Previous Page | Today's Post | Next Page Background image: My dinghy washed up on the beach at Marea Are you are looking for bee information? Click here. Wednesday January 20th 2021See my home weather station data online Spot Weather I slept until eight and was up just in time for the net. Today is another rainy day with heavier, steadier rain than yesterday. It's warm, though. I spent the day working on my Spanish and decided to brush up on my Latin, too and why not my French, also. So, I did some exercises in each language. Latin and French were a slam-dunk because I am at the beginning phase of the courses but the Spanish is tougher. They are all included in my Duolingo subscription. My Spanish, although rudimentary gets me around now and people seem to understand what I say but I only have 1,000 or so words and the verbs and declensions are weak. BEE-L is busy and I wrote a few articles. It fells like Sunday, but it isn't. I hardly bother with the news these days because it is mostly BS. It seems really clear we have had a coup and the Western way of life is on the boards. The slide has been gradual with consent of the population on faked 'facts'. What I find mysterious is how a whole population can be duped, but it has happened over and over before. Every few generations all the lessons are lost and we get taken to the cleaners again. I can't listen to CBC without a feeling I should gag. I used to listen all day, but the content has become thin gruel served by automatons. Danielle Smith is quitting CHQR. She can't take the abuse from the zombies any longer, and she was one person I could listen to comfortably. Here is an interesting video that came in by email from an address I don't recognize. He tells it like it is and he should know. He buries the bodies. It's nothing I have not been pointing out for at least six months, but he sums it up well and it is nice to know that we are not alone in seeing the hypocrisy and exploitation.
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home weather station data online Around five, after an hour or so of annoying dreams, I decided enough is enough, woke, and got up. It was still damp and dark out and it looked like another day of rain. I was groggy but had breakfast and took a shower. After a while the sun came out. I did some French on Duolingo, just for fun. I'll get serious about spending some time on Spanish later.I did a lot on Duolingo yesterday, almost 600 XP, mostly Spanish which is the prime target but some Latin and French just for fun. At a basic level, my French and Latin still seem pretty good after fifty plus years, but as soon as things get tougher, I expect I'll flounder.
I've decided to make learning languages a higher priority. I have slacked off in recent months but just the same, my Spanish improved during the hiatus.
Last year really was nuts. It was a year when the authorities managed to convince people that even though they have no symptoms of an illness and feel as right as rain, they need to go get tested for the illness they don’t have, using a test that is not fit-for-purpose, such that they come away telling others that they have the illness they don’t actually have. Imagine doing that before 2020:
I imagine you’d have been laughed out of the surgery. Yet not only is this what people have been doing for over 9 months, but we’ve been told that people who aren’t ill need to be placed in quarantine and cover their respiratory passages with a piece of cloth, lest they spread the illness they don’t have to others. It’s quite mad, but we can at least comfort ourselves that it will be a source of amusement for our descendants. The Deep State's Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup To Ensure Nothing Changes The Great 2020 Seasonal Flu/Influenza Disappearing Act "...As Stephen Lendman noted previously, claiming “lockdowns stopped flu in its tracks, (outbreaks) plummet(ting) by 98% in the United States” ignored that what’s called COVID is merely seasonal influenza combined with false positives (extremely high Ct) from PCR-Tests... "...And for that reason, the great 2020 disappearing flu
passes largely under the mass media’s radar. Media proliferated
mass deception and the power of repetition get most people to
believe and having successfully "killed the flu", they will
now do the same with COVID... and, if allowed by our betters,
we will all return to the new normal they desire...
I could have told you that. In fact I did--weeks ago.
I spent the day on the boat, filling a water tank, rinsing carpets, sleeping, and doing language study. I had wondered if doing multiple languages might confuse me and only found I confused French and Spanish once. At seven I am going to La Costa for darts again. Has it been a week? Wow! It has. This is Thursday again. Tempus fugit. I walked over to La Costa and we spent two hours visiting and throwing darts. Then I walked back down Topete towards home. Halfway I decided I really needed a baño and since I was walking by Toto's and they were open, I asked, "Hay baños ?". The young waiter said< "Si", and pointed. When I came out and stopped to wash my hands, he brought soap and I decided since I was using their facilities I'd have a beer. Soon after Nelson passed by on his way home from darts and stopped outside to talk to the cook through the ironwork facade. I hailed him and he came in for a beer. I had not eaten, and it was after nine already so ordered choripan from the menu. I had no idea what it was but got a bun with a big yellow pepper on top, a sausage inside and some fries. It was excellent. ($100 is 100 pesos, not dollars).
