Cold again, with more damp. Maybe getting to the low 60s like yesterday. We had occasional sun, but mostly overcast, and I expect the same today.
Spent the morning doing email and phone calls. Actual talking to people. I know, how strange. Had to call the insurance people and get a quote for the new house. NOT cheap as it turns out. Also spoke with them about the work on my Ranger (I can still get it done if I can find the time) and the burglary at my storage unit. Then I spent some time on the phone with the county clerk in Houston County. She was able to pull the deed history for my new properties, and the boundary descriptions. It’s pretty cool to go back to the original land grant, Ramon De La Garza in this case. Only took a couple of steps. And I confirmed that the mineral rights were separated from the land rights before it became a subdivision. Most of the area was in timber production prior to the ’70s, and there is still a lot of timber in the area. She printed old scans to a pdf, emailed them to me, and I was good to go. She was apologetic that it cost $1/page. The $5 is the smallest bill I’ll pay in this process, I’m pretty sure.
So I made some progress on something. We completed the sales contract and got it back to the seller, and hope to close on the 21st of Feb.
Didn’t make any progress on getting more stuff to auction. I’ll have to email the newest auctioneer and try to get some stuff placed with him. I need to get some bins filled from the burgled unit too. Today I’ll do something, so I don’t fall farther behind.
Girl Scout cookies arrive next week and the house needs to be clear for that.
I did get some needful things and some good stuff for the house and the new place too.
The seed display had a LOT of good veggies and tons of flowers in it. I think I’ll scatter a bunch of the flowers at the new place. Most of the veg were varieties I haven’t tried and failed with yet, so I’ll give them a try too. The seeds sold 4 packets for a dollar. I never saw any that cheap before, and the label says they have the same number of seeds as the other guys… wonder if they’ll germinate and what the rate will be. It’ll be ‘science-y’ content for sure 🙂
That’s that for today, I better actually get some stuff done.
So I can stack some other things that will help more.
n
The Red Queen's Race sounded like nonsense when I first read it at age ten or whenever. As an adult, with always too much to do, all I can do is nod understandingly.
Indeed.
45F with 68%RH atm….
At least no actual rain.
n
—Battlespace prep. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10444559/Long-Covid-expert-says-world-deep-trouble-millions-suffer-debilitating-issues.html
Fauci warns it is too early to believe that the U.S. has its COVID-19 situation under control: Says Pfizer vaccine will be THREE doses for children under five
'
–just NO.
n
— the tats and piercings weren't enough change
n
I thought I read about someone suggesting slipping the clot shots in with other vaccines, to overcome "vaccine hesitancy". Wasn't able to find that when I searched a minute ago, but I'm pretty sure the idea was floated.
You aren't unhappy because you're in the wrong body. You're mentally ill and unhappy and latch on "I'm in the wrong body" as the explanation. But once you're in the "right" body, you're still mentally ill and unhappy. This shouldn't be controversial, but in Wokemerica it's unacceptable to even raise the topic. Well, I guess that's one way to cut down on the controversy.
I remember the pediatricians fighting Varicella (Chicken Pox) 30 years ago on the basis that the shot was riskier than the actual disease and the push to approve the jab was in the interest of convenience for the parents.
Times have changed.
The hybrid F150 is actually useful to the target audience and not a toy for the "Show Ya" demographic.
The hybrid would be more useful with a small diesel, but that isn't happening right now … if ever.
I gotta wonder about the state of things at Ford if they couldn't manage to have a full display at an auto show. Of course, Texas laws are weird so there may have been a restriction about the vehicles only being present through a dealer.
Having an actual Maverick with a $20,000 sticker should have been a no brainer.
Did the Lightning have the generator -er- range extender installed?
This one crazy enough for you son?
n
The difference in appearance and fitness level between the protesters and the celebrators is marked.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10443281/Millions-Australians-hit-beach-celebrate-national-day-Indigenous-protesters-hold-marches.html
n
Argh, my eyes!
