63F and damp, with partly cloudy skies. Maybe I’ll get some outdoor work done today.
Otherwise I’ve got a mixed bag-o-observations.
Adventure Medical GlacierGel and blister first aid packets ROCK. https://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Medical-Kits-GlacierGel-Dressing/dp/B00169962W?th=1
Everyone should have this in there bug out bag, hiking kit, and first aid kit. No visit to a theme park or vacation should be without. The dressings are SUPER thin, have a cushioning gel, and stick tight. Highly recommended.
A ‘moka pot’ makes a tasty cup of coffee. It’s a bit messy loading the coffee, and mine drips when pouring if you aren’t careful. I broke the carafe on my 15 year old Melitta 4 cup coffee maker and have been using the moka pot backup for a couple of days. If coffee is an essential part of your preparedness planning, an appropriately sized moka pot is easy and fairly quick.
If observers from such radically different starting points as me/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh and the Nation of Islam can look at the current world situation and arrive at similar conclusions, there just might be something to it. [see my comments late yesterday] TPTB are moving behind the scenes. This is one of those points in history where there is a massive shift and realignment happening…. mice get squashed when the elephants dance.
It’s state testing time in our elementary schools. Parents and volunteers are ordered [very strongly encouraged] to stay away this week. While the school insists this is to provide a quieter, calmer environment for the students testing, I get nervous and suspicious whenever an institution chases all the observers away. If this ‘quieter and calmer’ environment is necessary for success, what does that say about the conditions during the normal school day? If you are proud, confident, and secure, you show off your achievements and processes, you don’t hide them.
During the republican primaries here, the local apparatchik that was running for her next job suckling on the public teat got handed her hat. She spent literal millions and was soundly defeated by unknowns, some of whom spent almost nothing. Now we’re gonna have a run off. This guy is the kind of person we need as a ‘public servant’ and that we so rarely get.
https://crenshawforcongress.com/about/
His posters are certainly ‘eye catching.’
nick
Another point where Farrakan’s local guy agrees with weird and woolie others is Syria. He asks- who benefits, and how do we know what’s going on, and DON’T believe what we’re being told. He also thinks the timing is very suspicious when compared with domestic events. Turns out, the Russians think so too….
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-11/there-wasnt-single-corpse-russia-claims-white-helmets-staged-syria-chemical-attack
added- see also http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/us-backed-syrian-rebels-caught-staging-corpses-of-dead-children-in-douma-to-play-on-western-emotions/
and it brings us nicely back to an issue we’ve discussed before. With no direct experience, only ‘mediated’ experiences, how do you know what really happened at ANY of these remote (from us) events? We KNOW the media lies. We KNOW they have their own agenda. We know they act in concert. Yet we are willing to believe them when their reporting matches our prejudices?
Remember the airstrikes on syria? “Total failure” according to the press, but not according to military sources. 43 bad cruise missiles or disinformation? which is more likely?
Without accurate and true information, how does a member of a republic carry out their duties and responsibilities?
n
added- while discussing the 1930’s with my daughter, my wife pointed out that there are almost no people left alive with direct adult experience of the times. Kids have memories, but they were young, and their recollections are now subject to failing memories and so are doubly suspect. Think about that. The 30s are within living memory, and yet, almost no direct witnesses.
Speaking of Public Education. Here is what my wife, retired English Professor, posted recently on her Blog site. She starts by recounting her experience in a poor, rural Atoka Oklahoma school in the 1950’s.
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Going to School with Mrs. Graham
When I started school, it was in a small country school in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma. The school had grades one through eight in four classrooms. Two ages per class. So in mine, there were both first and second grade students. Mrs. Graham was our teacher. She also taught many of my cousins, and my sister. She was wonderful and we all adored her.
Mrs. Graham was probably in her early forties when I was in her class. She taught until she was into her seventies. Three generations from the families in that area passed through her capable hands, learning to read, write, do math, science, art, and history. She was firm, fair, and dedicated to teaching all those little mush headed kids the basics of education. After two years in her class, you could do all those important skills, and spell too.
She didn’t have fancy computers, loads of resources, and special papers to hand out for homework, the only homework we ever had was learning the spelling list for the week. She didn’t have pretty cut outs and things to make bulletin boards with reminders, handouts for kids to take home to parents, or expensive products to teach with, she had a chalkboard, Big Chief tablets, pencils, crayons, a few pair of scissors, and an old beat up mimeograph machine that never quite had enough ink. But we all learned anyway.
