Warm and damp, because Houston. It was cool and misty at the BOL, but cleared later into another beautiful day. Which I mostly missed. At some point there will be more beautiful days and less plumbing.
The extra day helped me get the projects actually finished, or that close to being finished. Still have to actually install the dishwasher, but everything except electrical is in place. Still have to actually connect the drain line for the master bath sink, but the rest is good to go. $4 part is a showstopper, if it air gaps a drain line… and my box-o-parts came a cropper…
So not quite ready for the in-laws next weekend.
Also need to order a propane delivery. Tank is at 40%. The service is supposed to be coming by and topping up, but they haven’t ever come by to my knowledge. We’ve never been billed anyway.
So much to do, and only two weeks until Christmas.
I have to get some more decorations out. LOTS of lights in the neighborhood this year and I am feeling underdressed.
I’m also supposed to take a couple of bins to auction today, if I can get them together. If I actually get to my unit and organize it, that wouldn’t be hard. Limiting the number of bins is the hard part.
And coming up on a potluck dinner for my Constable’s volunteer group, and my non-prepping hobby with white elephant gift exchange, and probably at least one other social occasion that isn’t on my radar yet. So I’ll be busy. Oh, and need to get the house in a more Christmas-y mood.
Have to build and participate in our shared cultural traditions.
And find time to stack some things…
nick
“Labelled” is correct by the rule of “Double the terminal consonant to prevent the final vowel from being turned long.”
The terminal consonant not being doubled comes from the wire services, which paid the telegraph companies by the letter to send their stories around. Getting rid of the double and a few other tweaks to spelling and grammar saved some small fraction of their communications expenses. I don’t know the means by which it became the standard beyond their use.
“Stand in the dark, cussin’ up a storm” counts as a plan, right?
Doesn’t matter. The switch is Texas code.
Damage control for Herr Doktor until the deposition stories leave the news cycle.
Remember FauXi’s beagle experiments? Zzzzz crickets from the LSM. Then:
Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Get him! Get Musk for animal cruelty, Twitter, tho.
Looks like Walker is toast in GA. I guess paying for an abortion is worse than a slum lord screwing the poor.
70F and saturated this am. Light overcast too.
Really hope the rain stays away.
n
Interesting listing showed up in my email…
Different position? Or just a different place with the listing?
LOL, why even have the requirement anymore:
REAL ID Requirement for Travelers Delayed Until May 2025
Papers please! Oh, wait.
Alan: make sure your circuit breaker panel is fully and accurately labeled
I label the cover plates (on the back in the house and on the front in the shop or when the cover is concealed in the house) with the breaker number. In my new shop I added a dash and the box count from the breaker. Box count defined as the first box on the circuit, second box …, etc.
I just plan on just getting some “letters of transit”. I know this guy…
https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/03/26/documents-that-changed-the-world-the-casablanca-letters-of-transit/
What did Dr. Pournelle call NASA? Full employment for space geeks?
Confirmation.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Developing Military Version Of Starlink Satellites
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Dec 06, 2022 – 09:25 AM
Authored by Bryan Jung via The Epoch Times,
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced that it would expand its Starlink satellite system into the military sphere with a new national security line called Starshield.
The new program, unveiled on Dec. 2, will build on its launch and satellite communications technology and provide additional capabilities to provide a secured satellite network for government entities.
The “hosted payloads,” system allows users to utilize a satellite bus, which is the body of the spacecraft, as a flexible platform.
The most likely customers of Starshield would appear to be the U.S. military and intelligence community, which have already invested heavily into SpaceX’s satellite technology, with key stakes in the Starlink system.
— told ya!
n
German Study: Covid-19 vaccine killing otherwise healthy people.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/06/german-study-covid-19-vaccine-killing-otherwise-healthy-people-n515833
Autopsy results. Tip of iceberg
I’m jealous of the Pure Bloods.
We have our issues as well.
If I had succumbed to the pressure to get the fake vaccine, I would be researching methods to counteract inflammation and blood clots, get in control of my weight, and trying to eat a natural human diet.
As it happens, even without the shot, that’s what I’m doing now. I’m investigating the anti-inflammatory effects of CBD oil, and going back to a mostly carnivore keto diet. I’ve been avoiding industrial seed oils, PUFAs and processed foods for years at this point.
It would have been nice to keep my job, but I was given the clear choice: Take an experimental RNA treatment with only an Emergency Use Authorization, or get fired. I think I chose well.
And when the FDA went from EUA to full approval, they did so without ever completing the animal testing and long term trials – with a control group – that is required of every other drug.
I do miss the paycheck, though.
