I finally got my Gravely Model C running again. I’m not sure of the exact year of manufacture, but it’s late 60’s to early 70’s. I have a couple of attachments, but currently I’ve been using the 30″ rotary mower and the 48″ snow blade (for maintaining my half mile driveway). This first pic is from Saturday before last clearing brush from the back side of my dam.
Next up is from yesterday. Still clearing brush, but this time along side of the driveway near my house. I decided that a tree lined tunnel was just too creepy to be walking on after dark with no flashlight (which is a story unto itself and a lesson hard learned in regards to making sure you got gas before setting out in the evening). At any rate, that section is not not so scary when it’s pitch black.
Me and my dog Kinsie. She’s slowly getting used to the tractors and actually got pretty close when the C was fired up. I hope she doesn’t get too used to it when I’m out working. Got my standard rig on, Camel back to stay hydrated, tool pouch, Tilly hat and side arm. Snakes have been pretty bad this year, I’ve had to put down five so far, one just yesterday morning. I should have my gators on, but I have no idea why I didn’t.
And lastly, what’s for dinner? Beef, need you even ask. Grilling burgers for mom and me on Fathers Day. I still miss dad very much, but I know he’s down here with me. And no, I didn’t develop male pattern baldness. It’s just cooler down here in the boonies with no AC, and it makes finding ticks a whole lot easier.
And a final note. It took me about two hours to upload a handful of pix and write this post, all thanks to the crappy AT&T cell card. I honestly think dial-up would smoke this thing on a speed test. I really hate technology.
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I wasn’t going to piss around with the whole Kim Jong Il BS, but North Korea really needs some google action before they start up with the propaganda verbal spewage. I mean, you have to throw out some believable rhetoric if you want folks to take you seriously and not nuke you from orbit (just to be sure).
What caught my eye last week was the whole “blah, blah, we nukayu, blah” then “retaliate 100 fold or 1000 fold”. That last part kind of crossed some wires in my noggin. Anyway, I did a google search on “100 fold meaning” and found this page in nothing flat:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-There-a-Difference-in-100-Times-and-100-Fold?&id=1684629
I know things get lost in translation, but the difference between 100 fold and 1000 fold is not a factor of 10. from reading that link, I don’t think they have developped a number with enough zeros to calculate what 1000 fold is, let alone North Disneyland having enough warm bodies or hot nukes to come on that kind of retard strong.
And now they’re talking about lobbing an ICBM toward Hawaii here in a month or so. I’m not about sucker punching anyone, but in this situation, well… I think we should lift off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I just have to call BULLSHIT on this!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525992,00.html
Ok, so I like guns. Small ones, big ones, fast ones, and stupid fast ones. What caught my eye was the title of this story. 30,000 miles per fucking hour! and all it did was leave a three inch wound on this little snots hand. Right. Sure. Ok…. Let’s do some comparisons.
Let’s just drop all the talk about kinetic energy (which happens to be Ke=1/2MV^2) and focus on the velocities. IIRC, I used to load my 30-06 for 2700fps. Converting that, you get a velocity of 1841 miles per hour. An ‘06 is slightly faster and more dangerous than a 7.62mm (.308 Win) round. Puts a big hole in just about any human I;ve ever heard of outside of a comic book. And not even 2000mph. The fastest factory round I know of, and one I personally reload, is the .220 Swift. This puppy comes out of the pipe at just under 4000 feet per second. That’s right, almost a mile per second. Run the numbers and you get 2727 miles per hour. Busting one of these on a groundhog at 500 yards is almost instantaneous. PowWhump. Just about that quick, but still WAY slower than 30,000 miles per fucking hour. BTW, 30K mph is Mach 39.4.
I’d bet that if we did take into account the kinetic energy of this meteorite, travelling at nearly 40 times the speed of sound, it would not have just bounced off this little liars hand. It would have taken his hand (and arm, maybe part of his shoulder) off and left a much bigger crater than it did.
And speaking of the crater, lets assume the media is full of shit (or at the very least grossly inaccurate) and lets throw out the whole velocity issue altogether. None of my rifles leaves that big of a hole in the ground, but at the same time all of them would put a serious ass whoopin on this kid. BooBoo on hand < crater on ground? Maybe this little pudknocker is a comic book mutant, or he lives in Smallville, neither of which holds water.
BS I say. Off with his head! Might have to use the “laser” though.
I’m going up to the AT&T wireless store tomorrow and get their definition of “Free Trial”, cause it sure isn’t what Webster defines it as.
So I moved to the country, like way the hell out here, and the jesus phone just wouldn’t get signal. So, a month or two ago I went and upgraded to the Motorola Tundra. Ruggedized, weather proof/resistant, external antenna, gps flip phone. Sweet. The only catch is that the gps feature is a $9.99/month “feature”, but it had a (wait for it)…”free trial” period. Thinking that this may come in handy, I activated it. It was ok, but not nearly as useful or user friendly as either my Garmin Nuvi 765 (for driving) or my Magellan Titan (for off-road), so I dutifully logged into my account and removed this “feature” prior to the end of the “free trial” period.