What she did have, however, were parents that taught us to respect Mrs. Graham, or they would be all over us about it. I never heard one student talk back to her, smart off to her, or disrespect her in any way. None of us would if we didn’t want our parents to know and make sure we never did it again. What she did have was an innate ability to understand how children learned, and how to ignite our imagination through stories, ideas, and a firm belief that each and every one of us was brilliant in one way or another. What she did have, was a vast store of knowledge that she was willing and able to impart to all of us, even the rowdy boys who were more interested in rough housing than learning their spelling words. What she had was the support of the parents, the admiration of the other teachers and the administration, and the love of her students.
She wouldn’t recognize the modern classroom today. She wouldn’t understand how students can get away with literally doing nothing and still move on to the next level. She wouldn’t understand teaching a child to pass an exam instead of teaching children to learn the basics of reading, math, history, and science as a platform for the building of an educated mind. She wouldn’t understand the focus on feelings instead of a focus on encouraging each student through a purpose driven agenda designed to help them learn to help themselves learn. She wouldn’t understand the disrespect students, parents, and the administration have for the teachers who are down in the trenches working with hateful, angry, bored students every day. Teachers like Mrs. Graham are a phenomenon of the past.
Back when education meant that children were truly learning, it wasn’t uncommon for a young man or woman still in their teens to be teaching an entire community of students in a one room school with children from ages six to seventeen. By the time those children were ready to go to High School, they were proficient in all the basics, plus they could speak, read, and write in either Greek or Latin, or both. They were familiar with and could quote great works of literature, they understood complex mathematics and science theories and practices. They knew the history of their town, state, and country along with world history from the ancient ages to the present. Today, most High School students can barely read, write, or have the skills needed to pass the state exam required for graduation. Students are less intelligent, capable, or determined to excel in their studies. It isn’t just an inner city issue, or a poor issue, it is endemic throughout ever socio-economic level within in every type of community. More children are falling to the lowest common denominator of sloth, failure, and self aggrandizing entitlement than ever before. And no one cares enough to stop the fall, because today, we no longer have teachers like Mrs. Graham. We no longer have teachers, parents, and administrators who see teaching as more than a babysitting service provided for their children, because teachers are no longer allowed to teach, they only facilitate the process of regurgitative education. The students pass the state exam and promptly forget what they learned. They don’t build on a solid foundation of the basics, they simply pass through the system and wonder why life is so hard for them when they graduate or quit school as soon as they are old enough.
Teachers go into teaching knowing that it will be a thankless profession with poor pay. Some go in all shiny and new, ready to make a difference in the lives of their students, and run right into that wall of the lowest common denominator. Many, within a year or two, are so beaten down and exhausted they end up walking away from the profession. It is easier to deal with rude people as a waitress than to put their hearts into a profession where they are insulted and belittled by everyone on a daily basis. The only real losers in the modern education models of today are the generations of students who will waste twelve years in a system that will teach them nothing of value.
Mrs. Graham most definitely would not understand that at all.
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We need more Mrs. Grahams. Wait. first, we need a school system that will allow a Mrs. Graham to exist. Sorry, that’ll never happen and soon all memories of what school should be will be gone.
It’s very simple; teach kids how to learn, not what to learn.
It’s state testing time in our elementary schools. Parents and volunteers are ordered [very strongly encouraged] to stay away this week. While the school insists this is to provide a quieter, calmer environment for the students testing, I get nervous and suspicious whenever an institution chases all the observers away
The Indian parents will help their children cheat, especially if the mother stays home and volunteers at the school.
The effort is very organized. My wife had one Indian mother cop to possessing copies of the gifted program entrance exam for the local ISD.
Redacted what I was going to say regarding Indians from the country of and Indians from the reservation. A bit too politically incorrect and ray-cyst for this early in the morning.
Redacted what I was going to say regarding Indians from the country of and Indians from the reservation. A bit too politically incorrect and ray-cyst for this early in the morning.
I meant the type from South Asia.
Except when discussing the overabundance of Indian casino operations in WA State, I usually say “Native American” when talking about the other type.
51º and cloudy this day. I’m on the right side of the grass, and I plan to stay that way.