German Study: Covid-19 vaccine killing otherwise healthy people.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/06/german-study-covid-19-vaccine-killing-otherwise-healthy-people-n515833
Autopsy results. Tip of iceberg
https://diedsuddenly.info/
A number of acquaintances gave in to the pressure last year and now wish they hadn’t. I sympathize with those who believed the lies. (Except for those who were bitching at me to “Just give in and get it. It may save you and at worst it won’t do you any harm.” They can die in agony for all I care.) Those who gave in so that they could keep their jobs, I sympathize a little but not much. I refused the clot shot last year, after being told I’d be fired if I didn’t give in. Others could have done the same; if enough had done the same, then the entire sham would have fallen apart in a month. As for those who got the clot shot so that they could fly to go on vacation, I sympathize not at all.
Meanwhile, I’m giving thought to selling my pure blood. I don’t know the going rate for a pint, but it’s only going to go up as more and more problems are found with the contaminated blood banks.
lpdbw, from time to time I get headhunter spam for 100% remote C++ jobs. Want me to forward them to you?
Has anybody read a study if the mecho-gene- splicing pseudo vaccine actually leaves your body over time? I’m not getting any “boosters”. We definitely would have lost our business if we didn’t get gene-spliced since most of our income is from goobermint sources.
MrAtoz Said:
For me, it was a matter of being retired. There was nobody telling me I HAD to take it, so I didn’t. I’d like to believe that I was prescient, but I was just lazy. And lucky.
“Oimjakon, Siberia Sees “Extremely Low Temperatures” As Mercury Plummets To 65 Below!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oimjakon-siberia-sees-extremely-low-temperatures-as-mercury-plummets-to-65-below/
“German meteorologist Dominik Jung of wetter.net says, after having reported yesterday of -50°C in Oimjakon, Siberia: “-54°C were measured there this morning. -54°C is 65 below Fahrenheit.”
“Mercury cannot plummet to -50C – it freezes at -39C. Use an ethanol thermometer down to -114C”
“If it’s so cold that your mercury thermometer freezes, perhaps you have bigger problems than trying to track down an ethanol thermometer”
Uh oh. I wonder if we will get a piece of this ?
My bullshit detector was pinging hard. The tales of the so-called pandemic were obvious lies even by April 2020, then later the same people were telling us this miracle vaccine. Falso in uno, falso in omnibus. Plus, if it were really that beneficial and harmless, they wouldn’t need to force it on everyone with threats of violence. So, not prescience and not even science but rather knowledge of how the world works and how people work.
Once I’d decided not to take it, that was all she wrote. As the saying goes, nothing in heaven or earth will force me to do anything against my will.
Amusingly, now that the truth is coming out, I don’t even need to say “I told you so.”
@SteveF, re: job leads
As much as I miss the paycheck, I’m doing ok financially and it turns out I don’t miss working that much. My issue is predominantly based on the abruptness and arbitrariness of my termination from a pretty soft gig. For no good reason.
Your offer is very generous, and somewhat deflates your curmudgeonly personna.
As soon as the C-suites started talking about HR departments being enforcers for the jabs, I knew where I stood.
Lynn said:
Not THAT cold; Oimjakon, Siberia is north of the Arctic Circle, and Wikipedia says “By winter average temperatures, it is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth.”
But the Old Farmer’s Almanac does predict VERY cold weather for Texas in January and February, and their predictions are sometimes eerily accurate.
-50? Only if the Gulf Stream stops moving.
“I’m sorry that’s happening to you. Best of luck.”
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1600173709251076104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Direct and economical.
Cause of Twitter Files bumpy rollout revealed in part to be Swamp Creature Clutching:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/06/breaking-matt-taibbi-drops-more-information-on-the-twitter-files-and-exposes-an-attempted-cover-up-n669840
I hoppe Musk has a video recording of that interview.
Not THAT cold; Oimjakon, Siberia is north of the Arctic Circle, and Wikipedia says “By winter average temperatures, it is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth.”
But the Old Farmer’s Almanac does predict VERY cold weather for Texas in January and February, and their predictions are sometimes eerily accurate.
COLD around here is below 20 F. I have seen it 6 F here on Christmas eve of 1989.
My concern is that Siberian could come across the pole (North !) and dump a bunch of cold weather on us. We have already proven that our grid here in Texas cannot take it as we were 11 F at my house in Feb 2021 (winter storm Uri) and without power for 4 days.
The utility companies haven’t received their bailout from the Texas Legislature yet. Until that time, they’ll keep burning the furniture in a figurative sense like they did this summer.
Maybe even in a literal sense.
