10:12 – We got an offer on the Winston house yesterday. We countered. They countered. We accepted. This morning, our realtor sent us a contract to sign. We signed it, I scanned it to PDF, and I emailed the executed agreement to our realtor. Now we wait. If things go well, we might expect to close around the end of June.
Barbara is getting ready to leave Sunday for a week-long trip to Brasstown, NC, which is about as far down in the southwest corner of NC as it’s possible to go–about a 200 mile drive from here. She’s going to a resident folk school that teaches various old-timey skills. Last time, she did a week-long course on wood carving. This time, she’s doing a stained-glass course.
I told her last night that I didn’t intend to take any showers while she’s gone. I just don’t trust my balance enough to do that without her in the house. So I’ll be taking sponge baths for the duration.
Huh. I see my SWAG was way low. It’s not 200 miles to Brasstown, it’s more like 300, and a 5 or 6 hour drive.
Rub lard on your skin and let the dog lick you clean.
No no, no need to thank me. I produce genius-level ideas all the time with no effort, and it’s my pleasure to share them to make the world a better place.
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brain bleach, it’s what’s for breakfast
n
normalcy bias
“British husband killed in Egyptair disaster was warned to be careful by his wife – but told her ‘It is never going to happen to me’, his brother reveals”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3600972/British-husband-killed-Egyptair-disaster-warned-careful-wife-told-never-going-happen-brother-reveals.html
But it DOES happen. So think about it.
n
Congrats on selling dat house and gittin’ outta Dodge, Mr. RBT. Outstanding. Hope it all proceeds with utmost dispatch.
And kudos to Mrs. RBT for going out and taking those classes, too. Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, etc. And could be very useful skillz down the road; I’m a major sucker for stained glass and have been since I was a kid, for obvious reasons. Just as I am for church choral and organ music.
As for showers, one of our major bathroom priorities is to rip out the stupid enclosed tub thing in there and replace it with a nice shower enclosure, and we’d probably want a seat in it, too. Get dizzy or start to slip and there will be a rail and something to sit on.
“But it DOES happen. So think about it.”
And think about it to the extent that maybe, just maybe, it ain’t a really swell idea to travel on Egyptair or anywhere near that region of the world no matter how much filthy lucre one might make there. Yes, chit can happen to any of us out here on any given day, but why make it “easier”? Meanwhile, here in the good ol’ USA, avoid crowds and cities.
Another beeyooteeful day on the bay here; hope to do a bit of outside stuff and then wrap up some cleaning ops on the porch, and in the living room and cellar. I have some office and tool re-org to do between the office and attic work space and if the new graphics card gets here today, I can dismantle this Winblows machine and soup it up, along with the SSD and power supply. And I have the weekend to finish whatever I can’t get to this afternoon and evening. Exciting!
Lake Mead at a level of when it was first filled. I have a sad. Leavenworth here I come.
“Lake Mead at a level of when it was first filled.”
Your call:
1) GlobalChangeWarmingClimateThing
2.) Twelve Years of Reagan-Bush
3.) the cis-hetero white male breeder patriarchy
Now telling someone to eat shit is a well wish:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/19/swallowing-human-faeces-will-cure-disease-nhs-say/
So @RBT, plan on going full Paleo on us. Got your loincloth yet? 😉
We got an offer on the Winston house yesterday. We countered. They countered. We accepted.
Congratulations!
I told her last night that I didn’t intend to take any showers while she’s gone. I just don’t trust my balance enough to do that without her in the house. So I’ll be taking sponge baths for the duration.
When I added the shower (6 ft wide by 3 ft deep) in the new addition, I had the guys put a vertical 36 inch bar at the entrance of the shower (2 ft to 5 ft elevation). And I had them put in a horizontal 48 inch bar (at 32 inch elevation) on the back wall. Not totally code but they work well. And those long bars are no longer for sale. I also had the guys put extra 2×4 studs in the walls for better anchorage. I also did not put a lip in the shower so a wheelchair can be rolled in. And I put a 19 inch tall seat in the back of the shower (full depth).
http://www.amazon.com/Moen-YG5424ORB-Kingsley-Designer-Rubbed/dp/B001D1L27K/
Not a science, a religion. And the young must be brought up in nothing but the Truth.
