Wednesday, December 16, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

16 Tons Remakes... 

Johnny Cash - Sixteen Tons...

Johnny Cash - Sixteen Tons - YouTube

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (Live)...

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (Live) - YouTube

Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons (Go-Go Version)...

Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons (Go-Go Version) - YouTube

The Original...

MERLE TRAVIS - Sixteen Tons...

MERLE TRAVIS - Sixteen Tons - YouTube

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler...

“Sixteen Tons,” is about the lives of miners in Kentucky, where Travis was born. The chorus comes from a letter his brother, John, wrote to him about the death of World War II journalist Ernie Pyle. John wrote, “it’s like working in the coal mines. You load sixteen tons and what do you get?

Apple iPhone Notifications...

 Just speaking about the iPhone...

Notifications seem to be a problem with Apple...

Notifications that we are referring are the ones associated with Chat/Texts w/e...they seem to break after the first reboot after the update...

sidenote: Apple iOS is at 14.3

We've seen three different ways notifications can be setup, and we're pretty sure that is all there is, but not the point of this blog post...

We have our notifications setup to receive the name of the sender, but not any of the text of their message...

Some have the name of the sender and a part of the text they are sending, and the third we've seen is just notification, and this is the one we want to talk about...

What we do is shut down our phone just before the update is done, that way the system has a chance to refresh itself...

We then restart, go to settings, General, then software update...

Now once you restart after the update your notifications will work properly for people that chose name only and not text on their chat balloon that notify's you that you have a text...

However, after a couple of days you won't be able to receive phone calls or texts and your Cellular signal will say "no signal"...

You won't be able to use your phone and you'll have to restart in order to fix the networking issue(s) and then your notifications will break and it will be "notification" until the next update, no matter if you restart or not...

We know they are aware of this problem because they fixed another issue because of this networking issue...

The notification used to show up for texts and phone calls which, if you slide to the right will dial the number, which can be bad, if it's one of those numbers that charge you exorbitant connect charges...

They fixed that, but they haven't fixed the notification balloon and they need to because it's a real nuisance for something that should be real ez to fix...

5hVnz Book of the Month...

"Cult of the Dead Cow" by Joseph Menn cDc...

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"TECHNOLOGY IS DECIDING the fate of the world, and we are everywhere in its chains. Electronic surveillance, cyberwarfare, arti-ficial intelligence, and manipulated social media are on the brink of pushing societies beyond a point of no return. Even those of us who saw this coming did not think it would get this dire this fast, and definitely not in this way." Joseph Menn


MOOOOO...

Thursday, November 26, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

 This song has a very Clockwork Orange 'esque feel to it...

"Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He first became well known as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s, and has since garnered international recognition for writing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall" Wiki

Oingo Boingo has a lot of good songs, but one that stands out for them was, Dead Man's Party...

So the following Video is not too far from the cuff of what Danny Elfman portrays in his song styles...

Danny Elfman - "Happy" (Official Video)...
Danny Elfman - "Happy" (Official Video) - YouTube

Happy Thanksgiving...

 Happy Thanksgiving to EVERYBODY!!! 

As you know this is our favorite time of the year, it's a time for people to come together to share recipes, love and laughter...

There is no segregation in Thanksgiving because there is no religious overtone, it's a Proclamation that was signed in by a President to provide a small token of gratitude of the hard work we all do throughout the year...

We ask that all Bullshit stops for the next 4 days while this holiday is celebrated...

No Wars, No Fighting, just SHUT UP lol get in the kitchen, make your favorite dish and feed someone...

Come Monday you can go back to your stupid little game of slaughter, but for these four days, make a dish, step over the line, show some gratitude for your enemies and friends efforts...

Or maybe not, maybe you'll realize that the only reason you're fighting is because of a Govt. that has kept us away from one another...

If you think about it, the only racist person in the World are the People that work for the Govt., these are the people that tell you that the people on the other side of the fence are dangerous...

It's like that parent that says, we don't want you playing with the little boy/girl up the street, we've heard rumors...so it's said, so it's written yada yada speech, same effect, same result...

These are the people that create the stress, anxiety, fear in people that if you open up the gate everyone is going to die because those people are f''kd up...

Instead, why don't you walk to the border, this could be the actual border or maybe a fence that keeps you out of the neighbors yard, and share a meal, a story, a handshake, fist bump, w/ever, just let them know, that it's Thanksgiving and We just wanted to share what We have with you...and that's a fact!

Sunday, November 22, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

 "It's not the age that defines the person, it's the person that defines the age" -V-

Monday, November 9, 2020

5hVnz Book of the Month...

Henny Penny; more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little...

An absurd belief that disaster is imminent. The term comes from a fable about a chicken who believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head..

The Sky is Falling The Sky is Falling...lol...

Saturday, October 17, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

 Lynyrd Skynyrd (/ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd SKIN-ərd) is an "American" rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass guitar) and Bob Burns (drums). The band spent five years touring small venues under various names and with several lineup changes before deciding on "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in 1969. The band released their first album in 1973, having settled on a lineup that included bassist Leon Wilkeson, keyboardist Billy Powell and guitarist Ed King. Burns left and was replaced by Artimus Pyle in 1974. King left in 1975 and was replaced by Steve Gaines in 1976. At the height of their fame in the 1970s, the band popularized the Southern rock genre with songs such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". After releasing five studio albums and one live album, the band's career was abruptly halted by tragedy on October 20, 1977, when their chartered airplane crashed, killing Van Zant, Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, and seriously injuring the rest of the band.

Lynyrd Skynyrd reformed in 1987 for a reunion tour with Ronnie's brother Johnny Van Zant as lead vocalist. They continue to tour and record with co-founder Rossington (the band's sole continuous member), Johnny Van Zant, and Rickey Medlocke, who first wrote and recorded with the band from 1971 to 1972 before his return in 1996. In January 2018, Lynyrd Skynyrd announced its farewell tour, and continue touring as of October 2019. Members are also working on their fifteenth album.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lynyrd Skynyrd No. 95 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Lynyrd Skynyrd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. To date, the band has sold 28 million records in the United States.

God & Guns is the thirteenth studio album by the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on September 29, 2009.

The single "Still Unbroken" was released on July 27, 2009 followed by another track, "Simple Life", on August 4, 2009. "Still Unbroken" was written after the death of original bassist Leon Wilkeson in 2001. It was the theme song of WWE’s Breaking Point PPV event and is featured on WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010.

"God & Guns" was the last Lynyrd Skynyrd album to feature the band's longtime keyboardist Billy Powell, who died in January 2009. Ean Evans, who had replaced Leon Wilkeson on bass, also died before this album came out. The late Hughie Thomasson (dec.2007) had contributed to the writing of many songs, but recording did not begin until 2008 and he does not play on the album. This album is the first with guitarist Mark Matejka. The album features guitar work from John 5.

Although neither was present on the album, the CD booklet contains a picture of the group with the two new members: Peter Keys on keyboards and Robert Kearns on bass.

The album's title comes from its eighth track, "God & Guns", written by Mark Stephen Jones, Travis Meadows and Bud Tower, which was later covered by Hank Williams Jr. for his 2016 album It's About Time. The lyrical shift from "Saturday Night Special" to "God & Guns" has been taken into account by band member Johnny Van Zant, who explained how the song was not a direct contradiction to "Saturday Night Special."

God & Guns peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard pop charts, the band's highest-charting studio album since 1977's Street Survivors. As of 2012, the album has sold 182,000 copies in United States...

Lynyrd Skynyrd God & Guns...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PKKrphaSNM


Monday, October 12, 2020

The Best Breakfast Burrito in Town...

Now this is controversial, because there are two types of burritos that could be considered the best, one is smothered and the other is dry...

The problem we have found with smothered burritos is that they focus on the sauce and cheese and leave the inside of the burrito basic...

When the burrito is dry they focus on each one of the ingredients that go in the burrito to give each ingredient the best flavor it can have to provide a flavor explosion when you bite into it...

That's why we like a dry burrito that way you can dunk it in your own sauce or add your own cheese, or add your own green chili over the top that way you get the best of both worlds...

