It was 21 degrees, sunny, and calm when I took Colin out at 8am.
Nothing new to report.
Tuesday January 16, 2018
73 Comments and discussion on "Tuesday January 16, 2018"
Comments are closed.
It was 21 degrees, sunny, and calm when I took Colin out at 8am.
Nothing new to report.
Comments are closed.
30F, wet and dreary here with gusting winds.
hang in there Barbara, get some rest, get to the gym. When there’s nothing you can do for Bob, you need to make sure you’re taking care of yourself.
Kids home, wife went in to work for a meeting.
House is warm and toasty, breakfast will be waffles, maple syrup, and bacon. Coffee for me. The smells of home.
n
BACON
One of the basic food groups and all caps worthy.
Currently in San Antone. We’re holding a semi annual conference. It is all Texas schools, so SA closed all schools, so 30 out of 35 schools said they can’t come because the roads might be icy. Delayed till tomorrow. Hotel won’t give us a break on catering so two meals wasted. MrsAtoz already decided we won’t do it again in SA. We can do it in Vegas for about a third of the cost. Texas won’t come to Vegas. Thanks Obola for saying “Hey, you just can’t go to Vegas for …” Remember that quote. and California said they won’t come to Texas because of LGBTZYS Tranny bathroom laws. Yeah, schools told us that. Geez.
Mr Atoz, if the hotel insists on you paying for the catered meals, insist that they prepare them and set them out, then go around SA finding derelicts to invite to the hotel for a free meal.
This, absolutely.
Be sure to tell the catering manager you’ll be inviting anyone who might be in the cold.
n
And if that doesn’t do it, cut the appetizer, coffee service, desert, whatever you can.
And point out that you expect to see every single staffer you are paying for. There is no way all the staff will be in.
at the very least, they should credit you for the next two meals.
I’m sure there is a local food bank that would come and pick it up as soon as it is ready.
If they charge you, they better damn well make and serve it.
We are stuck with the costs. All paid in advance “because the chef has pre-prepared”. Even coffee, apparently. They won’t even shit a day. We’d have to pay catering for an additional fee. Won’t work with us at all. Really poor small biz accommodation. Also, “attrition” fees for unused reserved room blocks. They wanted to charge us in full for all the reserved block rooms and then reimburse us minus the attrition fee. We said f*ck you, food only in advance. A percentage for an unused room. That isn’t done at our Vegas casino. Last time in SA. The hotel in SA is the Hilton Palacio.
Well, then, back to Plan A: Bring in the smelliest bums you can find, give them all “Texas School Association” lapel tags, and tell them to chow down. Maybe get a food fight going. If the hotel managers want to be assholes, leave them smelling like shit.
My wife insists on having an iphone. Now with the last upgrade the phone was taking pictures in HEIC format (since reset to jpeg). No problem until you download them on a Windows laptop and of course it’s up to me to fix. I understand the problem and see there are many options to convert to jpeg. She has several hundred pics and so using a converter app seems best. However I don’t want ad and spy laden shit. Anyone else dealt with this? Ray?
Hmm, my go to for images was IrfanView, but I checked and it doesn’t support the format. They do have a discussion of adding it, and I inadvertently learned that Irfan is the developer’s first name. I’d always wondered about the strange name….
n
Yes I have Irfan on all my machines and her laptop. I checked it as well and saw the forum discussions. Patent issues on the format.
If you bring up icloud on the pc you can of course see the pics just fine. She works at a school with Apple computers so it all looks good to her.
The problem on the pc is lack of ability to read the format and most programs won’t even show the file name when looking for images.
Like I said there are fixes but I want a safe one.
Last time in SA. The hotel in SA is the Hilton Palacio.
They’re being jerks because that is one of the big hotels on the Riverwalk.
We’ve had a nice experience at the Drury up near USAA. They have meeting facilities.
28 F here in the Land of Sugar and dropping. It is lightly snowing at the moment. The weather liars are saying that it is going to be 19 F tonight. Our record low for today is 23 F, we may bust that tonight. It is suppose to be 73 F on Saturday.
Where is algore when we need him ? Please algore, please, please give us some global warming. Or even some local warming.
Yah, I just spent some time cleaning Al Gore’s sloppy white stuff off my driveway. I’m not happy about it, especially where it’s all crusty and I had to chip at it with a shovel.
