Hot. Mostly. Humid. Definitely. Although it stayed in the mildly unpleasant range yesterday. It was humid all day.
Did some shipping for ebay. Sold some more of a staple item for me. Every so often the algorithm kicks me to the top of the list for this item and I have a cluster of sales. We’ll see if that happens this time, or if it was a one off.
Went by my secondary location to pick up some more stuff for the BOL. Hit the Goodwill for a couple of interesting books, and some leather for a project. Got 4 milk crates too. I use them for all kinds of things, but I mostly use them to stabilize propane bbq bottles. A bottle fits in the crate snugly and is much more stable in the square crate, and much less likely to slide around.
As I was driving around I noticed a significant increase in groups of men standing around drinking outside of little convenience stores, around the back of apartments, in alleys and near the trash dumpsters. Hispanic men. I also noticed a marked increase in homeless men, both singly and in groups around my secondary and throughout the areas I drove through. I don’t usually drive around on a Sunday, so maybe it was due to the day of the week, but I’ll be keeping an eye open this week. The groups of drinkers hanging out I blame on illegal immigration. The homeless camps and growing number of homeless likely has several causes, including economic stress. None of it is an indicator that things are getting better.
Take an extra hard look around you this week. Take some different routes than you normally do. Look for changes. Look for signs of trouble. Graffiti tags. Trash. Illegal dumping. Homeless men, singly or in group camps. Drug dealing. Prostitution. Overgrown lots. Abandon vehicles. Get in the habit of noticing these things, and noting any changes. Day before yesterday, one of our long term “urban campers” was begging for money at an intersection near my storage unit. I’ve never seen him begging before. Changes. Not for the better.
Headed to the BOL this morning after I get the kids out the door. Need to meet with the septic guy to settle up, and with the inspector to get approval. I’ll probably spend the day working on gas and plumbing, and spend the night there. I can drive home Tues, and hit two auction pickups on the way home, which is a plus. Wife is working from home since she was sick all weekend. I’m happy not to be breathing the same air….
Work on your local knowledge. Get a feel for ‘normal’ and for ‘changed’. Stack up the things you need.
nick
@Nick
Related to exams deferred due to pandemic?
Violent crime continues to go up. The Democrats mantra doesn’t changes, but the public seems increasingly skeptical that the guns are doing it themselves.
Related to exams deferred due to pandemic?
– partly. Partly that the worst fears about the jabs turn out to be true.
n
So there’s an article on Ars Technica “This should be the absolute peak of hurricane season—but it’s dead quiet out there”. I dared point out that the AGW alarmists have been confident in saying that AGW will cause “more and more intense” hurricanes, and that this was yet another failed prediction of the alarmists. I actually put it quite a bit more politely than that.
How fast can you say “downvoted to oblivion”? Obviously, failed predictions don’t count. Only successful ones.
One touchdown. One interception. Four field goals from the kicker. 170 yards from the running back.
When I saw the score, Warren Sapp immediately sprung to mind – “Give us 17 points and we’ll take care of the rest.”
Of course, Sapp had to contend with Dilfer, not Brady.
And yes, Trent Dilfer may be a fine Christian man, but his head was not in the game when he played in Tampa.
Not may Aztecs are still on the road because not many were built.
The vehicle actually has a fairly common GM drivetrain and should be no more difficult to keep rolling than any other American car of the era, which, all things considered, was not a bad period of automotive engineering.
@drwilliams, just checking, but you did see the answer to your word bullet point question a couple of days ago? It was the last comment of the day, so easy enough to miss.
n
73F and sun coming up on a beautiful day. Humidity only 85%RH.
Trap in garage was sprung, but no animal inside. Stuff knocked off shelves indicates he was there…
Not going to reset until I get back from the lake.
n
Well crap. Wife just had a positive chinkyflu test. Maybe I’ll head to the lake for the whole week…
n
@Nick: Best of luck to the wife.
Strain current definitely seems milder but more prevalent. As of last Friday five people I know locally had it simultaneously – my brother and two couples.
Blue Origin failure in unmanned launch:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/uncrewed-blue-origin-launch-suffers-mid-flight-anomaly
Emergency systems worked well.
Got acceptance on the septic. Wrote a big check
N.
>> Hmm. Unfortunately another woman in our fairly small circle of friends had been diagnosed with breast cancer. This time, the mom of one of D1’s friends.
I am anxious that this not turn out to be the first few stones of an avalanche.
If W1 wants to be overly cautious then look into digital mammography with tomosynthesis. My W2 has dense breasts and suffered through many what turned out to be benign needle biopsies from film-based mammograms. Having her switched over to digital has been a game-changer. Ymmv.