You will probably see one of those right after you see a 35K Tesla Model 3.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10446163/Teslas-Musk-sees-Cybertruck-production-delayed-2023.html
–they moved the story off the 'front page.' I knew I saw it this morning.
n
Some men say that you don't turn down a girl-girl-guy threesome no matter their body shapes, the number of tattoos they have, or the number of mental illnesses they have.
I question the judgment of those men.
Haven't talked to anyone but my wife in days. Business correspondence – email – but no talking. The weekend will bring neighbors for a beer, most likely, and that'll be enough socializing for another week. Introverts'r'us.
Covid – the Omicron numbers are so high here that basically everyone will have been exposed by the end of Winter. The government has even said that, most likely, all measures including certificates will be eliminated in the Spring. After all, what's the point? Either you are vaxxed, or you will have been sick, or both. Meanwhile the hospitalization numbers are quite low – Omicron really isn't nearly as dangerous as the earlier variants.
Mostly took the day off today, just did some household stuff. Back to the salt mines tomorrow…
“Some men say that you don't turn down a girl-girl-guy threesome”
What was the name of the Dabney Coleman boss character in 9-to-5?
One group happy and fit (ish), the other angry and overweight.
It always makes me lol to see the "smash racism smash capitalism" banners held by mostly white people holding their peak-capitalism iPhones and bottled water.
/criticism
*SPOILER*
In the next to latest episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” there is a speeder/biker chase. It is awful. The bikers are on Vespa looking bikes that defy the laws of physics. So does the speeder. It is scenes like this that will delegate TBOBF to the “one and done” bin. The acting sucks, too.
/criticism
Or your immune system is already robust enough to resist the Chinese Communist Party bioweapon naturally.
Remember that 80% of the captives on the Diamond Princess did not ever test positive.
CDC bioweapon, surely?
Mr. Hart.
The principals have talked about a follow up for 40 years, but that should have happened about 20 years ago, before everyone really got too old for the project to be believable as something other than a studio money grab.
Cough … "Picard" … cough.
(I'll give them "Nepenthe".)
The dealers would never let a $20,000 Maverick roll of the lot unless it was a very good fleet customer with the right connections needing a one off, say, for a kid.
In the old days, they would sell the low end import pickups for MSRP but missing key safety equipment for the US … like rear bumpers! … but those days are long gone. I don't think anyone imports a pickup anymore beyond Hecho en Mexico like the Maverick and the Sport Bronco.
In retrospect, that was a huge overreaction. OTOH, roughly half of the country is still scared on that level.
There's a book titled Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier where she examines this. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Joe Rogan have all had her on their YouTube channels and podcasts as a guest.
Essentially, you take an adolescent girl, the same personality type that in the 1990s was probably into witchcraft/Wicca, and who is likely homosexual, likely has depression or anxiety ("negative mood" would probably be the overarching terms psychologists would use) and put her in today's transgender woke world and suddenly some of them think they're a guy.
It's like, "No, you're just a mildly depressed adolescent girl with a lot of social anxieties who is attracted to other girls and you don't know how to process that except to change your pronouns so you can find acceptance in the transgender clique at your middle school or high school." Then her (his?) mid-20s hit, they've grown up, they've gotten their anxiety and depression under control (as much as one can), they're comfortable in their homosexuality, and now they realize that, nope, they're not a trans guy. They're a woman and always have been but now they have years of hormone therapy, legal name changes, and possibly surgeries to undo. That's on top of the ridicule they'll have to endure for all that backpedaling.
Saw a report last night that Canadian rocker and photographer Bryan Adams was diagnosed with Covid on a trip to Italy. He had just recovered from a previous bout with Covid two weeks before.
I haven't tracked down any more details.
