Lunch

 Pismo Fsh and Chips

Aggressive dog tries to attack me.

 

At first it was just the dog coming into our backyard.

Then it was the dog trying to get into our house.

The dog has on multiple occasions tried to attack my dogs (two of the dogs she’s tried to attack are now dead, I suspect they were poisoned).

My 76 year old mother and my 11 year old nephew have had to grab her and try to return her to the property, only to be told by the renters, “It’s not our dog.”

Tonight, May 13, 2023, she broke through the fence again, and got into our backyard.  I opened my office window to see that our motion light was on.  I could also see the dog, a 60+ pound Husky, in my backyard.  When she saw me, she tried to jump up the patio furniture into my office. We have two chihuahuas we adopted from Animal Services last summer named Sterling and Sliver, so I went to the back patio door to see what they were barking at.  I could see the husky’s nose through the top of the block in the doggie door, as we have to barricade our dogs inside at night and when we leave the house.

That is when I called the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff.

As I waited for the officer to arrive, I went on my porch to wait.  That is when the husky ran up the sidewalk, onto my porch and tried to attack my dogs through the screen door.  I tried to move her away so I could get back inside my house.  She tried to bite my hand.  I did move her off and get back inside.

I told my mother what happened.  Then my nephew (11 years old) said the Sheriff had arrived.

I opened the front door to find the dog still on my porch.  The office never came to my door to talk to me.  He shined his flashlight around.  I told him I could not leave my house because the dog tried to bite me and she was on my porch.  He still did not come to me.  My porch light (also motion detecting then turned off and I could no longer see the dog.  I told the officer this, he still did not come to my house.

He finally said the dog was confined to a cage and asked me to come down my driveway to meet him.

I told what was going on.  Then the owner of the dog showed up.  Told him I had pictures of the dog in my yard, where the officer then turned away from me and when to talk to them for an extended period of time.  They said they had the material to fix the fence.  (No idea why they haven’t, the pallet of fence boards have been back there for a year. We know this because of the holes the husky has made in the fence.)  The officer and the people, a man and woman, talked for about 5-10 minutes.  They made a comment about my nephew and having a court date.  I do not know how these people know this.  They also insist it is our responsibility to fix the fence.  None of my dogs have ever broken through the fence to their property to the best of my knowledge.  The fence on that side is old, and yes it does need to be replaced.  This is something I can no longer do because of four heart issues, that I now have a CRT-D device implanted in my chest to help with.

I had told the officer about my CRT-D when he called me down my driveway.  He then told the people that he was not going back to talk to me because “the yard looks like a jungle.”  He never gave me his name or a card for contact.

The officer did tell them they should get some metal wiring to keep the dog under control and that they needed to keep the dog under control.

The man then left in his Honda Civic sedan.

After finishing with the people next door, he got in his Tahoe and left.  I went back in my house, noticing his vehicle slow as my porch came back on when I went inside.  Yes, I heard everything.  I wish I had recorded it.

LegoGate-1

 Rebuilt LegoGate-1 today.  I wanted to add a sickbay, as I found a couple of the old gurneys.  I did resort to using off-brand pieces.  Overall, happy with the current results.

Off to a new adventure!

VIP seating for the boss and a traveller from a distant land.

VIP Seating.

We got drones!

Overview of the facility.

Added a lot more computer consoles.

Watch your step, the first is a DOOZY!

Gotta keep the lasers handy, charged and in good condition.

CPO Wendy sitting at the DHD with her gaurds.  Yep, red suits.

They found the kryptonite, what might their evil plans for such a power element?

Entertaining the new allies.

Checking out currents in space on the large screen.

(This is a piece from the Command Base, 1978.)

Doctor and nurse reassure the patient he's going to be fine, just fine!

Another view of LegoGate-1.

Hoping they come back safe.

Onward to adventures brave and bold!

CPO Wnedy dails up the address.

Old cars

Saw some nice old English cars today.

 

Crazy News

 You'll notice 4 of these take place in CA. And we wonder why CA is like it is...



1. *AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking the intelligence

 

2. *WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, 'Please come out and give yourself up.'

 

3. *WHAT WAS PLAN B? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

 

4. *THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

 

5. *DID I SAY THAT? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: 'Give me all your money or I'll shoot', the man shouted, 'that's not what I said!'

