4:50 A.M. Thursday December 01 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA 2022 - the year that finally convinced me I am old and mortal. Now, mortal I figured out 7½ years ago when a stroke dropped me at work and I was unable to walk for a few days and then had to use a cane for a few months. But I was only 55, and 55 ain't old really. And 62 ain't really THAT old, but I began getting serious about music in 1972, and this year (50 years later) has seen many of those I…
1:10 P.M. Thursday December 01 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA I was starting to wonder where ol' P.T. was at today, usually he's put in a couple of visits before 10 A.M. and here it was already 1 P.M. before he showed up for his first feed.
Plans are slowly coming to fruition over at Noise.app as the option to transfer all the info from our accounts here at .cash to our .app accounts begins to be rolled out. You can see Simon's post here: https://noise.app/simon/8k0nzlzk
Well, I am clicking the 'Start Import' button to transfer everything to Noise.app, which means I'll no longer be able to post here, so I'll either see you there or I won't.
1:50 A.M. Saturday December 03 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Since I've been busy 'shrinking' my online 'footprint' quite a bit, I almost left everything over at Noise.cash to The Grim Deleter, but what the hell, I went ahead and started the import to here. Weather is on a downward spiral, I woke up shortly before midnight with the temp at 13 °C/56 °F which is actually today's high temp, by dawn it is supposed to be just above freezing (1 °C) and stay in that…
My follower count here is currently 553, my 'import' lists 2526, some of which are already here, many, I am almost sure, that will not appear here. It'll be a little interesting to see how the number changes as accounts are switched over to here.
12:44 P.M. Saturday December 03 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Chicken Ramen noodles with diced chicken and diced tomatoes and sliced jalapenos and lots of people don't like the jalapenos but them babies will help warm you up if it is a bit chilly. Might wanna get some lip balm - I use a LOT of jalapenos. lol
4:40 A.M. Sunday 04 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA So either the Cashrain site doesn't have a list of communities you are already a member of or I am blind, and the second part is always a good bet. lol And having a 'search' feature isn't really helping since it returns a 'No communities found' result unless you type the full proper community name. Anyway, I joined a half-dozen or so communities yesterday and didn't bookmark them or anything because I…
2:00 P.M. Sunday 04 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA I usually do not get Sunday packages delivered, and I am not sure why they were in such a hurry to get this to me but I opened the front door to check on the beasts and there was Emoci on the front porch perched on the package just looking around. So I brought the package in and she followed me and as soon as I sat it down she resumed her seat. In case you wonder, the package is new blackout curtains…
3:35 A.M. Monday 05 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA So I logged in this morning to see my 'followers' had increased by 65 as more people follow the migration. Also started noticing posts that are older than the site (.app) is which flummoxed me for a moment until I realized they were migrated discussions/posts. Emoci found a spot next to me for a nap, she doesn't want anything other than to be close to Dad while she sleeps. And it was 52 years ago today…
Just found my first cashbox on Cashrain and BOOM! got <0.01 BCH ($1.00). Rather cool.
3:54 A.M. Tuesday 06 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Watching accounts migrating here that have not posted in .cash since January 2021 and have not made a single post here in .app yet. 329,571 Noise.cash accounts - I wonder how many will 'make the change'? I can hardly keep up with the 'Explore' section right now. lol *takes a sip of coughee* 6 more days until my appointment at the eye clinic - I'm really hoping I have new glasses before Christmas, I'm…
12:50 P.M. Tuesday 06 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Joe Walsh and his 1974 release #SoWhat on the #Sansui turntable this afternoon. This #AudioTechnica is a fairly old cartridge, but I put a fresh stylus (needle) in on a regular basis and it don't sound too shabby over the #Marantz receiver and #Infinity tower speakers.
