Probably clear, probably warm. Certainly damp if not wet. We are solidly in the ‘rain’ zone on the national map, but then we were for Thursday on Tuesday’s map and it didn’t happen that way. Thursday was overcast, then sunny, then scattered rain… I got a few minutes of mist on my way home after a mostly nice day. It was 77F at midnight.
Took my trash to the dumpster. Did my pickup. Failed to meet a friend for some thrifting. Maybe today. Went by the reStore to get a sample of the floor tile my wife thought might work for the bathrooms at the BOL, but they had sold out. Gotta buy it when you see it. Something else will come along.
I’m hoping to deliver another freezer, and get it out of my storage unit. That will make it easier to sort for upcoming auctions, and maybe finally let me condense one unit down into another. One can always hope… and I think my buddy will take a toilet off my hands. That won’t make me as much money as I’d planned, but it will get the stuff out of storage.
Today I’ve got all my normal stuff, and I need to get loaded up for a weekend working at the BOL. Girls have a scouting weekend, so I can get up there by myself and turn off the water for long enough to get my remaining plumbing done. I think I’ll move a bunch of gas, propane, and food on this trip too. I should have space in the truck as I don’t have any large stuff going up this trip. Who knows what might change though.
I better get moving on stuff, or I’ll end up sitting here most of the day.
Stack something, even just baby steps.
n
77F and 84%RH this fine day. Working on getting the kids out the door.
n
The only episode I’ve seen of “The Last of Us” had too much “Groomer” going on, and I realized why the entertainment press is so positive on the series beyond the production team having been involved with “Chernobyl”.
The high water mark of Warner looking the other way is too recent. “10 is the new 16”.
I did and I didn’t.
Yes, I have several Apple products. I like them and the way they work together. I tried Android based phone one time. Never did like it. It was my first smart phone. That is why I switched to Apple. I have too much invested to switch.
I don’t like Google products as Google is all about harvesting data about people. Maybe Apple does the same and sells the data to Google. I don‘t know.
Use what a person likes and fits their needs. I can find no fault in any such decision.
That’s not very progressive of you.
“The City of Milwaukee will be suing automakers Kia and Hyundai over the damage inflicted by thefts of their vehicles, Milwaukee leaders announced Wednesday.”
Sure. And how many examples of car thieves released and reoffending could you find in a few minutes work? But the cities have no responsibility.
What’s insurance got to do with cell phones?
And, before I forget, “Chernobyl” benefited greatly from the political antics of producer Greg Mazin, Rafael Edward’s freshman year roommate at Princeton, dumping on the Senator on Twitter starting in the 2016 campaign and continuing through 2018 and beyond.
The seeming popularity of “Cherynobyl” among lefties really puzzled me until I learned that bit of trivia. Sure, there are always the “no nukes” nutters, but not that many.
Seems I’ve missed a whole lot of pop culture. Doesn’t bother me.
n
A lot if it is poop culture.
Uh, hello? Those tickets to Elysium ARE NOT cheap. When I’m on the “wheel”, enjoying perfect health, I shall look down on you dirt people with a ”sniff.”
I thought the “gay” episode of TLOU was well done. Overall I enjoyed the series. One of the kids has a sub to HBOm, but I keep the series on my Mac Mini via a torrential flood.
This is why the J6 “rioters” need to be pardoned:
The latest J6 conviction is really… something
Three years. Plus waiting years for a ”trial”. I actually hate the current administration. This is not justice.
Remember this FBI overreach:
The FBI seized this woman’s life savings—but doesn’t actually suspect her of a crime
Out of control. Yes, fill the hole where the Hoover building was with gators.
Ceding pop culture to the idiots was a mistake. Disney is currently being punished severely by the market for their stupidity, but, whether The Mouse survives in its current form, it won’t matter long term since the indoctrination damage was done.
PE of 54? It is still a loooong way to the bottom for DIS, and even Baby Yoda isn’t working this season.
Not this again. Now you’ll get the troll stirred up, and this is his Spring Break week.
I’ve enjoyed the first three episodes of the season so far. Not great, but enjoyable enough.
I will say I wouldn’t be a constant Disney+ subscriber if it wasn’t included with our Verizon phone plan. I wonder how that inflates Disney’s subscriber count?
The only streaming I pay for is for Netflix since I can put it under the business. The other services the kids pay for. I backup all our favorites via torrential flood to the Mac Mini.