>> “Stand in the dark, cussin’ up a storm” counts as a plan, right?
As long as you have one working FLASHLIGHT…now where did I leave that dang thing!
You can never have enough FLASHLIGHTS. They should be scattered around your house and garage and car.
I even have some small ones for the key ring. Like these https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095PM87WY?tag=ttgnet-20
The utility companies haven’t received their bailout from the Texas Legislature yet. Until that time, they’ll keep burning the furniture in a figurative sense like they did this summer.
Maybe even in a literal sense.
The ERCOT grid is not fixable for extreme weather events, below 20 F or above 105 F. ERCOT is listing the windmills and solar farms at nameplate capacity which is a joke. The windmills ice up and trip offline in the extreme cold and the solar panels get covered by ice and snow. Net power generation: zero.
The fossil fuel plants need to have a week of fuel on site. This is rare in Texas, the cost is just too high. And the natural gas only plants (a quarter of the power plants in Texas (SWAG!)) do not have diesel backup, no diesel burner systems or storage. Getting the EPA permits for diesel is very difficult for the last 20 to 30 years.
Lynn: We moved to San Antonio from Sacramento, CA in August, 2020. My wife had been watching the SA weather for almost a year, and she hadn’t seen anything “severe”. So in January 2021, we were a little surprised to wake up to FIVE INCHES of snow. We didn’t lose power; we’re only a block from a fire station, and CPS isn’t going to turn off the power to a fire station or a hospital. I had a small generator in the shed, but I had already ordered a whole-house generator a couple of weeks before. (The guys we bought it from had said it would take 6 weeks to get it in; after the storm, he said that he had DOZENS of new orders, and it was going to take nearly a YEAR for some of the deliveries.)
I would suggest that if you don’t already have a generator, that it might be time. And if your heat is electric, get a couple of indoor-safe Mr. Heater propane heaters, and a few extra bottles for it.
At this point, I think I’m as ready as I can be for another Fimbulwinter storm. I was stationed in Brunswick, Maine, for 3 years, so I’m at least trained in winter survival, and we can ride it out for a week or three. Crossing my fingers that it isn’t that bad THIS winter.
You can never have enough FLASHLIGHTS. They should be scattered around your house and garage and car.
I even have some small ones for the key ring. Like these https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095PM87WY?tag=ttgnet-20
Amen, brother, amen. Preach on !
This is my current favorite flashlight. I have a dozen of them scattered around the house, two per vehicle, and in my offices. I have another 5 or 6 in the original package. I give them as birthday and Christmas presents too. I just walked a mile and half with one and my wife with another one.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0716D98GQ?tag=ttgnet-20/
Lynn: We moved to San Antonio from Sacramento, CA in August, 2020. My wife had been watching the SA weather for almost a year, and she hadn’t seen anything “severe”. So in January 2021, we were a little surprised to wake up to FIVE INCHES of snow. We didn’t lose power; we’re only a block from a fire station, and CPS isn’t going to turn off the power to a fire station or a hospital. I had a small generator in the shed, but I had already ordered a whole-house generator a couple of weeks before. (The guys we bought it from had said it would take 6 weeks to get it in; after the storm, he said that he had DOZENS of new orders, and it was going to take nearly a YEAR for some of the deliveries.)
We had two inches of ice and three inches of snow for that fun event. My 4×4 F-150 did ok in it but I kept the four mile commute to the office at 20 mph.
I have a 38 kW liquid cooled Generac using natural gas at the house since August of 2021. Ten seconds and the power is back on as long as I have 2 psig of natural gas at the house meter. I figure that my neighbors can run an extension cord over here if things go south again. My east neighbor is a 78 year old widow, I will bop over there fairly quickly to at least get her heat on.
Lynn: We moved to San Antonio from Sacramento, CA in August, 2020. My wife had been watching the SA weather for almost a year, and she hadn’t seen anything “severe”. So in January 2021, we were a little surprised to wake up to FIVE INCHES of snow. We didn’t lose power; we’re only a block from a fire station, and CPS isn’t going to turn off the power to a fire station or a hospital. I had a small generator in the shed, but I had already ordered a whole-house generator a couple of weeks before. (The guys we bought it from had said it would take 6 weeks to get it in; after the storm, he said that he had DOZENS of new orders, and it was going to take nearly a YEAR for some of the deliveries.)
BTW, my parents live southeast of you in Port Lavaca. On Christmas day of 1989, it was 8 F at their house. My middle brother and I first walked across their swimming pool on the ice. Then we got really crazy and walked out a quarter mile in Lavaca Bay on the ice from their bulkhead. We suddenly realized that we were above ten feet of ice and water (we could see an oyster bank right through the ice) and went back to the bulkhead before the ice broke and we dropped through.