5:55 A.M. Thursday 08 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Cold, dark, and wet. Three of my least favorite things. But I went out and hauled both trash containers to the curb for pickup this morning, and then came nack in to where the coughee is hot and the cats are warm, only for the cats to decide THEY want to go out in the cold & dark & damp. Oh well... So I made an appointment for my eyes because I need glasses to read anything small, and the dumbasses…
9:51 A.M. Thursday 08 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Boo hoo, for some reason I have lost 42 followers here since last time I had looked - I imagine they were probably migrated here from Noise.cash and were people following me there that never talked to me (which begs the question why they followed me in the first place) and of course without interaction from them, I never knew who they were anyway, so goodbye and whatever. lol Photo from my archives,…
2:45 A.M. Friday 09 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA A Girl and her Skwirl(s). I still get such a laugh out of watching Emoci as she engages in her favorite pastime, Skwirl Watching. And most days the squirrels don't seem very concerned about her watching. They simply go about their squirrelly business as though it was just another day in the park (or in this case, my front yard). However, it appears that her behaviour has rubbed off onto my two male cats…
I decided to remove my account at Cashrain. I don't feel comfortable being part of a site who's 'owner' is so at odds with me politically, and the closer I looked, the less I want to be associated with him in any way. But y'all have fun and enjoy the BCH rain. It's there to be had. I just don't want it.
4:05 A.M. Saturday 10 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA TOTALLY SEXIST POST YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED Tits are great - when I am in the mood to look at tits. Tits are annoying as anything imaginable when I am not looking for them or when the person showing them is probably some guy anyway. And Twitter tits are the worst of all. Accounts keep showing up when I 'explore' my interests - which are solely based around music there - of 'women' who 'like Guns 'n'…
8:51 A.M. Saturday 10 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA *let it be known I am not saying this is a true story if only because I hadn't thought of it before* So I had this vegetarian ask me why I wanna kill the animals and I said 'cause they taste really good. And he told me that animals have feelings too and deserve to live and I was a murderer and I should become a vegetarian. And *I* said "But cows and many other animals eat vegetables, therefore they…
11:00 A.M. Monday 12 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Finally had an eye appointment this morning to get fitted for glasses, and unless I misunderstood, my Medicare/Medicaid insurance is going to cover all the costs - and if this is so, I wish I had known that a few years ago, I wouldn't have waited so long. I only went now because I knew I could afford it out of my own pocket after getting a small inheritance from my father's death. Now we wait for the…
When you scold your cat for being on the table and she says she is not on the table, the BOX is on the table and she is on the box...
5:25 A.M. Wednesday 14 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Hard Rock Wednesday Band: AC/DC Release: Back In Black Atlantic Records 1980 There will never be another record made like this one. It has sold 25 million copies in the US alone, and several millions more throughout the world. Just as AC/DC was breaking big world-wide, their lead singer, Bon Scott, died from alcohol poisoning. Stepping into his shoes was a relative unknown, Brian Johnson - and this…
8:00 A.M. Wednesday 14 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA When was the last time you watched a VHS tape on your VCR? I got my first TCL/Roku TV 4 years ago today - and just finally got around to buying the stuff to run the a/v signal (RCA jacks) from the back of the VCR into an adapter which comes out as an HDMI signal that goes to the TV. Now I can start going through the music collection of VHS tapes I have - starting out with R.E.M.'s 'Road Movie', which…
7:35 A.M. Friday 16 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA I do not really 'do' Christmas. Regardless of what people want to think, it is not the anniversary of the birth of Jesus, in fact the first time his 'birthday' was celebrated on December 25th was over 300 years after he died. It is simply another made-up day. (I had someone try to tell me it was in the Bible that Christ was born at midnight between the 24th and 25th of December, but the Bible says…
2:45 P.M. Friday 16 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA I was chasing links earlier checking something out and one went to Instagram - where I have an account I have never used - and it told me my account was disabled for violating their rules or TOS or some such and did I want to contest it and I had 20 days left out of 30 - well, yeah, I wanted to contest it because I don't do anything there so how could I have violated anything? (And I also wondered why I…
