There will be more curling!

The US mens team failed to qualify for the semi-finals:

The US womens team, however, qualified and they will take on Switzerland tomorrow:

That means more curling for me to watch!

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There may be some limited posting for me for the next few days because apparently my wireless router has decided to start having bad days. No good days, just bad days.

I noticed it a few weeks ago when out of the clear blue sky, my laptop said, "Do you want to connect to your hotspot?" which I thought was very weird since I was already connected to my home wifi.

Then, a week later, I went through a ton of problems trying to get a 2.4ghz device connected to my network which led me to believe the 2.4 radio was having issues.

Now I notice that where I used to have about 24 devices (smart plugs, TVs, phones, laptops, servers, etc...) connected to my router, I now only have 17 devices. And the devices that the router no longer sees as connected are getting through to the internet just fine. That means they are connected, the router just doesn't see them.

So I ordered a new network. It will be here on Monday. In the meantime, I expect we might periodically lose access to the internet or some such thing.

Such is my life. Everything decides to start failing at the same time...

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The Very Stable Genius used the first meeting of his shiny new "Board of Peace" to announce his new war.

I'm going to point out one thing:

Being an aviation buff, I use various websites to track flights. I like to look for interesting craft or see what is flying over my house.

One of the sites has the ability to filter aircraft and one of the filters is for military aircraft. I'll pop the filter on to see where the C-5M out of Westover that just rattled my windows is going.

When I did that, I discovered a large number of C-5Ms, C-17s, KC-135 and KC-46 aircraft moving from the US to Germany and then over to various locations in the middle-east. For those of you living under a rock, the middle east is a region that contains Iran.

We are stocking up to do something over there...

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Yes, I know this is wrong and I'll probably rot in hell for posting it but it made me laugh so you get to see it:

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Here are some links:

• You want to know what I don't care about? I don't care about the uniforms the Red Sox wear. I only care about how they play.



• In England, they are locking up the Kings little brother, but here in the US, we are ignoring the whole thing.



• Remember when we were friends with Canada? Good times, good times...



• This ass-clown screwed over a lot of decent hard working troopers.

Busy day

We spent the day out in Boston hanging out with our son, our daughter-in-law and our graddaughter.

Thet explains why there is no posting today.

There are, however, some links:

• Key entry from yet another excellent police log: PETTY THEFT: 9:25 a.m. at Ivy Park at Los Gatos on Blossom Hill Road. A naked male was walking around an assisted living facility with a bag wrapped around him. He took an umbrella and threatened to hit a worker with it when confronted..



• Trump's Florida boondoggle was a pretty good score for Doodie Calls!



• Boy, there sure are a lot of rapist pastors.



• Wow. Seems to me that at the very least, 'Thomas P' is an asshole...

Just a quick question...

I have been following this guys story for several weeks now and I had a thought.

In that story is the line,

"Mr Culleton entered the US in March 2009 as a tourist..."

That is then followed a bit later by the line,

"...he was in the final stage of the process of obtaining a green card when he was picked up by ICE agents."

Which leads me to ask,

If he got here in 2009 with the intention of staying, why didn't he start the process of getting a green card back then?

It takes anywhere from 2 - 10 years to get a one and that means that at the very latest, he would have gotten his legal resident status in 2019.

The reason I ask is because there sure seems to be a lot of people who suddenly realized they were in the country illegally and if they apply for legal status, maybe they won't get grabbed by ICE. And if they do get snatched off the street, they can say, "Hey! I applied for legal status and they just grabbed me off the street for no reason!"

I don't agree with the mass deportations that are going on because not everyone that gets grabbed and bagged is a criminal. Some of them are perfectly good people who would make great citizens.

But dammit, there are a lot of people in this country who are here illegally and it ain't right. It makes those people that went through the process look like fools for working their ass off to become a citizen.

People like my good friend Shahnawaz (I used to call him "my little brown friend" but my boss told me to knock it off) who came to this country from Pakistan and immediately started the process to obtain his US citizenship. It took him about 6 years to do it but we had a big party with lots of American flags when he became a citizen.

Getting back to Mr Culleton, add in the fact that it looks like the only reason he came here in the first place was because he was a wanted criminal in Ireland. We have more than enough illegal alien drug dealers in this country already so he is not the kind of person we should welcome with open arms.

There, I said my peace. I'll go back to shutting up about the whole illegal aliens and ICE thing now.

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The US remains in third place in the medal standings

In curling, the US men have dropped to fifth place in the standings:

While the US women remain in second place:

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Here are some links:

• He was not someone I thought much about but I'll give him credit for always showing up to help others.



• Isn't this the second time in less than a month that some guy with a woman's name has gone on a shooting spree?



• Just another case of crossbow violence.



• How the hell is this guy still alive?



• I'm beginning to think that Devers might be the adult in this whole thing.

Well, I bought a snowblower.

It will be delivered sometime in late February so expect sunny days and no snow at all during March and April.

In the meantime, with my luck being the way it is, I expect it will snow before the new one arrives.

I guess I'll just keep praying to the snowblower gods that The Beast keeps on rolling along.

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I checked the Olympic medal count but I'm not entirely sure it's accurate. According to the talking heads on NBC, the US is in fourth place in the medal standings but the website says otherwise:

Maybe they only update the website at the end of the day.

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I watched a little of the NESN "Spring Training" show today and captured this scene:

It's gonna be a great baseball season.

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Time for an update on the latest addition to our family

She has started rolling over. My son says it was probably just an accident but once that starts, they usually quickly figure out how to do it. And that means she is close to becoming mobile.

That is when the fun will begin for her parents.

She is, of course, the perfect baby.

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Here are some links:

• Damn. He was the perfect "consigliere" to Brando's Godfather but I loved him in Second Hand Lions and as far as I'm concerned, his reply to John Wayne in True Grit was one of the great line deliveries in movie history.



• Only in Florida.



• I realize that this might be considered "unAmerican" but I feel bad for the people of Cuba.



• That's a lot of crabs.

Persistence pays off

It appears that I may have found the snowblower I am looking for.

First thing tomorrow morning I will be running out to the store and looking at the machine to confirm that is indeed the one I want. I will then purchase it, have them assemble it and then deliver it to my house.

Do you know anyone that needs a giant 20+ year old snowblower that runs but needs work?

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Once again it was a sportings kind of day for me.

Curling, golf, "big air" skiing, etc...

I like a sports-filled day.

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And speaking of curling, the men and women are both doing very, very well.

The men are tied with Great Britain in third place:

The women have a solid lock on second place:

I think there is a pretty good chance we will see one or both of them on the medal podium when all is said and done.

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Here are a few links:

• Yea, it might be time...



• Speaking of sportsball players: They should not move on from this guy. They should keep him on the roster.



• Hey, when you gotta go, you need a place to go.



• Some people have way too much free time.