Wed. Mar. 9, 2022 – more work, less talk

By on March 9th, 2022 in decline and fall, lakehouse, personal, WuFlu

Cold and wet, but less wet than yesterday when there was misty drizzle or light drizzle most of the day.  It was 46F when I got up and 44F when I went to bed, and stayed pretty cold all day long.  I really hope today will be warmer, and drier.

My plan for yesterday got switched to a degree with the plan for today.   The rain stopped me from doing stuff at my storage, or secondary, and it would have been nasty at my client’s house.  So I did smaller things and picked up the kid from school, and drove around.

Today I need to be finishing up at my client’s house.  I need to get done and paid, and I need to change gears and get stuff done at my secondary and start work at the BOL.   We wired them money, signed some papers, and possibly today, or tomorrow, we’ll officially own the new place.  Then some real work can get started.

Stuff continues to worsen on the world stage.  Lies and misdirection continue to be foisted on us.  Prices are still going up.  The body politic is more divided than ever.  People are running wild in the streets of our big cities.   All bad things.

Work your list, improve your position.   Get out of the big cities.  Don’t be distracted from your goals by the spectacle around you.   Stack all the things.

n

 

 

65 Comments and discussion on "Wed. Mar. 9, 2022 – more work, less talk"

  1. Greg Norton says:

    Do you have $7 gas in the US?  Not yet.

    not everywhere but in some wheres… like in Cali.   Of course they could rescind the heavy taxes at the pump but they still won't shave $4 off the price…

    What is gas up to at the legal gouge stations outside the Orlando airport?

    $7 wouldn't surprise me.

  2. Greg Norton says:

    Add to that the absolutely shocking incompetence of the Russian military. They could take all the time they needed to preposition assets and set up their logistics, and…total fail. If Russia didn't have nukes, the world would be laughing.

    I remember Dr. Pournelle speculating on this point over the last couple of decades. Of course, he maintained that we had a lot of common cause with Russia regarding the Muslim threat and whatever China is up to.

    And how Russia is running out of … Russians!

    I don't think Russia was unprepared to fight the Ukraine military, but I doubt they were prepared to fight the personal communications and media tech in the hands of most people in any industrialized country anymore.

  3. brad says:

    I don't think Russia was unprepared to fight the Ukraine military

    It's hard to know what's truth, and what's propaganda, but the miles-long convoy that isn't making headway towards Kiev seem indicative. Supposedly, lots of the vehicles have run out of gas, and the soldiers have very limited rations. I read that part of the problem is that Ukraine has taken out some of the bridges, but that's no excuse – that is totally expected defensive behavior, and why you have combat engineers.

    You're right, of course, that Putin totally underestimated media tech. Take the recent example from the Red Cross, which was prepared to supervise the civilian evacuation in the direction of Poland, along agreed evacuation routes. They discovered that the Russians had mined the road towards Poland, in an attempt to force the civilians into Belarus. Before the days of the internet, that information would not have been so quickly and widely dispersed. However, the Internet exists, and the announcement from the Red Cross was widely distributed within a couple of hours.

    Now Poland and other countries are trying to find a way to donating not only munitions, but entire fighter wings. Assuming Ukraine has the pilots, that could be the final nail in the coffin for this "special operation", or whatever Putin is calling it today.

  4. Nick Flandrey says:

    42F and 90%RH this fine day.  Not raining.  yet. 

    Too early to think, but Vlad has reasons.  I don't think he's insane.  Or dumb.  Or misled.  It makes sense to him.

    n

  5. Greg Norton says:

    You're right, of course, that Putin totally underestimated media tech.

    Ukraine communications infrastructure was not as easy to hack as the US. Hot skillz!

    Which reminds me — the C suite dweebs are back in town next week for SxSW.

    Let the shots of "Pappy Reserve" flow!

    The spiritual successors of SolarWinds are going to work the corporate sheeple. Heck, I think even SolarWinds itself is still around.

  6. Greg Norton says:

    I dropped off my wife and daughter for a school orchestra trip to New York this morning.

    Lots of parents' Tonymobiles parked near the bus loading. High end Model X or S too.

    Every center console screen had some kind of adult pacification running while 1/2 of the group waited for the other airport bus to arrive, games, video, or just fidgeting with the systems.

    I didn't even have my phone. I did have my wallet.

  7. Ray Thompson says:

    He was a small guy, but he told me he would only eject as a last resort. Seats have greatly improved, but are still a last resort.

    My understanding is that a pilot only ejects once. From information from a show on the Discovery Channel the seats have markedly improved but are still very dangerous. The forces on the human body, especially the spine, almost always result in spinal injuries. Not as severe as in years past but still enough to cause a pilot to lose their flying status due to the injuries. Or at a minimum the pilot is no longer rated to fly a fighter jet. Ejection is a very violent event.

  8. MrAtoz says:

    My understanding is that a pilot only ejects once.

    I never had that problem.

  9. Geoff Powell says:

    @mrAtoz:

    I never had that problem.

    But did you ever "hit the silk" (to use WWII jargon)?

    G.

    PS. Not denigrating you in any way. Honest query, since I know you're ex-military.

  10. MrAtoz says:

    LOL. A little trolling. US Army helicopter pilot here. We still don't have a chopper with ejection seats in the inventory. I am Airborne! qualified, though. Did my five jumps to get a badge.

  11. MrAtoz says:

    plugsy gaslighting again:

    Biden explains to Americans how they soon won’t have to worry about gas prices (thanks to him)

    Care to tell us where the *clean* energy is coming from and when we can expect it to support the FUSA?

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  12. Nick Flandrey says:

    Clean energy comes from the same place as the 'goot paying jobs'  the diversite' is always  demanding.

    n

  13. Nick Flandrey says:

    Shoot.  I was headed out the door, when the surveillance op I've been listening to all morning got really busy.

    They are "loading up the robot now" and have several bomb squad guys coming, there are narc officers inbound, and a convoy of cops coming down the freeway. 

    The b!tch is that it sounds like this is all going down in an apartment complex within a mile of youngest's school.

    I think I'll sit here for a few more minutes.

    n

  14. Greg Norton says:

    Clean energy comes from the same place as the 'goot paying jobs'  the diversite' is always  demanding.

    Soon, the diversite' will no longer have access to private cars, own nothing, and be happy.

    Video is floating around this week of Ford's final cold weather tests of their Jesus truck. The 'goot paying jobs' will make sure 154 kWh is delivered reliably to every owner's garage nightly once the vehicles start rolling off dealer lots later this Spring.

    Everyone will save so much money on gas.

  15. Nick Flandrey says:

    Holy cow, swat, bomb squad, narcotics, Special Response Group, and they just hit their target. 

    n

  16. Jenny says:

    Congratulations Nick – here’s to clear sailing and not too many surprises at the new place. 

  17. Nick Flandrey says:

    Thanks Jenny.

    — so far no shooting but no target in custody yet either…

    n

  18. Nick Flandrey says:

    Huh, they deployed a dog and the robot…  and they've got a Bearcat and another armored vehicle on site too!

    Whoever they are taking down must be a freaking heavyweight.

    n

  19. lpdbw says:

    @Nick

    Can you tell us what you're using for a scanner?  Sounds like something I'd like to look into.

  20. Nick Flandrey says:

    Suspects in custody.  Prelim search of apt with robot, all three floors, then by team.

    I'm using a Uniden Home Patrol II with a Radio Shack discone antenna.

    I like the combo, the scanner is 'object oriented.'  no programming.  Just tell it where you are, how big an area you want to cover, and it loads everything from a db.   The stuff all has labels so you know who you are listening to.   It's a bit long in the tooth, but still a great choice.

    n

    In Houston I mostly lock it to the Gulf Coast Interop channels.  The teams use them mainly for surveillance during normal times.  I just leave it on and running in my office all the time.

    And now, I"m off to work

  21. Nick Flandrey says:

    There are several places here where I've talked about my take on scanners and listening…

    n

  22. SteveF says:

    Clean energy comes from the same place as the 'goot paying jobs'  the diversite' is always demanding.

    and

    The 'goot paying jobs' will make sure 154 kWh is delivered reliably to every owner's garage nightly

    Ehhh, maybe not quite. I think part of the definition of good, good-paying job that women and non-Whites (with Orientals being treated as White for this purpose) are demanding their fair share of includes being in an air-conditioned office, not involve standing all day, not require overtime or long regular hours, and not require training, degrees, or certificates in hard things like math or CCNE or working a crane without smashing anything. Tripling the electrical generation and transmission capacity will certainly involve lots of high-paying jobs, but they're going to be out in the weather or in a factory or require a MS in Engineering. And thass prejudissed!

  23. lynn says:

    Over The Hedge: George Is Reminiscing

       https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2022/03/09

    I would not stand that close to the front of the miniature non-vegan T-Rex.

  24. lynn says:

    "AIR FORCE FIGHTERS’ MISSION CAPABLE RATES"

        https://www.airforcemag.com/usaf-fighter-mission-capable-rates-fiscal-2020/

    "Fighters   2019 Mission Capable Rate 2020 Mission Capable Rate

    F-15C    70.05%   71.93%

    F-15D    72.45%   70.52%

    F-15E    71.29%   69.21%

    F-16C    72.97%   73.90%

    F-16D    70.37%   72.11%

    F-22A    50.57%   51.98%

    F-35A    61.6%     76.07%"

    Wow, the F-35A is rapidly maturing.  Of course, they just dropped a F-35C in the drink.  "UPDATED: Navy Recovers Crashed F-35C From Depths of South China Sea"
       https://news.usni.org/2022/03/03/navy-recovers-crashed-f-35c-from-depths-of-south-china-sea
     

  25. Greg Norton says:

    Tripling the electrical generation and transmission capacity will certainly involve lots of high-paying jobs, but they're going to be out in the weather or in a factory or require a MS in Engineering.

    Everyone will rig the workstations with TeamViewer so that they can "work" from home.

    Austin Water just had a third "boil water" event due to a control mistake in four years. No one is talking, but the head of the utility was "encouraged to spend more time with his family".

    Water utility techs are the worst with TeamViewer, but I would imagine it is prevalent in power distribution as well.

  26. Greg Norton says:

    I have to dump and replace my big rice bin today because of insects.

    My kids have been lousy about closing the door on the bins and not being careful with the bay leaves we put in the storage for bug control.

    This will be painful. Rice is $35 per 25 lbs right now. I figure I need another bag on top of the one I bought yesterday.

  27. Greg Norton says:

    Important media tip: Don't go after a Florida Governor on stage at the annual Strawberry Festival. Even Jeb! would occasionally push back in that forum. DeSantis will dish up the public humiliation … followed by shortcake for dessert.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXjB30rAUbw

    I’m actually surprised that is on YouTube via a mainstream source. WFLA isn’t the most liberal TV station in Tampa, but it did briefly belong to Warren Buffett as part of the Media General buyout.

  28. lynn says:

    Add to that the absolutely shocking incompetence of the Russian military. They could take all the time they needed to preposition assets and set up their logistics, and…total fail. If Russia didn't have nukes, the world would be laughing.

    I remember Dr. Pournelle speculating on this point over the last couple of decades. Of course, he maintained that we had a lot of common cause with Russia regarding the Muslim threat and whatever China is up to.

    And how Russia is running out of … Russians!

    I don't think Russia was unprepared to fight the Ukraine military, but I doubt they were prepared to fight the personal communications and media tech in the hands of most people in any industrialized country anymore.

    The Russians appear to be not ready with logistics (fuel and food) and apparently expected their soldiers to live off the land.  Just to pull their tanks into the neighborhood gas station, fuel up with diesel and sandwiches did not work very well.

    And the Russians also appear to have underestimated the effectiveness of Stingers and Javelins.  And the effectiveness of Molotov Cocktails on empty tanks.

    My former USMC son fired a Javelin simulator in the USMC since he was in heavy weapons company.  He thinks the fire and forget system is cool.  He was checked out on a older fly by wire system with a 1/2 mile wire spool and figured out that they would be shooting at him the entire time he was guiding the missile from the unarmored humvee.

  29. lynn says:

    Clean energy comes from the same place as the 'goot paying jobs'  the diversite' is always  demanding.

    Soon, the diversite' will no longer have access to private cars, own nothing, and be happy.

    Video is floating around this week of Ford's final cold weather tests of their Jesus truck. The 'goot paying jobs' will make sure 154 kWh is delivered reliably to every owner's garage nightly once the vehicles start rolling off dealer lots later this Spring.

    Everyone will save so much money on gas.

    I figure that the F-150 4×4 lightning will use about a kwh per mile since the Teslas use about a half kwh per mile and the electric 18 wheelers use two kwh per mile.  So, a 154 kwh battery will be good enough for 154 miles.  There goes my range anxiety alarm !

    Come back to me when they are putting 600 kwh batteries in the electric F-150. I would like a hybrid F-150 though. Or an electric F-150 with a built in generator.

  30. SteveF says:

    He was checked out on a fly by wire system with a 1/2 mile wire spool

    TOWs and the USSR equivalent in the 1980s could have the operator working from some distance away, 100 yards or thereabouts, precisely so he wouldn't be getting shot at for the 30 seconds it took the missile to go a mile. I haven't used anything more recent than 1980s gear.

  31. mediumwave says:

    @nick:

    Uniden Home Patrol II with a Radio Shack discone antenna.

    If buying a system today, what would you recommend?

  32. Greg Norton says:

    The Russians appear to be not ready with logistics (fuel and food) and apparently expected their soldiers to live off the land.  Just to pull their tanks into the neighborhood gas station, fuel up with diesel and sandwiches did not work very well.

    Again, the presence of FedEx and McDonald's in the targeted territory is a new level of adversary infrastructure that even the US and China haven't faced before.

    About 15 years ago, I attended a training class in the boonies of Georgia at a host facility owned by a former nurse and her airline pilot husband. When the food got weird as the week went on, a carefully planned diet intended by the resort to "focus the mind" on the subject being studied during the daylight hours, the students in the class started having food FedEx-ed in to the remote location to eat at night in their rooms. I didn't realize FedEx would handle perishables and deliver out that far — the nearest restaurant, a two mile hike, literally named “Eats”, closed at 8 PM — and I lost 10 lbs.

    Filed for future reference.

  33. MrAtoz says:

    plugs, The Stupid:

    Biden says ‘we’re moving in the direction that we don’t need’ oil products

    Sure, but not NOW! Give us a couple of decades. Even then, fart and solar probably won't be enough. NUCLEAR!

  34. EdH says:

    Wow, the F-35A is rapidly maturing. 

    And you can believe those numbers as much as you want…

    Last time I checked the USN was claiming that the V-22 reliability was on par with the C-3.

  35. lynn says:

    Ehhh, maybe not quite. I think part of the definition of good, good-paying job that women and non-Whites (with Orientals being treated as White for this purpose) are demanding their fair share of includes being in an air-conditioned office, not involve standing all day, not require overtime or long regular hours, and not require training, degrees, or certificates in hard things like math or CCNE or working a crane without smashing anything. Tripling the electrical generation and transmission capacity will certainly involve lots of high-paying jobs, but they're going to be out in the weather or in a factory or require a MS in Engineering. And thass prejudissed!

    None of the electric distribution companies have engineering staff anymore.  All of the upgrade work is done by Bechtel, Fluor Daniel, KBR, etc.  When you work for those body shops, if you not billable to a project then you go home to no paycheck and no bennies.

    Six months after I left TXU in 1989, they outsourced the entire 5,000 person engineering department one Friday.  Engineers to secretaries, the entire five floors of our downtown office building was laid off.  Three quarters of those people had never even stepped in one of our plants.

  36. lynn says:

    I have to dump and replace my big rice bin today because of insects.

    My kids have been lousy about closing the door on the bins and not being careful with the bay leaves we put in the storage for bug control.

    This will be painful. Rice is $35 per 25 lbs right now. I figure I need another bag on top of the one I bought yesterday.

    More protein if you eat it now.

  37. lynn says:

    Wow, the F-35A is rapidly maturing. 

    And you can believe those numbers as much as you want…

    Last time I checked the USN was claiming that the V-22 reliability was on par with the C-3.

    Simple, they just turned off the sensors in the operating system.

    When we started up a large power plant, we would techs running around the place with 24 inch wires with alligator clips on both ends. 90% of the time, the sensor was bad and the level controller was just fine.

  38. dkreck says:

    Petroleum products are so much more than fuel. Stupid speaking to stupid.

  39. lynn says:

    "Cosmic traitor (Perry Rhodan #26)" by Kurt Brand, translated by Wendayne Ackerman
       https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-traitor-Perry-Rhodan-Brand/dp/B0006WTFGW?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number twenty-six of a series of one hundred and twenty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1973 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #103, plus the Atlan books.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

    BTW, this is actually book number 34 of the German Pamphlets. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on this website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
       https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Levtan,_der_Verr%C3%A4ter

    In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over ten years since then and the New Power has flourished with millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania.

    A Springer space ship has transitioned in the Solar System by Jupiter and transitioned out. Perry Rhodan sent a cruiser out to that spot which captured a small Springer ship with an exiled captain and crew. Rhodan's mutants implant massive space ship facilities on Venus in the captain's mind and send them on their way. The Springer captain goes to the Springer meeting about Earth and Perry Rhodan and tells his story to the thousand skeptical captains.

    One has to remember that this book was written in German in 1962 and translated to English in 1973. Many items that came about in the 1970s and beyond such as cell phones are not reflected in the book. However, commercial aircraft commonly traveling at Mach 3 are not available to the public as talked about in the book. Niels Bohr's saying "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" comes to mind.

    Two observations:
    1. The publisher should have put two to four of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
    2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
       https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/

    My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (1 review)

  40. lynn says:

    "University of Iowa basketball player discusses growing NIL gender pay gap"

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/university-of-iowa-basketball-player-nil-gender-pay-gap-210116570.html

    We are getting closer and closer to Kurt Vonnegut 's 'Harrison Bergeron' story.

        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

  41. lynn says:

    "Canada Says Its Oil Could Replace US Imports Of Russian Crude, All It Would Take Is Approval Of The Keystone XL Pipeline"

        https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/canada-says-its-oil-could-replace-us-imports-russian-crude-all-it-would-take-approval

    Yup.  Biden is a moron.  And so is his staff.

  42. Chad says:

    Wow, the F-35A is rapidly maturing.

    And you can believe those numbers as much as you want…

    Last time I checked the USN was claiming that the V-22 reliability was on par with the C-3.

    I was on C-5A's and C-5B's. (I think all of the C-5A's are now retired. There's two C-5C's that are oddballs modified to support NASA.) The C-5's when I was in had a horrible reliability rating when compared to other cargo aircraft at the time (C-130, C-141, and C-17). The joke was that the only time a C-5 got flying time is when it was on jacks. The new C-5M's (upgraded C-5B's) have solved most of those problems.

    They take those reliability ratings pretty seriously. There's USAF minimums for reliability and heads really do roll when they're not met. Want to get promoted from Group Commander to Wing Commander? You better keep an eye on those reliability numbers. What percentage of your airframes are in a flyable maintenance status, what percent take off on time, what percent complete mission on time….

  43. MrAtoz says:

    Disney folds to Wokerati:

     Disney’s CEO buckles, says company will sign a statement opposing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation across the US

    The ProgLibTurd media should be applauded for this master stroke of spin. Of course woke companies and celebriturds are falling in line. Nobody reads anymore. Let trannies and fags come in and teach 6 year olds about anal sex and cutting your junk off. Geez.

    And, yes, when homosexual men do this, they are fags.

  44. Greg Norton says:

    Disney folds to Wokerati:

    2024 has started in Florida. Go back up and find the YouTube video I linked earlier showing Governor DeSantis humiliating a reporter for a local TV station when they decided to go after him over the bill at the frigging Strawberry Festival event outside Tampa.

    Usually, the Governor shows up at the festival to shake babies and kiss hands, but DeSantis was prepared for the challenge.

    The media in Florida is still steamed that the Governor’s Mansion wasn’t about male hooker and drug orgies for the last three years, like it would have been under Benny Crump crony Andrew Gillum.

    For the nitpickers:

    https://news.yahoo.com/andrew-gillum-calls-hotel-incident-230600273.html

  45. Alan says:

    >> Now TOILET PAPER is hit by shrinkflation! 

    Pretty sure the Bush's Beans folks are up to some shrink-flation of their own. In cans of their baked beans that we've opened lately it's pretty obvious they've increased the amount of liquid in the can and reduced the amount of beans by just bit.

    But the supply-chain issues, inflation, energy price hikes [fill in the blank] is just transitory.

  46. MrAtoz says:

    Our goobermint leadership:

    Nancy Pelosi says she told Ukraine President Zelenskyy that Billie Jean King sends her regards

    Ya think Zele gives a crap? Who say wut?

  47. Alan says:

    >> If the engine isn't turbo-ed and the car has factory original paint on all of the surfaces they'll resell a seven year old Mazda fast. Plus, Carmax is competing with Carvana which is still playing with private equity money IIRC.

    Which model?

    Mazda 3 four-door hatchback, GT trim (leather seats, HK radio), 2.0L non-turbo, all original paint.

    ADDED: 42K miles

  48. Ray Thompson says:

    In Meridian MS for the night. Only drove 6 hours today, will do about 5.5 tomorrow. I am not up to spending 10+ hours with AIS. So I split up the journey. Drove the entire distance on one tank of gas, 18 gallons, 22 MPG in the cowboy Cadillac. Filled up in MS and paid 3.89. Many signs between 4.29 and 3.85. The low stuff was too close to home and not worth stopping. GPS is now routing us through downtown Birmingham which was a change from the last journey. I-59 is no longer closed through downtown.

    Lots of annoying trucks, passing another truck with a speed differential of 0.005 MPH. Both running about 60 mph when the speed limit is 70 MPH. Stacked up several dozen cars. I-24 in Chattanooga was bad as was I-59/I-20 south/west. Diesel is well over $4.50 a gallon in most locations. Dumping in 300 gallons of fuel has to sting with a bill over $1,200.00. That will affect the cos of all products.

  49. SteveF says:

    Lots of annoying trucks, passing another truck with a speed differential of 0.005 MPH. Both running about 60 mph when the speed limit is 70 MPH.

    Speed limiters?

  50. Greg Norton says:

    Mazda 3 four-door hatchback, GT trim (leather seats, HK radio), 2.0L non-turbo, all original paint.

    ADDED: 42K miles

    $20k at CarMax retail easily right now around here looking at their page. I'm probably guessing low.

    I would keep one non-EV. The future just isn't here yet regardless of what Mayor Pete says.

  51. Nick Flandrey says:

    Home from my client's house.  Got 90% of what I wanted to do finished.  I might hit him again tomorrow afternoon.

    Wife and kids are at a memorial service for their asst principal that got shot by his own son.  Dog and I are both hungry.

    I swung thru the HEB on my way home to pickup some drugs, and there was NO beef in the open cooler today.  The space that is usually filled with choice or better beef was filled with cr@p from around the store including CABBAGES.  There were still a few cuts of beef in the cheap section of the upright cooler.   Hamburger is down to 73/27% for the cheap stuff.    90/10 was well over $4 and everything else was high $3's….  

    They did have St Louis style pork ribs on sale for <$2/pound so I bought two racks.  Paying for the bone, but they are a kid favorite.

    STILL no cinnamon rolls in the refrigerated tubes.  No biscuits at all either.  Some croissants.  Cat stuff was about half full.

    None of my normal bacon.

    crazy.

    n

  52. Nick Flandrey says:

    Won three of the rat bait stations I was bidding on today. I bought 2 buckets of poison bait blocks when I couldn’t find any locally. Now I’ve got bait and somewhere to put it.

    Vermin. You need to be able to address vermin if stuff gets sportier.

    n

  53. lynn says:

    Dumping in 300 gallons of fuel has to sting with a bill over $1,200.00. That will affect the cos of all products.

    Truckers have to buy fuel in every state and twice in Texas.  That is the real reason why they have to go through the weighing stations so the truckers can show their fuel receipt from that state. So the max that they buy is less than a hundred gallons. At 6 mpg, 100 gallons will take them 600 miles which is more than most states, not Texas.

  54. lynn says:

    Vermin. You need to be able to address vermin if stuff gets sportier.

    I've got several thousand rounds of .22 (shorts, subsonic, and long rifle).  And two SA (single action) .22 six shooters (short or long).  That will take care of vermin, both four legged and two legged.

    https://ruger.com/products/wrangler/specSheets/2002.html

  55. lynn says:

    Lots of annoying trucks, passing another truck with a speed differential of 0.005 MPH. Both running about 60 mph when the speed limit is 70 MPH.

    Speed limiters?

    Most of the corporate truck speed limiters (Walmart, UPS, USPS) are set at 65 mph.  The other use electronic logs.

  56. Nick Flandrey says:

    Words of wisdom from Frank and Fern…  https://thoughtsfromfrankandfern.wordpress.com/

    I encourage you in the strongest possible way to see to the sustenance of you and yours. Whatever you eat, by whatever means you usually obtain it, please do so, in an overabundance that seems way beyond what you may ever need. Strikingly so. Find somewhere to put it. Under the bed, behind the couch, fill up your spaces with sustenance. Plan. Think it through in detail. What is it you need for your daily sustenance if that is all you could ever get? Ever?

    Without food, without sustenance, we are dead.

    Until next time – Fern

  57. Nick Flandrey says:

    @mediumwave.

    — last time  I looked the home patrol II was still the choice for simple and capable scanners.  The difference the object database makes is stunning.   MFJ carries a discone that is almost identical to the old Radio Shack one.

    I put the Uniden BCD436HP HomePatrol Series Digital Handheld Scanner., and the Uniden BCD536HP HomePatrol Series Digital Phase 2 Base/Mobile Scanner with HPDB and Wi-Fi on my amazon  wish list at some point.   I think they are the new version of the Home Patrol, but they don't look as user friendly.

    I'd also bookmarked the Uniden SDS200 Advanced X Base/Mobile Digital Trunking Scanner, which looks like the mackdaddy.   About a grand though.

    n

  58. Nick Flandrey says:

    I've got several thousand rounds of .22 (shorts, subsonic, and long rifle).  And two SA (single action) .22 six shooters (short or long).  That will take care of vermin, both four legged and two legged.

    — but you have to see them to shoot them.  Poison never sleeps.

    n

  59. Greg Norton says:

    Truckers have to buy fuel in every state and twice in Texas.  That is the real reason why they have to go through the weighing stations so the truckers can show their fuel receipt from that state. So the max that they buy is less than a hundred gallons. At 6 mpg, 100 gallons will take them 600 miles which is more than most states, not Texas.

    Pensacola to Miami is more than 600 miles on the most direct route, up to 750 miles to avoid tolls on the Turnpike.

  60. Ray Thompson says:

    Speed limiters?

    No, passing up a slight hill, the most annoying place for trucks to pass. However, when a car is not passing a truck fast enough for another truck behind the car, the truck will flash lights, tailgate, honk and otherwise threaten the driver for not passing fast enough.

    Most of the corporate truck speed limiters (Walmart, UPS, USPS) are set at 65 mph.

    Every Walmart, UPS or FedEx truck I saw, or came upon, was doing at least 70, some a little more. I was doing 75 most of the trip. I was even passed by one FedEx truck. They may say they have speed limiters but they are either disconnected or just don't work.

  61. lynn says:

    Most of the corporate truck speed limiters (Walmart, UPS, USPS) are set at 65 mph.

    Every Walmart, UPS or FedEx truck I saw, or came upon, was doing at least 70, some a little more. I was doing 75 most of the trip. I was even passed by one FedEx truck. They may say they have speed limiters but they are either disconnected or just don't work.

    The old diesel speed limiter was a mechanical device that looked at the speedometer.  When you reached the speed limit of the device, it just diverted fuel back to the tank.  A pair of vice grips on the fuel return line would not allow the excess fuel to go back to the tank.

  62. mediumwave says:

    @mediumwave.

    — last time  I looked the home patrol II was still the choice for simple and capable scanners.  The difference the object database makes is stunning.   MFJ carries a discone that is almost identical to the old Radio Shack one.

    I put the Uniden BCD436HP HomePatrol Series Digital Handheld Scanner., and the Uniden BCD536HP HomePatrol Series Digital Phase 2 Base/Mobile Scanner with HPDB and Wi-Fi on my amazon  wish list at some point.   I think they are the new version of the Home Patrol, but they don't look as user friendly.

    Thanks, Nick!

  63. Ray Thompson says:

    In many places the speed limit was 65 for cars, 55 for trucks. Which in my opinion is absolutely stupid. Trucks would be hogging the left lane at 55 blocking vehicle traffic.

    I like Germany where no trucks are allowed in the left, no excuses, unless explicitly allowed. Even in the U.S. where the left lane is restricted many trucks just ignore the restriction.

    When I encounter such drivers I attempt to record the truck number, date and time, road, and mile marker. I then contact the company and report the violation. In several instances the trucking company states they will talk with the driver. In one case the company said the driver will be given a mandatory one hour stop time and made to watch a safety video. I don't know if that one hour stop time was considered part of the 11 hour day the drivers are allowed to operate.

    One company where I reported a driver for tailgating the company stated the driver will no longer be working for the company. I don’t think I was the first person to complain.

  64. Nick Flandrey says:

    I'm going to bed.  Short post tomorrow.  Lots of work to do.

    n

  65. Alan says:

    >> What is gas up to at the legal gouge stations outside the Orlando airport?

    $7 wouldn't surprise me.

    @Greg, is this one of them? $5.99 for regular.

    https://www.gasbuddy.com/station/130998

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