“U.S. Becomes a Net Gas Exporter for the First Time in 60 Years”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/u-s-became-a-net-gas-exporter-for-the-first-time-in-60-years
“America’s trade imbalance just got a wee bit smaller. The U.S. has now become a net exporter of natural gas on an annual basis for the first time since at least 1957.”
Yup. The USA is on the way to becoming the largest natural gas producer in the world. We are actively moving to natural gas our primary fuel instead of liquid fuels for our energy needs. The liquid fuels bring more money from outside the USA.
In a 70s dystopian future novel by lawrence Sanders – The Tomorrow File – he makes the point that petroleum is too useful to burn as fuel… Also that government by smart but amoral people is BAD….
n
(novel had some really novel ideas, like using peoples’ personal flora and fauna to identify them – which someone is exploring in the last couple of years as if it was new, and their idea.)
27F here with what my wife informs me is ‘freezing rain’. Snow doesn’t bounce.
n
Anyone else dealt with this? Ray?
I use ACDSEE for my conversion neeeds. I don’t know if it will handle the HEIC format. You can download a trial.
Agreed. The watermelons are correct that we shouldn’t be burning petrol in our cars and furnaces, but their reason is wrong. The watermelons want humans to suffer and die, whereas I want humans to have that petroleum available for plastics.
(That’s my reasoning today. Ask me again tomorrow and I may be back to my norm of plotting how to kill 7,000,000,000 people.)
Yah, that happens all the time. While it’s true that the idea is usually only 1% of getting some innovation out in the world, the person who did the 99% should at least give credit to the guy who thought it up in the first place.
28 F here in the Land of Sugar and dropping. It is lightly snowing at the moment. The weather liars are saying that it is going to be 19 F tonight. Our record low for today is 23 F, we may bust that tonight. It is suppose to be 73 F on Saturday.
We haven’t seen snow here in the north part of Austin, but the mailbox at the corner has a pretty good coating of ice.
At least the weather will change by the end of the week. Our last winter in Vantucky included a two week stretch where the temperatures did not rise above freezing. Ironically, Vantucky is currently getting what is usually May weather for them — upper 40s lows, 50s highs.
No temp report available beyond what Google, WUnderground, or NWS will tell you for Austin/Round Rock. I finally noticed today that the painters took off with our outside thermometer when they prepped the house back in July. Grrr.
@Greg: get your own weather station, like this one from Sams Club: https://www.samsclub.com/sams/professional-ws-remote-monitoring/prod21391576.ip?xid=plp:product:1:1 .
Then hook it up to Weather Underground (free, just need a local computer to act as intermediary between the weather station and WU), and you can have your own weather station like I do: https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KWAPORTL19#history .
WRT converting pictures, I check this daily and think that I have seen some:
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
If I see any more, I’ll post here.
I do have Aieesoft installed here, but I think it is all video and have never used it.
She has several hundred pics and so using a converter app seems best. However I don’t want ad and spy laden shit. Anyone else dealt with this?
ImageMagick won’t parse the format?
On Windows, install the package via Cygwin. The installer will include Bash as part of the base package set, and you will be set for scripting the conversion.
@Greg: get your own weather station, like this one from Sams Club:
I found a LaCrosse temperature sensor in one of our kitchen junk drawers the other day. Now I just need to figure out if we still have the clock.
The missing thermometer was analog and an antique, left by the previous owners of the house. One of the paint companies, probably long gone since the name doesn’t immediately pop into my head.
The bureaucratic infighting in “The Tomorrow File” was illustrative. I also enjoyed referring to booze as ‘guzzle’.
I really liked it when I read it (back when first in paperback.) Surprising to see scifi from Sanders, course lots of weird sex too. I liked the idea of the tomorrow file – things you could probably do, but not right now…
The idea of something that is addictive but not harmful being totally legal was a cool thought experiment too.
n
“Ford plans $11 billion investment, 40 electrified vehicles by 2022”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-ford-motor/ford-plans-11-billion-investment-40-electrified-vehicles-by-2022-idUSKBN1F30YZ
“Ford Chief Executive Jim Hackett told investors in October the automaker would slash $14 billion in costs over the next five years and shift capital investment away from sedans and internal combustion engines to develop more trucks and electric and hybrid cars.”
Ford is reinventing itself as Tesla. I wonder if this will go well ? Battery technology and charging still seem to be dicey.
It is now 26 F and sleeting like crazy. I am wondering if I will be able to walk across my north pond in the morning at 19 F ? That will require a leap of faith as the center of the pond is about five ft deep.