This place is a little out of the way, a little smaller and off the beaten path, and you know that's why we love it even more...

The place is called, El Kioska in Renton Washington...

Hope you Enjoy...

The Best Gyro in Town...

 The Best Gyro in town is based off of years of experience we've had with eating from some of the best Greeks in the business...

This is the most unlikely of a places you would find a Gyro and we were pleasantly surprised when we first went there, now we don't go anywhere else...

The problem with most places is they short change you, it's either small portions and a high price, or a descent portion with an even higher price...

This place gives you huge portions and the price is absolutely right...

A lot of places the pita is hard and the meat is tough, or their hummus tastes like it was scooped from a can...

This place is as authentic as it gets, very low key and the most unlikeliest place to get a Good Gyro from, but we guarantee you're gonna love it...

The place is called...Midway Donuts...lol, we know, right, Midway Donuts, but like their Gyros their donuts are even good, and HUGE, get the apple fritter, yuuummm...

The Gyro comes plain, mild and spicy so choose carefully, ohhh, our mouth is watering just talking about it...

They are located in Des Moines Washington...

Our recommendation is instead of the fries, get the Spanakopita instead, yum yum yum...

Hope you enjoy...

The Best Poke' in Town...

Poke' /poʊˈkeɪ/ (Hawaiian for "to slice" or "cut crosswise into pieces...

Poke' has become real popular lately, and people are starting up little shops all over, but be careful, because poke' is Raw Fish...

Poke' is typically bought by the pound, you just go in pick your fish and they fill it up in a tub and you go on your way...

Other places get a little creative and create bowls with fish and rice and other ingredients to not only give it a little flavor explosion, but it creates a nice appearance...

Another thing you need to be looking for is if their fish is frozen or fresh, if it's frozen say, have a nice day and leave, only go with fresh...

You also want to look for a place that knows what they got and can walk the walk and talk the talk, if they don't know where their fish came from, leave...

Another thing we like, kinda personal to us, is that we like to go to places that are out of the way, or unlikely of places, like their appearance is either simple, or misleading...

We're pretty sure we found that place, it's in Kent Washington called, Green Valley...

Green Valley is a Chinese restaurant and has been a Chinese restaurant for almost 20 years, it's only added Poke' in the last couple of years and it was a smart idea...

This place was already a popular place with great Chinese food, now their a popular place for their Poke' as well...

The bulk of their fish is flown in fresh daily from Hawaii, but they also buy local for some of their fish, like Salmon...

They serve Poke' Tuesday thru Saturday, don't come on Monday for Poke' because you'll be leaving with Chinese food, which is fantastic...

Hope you enjoy...

Saturday, October 3, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the day...


" SUICIDE DOESN'T END THE CHANCES OF LIFE GETTING WORSE. IT ELIMINATES THE POSSIBILITY OF IT EVER GETTING ANY BETTER"

UNKNOWN...

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

Chasing Addiction Vocals: Josh Greenlee - Guitar: Goose Hitchcock - Guitar: Robert Aquino - Bass: Darren Lawrence - Drums: Holdon Hitchcock

https://www.facebook.com/ChasingAddictionband/

Here's an example of how an idea becomes a reality...

Their father Heath Hitchcock is there manager, keeping it all in the family...

Becoming an Actor or becoming a Musician is one of those professions that parents don't get behind because parents don't understand working at a place you don't punch a time clock...

So we applaud a Father getting behind his boys and their friends and the unconventional profession "THEY" chose...

Chasing Addiction Anchor:

Monday, August 31, 2020

5hVnz Water Taste Test...

This test was conducted because two people came together thinking they knew water better than the other person...

This blog is being written about those results to show something both of these water know it all's discovered instantly...

...and of course to share with you what water was chosen to be the best "Tasting" water...

We chose 5 waters to test:

1. Dasani

2. Fiji

3. LIFEWTR

4. Essentia 

...and...

5. Tap Water

All waters were the same temperature, and they were all refrigerated...

Refrigerated water tastes better than room temperature water, room temperature water would have made the test even easier to decide which water was the best tasting, but we had tap water in the mix...

Tap water is nasty Cold, Hot or Warm, but especially warm, so when it's colder it gives it the best fighting chance against bottled waters...

However, even though the tap water was the same temperature as the others, it was picked out "INSTANTLY" that it was Tap Water by both of us, it's a metallic taste, leaves a horrible after taste and heart burn, completely disgusting...

We both had a water of choice that we felt was the best tasting water on the market, one of us liked Dasani and the other liked Fiji...

Neither one of us chose our water as the best tasting water, but both of us chose our go to waters as our second choice, which was interesting...

We think we did that because it's a water we're used to drinking so there was a familiarity about the water that our taste buds recognized...

However, we both chose the same water as the best tasting water for it's purity, it's real water flavor, if that's a thing, clean and absolutely no aftertaste, it just disappeared leaving us refreshed...

So what was that water that left our tastebuds refreshed...

"LIFEWTR"

LIFEWTR is by far, the best tasting water out of these most popular chosen waters...

The one Water that we didn't have on here is Coconut Water, and that was because the cups we used weren't enclosed cups...

Coconut water has a certain look to it, so for our test it might have been chosen just because, plus it has a certain taste to it that makes it dissimilar to water that comes from the ground...

We both agree that Coconut Water is probably the best water for you...

There are some other waters that are on the market, but they really didn't make the list because of either bad taste, or unnatural impurities added to the water to enhance flavor and hydration claims...

Stay Fresh, Stay Cool and Stay Hydrated, L8R...

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

 If you want to see how efficient the US Government works all you have to do is take a look at the US Postal Service...

The United States Postal Service’s financial troubles have been well publicized in recent years. The worst of it came in 2012, when the USPS lost a whopping $15.9 billion dollars, followed by $4.8 billion and $5.3 billion in 2013 and 2014, respectively...

It now just received, thanks to the taxpayers again, 25 billion dollars...truly pathetic, oh, your welcome...

They can't run a business, a business that just needs to make it's end meet, no profit needed, just keep the lights on, pay the employees, and deliver mail, and they can't even handle that, and you want them running a country...

"Please Mr. Postman" is a song written by Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, and Robert Bateman. It is the debut single by the Marvelettes for the Tamla (Motown) label,  notable as the first Motown song to reach the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. The single achieved this position in late 1961; it hit number one on the R&B chart as well. "Please Mr. Postman" became a number-one hit again in early 1975 when the Carpenters' cover of the song reached the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. "Please Mr. Postman" has been covered several times, including by the British rock group The Beatles in 1963...

Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman (1965)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJcbHni4rc

The Beatles — Please Mr. Postman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzy4R8EbWJ4

The Carpenters - Please Mr Postman [1978]...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZDbthv3xT8

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Here's an Idea...

For those of you that still play pool...

It's called -V- ball and was designed for the, "Is it my turn yet" and the "Uncooperative Partner" scenarios...

The nice part about this game is everyone gets to play...

The game is 2 to 4 players, which makes it good for those times that you only have 3 people in your group, won't matter, because all 3 of you can play at the same time...

The money ball is the 1 ball, this ball is a neutral ball on the table and is given a point to the player that makes the ball in intentionally or by accident, doesn't matter they are still given a point...

For example, if the person is trying to make their ball in and misses, but makes the 1 ball in by accident, their turn continues, but they only get to hit the 1 ball for a point each time it makes it in...

sidenote: You cannot intentionally hit the 1 ball in by any means while you still have your balls on the table...

Now if the player can't hit the 1 ball on their shot they have a choice not to hit the ball, but they lose 1 point, which in this instance will take away the point they just made...

If the person decides to try to make the 1 ball and misses the 1 ball altogether, meaning the cue ball never makes contact with the 1 ball, they lose a point, like a table scratch and the cue ball will be picked up and put in the kitchen for the next player...

If the 1 ball is hit and makes it in, they make a point and they get to continue hitting the 1 ball up to 5 times total...

So, being that the 1 ball is neutral if the 1 ball goes in by accident when trying to hit your ball in, that's a free play, you then have 5 chances to continue hitting the 1 ball in to increase your points by 5 points...

