Sunday, February 2, 2025

Merry Groundhog Day

Today is the day that Punxsutawney Phil makes a prediction about the length of winter (Note: he says six weeks more)

Remember, don't drive angry.


This morning, at about 8:00 or so, the power went out:

Whenever the power goes out, I usually wait about a half hour before starting the generator because a lot of power outages we have are very short. Like 15-20 minutes short. Believe it or not, National Grid is actually pretty quick about getting a crew on site and working.

Today I waited about 45 minute before finally saying, "Whelp, it's getting chilly in here. Guess I gotta go start the generator."

I went out doors, dragged the generator out to its running spot, plugged it into the house and started it up. Then I went down into the basement, flipped off the main feed to my subpanel and flipped on the generator circuit.

As soon as I did that, the main power came back on.

So I flipped the subpanel back over to the main, went back out doors and shut the generator down.

I like to think it came back on because I caused a miracle to happen when I went out into the cold and fired up my generator.

Either that or the National Grid guys are good at what they do and it was all a coincidence of timing.

I think I'm going to stick with the miracle worker thing...


Trump and Musk's war on Canada has begun.

What has me concerned more than the increase in prices we will all have to pay is one idea being floated in Canada: They are thinking about offering funding and employment to health/medical researchers.

In other words, Canada may very well offer jobs to the entire staff of the NHI, the CDC and any private research institution that loses funding under the Musk/Trump regime or is forced to work under Weirdo Kennedy.

Get ready for the Great Brain Drain...


The Lightning lost last night but it was in overtime so they picked up one point.

That one point was enough to kick the Bruins back out of the wildcard:


Here are today's links:

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