The 350 watt heat lamp is still on in the well house, I never turned it off. It is over the 120 gallon well tank. It costs me about a dollar a day to run it.
“Why do I do this to myself? Bob’s first predictions for 2018”
https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/16/bobs-first-predictions-2018/
There is a list of his ten 2017 predictions of which he says that 60% came to pass.
“Counting on my fingers it doesn’t look especially good — 60 percent correct. I could maybe claim one of those I didn’t but that’s not how I roll. Maybe I am getting too old for this gig.”
His first 2018 predictions are:
“Prediction #1 — the rise of 5G networking will lead to a crash in broadcast TV.”
“Prediction #2 — the end of Windows supremacy.”
I checked and adjusted the tarps over my citrus trees, and the 60w incan bulbs under the tarps. They were all good yesterday afternoon in preparation for today’s cold snap.
n
now 27F, gusting has died down, freezing rain is lessening.
If water stored in 5 gal bottles figures into your plans, you might want to check this out:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-6-Gallon-Hand-Pump-for-Water-Bottle-Jug-Manual-Drinking-Tap-Spigot-Camping/131244468416
They are $1.25 at my local King Dollar store and are undoubtedly cheap crap, but they do a job I hadn’t even thought about. I’m sure there are other places (hand washing stations) where they might work well too. For the price, get a dozen (locally, not for $9)
n
Ford is reinventing itself as Tesla. I wonder if this will go well ? Battery technology and charging still seem to be dicey.
The tax deal left the $7500 tax credit in place for electric vehicles. That’ll help take the sting out of $60,000 F150s purchased on 84 month loans.
Ford has rolled the dice on longevity up and down their truck line. 10 speed transmissions on the new Rangers standard? God help them if it doesn’t work.
Before he died, my Ford retiree father predicted that the company was done the day they stopped shipping Crown Vics to the police departments.
Prediction #1 — the rise of 5G networking will lead to a crash in broadcast TV.
Maybe broadcast *network* TV, but the economics still work at the local level if the programming is available at low cost. Wheel of Fish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KezvwARhBIc
Weird Al may have been remarkably prescient with “UHF”.
Ford has rolled the dice on longevity up and down their truck line. 10 speed transmissions on the new Rangers standard? God help them if it doesn’t work.
Ford has already shipped a million of those new 10 speed automatics with integrated start-stop technology. It is a joint venture with GM. I’ll bet that Ford will ship two million of them this year. BTW, the first vehicle that Ford put the 10 speed auto into was the Raptor. You know that got a good workout from that type of person. The Ranger will be easy-peasy comparatively.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/22/why-ford-and-general-motors-teamed-up-on-transmiss.aspx
It is a joint venture with GM.
“Dogs and cats sleeping together … mass hysteria!”
Or, if prefer a more obscure quote, from “Dead Again”, when the climactic struggle halts with good guys, bad guys, and weapons scattered all around the room:
“Well I for one am very interested in what happens next.”
I just got a quote for $1000 to replace power steering hoses on my 2001 Toyota. Fortunately, I can Stop Leak it and pray to get it through inspection, but what happens when the car is smart enough to tattle on me to the inspector?
“Guidance system suboptimal due to presence of foreign additive.”
Or, if prefer a more obscure quote, from “Dead Again”, when the climactic struggle halts with good guys, bad guys, and weapons scattered all around the room:
“Well I for one am very interested in what happens next.”
Never saw it. Is it this ?
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Again-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/B074J6JB33/
“day they stopped shipping Crown Vics to the police departments.”
They had some really doozies running things. Kill the Ranger? People stop me in parking lots and offer money for mine. Kill the T-Bird reissue? first sexy car in ages. Kill the Taurus? Freakin thing invented a whole new category.
Stupid renaming plan? Ditto.
Nowadays they sell Escapes and Explorers to the cops. I don’t think they want to compete with GM giving away the store to move inventory.
n
Never saw it. Is it this ?
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Again-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/B074J6JB33/
Yes. Beyond the cimactic scene, it has what I think is Robin Williams last truly great drama performance on film. Branagh may have eaten an ‘R’ rating just to get Williams (probably improvised) monologue into theaters.
Nowadays they sell Escapes and Explorers to the cops. I don’t think they want to compete with GM giving away the store to move inventory.
