think this has something to do with my knee.
 
Working one a hybrid antenna into a super TV antenna. Two Verticals, one high gain horizontal beam. Some of the channels are coming in better but some others are not so good. When I get the horizontal beam it should work better on the low end. It's been about two years since I haven't been able to receive the channel guide. At least that's working now.
 
The apple tree that fell over was made a bit shorter and modified like a trout mask replica. The roots are in the ground and the ground has been packed in. I also gave it some miracle grow. maybe I can get the parts that were growing can get going. 
 
I'm so worn out from the rain the fast few days. Working in the rain just suck the heat from you. Then when something smacks you in the head it's a real shock to the head. Speaking of head my sinuses are doing me in. It's those oak trees, My car turns this sort of powered yellow. Well I'm going to call it a night and what ever needs to get done will have to wait.
 
 
Bob
 
Air, you can't do with out it.
Nature Photography
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Cheaters always prosper.
and good guys always finish last.
 
 

Monday, March 21, 2005

More Smoke and Mirrors

The news is crying out, save the brain dead lady.
No one's talking about who is going to pay for this but it has to be done.
It's not coming out of George's Medical Budget this year or any year in the future.
 
Oh, and by the way, we are going to start drilling in a "Wild Life Sanctuary in Alaska."
Ya, we can get a million barrels of oil per day just like that BP pipeline that should go online this years some time.
 
For those of your listeners who don't remember what happened when the oil companies couldn't get their way for the first Alaskan Pipeline. We forget the long lines and the even and odd days in which you could get gas. Then when the pipeline was put in the price of oil dropped a little but not much. I guess that's where we get the term, "they got you over a barrel."
 
For a President that claims to be doing common since things I have to question is that something a drunk would come up with?

What the real cost are

The insurance companies are like the mafia, you pay them so nothing happens to you.
You have to remember that insurance companies are not just into one service.
If you make a claim on your car because of an accident, the money doesn't come out of just one company but a insurance corporation.
Look are "General Insurance Corporation," "and their little lizard commercials" "Sears, and All-State the largest credit lenders in the nation." Nation Wide with all their subsidiaries. I haven't even started on the Health braches of insurance companies. Remember, they are corporations and not just companies. They make money by investing in places like the stock market, loaning money to banks and you pay for their investments because you are the end sucker that nothing is suppose to go wrong in your life. How about that life insurance, you get to collect after your dead, what a deal.
 
Well, lets start at the bad energy investments in Mexican energy back in the 70's and 80's that went bust?
What about those earthquakes in California?
What about all those "Tornados" and "Hurricanes" in the South East?
What about those real bad investments in Wall Street?
Remember Wall Street sucked 7 trillion dollars from people.They had to only pay 1.2 billion in fines and were asked not to do it again. No one went to jail either. This same group was a large contributors to the "Republican Party."
 
Why did the price go up in California? Because they would pay it.
Why does your car insurance in California go up, because they made it the law to have it.
This made it so every one had to buy insurance and now they could charge anything they wanted.
 
When it comes to insurance companies paying out money they drag their feet.
There are people that still haven't been paid for the devastation of the earthquakes in California.
There are some people that still haven't been paid from the Hurricanes in Florida like hurricane Andrew some 15 years ago.
 
 
The only way that we could make this all fair to all the people of the United States is to Nationalize Medical Insurance, We need to nationalize medicine too.
This will be the only way that it would be fair to all.
You could also work "Social Security" into this same program.
This would make the United State the biggest investor in the world and would make us a better country and not a country of people that spend all their time thinking of ways to steel money from others with in the laws we have set up.
 
 
Bob Sakall

Friday, March 11, 2005

Hot day.

Second day of wearing shorts. Taking a break and having some coffee. Need to get outside and change my oil next. So many projects but I feel so much better now that I've been on Prozac. Before that, I was just draging form day to day.

The smell of something dead under the house is almost gone so I'll be going under the house soon. I'll let the fans run for a few more days.

The amount of flowers popping up is unbelievable. Every day there is dosens more. You can tell it's spring the bugs are coming out.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Don't believe it. Must be the Bushniks sensering me

Just got done writing for two hours. Then when I went to check the spelling I lost everything. That darn MS firewall crap came up and asked if I wanted to permit the pop up. I pressed yes. Then every thing was gone.

More later.

Don't believe it. Must be the Bushniks sensering me

Just got done writing for two hours. Then when I went to check the spelling I lost everything. That darn MS firewall crap came up and asked if I wanted to permit the pop up. I pressed yes. Then every thing was gone.