 

6. *ARE WE COMMUNICATING? A man spoke frantically into the phone: 'My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart'. 'Is this her first child?' the doctor asked. 'No!' the man shouted, 'This is her husband!'

 

7. *NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED! In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. (hellooooooo...!!!)

 

8. *THE GRAND FINALE! Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating, were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22-foot boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!

Copy files from your smartphone

 An older document, but it checks out.

So, you want to get your pictures off your iPad / Android tablet,

a short tutorial for Windows

 

Turn on computer and wait for it to completely boot up.

 

Plug in USB / Thunderbolt cord to Computer and tablet.

You should hear a chime when the computer detects the tablet being connected.

 

Click on File Explorer (it's the icon on the Taskbar that looks like a stack of folders).

 

Tablet should be in Devices and drive section of This PC (for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10) or  Computer (for Windows 7) called Apple iPad or your device's name.

            Double click on the device.

 

The next folder to show should be Internal storage, double click that icon.

 

If your iPad asks if you trust this device (your computer) tap on “Trust.”

 

Look for the DCIM folder, double click.

 

Apple iPad, you will see randomly named folders in ascending order.

Android, you will see a folder named Camera, double click that folder.

 

Highlight one folder or file (by clicking on it once), CTRL-A (press the CTRL key and then tap the A key) to select all the folders or files.  CTRL-C to copy them all.

 

In left pane, click on Pictures folder. The Pictures folder should be near the top of the list on the left column.  If you do not see the Pictures folder under Favorites, check under Libraries or click your User name to display all your folders, then you can click and drag the Pictures folders to the Favorites and create a new Favorite there.

 

Click on New Folder of CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a New Folder in the Pictures folder.  Name the folder (you can just type the name of the folder while it's highlighted in blue) and then press ENTER, the new folder should open, if not press ENTER again.

 

In the folder, CTRL-V to paste the folders and files.  Depending on how many folders and files, this can some time, longer than 20 minutes to an hour.

 

When done, look through the folders and rename as needed.  You can rename the randomly named folders Apple created by right clicking on the folder and selecting Rename.

 

On the iPad, you will have to delete the files that successfully copied (I don't know of a way to remove files all at once from an Apple device).  On an Android device, you can use CTRL-X instead of CTRL-C to Cut / Move instead of Copy.  Only do this if you are going to make a back up (to another device such as a USB flash or hard drive).

 

Clocks and Fans

 

A man died and went to Heaven.   As he stood in front of the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks for?"   St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone who has ever been on earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock move."   "Oh", said the man. "Whose clock is that?"   "That's Mother Teresa's", replied St. Peter. "The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."   "Incredible", said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"   St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abraham told only two lies in his entire life."   "Where's President Biden's clock?" asked the man.   St. Peter replied, "We're using it as a ceiling fan".

This year's Darwin Awards... Hard to make this up!

  Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]:

An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
 
Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]:  
James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI, was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."
 
Nominee No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]:
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.
 
Nominee No. 4: [UPI, Toronto]:
Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association. A person has to wonder what the dimmer members of this law firm are like. (Apologies to lawyers everywhere.)
 
Nominee No. 5: [The News of the Weird]:  
Michael Anderson Godwin had spent several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
 
Nominee No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]:
A Dunkirk, IN man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.
 
Nominee No. 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario]:
A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death.   "Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred," said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police.   "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.
 
Nominee No. 8: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]:
Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned.   The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.   After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement, and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended.   Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.
"I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.
Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia Poole (Poole's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck?

Jasmine

                       In 2003, police in  Warwickshire , England, opened a garden shed and found a  whimpering, cowering dog. The dog had been locked in the shed  and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite  clearly been abused. 

In an act of kindness,  the police took the dog, which was a female greyhound, to the  Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, which is run by a  man named Geoff Grewcock, and known as a haven for animals  abandoned, orphaned, or otherwise in need. 


Geoff and the other  sanctuary staff went to work with two aims: to restore the dog  to full health, and to win her trust. It took several weeks,  but eventually both goals were achieved. They named her  Jasmine, and they started to think about finding her an  adoptive home. 
 