State testing this week for the eldest daughter. Sometimes she mentions it just to see the steam come out of my ears. The know that testing should be about evaluating what we’ve learned and not how well we memorize things. She even understands that after a math lesson at home. She sees the way we work out problems and come to a conclusion, and even occasionally use two methods to come to the same conclusion. She knows she can take that thinking to other problems and jump ahead of her peers. She likes that. This current testing is just a hurdle. Get over it and get back to the good stuff.
I attended my first PTO meeting the other night. The only other male in the room was my son’s teacher. I just sat and watched. I am heartened to see so many involved parents. These folks do care.
And no, I am not interested in getting on any of these committees. I’m not an organizer, and I’m not interested in helping with it.
But yes, I would love to help you time/score the bikeathon. I have the supplies, the equipment, and the know-how. If I am already committed that day, I can set you up with what you need and help with the follow-up. That’s the kind of thing I’m good at.
Greg – FYI the term “Native American” literally means ANYONE born in America. I assume you are a Native American. We prefer American Indian as this separates us from the vast majority of Native Americans who are not tribal members.
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I detest how popular culture has literally changes words meanings in just a few decades. When I was in school the word “organic” meant anything that is alive or was once alive. But today it has been corrupted to mean a special kind of growth environment. It rankles me to see some produce descrimed as “inorganic” which literally means never having been alive such as minerals or metals.
You wanna see some word twisting, read this article from my college…and also the depths to which the “Modern American University” [ASU’s words] has sunk….
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2018/04/05/asu-initiative-aims-to-counteract-sexual-violence-through-the-arts/
some gems–
[the announcement in the alumni news had this to say- emp. added]
[and from the article]
” among the 100 or so participants, who wrote their preferred pronouns on name tags”
“[mentally ill student] is gender fluid and goes by any “respectful” pronouns – he/him, she/her or they/them. ”
“Later, participants broke into groups for a line-dance style exercise to brainstorm creative actions.”
Or try this one on for size-
https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/research-and-initiatives/projecting-all-voices
“Projecting All Voices, […], aims to support equity and inclusion in design and the arts so that our nation’s cultural life honors and represents the full creative diversity of our country’s population.”
-snip-
“Through the program, the fellows inform conversations about how educational and cultural institutions must change to prepare, support and advance the creative voices of a changing America through an equitable lens and framework of practice. ”
“[one of the fellows] is a process-based dance maker who creates low tech site specific and site adaptive pieces for non-traditional dance spaces. Her work is grounded in and inspired by the landscape, languages, cultures and the aesthetics of the US Southwest….” [thank gnu she got the training to do so while getting her BA in Spanish, and MS in Mexican American Studies. otherwise, we might not take her seriously.]
Man, the cleansing fire can’t come soon enough some days.
n
Here’s a nice phrase from a photo caption in a news story…
” The suspect died during the encounter with police. ”
The rest of the story
“CBS46 reporter Daniel Wilkerson was covering a SWAT standoff in the northwest part of the city on Thursday when he heard ‘hundreds’ of gunshots behind him. …. outside a home … from where a man was allegedly firing the shots and barricading himself. … Once police got to the scene the man allegedly fired at them. The standoff lasted more than six hours and only ended when police fired shots and tear gas into the home.”
Just coincidence that the suspect died while the cops were there, I’m sure.
n
And this should scare the crap out of civil libertarians all over the world:
“Chinese police use facial recognition technology to pick out a suspect in 60,000-strong concert crowd and arrest him”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5607559/Chinese-police-arrest-man-using-facial-recognition-60-000-concert.html
Just some sort of “economic dispute” but he’s in the db and grabbed off the street….
n
(note that they set up the cameras ‘to provide security for the large event’ but grabbed the petty crook since he was there….)
“Chinese police use facial recognition technology to pick out a suspect in 60,000-strong concert crowd and arrest him”
Just another reason for the Chinese people to leave their native land and emigrate to the USA. Oh wait, we’ll be doing this same facial recognition technology at public events in the USA soon.
“Trump Signs FOSTA, Igniting Online Censorship Concerns”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/360372/trump-signs-fosta-igniting-online-censorship-concerns
“FOSTA will let law enforcement prosecute websites for facilitating sex trafficking crimes, but critics worry the new law will trigger internet platforms to censor user content.”
Um, looks like censorship to me.
“a process-based dance maker who creates low tech site specific and site adaptive pieces for non-traditional dance spaces.”
OK … I could read every word of the above sentence but still have no idea what the person does. I guess I am just too old to understand English.
