A few outage pictures - and kiss May goodbye as well...

 "'Misinformation' and 'disinformation are just different words for wrong-think" - Unknown

Happy 18th Birthday!

 Yesterday was the 18th B-Day of the Blog.  If it were a person, it would now be old enough to vote or (if male) go die on behalf of some other country.

Coincidentally stoner millenials celebrate 4-20 day because "Dude Weed LMAO".  Also coincidentally it was the birthday of a famous German who was a dictator in the 1930's and early 40's.  Who knew?  

The blog had a hiatus period for a few years, but I got back to it eventually.  Things have slowed down a bit since I picked up this day shift gig last October - there are no longer large stretches of back-shift to ponder and process thoughts for a long blog post.  It's possible that I'll be able to return to that more productive and informative level of posting, but not right now.

There were a couple of earlier posts about this year's Steam Turbine Major Outage that showed some damage to the turbine buckets and diaphragms (rotating and stationary blades).  I decided that it would be a good idea to revert those posts to "draft", because there will probably be some insurance claims and attorneys will be getting involved in the money side of things.  It seems wise at this time to wait until the legal fallout is settled before putting that sort of thing out on the internet.  No need to 'retire' before I'm really ready to retire :)

Thanks for staying tuned, and hopefully I'll have some interesting tidbits to share before long!

Kiss April Goodbye...

 "Strategy without tactics is the slow route to victory.  Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu

Nekkid Turbine

 "We are reduced to asking others what we are.  We never dare ask ourselves." - Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Mobilization

 "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." - Voltaire

"I'm not dead yet"

 "The mirror is a worthless invention.  The only way to see yourself is through another's eyes." - Voltaire

Waiting for Springtime

 "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, that is called a mistake." - Confucius

Return of the Measles - A public service announcement

 "All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately.

Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or neglecting what is within our power." - Epictetus

The Black Market - It's amazing what you can buy!

 "No man is so foolish as to desire war and not peace.  For in peace, children bring their parents to the graveyard.  In war, parents bring their children to the graveyard." - Herodotus

The Big Easy

 "But this I know: If all mankind were to take their troubles to the marketplace with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own." - Herodotus

1999 Subaru Legacy Engine Heater and Timer

"A society prospers when men plant trees whose shadows they will never rest in."  - Ancient Proverb

Half a Sunday

 "Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man." - Bertrand Russell

Quick update, late January 2024

 "The US policy toward the third world should be depopulation." - Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of State

After the cold, snow

"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berrigan

Asteroids

 Pretty cool NASA interactive web page, showing all (known) asteroids orbiting the sun.

 Highly recommended if only for a brief visit!  https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home

Below:  Asteroid Ida, Imaged by the Galileo space probe in 1993, while on its way to Jupiter.

Life in the washing machine 'spin cycle'

 "It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron." - H. L. Mencken

Another nickel plating project

 "The things you need are few and easy to come by; but the things you imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied." - Epicurus