Warm today, possibility of rain? We’ll find out. There were some dark clouds in Houston when I got back last night. The national forecast has us in the middle of potential rain and T-storms.
It was a beautiful day at the BOL, and a nice day to finish up what I was doing. Got quite a bit of work done while the foundation guys were there. Foundation repair. New water service entry. Repair to the main sewer line. Connected the pex that was in place. Ran and connected the gas line for the furnace, and got it running for winter. Worked on the dock. Cut the grass. Poisoned the ants. Ran pex into the kitchen. Cleaned and organized. Did a dozen other small tasks. Changed out a toilet. And learned some things about fishing.
For the next two weeks I’m at home. I hope I’m as productive here because my list is just as long or longer.
It’s hard sometimes to stay motivated. To keep grinding on. But you’ve got to do it. Take some time to enjoy what you are trying so hard to protect and preserve. Then get back to it. Whether you are slow and steady, or your work is more ‘burst-y’ in nature, keep at it and you will make progress.
Just keep doing it, and you will reap the rewards.
nick
Yes, worth every penny. Need to have two of the ECX drivers in case one gets misplaced.
Subbing today for the PE teacher. Basically sit in the gym and watch a few play with a basketball, the rest sit in the bleachers on their phones. Last class is planning so I get to go home early.
@Ray Thompson
It’s a tough job but somebody…
Minimum wage tough job. Pays less than slinging burgers at McDonalds.
I’ve heard, but can’t confirm, that ant poisons mostly drive the ants to the neighbors yards. If so, there may be a benefit to everyone in the neighborhood applying the poison at the same time. If you are doing the meatspace thing anyway…
I use Amdro when the neighbors’ ants become a problem in my yard and hit the lawn with granules once a year. Of course, where you live, the ants might be different.
I’m back to reading on my Kindle. iPad became too distracting. In case you use Calibre, there is an updated DeDRM plugin based on Apprentice Alf’s. It’s version 10.0.3 on GitHub. It works. I DeDRM all my DRM’d Kindle books and keep them in Calibre.
Taking Bob’s advice I downloaded scores of books and used Calibre to set them up for my Samsung tablet. However, several years ago I signed up with my municipal public library and now I borrow ebooks from them and read on tablet.
Back at home for a short while. Plumbing went fine. Wrote a check. Tenants’ new baby is a cutie.
Looks like we got a sprinkle of rain here at the house. I didn’t see any during my trip downtown. It threatened, but didn’t even spit.
We could use the rain, but I’ve got things to do outdoors. So in my selfish nature, I’ll wish for dry and clear.
n
Flu shot this morning. Got the Sanofi Flublok Quadrivalent. Asked about the Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent but the insurance company declined it even though my birthday is only a few weeks away. Not all pharmacies have the Quadrivalent vaccines. If you want one, Sanofi’s site has a search function. So far, just a little soreness in the arm.
Donated blood today. This puts me at somewhere about 17+ gallons over my lifetime. I have been donating about 3 times a year for over 45 years. It is interesting the questions asked to disqualify. The countries where one has visited, medicines taken, surgical procedures, dental work, tattoos, jail time, and of course sexual activity.
The program the blood people use to record responses was apparently coded by idiots because even though the program knows my gender (I think) I get asked if I am pregnant. Or maybe I am just not “woke” enough.
Driving back from New Orleans yesterday, we ended up entering Austin in a new section SE of downtown, between the toll road and Gidding. Not much was out there yet, but they did have a plasma center.
Gotta make the payment on that $750k stucco shack.
No mask kabuki when I donated blood. Just normal precautions, gloves, iodine antiseptic, small band aid. If I die of an infection because I did not Fauci myself I will let everyone know.
“GMC Unveils 2024 Sierra Pickup Truck EV: A $107,000 Beast With 400-Mile Range”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/gmc-unveils-2024-sierra-pickup-truck-ev-a-107000-beast-with-400-mile-range
“The truck can haul 9,500-pound loads and ‘crabwalk’ to drive diagonally.”
My F-150 4×4 has a 600 mile range, can tow up to 13,000 lbs, and cost me $39,000 in 2019. Oh wait, it uses gasoline instead of electricity so it is no longer any good.
You live in Tennessee with Ivermectin available over the counter. The only people wearing masks we saw on our trip were Chinese or Indian tourists.
I believe it is up to the discretion of the pharmacist, but I doubt you would have a problem at Publix getting Ivermectin if they’ve have made it out to your neck of the woods.
We picked up dinner one night in Chattanooga at Publix so I know they are there.
All Publix stores smell like the floor treatments used on the terrazzo.
Rich “Show Ya” type’s toy. We’ll see how many GM actually delivers.
I got 48 MPG out of the Camry going to New Orleans and back — from Baytown Buc-ee’s to our destination and halfway back with a quarter tank left when we stopped for gas. I wish we had brought the Exploder, however, because the roads of Louisiana are thick with discarded retread, and I bottomed out once in a pothole near the French Quarter.
I’ll take a serious look under the car this weekend when I wash it.
Say, that sure looks a lot like a Mac Mini …
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94K0P67W7581?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Just got home from relocating the SECOND possum of the day. Took the one in the trap from on top of the garage fridge, but didn’t check the small one I set in the driveway. Got home, thought to check it, and Lo! Senor Stinky was in residence.
This time I took them a mile or more away, out into a field near the landfill. Should be good eatin’ out that way.
n
@Greg
Braggart.
Yes. Regardless of your kink, you can find it in that town.
