78F and 80%RH at 6am. Yesterday we even got a blue sky and fluffy clouds at the end of the day.
I really need to pour the slab for the gennie this weekend, so I hope our break from the rain holds.
Week went by in a flash.
Did get some work related stuff done. Might have a new gig…
Got some cleaning in my office done. Got some stuff around the house done, but not as much as needed.
No work on driveway pile, no work on gardens.
Ebola moved into a city of 1.4 million. It’s almost guaranteed to start spreading now.
3 planes with sick people on them detained upon landing…
45 days without leaving the house. Can you do it? And remain sane? Employed? How about the services that hold our world together? Can you keep working and stay home if school gets closed?
Not time to panic, but time to stock up.
What did you do to keep yourself and family safe and well if things go to he11?
n
It appears, as in the MSM, that all of these international flights that had sick people that the sick people had one thing in common, Meca and Hajj (8/19/18 to 8/24/18). The “sickness” is claimed to be “flu” (yeah, right), by “medical experts.”
There are also reports of measles contamination on four Texas Airlines flights.
IMHO, anybody who flies had better have their affairs in order.
TGIF
Peace, Out
The cesspools of the third world. Where sanitation is just a word and people wipe their butts with their bare hands.
Or the alternative is that sending people with diseases to different parts of the world is intentional.
Coming to a small town near you:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6140703/Mexican-prosecutors-166-skulls-mass-graves.html
zetas
n
Did some more de-prepping this week.
Opened a case of canned goods and a case of toilet paper for immediate use. With a move in the future, I want to start drawing down the stockpiles so less to transport. Still have easily 6 months of supplies but working it down.
Heading to the range today to punch some more holes in paper and ensure the red-dot snap-on for the Kel-Tek Sub 2000 is still aligned. I don’t like popping it on and off but I can’t fold the carbine with it installed. However it has held zero after the last few cycles. We will see if it’s still good. Haven’t used that gun in 6 months.
One of my 22 inch monitors died this week leaving me with only a single. I have become so used to dual screens it’s hard to work with one. And when the great granddaughter comes over I always put her favorite videos on one screen so I can still work while she sits on my lap. I thought about upgrading to larger screens but not enough room on the desk for that. So I ordered a new one.
Heading off to see my brother this weekend and record some family lore before our generation passes. Not that I think anyone will care.
I’d get two of the same model, and put the still-working one someplace. I’m never happy with mis-matched monitors. Even the same model from the same manufacturer will have differences after a time, and they just look bad. YMMV.
Perhaps you have seen these LED “Flame Effect” bulbs?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078KK6HJK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=ttgnet-20
I bought two from Amazon just to see how they looked. I was very impressed. At a distance of a few feet or if the bulb is obscured, it looks like real flames. And, somehow, they can change aspect depending on how they are oriented, so that the “flame” always appears to burning “up”. I thought these would be great in the carriage lamp fixtures that flank the front door. BUT the base of the bulb is at almost right angles, it will not seat deeply enough into the fixture socket to make contact. Sigh.
I will warn you about using these inside as the effect seen through windows looks like a fire is going on in the room. Great gimmicks but unsure of a real use yet other than I plan to rig them up for Halloween.
IMHO, anybody who flies had better have their affairs in order.
Great. Unless I find another job (I always return calls but have not seriously looked), I will have to fly to DC and spend time up there on the VA side of the river this Fall.
More express toll lanes on the Beltway.
IMHO, anybody who flies had better have their affairs in order.
Flying to San Antonio, Boston U, NSA, DC in two weeks. I guess my goose is cooked. If wishes were geese, we’d all be eating turkey.
I wonder if Musk is deliberately trying to tank Tesla. Getting high on Joe Rogan’s podcast isn’t helping. Does he have a compound in New Zealand he might run to? Rich celibriturds gonna be mad!
Flying to San Antonio, Boston U, NSA, DC in two weeks. I guess my goose is cooked. If wishes were geese, we’d all be eating turkey.
Keep an eye on the tropics. DC may get a visit from Florence, and, since last Labor Day, even a winter storm warning will result in cleared shelves and gas lines up and down the I-35 corridor, San Antonio to Waco.