More later.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Late night and nothing on but repeats

Was outside until 6:00PM to night. My legs hurt from all I've did today. Doesn't seem like much but it was. Lot's of little things. Picked up a end table and little TV at the thrift store. Good twenty dollar investment. The only thing is I can't find a remote for the TV. For now I'll use the VCR tuner. Going to have to run to the box store and see if they have one.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

myATI - Thank you

myATI - Thank you


Can't keep up with drivers and new chip sets

What a time trying to get updates to my ATI video board. Looking at the list of video boards that they have made in the last four years is totally amazing. My board alone have a good dozen or so. Not only did they change the chip, they changed the drivers. The driver that are the latestdon't work with my board. I thought it was the FCC law that you had to give 10 years of support. Don't ask for a schematic, they will think yuo want it to copy their junk. Well, when the price comes down on the new board I want I'll get it. This one will move down the line to my other desk top where I do scanning and printing. That's something else I need, a printer that will print tabloid size paper.

It's to bad I was struck down with all these illnesses. From the Hep-C which took three years out of my life. Even more if you count the recovery time. Now my back is doing it again. I've been through two operations so far and it seems like it took about 3 years each to learn to walk again. To top it all off, my eyes are going. For some one that enjoys looking at nature and seeing the beauty in most every thing you see, it's rather depressing. I thought when I moved here I was going to die but I went through the hep-c treatment again which almost killed me.

This being poor crap is very depressing too. I used to make rather good money. Nothing to be called rich. Just where I could get anything I wanted any time I wanted.

What about the people that go out of there way to steel from you!

There's a girl in Fullerton that I have a real dislike or anger towards. It must have been from all the drug use and the people they hung around with. They all were professional criminals. I never met any one like them before. What I'm getting at is I was living with some friends and had all my stuff in storage. Her and her boy friend I thought were friends at least in the way they wouldn't steel from you. They all turned out to be real losers. Wendy Weidman and Jaime Hacke had a child together. They also liked dancing. A mutual friend ask me to come out to one of there camp outs to take pictures of the event. After going to there houses for several years, I thought I could call them friends. I should have been warned when Jaime was busted for transporting pot for Jesse. I didn't know how involved they all were but it was a living. They didn't need to work what we call a regular job. From the growing of pot on indian lands to the distabution parties. I thought it was just a group of people getting to gether but it turned out to be the dedicated buyers and sellers.

Well, my dilema, I loaned them my "Stereo and TV." Not just any stereo but a 450 true RMS watt output tuner with all the video in and outputs. It was set up for a daul Cassete or tape drives, CD's, Laser Disks, 2 VCR's, and phono input for a magnetic cartridge. That was just the tuner. The TV was a Sony Trinitron with picture in picture. It had 3 audio and video inputs. Lets see, one CD player, One dual cassete deck, one turn table, one VCR. I think this is all the electronic parts. Then there was the speakers, the two fron speakers were custom made 5 way speakers. The center speaker was a radio shack shealded speaker. The rear speakers were two to small ones that went with a sub-wolffer. Then there was the two Altec "Voice of the theater" speaker in oak cabnets. Wendy told me that last time I talked to her that the TV didn't work. I can imagine how lazy she is because her daughter threw the remote on the floor. Then when Jaime picked it up he set it on a table, where she picked it up again and put it in a large glass of water. Wendy doesn't remember that because of her drinking. Drinking does that to people.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Still raining and still back pain

Been raining on and off today, mostly on. Turkeys all showed up and the boys were showing off for the girls. There has been several new little squirrels coming out with their mothers. Didn't see any deer today. There is one flower that had opened up. I'll have to post it.

The back pain is just un-believable. It reminds me of when I had surgery. The pills don't work are all. Well, they do, I do bump into things but the back pain going from my waste down to my toes. I can't stand for to long, only a few minutes before I have to sit or lay down.

Had to re-format my drive on the desk top computer. It started acting weird, dialing the phone and restarting. I had to much junk on it anyway.

Monday, February 21, 2005

PAIN and NO SLEEP

Well, things were much easier 18,630.75 days ago. Now this old body is giving out from too much fun. Yes, too much fun. Too much sex. Too much running. To much falling of big rocks. And worst of all was the legal stuff I drank. Yes, "alcohol damages every body." I ruins the integrity of every cell. You could say it's like a paper bag. While the bag is dry it's rather strong. Get that bag wet and it falls a part.

To top it all off, my hard drive on my desk top is giving me some problems. Maybe it's only a virus or bad ATI software drivers. Having a hard drive fail right now would ruin me financially. I know I do want to get a big drive but I don't want to have to be forced to doing that. I'd buy a tire for my car if I had any extra money.

Well, had my morning cup of coffee and maybe I can fall a sleep. I've on;y slept 2 hours so far tonight. I hear the turkeys signaling each other as they wake up. Soon they will be mossying this way.