We need to take a hard look at the streaming subs. I know we have more than netflix, but don’t know what is included in verizon, or other sources.
n
I also get a year of Apple+ TV with a new iPhone. I skipped the 14, so I need to reup to a 15, when it comes out.
The rain stopped, sun is out, and it is 70℉. I went for a walk.
Listening to Frontlines “Terms of Enlistment” audio book in the Books app. Love that series and now get to listen to the whole series.
Life is good today.
Reading: Junket by Mark Wayne McGinnis.
Re: wood pellets. Material used is wood byproducts and trees unsuitable for lumber.
See here.
And… (here)
Here in WA (and in nearby states and CA), forests are ‘farmed’ for wood an d byproducts. A managed forest area is clear-cut, then replanted for a future harvest. I think it takes about 40 years to regrow a ‘farmed’ forest area. During that period, the area is available for wildlife; the areas are generally not used for other purposes (possibly hunting areas, maybe).
Managed forests are all over the place here in the Olympic Peninsula (WA). You can also see it in many areas of OR, ID, etc.
I skipped the 14 as I have a 13 PRO. I have no desire to go to the 15 as I see very little gain for my needs. I am also concerned about the eSim only feature of the 14 and the 15. I need a physical SIM slot for when I travel to Europe. The SIM is mailed to me, and installed when I land in Europe. I don’t know how I would do that with an eSIM.
If’n I was to be honest with myself, the iPhone 6 did everything I needed. Camera sucked on that model so that is a plus for the 13 PRO I have. Only reason I have upgraded was the batteries losing capacity, the desire (not need) for a better cameras, and more storage.
Future phone models are really struggling to find new features that attract buyers. Apple is trying colors, like blue (which I succumbed), purple and the newest color of yellow.
That effort to find new features seems to extend across all the phone manufacturers regardless of the OS involved. I really don’t need more speed as loading that app in 2.10 seconds as opposed to 2.15 seconds is not life changing. Better screen, maybe, what I have is plenty good enough. Higher refresh rate, nah, I don’t play games on the phones.
New video capabilities, portrait capabilities, etc. are nice but not something that I use. And while on the subject why do people do videos holding the phone in portrait mode? Is their TV at home also in portrait mode? Do these people not realize that a better mode is to hold in landscape mode as it is much better viewing?
I also do not understand “selfies”. Why is the image reversed left to right? Shouldn’t there be an option to flip the image horizontally when taking a selfie? And don’t get me started on girls who take selfies in the bathroom mirror. Gaaaccckkkk, grow up.
There is. Most people aren’t smart enough to look for it.
SW WA State has a lot of managed forests inside a triangle connecting Longview, Long Beach, and Chehalis. The Ocean Spray cranberry bogs along the coast are more interesting since the managed forests tend to be sterile.
Hmm, wonder what the difference is?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11898479/Spring-break-partiers-Miami-descend-violence-mayhem-Fort-Lauderdale-avoids-chaos.html
n
“The City of Milwaukee will be suing automakers Kia and Hyundai over the damage inflicted by thefts of their vehicles, Milwaukee leaders announced Wednesday.”
Sure. And how many examples of car thieves released and reoffending could you find in a few minutes work? But the cities have no responsibility.
Note that it is a scam. The lawsuit is being carried out by “independent” lawyers. Just like the cigarette lawsuits and the climate change lawsuits.
“Milwaukee to sue Kia, Hyundai over vehicle thefts, city leaders announce”
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/22/milwaukee-announces-lawsuit-against-kia-hyundai-over-vehicle-thefts/70035526007/
Wow. I know women need a certain amount of body fat (aka has enough food) to be fertile but 5’5′ by 200 pounds and just a few pounds from dewlaps behind their knees is a bit much.
Remember this FBI overreach:
The FBI seized this woman’s life savings—but doesn’t actually suspect her of a crime
Out of control. Yes, fill the hole where the Hoover building was with gators.
Congress may be getting ready to do something about this. “Bipartisan Bill In Congress Would End “Nonjudicial” Civil Forfeiture”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2023/03/19/new-bill-in-congress-would-ban-nonjudicial-civil-forfeiture/?sh=1e7bb2ec2275
Whatcha want to bet that Biden vetoes it ?
Reading: Junket by Mark Wayne McGinnis.
