{"id":28406,"date":"2024-04-10T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=28406"},"modified":"2024-04-09T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:49:48","slug":"of-civil-war-and-moe-the-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/of-civil-war-and-moe-the-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Civil War and Moe the Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a beautiful day.\u00a0 It hit seventy with almost constant bright sun, almost no clouds and, for once, no wind.\u00a0 Walking around the yard today was idyllic.\u00a0 The daffodils were mostly open and everywhere the tree buds looked ready to burst.<\/p>\n

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Now the calendar says it\u2019s the middle of April but in New England that translates to the beginning of Spring.\u00a0 And based entirely on my subjective criteria I hereby declare today the first day of Spring 2024 in the photogian calendar!<\/p>\n

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A raven has taken to chasing off Camera Girl\u2019s pet crows (Moe the Crow and his stooges) and eating all the scraps that she puts out for them every morning.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019ve been a fan of ravens ever since I read a book called Ravens in Winter many years ago.\u00a0 And after camping in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, my admiration for them has increased.\u00a0 Now that they have made their way to Compound, I am excited to have them around.\u00a0 But I do feel bad for Camera Girl.\u00a0 Moe has become a friend of hers. \u00a0When he sees her come to the water he comes down to the ground and she feeds him peanuts from the ground in front of her.\u00a0 Ah, well.\u00a0 Survival of the strongest.<\/p>\n

Alright, enough of all that.\u00a0 Had to get it out of my system.<\/p>\n

I spent today catching up with some projects that had languished during my recent busy spurt.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a contractor waiting on a contract and a check to repair the damage done by a 120-foot White Pine that flattened a part of the upper driveway fence.\u00a0 A very sad story.\u00a0 The highway crew cut the tree up on Friday and managed to cut the electric fence wire that keeps our canines from rampaging over the countryside.\u00a0 The timing of the electric fence malfunction made it possible that it coincided with the earthquake.\u00a0 But afterwards the physical evidence said, road crew.\u00a0 I have so many enemies!<\/p>\n

I saw some early reviews for the new picture \u201cCivil War.\u201d\u00a0 The claim is that the movie isn\u2019t just a hit piece against Trump.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to believe that but I don\u2019t want to see it until it\u2019s been reviewed by someone on the right side of the political divide.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been burned too often and refuse to pay to be insulted by Hollywood.\u00a0 I\u2019ve watched about ten reviews so I\u2019m starting to believe it could just be a movie about how bad a civil war would be.\u00a0 But the other factor that could keep me away is the heroes being journalists.\u00a0 After all, how many good journalists have we seen in the last ten years or so?\u00a0 One, two, maybe three?\u00a0 Anyway, my research continues.\u00a0 If anyone finds a right-wing movie review for it, please pass it along.<\/p>\n

So, Sunday night I did surgery on my laptop.\u00a0 The internal battery was dying so I had to figure out how to open the back on my computer and replace the battery without frying the system or cracking the motherboard.\u00a0 As I mentioned a few days ago I bout my very own geek tool set and watched a few YouTube videos for similar (but not identical) laptop models and then bit the bullet and went in.<\/p>\n

Everything went relatively easily until I attempted to pop the back off.\u00a0 Most of it released but near one side of the hinge the damn thing was stuck.\u00a0 Stuck good!\u00a0 And this is just plastic so I was afraid if I put too much force on it the damn thing would crack apart.\u00a0 So, I attempted to extend the pry bar deeper into the interior to give me better leverage but I was afraid that some internal component could be damaged and turn the whole computer into useless junk.\u00a0 After what seemed like forever the stuck spot sprang open.\u00a0 Afterwards I checked to see if I had broken anything.\u00a0 I did find something that looked like part of a female coupling that broke loose.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find where it came from so I chalked it up to being one of those pesky \u201cextra parts\u201d that they put in complicate equipment and moved on.<\/p>\n

Well, from there on everything went smoothly and the whole thing was back together in five minutes.\u00a0 A few hours of charging and the thing was working flawlessly.\u00a0 So now I am officially an IT worker.\u00a0 I feel an irresistible urge to write a haiku in DOS.<\/p>\n

There, I\u2019ve gone about seven hundred and fifty words without mentioning the 2024 elections.\u00a0 That feels pretty good.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to figure out a good approach to write about the political situation strictly from a humorous perspective.\u00a0 Since I have almost precisely zero practical effect on the outcome of the election, I feel that to entertain is the correct strategy.\u00a0 But honestly, I\u2019m still searching for the format and angle that pleases me creatively and would also provide enjoyment to the readers.\u00a0 A work in progress.<\/p>\n

So, I think I\u2019ll go watch something fun.\u00a0 Maybe Guy Ritchie\u2019s Sherlock Holmes.\u00a0 I like that movie.<\/p>\n