Once the 5th shot is done the player that was next in rotation of the normal play will take their turn, this person is called the -V- player...

That person has to call themselves -V- in order to secure their position, if the player before them hits the 1 ball in by accident, and if they don't yell -V- they will lose their turn in Rotation and miss their turn while passing their turn on to the next player...

The person that is hitting the 1 ball is only allowed to hit the 1 ball, regardless if their balls are still up on the table, they must continue to hit the 1 ball only until they miss, the fifth shot is reached or they decide not to continue after shot 1 is completed...

sidenote: The 1 ball can never be hit first in a combination, it can however, be used as a second or third, fourth, fifth etc. ball in a combination to make one of your object balls in...

If the person hitting the 1 ball misses the pocket they intended for it to go in, nothing happens other than they lose the chance to continue trying to make the additional 5 points, in other words just because they miss the shot doesn't mean they lose a point they just lose their next shot...

They only lose a point if either they can't hit the 1 ball on their shot, or they decided to forfeit their shot they will lose a point...

sidenote: They can also lose a turn and a point if they hit another players ball in...if they make the 1 ball as well, doesn't matter which one goes in first, the player loses their turn - the 1 ball comes back up and, they lose a point while the other player gains a point for a ball of theirs going in...

Also, the 1 ball bonus points can only be started by two ways:

1. If the 1 ball is accidentally put down

2. If the player has hit in all their balls

Keep in mind, if the 1 ball is hit in by accident while hitting in your balls you must stop hitting in your balls and only hit the 1 ball...

Once the first shot of the 5 point system has been established the player has the choice to stop and pass on the play or continue to try and make all 5 points, remember that if the 1 ball goes in accidentally that's 1 point, but not to be considered one of the 5 points, it in turn is the 6th point...

The 5 point bonus play is after the fact...

Now, if the 1 ball is never hit in by accident and the first player that gets their balls in first will be allowed to hit the 1 ball for their shot once their shot comes available...

clarity: The player is not allowed to hit in the 5 points on the turn that puts all their ball in, they have to let the other players get a chance to hit all their balls in on their turn, then once the first 1 ball hitters turn comes around are they allowed to start the 5 point bonus round...

So, the other players still have their balls to make in, they are only allowed to hit their balls in unless they accidentally hit the 1 ball in, now they get a chance to make the 5/6 point bonus points, but remember, once they hit 5 in, they must pass their turn to the next player in line, the -V- player, if only of course they secured their role by calling out -V-...

sidenote: This is also a drinking game, so if the person doesn't call out -V- they have to do a Shot or chug a beer...

The 1 ball player is allowed to hit in the 1 ball up to 5 times every time their turn comes available and they must hit at least one time regardless if they have a shot or not, they either try to hit the one ball or they lose a point automatically...

To be clear, if and when it's time for the 1 ball player to hit the 1 ball they have to hit it at least once, doesn't matter if it goes in or not, if they hit the ball but it misses the pocket the game goes onto the next player and the 1 ball shooter will not lose a point as long as the cue ball makes contact with the 1 ball...

Also, if it's just normal ball rotation, in other words, each person is trying to hit their designated ball in there is no reason for the person to call out -V-, this is only needed to be done if the 1 ball goes in accidentally, because remember, once the 1 ball goes in, you must stop shooting your balls...

Now, what balls are yours...

If you are playing with two people your balls are: 2,3,4,5,6,7, 8 and 9,10,11,12,13,14, 15

If you are playing with three people your balls are: 2,3,4,5-6,7,8,9 and 10,11,12,13

If you are playing with four people your balls are: 2,3,4-5,6,7-8,9,10-11,12,13

The 14 and 15 ball is taken off the table so that an even number of balls can be established for three and four person play...

Each Players ball of their set is worth 1 point, so once you make your ball you get a point, but once the ball is made it stays down, however, if you scratch while making your ball, you lose the point the ball comes back up to be placed on the spot and the cue ball is picked up and placed in the kitchen for the next player...

sidenote: The point can be regained once the player makes their scratched ball in again once their turn comes available...

Now, for the player that hit all their balls in they get to continue making their 5 points until the other players make their balls in, once all the players have made their balls in, the game is over...

So that means, that if one player doesn't hit in all their balls and the other players have, they all have a chance to make up points by hitting the 1 ball in for the 5 point bonus points...

For the person that goes out first, they get 1 point for going out first, nobody else gets a point for being 2nd or 3rd going out, only the 1st person gets a point...

You can set w/ever number you want to play to, but the game minimum is 100 points, so the first person to get 100 points gets a point, regardless if they went out first or not...

This is an additional bonus point...

sidenote: More than likely you won't reach 100 points the first game, you just rack them up again once the game ends and continue to play until the 100 points is reached or the desired number of points that were established before the games started is reached...

Remember, if the 1 ball goes in accidentally that person has a chance to make additional points regardless if their balls are in or not, so they could make extra points...

We use the term loosely here, when we say accidentally, if you call a "Combination" shot to hit one of your balls in and you use the 1 ball in your combination, and the 1 ball goes in, regardless if your ball goes in or not, you get the 5/6 point bonus round...

sidenote: Loosely means, you can never intentionally make the 1 ball if your balls are still on the table, but if you create a shot that looks accidental, then the bonus round starts...

sidenote2: Example, if you call a three ball or more combination and your intent "Secretly" was to make the 1 ball in on a creative deception, then yes, the bonus round starts, remember, creative deception, not deceptive intention...

You do however, have to hit your ball first in the combination in order for it to count, otherwise, you lose your turn and you lose a point...

Only the player that has hit all their balls in can hit the 1 ball directly, or use it as their first ball to hit...

Even though the 1 ball is neutral, you CANNOT use it as your first ball of a combination to hit your ball in, if you do, you lose your turn and you lose 1 point and the ball stays down...

You can use the 1 ball in your combination providing you hit your object ball first...

Combinations can be started with anybody's ball, that means you can start the combination with your opponents ball, no problem there, you just can't hit the 1 ball first unless all your balls are in, or your on your bonus points...

sidenote: If you have hit all your balls in and/or you are on your bonus points, you cannot hit another persons ball first in order to hit your 1 ball in. You can use other balls in a combination to make your 1 ball bonus point, but you must hit the 1 ball first "ALWAYS" when in the bonus round...no exceptions...

Also, hooking a player is also allowed, if you hook a player so they can't hit their ball, they lose a point...

To hook a player, you must hit your ball first and that ball must either hit another ball and/or at least one ball has to hit a cushion, or it's a foul and the player loses a point and the cue ball is picked up and put into the kitchen...

There is no ball in hand for this game, considering that there are so few balls to play with, so the ball must go back into the kitchen...

There is only "ONE FOUL" play in the game that allows you to put the ball into the kitchen and that is when the other player is trying to hook the other player into missing their next shot and they miss their ball or they don't hit a rail...

sidenote: You may not be trying to hook a player and just miss your ball altogether, if this happens, the cue ball is picked up and is put back into the kitchen, this is the "Table Scratch" rule...

sidenote2: Table Scratch also means the person has to do a shot, or chug a beer...

sidenote3: All the player has to do is hit one of the balls of theirs, even if they miss the object ball first, but the cue ball bounces around and hits another ball of theirs, there will be no table scratch, but if the player misses their object ball first and hits another players ball first then hits their ball, this is a table scratch and the Cue Ball will go into the kitchen...

sidenote4: The combination rule, even though you hit another persons ball first, that's okay providing the ball hits your object ball, if this doesn't happen, table scratch, but in the event that the object ball isn't hit first, but the Cue Ball hits one of their balls before the combination ball hits the opponents ball, there is no table scratch...

Sidenote5: Just to clarify, if the object ball is not hit either directly of by use of a combination ball before the used ball or the cue ball hits another persons ball, this is a table scratch, all table scratches the person loses a point and the cue ball is picked up and put back into the kitchen for the other player...

The game is over when when all balls are off the table, regardless if 100 points is achieved, this is only a point for the person who gets to 100 first, they are still allowed to make points off the 1 ball until all balls are off the table and the 5th shot is done...