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home weather station data online I was dreaming again. It was too long and complex to detail here, but not particularly annoying. I rolled over and got up. My phone said 5:55.
I missed the 'net and maybe that was good. A friend wrote saying that his wife saw a video of the national Guard turning their backs on Biden's parade. I looked it up and here it is.
Snopes debunked it, though. Lately I am losing faith in Snopes but Snopes could be right Nothing is ever what it seems lately.
There are some political enthusiasts here but any attempt at political talk gets a laugh or nod and more often a grimace or cold look. We're here to get away from it. At home the weather has been mild and I don't see much snow. Life is good here. It rained for two days to everyone's amazement. It is mostly sunny and warm. Have not managed to untie to go out to the bays yet. Last night was perfect and tonight Captain Wayne performs at La Estrella del Mar, an open air beach cantina just down the calle from here. He plays guitar acoustically and sings. He is surprisingly good and I assume original. I do not recognise any of the songs he performs.
I did some sailboat washroom yoga this afternoon. The heads, as they are called on these boats are small but efficient. They are great for the user, but servicing is torture. Doing anything at all requires contorting to fit into small spaces and reaching up at odd angles for which the human body was never designed. My project today was the basin drain which is unacceptably slow. I think I discovered the reason, that being that someone had replaced the drain hose with a smaller size. I'll have to hunt down the right size hose and fittings.
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home weather station data online I was dreaming, again, when I awoke at six. I'll spare readers the details; it was interesting but too long and complex to detail here. The dreams were interesting and the symbols were quite transparent. It is fascinating to watch how the mind works in unconstrained symbolism when the conscious mind is not enforcing language and logic. All in all, these dreams were not particularly puzzling or annoying. I rolled over and got up. No significant numbers showed today. What to do? I have been here since the 6th--over two weeks--and done pretty much nothing. I have not untied the boat and gone anywhere. That is weird. I have to conclude that I am depressed.
My travel insurance runs out after 30 days and that does not bother me much but the border restrictions are increasing and that does worry me a lot. There is talk of barring international travel into Canada and Canada is stupid enough to think that is smart. Even individual Canadian provinces are trying to restrict travel from other provinces and I have to be back in The Great White North and in BC by the end of May.
At home, the coldest I see predicted is minus twenty-three through February 1st. That is reassuring, but a ten-day forecast is not reliable. In Swalwell, we often have a week of minus forty weather in January or early February and that is challenging for home heating systems. We are not out of the woods yet, but every day without that weather brings us closer to warming. When Boom Turns Into Crack-Up Boom I decided today that I need to get out and walk more so I walked to Chedraui and bought groceries, covering one and a half miles. On my way over I stopped at Lopez and the hardware store. I was looking for drain parts at Lopez and bought various small electrical items at the hardware. I took Uber home, though, due to the number and weight of the bags. If I had taken my pack, I might have walked. Uber's prices are up from 40 pesos to 48 pesos for my typical ride. That's a 20% hike. Compared to elsewhere that is cheap, but it makes a difference to me and, I assume, to the drivers. Will it reduce tips? I imagine it will. Once back on Baja Magic, and with the groceries stashed, I went for a spin in the dinghy. I didn't go far. The ride is terribly rough and I don't recall it ever being so bad. Maybe the rough ride is because Jimmy took the fins off the cavitation plates because one was broken. The fins are said to smooth the ride as well as get the boat on a plane faster, I intend to buy another set. They may be hard to mount, though as one side of the cavitation plate is broken. I had supper and decided to watch some Netflix. I looked for something light and came a across Swedish Dicks. It looked corny but with a name like that how could I resist? I watched about four episodes. Yes, it was corny, but watchable. I went to bed around nine and realised I did not drink even one beer today. That is probably a good precedent.
Interesting Alternate News and Opinion Sources. Here is a starting list of places to look for information that the MSM ignores or suppresses. The number of such sites is astounding and I gave up listing them after acquiring a few. Although some are quite reliable, some are questionable and a few articles here and there appear to be trolls or outright fabrications, for the most part IMO, there is much to be discovered. However, it is easy to waste a day down the rabbitholes.