Regarding coffee,
The Best Coffee Maker for Camping
I mention Wirecutter a lot–it really is a great resource if you do not have time to research products yourself. That said, use your own judgement and look at other applicable sites (e.g. rtings.com for TVs, etc.)
.mg
As Ed Driscol noted today “You may not be interested in the pronoun wars, but the pronoun wars are interested in you.”
I’ve got several perkolators of differing vintages and styles. Haven’t used them. Almost universally people went to drip because it’s easier and tastes better. Still an option for stovetop though.
Same with the french press, I’ve got a couple. I have used them.
This is only the second time I’ve used a moka pot, the first being for a single cup of espresso as a test. It’s easy and tastes good. Gotta watch it for when the water all boils though.
I’ve got a couple of the pour thru drip options too. They are messy and require their own watching.
I like the moka pot in that your coffee is ready as soon as the water is completely heated, it is in the same vessel, and it forces the water thru the bean, for better flavor.
and I got it for $2 at a sale…..
n
@ harold, let me put my BFA degree to use!
Some people would say she was a diversity hire, well schooled in profiting from grievance, suckled on the public teat, and mostly engages in useless masturbatory time-wasting in front of an audience.
Others would probably describe her more charitably as a choreographer and dancer who isn’t good enough to join a company, so she focuses on the ‘process’ rather than the outcome, and does it in a variety of non-theatrical spaces, again, because she isn’t likely good enough to support a traditional studio or theatre space. The “low tech” is probably of necessity, as her work is so bad, no one will provide lighting, sound, or video production to accompany her “pieces”. Good techs don’t work for free, and gear rental costs money.
She does seem to be firmly ensconced in the warm embrace of academics and race politics. I’ll bet she doesn’t recognize her privilege when it comes to the support and accommodation, not to mention funding for fellowships, that her skin color and gender afford her.
I can’t go back to school….
n
Man, the cleansing fire can’t come soon enough some days.
The fire is going to be so big that it just might cleanse us all…
“Billionaire Backer Says His Plan to Split California is Qualified for November Ballot”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/12/exclusive-splitting-california-three-step-closer-billionaire/
Three new blue states since San Diego will be in the Southern California state ?
“Tesla Says Driver to Blame in Fatal Model X Autopilot Crash”
http://www.hybridcars.com/tesla-says-driver-blame-fatal-model-x-autopilot-crash/
Well, that makes me want to run out and buy an autopilot car. I guess that the batteries caught fire for that level of damage ?
@nick
This was oddly satisfying. I assume your rats are too canny to be caught in this device. For your review
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvWD-E-gbkk
This was oddly satisfying.
Especially for the second mouse, who, unless my eyes deceive me, had his way with the first mouse before getting caught himself! 😉
no way a rat would be that dumb. . .
I’m trying out some different brand glue pads from the dollar store. They FLIP them over, toss them off the shelves, and basically just dominate. Even when they get stuck, unless they are small they pull free or pee until they can get free.
NOT ONE went for my log roll style bucket trap, and that is supposed to be one of the best.
I’m not hearing them at night any more, but I found a flipped glue pad in the garage, so they are still there.
n
I am negotiating with a prospective tenant about a 2,500 ft2 space on my nine acre commercial property. He wants me to put exceptions all over the lease contract that exempt him with “except as caused by the willful misconduct of the Landlord”. Since I am not sure what that means legally, no freaking way.
@mediumwave, I thought so too, and the next two mice climbed up too. So either they were using the first as a ladder, or……..
n
@lynn, I used to use a piece of software to write contracts when I was working as an independent. Since my customers didn’t have anything similar, most of them were willing to let me generate the contract. I ALWAYS put in the stuff that was good for me, and less good for them, and no one ever called me on it. After all, it’s just standard boilerplate….
Never needed it either, as most people are good and I was flexible, but good to have. The only time I needed a clause was a short notice cancellation, for which I charged a good percent of the total fee. I had already done subrentals and hired crew at that point, plus the design work. I pointed it out upfront, and again at the first milestone, so I don’t feel bad. Def don’t accept changes without getting them reviewed!
n
Even though it’s a one car crash, it’s like all 2 car crashes: Always the other guy’s fault!
Teachers like Mrs. Graham are a phenomenon of the past.
Unfortunately. I believe my grandmother was a teacher in that vein.
“Tesla Says Driver to Blame in Fatal Model X Autopilot Crash”
Following a long tradition of airlines blaming the dead pilot for the fatal crash.
