I used my laser thermometer on my drive way on Tuesday, it said 127 degrees.

SE Tennessee has been hot and dry in July.


Today's forecast is a high of 91 (Tuesday it was 97), @ 7am it is 73 with 94% relative humidity. Outside feels like walking in soup, miserable already.

I feel like every once in a while you bust out with a tool or something that I wouldn't think about owning. What do you use the laser thermometer for?

Originally bought it to take a fussy kids temp, not its intended purpose but would give a good enough indication of a fever and whether to break out the real thermometer and deal with the struggle.

I have since used it to find hot or cold spots for insulation purposes around windows/doors, and attic vents.

My kid was using it for her 8th grade science project about specific heat of different substances before Covid sent everyone home.

It is a handy little tool,
Ryobi Infrared thermometer.


My wife is a crafter at times and she hated her glue gun so I got her the RYOBI cordless glue gun, she was doubtful at first but I bet it gets used at least twice a week.

One of the better purchases is the Ryobi Stickvac, a regular household vacuum that I have tons of batteries to keep it running to do the whole house without having to recharge it.


I use the Ryobi 18volt One+ system of tools for the most part. I have 17 batteries.

I do love my tools.

Help me! Mr. Popiel!

I use a lot of onion. I routinely cook with them, and it was a childhood staple to dice them up for tuna sandwiches, now tuna wraps.

I know many picky eaters, and as someone who likes to cook, and likes to experiment with food, even though I don't cook for these picky eaters, it's frustrating to listen to them talk about eating. Their choices are theirs, and I certainly understand having a few foods that you genuinely do dislike the taste or texture of, regardless of how they are prepared, but when you are rotating between the same 2-3 meals each day, or will absolutely not touch a food because it involves one of those things, I think that's more of a mental block than anything.

I have a family member who once told me about going to Arby's by himself for one of their "deli style" sandwiches. He hates onions, will not eat anything with onion in it, no matter the amount. So he was enjoying his sandwich and was halfway done with it before realizing there were very small diced onions in it. Stopped eating. He was enjoying the sandwich, and stopped eating once he realized the onion.

I heavily dislike olives. I think they are quite vile. But I have been offered leftover pizza with olives on it, and I just picked off what I could, and dealt with what was under the cheese, the rest of the pizza made their taste minimal.

I was going to call you out on the Ryobi-coveting, but you beat me to it. Gotta say I’m tempted to pick up a cordless glue gun.

My spirit animal totem is a squirrel.

I took a quiz to see what would’ve happened if Thanos’s snapped actually happened. I survived😀😀😀😀😂🤣

Since we had a run of Judas songs, let's try for Jesus songs...

Jesus He Knows Me - Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-rfCnW5VlE

Jesus Saves - Slayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR2l-_LUpJ4

Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r7y6rM6zA

Jesus (Of Nazareth) by (Hed) Planet Earth

Jesus Frankenstein by Rob Zombie

Jamal Adams to Seattle!! Did not see that coming.

My spirit animal totem is Ron Swanson.

Let's kick this week off right
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas (with the most excellent video ever

Killing in the Name- Rage Against the Machine

This will not be new to anyone either, but dammit. Kashmir.




And this is super late...mainly because I was saving it for the N's. I thought the title was New Albion #4 or something like that, but it is actually called Annabel has a Doll . I have no idea how I stumbled into a Steampunk opera, but it was an amazingly creative story and musical journey. The Dolls of New Albion was the whole story.