This year I started planning to make ribs a week before Memorial Day. We took a mini vacation to Waco on Friday and Saturday before Memorial Day Monday. So, I had to buy everything we needed on Thursday.
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The 2025 Hurricane Season
We’re starting this post early this year with the annual tweet from Philip that calls for a above-normal year with 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes. He adds that a “relatively warm Atlantic and likely absence of #ElNino are the primary reasons.”
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The 2024 General Election in Texas
The general election is on Tuesday, November 5 this year with early voting starting October 21 and ending November 1. The Texas Tribune has published their ballot guide.
This is a pivitol, blockbuster race. Former President Donald Trump is still facing several indictments. He’s been shot in the ear. He had two more assassination attempts planned against him. President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July, and Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic nominee.
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- The Texas Tribune 2024 ballot: Voting in the November elections
- Texas Democratic Party
- Republican Party of Texas
- Brazos County Democratic Party
- Brazos County Republican Party
- BrazosVotes.org
- City of Bryan Secretary – Elections
- U.S. Senate
- U.S. House of Representatives
- Texas Senate
- Texas House of Representatives
Former President Trump Second Assassination Attempt
On Sunday, September 15, 2024, while Trump was playing a rather public round of golf at his Trump International Golf Club, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was in the bushes near the 5th hole. When agents approached the hole to secure it, one agent saw the barrel of a gun (identified as an AK-47) sticking out of the bushes. The agent fired 4 – 6 shots at the suspect. Routh fled and a chase ensued. He was captured a short while later.
Routh was 400 – 500 yards away from former President Trump, so he was within range, but he did not have a clear shot, and he never fired a shot, so this would be more of an potential assassination attempt.
Some are blaming this on a staffing shortage at the Secret Service. They are down about 400 agents from what they are budgeted for, and they didn’t secure the entire course like they might have when Trump was president.
Biden will not seek reelection
On Sunday, July 21, 2024, President Joe Biden, aged 81, announced he will no longer seek reelection to a second term. Instead he will endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him on Sunday.
Source: CNN.com
There are 28 days to the Democratic National Convention and 106 days to the election. Some have suggested the the DNC will be open, while Harris has vowed to “earn and win” this nomination.
It’s been 56 years since a president droped out of their reelection race. Lyndon B. Johnson dropped out of his reelection race after low numbers in the first primary in New Hampshire, on March 12, 1968; Joe Biden was 25 years old and would graduate Syracuse University Law school that year.
UPDATE 8/6/2024
Kamala Harris has chosen Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, as her running mate.
The Day Computers Stopped
Over night on July 18-19, CrowdStrike quietly pushed out an update to Microsoft computers and servers. By 4 AM CDT, Help Desk Central at Texas A&M University was on alert of a problem campus wide. It seemed computers were stuck in a Blue Screen (of Death) restart loop, and Windows and Azure (cloud) servers were shutting down. Since nearly every Windows computer on campus – including classroom computers – were affected, the University’s President cancelled classes, and the IT professionals got to work identifying and fixing every computer they could find with the problem.
The CrowdStrike IT outage forced Texas A&M University to cancel classes Friday as IT professionals manually fixed thousands of impacted devices.
Source: KBTX.com
CrowdStrike is a global corporation, and their security software is in millions of computers world wide.
The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts told CNN.
Source: CNN.com
How could such a small update do so much damage? That is the billion dollar question!
Former President Trump Shot
The former president was shot at one of his campaign rallies, but instead of doing what anyone else who’s shot does, he defiantly pumped his fist in the air.
Law enforcement authorities have identified the man who made an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The FBI said the shooter, who is dead, was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive was not clear.
Source: NBC.com
Memorial Day Ribs 2024
Once again I didn’t think about ribs until the weekend before Memorial day. I still haven’t lit the grill.
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The 2024 Hurricane Season
We’re starting this post early this year with the annual tweet from Philip that calls for a very active year with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes. He adds that an “extremely warm tropical Atlantic and likely #LaNina are the primary reasons.”
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