10:22 A.M. #Caturday 17 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Currently cold and more cold all weekend until Monday afternoon when allegedly it will reach 2 degrees for a high of the day. High today and tomorrow are both 0 degrees. So I started me up a crock pot/slow cooker batch of chili around 4:30 A.M. my time and it will be done with its 6-hour cook in about 8 more minutes. The weather radar shows ice/snow, but looking out the window there is no…
6:40 A.M. Sunday 18 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Well, I hadn't planned on doing it until Tuesday, because the antenna was scheduled for delivery Monday, but they delivered it yesterday instead (Saturday) so... Anyway, this thing arrived in around 90 pieces that I had to assemble and the 'directions' included made about as much sense as trying to tune a piano with a fish. But I found someone that had made an instructional video, so early today I…
3:35 A.M. Monday 19 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Currently -8 degrees out with a high of one degree (Celsius) expected today (for the Fahrenheit crew that is currently 19 with a high of 34.) Damn heater went BOOM! last night just as I was falling asleep. Faulty pilot ignition sometimes allows gas to build up before the burners ignite and so there is a miniature natural gas explosion when it does it - used to do it 3-4 times each winter but didn't do…
6:30 A.M. Monday 19 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA And here comes Old Man Winter to help usher in Christmas. Just looked at the extended forecast and it appears Thursday - which will be the warmest day this week - will also be the coldest night. And although snow is forecast for Friday, accumulation will be less than one inch, so by Sunday when Christmas arrives it'll be gone - no white Christmas for my area this year. Currently -7 with an expected high…
2:05 P.M. Monday 19 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA The squirrels in both photos are the same, actually. The brown (technically an Eastern Grey Squirrel, the brown goes away after the first year or so) also carries the albino gene that the first photo exhibits. The white one is also an Eastern Grey squirrel but is expressing the latent gene that all Eastern Grey squirrels carry. They were a bit hongry since I didn't put any feed out yesterday, it was…
G'mornin' from the USA part of the world. 4:15 A.M. and it is cold outside right now (-2 °C) but utter insanity occurs Friday morning (in 72 more hours) when the forecast calls for -21 °C with a wind-chill (feels like) temp of -34 °C. Beautiful Southern Illinois weather lol The temperature is supposed to dip below freezing Thursday evening and will not rise above freezing until next Wednesday, with daily high temperatures Friday through Tuesday all below 0. I dislike Winter.…
Well, this makes sense. Registration has finally been closed at Noise.cash so there will not be any more new users joining there asking how they can get money from it. And I am not sure if Read.cash was always like this, but it is now invite-only. Also just found out I can no longer make replies to anything on Noise.cash
6:10 A.M. Wednesday 21 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Everyone is building up that layer of winter fat to help protect them from the cold. I noticed it in my squirrels the other day and this morning three of the raccoons appeared - fat and sassy - feeding underneath the Squirrel Tree. Maybe I'll just start telling everyone I'm simply bulking up for the winter. lol Sunrise in about an hour from now, currently -2 °C with an expected high today of 5 °C.
Starting out the day with an old favorite, Rush and their 1976 release '2112'. Thursday 22 December 2022 4:40 AM Well, tonight is when the bad weather moves in to my area, we are only going to get a couple of inches of snow (some areas are calling for blizzard conditions) but the thermometer is going to drop below 0 and stay there for the next 5-6 days. Not looking forward to it. In fact, we've already reached today's high temp and it will do nothing but go down the rest of…
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run Stretching out my morning music session a bit, some days simply need a soundtrack... Side one 1. Band on the Run 2. Jet 3. Bluebird 4. Mrs. Vandebilt 5. Let Me Roll It Side two 1. Mamunia 2. No Words 3. Helen Wheels (US pressings only) 4. Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) 5. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
What the hell, we'll spin one more. Cartridge change for this one, some albums sound better with my older Audio-Technica cartridge/stylus instead of the Ortofon 2M Blue I usually run (which only audiophiles will understand what I am talking about). Second and third photos show what this particular 'picture disc' looks like (each side is different). Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction Side one 1. Skin o' My Teeth 2. Symphony of Destruction 3. Architecture of Aggression 4.…
4:50 PM Thursday 22 December Snowmageddon is coming... Currently -13 °C/8 °F and they say around midnight it'll drop to -19 °C. I don't think the cats will show much interest in going outside.
-22 °C @ 4 AM today and a couple of inches of snow outside. Wind pushing along at about 14 km/h makes it feel even worse. Meanwhile, Queen Emoci settled herself down right on top of the keyboard earlier, I guess she felt I wasn't giving her enough attention. Scar is situated on the bedroom floor, and Petey is feasting.