When the 1 ball is hit in, the 1 ball will go up on the spot and the cue ball will stay wherever it was from the previous shot, this is why the 5 shot rule has been put in place, because a good player could just draw all day long and continue to make the 1 ball in the corner lol...

Also, the last player to get their balls in will not have a chance to make additional points by hitting the 1 ball in, only the players that have hit their balls in are allowed to make the 5 point bonus until the final player makes their last ball...

We'll continue to think about this to make sure we've covered all the bases, but if you have a question about it, please feel free to leave a comment...

sidenote: We're trying to think how to rack the balls to begin with, we're trying to decide if the 1 ball should be the first ball or if the 1 ball should be behind the rack...

UPDATE: If an opposing player hits another players ball in by accident or on purpose that player will lose their turn and a point will go to the person who's ball went in, if both of the Opponents Ball goes in the player that knocked the wrong ball in will lose their turn, their point and their ball will need to be brought back up and put on the spot...

UPDATEHow to choose which balls people will be hitting. Take a couple of balls off the table one high and one low and put them behind your back and let the other person choose a hand w/out knowing which ball is in which hand. The person who is holding the balls will have w/ever ball the other player didn't choose. If there are 3 people that third person will get 10, 11, 12, 13. If there are 4 people two players will hold two balls one from each set and the other two people will choose from one or the other of those people. Whatever they choose the holder will take the ball of the unchosen. 

UPDATEWe've decided how you should rack the balls. The 8 ball will go at the front of the rack and the 9 will go back to the middle of the back row. They should be racked solid, stripe, solid, stripe just like you would do for an 8 ball rack w/the exception of the 8 going at the front of the rack. 

Thursday, August 13, 2020

The Story Upper...

The Story Upper, you know who this is, it's the person that always ups your story to tell everyone about their story...

You'll be telling a story and the story upper will find some significance with your story that reminds them of a story of their own and before you know it, they're telling their story and taking away from yours...

Certain people are desperate to be noticed or to heard and once they've taken the attention away from you, they can feed their need for whatever craving their after...

Your story will be upended by theirs and pretty soon people will be listening to them regardless if their story is good enough, it's only that people aren't strong enough to say, Hey, Bob was telling us their story, so STFU please...

Sometimes the story upper gets upped, and pretty soon the group is upping each others story until either they realize it's time to go, or they've run out of segues to up the last story...

It's like that game where someone starts a sentence then passes on the sentence to someone else to finish the sentence, all the meanwhile working towards creating a story out of the sentence that was first created...

Sometimes the sentence starts with only a picture of something or someone and you fill in the blank spaces...

Just a piece of advice, if you are ever presented with the picture of an old person which is very commonly used in English, just finish it by saying, they died and be done with it...

Or considering the times we live in, just say, they got Covid and died, you never know, you just might get 10,000 dollars...

Oh, that reminds us of a story...

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

 "Either Catch up, or get out of the Way"

Project Con-A-Virus...

Considering that Conavirus, oh sorry, Corona-Virus has been around for years you can take it to the bank they have a vaccine already in the works...

However, the idea of coming out with a cure is unheard of because of the money they make each year due to Corona virus, or other otherwise known as, the Cold...

The prevention for getting the Corona Virus is much easier than the cure, just pop a throat lozenge when you feel the onset of a cold coming on...

Colds typically start in the nose and throat, so by sucking on a lozenge kills the virus long before it has time to set in on your body...

229E, OC43, NL63, HKU1, are versions of Corona Viruses or otherwise known as the common cold and everyone has gotten these version once, twice or multiple times in their lifetime...

Governments know this and they are thankful for all these versions of Corona Viruses because that means they can include them in their red dot pandemonium charts you've been seeing so much of lately...

 There's an old saying, "making a mountain out of a mole hill", Project Con-A-Virus is doing just that to create false hysteria only to help remove President Donald Trump from office...

That's not the only reason, it's also a redistribution of wealth because America is not only broke off it's ass, it's violently in debt and they are desperate...

They need foreclosures to happen, they need businesses to go bankrupt, they need property to be seized, they need people to take out loans, because it's margin call and they know taxes aren't enough...

Governments have mismanaged funds and have spent money that wasn't theirs, and they're coming after yours now even more than they've ever done before...

They want you to become reliant on government, being bankrolled to sit on your ass for pennies a day while they have you line up in a bread line waiting for your 10.00 of daily food...

Currently they are paying Hospitals 10,000 dollars for every Covid case they claim as a cause of death...

Get in a car wreck, nope, Covid death, die of Cancer, nope Covid death, die of old age, nope, Covid death...

It's true, if you tested positive for "Corona Virus" 3 month ago then get in a car wreck and die, they will list that as a Covid death...

We have been doing our own investigation as well, and have found out that where ever we go, or whoever we talk to, there has been absolutely and positively no cases of Covid within their circles...

We're talking thousands of people have not been sick nor have they known anyone that has become sick...

There are also reports that this "Pandemic" is targeting the black community primarily, no, it's targeting the Mexican community, no...it's targeting older people, no...it's targeting low immune people, no...that's not how a Pandemic works...

The way a pandemic works is "EVERYONE" gets sick and they get sick daily regardless of w/ever provisions you put in place...

Air conditioning units would spread the disease, heating units, touching of anything that someone else touched, the very air you breath would infect you and guess what, that's not happening...

To be honest with you, because of Trump people have been seeing more money than they've ever had before, companies were sharing profits by the thousands of dollars because of the tax cuts Trump imposed...

Trump got rid of that POS provision called the "Individual Mandate" THANKS OBAMA!, you know, where hard working people pay out 1,000 of dollars a year for an Insurance that makes them pay for every visit...

The insurance that pays for people that can't get a job because of mental health problems, felony charges, evictions that force them to live on the street and beg for every meal they get and every dollar they receive because no one will hire them, so better to be a burden...

The insurance that you have to pay for whether you want/need insurance, but still get penalized and have to shell out 800 dollars a year for someone that doesn't work, while you do work and can't afford to pay the higher premium...

Trump is not an articulate person, but he knows how to read people and he sees through the BS and more times than not, he's always been right when he makes what people and the media claim as an outrageous outburst...

If you want to keep people dependent on the Government, vote for Biden, because he's an establishment President and will make sure people stay on the street, and money is taken from you, he's already claimed the first thing he is going to do is Raise your Taxes as soon as he gets into office...

It's sad to face the inevitable this election when all we have for choices are the Two People we see before us, but that's America anymore, Land of the Imprisoned and Home of the Insane...

You're all being played with Project Con-A-Virus...and that's a fact!

Sunday, July 12, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

Tim McGraw - Humble And Kind (Official Video)...

A little fact to add to this post: 

We went to a convenient store and as we were checking out the customer before us was still at the counter putting away their change in their wallet and overheard us talking to the cashier...

The conversation was the typical conversation, nothing out of the ordinary, but what sparked the interest in the customer before us was our use of please and thank you and just common respect for the person behind the counter...

They felt it necessary to tell us that they don't use please and went as far as telling us they had taught their son that same lesson, to, not use the word please...

To be honest I didn't know what to say, first of all, who are you and why are you involved with our conversation in the first place, then the fact that they taught their son this lesson and felt it necessary to share with us on that day...

Neither of us said anything and the person just sauntered out leaving the cashier and I looking at one another with confusion, than we both giggled...

As we stare at the canvas in front of us we really don't know what else to say about that, other than, thank you for taking the time to read what we have to say, and please, be humble and kind... :-)

5hVnz Book of the Month...

"The Reluctant Entrepreneur" Turning Dreams into Profits, by Michael Masterson...

The one thing we "Didn't" like about the book is his reference to "Him or His" all the time...

Speaking in third person about Him or His and never Her abilities was subject to criticism by us...

For a long time now we didn't like the use of, Him or Her, or Him/Her to really only include, "her" in the sentence just to be polite, while of course leaving him first...

Nor did we believe Her/Him would be the correct formation of this arrangement of genders either...

Then the "They" movement hit and that opened up our eyes to remove the Him and Her, Him/Her from the sentence altogether...

They or them is all that is needed to describe an individual, even if you use the person's first name, and by all accounts you think you know the gender, should still be referred to as, they or them or by the name they choose to be referred by...