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home weather station data online I got up at seven. There is no net today. I had breakfast, then went up top to see what was making the grumbling noise all night and as suspected, my dinghy was rubbing on the swim ladder. No problem. Forecast is mostly sunny with a high of twenty-one. At home the predicted highs are minus nine and lows are minus twenty-three with no significant wind or snowfall.
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I disagree with him, of course, but there is no point in arguing. His viewpoint is common and illustrates the orthodoxy promoted by the elites conveyed by the mass media. Few if any of those elites have suffered at all and most are still getting paid regularly. Many are making money hand over fist but they demand the common folks make huge sacrifices.
* * * * * I should note that the same people who were up in arms against a few women wearing niqāb in public and that covering the face was improper are the same folks who insist we all wear them. A few of us find this hilarious but most of the semi-conscious public just don't notice the irony. * * * * * I really should go out for a short shakedown cruise today. I see the current flows out until two, then comes back after. That is ideal for a run to Punta Prieta and back to check things out. I could just go to Bahia Falsa for a day, too, seeing as I have groceries now. * * * * * Was anyone naive enough to think that vaccination would end the panic and the lockdowns? If so, Have have this gold brick I'll sell at a deep discount. The mob has turned on travelers now, and that is understandable because we are seeing Stockholm Syndrome. Once people join a religion, they tend to look askance at anyone who questions their faith. Once prisoners or slaves have accepted justification for their imprisonment and impoverishment they resent any of their fellows with different beliefs who remain free and unencumbered. Encouraged by the mob hysteria, the Canadian authorities feel justified in doubling down now and I am wondering if I'll ever be able to go home without running a gauntlet of increasingly draconian measures or even face a complete border closure. Once borders are closed, they are hard to reopen. Just ask Alberta beekeepers, denied US packages since agreeing to a 'temporary, precautionary' closure in 1986. * * * * *
Want some cheap real estate, watch wildlife all around, and be able to isolate at the same time? Here's your chance.
Rather than following the pack and mandating harsh rules, South Dakota provides our residents with information about what is happening on the ground in our state—the science, facts and data. Then, we ask all South Dakotans to take personal responsibility for their health, the health of their loved ones, and—in turn—the health of our communities. The state hasn't issued lockdowns or mask mandates. We haven't shut down businesses or closed churches. In fact, our state has never even defined what an "essential business" is. That isn't the government's role. * * * * * The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms no longer applies * * * * * I noticed online at eight this morning that my bin auger at home was running empty and the main auger was bare. I notified MLE but she was slow responding and then slow getting over there and we can see when she got there and how long it takes for the coal to travel to the furnace and produce heat on the time and temperature graph from my online data, then the temperature overshoot and return to baseline.
After supper (salmon and broccoli) I talked to Bill on the phone, watched a few more Swedish Dicks episodes, and went to bed after nine.
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home weather station data online I woke at 0130 and was not sleepy, so got up and had breakfast, It is warm tonight. I went back to bed two hours later and lay awake for an hour. I don't usually do that. If I can't sleep I get up, but was having lots of interesting thoughts and watched myself fall into sleep twice before surfacing again. I guess I fell asleep a third time and at seven I got up, listened to the disgusting Canadian news and spent some time writing. I am moderating BEE-L these days and this morning I received a polarized post about 'deniers' and that forced a decision on how to handle such topics. I know where this leads... I had previously returned a post with hostile overtones for editing and re-submission and received no thanks from the unhappy writer. That cured me of niceness and from now on it is approve or deny. No courtesy rejection notice in flagrant cases unless I am in a particularly good mood and ready for abuse. As I wrote to another moderator: Back when microcomputers were a new thing and we saved data on audio tapes if we were lucky and it worked, I had a program called Star Trek.
It was all text and like an adventure game.
You'd start with a ship and a crew, food, various armaments, fuel,
and a cargo to deliver, and have to find the destination and deal
with Klingons*
and mishaps, and also find friendly bases to re-provision along
the way.
In those cases,
the program became increasingly unresponsive and eventually totally
unresponsive.
We expect to be
told when we fail or take the wrong road, but in life there are
no insistent warning messages, flashing lights or bells ringing.