“Who do we blame?”
“Who’s not here?”
“Excellent!”
n
My friend that died in February? That had DirecTV? Who I called and blah blah blah whatever… they’ll send a recovery kit that never showed… The best answer the crew on Facebook gave me was to take the receiver to a UPS store. Er, no, I’m not driving almost 50 miles, much less trying to find the place. So, send at least a prepaid postage label or the box is going into the trash in a couple of weeks. “crickets”
That was over a month ago. I tore the box apart today. The main CPU has a heat pipe looking thing. There was another heatsink that went under the board to sink a couple of Broadcom chips. Oh, and up front there were a couple of antenna looking things. Maybe it could use wi-fi? The little cooling fan was spotless.. no dust at all. The 1000GB Seagate “Video 3.5 HDD” drive has an impressive (to me) looking heat-sink on one side. Looks like a plain ol’ SATA drive to me.
Nicely made unit. It makes my DirecTv DVR I tore apart last summer look like a mess. Ah, it’s like what “cab forward” did for Chryslers.
The drive was made in July 2016. Worth using I think. I went to Newegg today and oh, heck…. the USB drive cases are either great or total carp.
I think I’ll pop the cover off of Moa and see if there is room for another drive.
Or stuff it into this box.
Either way, use it for back-ups. Just tossed across the LAN and not toted from machine to machine.
@lynn, I used to use a piece of software to write contracts when I was working as an independent. Since my customers didn’t have anything similar, most of them were willing to let me generate the contract. I ALWAYS put in the stuff that was good for me, and less good for them, and no one ever called me on it. After all, it’s just standard boilerplate….
I now use a commercial rental contract in Word that I got from leasing an office space back in 2006. It is almost totally one sided for the Landlord.
In this circumstance, I am running some risk. The prospective tenant wants to rent a 2,500 ft2 open space. He wants me to put down gravel and build a 8 ft chain link fence with slats, around $13,000 or so. Then he will buy and bring in three steel conex containers, two 20 ft and a 40 ft. I am going to put the compound next to my well house so he can use some electricity and water out of there. Our initial lease is for five years at $700/month so I will be under water for almost two years.
If he is actually requesting that it means:
– he does not trust you to do the right thing from the start.
– he, at best, tinkers with legalese and, at worst, really knows about the subject and is prepared to use it to his advantage.
Trust me. Run away from that guy.
Is he buying or renting the connex? If he owns them, you can probably seize them if he bails…
a laydown yard has some value but I’m not sure how much. I pay about 50c/ft for my warehouse space. A nice sized steel building in that space would be about $100k.
I’m curious what he plans to do with the connexxi… store stuff? work out of them? equipment shed? Is there another thing that would be easier for you to rent if he bails? Like a pad and roof? Then you could close in the walls later and have a building at least.
n
Three new blue states since San Diego will be in the Southern California state ?
Draper’s split scheme keeps the state in the Democratic column and adds four new Senators.
I doubt Sacramento will go for it, however. Once they open the can of worms, NW CA and SW OR will want a further split for the State of Jefferson idea which has been floating around that part of the country for 100 years.
Before we left OR, the counties around Coos Bay were fighting a tax war with Governor Kitzhaber.
I forgot one item on the mixed bag this morning.
The Costco ersatz Nutella isn’t an abomination upon the world. In fact, it tastes pretty much just like Nutella. I don’t know if I could tell them apart in a taste test. AND its much smoother and creamier, making it easier to spread on a sandwich.
At half the price, it’s totally worth it.
n
I’m with Marcelo.
Damn IRS. Got a notice in the mail today saying I did not report income from a 1099, I did. I reported on line 21 for other income. IRS thinks it should have been for self-employment, which I am not. Also said I did not report all my capital gains, I did. Itemized every transaction. They say I under reported my income by $19,000 which also affected my deductions for medical which they state is too high.
Wrote a nasty response, with copies of the return, with copies of the 1099-Bs showing the gain and loss from the investments, stating the IRS was wrong and I completely disagreed with their decision. I also stated that if the IRS does not agree with me that I am demanding a meeting with an agent in the Knoxville office.
SOB’s. This is not the first time the IRS thinks an item should have been reported on a different form than what was reported. Of course their corrections never take into account the money that was reported on the forms but not to their computer systems.