Assuming they're not in the 40%+ who commit suicide after transitioning.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/quebec-canada-bans-unvaxxed-buying-groceries-major-retailers-unless-accompanied-health-warden-will-ensure-buy-food-medicine/
n
Work just sent out an email saying we now have the capability to upload Covid booster info into workday. Well, that's special of them. No word on being required to have it yet. I'm sure it's coming. I got the Moderna shots. I'm going to pass on the booster unless I have to have it to keep my job.
Ongoing compliance is what allows the aggressions and encroachments to continue.
I hadn't thought of it until a moment ago but now I wonder about the effect of decades of teachers and mothers telling children "Don't fight back if someone hits you. Run and get an adult." and police arresting anyone who dares to fight back against a bully or a mugger or a mob. It might be that this is why so many Americans are willing to meekly submit when they're bullied — there's no other word for it — by tyrants, Karens, and cowards with obvious self-serving agendas.
Some men say that you don't turn down a girl-girl-guy threesome no matter their body shapes, the number of tattoos they have, or the number of mental illnesses they have.
I question the judgment of those men.
If it is xx xx xy …why not, but now a days you can't discriminate.
Workday. Geesh. That has no business being in there. If the yoga pants in HR want to do the dirty work of the C-suites and enforce a vaccine mandate at this point, they should be required to track the employees' jab status even if it means an old fashioned filing cabinet.
My wife got a booster last week, and the experience has made her consider going back to private practice if the VA mandates a fourth shot. There are plenty of job opportunities at places which do not take Medicaid/Medicare money and thus tied to Biden's only surviving mandate.
Quebec wants to be part of Europe, but isn't France dropping restrictions on the 1st?
Of course they can get away with the stupidity because the stores on the US side of the border aren't going to enforce a similar mandate, specifically Vermont and New Hampshire. Heck, New Hampshire is moving to make Ivermectin available on a pharmacist's discretion.
In the last decade, I’ve lived in two “safety valve” areas providing relief for liberal stupid in nearby geography — SW WA State (well, relatively speaking) across from Portland and unincorporated Williamson County Austin. I recognize the signs. Now the US is going to serve as the safety valve for Canada’s collective brain fart.
The US as a whole is Mexico's safety valve.
I'm not quite sure why we need to put up with that. "Not my circus, not my monkeys." Why, it almost makes me think that politicians value money slipped into their pockets more highly than the integrity of the nation they swore to protect.
I lived in Spokane, WA, for about 9 years. Canada's wonderful, marvelous, near perfect socialized medicine system provided an unending stream of patients to the 2 medical centers in Spokane. It seems that if you want timely diagnostic and elective procedures, you have to jump over the border from Canada to get them. But don't say that care is rationed! That's a lie! It's just sometimes delayed a little bit. Like, until the patient dies.
That's why a town of 100,000 people had 2 major hospitals. And why Washington had, at the time, more veterinary MRI machines than all of British Columbia had for humans.
This one crazy enough for you son?
n
They say that after the first couple of tattoos, that tattooing is addictive. I do not aim to find out. The wife has a medical tattoo and is not going to get it renewed even though it has faded.
— the tats and piercings weren't enough change
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10445095/Woman-came-trans-man-transitions-female-six-years-testosterone.html
She can tell her friends that she had her breasts removed because of a history of breast cancer in the family. You would be shocked to find out how many women do that like Angelina Jolie.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=169836
Respecting RBT's views on antibiotic misuse there is a company that will provide a good selection of 5 antibiotics for $260.00 out of pocket with virtual ID and their virtual doctor's consult: http://www.jasemedical.com;
USA only, Canada soon. "canadianprepper" is a $20 discount code good for a couple weeks.
Fewer details, but the company will also help with building a stack of (I believe) non narcotic long term meds.
Modeled after the VA when dealing with disability claims.
A question. Some time about a week or three ago, I saw a reference here (almost certain it was here) about how to look up a COVID vaccine batch number to find complications. Can’t find it now, no matter how I search on this site or a general Google search. Anyone have this? Thanks in advance.
The VA serves as the closest thing we have to socialized medicine in the US.
I understand the Bureau of Indian Affairs runs something similar.