           

Jasmine, however, had  other ideas. No one quite remembers how it came about, but  Jasmine started welcoming all animal arrivals at the  sanctuary. It would not matter if it were a puppy, a fox cub,  a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting animal. Jasmine would  just peer into the box or cage and, when and where possible,  deliver a welcoming lick. 
                  Geoff relates one of the  early incidents. "We had two puppies that had been abandoned  by a nearby railway line. One was a Lakeland Terrier cross and  another was a Jack Russell Doberman cross. They were tiny when  they arrived at the center, and Jasmine approached them and  grabbed one by the scruff of the neck in her mouth and put him  on the settee. Then she fetched the other one and sat down  with them, cuddling them."


"But she is like that  with all of our animals, even the rabbits. She takes all the  stress out of them, and it helps them to not only feel close  to her, but to settle into their new surroundings. She has  done the same with the fox and badger cubs, she licks the  rabbits and guinea pigs, and even lets the birds perch on the  bridge of her nose."
                 Jasmine, the timid,  abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary's resident  surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born.  The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared  for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, fifteen chicks,  eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and fifteen rabbits - and  one roe deer fawn. Tiny Bramble, eleven weeks old, was found  semi-conscious in a field. Upon arrival at the sanctuary,  Jasmine cuddled up to her to keep her warm, and then went into  the full foster-mum role. Jasmine the greyhound showers  Bramble the roe deer with affection, and makes sure nothing is  matted.
                  "They are inseparable,"  says Geoff. "Bramble walks between her legs, and they keep  kissing each other. They walk together round the sanctuary.  It's a real treat to see them."
 

 
              Jasmine will continue to  care for Bramble until she is old enough to be returned to  woodland life. When that happens, Jasmine will not be lonely.  She will be too busy showering love and affection on the next  orphan or victim of abuse.
                 Pictured from the left  are: "Toby," a stray Lakeland dog; "Bramble," orphaned roe  deer; "Buster," a stray Jack Russell; a dumped rabbit; "Sky,"  an injured barn owl; and "Jasmine," with a mother's heart  doing best what a caring mother would do...and such is the  order of God's Creation....

On the 8th day, God created Seniors!

 And on the 8th day, God created Seniors.

 

Most seniors never get enough exercise.  In His wisdom, God decreed that a senior become forgetful so they would have to search for their glasses, keys, and other things, thus doing more walking.  And God looked down and saw that it was good.

 

Then God saw there was another need.  In His wisdom He made seniors lose coordination so they would drop things, requiring them to bend, reach, and stretch.  And God looked down and saw that it was good

 

Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have additional calls of nature, requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus providing more exercise.  God looked down and saw that it was good.

 

So, if you find, as you age, you are getting up and down more, remember it's God's will.  It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your breath. 

 

Nine Important Facts to Remember as We Grow Older

 

#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

 

#8 Life is sexually transmitted.

 

#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

 

#6   Men have two motivations: hunger and hanky-panky, and they can't tell them apart.  If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

 

#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day.  Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

 

#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

 

#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather.  It pays no attention to criticism.

 

#2 In the '60s, people took LSD to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

 

#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers.  What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow.

The #Stella Awards

 · SEVENTH PLACE

 

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of

her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was

running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably

surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own

son.

 

Start scratching!

· SIXTH PLACE *

 

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical

expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.

Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the

car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

 

Scratch some more...

· FIFTH PLACE *

 

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had

just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the

automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the

garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the

door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it

shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a

case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's

insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury

said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.

We should all have this kind of anguish Keep scratching. There are

more...

 

Double hand scratching after this one.

· FOURTH PLACE *

 

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the

Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being

bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though

the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not

get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might

have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had

climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with

a pellet gun

 

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot.

· THIRD PLACE *

 

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a

Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a

spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone The reason the soft drink

was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds

earlier during an argument.

 

Only two more so ease up on the scratching..

 

*SECOND PLACE*

 

Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a

nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,

knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to

sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover

charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh,

yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure

 

Ok. Here we go!!

· FIRST PLACE *

 

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv

Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot

Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football

game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at

70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the

Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home

left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs.

Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that

she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control

was set The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?

 

$1,750,000.

 

PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a

result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who

might also buy a motor home.