If their computer think you did not report income, as in disagreeing with what the companies reported, then you get the letter. But if you reported income that was never reported by the companies their computers are strangely silent never offering the correction. The only corrections the IRS does is when the error is in their favor. Errors in the taxpayers favor go completely unnoticed. Bunch of jerks.
Well, that makes me want to run out and buy an autopilot car. I guess that the batteries caught fire for that level of damage ?
Using the autopilot on 101 near Mountain View in heavy traffic was idiocy. That entire road has been a construction project going back to my first visit to the area in ’96.
If he is actually requesting that it means:
– he does not trust you to do the right thing from the start.
– he, at best, tinkers with legalese and, at worst, really knows about the subject and is prepared to use it to his advantage.
Trust me. Run away from that guy.
Yup, I told him no way. And yes, he has trust issues. His last landlord had the wooden warehouse burn down and the landlord refused to pay for his equipment and supplies that he lost in the fire.
The real problem is that there is no legal definition for “willful misconduct” that I agree with, it is an incomplete phrase. One man’s willful misconduct is another man’s self interest.
Is he buying or renting the connex? If he owns them, you can probably seize them if he bails…
a laydown yard has some value but I’m not sure how much. I pay about 50c/ft for my warehouse space. A nice sized steel building in that space would be about $100k.
I’m curious what he plans to do with the connexxi… store stuff? work out of them? equipment shed? Is there another thing that would be easier for you to rent if he bails? Like a pad and roof? Then you could close in the walls later and have a building at least.
He is buying the Conexes. About $10K. He is going to store his pool chemicals and equipment in them.
A metal warehouse of 2,500 ft2 is around $200K now, especially with a concrete pad and parking area. I am not even sure if that price covers water and electric. And if you have to have a fire sprinkler system, add another $100K. And if you need a 10,000 gallon water storage tank with the two pumps, 60 psig and 400 psig, and a backup diesel generator, add another $100K.
I am renting my 3,750 ft2 warehouse out for $2,600/month. But it has an 800 ft2 two story office in it with a 3/4 bathroom (shower !) and a kitchenette. Plus it has a 5,000 ft2 enclosed graveled yard.
And on Mr. Conex Dude, we haven’t even cleared the first item of contention. I carry one million dollars of commercial liability insurance per occurrence with up to two occurrences for my commercial property. I require my tenants to carry the same. Mr. Conex Dude only carries $300K of liability so he has to up that. He is checking with his agent.
yeah, stay away from that guy. his previous landlord had no responsibility for the gear stored inside. That’s what the RENTER’S insurance is for. That he doesn’t know or prefers to have the landlord pay, shows ignorance or scammer.
Pool chemicals in bulk need special storage. You can’t just put 10 000 gallons of oxidizer in a connex. Plus chlorine will absolutely destroy anything it’s stored in and all of the surroundings. No way I’d want “pool chemicals” in anything I owned. It’s a freaking hazmat site.
My landlord requires 500k of liability, and I added a million umbrella, which is cheap. If the guy doesn’t already have it, he’s a ‘trunk slammer’ or low baller. Everything about him say ‘stay away.’
n
The real problem is that there is no legal definition for “willful misconduct” that I agree with, it is an incomplete phrase. One man’s willful misconduct is another man’s self interest.
“Willful misconduct” reminds me of the overly broad line in the non-compete that CoCo/Unium asked me to sign before I started work there. For one year I was prohibited from working at “any potential competitor”.
I had the line replaced with a specific list of their actual competitors for that “spin” of the company (they’ve been through two since I left), but the execs were grumpy about it.
I agree with nick on the potential for the land to become a superfund site if there is a spill. I’d check the local regulations on storing hazardous materials, also.
My landlord requires 500k of liability, and I added a million umbrella, which is cheap.
Do you have a commercial umbrella or a personal umbrella ? I have a personal umbrella for $2 million from Amica for $230/year. I doubt that it covers my commercial interests.
I agree with nick on the potential for the land to become a superfund site if there is a spill. I’d check the local regulations on storing hazardous materials, also.
My tenant in the warehouse is a landscaper and a HOA pool maintainer. He has several thousand pounds of chlorine tabs here already. They are stored in 10 gallon plastic buckets in the fenced in area next to the warehouse.
And I need to check on the Tier 2 storage requirements. I know that the county fire department is a little bit nervous already.
https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/tier2/am-i-regulated
Wow, you become a must report Tier 2 facility with 100 lbs of Chlorine !