And of course, when we get "Medicare for all", we'll be nearly indistinguishable from Canada.
The new Washington State University medical school is in Spokane instead of the school's main campus in Pullman.
Go back about 12-13 years in Florida, and every pill mill clinic around the state had an MRI machine parked out back. GE builds them into semi trailers, probably a lease deal.
I saw the local pill mill’s MRI trailer every day on my commute to/from work. As I’ve noted before, the place was so busy that, instead of shutting down the mill, Tampa cops directed traffic on that part of the highway.
>> They say that after the first couple of tattoos, that tattooing is addictive.
I can attest that that's true. All of mine, except my last one, are not visible in business casual attire. The last one, which is just some text, came after the company relaxed the tattoo section of the dress code a bit.
The hybrid F150 is actually useful to the target audience and not a toy for the "Show Ya" demographic.
The hybrid would be more useful with a small diesel, but that isn't happening right now … if ever.
I gotta wonder about the state of things at Ford if they couldn't manage to have a full display at an auto show. Of course, Texas laws are weird so there may have been a restriction about the vehicles only being present through a dealer.
Having an actual Maverick with a $20,000 sticker should have been a no brainer.
Did the Lightning have the generator -er- range extender installed?
Here is a picture of the Lightning, no generator in the bed disguised as a toolbox. The floor manager told me that there are only four prototypes for the shows. All of the other vehicles (with window stickers) had to come from a dealer. He ordered a dozen trucks back in August, the dealer sold the nice ones and gave him the cheapies.
https://www.chron.com/business/article/Houston-Auto-Show-tickets-electric-vehicles-EVs-16807351.php
Ford has got to get the hybrid trucks out there to meet their CAFE standards. That $20K Maverick gets 40 mpg, Ford desperately needs to sell 200,000+ of them a year. And they will at a loss of at least $5,000 per vehicle. Much better than buying CAFE credits from Tesla.
Ford has got to get the hybrid trucks out there to meet their CAFE standards. That $20K Maverick gets 40 mpg, Ford desperately needs to sell 200,000+ of them a year. And they will at a loss of at least $5,000 per vehicle. Much better than buying CAFE credits from Tesla.
BTW, the new F-150 Hybrid already has bad problem. The cable to charge the rear 12 volt battery (yup, it has two 12 volt batteries, front and rear) has a bad connector.
https://www.cars.com/articles/our-2021-ford-f-150-hybrid-encounters-failed-12-volt-battery-chattering-gear-selector-445082/
"Nothing says good morning like a large flashing light on the instrument panel proclaiming “12V Battery State of Charge Low.” At around 13,500 miles, our long-term truck began consistently flashing this message when it sat overnight or longer. The battery became so low, in fact, that the truck would occasionally lock out power accessories, such as the power tailgate and power running boards."
>> "Nothing says good morning like a large flashing light on the instrument panel proclaiming “12V Battery State of Charge Low.” At around 13,500 miles, our long-term truck began consistently flashing this message when it sat overnight or longer. The battery became so low, in fact, that the truck would occasionally lock out power accessories, such as the power tailgate and power running boards."
And nothing says 'you've made it' like having power running boards on your pick-em-up truck.
"5 Adrenaline-Pumping YA SFF Survival Books" by Meg Long
https://www.tor.com/2022/01/25/5-adrenaline-pumping-ya-sff-survival-books/
Zero for five here. But I have a few to add to the list:
1. "Emergence" by David Parker
https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/194881806X?tag=ttgnet-20/
2. "Tunnel In The Sky" by Robert Heinlein
https://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Sky-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0345260651?tag=ttgnet-20/
Just finished coding and testing and releasing the update to my plugin that adds Amazon Affiliate codes to Amazon links. The new code is much better at grabbing URLs out of the content, and applying the proper affiliate tag. So Amazon links – like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NRK44NX?tag=ttgnet-20 – will be properly coded with the affiliate tag used for this site.