I want the Expedition police model. Column shifter for the ten speed instead of a stupid dial on the console, blood interior, vinyl floor, and 240 amp alternator. The only down side is the 40/open/40 front seats.
https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/04/06/2018-ford-f-150-expedition-special-service-vehicles-help-go-further.html
EDIT: The F-150 XLT has a vinyl flooring option. I am considering getting it when I order my F-150.
Nowadays they sell Escapes and Explorers to the cops. I don’t think they want to compete with GM giving away the store to move inventory.
The Austin cops parked their Explorers last year out of concerns about carbon monoxide leaking into the cabin. Ford blamed the customizers, but we recently received a suspiciously vague letter from the company, suggesting that we bring my wife’s 2016 Explorer into the dealer if we have any concerns about cabin air quality.
I miss my wife’s 2002 4Runner. At the time we traded it in, we didn’t see the sense of putting $1700 into a rack-and-pinion replacement, but the Explorer’s throttle body going at 5000 miles, leaving my wife stranded in a bad part of Austin, has convinced us that this is our last Ford.
The only time a Toyota left us stranded was due to a battery.
“day they stopped shipping Crown Vics to the police departments.”
They had some really doozies running things. Kill the Ranger? People stop me in parking lots and offer money for mine. Kill the T-Bird reissue? first sexy car in ages. Kill the Taurus? Freakin thing invented a whole new category.
Killing the Ford Ranger is the stupidest thing that Ford has ever done, yes. That cost them 50,000+ units per year in sales. Ford marketing said those customers would buy a F-150, wrong, they bought a Toyota Tacoma or the equivalent.
https://www.ford.com/trucks/ranger/2019/
I am so glad that I fixed the north side heater on my office building in 2016. I have both office heaters set to 71 F today. That means my office is currently 68 F. The heaters are 10 kW each. Well worth the $600 investment to double up the lighting circuits in the breaker box and separate the heating circuits into a 50 amp 230 V breaker each.
EDIT: It is 26 F outside and still sleeting.
My final milspec assignment was at Fort Hood. Garrison job so I commuted from SA and had a convenience flat for the week in Killeen. I had a new Crown Vic that was a sweet ride. Moved it to Vegas and drove it into the ground.
When I was looking for a truck, the first place I went was the Ford dealer looking for a Ranger. That’s when I found out they didn’t make them anymore. Bummer. I was pleased ending up with a Tacoma which I traded in last year for the Subaru Outback.
Killing the Ford Ranger is the stupidest thing that Ford has ever done, yes. That cost them 50,000 units per years in sales. Ford marketing said those customers would buy a F-150, wrong, they bought a Toyota Tacoma or the equivalent.
My boss at the university has a brother who works at the Tacoma plant in San Antonio. Things were slow when the plant first opened, but they can’t make the trucks fast enough these days.
I’m sure Ford noticed.
Three rats in traps today. One live. Hate those. They squeal.
One in the garage, 2 in the attic. Reset, rebaited, set one more..
n
The Mercury Gran Marquis is the substitute for the Crown Vic. It’s a nice big sedan.
n
Mercury? They stopped that too.
The Mercury Gran Marquis is the substitute for the Crown Vic. It’s a nice big sedan.
They’re bringing those back?!?
I could see them doing it with the Taurus platform if they wanted to revive the Mercury name. The last old school Marq rolled off the line in 2011.
Is there something reliable for weather? Wunderground was once spot on but for the last couple years, not so great. And now? Where’s the freaking airport? I want /that/ location, not a personal weather station at someone’s so-called ranch 6 miles away on the other side of town.
“Burnet Municipal-Craddock, TX” is the airport. It’s a couple of miles away. I’ve picked it and in settings is shows as my home location but does it work? Noooo. I have to dig into the settings to even find it. Everything else is PWS.
/My/ Favorite Cities show when in settings, no where else. I really don’t care at all about the weather in SanFran or Boston. Much less, London.
”
They’re bringing those back?!? ”
not that I know of but there are a LOT of them coming on the used market. The canonical ‘little old lady’ who bought a new one, is shuffling off this mortal coil. MUCH better choice than a surplus Crown Vic from the local cop auction.
I see more and more of them on the road lately.
n
The old heating system here had 15KW. I’m guessing. I just know that on a day like today you could stand near the pole holding the transformer and hear it… sorta like the warp drive on Star Trek. Spooky.
The new system has 10K. More needed another breaker and the box is full. A bit more heat would be nice though.
It’s not bad in here. The heat pump is set to EM heat and we have the pellet stove running.
