Let's recap the action so far....Uh, nothing really.

Wait--wait---I've got a handle on this--

 keeping my pledge against 

commenting on our current political chaos.

I am doing my best to fulfill my concept of providing

the current regime in Washington with zero attention

as the worst hurt I can inflict

is ignoring them totally?

It was Keith Richards birthday Wednesday the 18th...
He turned 75...
happy-75th-birthday-keith-richards

The trailer for the upcoming new Hellboy movie
with David Harbor as Hellboy is out.

Fucking awesome.
hellboys-first-trailer

Still in a horrifying slump with my playing.

Dieter Rams should be known as the Patron Saint
designer for the OCD...

Rams was the design director at Braun industries
Braun
for over 30 years and was involved in the design of
over 500 different products....
There has been a documentary produced on him...

the-most-influential-designer-of-the-twentieth-century-is-finally-getting-his-due

Three of his designs I could not live without are the 

classic Braun-battery powered travel alarm,

which i am devoted to
sits on my nightstand. 

(even tho i never travel any longer...)

When I did travel extensively the Braun battery powered electric 

razor was always in my carry-on...

Most recently a real favorite of mine is

the Braun Chronograph wristwatch...

Although it eats through batteries at an amazing rate..

I love this watch.

The items produced under Dieter Ram at Bruan
are clean, simplistic but beautifully stylish..
devoid of excess, unnecessary shit...!
Amazingly beautiful and useful.

We are in the process of discovering that our solar system
is far larger..
farout-astronomers-identify-most-distant-known-object-in-solar-system

Massively stranger that we ever realized...

Meanwhile society is more focused on
some twitter idiot's diet plan---?

You may have wondered about last week's posting

regarding a Cjiaba watch I ordered..expecting the watch to be 

totally fucked on arrival--which it was...

These desperately bad Cjiaba watches are 

a sort of challenge to me---

How does one make something viable out of truly low cost shit....

Viable inexpensively---????

Below is the end result of a different

Cjiaba watch project of mine--

This project watch was the Cjiaba that 
I mentioned would not run do to the
enormous human eyebrow hair in the watch mechanism
as i described in my last post...
(awesome quality control eh??)
I tore this Cjiaba apart---got it running--and actually did
ten coats of flat black paint on the casing.

(it was originally a shitty chrome)
Followed by ten coats of clear cover spray 
and hand painted the orange accented bezel markings.
The final step was the addition of a military style web band.
Total re-hab cost was $15.00 us for the band...?
Not a bad result in totality?
It also keeps excellent, accurate time now, although it's
mechanism spring is only good for about 4 hours of power
storage without the self-winder topping it's power off---
There is nothing more satisfying to me that taking a item
that is, well, shit and making it viable.

Penny Marshall died..

She was 75.

penny-marshall-dead-dies-75

She became a great director and was 

one of the few female Hollywood moguls..

Like any good, young dude from Jersey tho,

I had a crush on

 her character, Laverne Defazio!!

Laverne and Shirley

This is excellent--on Bill Gates must read list..
My wife surprised me with it..

On Netflix streaming now....

 beautifully filmed...

This guy's gonna die of nonchalance......

I seem to have gotten my energy back 

I'm working around the place again...?

Muricans never wise up or increase their mental capacity...
John Gray a Prosperity Preacher 
in his own "Relentless MegaChurch"

just bought his wife a $200,000 Lamborghini...

megachurch-pastor-struggles-to defend Lamborghini
I cannot imagine how hucksters like this can be 
still be functional in our world today...?
I mean we are an educated society with available 
Internet capability for research enabling good decision making?
But then again....what the fuck am I thinking...?

Prosperity_theology

so many Americans think they are soooo much tougher
than the French..

Yet we Americans take a tremendous load of shit and abuse from
our 1%er's and politicians that the average Frenchman
 won't stand for...!
Liberte',egalite',fraternite'...!!

macron-speech-france-protests-riots-violence-paris

The French rioted against new tax breaks for their rich and
 against their Premier Macron who raised taxes on the average person...
They FORCED their government to increase taxes on the rich and give 
the average Frenchman a pay raise!
I can only wish we Americans were as brave as the French!

Laughing at their stupidity hurts them more
than attempting to reason with them...
protesters-disrupt-us-panels-fossil-fuels-pitch-at-climate-talks by laughing

that you go through periods of time where in trying to
accomplish/repair something you wind up fucking up
 12 other things in the repair process...?

I am going through one of those periods now, 
where in my attempt to fix some random broken item around the house,
i break five, totally unrelated things during the "supposed" fixing process.

 I am attempting to determine if
this stage of incompetence is now due to my age..?

Or just my plain, normal, idiocy...?

I so want a robotic plant...
 this is amazing..!

The plant is electronically mated to a robotic base
which follows the Plant's innate drives and desires,
moving it into the light...?
elowan-plant-robot-hybrid/
Tho, I'm not saying having one of these.
 would be without problems?

Nun's have REALLY changed

since my youth---?

high-rolling-nuns-gambled-500k-of-embezzled-funds

So I been prowling for cheap Chinese mechanical
watches on Amazon.
They come and go so, you have to grab them when available.
I just obtained a sub $25.00us mechanical movement Cjiaba watch.
This model features a mechanical time/date,
self winding(maybe, we'll see) movement, 
with a 45mm in diameter blacked out case,
featuring yellow numerators.
a Cjiaba AMPM24..

Cjiaba watches are sort of the maximum of fake watches,

a copy of the Soviet Slava watch,

made by the Chinese with Chinese movements..?

So basically a fake pretending to be a watch that

 probably was a copy of another watch to begin with?

Slava_watches

However, my experience with Cjiaba's is that they are cheap,

hugely variable in quality, (primarily bad one way or another) 

and if necessary are repairable by my, somewhat, limited watch-repair skills.

So a challenge...

I once got a Cjiaba running by opening it up and removing 

A HUGE EYEBROW HAIR---

that had jammed the rotor gearing mechanism...

no shit....

That watch is still running today and I wear it often.

I receive this new Cjiaba watch.

 I opened the package and it looks  good..?

(incredibly shitty watchband removed immediately)

and as I attempted to set the watch for the very first time,

and the winding/setting stem pulled completely out---?

This is a Cjiaba watch world record for the shortest

actually working time category...?

Zero...

Just what I needed--another project...?

On Netflix streaming---
 A drama...
Superb...Amazing...