We simply lose this and damage that until we are down to nothing
and are sitting at a blank console with no options and no response
from our controls. We have just lost and maybe don't even realise
it. * Autocorrect wants to change Klingons to 'Clintons'. Same thing? Today I plan to patch the dingy's final small leak and get fins for the outboard
* * * * * I realised today that I am too comfortable. It is time to do something different. Maybe a trip to Puerto Vallarta is in the cards. I walked up to the bank and back, stopping at Lopez to buy some parts, then returned and upsized the basin drain for faster emptying. I see an improvement. I has supper and visited with jack a while. Apparently Luis has cut out several holes in Jack's deck to repair voids. Seems drastic. I returned and went to bed early.
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home weather station data online I'm up at five-thirty and cleaning up and doing laundry by hand in the sink. Crazes tend to end and now that the relentless efforts of the media and governors to oust Trump has succeeded for now at least, the narrative is changing. Guess what? The Wuflu is not all that dangerous to most people after all and lockdowns are harmful. Where have you heard the before? Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don't Work ,,,In none of the 8 countries and in none out of the 16 comparisons (against Sweden or South Korea) were the effects of mrNPIs significantly negative (beneficial). The point estimates were positive (point in the direction of mrNPIs resulting in increased daily growth in cases)... That is, the more restrictive lockdown measures pointed to worse outcomes. the authors suggest those areas with lower covid mortality are areas where the public pursued low-hanging fruit in terms of slowing the spread. This included canceling large, crowded events and limiting travel. More stringent requirements on top of this appeared to produce no beneficial effect, and, if anything, had the opposite of the intended effect. But as the mounting evidence discussed above suggests, the lockdowns don't even produce the desired effects. So vulnerable people suffering from depression, untreated cancer, and other life-threatening conditions were forced to simply suffer unaided for no justifiable reason. This was done to fit a political narrative, but it was based on a batch of bad assumptions, half-baked science, and the arrogance of politicians. That has been obvious to any impartial observer all along. Wherever the lockdowns have seemed to work, the tapering of infections has been simply due to seasonal effects and the natural course of a virus contagion. Of course, people will say lockdowns worked, just as primitives believed their sacrifices cause the sun to return at Winter Solstice. As always, cynical, crafty leaders use their knowledge of natural ebb and flow to prove their power to credulous populations.
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I'm not doing much today. I spent a lot of time at the keyboard. and made a stew. I'm airing the bedding and washed the towels. BEE-L is getting quite active. Aaron tended to okay messages a few times a day and I have been handy to okay pretty well in real time so things are moving faster. It is 2:45 and a few minutes ago a north wind picked up and is now rocking the boat. I have been thinking I should walk up town for exercise and get a piece of pipe for an outboard tiller extension. I spent some time, too, on OpenCPN. The software is powerful, but the documentation is out of date. It is open an source collaboration and the software folks make changes that then documentation folks don't hear about or are too busy to rewrite the relevant sections. Good charts are essential to navigation because, although some hazards are obvious, one never can be sure what might be under the water without a good chart. One little rock can ruin your whole day. In keeping with my intention to walk more, I walked up to the hardware store and back. I had wanted to get a piece of tubing to extend my outboard tiller so that was a good excuse. With the short tiller, I have to be back near the engine and that keeps the boat from planing easily. With an extension I can be farther forward and the boat rides much better. I walked a mile and a half. La Paz is my home now and I wonder how long I will stay or if I'll move on. That was my original intent. I see that the Canadian governments in their idiocy are planning more travel restrictions now that the horse has left the barn and they have blown a trillion dollars on useless lockdowns. I don't think they can refuse to let me go home, bit they can make it difficult. MLE us slow responding when Notice furnace issues. I wonder if I were not watching remotely if she would catch on when the auger is bare. In warm weather it is not a worry, but in cold weather like today with a strong east wind, the temperature drops fast. I don't want to be a nag, but I wonder if I should have found someone to back her up. I have to say that she has been good thus far and the support of her parents has been a bonus.
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home weather station data online I'm up at six. It is still dark and the boat has been rubbing against the fenders all night, pushed by the tide and rocked by winds and swells, even here, deep in the marina. I listened to the news and I don't like it. Canada is going nuts and talking about making travellers quarantine in hotels at their own expense on arrival. The mob has no ability to reason and our leaders are driven before them. I'm watching my home and so far all is well.
