Whadda Day

 Got up this morning and promptly got involved in a little fender bender near the house.  No one injured, just sheet metal and plastic.  Got the police out to work it and then called the insurance folks.  Took the car to a body shop.  Ate lunch.  Belle cooked chicken and dumplings.  On the way home from the body shop, I stopped at Harbor Freight and bought a jump pack.  Call it intuition.   I needed one anyway.  I have an old-style wheeled battery charger that will jump a car, but the new ones are so much nicer.

After lunch, Grandson Zach shows up with car problems.  Dead battery, car won't start.  Jumped off the car, with the new jump pack, got it in the shop, then started the diagnosis.  Called an expert, got the bad news.  Alternator.  Zach's car in an '04 Toyota, so there is that.

Pulled the old alternator, went to the parts house for a fresh one. Taught him how to put in an alternator.  He did it, not me.  The car is running and we have 13.8 volts DC.  Life is good.

I'm hoping the battery in his car holds a charge, but it is still under warranty.  We'll worry about that tomorrow.

I believe that it is the cocktail hour.

Stupid Prizes

 There is this town called Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana  Mandeville sits at the north end of the Pontchartrain causeway on the lake leading to New Orleans.

So, this dumb SOB in a stolen truck decides to hijack another car from a gas station near the north end of the causeway.  For some reason, the hijacking goes wrong and our dumb SOB gets back in the stolen truck and heads south on the causeway. But, his stolen truck runs out of gas at mile 10.

Hilarity ensues.  Our dumb SOB decides that the only rational action is to leave he causeway and jump into the lake. After being told that he can either get in the boat or drown, he decides to get in the boat.

Loading Ammo

The club got together tonight to load ammo for Louisiana State. 6000 rounds of CFDA wax bullet ammo in 4 hours.  Of course, we ate.  Belle cooked beef tips with rice, lima beans with tasso, yeast rolls,  and two small cakes for dessert.

The ammunition is now ready.  All that needs to be done is all that other stuff.  This will be my 10th Louisiana State.

This

 This is why I married a Med/Surg nurse.

Go watch

At any given time, piddling around in the shop, I might realize, or someone will point out, that I am bleeding.  A paper towel and a piece of painter's tape and I have a handy-dandy band aid.

My gal doesn't fait at the sight of blood. For her, it is rather humdrum because she's seen it millions of times.  It's her life calling to stop the bleeding, clear the airway and check pulse.

Y'all have a great weekend.

Gerrymander

 Gerrymandering has been in the news lately, with good reason.  I happen to live in a Gerrymandered district where my congress-critter lives across the state from me and does not reflect my political persuasion.

It appears that the Supremes did something recently.  Honestly, I'm not sure what they decided, but it evidently affects my district.  Pair that decision against the very soon upcoming primary election, the first party primary to he held in this state in decades, and we have an opportunity for absolute chaos.  We start early voting on Saturday, and governor Landry is considering postponing the election to redraw the congressional map.

Linky Here.

From what I understand, Governor Landry is proposing that we suspend the congressional primary to give the state legislature a chance to redraw the map.  The huge irony in this fever-dream is that the legislature could have redrawn themap at any time.  Our past governor, John Bel (hack, spit) Edwads redrew the map during his term, specifically to give his long-time crony, Cleoo Fields, a safe congressional district. Cleo is the virtual poster-child for affirmative action, DEI, NAACP, and SPLC.

The one saving grace is that the US Senate primary will go forward.  This is the first closed primary in the state in decades and it is our opportunity to send RINO Bill Cassidy into retirement.  I look forward to doing that.  Louisiana's early voting begins on Saturday.

Heartwarming

 Taking a break between chores, I flipped over to the YouTube and found this heartwarming nugget.

Linky Here.

It seems that if you conspire with your boss to hide criminal activity and your boss gets a preemptive pardon from the president, you can still be charged with a crime.  There is the cautionary tale: if the boss asks you to commit a crime, you are under no obligation to do so.  Quite the contrary, it is your obligation to report it.  It may set back your career, but you won't have to spend time in Club Fed.

Tuesday?

 Is it Tuesday?  I swear, I've lost track. The calendar tells me it is Tuesday, so it must be.

Today started off weird enough that it threw my schedule behind.  I started off wanting to do one task and had to do something else first.  Little piddling tasks that threw me minutes behind.  A five-minute task wound up taking 30 minutes.

Over the weekend, President Trump survived the latest assassination attempt.  Some say that this is the 3rd attempt, others say that it is the 7th.  It depends on what we call an actual attempt.  Either way, political violence is not the answer.  Yet the Democrats double-down, claiming that their thinly veiled references are not an actual call to arms.

This last guy seems to have been motivated by a total immersion in a lefty echo chamber. 

Yesterday, the meeting with King George III seems to have gone well. Somehow, the lefties refrained from holding a No Kings rally when confronted by actual royalty.  Odd, isn't it?   It seems that they tolerate an actual generational monarch better than they tolerate a duly elected President.

I have other chores, so if you will excuse me.

Sunday Afternoon

Belle and I went today to see a play, a matinee, that supports our local theater group, the City Park Players.  It was a lot of fun, and something to do on a Sunday afternoon.

If you have a local theater group, support them by buying a ticket from time to time.

I see that President Trump wants to bring back the firing squad in federal death sentence cases.  I support that, but don't think it goes far enough.  Bring back hanging, too. Some people aren't worth the powder it would take to shoot them.  At least the rope cam be put to good use afterwards.

But that is just my opinion.