It's Groundhog Day!

"People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover they've grown old" - Billy Joe Armstrong

Obligatory clickbait photo, type 1 ea.

Greetings all,

Jut the other day was Groundhog Day! As the great Bill Murray said "This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it."

I agree…it’s a stupid holiday. Speaking of stupid holidays, I understand the Uber-Mega Bowl is coming up.

Anyway….

For those of you who don’t know, consider this a PSA from El Familia. Things are going to get plum stupid in the next few weeks - I am specifically referring to eggs here. The same “Top Men” © who ran the Wu-Flu response have decided that the chicken population is a vector for the next super-uber-mega-totally scary-line up for your shots disease. As a result they have decided to kill a few MILLION of them. Seriously. Now, believe it or not, killing chickens means that the prices and availability of chicken stuff….you know…like eggs…. is going to get scarce and expensive.

Say….did you know you can freeze eggs?

34 eggs makes 5 pint containers, as the Mrs. has so graciously shown. Scramble ‘em up with salt or some sugar depending on your preference or use, (skynet suggests 1/8 tsp per one whole egg of your choice to retain texture and prevent thickening — yikes that’s more than she included) and put them in the container of your choosing and remember to leave headspace and the lid loose. You can freeze them for a while and pull ‘em out for thawing in the fridge overnight. So…word to the wise… buy you some eggs and put ‘em up.

As an aside, what the hell kind of a psycho made that call? I mean really…was it Dr. Mengele Fauci? Before you all decide to get all "Foghorn Leghorn” on me, you might wanna do a little research on the good Dr. during the AIDS crisis in the 80s. I have a good friend who was there and lost friends. He is an evil man who has done evil things.

Anyway, it’s getting a bit serious here….let’s lighten things up a bit shall we?

The Wife and I got new glasses this week. The freaking guy wanted to put me in bifocals. Bifocals. The Wife is in bifocals now. We are old.

Next…

Here is a live action picture of FarmDog©

I have a project involving her that kicked off last week. It’s been on my mind for a while (anyone remember that one time she jumped out of the car?) and the neighbors loosing one of their dogs kinda kicked me into high gear on this one.

This is a tracking device. It works independently of cell coverage and so far, appears to have a range of about a mile. This device works with other devices like it and can do all kind of nifty things. That range can be increased with a network. So I decided to build one. I’ve built remote communications networks before.

Project AdventureDog has begun.

This project will involve the creation of an off grid, independent mesh network that will cover a to be determined area.

Did I mention that the fixed nodes will be solar powered and capable of almost indefinite operation, independent of any exterior sources. The first range tests have reached out over a mile so far. Oh yeah……since I am working with raw components, this is cheap. I have tracked FarmDog© to within 20 feet of her position twice now.

Hopefully, FarmDog© won’t ever get lost again

See what I did there?

What else happened this week….

Well, it was 80 on Monday. Then 45 on Tuesday. Supposed to be 69 on Saturday. Maybe snow next week. I’m tellin ya, the weather is plum crazy here (all southern and shit).

I can’t really think of anything else right now. Here are your memes to entertain and offend. Have a great week, and I hope your particular sportsball team wins!