After Harvey, media-inspired panic buying in San Antonio last Labor Day resulted in gas sales for the weekend being *16 times* normal holiday volume. Several weeks’ of supply disappeared in a couple of days. We waited in line for an hour to buy gas to get home to Austin.
I wonder if Musk is deliberately trying to tank Tesla. Getting high on Joe Rogan’s podcast isn’t helping. Does he have a compound in New Zealand he might run to? Rich celibriturds gonna be mad!
Weed is probably the root of the problem, not a symptom. That stuff makes people stupid on a level far worse than alcohol abuse IMHO. I don’t trust co-workers and friends who I know imbibe.
Tesla will go the way of Theranos soon. I’d be willing to bet that weed … or something worse, medical grade … was the problem at that company as well.
Or so called “smart drugs.”
I’m flying with family to chicago next weekend for the memorial for my dad. And possibly the next monday, to LA and back, same day.
Not really looking forward to either flight.
n
@harold, google “light socket extension”
to see something that might solve your problem. they are probably available locally as well.
n
Or so called “smart drugs.”
I wonder if everyone in The Valley is on something as of late. A couple of decades ago, that wouldn’t have been a problem for the country in general, just gadget geeks, but now the pensions and 401(k) plans are invested in FANG stocks and California real estate.
We all have a vested interest there in one way or another.
Nick: I will look for these at LOWES. That might well work.
I’ve got a couple for my halloween display stuff.
n
Heading off to see my brother this weekend and record some family lore before our generation passes. Not that I think anyone will care.
They will care when they get into their 50s or 60s. Child raising through the 40th year is difficult and time consuming.
Perhaps you have seen these LED “Flame Effect” bulbs?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078KK6HJK/?tag=ttgnet-20
One of neighbors put the LED flame bulbs in their outside light fixtures and run them all night. They make the house look medieval.
They will care when they get into their 50s or 60s. Child raising through the 40th year is difficult and time consuming.
Child raising ends up going to 50 and beyond anymore.
On my father’s side, before she died, my grandmother burned everything (pictures, letters, etc.) after she lost her eyesight.
On the maternal side, there was lots of embarrassment about my grandmother sleeping around so my mother has hidden or trashed everything. I think a great uncle was chair of Economics at University of Memphis at one time.
As I’ve said before, most of my generation with pre-Boomer/post-Depression parents have mothers like the one in “I, Tonya”. They all have birds on their shoulders, mostly figurative, only sometimes literal.
That Oscar was a foregone conclusion, even if most X-ers don’t want to talk about their mothers being like Allison Janey’s portrayal.
Well, the key worked, first try, so now I’m going thru the online updates that weren’t included on the disk. Took a bit of work to get the graphic drivers installed. Dell’s “assistant” is useless.
Flashed the bios.
With the ssd it’s a pretty nice little lappy. I wish I could double the ram to 2 g, but no socket and the current ram is soldered on.
If my daughter doesn’t like it, I can try chrome os.
So far, $10 for a psu, $10 for the lappy, an SSD that I can’t remember where it came from, but couldn’t have been more than $20. As a plus, it’s a good size for her hands. After that, it’s nothing but time. (and I’ll note that even a new machine would need updates and settings changed.)
n
oh and the nearby thunder suggests that this clear spell isn’t going to last. bugger.
After Harvey, media-inspired panic buying in San Antonio last Labor Day resulted in gas sales for the weekend being *16 times* normal holiday volume. Several weeks’ of supply disappeared in a couple of days. We waited in line for an hour to buy gas to get home to Austin.
Most people only keep a 1/4 of the gas tank full in their vehicle. The remaining 3/4 tank is an amazing volume of gasoline when there is a panic. Most of the gasoline jobbers have 30 days of gasoline in their tanks. During hurricanes, the Houston area can go through that storage in 3 or 4 days as people get ready for the disaster.
I have never seen people try to return gasoline to their local gas station after a hurricane scare. Yet.
Plus, keeping your auto topped off lets you syphon gas for your generator, molotov cocktails, etc.
I have never seen people try to return gasoline to their local gas station after a hurricane scare. Yet.