Get Used To Living Under "Subsidiarity" After The Great Reset Protecting My “Extremist” Content From Censorship GameStop Short Squeeze Is Rage Against the Financial Machine - Today was breezy and cool at about twenty Celsius and I was not inclined to go out. In fact, I closed the hatches and stayed in. I have been tired and lazy and got almost nothing done. BEE-L is hopping though. Since I am approving posts in almost real time, the flow has been a gusher. I pulled my bunk apart to try to figure why my Heart Interface battery monitor does not catch all the current flow from the batteries and accumulates errors over time. It should add and subtract the current production and usage and calculate how much battery is left. Some wire is in the wrong place, but which one(s)?
I thought I understood it last year but it is a mystery to me today. That is the problem: I study up on something, get distracted for months and when I come back to it later, I can't recall. There is s switch under the bunk and I have no clue what it does. I followed the wires and they disappear in the general direction of the cockpit. I can't think what they are for. That reminds me. I did not do my Spanish today. I was grooving right along two days ago but then suddenly started making errors. I discourage easily, so I did very little study yesterday. I have to push So, I did get down to it and did about five times my daily quota.
Then I watched Netflix and went to bed at 9:30, but did not go to sleep so got back up and am finishing these notes. Now, back to bed...
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home weather station data online I'm up at 0530. I woke and was wide a wake so i got up. Last night I could not get to sleep and had a pain in a shin, so around ten-thirty I took two Benadryl and an aspirin. I don't like to do that due to the reports that Benadryl can hasten dementia, and aspirin can increase or reduce risk of aggressive cancer, but what the heck? It is an increased risk, not certainty. I am beginning to think that reading articles about medical studies can increase the risk of insanity. The norte winds have diminished and the boat is no longer groaning as loudly against the fenders. Think it has also warmed up a bit. It is seventeen in here this morning. The day promises to be warmer. I wonder if my funk yesterday was related to the winds.
Finally, now that it is becoming clear that the GME shorts may be trapped in the stock, which can technically drift in perpetuity since the SI simply can't drop, one way this could end is when Gamestop sells stock to the shorts who are desperate to get out but just can't find enough freely floated shares. Why do hens lay infertile eggs? Why did evolution create a chicken that lays so many unfertilized eggs when that is so wasteful? The next question is perhaps, "Why do chickens lay unfertilized eggs at all?" The reason is that the egg is mostly developed before being fertilized. The chicken cannot know in advance whether the egg will end up fertilized or not, so it just has to go ahead and grow the egg in the hopes that it will be fertilized. In the wild, this system works well because mating among fowls is common and most eggs do end up fertilized.
Well, it is twenty to three and I've had a full day already. I spent some time measuring rope for the dinghy then decided to walk to--somewhere. I figured need to walk and I thought I might get as far a Chedraui, but Sea Mar was my first stop. I wanted more of that beautiful blue rope I had on the dinghy and that asshat Bob (Still owes me $700 US) had cut off. I also needed two eye bolts. He had taken them off too. Sea Mar had neither so I went to Lopez. Blanks there, too. They had the bolts but the price was a king's ransom. I walked up Cinco de Febrero to Tornillos y Birlos (Screws and Studs according to Google but I think it lost something in translation) They pointed me to Ferre Mar but I decided to walk south on Madero instead and went to Chedraui. I absolutely loved the stroll. These streets are a mish mash of well-kept homes, trashy vacant lots and informal outdoor car repair facilities. At Chedraui, I bought groceries and then walked over to Traeesa Express. This the hardware store a mile from home where I find myself walking every day for the last few days. Well, let's forget yesterday. By then my pack was heavy and my feet complained. but now begins the part where it becomes clear why I love Mexico. Things started getting magical. I walked around the store looking for eyebolts. I had given up on stainless due to price, but found some galvanized ones I can afford without taking out a mortgage. However the nuts and washers were somewhere else. After a while I asked a woman wearing an apron for what I needed, using pantomime. She took it all in stride and pointed me to the bins and guess what? The one bin with what I need was empty. So, I took the empty bin over and she took me to the packaged parts section and we found nuts, but one size too small. Next, she beckoned and we went to the junk jar and she searched through and fished out the four nuts I needed. After all that, I went to the till and paid 47 pesos-- three bucks. Next. I walked toward home. Bill had said that the taller at Sinaloa y Topete was my best bet for getting my outboard fin welded, so I walked by and stopped. The shop is open air and the welder was not wearing a mask, but the boss was. I asked if he spoke English. No. So I showed a picture of the outboard damage. He and the welder looked at it and he pointed to a fin on another bottom end that they had just repaired. Perfect. A customer was interested, and he spoke some English, so after some discussion they said they need to see it. The customer said, let's go, and drove me to Marina de La Paz. He said his name is Antonio, but his nickname is Nietzsche or something close. We arrived and he waited in the car. I went to get the motor. I lifted the outboard off the dinghy onto the dock and was starting to carry it to the car when Nietzsche appeared on the dock and started to help. At that moment, Jimmy, the outboard repair guy showed up and said don't carry it that way. It's a four-stroke and the oil will spill. Okay. Seems Jimmy and Nietzsche are pals and they chatted a while, then off we went. Back at the shop, The boss, the welder and Nietzsche talked and I was told, "Six hundred pesos". That is about $30 US. I said, "Yes". They said tomorrow at ten and Nietzsche drove me home. Wow! That is how Canada used to be. So, I settled in and called Mom. She is bored, so I called my daughter, Jean, thinking to ask her to call Mom. Well, that did not go well. She thinks my whole life is screwed up and that I don't respect her, her family, etc. etc. Wow. I finally had to say, time to hang up. Who was expecting that? I had supper and walked over to darts at La Costa and stopped on the way back for that excellent sandwich. I was in bed by ten.