For a Heterosexual individual to say, they know what sex they are and what gender they like is the same for anyone, regardless of what is perceived...

Sorry, we got off subject a bit, but we had to get that off our mind...

Otherwise, this book is a decent read, simplistic, short only 158 pages, if you include the Appendix, which we did, and should be read...

Over the years we have talked about making your idea a reality and how hard it is to do...

People and ourselves always felt it necessary to share the idea with someone, but sadly, the response is never what people and ourselves expect to hear...

We think it's the greatest idea since sliced bread, but to them, it's stupid, it'll never work, don't even try, just get a real job and work like a dog for 40-50-60 hours a week for pennies on the dollar like we and many before us have done...

We're not saying the hours will be any shorter, in fact you'll probably work more hours than you do now, but the reward is bigger and that's what keeps you coming back for more...

You have to remember, that people with visionary abilities see things that others can't and that is why they respond the way they do, and if you plug into that criticism you'll watch your idea develop and flourish right before your eyes, by someone else doing it first...

There is always something that you take with you after reading, watching, listening to something that sparks your interest...

Ours was when they said, "I never felt like a natural-born winner"... that made us feel sad...

Many of you doubt yourself, but is it really the doubt you feel about yourself, or the doubt that's been put upon you by others, or others failed attempts...

There is no easy road to success, even if you won the lottery and were an instant millionaire doesn't mean it was easy getting there, because the road to that winning ticket may have been the hardest road they traveled...

A quote we liked that was in the book was, "I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be" Ken Venturi

...ain't it the truth...

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

 Alabama - Forty Hour Week (For A Livin') [Official Video]...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G2J3RzURA

Time to stop letting fear dictate our lives, so open sesame and get back to work!

Saturday, June 13, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

"When people with authority don't follow the protections put into place presents a mixed message to others" -V-

Monday, June 1, 2020

Congratulations Space X...

Congratulations to Elon Musk and the Entire Staff of Space X for getting Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken safely to the International Space Station...

"The Falcon 9 rocket had launched 84 times before. In fact, no US rocket now flying has launched as much as the Falcon 9 rocket. So, this was all kind of routine in that sense. But for the first time, the Falcon 9 rocket carried two humans on board, inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft. That changed everything"...

It's unfortunate we had a bunch of ass-tards disrespecting George Floyd by tearing up people's businesses and stealing for their own selfish needs...

We did wanna Shout Out to Russia for helping us up until now, NASA has relied on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for access to the station...Thank You!

Keep up the good work Elon and keep the pressure on, Russia, to make it fun...

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

"Why do you blow the horn?" To Keep the tigers away." "But there are not tigers here." There you see?!"

You're all being played, and you're taking the bait hook line and sinker...

There's alot of people questioning the validity of this pandemic as well as they should because it's complete bullshit...

The answer that people aren't getting is why? Why would they create an Economic turmoil, wouldn't they get hurt as well...

They of course are the 1% and yes, they will get hurt, but not as much as the rest because they can afford to lose a little because they have leverage...you...

As soon as you get desperate you'll start borrowing and they will start earning interest off of those loans as well as owning your property in the process...

They want you to become reliant on the Government because they'll create an emergency fund for a crisis they created and that fund will be paid for by raising taxes on the Middle Class...

Look, people are getting smarter with their finances and they are learning how to save and invest which is counter intuitive to a system that is reliant upon the sales of goods...

There's a shift within the financial world and they're using the facade of the Climate Change to build upon the Monetary Fund and using your ignorance that you think you can change the course of mother nature...

No amount of money is going to change what is going to happen, Africa will flourish again, Russia will thaw and North America will freeze...

We're beginning to paint this with a Broad Brush so let us sum it up for you...

Why are they doing this...Simple, the Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer and that's a fact!

Monday, May 11, 2020

Here's an Idea...

Jumper Cables for EV's...

We've been looking around the web to see if they are making jumper cables for the Electric Vehicles because a car that's on all battery might very well need a jump...

Gas cars currently have batteries in them that need to be jumped from time to time caused by one reason or another...

We're thinking that the cars would work like the Samsung phones where you can set a phone on the other phone and share your battery by just placing the phone on the other phone...

Now that wouldn't work to well with setting a 5,000 pound car on top of another car, but you could pull them close to each other...

If that wouldn't work maybe you could have a retractable charger that comes out of the car somewhere that you would hook into the other car to give it a charge...

It would have to be retractable because for one there isn't much room to be having cables just laying around somewhere in the trunk, plus it just looks nicer without a pair of cables just laying there...

The other thing too is that businesses should have charge ports sitting outside their businesses that can give a charge to a car that's billable...

Friday, May 1, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

In lieu of the facade they call, The Pandemic we felt this song would be fitting and even better knowing that this is the month they "allow" us to come out and play...

The Offspring - "Come Out And Play"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOk8dk-qaU

Welcome to Socialism...or how we see it...Welcome to Slavery...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCADpxXn4Yo

Thursday, April 30, 2020

The OSI Layers Simplified...

"The evolution from micro-matter to metaverse begins with the seven layer netplex scheme of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model of the International Standards Organization...

The OSI Stack, above the physical layer is the "datalink" this is the medium where hardware becomes "firmware" and Software that define the electrical specifications, timing rules and electron-photon conversions that enable the transmission of information across a link from one node or computational address to the next...

Switches operate here at layer two, passing packets only to the next node, local area networks such as Ethernet or WiFi function at this level...

If you shun the highways of the internet, you can live your life transmitting your bits and bytes across the datalink layers, layer two...

The third layer is the network layer, the domain of routers, which combines with the transport layer (layer four) to establish the end-to-end links that constitute the TCP/IP Internet Protocols...

This is the entire system of IP addresses and Transport Control Protocol traffic shuffles that comprise the connections from end to end across the Net...

Layer three does the headers on the packets, the identities and addresses; layer four does the actual transmission and reception of data packets and traffic management, load balancing and acks (i got it) and naks (I'm still waiting) that assure connections...

Layers three and four tend to be a bastion of central powers, where governments and their intelligence arms chase down domain names and addresses, entities such as ICANN and even the UN's ITU...

When they discover a silk Road or perhaps an Alpha Bay, they track it down over layer three...

Above layer four is layer five-the all-important session layer-which governs a particular two-way communication from beginning to end, whether a video stream, a Skype call, a Session Initiation Protocol conference, a messaging exchange, an email post, or even-and this would prove fateful- a transaction...

Layers six and seven are the schemes for presentations and applications-user interfaces, windows, formats, operating systems, and so on...

These are summed up in the ingenious schemes of hyperlinks (click on a word and go to a new page) and universal resource locators (URLS) addresses...

Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva invented them in 1989 as part of his World Wide Web. Berners-Lee wanted to make all data linkable into one Web, a skein of tools that made it easy to set up a Web page of "shared creative collaborative space where everyone could play together"...

To describe the OSI stack in Telecosm: Pick up the handset of an analog phone and listen for a dial tone (physical layer signal) now often simulate; dial a number (every digit moves the call another link closer to the destination); listen for the the ringtone (signifying a network connection and transport of signals) by the time you get someone on the line, you have gone through the first four layers of the OSI Stack, then the hello begins a session, the choice of English defines the presentation, the conversation constitutes the application layer and the hang-up ends the session..."

The Paraphrases of  George Gilder...

Continuing with that another layer is being introduced an 8th layer...Blockchain...

Thursday, April 23, 2020

5hVnz Book of the Month...

America 2020: The Survival Blueprint...

The United States is destroying itself from the inside out...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25847685-america-2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

5hVnz Earbuds Cont...

Looking for an alternative to those expensive earbuds, but don't want to look cheap doing it...

We've found another brand that we think you'll like...

FIIL The Art of Audio...
http://www.fiil.com/en/

FIIL T1X is the brand we think you'll like, around 50.00...

It comes with it's own app for that personal touch, fast charging, up to 4 times charging capability with the case...

Waterproof so you can use them on your run or while working out so don't worry about the sweat...

Individual pairing is ideal, so it won't matter which earbud you pull out it will work and it syncs with your phone as soon as you open the case...