The abandoned “NCIS New Orleans” HQ soundstage sits right next to The Vampire Cafe and “bootique”.
The Vampire Cafe is pricey, too.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/shooter-identified-st-louis-school-shooting-deshawn-harris-posted-threat-social-media-numerous-photos-guns/
so NOT WHITE as originally reported.
n
The media is waiting for a white shooter heading into the midterms, especially a white shooter in Texas or Florida.
Voodoo Donuts is more my style.
Ticked both boxes, and unlikely I’ll see either again.
Too much crime in N’awlins and Portland and an aversion to seeing that kind of elephant.
We wanted to go once. Sadly, Sisko’s Creole Kitchen will not exist for another 300 years, but we found good Jambalaya at a few hole-in-the-wall places.
It turns out that we will have to go back in 2024 for my wife to take board exams.
The big conference was just in New Orleans in March 2020, scheduled to start the week that lockdowns began, but the bigwigs love to indulge.
It’s a fascinating place in many respects–great history, great restaurants, great music. I’ve visited twice during Mardi Gras and would rather clean the cow barn with a pitchfork than do it again.
I’d recommend my favorite restaurant: Pascals Manale. Barbequed shrimp. Good raw bar, too. Bad location–take a taxi.
My second favorite restaurant is long gone–Andrew Jaeger closed his French Quarter House of Fish, moved to SF just before Katrina, and ended up in a worse neighborhood. I’ve lost track of him. You used to be able to save for dinner by eating inexpensively for lunch knowing that bad eatery’s got no business and didn’t survive. Post-Katrina I can’t say that’s the case. Lot’s of good chefs left for other places.
Before Katrina one of my favorite spots in the Riverwalk got taken out by an out-of-control ship. Whole store of hot sauces.
ADDED: Abita Brewery is in Covington but they have a good presence in NO. One word: Turbodog
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2022/10/24/what-a-difference-biden-makes-delta-airlines-owns-their-suddenly-profitable-oil-refinery-n505264
>> Just got home from relocating the SECOND possum of the day.
There’s always ‘freezer camp.’
Lot’s of good info here on EU natural gas:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/10/24/europe-now-has-a-natural-gas-oversupply-if-you-include-ships-waiting-to-unload-n505592
The takeaway seems to be that a warm October has allowed them to fill the available storage, which only represents a few weeks (?) of supply. In the short term prices are going down with the temporary oversupply and inability to unload from LNG tankers.
The EU apparatchiks and the NE US states willingly made many bad choices based on greenie fantasies, and were arrogant and condescending in their moral superiority. They richly deserve a good helping of suffering as a consequence.
Unfortunately, as we saw all too well with the pandemic, the elderly are the first to suffer. Given the left’s history of favoring euthanasia it’s not clear that this is not intentional policy. When a group of people cannot form a government that protects the most vulnerable members of society, they should get the consequences good and hard.
It’s not just that I see no reason for sympathy. I’m hoping that Delaware is ground zero for the biggest heating and transportation failure in history. They were stupid enough to re-elect a verified p.o.s. like Biden time after time and have now managed to inflict him on the rest of us. To paraphrase Letterkenny: “Let them marinate in that.”
>> Just got home from relocating the SECOND possum of the day.
There’s always ‘freezer camp.’
No, No, No ! Possums eat ticks !
And food in Nick’s garage.
Possums gotta possum !
No freezer camp for possums, the recipe in my Joy of Cooking says ‘if possible, feed on milk and bread for a few days prior to cooking’. Brother, if you have milk and bread, you don’t need to eat possum.
One of them ate a whole jar of brown mustard.
I was working for a musician my last trip to NOLA. The hotel concierge drew us a map of what clubs to go to. He was very specific about taking a taxi from one club to the next, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES were we to walk thru one particular area. Well, we looked. The street hulked. It oozed menace. I’ve never seen a vacant street that more clearly said STAY AWAY. We took a cab the few blocks to the club.
I’m worn out. Going to bed.
n
It´s also unseasonably warm here, which means that the heating season has barely started. Forecasts show warm weather continuing for at least another week.
What I find really worrying right now, is that Russia has found an effective strategy: Destroy civilian infrastructure, and watch the civilians freeze in the winter. That’s right up there in the list of war crimes, but no one dares do anything about it, because Putin has that big, red button. If there were ever a time for covert action by agencies like the CIA and Mossad, this is surely it.
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In other news, I’m getting set up for the class I’ll take over at the trade school. Normally, students have a part-time apprenticeship next to their school classes. Some either don’t find an apprenticeship or don’t want one, so they get a fake job at the school. I am the fake job.
I have to give them a project to work on for a few weeks, one that stretches their abilities and teaches them a bit. However, since the project isn’t graded, it also needs to be extra interesting and motivating.
It’s an interesting challenge, and this is an age group (16 and 17 year olds) that I have never worked with…
In the 1950s and 60s, Detroit was known for places that looked safe, but were not. One was at the renovated area at the foot of Woodward Avenue, with the Spirit of Detroit statue. There were numerous homicides committed in broad daylight every year. I never knew why in that unlikely place, but many locals avoided that spot. There were many other innocent-looking places plus the other obvious ones.
Paging Bill Blazejowski, Bill Blazejowski to the white courtesy phone…
Some good info on LNG import and storage in the NE here.
https://www.northeastgas.org/about_lng.php
Takeaway is that they use a lot and only have two weeks storage. Cryogenic storage is expensive.
TBH I didn’t realize how cold LNG storage was, I was thinking -90f, not -260f.