It's hot up in here. Now I'm not saying Palm Springs hot, but today is supposed to get to 107 around here. Thankfully power is back for most of us, the French fire had it all turned off for what felt like forever. In reality it was probably just over 24 hours, but when it's this hot and there's no electricity to run a cooler or AC and you live in an old double wide mobile from the '70s it's as hot inside as it is outside except without direct sun.For some reason my generator isn't getting fuel either. I spent some time taking the carburetor of and cleaning fuel lines but no good. And i know it works because if I sprayed ether in the carb it would fire up and run a second. I may just need to soak the carb in some cleaner for a while because it seems like it's just not picking up fuel.

Yesterday was miserable for a lot of people. The French fire came basically right into the town I live near. It may have burned part of the high school I went to. I have two friends who's homes were just a few hundred yards away from it. All in all the fire is barely 900 acres as of the last update, but it's still only around 20 percent contained. Thankfully it's in an area now that doesn't threaten people's homes. The thumbnail there is a fire map, the red shows the affected area and the yellow represents areas still without electricity. As of this post that map was updated around 13 hours ago. It's still burning, but it's much slower moving now and there's a lot of air support on this one.

Here's hoping the fire crews are getting what they need because in this heat wearing 70 lbs of fire retardant gear while hiking all over the hillsides and rocks and through brush to manually dig fire lines makes heat illness a real risk. The app being used here to monitor this activity is called Watch Duty. It's completely free and shows live updates for fires anywhere you may be affected. You can even track aircraft in real time fighting the fires if you choose, but I wouldn't recommend that without being on WIFI unless you're data is truly unlimited because it'll eat through whatever mobile plan you've got really fast like that. In any case I'd highly recommend this app if you or someone you know lives in a fire danger area. Not a plug, just a credit where it's due.

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I'm back for the WRUP. I missed last week because things are so busy. This weekend is also busy, especially Sunday. Not only is it father's day but I'm also mixing and pouring 90 bags of concrete for a job by myself.  Anyway, it's not busy for a couple of hours yet so I decided to sit down and get a WRUP on the board. So let's see what's up today. Spoilers, it's a bit of a rant.
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Good morning, day or evening to you all and word up to all your homies in their various hoods. It is I, Scrooloose, and today I have very little for an actual WRUP. I've been busy AF working and when I'm not working I'm getting ready for summer fire clearance. Cal Fire will soon be out taking notes during drive by evaluations and I'd very much like it if they don't ignore my home in the event of a wild fire. Here's hoping for no major wild fires this season, much like last, but this is a big hope. It's drying up fast around here and we're already expecting hot, near 100 degree temperatures by next week. Not to be confused by hot tempuratures, which would just be a nice battering and delicious with soy sauce or wasabi. Read more

What's up everyone? I have returned. I've been battling various sickness that has kept me from being entirely coherent and I missed last week all together, sorry for that. Just can't read or type or really even stand up when you're spinning from vertigo. Not a fun time. So far so good though the last few days. I went back to work for the first time in three weeks yesterday. I hope this stuff is all gone. I don't get sick often, but hooo boy when I do... Anyway let's see some WRUP things. Read more

Good morning everyone. It is I, Scrooloose, and once again it's time to do a WRUP. It's a beautiful Saturday morning and soon it'll busy AF for my entire day as I'm hosting a BBQ this evening and I also need to grocery shop for said BBQ. Okay let's go right to it. Read more

Word up people of the internet who still come here for this weekly WRUP for some reason. I've been sick AF with a really gnarly sinus infection so I haven't felt like writing much, but today I'm going to (surprise) editorialize a little about this whole Sony, Helldivers 2 sich. Read more

Once again I'm late to the WRUP. I actually just completely spaced it yesterday, no excuses. I was busy as is usual on a Saturday but not so busy I couldn't get one posted early in the morning. I'm not sure how much prison time I deserve. I suppose it'll be up to a jury of my peers. For now though, let's get to it. Read more

Well, here I am finally. A day late. I just got busy yesterday with getting an actual start on Spring cleanup around here and then I went on a whole errand binge that took more or less the rest of the day. Today is going to be busy as well, but not right away so here I am up before 6:00am having a cup of coffee and a pop tart almost hoping plans will change because I would just like a day to do nothing after this last week. But I know better. So let's WRUP. Read more

Good day to you all it is I, Scrooloose and I'm done with this speech pattern already. Yesterday it was 73 and sunny with some nice fresh feeling breeze action. Today it's going to top out in the high 40s and rain. And tomorrow it may snow a few inches. Gotta love that early Spring weather. I'm a middle aged man. I talk about the weather. It's what we do. Let's get to the WRUP though because I don't know, maybe you're not a middle aged man. Or something... Read more

Hey there everyone. We survived the end of March and made it to April, even seeing some pretty great April fools jokes on the internet. One from CD Projekt Red advertising a limited edition of Cyberpunk 2077 installable from 97,619 floppies. They say it should take around two months of non-stop floppy disk swapping to be playable. That one made me laugh pretty good. There was also one that had me going for a moment until I read a few details in about Nvidia buying Xbox from Microsoft in order to better compete with Playstation. Which honestly doesn't sound too terribly out of the range of possibility until you get into the details: Dual GPU SLI configuration and AI to power the box... yeah.  Tweaktown you almost had me for a moment there. The article even contains renderings of the NVidia Xbox. Pretty fun times. Read more