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A greeting in Polish, or in English... "Merry Christmas!" In any language, remember the reason for "The Season," and the cancel culture can just get bent.

Mark My Word...

I almost forgot about this. My wife and I were in the Stop & Shop in Sturbridge, MA this past Saturday night. It was the first time I had been in one of those stores in a long time. As we walked in along the main aisle at the front of the store, I see this.

A potential Terminator Unit disguised as a "floor cleaner"

"CLEAN UP ON AISLE 5." I always say "cleaning the floor today and enslaving us tomorrow." Here is a short video of it over in the produce section. It came up from behind us... I think it knows I suspect it.

 

 

 

 

I have no robots or fully automated anything in my house. Anything that has WI-FI capability is blocked from connecting to my router. My clothes washer and newest garage door opener have the capability to connect, but they are not. If I can start or stop my washer or open my garage door by an app on my phone, so can a hacker. In the future as the "Internet of Things" is more wide spread, anything with that capability will be powered off unless I am actually directly controlling and using it.

Now to go get the aluminum foil to make a new hat. 😨

"YA FUCKIN' SLOB!!"

That's what I call out to those absolute pigs that either just finished handling their junk at the urinal, or wiped their ass and simply walk out of the restroom. It happened again today at the BJ'S. As I went in there was a older black guy already at the urinal. He was either Haitian, African, or some kind of black muzzrat and when he was done he headed right for the door. I called after him as usual "Ya Fuckin' Slob!" and he just kept on walkin'. Yup, straight for the grocery section because that's where I found him when I came out, and where he was about to paw over food stuff with his pissed on junk handling dick grabbers. GROSS!

When I walked into the store, there was the sign I and several others ignored about having to wear a mask of oppression in the store at all times. I felt like going up to the courtesy counter and telling them instead of worrying about phony-baloney mask compliance, they oughta post a hand washing monitor in the restrooms. Working in EMS, I am a prolific hand washer, so my human waste or germs won't end up all over the packaging of mine or someone elses food. And since I have natural immunity, I won't be spreading ChiCom Xi Flu walking around breathing freely as a "VACCINE FREE" non-lab rat.

Replaced My Home Smoke Detectors

One of the things I talk to people about in the fire service, both for fire prevention and when we go on service calls for smoke or C.O. detectors, is how they only last about 7 years. I show the homeowner the manufacture date stamped on the back, and if it is older than 7 years or is so old it doesn't have a date I recommend immediate replacement.

We built our house in 2004/2005 and it has 6 hardwired Kidde FIREX smoke detectors with 9V battery backup. I had two crap out needing replacement years ago, but the other four were original. I finally followed my own advice and replaced them all with brand new Kidde FIREX i4816AC models since every one was older than 7 years. They run on 120VAC and use 12-3 wire daisy chained to every receptacle box. The red lead in the 12-3 is a signal wire that if one goes off, they all go off. The red LED tells you which one alarmed if there is no visible fire. Of course, each one needed a new mounting plate and plug-in pigtail. Since I have an electrical background this was easy-peasy and all six were swapped out and tested in a little more than an hour. You should definitely call an electrician to do such a swap if you don't have the skills or ability to do this.

Those detectors are placed where they are per code and wake us up first. I also have an additional smoke detector on each floor tied into my home alarm system to alert the fire department in case we're not home. Those still have time to go before needing replacement.

Am I Missing Something Here?

Paywalls... they seem to be popping up more and more. First of all on media. If you're going to link to a published article in your blog, how about a warning that a paid subscription will be needed to read it so I don't waste my fucking time clicking on it just to find out I'm gonna dump the page because I AIN'T PAYIN'!!  Same thing applies to blogs requiring a subscription to read. Again, if it ain't free, it ain't for me. I just finshed scrolling through the Normal American blog list, of which a good half dozen times I clicked on a blog only to find they require payment to read. If I have to pay you to read your words of wisdom, then it isn't that important to me.

My blog is free, and ad free, and will stay that way. Without ads to annoy my readers, the evil Google won't pay attention to my "distasteful" ramblings and bother cancelling me because there is nothing to demonetize. I have a job, I don't need to try to make money here, and never have to give up my true identity in order to receive payment.