This Actually Happened.Last Night - It's fighting me IT'S FIGHTING ME!

is what I was saying at the top of my lungs last night as my Marantz  is BLASTING the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song REALLY REALLY loud in our "home theater".  REALLY loud. 

In desperation I physically turn off the receiver and we take a breath . . . . . . and then it turns on by itself and the decibels start to escalate .  .  .  .  . seriously?

This all started innocently. We are nearing the end of S1E2 Loudermilk (it's really a good comedy so far) watching upstairs when there is a darkish scene and we start to hear the theme song to Curb Your Enthusiasm  . . softly.

We take it in stride as it lightens things up a little  . . .but it gets louder and louder and louder and wait, it's downstairs!  WTF?   I run down and I'm turning it down   

It's fighting me IT'S FIGHTING ME!    I turn the knob and as soon as I let go it starts going UP again 

In desperation I physically turn off the receiver and we take a breath . . . . . . and it turns on by itself and the decibels start to escalate .  .  .  .  .

I start to unplug things . . all the wrong ones and now the clock is blinking 12:01 and I'm yelling at DJ to turn off the receiver if it turns on. . . . which it does.  ON off ON off ON off   WHAT IS HAPPENING and I find the master plug and pull it.

We stare at each other, the cats and Gus are all on the perimeter looking at us.  I wait for a minute and plug it all back in and we wait.  Nothing.  We go back up stairs and relax . . . . .for 5 minutes and. OH MAN there it goes again and I run downstairs.

I go down unplug and we go on with our lives and I'll call AMS tomorrow.

I post a question on Facebook about hacking and Wi-Fi and so forth.

About a half hour later Matt my cousin in Texas reply's that that is weird because his Spotify was acting weird and he was not getting any volume. . . . . . .wait . . . what?  We turned on the TV and it was SPOTIFY!

A few cryptic message on Facebook and "I'll call you".

It seems his Spotify app had a weird room on his phone (like Wf93472tT or something) and he was trying to figure out where those speakers were and the app was acting weird. He kept turning up the volume trying to find the speakers . . . .which were 1000 miles away it seems. 

Those speakers must be in our house that he visited in the spring.  However, they never used Spotify and as of a few weeks ago we have a totally different router and passwords.  So how did he connect with my Marantz is the question.

ANYWAY - he deleted those random speakers/system from the app.

WHEW
   
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YesterDAY DJ, Gus and I went to Devils Lake.  Gus put his toes in natural water with waves for the first time and we did some moderate hiking with a dog that was having his best day ever I think. .

Took a few shots.

Northern Entrance to Devils Lake 

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Why don't so called Christian Conservatives GOP people practice what they preach.  

"and if you offer yourself to the hungry,

and satisfy the afflicted one, then your

light will shine in the darkness, and your

night will be like noonday.  

Isaiah 58:10

The big difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives believe, right or wrong, that looking out for #1 is the most important thing even if it hurts others.  DON'T help the poor or oppressed because it hurts YOU if you do.  They have their own issues that have nothing to do with you.  

While liberals, right or wrong, believe that helping ALL mankind is more important, even if it hurts YOU. 

Neither side is all right or all wrong.  I mention this as I got into a disagreement with a conservative christian who felt the poor are that way because they are lazy and should not get help if it involves paying higher taxes for food stamps and health care.  It's THEIR problem.   

Why should he pay for entitlements that do him nothing but hurt his goal of getting rich. The government is taking money away from his family.

Well, how can you argue with that right?  Looking out for #1 because that is really the only thing you have in your life when you think about it.  YOU are the most important person in your life.  

The ol' save yourself and screw the rest argument. 

I tend to differ in my non-christian agnostic belief.  I believe I am just a player in humanity, a cog in the wheel and I believe if I help my fellow man we ALL benefit a little.  And if EVERYBODY did that would it not be a wonderful place to live?  

OK OK - I'll shut up.  It just bugs me now Conservative Christians screw the poor and oppressed yet call themselves "Christians". 

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Is the new Hotel REALLY going in  near the commerce center (former Sentry foods)?   Even with a developer that continually screws people over and lies (remember when he told council that all Sentry employees would have health insurance).  Has anybody warned the hotel people of his constant shenanigans. Anytime Fitness got so fed up they decided to screw it and go elsewhere. 

Nuff said. 

OK OK - go to my happy place.  

I have Q-school coming up starting Sunday on TGC19 . Eight rounds will decide which of 12 tours you will start on.  The two course are like boot camp for golf.  

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85% of the luxury market for cool things are purchased by 35 and under.

Are we seeing the end of NASCAR?   Viewership is of the Daytone 500 down 45% in the last 13 years.  Revenue is down 145 million per year 

  

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Weather - 50s for the foreseeable future except for Saturday - VERY VERY windy with gust that could near 40 mph and a hi of 41. A chance for waterspouts on Lake Michigan Saturday with 3-5 foot waves and gale warnings. 

Sunny after that until next Friday.  

Cheers