Has nothing to do with the allowed number of URLs in a comment. That limit still applies. (@lynn … )
Also previously fixed/updated the "Block Comment Spam Bots" plugin, which is why you never see bot-generated comments here.
Except for those by SteveF.
3. "The Girl With All the Gifts" by M. R. Carey
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-All-Gifts-M-Carey/dp/0316334758?tag=ttgnet-20/
4. "The Girl at the End of the World" by Richard Levesque
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-at-End-World/dp/1491276932?tag=ttgnet-20/
5. "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World" by C. A. Fletcher
https://www.amazon.com/Boy-His-Dog-End-World/dp/0316449431?tag=ttgnet-20/
6. "Under a Graveyard Sky (Black Tide Rising)" by John Ringo (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Graveyard-Black-Tide-Rising/dp/147673660X?tag=ttgnet-20/
7. "Castaway Planet (Boundary Series Book 4)" by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SBU90F2?tag=ttgnet-20
8. "Watchdog by Will McIntosh
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524713872?tag=ttgnet-20/
"Infographic: What are the Colors of Hydrogen?"
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/infographic-what-are-the-colors-of-hydrogen
Does anyone remember "old oil" and "new oil" from the 1970s ? People would buy crude oil from an established oil well, "old oil", for $1/barrel. This pricing was established by a Presidential Mandate. They would then generate paperwork that the crude oil was "new oil", oil from a new well, and sell it for $5/barrel to an unsuspecting buyer.
I feel some old brown hydrogen to new green hydrogen coming on.
Which I have, thank you very much. Only I ain't made it.
Current is 38 MPG. Biden reinstated upping it to 54 with "gas guzzler" taxes in 2025.
Nobody bought the EcoSport so the Maverick will be the entry level Ford model in the US after this year. Ford builds a new Focus on the same platform as the Maverick, but doesn't bring them into the US market.
I'll bet nobody in Marketing in North America wants any part of a new Focus. The problems of the last generation Focus/Fiesta platform could have easily bankrupted the company.
Hecho en Mexico.
Which I have, thank you very much. Only I ain't made it.
So if you stick your foot in there while the power running boards are moving up, do you get your foot crunched ?
I was driving through a foot to a foot and half of mud recently and got mud on the top of my running boards. I donated the mud to a Buccee's car wash a few days later.
Man, you must think I am stupid. Yeh, prior incidences may confirm your suspicions but I smartened up the last 10 years, I think. You have to close the door for the running boards to raise. So I am either inside the truck which would make putting a foot on the boards awkward or outside away from the door that I have just closed, which is just as awkward.
Now, darn your rotten hide, you have made me curious. I need to find a gullible student at high school, pay them a dollar, and see what happens.
You (or the gullible idiot) could be standing on the running board with the door open and then you press the switch which tells the car that the door is closed.
Man, you must think I am stupid. Yeh, prior incidences may confirm your suspicions but I smartened up the last 10 years, I think. You have to close the door for the running boards to raise. So I am either inside the truck which would make putting a foot on the boards awkward or outside away from the door that I have just closed, which is just as awkward.
Now, darn your rotten hide, you have made me curious. I need to find a gullible student at high school, pay them a dollar, and see what happens.
The passenger side is where the action will be at as you close your door and start the truck while your passenger is standing on the running board, having forgotten to open their door first.
Of course, get a heavy enough passenger like me and the running board motor might just smoke.
@Ray Thompson
"I need to find a gullible student at high school, pay them a dollar, and see what happens."
Another idea: Take one of those confiscated cell phones and make a video.
Just load it in the potential shear area and crunch it, complete with sound effects.
Seems to me there would be some safety thing implemented, like on a garage door opener. Maybe stick a 2×4 so it would impede the running board movement, and see if there is an override that stops the running board from retracting.
Are you crazy? With the price of lumber these days??? No, use a freshman. They're more plentiful than 2x4s and worth much less.
