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Afternoon folks!

It's blues by the bucketload this week... Starting off we've got a fantastic live performance from B.B. King from 1964 when he was pretty much at the height of his playing. After that we've got a compilation of alternates and unreleased songs from Larry Williams, one of the great New Orleans r&b piano player/singers followed by some raucous live slide guitar blues from Hound Dog Taylor. Following all that is some blues rock Texas style from Toni Price and then an album from Kingfish, a band that features the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. We finish up in the diversity department with a sampler from John Prine's record label that features a few songs from him followed by some other interesting artists.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! If you are reading this, you are still here!

My latest AI experience: I ordered a food supplement from the same company I order it routinely. This time, it clicked on sale completed before I could review the order. What was confirmed an hour later was my order for 2 products I had never heard of, and the product I did order was not a 4 pack, but a one pack with a forever monthly subscription.

The reason I didn't buy the product from Amazon is it is only a monthly subscription.

I got an AI back and forth to straighten things out. It went on for hours. I finally said to the bot to fix it or I would report this as fraud to my credit card and the FBI. I soon got a bot with a name and number who corrected things, even leaving a name to ask for if things were not resolved.

What had never taken me over 5 minutes took 6 hours and multiple phone calls.

I am short...

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Hooray! We've managed to make it through another week without the whole world completely imploding. Keeping my fingers crossed that smarter heads prevail and that holds for a lot longer.
Locally it's been a week of early morning fog and hot sunny afternoon's here in the lower left. I've had the windows open at night to keep the house cool. Normally I don't have to do that until May or June. If the last few weeks are any indication it's going so be a blazing hot summer.

Some old familiar faces and some new friends from my last few visits to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Good Morning

First calf of the season on the ground, a bullock, red like his mother. Dexter throw small calves. I needed to move him to another pasture and he is small enough for me to lift. The 80 to 100 lb calves were getting too hard for me to handle without assistance. Looking forward to making a variety of cheeses this season.

No nectarines or peaches this year. Enjoyed the blooms signaling spring had arrived. A few blooms survived the 22 degree night, last night was 16 degrees none survived. Typical, I consider them ornamentals for a short bloom in spring and beautiful fall color.

Here are Daniel Davis and Joe Kent talking about a war:

Leave It To Norway!

I happened across this video the other day. It rocked! The Norwegian Consumer Consul made a video about the enshittification of everything in life by a (fictional for now, of course) professional enshitticator. I had to laugh, shake my head ruefully, wonder where we are headed, laugh some more... I’m in total awe that a Norwegian, independent, governmentally funded organization put this together. Norway! (6th happiest country in the world and the USA is umm, 23rd or something, gah)

Enjoy the video!