As I think I mentioned, I really couldn't get motivated last week, so I'm working on catching up now. Working my way through Vik's iCloud, that was the hardest part of the estate, on the good side, Apple is very, very serious about your security, on the bad part, they really don't offer easy instructions on how to deal with a deceased person's account. That and once you get the court order, the only way you can gain access to the account, legal has to review the court order, then there are people that have to work on setting up the account access, however once they did that, they failed to give me instructions on how to access it, just letting me know that it was mine now and giving me a verification link. Oh, and that's just to the account, they don't provide links or information on how to access the individual services. There also doesn't seem to be a way to download the entire cloud (that really wouldn't work well), or whole folders, you just have to work with each file, which since there's around 5G of files, will take a while. I emailed the cremation company I used about prepaying for my own services as well as the balance I have over there. Prolly October I'll find a lawyer to prepare a will, the delay there, is I want to talk to my eldest cousin about being plan B on my will, as there's only a 9 month age difference between me and my sister, so if'n everything goes right, I'll simply talk to them while I'm down in Huntsville for my Grandmother's birthday (105, I swear that woman will outlive us all, she'll prolly be here to witness the heat death of the universe). Will need to find a lawyer for the will, recommendations in the STL area welcome. Need to contact the heating company as an inspection for the system they put in was never scheduled, that should be easy enough. Caught up with mom and sister, though I still need to RSVP for the party. Yesterday I took care of grocery shopping and finances, the former in St Chas as I hopped over there for breakfast at Waffle House. I'd grabbed take out there earlier in the week and forgot how good it is, so that might become a regular thing, dunno yet. Also replaced the blade on the mower, fueled up the skid steer ($40 for a 5 gallon can and 5 gallons of gas, ouch). Dug up some of the pavers, trimmed the front lawn (couldn't do that last week as I'd run out of string, fixed that Monday, but didn't get to doing it). Today was laundry as well as the stuff I've mentioned that I've done or will do shortly. Still gotta knock out a little cooking, I need a batch of rice, and gotta set up a cold brew. Sorting through a bit of mail right now, and will take a bit of a break before returning to the iCloud.
Also in October might be a yard sale/estate sale, one big three day blow out sale, although I'll be selling larger items on Marketplace and Craigslist before then. Here too if'n anyone wants to see what I have, three Ikea bookcases, an HON desk, some drills just to start. Oh, if'n you're in the STL area with a tiny library, we'll happily supply books for it, just give us a shout, free delivery in some areas even.
I dont know about the 1st & 2nd points (although see Nixon watergate) but re point #3, Congress has explicitily given very broad power to act unilateraly on tariffs
Earlier this month I noted that Elon Musk’s Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that there’s a very long…
H.G. Wells’ predictions for the “house of the future,” made in 1903, include: Chimneys will be obsolete, replaced by an electric heater in the center of each apartment. The absence of chimneys will also permit roof gardens. Air will be circulated by an electric fan “and will come in through a proper shaft and filter” communicating with the roof. No longer required for ventilation, windows may take any shape and will be positioned for lighting and for aesthetic effect. ...and more futilitycloset.com/2026/08/22/…
H.G. Wells’ predictions for the “house of the future,” made in 1903: Chimneys will be obsolete, replaced by an electric heater in the center of each apartment. The absence of chimneys will also permit roof gardens.
THOUSAND PALMS, CALIF. (KESQ)- Two dog food manufacturers have issued product recalls following reports of contamination risks. On Aug. 21, 2026, Fromm Family Foods LLC recalled Fromm wet canned dog food due to potential metal contamination.
Ugh, today… Bleah, I feel like crap, not sure why, I'm sure pigging out on Taco Bell last night didn't help. Plus I still got hungry before bed, so munchies on top of that. Oh and desert had, yes, desert between them, a candy bar and coffee. Ugh, this is going to be a rough day.
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Sure, the town’s insurance will pay most of this, but it’s probably fair to say most of this small county’s population (11,823 at last count) wasn’t supportive of local law …
I honestly think nobody believed that they would do all the things that that said they would do. Or if they did believe they were going to try, they assumed that something in the system would stop them. I know most of the people I've actually talked to about project 2025 said they never imagined it could actually really happen. They thought it was just the Republicans basically lying to their base to get votes and that it wouldn't really go anywhere near as far as it really did.
If I'm honest even I am kind of surprised it just how far they've gotten, and how much they've gotten away with. The fact that our system has just utterly failed at nearly every single turn to stop them is kind of mind-blowing.
I will say this though, it's been very eye-opening. It's made me aware that our political systems are absolutely dependent on good faith. And has shown beyond a doubt that if people are willing to set their good faith aside this country can be taken over with minimal effort. It's kind of like if the United States were wearing a full suit of armor but had no breastplate.
In a way, I want to see ABC lose this, not that they don't deserve to win, but the only way they could lose that I can see is to declare that corporations don't have rights, and if they don't have rights, then they aren't people, right?
After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) clai…
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