Red Sky at Night

09:35 Saturday, 8 November 2025

Current Wx: Temp: 45.68°F Pressure: 1011hPa Humidity: 78% Wind: 10.87mph
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Sunset the day my son and daughter-in-law departed. The weather was semi-cooperative while they were here. Very windy, some rain, but mostly cloudy and cold.

Watkins Glen State Park is closed for the season, which we learned when we went there to hike the gorge. We switched to Taughannock Falls because that remains open. My grandson seemed to enjoy the hike, and I know his parents did.

Yesterday I tried to start the Westinghouse generator I bought from Home Depot. Fail. Pretty sure I did everything right, it just won't start. I should probably just return it, but I tried reaching to Westinghouse support first. They'll get back to me whenever they get back to me, I guess.

Of course, I bought this device after watching people on YouTube setting one up and starting it on the second or third pull, and that's straight from the box. Very disappointing.

We've killed some more people at sea. Hegseth's getting his body count. His "lethality" high.

I've learned that "institution" is mostly a meaningless word used by groups of people who wish to collect money and aggrandize themselves. But the values and beliefs they supposedly uphold are in fact just meaningless adornments they use to puff themselves up. Whenever it's time to put any of that at risk to defend those values or beliefs, well, that's not their "mission."

I'll keep that in mind whenever they ask me for money.

I admire the people in Chicago documenting and bearing witness to the cruelty and brutality of the masked men terrorizing the city. I take comfort in the fact that it really seems to be getting under their skin. These aren't people who are members of an "institution." They're just Americans who can tell the difference between right and wrong and are will to do something about it. Risk arrest, or getting their car rammed, or both.

Unlike the boards and officers of America's "institutions."

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