This evening I got the latest bill, and guess what, there was a $9.99 “other charges” line item which clearly said AT&T Navigator (the gps “feature”). You gotta be shitting me, I thought. So I fired up the AT&T cell card to go check my account online. Talk about a truly craptastic connection, after about an hour of waiting for the pages to load I finally got to the page that listed all my “features”, and the AT&T Navigator was (wait for it)….DESELECTED!
So, 1) I removed this feature prior to the end of the trial expiration, and 2) my online account page showed that it was not currently activated. Why then am I being charged $9.99? Will it happen again next month? The answer to these questions is: none and most definately.
I really didn’t want to go off on another telecom, but this is fucking rediculous. Verizon is worse. (RULE 1 ALERT). Those fuckers are still charging us for two accounts that I have been requesting to be terminated for months. And they have already removed the CPE from our locations, so there’s no way in hell we could even use their over priced slow assed service if we wanted to. I will more than likely be contacting the FCC in regards to that.
Once I get this gps bullshit squared away with AT&T I’ll also be removing the $19.95 unlimited data “feature”, and the $5 200 text messaging as well.
I did however fuck them out of a ringtone. Back before I got the iPhone, I had (and still have) a motorola Razr v3 for which I purchased “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” as my ringtone. When I went to redownload it to the Tundra, AT&T wanted me to rebuy it. Know what? The Tundra records voice notes which can be used as ringtones. Fuck you AT&T. I bought it once, and that’s it. I can only use one phone at a time, and it didn’t say that the original download was for that specific phone.
And as for the improved reception of the Tundra, it’s only slightly better than the original iPhone. I pretty much have to go out on my porch to get a stable connection. And 3g, forget about it. AT&T is sitting on their thumbs getting more (and faster) bars even in the city, let alone out here in the boonies. That applies to the phones as well as the cell card I’m using to write this post.
In closing:
AT&T, you can
SUCK
MY
BIG
HAIRY
BALLS.
with a porn star accessory. Twitter
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599190260400
Is anyone even slightly concerned about their privacy? Personally, I’m about a gnats ass from taking this blog offline. As I get older, I’m finding that I don’t want every Tom and hairy dickhead with an internet connection having access to what I’m doing, feeling and thinking, or as the mantra goes, eating for breakfast.
Call me old school, but you just can’t say shit in 140 characters that has any meaning. Fatrz in the wind.
Just when I thought I’d get done with some work (rule 1 type) and go for a ride on my buggy, it starts up raining again. I got a bunch of new pics to put in the gallery, but I’ll have to jack some bandwidth back in tha ‘noke rather than deal with this POS, slow assed AT&freakinT cell card. I honestly think dialup would be fasterl. At least I’m not paying the bill.
I know I haven’t posted shit in a long time (save a couple of YT picks, but things have been wall to wall for me for the past couple of months. Still moving. I find it harder and harder each day to make that trek into town. Seems like everyone is so pissed off all the time. You can see it in the way they drive.
So much has happened since my last serious post, I don’t know where to begin. My old Chevy Silverado got totalled, got a replacement. Got water and security, and am doing all kinds of things to get the new place in order. Slowly replacing the screening on the porch (yes, I do love sitting on this one listening to the frogs and stuff). Working on getting the road back in shape, which is a task in itself considering that it’s a solid half mile from the gate to the house. Finishing and fitting my new workshop (I’m not even going to detail that escapade into spackling). Moving my planes and tooling. And more, so much so that I’m not going to try.
The 914 is not running again. I think it’s the fuel pump, though I haven’t really gotten the chance to wrench on it to find out. Hopefully I’ll get my garage in order so I can work on it in there, but that may be a while.
Kinsee really loves it here. She has a ton of freedom, and I know it must seem confining when I take her back to Mom’s for the week. She still hates car rides, and that is the biggest issue on the weekly sabatical.
So far this year I’ve killed two black racers and saw my first copperhead snake. I know when Kinsee barks, and especially if she growles, there’s something bad in da hood. She spotted the copperhead while it was feeding on a lizard right next to the stairs outside. By the time I got google images to show me what one looks like, and loading rat shot in the .22, it had disappeared. I always wear snake guards when I’m out in the yard, and I’m glad Kinsee has the sense to know bad shit when she sees it. I do worry about her though. And yes, I do pack the .22 when I’m out as well. Only thing is, the rat shot doesn’t make it cycle and I have to rack it after each shot. Last 5 are regular .22lr.
There’s more, but honestly, it’s all a blur. If you had the chance to see the place before I started working on it and moving, you almost wouldn’t recognize it now. And if you’re waiting on an invite, don’t. Just call me so I can have the gate unlocked for ya.
When is a go kart more of a top fuel funny car, than a go kart?
Right there, that’s where.
…focus on getting the hell out of here.
And be careful of those mind-bombs. They’re freakin everywhere.