I went to the little weld shop at 10 in the morning when the frost was melted off. The ‘service advisor’ here was a little old lady (sorry Ma’am) who had very little clue. I got the two pieces to finish off the tent rack cut, but they couldn’t weld them on right then. “We’re backed up for weeks; down to two techs”, and the usual modern bullshit. They said they’d call.

They didn’t call. So at 2 pm I walked back over and the big chief was finally in. The big chief’s story was No Way Today–come back at ten in the morning.

To be continued.

In the meantime:

I can’t find much verification for this story online. I watched the video. Maybe what they showed amounted to sieg-heiling. I’m inclined to trust Max and his version of what happened, but I can’t really say for sure.

What I have no trouble believing is the bigger story, about the FTX cryptocurrency company going bankrupt, the fraudulent nature of it’s owner, a Mr. Bankman-Fried, and the ties of this failed institution to both the ‘government’ in Ukraine and the Party known as the Democrats in the service of yet another War-As-Money-Laundering scheme.

This world of ours, the world run by oligarchs, is bullshit mendacity at every level.

Sure I’m glad that Kelly, and Hobbs, and Cortez-Masto all won their little races, for all the good it will do.

Which is exactly none.

Last time, when they promised us 2K if those Georgia senators won, and when they did Biden welshed it down to 1400.

This time, he did student debt relief in the worst possible way, and is now acting surprised that it didn’t work out. But it did work out, for him. The red tide was stemmed and he still didn’t have to keep his promise.

It’s the same with the refusal to codify abortion rights for 50 years, but now I’m repeating myself.

I feel good about getting as far as only voting Dem in a couple of crucial places, like helping keep the cowboy lunatic’s hands off the office of the AZ Secretary of State.

I feel even better about not contributing to the rot, by spiking my votes for governor and Senate and House.

Two years from now I’ll do better, and spike my Presidential vote too.

Apologies for the partial rerun, but now that we know where things stand out there, I can finish my thoughts on the midterms, and move on to the important things, like the state of welding in SandRock.