The case feels a little cheap, so hopefully that won't be a problem down the road...

They're very comfortable stay in  your ears...buds, so if you're not into spending alot of money, this is an excellent choice...

On another note: Sony sent back the replacement earbuds and they weren't any better than when they went in the first time, so they were returned for full credit...

However, the 1More model # EHD9001TA are an excellent set of buds, yes you'll spend some money on these, but they are sensational...and that's a fact!

Sunday, April 12, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFVrOC8gOhU

"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose, and later included on her 1986 album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. It was written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford. Initially, the song only just reached the Top 100 in the UK Singles Chart, but made it to number 2 the following year, and re-entered the charts again at number 69 in 1991. The song reached No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 28 September 1985. It reached the top 40 in the United States and Canada.

Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen, Wales, to coal miner Glyndwr and housewife Elsie Hopkins. She grew up in a four-bedroom council house with three sisters and two brothers. Her siblings had varied music tastes, exposing her to artists such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Hopkins and her family were deeply religious Protestants. Her first public performance took place in a chapel as a child, singing the Anglican hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful".

Leaving school with no formal qualifications, Hopkins began working in a grocery shop. In 1969, she entered a local talent contest, and after coming in second place, was inspired to pursue a career in singing. Responding to a newspaper advertisement, she found work as a backing singer for Bobby Wayne & the Dixies before forming her own soul band called Imagination. It was around this time that she changed her name to Sherene Davis, to avoid being confused with Welsh folk singer Mary Hopkin...

In 1975, Davis was spotted singing with her band in the Townsman Club, Swansea, by talent scout Roger Bell, who invited her to London to record a demo track. After many months had passed, she received a phone call from RCA Records, offering her a recording contract. They also recommended that she change her name again. After compiling a list of surnames and Christian names from a newspaper, Davis found a new name in "Bonnie Tyler".

...and the rest they say, Is History...

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

StockWatch...

Skyworks Solutions Inc...
SWKS
82.45 ▼ 6.93 (7.75%)

5G is the Future and Skyworks is building the railroads for that future...
https://www.skyworksinc.com/

Sunday, March 29, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

There's a quote going around the internet that's being used to describe the end of the world...

Lately there have been some historical events happening all conveniently together, one with the Locusts in Africa, Fires in Australia and of course the epidemic that's going around they're calling Covid19...

You can't be half pregnant just like you can't have a sort of prophecy, so the fires in Australia don't coincide with holding back the rain...

Holding back the rain implies to drought, with drought your crops won't grow which leaves people hungry, not on fire, so that takes the apocalypses out of equation...

We also get a kick out people that pick a verse out of the hat without any regard to the derivation of the sources...

We also get a kick out of people that leave out the part of the prophecy to emphasize a point they are trying to make...

The quote that is being passed around is:

People's Interpretation: "Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people" 

That's it, then they follow up with, we're living in our last days, like in less than a week we'll all perish from the earth, lol...

2 Chronicles 7:13-15 13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, all humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there."

Chronicles typically doesn't hold much merit due to the fact that it lacks any real depth or meaning and is focused on confusion and destruction...

We're quite aware that there are people out there that are hell bent on confusion and the destruction on and to others, but their numbers are few...

Even though their voice may seem loud, it shutters by comparison to the masses who's voices are louder and clearer...and that's a fact!

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Making Money out of Thin Air...

The United States is putting out 2 Trillion dollars by printing out money from a printer thinking that money solves all problems...

This is the dumbest idea they could possibly do, just like giving money to a drug user, all they'll do is use it for drugs...

You're all being fooled by this so called "Pandemic" they call Covid19, and you're all falling for every trick hook line and sinker...

Let's look at a few things here...

Donald Trump said, he wants to weaken the American Dollar to help US Exporters, and what better way to do this then to dump 2 Trillion dollars in phony money into our economy...

Now, how do we create a reason to why we need to dump a bunch of monopoly money into the economy, hmmm, we need a disaster of epic proportions...

War is too dangerous and the outcomes are too unpredictable, but a Pandemic can be controlled...

Big Pharma, John Hopkins University and Bill Gates get together and create a mock up of what would happen in a Pandemic just two months before Covid19 hits...

Big Pharma puts out a this comment: "Private Pharmaceutical firms simply will not prioritize a vaccine or other countermeasure for a future public health emergency until it's profitability is assured" and a number is agreed upon...2 Trillion Dollars...

Just a little tip, the coronavirus has been around for centuries, if they haven't come up with a cure yet it doesn't look like they'll be coming up with one anytime soon, so you might as well put away your checkbook...

It's called a "Stress Test"  it's a way to test the stability of the network to determine where and when it's going to break...

They have created a Social Experiment on what would happen in the case of a "Real" Epidemic and society has failed miserably...

Now the Government as usual thinks by throwing enough money at a problem it will go away, but as you can see by the climbing numbers of homeless in our cities it doesn't work...

The Homeless population is by far the biggest threat for this social experiment due to the elements they subject "themselves" too...

The way to fixing this problem is by stopping all creditors from collecting on payments owed, stopping all debt payments, rent, car payments, electricity, water etc etc etc stopped until the smoke screen clears...

Now the next problem is that they haven't diagnosed the problem correctly, the only thing that is happening is the Hantavirus which has the same symptoms as the Covid19...

This makes more sense considering that the places that got hit first in the US were Ports...

You have to keep in mind these containers that come from China and other places are not cleaned properly if at all so when they dropped off these containers the Hantavirus was on everything...

Then in order to spread it further you put the infected boxes on trucks and have them shipped to different cities where people touch them and continue the infection...

Not everyone that comes in contact with a so called Covid19 person contracts the virus, which they determined is a mouth to mouth transmission...

The Hantavirus isn't transmitted by mouth to mouth which explains why they haven't all been infected...

Now the numbers they are creating saying that people are dying of Covid19 are another tactic of making it look worse then it is...

At this point to make their point they're just going to attach a Covid19 tag to you regardless of what you really died of just to make this look bigger than it really is...

Then let the media have it to put their spin on it and away it goes...

Hantavirus just like Covid19 doesn't have a vaccine to prevent it, you need care that you can't get from a hospital...

Believe it or not, we had the same problem in our town, people were getting sick and going to the hospital and only getting sicker because they were misdiagnosing the problem...

Finally after they couldn't convince the hospitals they were wrong with their prognosis the tribes got together and agreed that what they were getting sick from was the Hantavirus and they came up with their own homeopathic remedy and fixed it...

We say this because China just tested 23 people and instead of Covid19 like Big Pharma wants you to believe, it turned out to be Hantavirus, in China where the so called Covid19 epidemic started...

Now the clincher, this stimulus package that they are putting together includes a check for the public, a meager offering for the 1,000's of dollars many employees are losing...

This is just hush money for the public, and as soon as you cash the check, you'll be a co-conspirator and then they got ya, hook line and sinker...

What's really sad, is that businesses have only been shut down for a week and they're already fearful that this will destroy them...

Not only are employees living check to check, but most businesses are too and that tells you how fragile our economy is...

America is broke and not only that, they're 23 Trillion dollars in debt and they're going to write a hot check, their country can't cash...

Still error on the side of caution while you have the extra time on your hands to clean your, business, home or tent for that matter...

If anything, it will make people feel better if they think you're doing your part by cleaning up and social distancing yourself...

Stop panicking, stop buying tons of Toilet Paper, stop shoving everything down your toilet and start being a part of something bigger than yourself by helping one another, you'll feel better and before you know it, this too shall pass...and that's a fact!

***UPDATE***

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Kourtney Kardashian has quit the KUWTK episodes, oh the humanity, it's quite possible a sign of the end of the world as we know it, whatever shall we do...

Thursday, March 19, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

A Man who's name is introduction enough...

Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=u-pP_dCenJA

We've been thinking about this particular post for sometime and as we sit here, we still can't put the thoughts we have into print without sounding hypocritical...

Look men, go out and discover who you are on your own and figure out how to do it, on your own...

Yesterday is history and tomorrow's a mystery, so all we got is today...