Reading: “Sleeping Giants” by Sylvain Neuvel
https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Giants-Themis-Sylvain-Neuvel/dp/1101886714?tag=ttgnet-20/
The selling of mom’s house seems to be speeding up. The title company was wanting me to have two witnesses at closing to sign they knew my dad. Dude has been dead almost 13 years. Oh. And they want us all to be at the title company’s office for closing. Yeah, No. It’s a 6 hour drive one way if you speed and don’t stop at all for a pee break.
I got grumpy this morning. Asked them why do I need two witnesses to say they know dad? How does that work if I’m selling 10 years from now and I have only one witness still alive? After sending dad’s will, his death cert, mom’s will, mom’s “Warranty Deed with Enhanced Life Estate” where she gave me the house, and her death cert plus then I found the original Warranty Deed, what else do I have to do?
Crickets.
The real estate dude texted me that the title company “are here to help”. I refrained from saying it seems like I’m dealing with tech support people in India or the Philippines just going down their check list.
Anyway. My grumpy e-mail seems have been pushed up the ladder and we don’t need witnesses anymore. Other than someone completing a form or two on their side, the place can close on Monday or Tuesday. Yeah. Rio Grands Valley….. mañana is a real thing.
I’m looking forward to driving to Austin to a Frost bank to deposit the check.
Well, I finally gave in to the hype and fired up a ChatGPT session.
I’m edging around questions involving Texas Medial Malpractice lawsuits.
ChatGPT, which supposedly has passed the bar exam, says that Emergency Use Authorizations do not fall under “Standard of Care”. That may give me the opening I need to sue the hospital and the MD CEO for mandating the “vaccine”. Also, of course, for prescribing me to take it without examining me first. And threatening my job (and actually taking it) if I don’t. Plus, I think I can include the HR execs for practicing medicine without a license by drafting and implementing the policy.
I have actual damages, plus pain and suffering (limited in Texas), due to using my informed consent to say “no” to this physician. I could easily have worked 7 or 8 more years (there’s precedent; I know a 75 year old surgical nurse), so there’s salary, benefits, insurance, bonuses…
I’m shopping for an attorney but I’m wondering about pursuing it pro se. That would give me a pretty good David & Goliath story. Next week I’ll finally start making calls. I believe I have to file before two years have passed.
Is Frost TBTF? Or is the total account within FDIC limits?
You don’t have to answer; that’s pretty personal. Just pointing out there are risks you may need to mitigate.
Money and more of a middle class still living in Broward.
Also, the Broward Sheriff is still Tony Gregory, whom DeSantis appointed to the job three days into his first term after campaigning on a promise to fire the previous Sheriff, Scott Israel, citing the Parkland and Fort Lauderdale shooting incidents. Gregory won reelection on his own last year.
Elections have consequences, and it is unlikely the known meth head and Benny Crump crony Andrew Gillum would have removed Israel if the 2018 election for Governor had turned out differently.
The Florida event to watch will be the next Orlando Invades Daytona. That is a huge Amish party, the weekend before Gay Days at Disney IIRC.
“Ford’s Next Electric Truck Is Coming in 2025, Dubbed ‘Project T3’”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fords-next-electric-truck-is-coming-in-2025-dubbed-project-t3
“Ford’s F-150 Lightning follow-up will be ‘like the Millennium Falcon—with a back porch attached,’ says CEO Jim Farley. Ford will produce it at a new EV mega-factory in Tennessee.”
Has Ford figured out how to keep the F-150 EV battery from melting yet ?
So everything is going to be run using that vertical flat screen in the middle of the dash. Looks distracting.
Ford certainly hasn’t figured out how to make money from EVs yet.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-projects-ev-division-lose-083720239.html
“Ford recalls 18 F-150 Lightnings for battery fire concern”
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1139009_ford-f-150-lighting-recall-battery-fire-january
“Ford figured out the issue that led to the battery pack catching fire on a 2023 F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. On Friday, Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg told Green Car Reports the automaker will recall 18 2023 Ford F-150 Lightnings and replace their high-voltage battery pack.”
That fix seems very specific since it is just 19 F-150 EVs.
Ford certainly hasn’t figured out how to make money from EVs yet.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-projects-ev-division-lose-083720239.html
Every single company out there in the green electrical business (Siemens, GE, etc) is losing money and siphoning money from their fossil fuel operations. One wonders how long they can do this ?
Until the new CAFE standards kick in and there is no alternative.
Next Summer will be when things get sporty.