No incentive for either side of that transaction. Like Florida, Texas has “Anti Gouging” statutes which prevent the law of supply and demand from working on the retail level. The store can’t resell the gas for more than what they charged before the storm, and the customer will need to fill up again anyway.
When I was a kid in the 70s, my uncle had a van with a 60 gallon capacity tank system. During the gas crisis, he always managed to “find” gasoline for the delivery trucks at the business he ran with my father. My dad claimed that another business in the office park had a similar van, but with a 200 gallon capacity and a pump in the back.
If things got grim enough, I’m sure the special vans would return to roaming the streets, buying and selling. Big Econoline and Ram beater vans are getting harder to find in this country, however.
My family was in for a shock when my mother’s brother (my uncle but not the one that raised and abused me) applied for military service for WWII. Seems my grandparents had been celebrating his birthday about 11 months too late. My grandmother had apparently got pregnant before they were married, had the baby, and kept the event to themselves or a very select few. About a year after the event they finally came out of hiding and had a “two month” old child. I guess no one questioned the child was probably already walking or talking and the people said nothing.
So my uncle goes to apply for military service. He had to get a copy of his birth certificate. He was shocked to learn that he was 11 months older than he thought. Caused a little bit of trouble with the army when they thought he was dodging military service for the war.
And I still maintain that myself and my older brother don’t look anything like my younger brother. My mother was known to enjoy herself with other men after the divorce as I had witnessed more than once. I suspect this may have occurred at least a few times before during the marriage years contributing to the divorce and my younger brother is not exactly a full brother.
Now they have methods to prevent such pregnancies. Most of the girls in high school junior level or above are on pregnancy control (birth control is not the proper term). I suspect that many of the younger girls are also but I don’t know. No, I am not a pervert. I overhead several of them talking about it while subbing one day as they were discussing what they were using.
At some point you have to wonder if the parents are too liberal. Then you realize that back in 1915 young adults were probably almost as active and just hid it from everyone. I personally think the parents are wise to keep a pregnancy event from damaging a child’s plans if they have to deal with a child.
At some point you have to wonder if the parents are too liberal. Then you realize that back in 1915 young adults were probably almost as active and just hid it from everyone.
Unlike the Boomers, my generation (X-er) doesn’t want to raise grandchildren.
We’re clear with our kids that they are on their own if that happened and they didn’t pursue the adoption route. We started our family late, and that delay combined with the disaster of the WA State adventure, we are too spent emotionally, physically, and financially to raise another child in our 50s.
Even if my wife waivers, the kids know I’m serious. I was a lousy stay-at-home parent in Vantucky. I’m not interested in more child rearing.
I started late as well. #1 child when I was 40. Last at 45. I tell them I want grandchildren when I’m in my 60s. Truth, though, is that I love children, and will take care of my kids no matter what. (10 years, though. 10 years.)
Part of taking care of them is being upfront & honest about the real world. Eldest is just starting to understand & is old enough for talks. So we’re having the talks.
Every generation acts like it invented sex. Eventually, they realize that it’s as old as Adam, and we know it too.
One of my neighbors is complaining that his second grade daughter is being subjected to porn on the other kids tablets while on the school bus. He is upset and I do not blame him. Is our society that far gone ? She came home asking a lot of questions yesterday that he was not ready to answer yet.
The flame bulbs look cool.
Socket extensions….
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=light+socket+extender&tag=ttgnet-20
Lots of choices.
I was thinking of something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-1403-Outlet-Socket-Adapter/dp/B001F71O70?tag=ttgnet-20
Pretty sure Home Depot, Lowes, even Wal-Mart have this.
Agree that those ‘flame bulbs’ look cool.
But, they are not UL listed. So….
Unlike the Boomers, my generation (X-er) doesn’t want to raise grandchildren.
I would much rather be raising our grandchildren. Watching your 31 year old daughter waste away is no fun. Although, she has been doing better lately. Better is a measurement of crying due to the pain of the lesions in her brain pressing against her skull.
ADD: She was not crying this morning.
“HE’S BACK! Obama refers to himself 102 times during 64-minute speech”
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/hes-back-obama-refers-to-himself-102-times-during-64-minute-speech/
Sweet ! That pompous fool will get the voters back into their voting machines in 60 days.