Violent crime continues to go up. The Democrats mantra doesn’t changes, but the public seems increasingly skeptical that the guns are doing it themselves.
There were ten murders in Houston over the weekend, including a Harris County Constable’s deputy who was killed by two youths wearing ankle monitors. None mentioned in the Houston Chronicle. But they could talk about global warming: “Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within decades”
https://www.chron.com/news/science-environment/article/Rising-seas-could-swallow-millions-of-U-S-acres-17436332.php
No where did they say this was projected by unqualified climate scientists who have an incredibly poor track record to date.
The constable deputy’s murder was mentioned on the channel 13 website:
https://abc13.com/deputy-omar-ursin-killed-2-men-accused-of-shooting-and-killing-ahsim-taylor-jr-jayland-womack/12224383/
“Curious About Starlink’s ‘Best Effort’ Tier? Early Users Give Rave Reviews”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/curious-about-starlinks-best-effort-tier-early-users-give-rave-reviews
“Speeds can be slower than what Starlink usually offers, but for rural users with few options for high-speed internet, the Best Effort tier is a huge improvement.”
Bummer, I cannot figure out how to sign up for “Best Effort” here.
LA mayor candidate Karen Bass has guns stolen
https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/la-mayoral-candidate-rep-karen-bass-has-guns-stolen-from-home/
The guns — which had been “safely and securely stored” — were missing. right….
Val Demings, the Dem candidate running against Little Marco for Florida’s US Senate seat lost her 9 mm Sig Sauer service weapon back during her tenure as Chief of Police in Orlando.
It doesn’t matter.
@lynn – from this article:
This article has more info. “Best Effort” appears to be invite only, for those that have signed up for the wait list.
I assume that you have already signed up, but not yet been granted access.
“Tom Brady looks comfortable enough in his return as he slays Cowboys again”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/tom-brady-looks-comfortable-enough-in-his-return-as-he-slays-cowboys-again-opinion/ar-AA11ID0p
“And typically, he sliced up the Dallas Cowboys again.”
“Brady passed for 212 yards to help the Bucs douse the Cowboys for a 19-3 victory. Yes, he’s still a Dallas slayer. That result kept Brady’s perfect record against the Cowboys intact (7-0) while also marking the first time in NFL history that a quarterback started a game at 45 years old.”
I am still thinking over the fact that most 45 year olds are long time has beens in the NFL and MLB. Especially since I am 62.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I saw my new cardiologist this morning (he is #6 since my first heart attack in 2009). I got both an EKG and a Echo-cardiogram. Apparently I still have a heart.
He also signed me up for a nuclear stress test since it has been five years since the last one (when I had double sided heart ablation surgery) and a calcium deposit scan of my heart (CT). I suspect that we are headed to a heart cath test (done that before, it sucked then and it will suck again).
“Ukrainian Gains ‘Very Promising’ as HIMARS Help Counteroffensive, PM Says”
https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-gains-very-promising-himars-help-counteroffensive-pm-denys-shmyhal-kharkiv-1741769
I want one of these HIMARS systems !
I want one of these HIMARS systems !
Um, I also need a 60 mile firing range.
@Nick
Yes, I missed this. Thanks for pointing it out.
@Whitehorse
Thank you.
Yes, this helped me track it down in another version of word as well as OpenOffice.
@Lynn
Will these work against F-15’s? Asking for lots of friends.
ADDED: Even if not, I want one, too. My guess is that an F-15 pilot getting the lock-on detected signal and seeing one of these light off is going to hard over and hit the afterburners the flock away from there.
@lynn:
Just make sure you don’t order the one with a pistol brace attachment.
No private jets, no helicopters, and Joe Biden is taking a bus to the Queen’s funeral
“Can you imagine Joe Biden on the bus?”
Yes I can.
I hope Jill pins a note on him in case they get separated.
F-me.
Putin coming apart at the seams and suddenly all his enemies in one place.
Can’t we send Pelosi and Chuckie, too?
I presume the Bushes, the B.H. Obamas, and the Clintons are going to be there?
Can you say “global reset”?
I’m giddy–where’s my O2 bottle?
Will these work against F-15’s? Asking for lots of friends.
ADDED: Even if not, I want one, too. My guess is that an F-15 pilot getting the lock-on detected signal and seeing one of these light off is going to hard over and hit the afterburners the flock away from there.
My former USMC son’s primary MOS was mortar gunner. When dropping rounds at 29 Stumps (29 Palms, CA), they had to watch out for low flying F-16s and F-18s. The following mortar launch session has serious language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKndW86etjQ
I’ve heard launching the big ones can seriously ripple your insides. I’ll take their word for it.