One Day at a Time, One Step at a Time, you owe it to yourself men, so go out and start living...

You've lost your way, but if you can still dream, you can redeem your soul and fly once again...and that's a fact!

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the Streets.”...Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild

The time to buy into the Stock Market is when it's at it's lowest, the reason being is simple, it's cheap enough to buy in...

There are some really good stocks out there that have come available once again, don't waste any time and jump onto that stock before it goes back up...

Since we're on the subject we're sensing something in the market...

Windows 7 has come to an end, the hardware running it is not compatible with the software that's on the market today and the hardware is old and needs to be retired that's been running that Windows 7 OS...

We ourselves are in need of an upgrade, the old ASUS board is starting to show it's age after 11 or so years...

To be honest with you we can't believe it lasted this long, but it did, so thanks ASUS...

Give credit where credit is due is what we say, and we had some bad luck with ASUS with a few of their boards, but we had some good luck with their boards as well, so give credit where credit is due...

We're looking at two boards right now, ASUS and MSI, but we're only looking at ONE CPU...

Intel has the best Processor out right now for Gaming, but AMD has alot more CPU's out there that are better than the rest of the Intel CPU's they have out there and that's a change...

The RYZEN processor has come along way and that's what we got our eye on...

Gaming is becoming very popular again with the advent of 2-4k monitors, and now the game is
becoming better to look at while playing in real time...

People are being able to turn up all their settings with 240 frames per second moving towards 340 frames per second with 360hz...

ASUS ROG Swift...
https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-monitors/the-rog-swift-360hz-is-the-worlds-fastest-esports-gaming-monitor

We see something else right now also, and that is with the end of Window 7 the market is WIDE OPEN...

We're going to start playing with different distros of Linux, in fact we already started with Ubuntu, just to see how it worked on this current board, was just fine, with the exception of the Wireless Card of course...

11 Reasons to use Linux...
https://itsfoss.com/linux-better-than-windows/

Ubuntu did not have a driver for our Wireless card, but we didn't care, we're just messing around right now so we'll cross that bridge when we get there...

We don't like Mozilla and not a big fan of Chrome, so that is the the main reason we don't want to go to Linux...

We've liked the Windows version of Edge for Windows 7 to be honest with you, it gave us what we were missing in Chrome and what we needed from IE...

Browsers for Linux...
https://beebom.com/best-web-browsers-for-linux/

We knew cloud computing would become the future of Computers, we fought it obviously because all their goal was to gain access to your data...

So now it's not about the OS, it's about security and marketing...

If you can make yourself sound secure, compatible with a tantalizing visual coupled with the right vocabulary, well as they say, you'll have something better than yoohoo...

It should be interesting considering where the market is today and the fact we're on the front end of a Pandemic, but that's life, nobody said it would be easy...and that's a fact!

Monday, March 16, 2020

Hand Sanitizer...

We've noticed that if there isn't a cancer causing component in either foods or products the FDA won't approve it...

The Hand Sanitizers that are on the market today have an active ingredient in it that causes problems with your Thyroid and is a risk of causing cancer...

The chemical is called Triclosan and is in most of the Hand Sanitizers that are on the market today and will weaken your immune system, which is exactly what the Coronavirus wants...

So while you're trying to be safe from Coronavirus, you'll just be trading one problem for another...

Not only that, but it will dry out your hands causing them to crack which will open up your skin making it vulnerable to attracting viruses just by touching surfaces, regardless of touching your face...

So that's the problem, but here is the solution:

Make your own Hand Sanitizer:

8oz Bottle of Aloe
1 Tbsp 70-90% Alcohol
1/2 tsp vegetable Glycerin or Vitamin E oil
10-20 drops Tea Tree Oil
10-20 drops cinnamon oil
Peppermint or spearmint oil - enough to eliminate the medicine/alcohol smell or if you prefer citrus you could use orange essential oil

sidenote: If you use citrus for your essential oils, you'll need to use glass. Citrus etches plastic...

For Smaller Batches
1 Tsp 70-90% Alcohol
3 Tbsp Aloe
1 tsp veggie glycerin or vita E oil
2 drops Tea Tree oil
3 drops cinnamon

sidenote: Only use Plastic Bottles. If you can't find isopropyl alcohol you'll be able to find Everclear (190 proof = 95% alcohol) 

There are other anti-microbial oils that you can use: Lavender, Thyme, Peppermint, Clove, Cinnamon, Rosemary, Eucalyptus or Thieves blend (found in any health food store)

Like any hand sanitizer, if you continue to use this w/out washing hands every so often it will produce a build up and get kinda sticky.

Also remember, sanitizers are only to be used sporadically, trick to staying cleaner is to wash your hands as often as possible...

Old Saying time: "The Solution to Pollution is Dilution"

You'll also need to get some lotion to keep your hands from getting too dry...

Even washing your hands as often as you're going to be can dry out your hands so protect yourself...

Pay attention to the CDC warnings, don't freak out and you'll be just fine...and that's a fact!

Sunday, March 8, 2020

What Was That...

The New Lotus Eviya has put fans inside the Fender of their new car to help circulate the air...hmm where have we heard that before...oh yeah, right here:

Build chambers that have a bunch of little fans...
https://5hvnzon.blogspot.com/search?q=fans

Although our idea was not exact it did touch on the some of the elements we did see for fan technology...

The placement of the fan was spot on, one of the needs was pointed out about forcing air into front of the car...

So some of the elements are there and who's to say, more won't come out of it...

Visions are hard to recognize sometimes the use they are for, and that is why it's important for you visionaries to surround yourself with people that can make practical sense of what you're seeing...

Honestly it's why we blog them out, because we know it's a good idea, we would just hate to see it go to waste...

The toughest thing a visionary endures, is not being believed, being believed that the idea is a good idea, and being believed that they saw the idea long before it became real...

As they say, don't give up on your dreams because one day they'll become a reality...and that's a fact!

How to Adjust to Time Change...

This post is for that ridiculous procedure we still do by changing time for Spring and for Fall, notoriously named Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time changes...

Daylight Savings time is done in the Spring on the Second Sunday in March and Standard Time change is done in the Fall on the First Sunday in November...

The only reason we do this still is for revenue, they know that it messes with peoples internal systems and know that people will make mistakes they normally wouldn't do...

Put it this way, if cars were fully autonomous today, there wouldn't be a need to change time, because it wouldn't matter if people fell asleep behind the wheel or not...

The good news is that 7 states have approved legislation to make daylight saving time permanent, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington...

Also, Alaska, California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Texas, Utah and Vermont have introduced legislation to make changes to how they observe Daylight Savings Time...

New England is proposing a workaround by using a year-round Atlantic Standard Time (AST) a time zone one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time if they succeed will not have to put it to a vote to congress...

Other states like Texas want permanent Standard Time instead of Daylight Savings Time...

Other states Delaware and Oregon for example would require other states to change with them or they won't change...

This is one of those conversations that get caught up in what if's, and the only thing that ever comes out of what if's, is what if...

Look whatever "Time Zone" you want, pick it and stick with it and call it a day already...

Now, how to adjust to the time change...

Your body clock is still on the old time, just because the time is an hour ahead of what it used to be the day before doesn't matter, you need to stay on that time, so go to bed 1 hour later than what the time says it is...

So if the clock says, 10:00, go to bed at 11:00...

Then on Monday go to bed one hour earlier than what the clock says, so if the clock says, 10:00 go to bed at 9:00...

Tuesday night go to bed at your regular time using the new time schedule, so if the clock says 10:00, go to bed at...you guessed it, 10:00...

You'll wake up refreshed and ready to go on Wednesday and the rest of your week will be back to normal...

Now if we don't make time change a thing of the past in the Fall you'll need to reverse these steps...

If the clock says, 10:00 on the first night of the new change you'll go to bed at 9:00...

Monday you'll stay up one hour later, so if the clock says 10:00 you'll go to bed at 11:00...

Tuesday Night go to bed at your regular time using the new time schedule, yep you guessed it, 10:00 is 10:00 and Wednesday you'll wake up refreshed...

Adjusting your sleeping patterns will also help your pets get adjusted to the time change as well, because as we know they go through the same struggles as we do with the time adjustment...