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Jon, my son in California was writing to firm up plans to ski the
Rockies in March and I shared this:
He and his family all had covid-19(84) at
Christmas,
I installed the Doel Fins of the outboard and they make a huge difference in ride. However, they do slow me down a bit. We'll see..
At five, I headed out for the Magote to swim. The day had turned hot and and the conditions were calm. Water temp was 68 F last I checked but did not check today. The dinghy runs well now. Halfway across the channels I hit the sandbar. The charts say it should be down 0.6 meters at chart datum so that is what I was expecting and should have cleared nicely.
That meant the depth was ~0.2 meters or ~6 inches and the sandbar stopped me quite a abruptly. Actually I could have stopped to swim there, but there was current and I don't have an anchor for the dinghy, so I resumed my trip and went over to the Magote where I had a very nice swim. The water was perfect. By the time I returned to the boat, I was running late to get to Estella del Mar to grab a large table for our group as promised, so I showered and changed and walked over. There was no problem getting a table. * * * * * * This IMO is what we are seeing in Canada. After a year of abuse, people are demanding and supporting more and more abuse in the face of evidence that the measures are not helpful. * * * * * *
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Today is going to be warm and sunny, like most days here. Tonight we are off to another concert. This time is is Pete Thompson at Marea, the beach resort where I washed up the other day when my gas line broke. In the meantime, I plan to raise the dinghy to the deck, scrape the barnacles and replace the hooks that Bob took off when he had the dinghy.
I called Wendy and Ken at their winter home in Bucerias to see what they make of the nasty news from Canada about cancelled flights and draconian isolation, etc., and they figure to stick it out here and damn the torpedoes.
Well, enough of that. I'm going out to finish the dinghy and get ready to go out sailing. Next Tuesday and Wednesday look ideal for a trip to Bahia Falsa. I'm looking forward to another swim this afternoon and I won't leave it so late.
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I raised the outboard from the dinghy. Next I raise the dinghy onto the deck. I'm feeling lazy, though and it is cool and breezy out there. * * * * * *
I raised the dinghy onto the deck and scrubbed the dinghy bottom. The marine growth was not too bad but I want the surfaces clean and dry for some surface work I want to do and also for gluing the one remaining open seam. That seam is in the bow and does not leak unless I put weight forward and then only slowly, but once I seal that, the dinghy should be watertight. I also installed the eye-bolts. As I was cutting off the excess thread, Nelson came by and said he is not gong to Marea tonight. He had walked to Chedraui and no his knee was killing him. I headed over at six-forty and came across George walking the same way so we walked along Topete until Leanne and Dave came by and offered us a ride. We all arrived and found our tables. I sat with Calvin and his group until nine and had enough. I was getting a bit chilled. Although I wore a vest and sweater, I was in shorts and where were were was exposed to the norte coming in from the beach. . The others wanted to stay until ten so I was driven home.
I'm finding these sources
less interesting lately. I'll start trimming tomorrow.. Here is a starting list of places to look for information that the MSM ignores or suppresses. The number of such sites is astounding and I gave up listing them after acquiring a few. Although some are quite reliable, some are questionable and a few articles here and there appear to be trolls or outright fabrications, for the most part IMO, there is much to be discovered. However, it is easy to waste a day down the rabbitholes.