I had a Ford/Shelby custom built 1973 Mercury Montego 351CJ GT that looked a lot like this:
http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/uploads/photoalbum/mercury-montego-gt-q-code-cobra-jet-one-of-the-most-all-original-cars-ever–1.jpg
It was far from stock though. At the time I was managing a Ford Lincoln Mercury HD Truck dealership and had the connections so that I could have a car built however I wanted. (My Dad had connections at Ford too.)
The engine was a Shelby 351 Cobra Jet, blueprinted and performance tuned with dual Holly 4-barrel carbs, 7 mpg. The air scoops on the hood were functional. Huge tuned dual exhaust with Shelby headers.
We had a Shelby trained mechanic who taught me how to take care of the engine and helped me get the necessary special tools. We worked on it together. He collected fast cars.
The transmission was a specially tuned C6 automatic very similar to what was used in the Crown Vic Police Pursuits. I had to get that to afford the insurance, but I never lost a race to anyone (did go through tires like butter).
The suspension was a unique one, designed by Shelby. Rode smooth and cornered flat and steady.
From its apperance it looked stock, but start it up and you could hear the ponies waiting to go.
Many great stories in that car, but alas the gas crisis of 1979 sealed its fate and I got a 1970 Toyota Land Cruiser CJ40 that looked similar to this:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mTzlH9ObLw0/maxresdefault.jpg
It had bigger tires and fender flares plus a WARN Winch. The torque was unbelievable, I swear it could climb a nearly verticle wall.
Ford never saw the foreign invasion coming, but my Dad and I convinced the owner of the Ford Lincoln Mercury HD Truck Dealership to get a Toyota Dealership. It made him an even richer man.
@Paul: on WUnderground, pick one of these, which I think are in your neighborhood https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/tx/burnet/78611 . Use the “Change” thing to find stations near you. Then set that up as a bookmark.
WU said this week that they had some server issues related to the processor bug, but those have been mitigated.
If you look at the WUnderground map, and select ‘stations’, you can see a bunch of stations. Pick one you like.
Hate those. They squeal.
Same as teenage girls. Unfortunately trapping them is still illegal.
As is hitting them with shovels to make it stop. Probably for the best.
n
“Homeland Security pursues charges against leaders of sanctuary cities”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/16/dhs-asks-prosecutors-charge-sanctuary-city-leaders/
“Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.”
This might be … interesting.
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
Shovels may be ok if you yell aloha snack bar at the same time. Seems to work in Europe.
This might be … interesting.
The San Antonio morning drive talk hosts have a running joke about building Trump’s wall … around Austin.
IIRC all of Travis County is a “sanctuary city”.
[snip] Is there something reliable for weather? [snip]
I use Intellicast. They’re what the state Forestry Department use, and they seem reasonably accurate. Coastal weather is always a little more unsettled / variable than the inland folks get.
We’ve got so many microclimates here that I gave up on the local weather. My ‘joke’ is that 80% chance of rain in Houston means 80% of Houston gets wet. The rest never notice.
So if I really want to know temps, etc. I listen to the NOAA coastal waters broadcast. People die if they get that wrong, so they’ve got a real incentive to be right.
Most of the time, I just look at the national NOAA forecast that gets included in my daily FEMA briefing enewsletter. It’s be right far more than the local pukes as far as ‘gonna rain or not’. And really, most days are very similar to the one that just happened, unless you have a storm coming in.
n
Something to keep you occupied while trapped inside by the cold weather
@nick
Just for grins and giggles try baiting some of your traps with a tuft of dryer lint.
I am told it will attract (and hopefully cause the death of) the females.
A lone male plus a handful of females equals disaster. Ask any man with children and no sons .
Solved the HEIC image file issue. Turns out XnView with plugin works just fine. All images show in the preview browser window. IIRC when Bob changed over to Linux from windows he brought up a need for a picture viewer and I recommended XnView. The good news is I trust XnView.
The images open in the browser thumbnail viewer and I’ve set XnView as the default for that extension. You have to do a ‘save as’ to make a jpeg. Need to work out a batch conversion and my life will be much happier (wife is happy – I’m happy).
Who in his right mind would want to trap teenage girls? They’re the most annoying thing in the world managing to beat out even teenage boys. The boys you can at least beat on until they shut up.
But I did manage to figure out how to quiet the teenage girls down…
… and then you had to go and ruin it.