At 1500/year, that’s a little more than two days’ production.
UPDATE: *15,000//year*. Still that’s a couple of hours of screw up and about 60,000 lbs of battery material going into a landfill -er- regulated waste disposal facility.
@paul
“I’m looking forward to driving to Austin to a Frost bank to deposit the check.”
Might be a good idea if you make sure beforehand that the check is negotiable at the bank.
Different circumstances, but years ago I won a bet with my attorney when a corporation issued a check “payable through”. It had to be deposited and cleared, providing a few extra days float.
“Ford recalls 18 F-150 Lightnings for battery fire concern”
Waiting for the first big announcement that EV’s have been banned from parking inside.
The Ford charger does not like extension cords. My neighbor with the Mach-e “GT” (really?) knocked a big hole in the side of his garage to run a 240 V outlet outside to a point within range of the charger’s DC line connected to the vehicle, which he keeps parked outdoors.
I don’t think he is worried about fires as much as he is about having to … gasp! … clean out the garage.
Too many toys. I am surprised that the Mach-e isn’t a garage queen considering what the “GT” costs.
Adam Savage’s latest video:
“They’ve pulling it out of the wall for me!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0cjhu2q-I
“I don’t think he is worried about fires as much as he is about having to … gasp! … clean out the garage.”
Wonder what the landed price of the vehicle he’s parking outside might be?
We will know if EV’s are a true fire risk when insurers ban parking them inside as a provision of coverage on a home.
Probably right around $65k.
>> I don’t like Google products as Google is all about harvesting data about people. Maybe Apple does the same and sells the data to Google. I don‘t know.
Ask Epic Games why you can’t play Fortnite on an iPhone.
>> What’s insurance got to do with cell phones?
Ask ‘TV Dad.’
I don’t see The Gecko allowing that to come to pass in the insurance racket. He’s going to spend the rest of his time left on Earth making Berkshire Hathaway a major player in EV infrastructure beyond simply insuring the vehicles.
>> We need to take a hard look at the streaming subs. I know we have more than netflix, but don’t know what is included in verizon, or other sources.
@nick, if you have any “must-have” channels, if you enter them into this tool it will tell you the cheapest service that covers all of them.
Enabling sideloading of apps on the iPhone without the binaries being blessed by Apple will enable all kinds of mischief, including Facebook and Google taking their privacy invasion on the platform to a whole new level.
At a certain point, Apple has to maintain the customers’ trust sufficiently to buy their product. With the other FANGs, the product is you.
“Dairy Queen Paperback” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
https://www.amazon.com/Dairy-Queen-Catherine-Gilbert-Murdock/dp/0618863354?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a three book teenage series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Clarion Books in 2007 that I stole from my daughter. She left the book on the breakfast table and I picked it up, read the first chapter, sat down and finished the book. I bought the second and third books for her and read those also.
D.J. (Darlene Joyce) Schwenk lives in Wisconsin on a 32 heifer milk farm. She is fifteen, in tenth grade, and is six foot tall. And stocky. Her dad broke his hip and her older brothers are at colleges with their scholarships playing football so that leaves D.J. to milk the cows at 4 am and 4 pm every day. Her mom teaches sixth grade at the elementary school.
D.J.’s father’s best friend is the football coach in the bigger town down the way. He sends his lazy quarterback Brian over to help D.J. with the farm for the summer. D.J. and Brian end up working on football skills also during the summer after finishing the farm jobs. And then D.J. goes out for her school’s football team and makes starting linebacker.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (I could be talked into 5 stars)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (272 reviews)
I highly recommend this book and series for any one with teenage daughters.
>> I skipped the 14 as I have a 13 PRO. I have no desire to go to the 15 as I see very little gain for my needs. I am also concerned about the eSim only feature of the 14 and the 15. I need a physical SIM slot for when I travel to Europe. The SIM is mailed to me, and installed when I land in Europe. I don’t know how I would do that with an eSIM.
Always about your needs, huh Ray? 😉
What about the needs of Tim Cook and the rest of the C-suite. Not to mention the poor Apple shareholders.
My current Pixel phone is dual SIM capable – the eSIM is used for my Verizon service and the physical SIM slot is available if I travel outside of North America. I’d guess the current iPhone has a similar configuration.
>> That effort to find new features seems to extend across all the phone manufacturers regardless of the OS involved.
They all watch Micro$oft do it year after year…
>> The real estate dude texted me that the title company “are here to help themselves”.