Friday, February 18, 2005

Das Bush Sides with EVIL-DOERS

Bush gets his way and helps out the corporate evil-doers. Now it's easier to harm people and get away with it, just like it was in the 1800's. Get a bad product, tough. Das Bush is getting worse then the "Bin." Why fight a war over seas when your president is working against you. Let's not forget how we got here. Bush lied to get into office. He lied about what Saddam had or didn't have or see. He's pushing the Social Security reform saying there is a big immanent problem. That's just like he did when he sold the media blitz on the war with Iraq. "We have to go to war" Bush said. Now he's saying, "we must attack Socail Security because it will kill you with a mushroom cloud." For a guy that says he has such high morels he's sure killing a lot of Iraqis. What about the babies and the unborn, I'm sure your bombs have killed a few by now. Estaments have it around 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. For a president that says "We have to support the troop, he's cutting medical care for the wounded. He's cutting benifits to the National Gaurd. He's keeping the troops in longer then they signed up for." I know he's breaking contracts left and right on the "Bush Crusaides." It's to bad we have a former drunk in the whitehouse. It's to bad he never went to AA to get on the right track. All the people that went to churchs instead of AA are still drunk. I really believe he's in charge and he's not getting manipulated. With everyone looking under every rock to find a terrorist, it's the Joe McCarthy era all over again. To bad it's going to take years to recover from all this Bushism.

Put you marals behind you and get on the corparate band wagon. Learn how to take advantage of the system and do on to others and get rich.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

The Meek Get Squat

All men are created equal? We are all Gods children? The meek shall inherit the earth? As Frank Zappa said a few years ago, "The meek shall inhered nothing." It's the rich not just the well off but the fascist right rich that are going to be on top. Looking at the days of the Ferro's, could that have been the way things played out? Did the "Ferro's" once control the world? Did we, the people of the earth all beg for work on the Ferro's projects? Why is there a desert there?

It's been shown that in mexico that that fall of the oldest group of Aztecs died out because they cut down the trees to make plaster. Was that their downfall? Just trying to look nice and stylish? With all the wood they needed to make plaster itstriped off the land which let the rain wash away the top soil which caused thecrops to fail. Did this same thing happen in Africa? Did they burn so much of the forests to make plaster for the temples and pyramids? After the trees were gone, then the desert started and kept going to what we see today?

It's a passing thought along with the ideas of what has happened in the world in the name of some bodies God or God's. Adalf mobilized the Germans which were of a Christian nature. Bush mobilized the people of the United States telling them that he had values. We found out his values, oil and money are his values. Yes his rich friends rule and the rest of us are just a burdon to him unless your putting money in his pocket. The United States mobilized it's people to fight off communism saying a free market is the way. Which means that man with the most makes the laws. The American Indian was the first group of people that opperated a communist type of government. Unfortunately it was in deep decline when the first Europeans came to the new world. Why there was this decline has most people questioning. I think it was because of the have nots wanting more and the chiefs elivating themselves to the point of Gods.

It's money that matters and not what you know. It's who you know and how much you can grease the wheels. "Bribe" is a bad word facing extinction. People don't bribe others these days we call them "contributions." Thous making might with money makes right.

Speaking of might, have you noticed that cops don't wound people anymore? Why, thay might get sued. Kill them off and silence them. It's been changing though, the new use of media is becoming like a gun. If you condem a person so much that they have to leave the world with their tail dragging. Bush's Karl Rove used thisto make Kerry look like a boob. What's the funny part of it is that the people of the United Stated believed him and re-elected "Das Bush." Most of the "Bush Sheep" believe Bin and Saddam are linked and that WMD have been found., even though the bi-partisain report said that they didn't.

How soon every one forgets these days. No one remembers the days of Nixon. The only reason the Gingrich Republicans went after Clinton was because they could. Now when Das Bush talks about the lack of judges we need to look back to the 90's when the Gingrich Republicans were in office and what they all did. This push to maake it like it was in the 1800's and to cut peoples rights is slow coming but it's coming. "Das Bush" doesn't have to get re-elected so the Religious Right don't have to get their way and can be tost a side. The Neo-Cons idea of a world controled by corperations is coming saying freedom and free trade is the way. It's a demactatic way. The Eyes have it and the the meek get it where the gay boys want it.

Looking back in time where the church used the people to go on the "Crusades" saying that these people are heithens. That they are Godless. That it was their duty to rape, pilage and plunder the middle east for fun and pleasure. It was you duty as a Christain. Now with people like Condo Rice telling the world, "Well that's old news, lets put that behind us."

We only have one world and throwing out the parts that make the world work is a wrong idea. We need to work towards a society (world population) that will work for all and not the rich. If everyone was able to do what every they wanted for the good of the people of the world and not what's good for a few then we would end starvation, poverty and war.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

It must be the flu

I thought I escaped the flu but it looks like I didn't. I had my usual aches and painds today but tonight it just hit me. My head feels like it's going to explode. My body hurts all over. This would explain the skidders for the last couple days and I thought it was just the change in medications. With my luck it's going to be some sort of bird flu with all the birds I have out here. The turkeys all look well even though it's been raining. Standing up I'm so dizzy and almost fell over walking into the bedroom. Time for the electric blanket.