In an honestly-run world of regulated “mental health professionals”, giving a diagnosis of someone you’ve never met would be grounds for losing one’s license. As a saving grace, the news media lose credibility by the week. Soon only inbred morons will pay attention to anything the “news” media say. It’s possible we’ve already reached that point.
Gah. Since my sons went off to college and work, our house contains my wife, our daughter, my mother-in-law, an acquaintance of my wife’s who needed a “temporary” place to live but is still here, and the 30-ish never-married daughter of some of my wife’s friends and her young daughter. Mostly they’re not too annoying and fortunately for me, I’m good at ignoring bullshit and attempts at manipulation and if they manage to piss me off I can bellow louder than all of them put together. (And in a nice bass roar, much more physically shocking than soprano and alto nattering.)
XnView Batch Conversion
Thanks Jenny, I’ll give that a try. The dried apple slices seem to have worked so far but there is plenty of room for a bit of fluff. The best though, judging by the damage to my stores would either be shelf stable shredded beef, or Krusteez Pancake mix…..
n
BTW, fairly good short wave and ham on the low bands again tonight…
This round of rats were physically smaller, almost large mouse sized. They are actually cute, just grey coats and tails. Until they’re trying to escape the glue or chase you away, then they’re all teeth and evil eyes. The way they hunch up somehow changes the whole look and you know you are seeing a rat. Disney and the other animators really catch it.
I’ve got historical (and hysterical) reasons for not wanting to try any of the bucket traps, which are said to be effective and easy to DIY. Post-SHTF, something renewable like a bucket trap would be the only option. I definitely didn’t have enough rodent defense stacked.
nick
I’ve got historical (and hysterical) reasons for not wanting to try any of the bucket traps, which are said to be effective and easy to DIY. Post-SHTF, something renewable like a bucket trap would be the only option. I definitely didn’t have enough rodent defense stacked.
Would you like to try one of the new rat electric chairs ?
https://www.amazon.com/Victor-Electronic-Rat-Trap-Reusable/dp/B000LNX06C/
Just went for a half mile walk outside in the 25 F air. It was brisk !
BTW, just about every overpass in Sugar Land is totally iced up and closed. Including the bridge over the Brazos river.
I drive on a bridge across Rabbs Bayou (feeder to the Brazos River) about halfway between home and the office. At 10pm, it was totally iced up and no sand. Fort Bend County used to sand our bridges but since we are Sugar Land now, the city does not sand bridges. It was fun going across it at 2 mph. The brakes worked about as good as they used to on ice and the limited slip rear axle was able to get me moving from a dead stop on it.
Since my sons went off to college and work, our house contains my wife, our daughter, my mother-in-law, an acquaintance of my wife’s who needed a “temporary” place to live but is still here, and the 30-ish never-married daughter of some of my wife’s friends and her young daughter.
You never told us that you are running a women’s shelter. Where do all of these people sleep ? Hopefully you have more than two bathrooms. Don’t you have another kid that sleeps over and eats with your daughter all the time ?
Hey, want to buy a 40 acre farm outside Shenango Falls, NY ? The wife’s 91 year old aunt passed away recently and her 65 year old son is trying to sell it as is. The house is 3 stories plus a basement, all built into the side of a hill at about 4,000 ft altitude. The winters are pleasant with usually less than 20 ft of snow. The house and barn are very rustic with lots of character, built around 1900 or so. There is indoor plumbing. Kinda. And a two holer out between the house and the barn. When my FIL was a kid, they had a dozen dairy cattle and several pigs in the barn. And they grew potatoes. Lots and lots of potatoes. Did I mention rustic and on top of a slightly steep hill ? You’ve got a granny first gear, right ?
BTW, just about every overpass in Sugar Land is totally iced up and closed. Including the bridge over the Brazos river.
I see on Google Maps that large chunks of roads in Houston are closed. Also I-10/I-12 in New Orleans is closed. Must be a mess.
Kids are home. Wife is working from home.
I see that some hospitals in Cali are setting up tents in the parking lot to deal with the influx of flu patients. Hmmm. The next step is officials urging calm and downplaying the effects- if that happens it’s time to worry. In the mean time, you should have already trained yourself to stop touching your eyes and face, keep fingers out of mouth, wash hands frequently, and use hand sanitizer.
n
SteveF wrote:
“Who in his right mind would want to trap teenage girls? They’re the most annoying thing in the world managing to beat out even teenage boys. The boys you can at least beat on until they shut up.”
With boys you only have to worry about one penis. With girls you have to worry about all of them.