Mr. Heater Propane Vent-Free Blue Flame Wall Heater — 30,000 BTU
“Easy installation with no venting or electricity required, making it ideal for power outages”
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200664881_200664881
A useful option if you have reliable natural gas but the electricity is iffy. 100-lb cylinder is a must if you need more than a day or so of backup.
Several other caveats, all controllable
WOW WOW WOW WOW ! Walker is 5,307 votes ahead of Warnock in Georgia with 76% of the votes in. Walker has 1,316,385 votes and Warnock has 1,311,078 votes.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/georgia/senate-runoff
I’ll bet that some dumbrocrat somewhere has a trunk full of votes.
Just looked at the map: Atlanta is still in Georgia.
Yup, seen this show before.
Lynn said:
I remember some of that storm! I’d just retired from the Navy after spending 3 years in Subic Bay, Philippines. We took our young son to Disney World, and after coming from 15 degrees north latitude and 90+ degrees, the 40F winter cold of Orlando was freezing! Makes me cold just REMEMBERING it.
Bullet points:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/06/the-mirage-of-electric-vehicles/
Mr. Heater Propane Vent-Free Blue Flame Wall Heater — 30,000 BTU
I have the natgas version of this stacked. I hoped there was a conversion kit, but nope. It will stay here at this house for now. New in box, I’ll have it ready. We have a gas log in the fireplace and used it during the freeze. It’s a net loss for heat but it feels good when it’s on.
n
South Fulton.
Literally where “Zombieland” was filmed.
There is something very wrong with the world.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11392117/Trans-child-surgery-risen-13-TIMES-decade-hospitals.html
BTW “Top” surgery is ‘breast removal’ surgery. Part of what is wrong is the twisting of the language.
n
and really what does one expect from a ‘community’ made up of people with profound mental health issues?
I love this meme:
“AMERICANS
Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you.
In your sleep.
On Christmas.
Totally not kidding.
We’ve done it.”
https://freerangeamerican.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CrossingMeme.jpg
I remember some of that storm! I’d just retired from the Navy after spending 3 years in Subic Bay, Philippines. We took our young son to Disney World, and after coming from 15 degrees north latitude and 90+ degrees, the 40F winter cold of Orlando was freezing! Makes me cold just REMEMBERING it.
The wife and I got married in January of 1982. Dad loaned us a working car (neither one of us had a working car) and $500. We drove from Sugar Land, TX to Orlando, Florida. It was 85 F when we left Houston. It was 30 F when we got to Orlando with ice everywhere. Disneyworld and EPCOT were half closed with icicles hanging off all the rides but we still had a great time. My uncle slipped me a $100 bill in the reception line and I used that to buy my bride jeans, a long sleeve shirt, and a Mickey Mouse hoodie. Neither one of us brought jackets as it was Florida ! At least I brought jeans.
Epcot opened in October 1982. Did you get an advance look?
WOW WOW WOW WOW ! Walker is 5,307 votes ahead of Warnock in Georgia with 76% of the votes in. Walker has 1,316,385 votes and Warnock has 1,311,078 votes.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/georgia/senate-runoff
I’ll bet that some dumbrocrat somewhere has a trunk full of votes.
Bummer, they called the race at 97% votes in for the dumbrocrat who is ahead by almost 50,000 votes.
Epcot opened in October 1982. Did you get an advance look?
Huh. I would have sworn that we roamed Epcot also. I remember walking under a peoplemover of the future system which was closed since there was so many icicles hanging off it. We went back in 1990 or 1991 with our kids, I may be getting confused.
hmmm…
1982 was probably too early for Jello shots at Disney…
hmmm…
1982 was probably too early for Jello shots at Disney…
No money for those. We had $600 for gas, hotels, meals, Disneyworld tickets, and warm clothing for a week. I think I had $10 in my pocket when we got back. We spent a night with my parents, repacked, and headed up to College Station for my final semester at TAMU which I was taking 19 hours.
Hey Joe, bet you can’t eat just one…
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/12/06/president-joe-biden-admits-he-doesnt-know-what-hes-talking-about-in-arizona/
Permanent sleeping facilities will be in the new Texas offices…Hotel Tony, you can check in but you can never leave.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/06/elon-musk-others-question-s-f-city-priorities-over-what-theyre-investigating-at-twitter-hq/
>> Permanent sleeping facilities will be in the new Texas offices…Hotel Tony, you can check in but you can never leave.
Should have made it “…you can check in your code but you can never leave.”