On the possible chance that Ford did not think of stupid people, NO. The risk of damage is too great.
There is probably a patent on the circuit that detects an obstacle in the path and reverses the motor. Midwest, so the royalty checks probably go a Mailboxes Etc. on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
From the online Ford manual: https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/vdirsnet/OwnerManual/Home/Content?variantid=7386&languageCode=en&countryCode=USA&Uid=G2116579&ProcUid=G2116580&userMarket=USA&div=f&vFilteringEnabled=False
@SteveF
FIFY
They're more plentiful than 2x4s and worthless.
carp
just ISE 500’d with no opportunity to recover
long post that started with:
How About A Pilot Project To Demonstrate The Feasibility Of Fully Wind/Solar/Battery Electricity Generation?
Reposted from the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN
Francis Menton
“A reasonable question is, has anybody thought to construct a small-to-moderate scale pilot project to demonstrate that this is feasible? Before embarking on “net zero” for a billion people, how about trying it out in a place with, say, 10,000, or 50,000, or 100,000 people. See if it can actually work, and how much it will cost. Then, if it works at reasonable cost, start expanding it.
As far as I can determine, that has never been done anywhere. However, there is something somewhat close. An island called El Hierro, which is one of the Canary Islands and is part of Spain, embarked more than a decade ago on constructing an electricity system consisting only of wind turbines and a pumped-storage water reservoir. El Hierro has a population of about 11,000. It is a very mountainous volcanic island, so it provided a fortuitous location for construction of a large pumped-storage hydro project, with an upper reservoir in an old volcanic crater right up a near-cliff from a lower reservoir just above sea level. The difference in elevation of the two reservoirs is about 660 meters, or more than 2000 feet.”
failed to live up to expectations
“So the closest thing we have to a “demonstration project” of the fully wind/storage electricity has come up woefully short, and really has only proved that the whole concept will necessarily fail on the necessity of far more storage than is remotely practical or affordable.”
Long story short, the absence of any demonstration in the U.S., or any proposal for one, is ipso facto proof that the green energy advocates know that it is not feasible.
So we need a national demonstration project, which ideally would have:
1) a population that has been educated to the certainty that green energy is cheaper and better
2) a city and state government headquarters that has legislated green energy requirements
3) corporate headquarters and personal residence of a pale sweaty billionaire who can take part in the consequences both personally and in share price (all straight up, right fossil-fuel-is-evil boys?)
“So the closest thing we have to a “demonstration project” of the fully wind/storage electricity has come up woefully short, and really has only proved that the whole concept will necessarily fail on the necessity of far more storage than is remotely practical or affordable.”
The current storage technology is moving towards green hydrogen created by extra electricity from wind turbines and solar panels. The green hydrogen will be used to fire gas turbines until the gas turbines, pipelines, and storage facilities fail due to hydrogen embrittlement.
About two thirds of the electric power in Texas comes from gas turbines so we know that they work. The Powers That Be just want to convert the gas turbines from natural gas to green hydrogen which is turning out to be a huge project due to hydrogen embrittlement.
You can find the definition of green hydrogen at: “Infographic: What are the Colors of Hydrogen?”
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/infographic-what-are-the-colors-of-hydrogen
Usually there is more information in what we're not told than what we are told. e.g. Hunter's dad's mental state; moochelle's law career; convert everyone to vegan; green power; etc.
@JimB, I don't recall the thing you are looking for being mentioned here and I try to read every word…
So this afternoon I drove right by this and didn't even know it. I saw the ambulance responding. then I saw SWAT and their armored vehicle wiz by…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-multiple-houston-police-officers-shot-suspect-large-video/
The officers are supposed to be in stable condition. Watch the video. It was mag dump after mag dump.
n
Had a lovely dinner out in the old neighborhood. Gentrification continues apace. Slow night for the restaurant but they did have other customers.
n
Thanks, Nick. Must have been somewhere else. Maybe I will remember soon. Minds work that way. What's left of them 🙂