F I F Y. If they give you any further BS, just announce the closing will resume as soon as your attorney joins.
>> Is Frost TBTF? Or is the total account within FDIC limits?
As long as Plugs maintains 98.6 (plus or minus), it seems, so far, that there is no limit.
Kamel, she probably can’t spell F-D-I-C.
>> Ford certainly hasn’t figured out how to make money from EVs yet.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-projects-ev-division-lose-083720239.html
But … but … we make it up by volume!
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/fords-next-electric-truck-is-coming-in-2025-dubbed-project-t3
So the two (much) smaller plants will roll out the remaining 1.5 million trucks??
>> The Ford charger does not like extension cords. My neighbor with the Mach-e “GT” (really?) knocked a big hole in the side of his garage to run a 240 V outlet outside to a point within range of the charger’s DC line connected to the vehicle, which he keeps parked outdoors.
Did you mean “AC”? DC is Level 3 charging, which I’d be surprised if your neighbor had.
How Much Does It Cost to Build and Install a Level 3 Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station?
@lpdbw, just checking if you had seen my late post yesterday on cell phones:
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/03/23/thur-mar-23-2023-03232023-fun-with-nonsense/#comment-256626
Females have all left for camp. Horsey stuff this weekend I believe…
I decided that I was too tired to drive in the dark, so I’ll be retiring soon and heading out in the morning. Gotta take the dog with me. Not happy with his behavior and the lack of training from D1. I keep getting overruled though.
It’s still 77F and 84%RH.
Wrapping it up and heading for bed.
n
Get rid of the dog and tell the family that he ran out, wouldn’t come when you called, and got run over by a car. There’ll be wailing but maybe there’ll be learning for next pet.
“Jet Powered Tesla”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYT0upjNac
This is what you do with your $100,000 model S.
Saw it. Thanks. Digesting.
“Cordless Tesla (I Drive 1800 miles without charging)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhf223jGIE
This dude is bold !
His 10kw generator did not provide enough power so he is putting in a 30 ??? kw turbo diesel now.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8nVAKG-d9wo
He needs a 1,750 kw CAT generator.
https://www.reactpower.com/product/used-cat-3516-generator-set-2226/
Standard-looking Ford charger from the street. The hole in the wall is just long enough that the cable reaches the plug.
“220, 221 … Whatever it takes.”
In Florida, the Colonel Bat Guano neighbors had a custom conversion Prius plugin hybrid which involved a charging system requiring a $60,000 upgrade to their electrical service if neighborhood gossip was correct. I assume that was Level 3, but nothing on that car was standard since it predated Toyota offering plug-in capability.
>> Gotta take the dog with me. Not happy with his behavior and the lack of training from D1. I keep getting overruled though.
Overruled by the dog no less.
I am hoping my next phone will be the next version of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series. The current one seems to work pretty well, but most apps don’t yet support the large screen. I really want a bigger screen in my pocket. It’s about time.
I am hoping my next phone will be the next version of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series. The current one seems to work pretty well, but most apps don’t yet support the large screen. I really want a bigger screen in my pocket. It’s about time.
I saw one of those folding screen phones at my engineering conference back in Feb. It was awesome.
There’s a Pixel version in the works, but Samsung appears to be the leader in this segment. These are quite pricey though.
Yup, but my phone is my only splurge. Except for a few other things… Aw, shucks, you got me too: it IS about my needs xxxxx desires.
No physical SIM slot. I may be stuck on the iPhone 13 for a long time. If I upgrade I would keep the 13 for Europe travels.
The hole in the wall is just far enough away that the cable reaches the plug.
Gotta quit posting late. I spent the last of daylight hours dealing with the last of the ice storm damage in my front yard.
Keep EOL-ed iPhones off of public WiFi. Cellular data only, and, even then, be wary.
Unlike Android, the only option on an iPhone for a browser engine, even in the “Firefox” and “Chrome” apps, is Safari, and Apple has made some boneheaded mistakes with regard to security.
Frost is pretty big. I’m well under the FDIC limits. Darn it,.
@ JimB:
I also like and use Samsung phones. Some Saturday this summer my daughter, SIL and I will be in Lone Pine and will have a few in Jake’s Saloon. Perhaps we can get together and discuss things. EdH and dkreck also welcome. I’ll post date when we decide which day.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/jakes-saloon-lone-pine