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I woke at seven and got up. I'd been dreaming.
There was a lot more interesting detail, but that is the gist of it. The general feeling was quite neutral. I was more an observer than a participant although the viewpoint was through my eyes. * * * * * *
Caveat Emptor - Are You A WSB 'Useful Idiot'?
I wondered
when someone would point this out. "A short squeeze is legal, but when a coordinated attempt at price manipulation is attempted, then it can be defined as a dangerous offense. This is a grey area. If you are new to finance, please study up on what happened when previous traders have tried to “corner the silver market” or the infamous Volkswagen trade or LIBOR manipulation"
The reason I say this to you
is because every mania since 1918 has led to a major market
crash over the past 100 years. In every major market crash,
it was retail accounts being locked out which led to
crippling economic losses amid the retail public who
exuberantly placed their savings into the market. "In 1929, Joe Kennedy saw, was horrified and wrote to the WSJ that manias were encouraging retail traders to form trading clubs and were investing in “Insull Trusts” and hundreds of penny trade brokerages were emerging in New York to prey on their inexperience. The Insull Trusts were overleveraged assets, often real estate and utility companies which were propped up by stock buybacks and equity speculation. When the first market crash happened, which led to the Great Depression, it was the Penny Brokers, unable to satisfy retail accounts due to the brokerages own cash crunches which led to the infamous riots and wave of iconic “jumping” suicides in the weeks after the crash. Those were not bankers who killed themselves but wiped out retail punters as documented in many economic history books about the crash. * * * * * * Is ivermectin effective against covid? * * * * * * Today looks bright and sunny, but with a high of only twenty and a strong north wind at 25 KPH all day. I want to get the dinghy finished and on the davits today. My thought is to go out to anchor Tuesday and Wednesday as they promise to be warm and calm. NordVPN is screwing up my computer again. This happens periodically and causes me hours of frustration. If I don't use a VPN, though, the browsers and searches detect my server location and send me tons of stuff that is irrelevant to what I am doing, in Spanish. * * * * * * Ok. Now it is clear. Assuming this is correct, the fascists are in full charge in Canada.
Police Take Traveling Woman into
Mandatory COVID Isolation in Canada Don't like Canada's new mandatory quarantine? It's part of why New Zealand is now back to normal Canada is not New Zealand. Not nearly. It seems the Trudeau government screwed up maintaining a supply of PPE, ignored the fact that flights were coming in from highly infected Wuhan, botched the purchase of vaccines, and now is now placing unwarranted and unconstitutional burdens on Canadian citizens returning from their winter homes with the excuse that there are mutations out there. Mutations happen everywhere, including Canada and viruses tend to mutate toward reduced lethality if permitted. And now, from real experts, we read this:
The company announced that the shots
V590 and V591 were ‘well tolerated’ by test patients,
however they generated an ‘inferior’ immune system
response in comparison with natural infection.
Meanwhile, in related news, German scientists have claimed that the UK Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is less than 8% effective in over 65s, prompting the vaccine developers to hit back, rubbishing the claims. This has been obvious all along but has been verboten to say. The really smart people said all along we need treatments, much more than vaccines. Only a minority of people get really sick, but that is all we hear about. Over and over. Hydroxychloroquine + zinc and azithromycin was known almost from the start to be effective in reducing symptoms and preventing progression, but HCQ was slandered by false claims and faked 'studies'. Thousands of lives could have been saved and many who suffered a bad case might have had only mild symptoms. Ivermectin is proven to be a preventative of sorts and a successful treatment but also encountered resistance from the vaccine promoters. Both are cheap and available, but money talks. * * * * * *
I found my Internet issue and it was not the VPN. It was the pedestal. The receptacle had become pushed in so I put a nylon tie on it and now the Internet is back. * * * * * * I glued the dinghy and now it is ready to go. I could maybe do a bit more, but there is really no need. I certainly hope so!
Red Deer mother in tears as son taken to undisclosed
isolation centre * * * * * * I feel like crap today. I think it was those nachos last night. I should know better. My encounter with my daughter the other day did not help, either, and the dull weather, and wind was a downer. The Internet issue was just one more thing. I'm glad I resolved it. I had a nap this afternoon and will go to bed early. I'll watch some video, too and do some Spanish. Oh, and those police state actions recently in Canada are shocking. I watched a bit of video and was in bed before nine. * * * * * *
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