“Unlike the Boomers, my generation (X-er) doesn’t want to raise grandchildren.”
I would much rather be raising our grandchildren.
I don’t want the full time legal responsibility for my childrens’ children. I’m honest.
My mom was very clear that she had already raised her kids and would not be raising mine.
Given her late marriage, and mine, she was pretty tired….
n
60 days until the election is over?!? Really?
I was already tired of watching BETO ads. Now we get this woman in Austin and San Antonio.
https://www.mjfortexas.com/
@greg, stop watching TV! Or if you must, get a tivo and use the 30 second skip button. Or stop watching the shows that sheep watch 😉 *
n
*you are very unlikely to see a Beto ad during anything at all on Outdoor Life Channel.
We now have a Ted Cruz “Tough as Texas” yard sign in the front yard. I got another one for the office too.
https://store.tedcruz.org/products/yard-sign
*you are very unlikely to see a Beto ad during anything at all on Outdoor Life Channel.
I haven’t seen one while watching the Astros. And I doubt that the Scientology channel will be taking Beta ads. Of course, who watches the Scientology channel ? And yes, we get the Scientology channel on DirecTV (channel 320).
60 days until the election is over?!? Really?
Yup, Sean Hannity mentioned that today when I went out to find some grub for lunch. Tuesday, November 6, 2018 is the election day for the midterms. Man, this year is zinging past.
@greg, stop watching TV! Or if you must, get a tivo and use the 30 second skip button. Or stop watching the shows that sheep watch.
The local Fox station’s news/weather.
Lately, BETO has been pronouncing his name with more of a Latin flavor through the short ‘e’, almost like he’s making another syllable in there somewhere.
If it weren’t for the yard signs, I wouldn’t even know there was an election coming up…
n
“Texas: Cop Walks Into Home She Thought Was Hers, Kills Innocent Homeowner—Not Arrested”
https://freedomoutpost.com/texas-cop-walks-into-home-she-thought-was-hers-kills-innocent-homeowner-not-arrested/
OK, I’ve got a problem with this. First off, who puts one of those stupid combination locks on their front door, much less a complete apartment complex ? Second off, this feels wrong.
OK, I’ve got a problem with this. First off, who puts one of those stupid combination locks on their front door, much less a complete apartment complex ? Second off, this feels wrong.
See what the tox screens say — on both the cop and the deceased.
More interesting is that Dallas PD bypassed the Sheriff’s office and went straight to the Rangers according to the reports I saw last night. Again, Lupe Valdez isn’t going to win, but the data mining, popular incumbent vs. loose screws challenger, is important for 2020 in case Bernie, Cory Booker, or Kamala Harris get the Dem nomination and Trump is more popular than he is right now.
Something odd happened in that apartment, and Lupe Valdez must be kept out of it.
Yeah, saw that article and went “Hmmmm..m’mmmmm’
n
I guess the city of Dallas has no control over it’s cops. Start a police force in you city, and they run it. Immunity from everything. This is wrong. I’m sure the cop will be fired, but no charges.
Par for the course everywhere. Even on the rare chance that charges are filed, look up stats on grand jury indictments against cops charged with murder, negligent homicide, and the like. Last study I saw, a few years ago based on data from around 2000-2010, grand juries returned an indictment against the cop in 1% of the cases. (1 out of 87, IIRC.) By contrast, grand juries returned an indictment something like 85% of the time against non-cops. The prosecutor controls the grand jury, and he doesn’t want to mess up his good working relationship with the police force.
And that is why I don’t cooperate when being hassled by stupid pigs or when they want to arrest me on bogus charges. We civilians are endlessly ordered to cooperate with the police no matter what, and if something’s amiss it will be straightened out later. That is so completely wrong that it goes past “bullshit meant to keep the sheep quiet” and lands flat on “lie which will get citizens killed”.
For some vitriol and commentary see also Aesop–
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/
The man who was murdered by the woman apartment busting cop in Dallas was a black man from Saint Lucia who was a graduate of Harding University and a song leader at his church. He was an professional for PricewaterhouseCoopers. This looks worse by the minute.
She’ll skate.