5 cents since December 20th. That is how much I have received in tips from people in Noise.app the past 3 days. 190 cents is how much I have handed out here in the past three days. A little bit of math shows that -190 + 5 = FRUSTRATION I guess I'll continue until I have nothing left in my wallet (which shouldn't take long at this rate).
2:50 A.M. Saturday 24 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA -15 °C outside at the moment, a bit warmer that yesterday when it was -22 about this time of day. Scar went out 3 times yesterday, each for less than 2 minutes, and Emoci doesn't even have any interest in it. I am a bit worried about P.T. though, he doesn't like being in houses a whole lot and he went out yesterday morning and I haven't seen him since. I'm sure he's holed up somewhere, but I'd feel…
Merry Christmas to those of you who do the Christmas thing. I realize not everyone does, and I also realize that not everyone that does do it does it the same way, because some don't hold with the commercial aspects or the St Nick or whatever, and others do it FOR those things and not for any religious purposes, and all I know is my birthday is in 11 days and everything will be on sale cheap like it always is after Christmas which means I'll buy myself something for my…
5:44 A.M. Monday 26 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Heatwave going on with the temp currently 21° and a high of 32° expected. Of course, that is in Fahrenheit. In Celsius, it is currently -6° with a high of 0°. And it is lightly snowing. So no, not a heat wave dang it. The day after Christmas and 'Boxing Day' and my cats heard that and started excitedly asking when did they get their boxes. Welcome to my Monday morning. Photo edit 7:45 AM - Squirrels…
Shooting (camera) birds in my front yard today. First photo is a Dark-eyed Junco (locally called a 'snowbird') and the second photo is a row of house sparrows, in fact could have been a spare row of sparrows. Monday 26 December 2022
5:30 A.M. Tuesday 27 December 2022 Somewhere in southeastern Illinois USA Had several pairs of cardinals (redbirds) feeding here yesterday, spots of bright color all throughout the trees. Second photo also shows a good view of a blue jay (I had three of them dive-bombing the feeders).
Morning scurry of squirrels feeding with a blue jay in the background making a momentary appearance.
Last night I finally received a vinyl copy of my youngest brother's band's first release 'In Front Of God & Nobody'. Just about the time I was getting ready to 'unplug' for the night, there was a discrete knock at my front door, and I opened it to find Parker Fyffe, the lead singer/leader of the band, standing there with a late Christmas gift for yours truly.
Caffeine and nicotine, two great tastes that go great together! or some bullshit like that. lol Lots of people 'missing in action' here lately, I guess they don't want to take a chance on things unless they know they will get paid for it. My view is they sure as hell will not get paid anything for NOT posting, so they are kind of defeating their purpose. Oh well...I'm still here.
Scar always looks like he is in a bad mood or ready to kick someone's ass. He is rather aggressive most of the time and has been known to give me a good hiss when I tell him 'No' about things. I've even been the recipient of a few serious 'growls' a time or two - boy has a terrible disposition when he doesn't get his way. I put this 15 in/38 cm deep shelf in the kitchen window a few days ago - the window sill is only 4 in/10 cm deep and they didn't really have much room to…
If anyone had plans they wanted to complete before 2023 arrives they'd better get busy. lol 3:22 A.M. finds me on my first mug of coughee and my second smoke of the day - although only a few sips remain in my mug so I should probably get another pot ready. Speaking of pot, no, I haven't smoked any yet today, I like to at least wait for sun-up for that type of activity. Photo is a few days old, taken Wednesday afternoon while Emoci sat and took a bath in a sumbean coming…
Beginning top left and moving clockwise, Scar is my 7½ year-old male who adopted me when he was a 3 month-old stray kitten; P.T. (Petey) is also a male and showed up and decided to eat here about 1½ years ago and I figure he was at least 2 years at the time; and Emoci (M.O.C./My Other Cat) moved in just as the pandemic began to take hold and was at least one year old then. So all three are actually strays that chose to live here. Scar really doesn't like P.T. very much and…
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