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

BOB DYLAN: The Times They Are A-Changin'...

 
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
 
 

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

5hVnz Quote of the Day...

"We didn't move here to live next to an industrial development, said the 67 year old Mr. Jones, whose home is located in a scenic valley between Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens...

...no Mr. Jones would rather live between two active Volcanoes, lol...

Monday, February 10, 2020

A Message To Tom Brady...

You want another Superbowl under your belt...go to Atlanta, bench Ryan and show him how easy it would be to not only get to the Superbowl with the Players he's got, but just as easy to win...

Ryan is the reason you're team isn't coming together, he's not a leader, and he's only Matty Ice when you give him all the time to throw, otherwise he goes all Garappolo...

...and since life is about painting things with a Broad Brush Lately, we have another two cents to put in...

Seattle you will never go back to the Superbowl with Pete Carroll...and that's a fact!!!

**UPDATE**

We were close, he did end up in the same division as Atlanta...

Well, Matty Snowflake, you're not the only golden boy in the bunch anymore...and that's another fact!!

**UPDATE**

Well we were close, he did go to the same conference ;-) that's the thing with Visions, it's not an exact science...

Thursday, January 16, 2020

The Key Fob Glitch...

Recently we discovered a little glitch with the Key Fob, formally known as the Proximity Key...

We're not 100% sure, but we think that all new cars are keyless, but that's not the point of this post, just a random thought...

Let's just say because we don't know Most of the new Cars come with a Proximity key to start and unlock your car...

We were playing a game called, lock the keys in the car, this is where you would put the keys to the car in the car and lock the door to see what would happen...

Well, with a key your keys are now locked in the car and you can't get in, but the proximity key won't allow you to lock the fob in the car, which is good...

However, what we discovered by playing this game is that you can drive your car without the fob in the car...

Once you start the car by pressing the start button in the car and getting out someone else can get in your car and drive it away...

They can drive and drive and drive, until they turn it off that is, that's when they'll need the fob...

Considering though, most people that steal cars are only going from A-B, so they don't need to turn off your car until they reach their destination...

A lot of times they're just looking for a joy ride, a get away car, or they're stealing it and taking it to a chop shop, either way...A-B...

We challenged this is many cars and they all have this problem, so it won't matter what you drive...

So the next time you think you can leave your car running when you go into a convenient store and think your car is safe because you have your fob in your pocket, think again...

Technology only thinks about the convenience their products will bring, because convenience yields them a payday, security is the last thought on their mind, because that takes away from their payday...

What scares us is that with autonomous vehicles and people still being so trusting they won't keep technology companies accountable to preservation of life...

Think about this, they're making Diesels autonomous now imagine yourself on the highway in your little car stuck in traffic and an autonomous Diesel traveling at 60 miles an hour without a driver behind the wheel and you have no where to go, will you trust this new technology to stop that truck just because they say it will...

Blind Faith is for religion not technology, keep their feet to the coals and demand accountability...

Vz Rantz...

We understand what you're saying, and we agree with you to a degree...

There is notoriety in nostalgia, however, eventually your colors will fade leaving your numbers hard to see...

In order to be noticed you'll need to continue moving forward, but never forgetting where you came from...

The trick to maintaining while forging is by staying true to your roots this way they'll recognize you still, once you've made your change...

In other words, find a way to improve upon nostalgia while maintaining nostalgia, stay retroactive that way you'll never be forgotten...and that's a fact! -V-

Friday, January 10, 2020

5hVnz Song of the Month...

Neil Peart, the virtuoso drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California, at age 67, according to Elliot Mintz, a family spokesperson. The cause was brain cancer, which Peart had been quietly battling for three-and-a-half years. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

That really fkn sucks, one of the greatest bands of the 20th century and by far one of the best drummers from any century...and that's a fact!

 Rush - Tom Sawyer (2008 - Live In Holland)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdY7FDOo2w
Lived: Sep 12, 1952 - Jan 07, 2020 (age 67)

The Man Himself...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWRMOJQDiLU

Neil Ellwood Peart, OC is a Canadian author and retired musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush. Peart has received numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1983, making him the youngest person ever so honoured. His drumming has been known for its technical proficiency, and his live performances for their exacting nature and stamina.

Peart was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Port Dalhousie (now part of St. Catharines). During adolescence, he floated between regional bands in pursuit of a career as a full-time drummer. After a discouraging stint in England to concentrate on his music, Peart returned home, where he joined Rush, a Toronto band, in mid-1974, six years after its formation. They released nineteen studio albums, with ten exceeding a million copies sold in the United States. Billboard ranks the band third for the "most consecutive gold or platinum albums by a rock band". Early in his career, Peart's performance style was deeply rooted in hard rock. He drew most of his inspiration from drummers such as Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and John Bonham, players who were at the forefront of the British hard rock scene. As time passed, he began to emulate jazz and big band musicians Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. In 1994, Peart became a friend and pupil of jazz instructor Freddie Gruber. It was during this time that Peart decided to revamp his playing style by incorporating jazz and swing components.
In addition to serving as Rush's primary lyricist, Peart published several memoirs about his travels. His lyrics for Rush addressed universal themes and diverse subjects including science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, as well as secular, humanitarian, and libertarian themes. Peart wrote a total of seven nonfiction books focused on his travels and personal stories.

A Challenge has been presented:

It has been brought to our attention to include two others to this self proclaimed endorsement...

Keith Moon - Drum Solo 1974...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Up-qHTJdY

Keith John Moon was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behavior. Moon grew up in Alperton, a suburb of Wembley, in Middlesex, and took up the drums during the early 1960s. After playing with a local band, the Beachcombers, he joined the Who in 1964 before they recorded their first single. He remained with the band during their rise to fame, and was quickly recognized for his drumming style, which emphasized tom-toms, cymbal crashes, and drum fills. Throughout Moon's tenure with the Who his drum kit steadily grew in size, and he has been credited as one of the earliest rock drummers to regularly employ double bass drums in his setup. Moon occasionally collaborated with other musicians and later appeared in films, but considered playing in the Who his primary occupation, and remained a member of the band until his death. In addition to his talent as a drummer, however, Moon developed a reputation for smashing his kit on stage and destroying hotel rooms on tour. He was fascinated by blowing up toilets with cherry bombs or dynamite, and by destroying television sets. Moon enjoyed touring and socializing, and became bored and restless when the Who were inactive. His 21st birthday party in Flint, Michigan, has been cited as a notorious example of decadent behavior by rock groups.

BUDDY RICH INSANE DRUM SOLO IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhfdbon4728

Child prodigy
Rich was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish-American parents Bess Skolnik and Robert Rich, both vaudevillians. As a kid, when he was at a restaurant with his parents, he used the knife and fork as drum sticks. Before he turned two, he was part of his parents' act on vaudeville, but on breaks he would sneak into the orchestra pit and try to get the drummer's sticks. He was on Broadway as Baby Traps the Drum Wonder at age four, playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on a drum. He was a singer and tap dancer. In his teens he led a band and toured in the U.S. and Australia. At fifteen he became the second highest paid child entertainer behind Jackie Coogan during the 1930s.

Jazz career
His jazz career began in 1937 with clarinetist Joe Marsala. He became a member of big bands led by Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw. When he was home from touring with Shaw, he gave drum lessons to a 14-year-old Mel Brooks for six months. At 21, he participated in his first major recording with the Vic Schoen Orchestra who backed the Andrews Sisters.

In 1942, Rich left the Dorsey band to join the United States Marine Corps, in which he served as a judo instructor, never saw combat, and was discharged due to medical reasons. After leaving the Marines, he returned to the Dorsey band. In 1946, with financial support from Frank Sinatra, he formed a band and continued to lead bands intermittently until the early 1950s.


 

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Happy New Year...

The Year of Sight...

The New Year will inherently gift us all with 20/20 vision, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth...

...metaphorically speaking of course...

It's gonna be a Hell of a Year, so make sure you go into it with your Eyes Wide Open...

Happy New Year...

Jon Batiste & Stay Human Perform 'Auld Lang Syne'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiBKSOeqvg