Hot and humid, overcast? If so it will help. Yesterday was overcast for most of the day and temps stayed right around 100F at the Casa… Today I think will be hotter than that, if only because I need to do outdoor work later in the day.
Did some pickups yesterday. Scored some needful things for about 1/5 of what they normally go for. IDK why this particular lot went cheap, but I’ll take it. Chatted for a while with a couple of my auctioneers’ staff members. Lotta commie crud going around, but fortunately it’s not as deadly or debilitating as it was in the early days. Some of my neighbors on my street have it too, but so far aren’t too bad off. People are nervous as heII about getting really sick if they have any symptoms at all though.
I’ve got my hobby meeting in the morning, and a couple of afternoon pickups, and I’ve got to check a detail on an item listed on ebay, so a trip to my storage unit and a dig through the stock is called for.
Later in the day I’ve got the grass to mow, and some other outdoor stuff to take care of. Maybe I’ll get the generator propane conversion kit installed and tested. It finally arrived yesterday. The gas tank arrived a day or so ago. I thought I would get them in the other order. Vagaries of the post I guess.
I’ve really got to get a Costco run in too. Every day I think I’ll have time, and the day vanishes like mist in the morning.
I cleared a path to one of the freezers I haven’t looked in in a while, and it has more room left in it than I thought. That’s good news the next time meat goes on sale. I’m still looking for another freezer. Chest freezers in the stores are double what they were at the beginning of 2020 and I’d like to save a bit off retail. Leaves more money for food don’tcha know. Even in the auctions and estate sales the prices are high so I’m biding my time. Something will come my way.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and find room for all your huge stacks….
n
80F and 90%RH this early morning.
Get some work done!
n
My day has been made:
Bro on the lake waves the American flag and gets a low pass from a Warthog.
Probably Reservist, not woke pussified Active Duty.
LPS Custom swap meet, here we come!
Perfect messaging:
“When this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you might just might need that semi-automatic and all thirty rounds.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/messaging_perfection_the_political_ad_that_reduced_leftists_to_childish_insults.html
Good article from John Hinderaker at Powerline:
Election Integrity In Wisconsin
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/election-integrity-in-wisconsin.php
Why the Gun is Civilization.
WATCH: Protesters Storm Presidential Palace in Sri Lanka After Climate Hysteria Destroys the Nation
Sri Lanka is in the middle of a full-scale collapse after the president annonced the nation is “bankrupt,” having run out of both money and energy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, and things have devolved into a dystopian nightmare.
In the last several hours, the presidential palace was taken over by a sea of people, angry at the government for putting them in such a precarious position. And as I’ll explain, Sri Lanka’s woes were not only avoidable but were purposely brought on to please climate change fanatics in faraway lands.
Sri Lanka’s government has been implementing ESG policies (environment, social, and governance) for years, following the lead of the World Economic Forum. That includes banning agrochemicals such as fertilizers in an effort to lower nitrogen emissions. Flowery tales of “organic” farming and saving the planet have now been replaced with horror, as the island nation’s top exports have been laid to waste. People are starving, they can’t get gas or electricity, and none of the globalists who used Sri Lanka as a testbed for their green fantasies are coming to help.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/07/09/watch-protesters-storm-presidential-palace-in-sri-lanka-after-climate-hysteria-destroys-the-nation-n591691
Same commie-financed pus-heads that are trying to do the same thing in every country around the world.
Let’s hope Sri Lanka rounds up the local supporters and gives them to the mobs before they can escape to other countries.
Biden Admin Finds Way To Punish Border Patrol Agents Falsely Accused Of “Whipping” Migrants Even After Clearing Them
“the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility found multiple infractions, but ones that were a far cry from Biden’s claim that migrants were whipped”
Posted by Mike LaChance Saturday, July 9, 2022
Why would anyone even try to disagree?
Put Biden up, along with Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer.
Find them guilty, sentence them to death by drawing and quartering, with a backup of beheading if the Supreme Court can’t be persuaded by the court of Henry the VIII that such is not “customary and proper”.
I’d yield, begrudgingly, that defenestration via the “Hannibal Lecter Especial” is probably unusual, but only since we don’t really share a common law heritage with Italy.
Escape to non-deporting country with millions of US dollars in 3, 2, 1.
>>https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399959.php <<
I wish I had said that. I wish I could have said that! Few people understand the logic and fewer still understand the reasoning behind the Second Amendment. The function of both is to preserve the individual right to property.
See the domesday book, circa 1086 or so.
As the saying goes, God made man but Colonel Colt made man equal.
I was looking at a little history, and came across this post from Nick.
Overall, I think it aged pretty well.
They’re already preparing the battlespace for the next pandemic to keep their power and to keep the US economy depressed and big pharma rolling in the big bucks. Monkeypox seems to have failed as a boogieman since it’s been revealed to be mostly transmitted by male-to-male sexual activity, so they’re bringing up Marburg virus now. How long until Pfizer has a new mRNA mandatory jab for that?
“mostly transmitted by male-to-male sexual activity”
so Hunter is definitely in the running?
I saw the Elvis movie with my dad yesterday in Victoria, TX with about 50 acquaintances. We don’t get our private showings anymore.
I learned quite a few things about Elvis that I did not know. The doctor in his entourage was bad news. The Colonel was a scumbag who was alternately both good and bad for Elvis. All in all, a good movie even if the shooting style was very busy. And, I did not know that Elvis always carried a gun in an ankle holster.
And I did not know that Elvis was a very accomplished piano player in addition to rhythm guitar. They showed his actual final performance, he looked horrible but could still play and sing.
Good Spanish Sci-fi (Eng subtitles)
6 Horas
https://www.amazon.com/6-Horas-Jocelyn-Anfossy/dp/B0971DPY79?tag=ttgnet-20/
@lpdbw , thanks for bringing that back into circulation. Note the date, 2 years prior to wuflu…
They were SUPPOSED to have been planning for something like chinkyflu for years, and yet it caught them by surprise. And we saw them activate many of those points in one form or another, and in many places.
They will tell you what they are going to do, if you know where to look.
n
I’ll be calling the A/C folks on Monday. Just now was the 3rd time the system has tossed an “HPS Lockout” code.
Which, in the installation book, means blocked coils or the fan not running. Coils look clean to me and there seems no lack of air flow when the fan is running.
Ok. I just reset the system. It takes a few minutes to re-boot. I heard the compressor turn on, I was in the bathroom looking out the window at the unit. No fan. Went out the door and used a stick to push the fan blade. And it started running.
Bad bearings? Not sure. It seems to spin freely via stick and there’s no vibration. Seems to run a bit slow. Might just need oiling. Maybe a starting cow pasture. Wiring should be fine, the fan just now runs with a push start.
Anyway. Just over 10 years old and 3 months out of warranty. Figures.
It just hit 107F outside. Toasty ain’t the word when your shins are sweating.
Dilbert: Crypto Genius
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-07-09
Yup. I am still 4x on my Netflix stock.
Bad bearings? Not sure. It seems to spin freely via stick and there’s no vibration. Seems to run a bit slow. Might just need oiling. Maybe a starting cow pasture. Wiring should be fine, the fan just now runs with a push start.
The starting capacitor in the fan motor is shot. I do not know if you can replace that capacitor without replacing the entire motor.
I guess the issues in Sri Lanka are finally too big to ignore…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10998091/Violent-protesters-set-Sri-Lankan-prime-ministers-house-fire-Crowds-force-leader-resign.html
n
The starting capacitor in the fan motor is shot. I do not know if you can replace that capacitor without replacing the entire motor.
—on all of my units that cap is separate from the motor, in the space with the rest of the electrical connections. Remove the cover, look at what’s there. Probably about the size of a D battery or a toilet roll.. order from amazon, or if you have a local supply house use them. Marking on the side will say something like 35/5MFD. The biggest cap is for the compressor motor.
search your unit name and model on youtube and someone will probably show you how, or just youtube for “replace a/c condenser fan motor capacitor.”
go to the beginning of this one and he shows ALL the caps.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=replace+a%2Fc+condenser+fan+motor+capacitor.%E2%80%9D#kpvalbx=_PPTJYqSBB9ufqtsPtv-duAE15
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10997995/One-Canadas-largest-mobile-internet-provider-hit-massive-outage.html
– when I was traveling for a living, I carried one phone on ATT and one on Sprint, AND a two way nationwide skytel pager (mci). If you REALLY need to stay in touch, duplication and redundancy are important.
On 9-11 in NYC and surrounds, only my skytel pager worked. I was able to send and receive emails and pages to let people know I was ok.
I carried that pager for a long time afterwards out of loyalty, but I did drop the Sprint service when ATT finally got their national roaming, and coverage areas sorted out.
n
>> I saw the Elvis movie with my dad yesterday in Victoria, TX with about 50 acquaintances. We don’t get our private showings anymore.
My wife has seen it twice already. Big Elvis fan. She very much enjoyed the film.
Just after my last post, outside temp hit 109F.
Ok. The units “talk” to each other. The blower in the house is not a fan of the fancy 3M filters. It somehow senses airflow and will kick up the speed to get the airflow it wants. So, forget that, just use the filters that we’ve always used…. dust passes but catch the dog hair, right?
Anyway, system is running and the blower kicks up to medium. I changed the filter yesterday. I went outside and did some thumping.
The outside unit’s fan is hanging from the grill. I thumped it four or five times to bounce it about a quarter inch up and down. Fan sped up. Inside fan slowed down.
Well. I think I’ve found the problem. Three months out of warranty of course.
Crazy.
I know about starting capacitors. I can do that. But looking at the fan motor, yeah, is the label with the model number supposed to be greasy?
Anyway, I have the money in the bank to pay the a/c dude. Because perhaps I don’t know what I’m talking about…
Hmm, sometimes it’s the knowledge you’re paying for, not the work.
n
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/sri-lanka-president-flees-gov-collapses-amid-protests-over-economic-crisis-caused-by-chinese-debt/
I’m going to have to look that up to see what the response was from “leaders” in SE Asia and the “foreign policy experts” of the Chicom-financed Democrat Party.
Just had a conversation with an abortion advocate. She stated the Supreme Court took away her constitutional right to an abortion. I pointed out the matter of abortion was returned to the states and was not made illegal at the federal level. She said I had no idea what I was talking about. I then asked where in the constitution abortion was a right. She then huffed and puffed and said it is in there somewhere and I should read the constitution. I then asked if she would feel the same way if her parents had aborted her. At that point she left, in a rage, stating I was clueless.
Even the Camel thinks abortion is a constitutional right. She took an oath to defend and support the constitution and doesn’t even know what is in the constitution. A flaming idiot. May even be dumber than Biden, a very low hurdle.
A favorite story from my days at Digital, about 1990. Shorter version, although the long version is funnier.
Software services, my manager insisted on 5 day minimum at $140/hr to keep out the riffraff. I took home maybe $20 of that.
Client was converting from PDP-11 to VAX/VMS, and ran into trouble with their Oracle application. It ran fine on PDP-11, and it built without errors on VMS, but died a horrible death whenever they tried to run it. Unable to debug it and up against a hard deadline, they spent the money to bring me in.
I spent a half day getting through their safety training required for anybody entering the lab and a special interview with a staff veterinarian because I handled rodents regularly. I had a kickoff meeting with the manager and the 2 tech leads. They described the problem, and showed me the error messages. I went over it a couple times in the meeting, and remembered a fact about Oracle that I am sure was covered in their training, but was obscure. I brought up my theory during the kickoff meeting that the libraries used in compiling and linking were stubs to save space and time, and when you ran the actual application, you had to point to the actual libraries in production.
The 2 techies looked at each other, and one of them ran out of the room. He came back 15 minutes later and had a side conversation with the manager and the other tech.
I was sent home. I solved their very expensive problem without touching a keyboard.
I won’t say I was always that good, but I love victories like that.
ROTFLMW*O
Whatsit
“Many Drivers Are Paying Over $1000 Per Month For A Car”
https://www.carprousa.com/blog/many-drivers-are-paying-over-1000-per-month-for-a-car
This just sounds dangerous.
Any job cutback and they stop paying their monthly.
Looks like ERCOT set a new peak demand of 77,398 MW today. There was 6,000 MW solar and 5,000 MW wind turbines out of 9,000 MW solar and 25,000 MW wind turbines.
https://www.ercot.com/
Looks like we lost a few power plants over the peak and the power cost immediately jumped to $4,000 per MWhr. Normal cost is about $50 per MWhr.
With pagers, having multiply redundant transceiver base stations blasting tens of thousands of watts each is not a problem.
The big issue with pagers is total lack of privacy. Not that SMS is significantly better, but a request to the carrier is required to get the text messages where the pager protocols are mostly unencrypted.
Driving up from South Texas today on I-69, we noticed every windmill was moving. This time last year, only about half were turning as we drove by the fields multiple times.
This week included our first trip into Brownsville. The companies couldn’t figure out a way to make those windmill components here so the deployment area received some economic benefit beyond rentier skims, which most likely went elsewhere?
I’ve seen Siemens staging yard at Port Aransas
The big issue with pagers is total lack of privacy.
–wikileaks has all the pager traffic from 9-11 in NYC online. My traffic is in there somewhere, haven’t found it yet. Can’t spend a whole lot of time reading it as it’s like watching the towers fall in super slow motion. Wipes me out.
Lot of interesting stuff got captured that day. And some emotionally devastating stuff.
n
$1000?
Up until recently, a clever F&I weasel could get a $50,000 truck into a $500 payment with a little work, 90 month terms, and a favor from a friend at a bank.
What are people buying? Principal and interest on my mortage are barely above that number.
Of course, you realize that CarPro has sold out and could be laying the ground work for what’s coming next unless people revolt in a big way and stop buying new cars.
Could be they’re underwater on their trade-ins, and they’re rolling that into the new car loan. Basically financing 120% or more of the new car price for the long-term. It works as long as you cover the vig. Sort of works, anyway.
Makes me wonder who’s covering these loans though. Leading up to the 2008 crisis, the banks laid off the loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and escaped a judgment day. Only the taxpayers got stuck holding the bag.
>> re HVAC
Another source for info and parts https://arnoldservice.com/
Also, when changing any capacitor, make sure you know how to discharge the one to be removed.
Pre-pandemic, if the F&I guy really needed to move the big truck, repossession of the current vehicle as part of the finance package was often discussed with the door closed. Car loans can’t go beyond 90 months since 96, eight years, is where the recovery value of the vehicle used to be considered to be zero in the event of repossession and resale at auction. God only knows now.
Ally, the former GMAC and Chrysler Financial combined into one mess, was 85% owned by the Federal Government coming out of the 2008 crisis. I believe most of the shares have been sold off, but the Fed was writing the paper for a while. A lot of Nissans also got sold through Ally until Nissan started exploring *lower* lending standards last year.
Dear Democrats, THIS Is What Your Oppressive Global Initiatives Lead To
By Kevin Downey Jr. Jul 09, 2022
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/07/09/chaos-in-sri-lanka-tens-of-thousands-storm-presidential-palace-burn-pms-home-leaders-step-down-n1611637
What’s the odds, Sherlock?
(The Chicoms want a BBNB* at the southern tip of India. You think they’re going to get a principled no when they come bearing rice bowls?)
*Big Burro Naval Base
Veteran shows the button that turns your AR-15 from regular semi-automatic to ‘overlapping auto’
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/07/09/veteran-shows-the-button-that-turns-your-ar-15-from-regular-semi-automatic-to-overlapping-auto/
Rick or Nick, would you put this behind the secret wall for regular posters only?
Taht is some sooper sekrit stuff there!
n
There is no private discussion area here. If you don’t want something available for all to see, then don’t post it.
(Which I figured you know….)
Western civ was nice while it lasted.
–they can’t keep the heat on, or the water hot for their citizens.
n
You would think that Dutch politicians and bureaucrats would be more mindful of Dutch history.
@RickH
That’s ok. I just retro-edited the link so it looks like a joke thread unless you haz teh passwoid.
@SteveF
Never happen here.
We’re out of sriracha.
Sometimes it’s not difficult to pick out the 20-somethings:
Take Michael Hendrix at Spectator World:
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-numbers-are-in-red-states-are-winning/
1970. Average teacher in the Midwest was making about $20,000, and the typical home was $30,000. Approximately, but not far off. Cali was insanely expensive then, and only more so now.
“Good-Bye Guidestones by Jeff Duntemann“
http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=4708
“Here’s what’s on the stones, in case you (reasonably) don’t care enough to google it:
Funky. Almost sounds Heinleinesqe.
More like Max Ehrmann channeled by David Byne with a splash of CS&N.
ADDED: I think #2 is a fancy way of saying “Don’t put it in crazy”
Fifty years and still good advice:
https://genius.com/National-lampoon-deteriorata-annotated
ADDED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLvhKv-Lbo
Quite likely. They used to have extra-large capacitors that you could wire in (or an HVAC tech could) to give it extra juice to start up. The tech who did ours said that it would void the warranty (the system was WELL out of warranty) and it would probably fail in 2-3 years anyway. It worked for 6 more years, and then the problem was something completely different.
Might be worth asking about.
#2 is straight up eugenics. Very popular with socialists, one worlders, and modern ‘elites’.
n
>> Ok. The units “talk” to each other. The blower in the house is not a fan of the fancy 3M filters. It somehow senses airflow and will kick up the speed to get the airflow it wants. So, forget that, just use the filters that we’ve always used…. dust passes but catch the dog hair, right?
Make sure the MERV value of your filters matches what your HVAC system’s manufacturer specifies.
>> Even the Camel thinks abortion is a constitutional right. She took an oath to defend and support the constitution and doesn’t even know what is in the constitution. A flaming idiot. May even be dumber than Biden, a very low hurdle.
Can you imagine her as potus (couldn’t bring myself to type it in caps) face-to-face with Putin? Very scary.
Even worse: maybe by the time she is potus, Putin will have been replaced by someone woke.
Sweet nightmares!
President Trump gave a speech at a Save America rally today. We did not go, though we have friends who stood in line from 6 am for his 4 pm speech. He spoke for just over 90 minutes.
I was not willing to do that.
We worked on the garage instead. Sigh. Being responsible isn’t all that fun some days. We made a lot of progress and got a lot accomplished. Lived vicariously through our friends excited texts.
Rain due this coming week. Weather liars keep pushing it farther out.