Not a science, a religion. And the young must be brought up in nothing but the Truth.
3.) the cis-hetero white male breeder patriarchy
4) Climate change denier. I deny, therefore I am punished.
new Netflix speed test
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Not a science, a religion. And the young must be brought up in nothing but the Truth.
http://portlandtribune.com/sl/307848-185832-portland-school-board-bans-climate-change-denying-materials
I figure that public canings are coming soon.
“Not a science, a religion. And the young must be brought up in nothing but the Truth.”
These people, and Portland is infamous for this kinda chit, are purely and simply, Party apparatchik asswipes. It’s yet another example of how the coastal and urban elites here have become 21st-C versions of the old Soviet, Chicom and Eastern bloc regimes. How they must laugh at us now! They beat us to the ground without firing a damn shot! Just a few decades of the Long March through all our major institutions and bingo!
Remove doubting textbooks, expunge certain history, airbrush various personages out of historical photographs, dig up Confederate generals and their wives and move them away, etc., etc.
We need to never forget the Murkan traitors who enabled all this, and the others who set up the barbarian scum invasions through our borders. I’m deadly serious about this, no joke.
These people, and Portland is infamous for this kinda chit, are purely and simply, Party apparatchik asswipes. It’s yet another example of how the coastal and urban elites here have become 21st-C versions of the old Soviet, Chicom and Eastern bloc regimes. How they must laugh at us now! They beat us to the ground without firing a damn shot! Just a few decades of the Long March through all our major institutions and bingo!
It is time to split up the USA. I am staying in Texas.
Wow, not a bad split up for the USA:
http://www.businessinsider.com/actually-there-are-11-americas-map-2013-11
I predict border wars within six months.
“It is time to split up the USA.”
+1,000,000,000
“I am staying in Texas.”
And I’m staying in northern Vermont. With possible relocations in the future to northern New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland and Iceland. I figure the latter two places will be tropical paradises thanks to Dr. Algore and the Portland, OR skool board, the latter eminent greases having burned all their science textbooks there by then.
Speaking of science, here’s Dr. Pournelle’s acceptance speech for the Heinlein Award yesterday; he comes right out swinging against the Carter administration, lol. Jerry rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfm8abmN3pg
And we’re staying in Sparta.
Yes, he does. Thanks for the link.
Now telling someone to eat shit is a well wish:
Well, they don’t have you eat it. It’s put in via a nasal-gastric tube from what I understand. It’s becoming a standard treatment here in the US. The past procedure was to use someone you lived with or a close relative as the donor, as their gut bacteria will be similar to yours. However, they found that a transplant from an overweight person will cause you to gain weight. Now donors in the US must be of normal weight and free of diabetes.
This is why I’m convinced the “obesity epidemic” is a real epidemic, caused by enteric bacteria. There are studies going on right now to test this hypothesis.
So now it will be “Eat $#17 and Live”.
I want to talk to my brother. The bean pole.
I was a bean pole until my 30s. Now I’m a tower, a pillar, a rock!
Posting here from the Ubuntu Mate notebook, while the Win8.1 machine’s drive is being cloned to the new SSD. Looks like it will take a Real Long Time, too. Guess I’ll work on some other chit.
“Here’s What It’s Like To Have Your Period When You’re a Trans Man”
https://mic.com/articles/131096/here-s-what-it-s-like-to-have-your-period-when-you-re-a-trans-man#.YLfFyUGot
“Last month, a new line of period underwear for trans men reminded us that women aren’t the only people who menstruate. Called the “boyshort,” Thinx released the line, which is designed to be gender-neutral, in response to negative feedback about the brand’s female-centric tagline: “Underwear for women with periods.””
