• This morning I deleted the name and passwords for 4 of my old, very old, Posterous accounts. :Posterous was an early blogging platform which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. They shut down on April 30, 2013. I think my last activity on the Posterous was Spring of 2010. It certainly was tiime to delete those old login names and passwords.

• Some of the original Posterous team spun off and created the Posthaven blog platform (this Posthaven). I've have had a Posthaven account for a good long time as well.

• “As of May 2013, Posterous founders were developing a similar but paid service called Posthaven. Posthaven pledged that they would never be acquired and were not looking for any investors.”  From Wikipedia; retrieved on April 12, 2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous). 

After 6 weeks of painting it's done. Finally. The entire house was sanded, received a coat of primer, and received two coats of paint. And all done by brush, no spray painting. Whew!

We are now into the 4th week of painting our house. Today's task is applying a second coat of primer on all wood trim. Color on the siding could come in the next day or two. If not then, next week. They still have to do the prep work on the dormers and garage. 

Pam Korporaal's photograph San Felipe del Moro Staircase won 3rd Place in Photography at the Whittier Art Association and Gallery as part of their "Miniatures and Small Works Show." The show includes photography, oils, watercolors, mixed media, and sculptures as part of the annual miniatures show. 

The Whittier Art Gallery is located at 8035 Painter Ave, Whittier, CA 90602. The Gallery is Open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. Admission is free.

Summer Sunset won 2nd Place in Photography at the Whittier Art Association and Gallery as part of their "Miniatures and Small Works Show." The show includes photography, oils, watercolors, mixed media, and sculptures as part of the annual miniatures show.

The Whittier Art Gallery is located at 8035 Painter Ave, Whittier, CA 90602. The Gallery is Open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. Admission is free.

Installing new oak flooring upstairs. 

This intrepid crew closed out the 75th Anniversary Open House of the Highland Park Society of Model Railroad Engineers, Inc. Hundreds of model railroaders, friends, spouses, and the curious were in awe over the weekend after viewing one of the larger, better-known model railroad layouts in the greater Los Angeles area.

Founded April 1, 1948 in Highland Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, the club formed after their layout above Al’s Hobby Shop was abandoned when Al’s closed down. A small group of avid model railroaders decided they would puhase their own building to house their next model layout to insure they would be in control of their own destiny. That was 75 years ago and the club is still going strong.

The Woodworkers of Whittier will be meeting tonight, Thursday, June 9th at 6:30 p.m. The group will meet at Adventure Park, 10130 S. Gunn Ave., Whittier, CA 90605 (click for map).

Tonight's speaker is Steve Lelewer who will be demonstrating Lichtenberg Process, a form of pyrography which uses electricity to apply an etched finish to wood.

Sent from the ether

Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, by Michael Cohen

https://bit.ly/Disloyal_book

This is another in a, now long, list of books about the worst president in history. The difference is this author was on the inside and recounts the way things were done in the inner circle of sycophants around Trump. Don't feel too sorry for Cohen because, as he says, "I knew what I was doing."

Disloyal is a quick and easy read written in straight-forward, spare prose.

Trump Furious That Woodward’s Book Is Written at Seventh-Grade Reading Level

Do this today! Urge your Assembly Member to vote yes on S.B. 822 and S.B. 460 to preserve California net neutrality.

You can find your Assembly Member here: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

Do this before you are throttled by Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Comcast, Verizon, ... and your provider. Did I say today?

 Here's a humor piece about the supposed "powers" of crystals. 

Crystals for People Who Have Low Expectations for Crystals

Founders Day, May 12, 2018.

The President flip-flops and Republicans drown you out with their silence regarding this important issue. I guess (NRA) money speaks louder. 

Samantha Fuentes, who was shot in both legs during the Parkland assault, said she had felt no reassurance during a phone call from the president to her hospital room last week.

“He said he heard that I was a big fan of his, and then he said, ‘I’m a big fan of yours too.’ I’m pretty sure he made that up,” she said in an interview after being discharged from the hospital. “Talking to the president, I’ve never been so unimpressed by a person in my life.He didn’t make me feel better in the slightest.”

Ms. Fuentes, who was left with a piece of shrapnel lodged behind her right eye, said Mr. Trump had called the gunman a “sick puppy” and said “‘oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,’ like, seven times.”

--from Daily Kos

Tuesday, February 20th, the Florida House of Representatives debated and then voted to declare pornography a “public health risk.” These same representatives then refused to take up a bill to ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. They did this while students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were watching from the gallery.

Truly dumb.

The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78 a year, meanwhile, according to the Tax Policy Center, the new tax changes will hand the richest 1 percent an extra $51,000 a year.

Elections do matter. 

The meme that Republicans are better with government finance is dead. Dead I tell you. Those Republicans voted today to add from $1,500,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000,000 to the national debt. That's $1.5 to $2 TRILLION. Remember that next fall in the 2018 elections.

Watch out. Next Paul Ryan will be coming for your Social Security. Or your Medicare. Just watch.

The massive tax giveaways for corporations and the wealthy will be paid for by throwing 13 million people off health insurance. 

If that isn't enough (it isn't) then cut $400 billion from Medicare. 

If that still isn't enough (and it still isn't enough), raise taxes in over 10 years on 92 million middle-class families.

Look at the tax bill just passed. The obsequious Republicans own this disaster. 

Congress does something—nation shocked! https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-december-8th-congress-shocks-nation

Another gem from Andy Borowitz at the New Yorker: Broad Majority of Americans Support Moving Trump to Jerusalem.

Thanks to Jeanette Kelly for sharing this. One of the best arguments for universal health care comes from an emergency room doctor. Pay attention.

Another gem from Andy Borowitz published in The New Yorker.

White House Says It Is Unpatriotic to Offer Irrefutable Video Evidence That a General Lied

Betsy DeVos spoke recently at Harvard and asserted that charter schools in her home state of Michigan generally get better test scores than traditional schools. 

A 2016 report by Politico, however, said:

Despite two decades of charter-school growth, the state’s overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth- and eighth-grade math and fourth-grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the “Nation’s Report Card.” Notably, the state’s charter schools scored worse on that test than their traditional public-school counterparts, according to an analysis of federal data (emphasis added).