Nothing Happens At Ten

Upside of the Lockdown

Posted on November 16, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Even though it is Monday, since you have nowhere to go, you can sleep until noon.

DG Snoozing

Hey….. wait a minute!……. how’s that different from what you were doing before the lockdown?

DG Frown

Oops. I thought you were asleep.

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Another Boulder?

Posted on November 12, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Ya. We have another boulder.

You may remember this photo from when they pulled Jennifred out of the hole.

Jennifred

Well, Jennifred has a sister, Geraldine, that was still in the hole (circled in the image below).

Geraldine

Here’s a closer look, taken before Jennifred was liberated. Geraldine is the rock on the right.

Closeup

The usual happened… pry it up a fraction and put smaller rocks under it, pry it up, put smaller rocks, etc. until it was out.

At the top

And there she is, slightly bigger than her sister. And she came out of there:

The hole

I am hoping that we are done with these for a while. I am exhausted from just watching all this work.

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We Need an Upside

Posted on November 8, 2020 by kimerer_brian

We have now been through three spooky events in recent weeks, to wit:

Halloween
Changing all the clocks
The Election from Heck

Now that we have survived those and they are over and done with (as far as we can tell)…. and it looks like we will be in the lockdown for a while longer….. we need a new Upside of the Lockdown.

Here it is: You now have plenty of time to pursue that hobby that you never had the time to spend on before, like painting.

DG with his art

Um…. I sure hope that isn’t supposed to be a portrait of me.

Hey, DG, maybe you should try tatting instead.

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Daylight Saving Time is Crazy!

Posted on November 1, 2020 by kimerer_brian

It is time again to go around the house and update all the !@#$% clocks in order to keep up with the government changing the time of day.

We all know that doing this is crazy, but this morning I got up early and witnessed the craziest of crazy yet. Even our clocks are going crazy over it. I caught one of them running around in circles so I took a video. Check it out.

Yikes! The clock is haunted! It did end up ticking away on the correct time, but wow!

Actually, the explanation isn’t all that difficult. That clock automatically updates the time using the WWVB signal out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Since it is an analog clock, the update happens in a different manner than it does for the digital clocks. You can’t just change the number on the screen.

I had never caught it in the act of updating before, so I was a bit shocked to see it spinning around like that. If it were me, I would stop the clock for one hour and then start it up again. But I guess that instead of falling back one hour, it falls forward 23 hours. That sort of sums up the way things are going during these strange times, doesn’t it?

You can read up on WWVB at their web site.

https://www.nist.gov/time-distribution/radio-station-wwvb

Why not? You might learn something, and it beats watching your sourdough rise.

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