From Rush Limbaugh:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/05/20/charlotte_observer_get_over_fear_of_male_genitalia_ladies
It is getting weird out there.
Thinx is in the news several times today, twice on The Consumerist:
https://consumerist.com/2016/05/20/customers-claim-period-underwear-company-thinx-suddenly-retracted-thousands-of-dollars-in-referral-credits/
https://consumerist.com/2016/05/20/thinx-we-disabled-all-referral-codes-after-bad-customers-gamed-the-system/
Quality customers. What do you expect for a group that has no moral compass.
Here is the 48 inch shower grab bar:
http://www.amazon.com/Moen-R8748D3GOWB-48-Inch-Grab-Bronze/dp/B0071L35OY/
Here is the 36 inch shower grab bar:
http://www.amazon.com/Moen-R8736D3GOWB-World-Bronze-36-Inch/dp/B00499QGHO
I would like to get these installed on every tub / shower in the house. I get vertigo when I am standing up and close my eyes so I just jam my fist in a corner of my shower when washing my face. I would way prefer to have one of these grab bars to gran onto.
I hope this isn’t the last we’ll see of OFD…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-21/white-house-lockdown-shooter/7434212
ech wrote:
“Well, they don’t have you eat it. It’s put in via a nasal-gastric tube from what I understand.”
I thought they just put a turd up your arse and just let you pass it.
” hope this isn’t the last we’ll see of OFD…”
OFD ain’t so stupid as to wave a handgun around outside the WH fence; this looks like a standard case of attempted suicide-by-cop. Just another nutter. And more “ammo” for the “gun control” asswipes. In a city with among the strictest in the nay-shun already, what a joke.
Cloning continues on the SSD from the Win8.1 1TB spinning drive; started this afternoon and now only at 37% six or seven hours later and at this rate not finishing until the wee small hours. If it’s done by morning, I’ll throw it into the machine and add the graphics card and power supply, hopefully.
Congrats Mr & Mrs RBT. Definitely one less thing to worry about. Hopefully all goes well with the transaction…
Stormy day, high winds, heavy rain periods. 16C (61F) @ 1:52 pm.
lol! We already have a useless class of humans. They’re called liberals, SJWs, FSA, dumbocrats and redumblicans.
The rise of artificial intelligence could have a more anticlimactic outcome than most doomsday films would have you expect.
Rather than being violently wiped out by robotic beings, humankind may become ‘eternally useless’ due to the increasing capabilities of AI.
This is according to bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, who explores bleak future of humanity and ‘the rise of the useless class’ in his upcoming novel Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Common theme in SF and spec fiction.
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson takes a look at it in a society that has made work useless for most thru direct assembly of matter. He looks at how to raise the next generation of do-ers when there is no need to do anything, what endless plenty means for a society, etc. And along the way he gives a pretty good tutorial on cryptography.
Jerry Pournelle’s books from the (known space? timeline, sh!t, can’t remember) have the BuReLoc that press gangs useless FSA to settle far colonies, and huge welfare islands where the residents are housed and narcotized with drugs, low caloric intake, and tv.
That’s just 2 off the top o my head.
nick
Huxley did it in Brave New World, using drugs, eugenics, non-reproductive sex, etc
n
I think that humans have to have a purpose, to strive for something. Take that away, and we cease to be humans. See the FSA for an example.
Jerry Pournelle’s books from the (known space? timeline, sh!t, can’t remember)
The CoDominium series. All the Falkenberg stories are collected in an omnibus called The Prince.
Rather than being violently wiped out by robotic beings, humankind may become ‘eternally useless’ due to the increasing capabilities of AI.
Heck, Kurt Vonnegut wrote about it in the 50s in Player Piano. George O. Smith’s Venus Equilateral series in the 40s to 50s had a matter duplicator and explored the consequences.