I’ve heard launching the big ones can seriously ripple your insides. I’ll take their word for it.
Those are 81 mm mortars. Each of the mortars has four rocket packs on it. You get a serious overpressure event as the mortar clears the barrel. My son is dropping the mortars in that video and has the right ear unplugged so he can hear the platoon sergeant yell out directional changes. He has serious damage in that ear now, he thinks that he launched 4,000 mortars (lighting rounds) in Iraq alone. Note the guy holding the mortar base down with his body to keep it from bouncing, that gets old after a while as the mortar barrel gets red hot after a 100 of them.
Got the gas line installed. Got the kitchen appliances hooked up to it and tested. Got hot water.
I still need to run the lines for the dryer and the furnace, but those can wait.
Met another neighbor. Nice lady, retired up here with her husband. Redid their house and have another that isn’t lakefront as a guest house. They redid that one too. I gave her some rocks. (she said she was working on landscaping and had a couple rocks in the back of her quad, I had a pile that matched that I needed to move anyway…. so….)
She thinks this will be a good place to ride out whatever bad thing is coming (AWAY FROM CITIES!!!) she said very forcefully.
Like minded.
Chatted some more with my septic guy and it turns out he harvests a lot of pork out here. I again offered to help process so I can learn how. He’s got traps. He uses the when “he just wants meat”. If he wants to hunt, he’ll do that and take the biggest pig he can find, but he won’t eat it. It’s small piggies for eating. In Texas wild pigs are a nuisance animal and you can take as many as you can, no season, no limit.
I think I’ll head down for a fire and a beverage.
n
It’s not a trend, yet, but it has been so rare for so many years that a few cases stick up way above the baseline.
In an election year where virtually all the Democrat apologists (i.e., all the MSM) have been pretending that the upcoming election has swung to D+10, another whale has breached:
PA Senate Race: WaPo Isn’t Falling for John Fetterman’s Excuses Not to Debate Dr. Oz
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/pa-senate-race-wapo-isnt-falling-for-john-fettermans-excuses-not-to-debate-dr-oz/
Yeah, sure. WaPo has no interest in the fact that Fetterman is an ultra-left pervert-loving commie, but they are “concerned” about his health impacting his ability to serve.
I haven’t wandered around DC for some years, but I seem to remember that 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is within spitting distance of Bezo’s Three-Monkey Palace.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/visa-mastercard-amex-categorizing-gun-sales-in-new-merchant-category/
“citing recent examples of credit cards being used to buy guns that were later used in mass shootings.”
Sure. What stores were they?
There’s one obvious and one not-so-obvious way to respond to this.
The not-so-obvious is to boycott the big-box sporting good stores that made the dirty back-room deal to shaft the little guy.
A few years ago I could have dropped a 2000-lb dime on one of the local outlets that richly deserved it, but chose not to. Ah, regrets.
If the credit card companies start tracking gun buying, that’s a defacto registry. I’m sure they have no intention of selling that info to anyone, or to .gov…. *cough * ATF *cough*
n
The next step are the signs saying “All Purchases by Credit Card Only”
“America is already feeling the consequences of a looming nationwide rail strike”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/business/railroad-strike-threat
“New York (CNN Business)America’s freight railroads have already stopped accepting shipments of hazardous and other security-sensitive materials because of the looming threat of a strike Friday.”
“Union Pacific, one of the major national railroads whose operations would be halted by a strike, said the move is meant to “protect employees, customers, and the communities we serve.””
This one is gonna hurt.
Alan beat me to it.
I have a friend who says he uses cash for as many purchases as possible – for privacy. I suggested he look for surveillance cameras by cash registers.
Even in our little town, I read that as of at least a couple years ago we had two police patrol cars equipped with license plate readers.
“It’s small piggies for eating.”
Mmm. Free-range pork. The ultimate in “green” meat.
Just remember that the flesh of wild swine needs to be tested for trichinella, or cooked through. I don’t know about the US, but the trichinella samples can be done with domestic swine samples here, and are reasonably priced, on the order of 5-10 euro.
Which reminds me, I have an open bag of wild boar speck cubes in the fridge, and some king oyster mushrooms. The forecast for around lunchtime looks like omelette!
“Meet the women hunting giant pythons ‘eating everything’ in the Everglades”
https://www.yahoo.com/video/meet-women-hunting-giant-pythons-120031660.html
Jenny ! Should you get tired of rabbits, goats, and chickens, there are alternatives for you.