Probably raining, cool, and wet. Yesterday’s weather was rain as predicted but much later in the day than thought. Then a little clearing, before the heavy rain rolled in later. We got a bunch, which the grass needed. Today is supposed to be more rain, but we’ll see. Might be some other part of Houston’s day in the barrel.
Did auction pickups and drove around. Mostly stuff for the BOL. Got some good stuff at the bins.
Spent over an hour talking to an old friend on the phone. It’s been too long since we spoke. I don’t want it to be so long again. I also don’t know if I’ll get a chance to talk with my aunt again. I was going to call her last week, and got distracted. Now she’s in the hospital, with rehab and then skilled care in her future. She might not make it home. We never know what tomorrow will bring so do what you need to when you need to. Might not be a ‘later’.
Today should be me at the BOL meeting with the cable internet guy, but — they are liars that lie. I’m glad I decided not to try going up last night. The company claims they sent email explaining that they don’t actually service my address, despite insisting that they did. No such email was received. The appointment was not canceled. If I had trusted them, I’d be up there cooling my heels while they never showed.
Instead, I’ll do more stuff here. There’s no shortage of things that need doin’. Maybe we’ll decorate eggs tonight. Kids are off school and wife is off work, so I’m the only one working today. After last year’s scramble to find egg decorating stuff, I stocked up. No shortage of stuff this year, either for traditional color, or for more modern systems. Gnomes are likely. I really like decorating eggs.
I like to keep the old traditions alive.
Stack some culture, some traditions. That’s what gets remembered.
nick
Days for weird events…
The car suddenly flashed a bunch of warnings. Turns out tha the diesel particle filter is stopped up, and not fixable. Since we’re waiting on a new car, that is actually now enroute to arrive in a few weeks, it’s not worth fixing. So the garage is going to offer some interim solution, probably a loaner car or something.
Meanwhile, it’s snowing. Heavily. This was not forecast. About 6 inches so far…
I just made a joke over the weekend, with John Cleese no less, about what happened to disgraced VW diesel engine designers, “just a few parts per billion”.
Cleese laughed. I’ll take it even if he was being a pro for a nervous 40 year fan attempting self deprecating humor.
(I was exposed to Python way too young. I think it is the root of my issue with authority … not that I really mind.)
Sadly, we’re about 25 years removed from diesel engines which ran forever and where pouring strained french fry oil into the tank didn’t matter if you absolutely needed to get somewhere. That part of the agenda of limiting mobility is well advanced, to the point where the horse pee -er- Diesel Exhaust Fluid at new Buc-ee’s is dispensed from a pump.
I didn’t think about it at the time, but I believe Cleese is a climate guy and EV proponent.
Later, leaving the comic show, my sister-in-law talked about her kids wanting Teslas, one son with a take home paycheck of ~ $3k a month. Yeah, keep dreaming kids — the golf carts are coming for you.
More damage control for The Mouse and Bob Iger from their leftist billionaire friends.
Go look who owns Time Magazine now. I’ll wait.
It is a big club and you aren’t in it.
https://time.com/6269199/bob-iger-disney-florida/
As I said in early 2020, “Not every Biden supporter is a pedophile, but every single one decided that groping children was not a deal killer.”
When I shared that wisdom with my libtard then-coworkers, they all got pissed off. When I shared the image I made (of Gropey Joe fondling and sniffing children, with text as above) on Gab and elsewhere, I got a bunch of likes and a bunch of nasty comments, and got blocked by a bunch of people.
Yeah, child molestation. Trump, tho.
Well, that is interesting:
https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html
Cool and drippy out. Overcast but bright. Now that I’ve seen my shadow, I’m headed back to bed. All the rest of the house is asleep, I should be too.
And the garbage got out in time.
n
Meanwhile, in Fulton County …
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/1175979
Most of the other coverage of this story is behind paywalls. I don’t think that is a coincidence.
Not good enough. Bill Gates wants to reduce the world’s population by 90%. The Climate Whackos want to reduce the world’s population by 99%. Now. Today.
Looks like he wants to do this by GMOing crops with mRNA. Reduce the population by race.
”Long haired freaky straight WHITE people, need not apply” to the NWO.
The peaceful tranny movement:
Terrified swimming champion Riley Gaines is ambushed by screaming trans activists and ‘hit twice by guy in a dress’ after Saving Women’s Sports speech at San Francisco State University
When a “woman” with a 5-o’clock shadow comes up to you, immediately kick “her” in the nuts. The face of the LGBTQWERTY movement is violence. “Accept us, or die.”
The Biden Connection
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-biden-connection.php
Rile Gained needs some volunteer security. Preferably a bunch of pissed off lesbians with cc permits.
Redundancy alert.
Going to see John Wick 4 in the theatre on Sunday. Our first theater experience since Avengers: Endgame. I could wait for streaming, but the wife wants to go. Only 6 seats reserved for that showing so far, hopefully it stays that way.
Rain continues to hold off, although everything is wet. Moving around, up and about. Man I was tired after than 230am bedtime.
Haven’t even scanned the news yet.
Did have coffee and breakfast though.
n
LOL. ShotGirlTM thinks GenZ(SFB) will rise up and take over the country. Like they want another crusty old WHITEY! person as President. She fits right in with Gen SFB.
MrAtoz said:
My degree was in physics rather than botany, but all the Covid vaccines needed to be kept cold, some VERY cold. I suspect that mRNA somehow embedded in food would be degraded by heat. So, COOK things thoroughly.
Biology. As long as people in positions of power want to have sex with the Shot Girl, she will continue to have influence and keep her seat in Congress.
The fact that she fronts as crazy but with the Westchester County background makes her more appealing to the Ivy League crowd since she presents what would be a relatively safe opportunity to get their strange on.
Yeah, sure.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fbi-members-of-army-special-ops-raid-wrong-hotel-during-training-exercise-detain-guest/
– why is the army training to grab people from hotels on CONUS? Isn’t there a law about that sort of thing?
– under what circumstances does the army partner with the FBI on CONUS? FBI, when it’s not enabling plots, is supposed to focus on counter-terrror, counter-espionage, major crimes, and kidnapping. Which of those involve army specops command?
–all the spec ops teams have training grounds set up to avoid this very situation. SINCE WHEN does army spec ops partner with FBI to train IN A LIVE HOTEL SITUATION?
This stinks on so many levels. It’s NOT a story of ineptitude. Something else, something very wrong, is going on here.
n
#thuglife #YOLO #lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
Just #livingmybestlife …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11949349/Arrests-murder-three-Florida-teenagers-shot-dead-outside-tiny-town.html
My youngest is 12, same age as one of the admitted murderers. NO WAY is there a sequence of events which would lead her AT 12 to stealing guns from cars, hanging out with thieves, and shooting three people.
– yep, it was those other bad kids’ fault because MY baby would never have hung out with them…
but we have this statement from the cop – The fact is: society fails them. We do not hold our juveniles accountable. We minimize their actions,’ he said.
Does anyone else think that statement might just be about the long list of prior trouble those kids go into before they killed three kids?
At least no one who “was getting his life together” or any “aspiring rappers” were killed.
n
Not simply Army but Special Operations, one of the freak show commands based at MacDill in Tampa.
Enema.
Not-entirely-idle question for coffee drinkers near Houston: Have you thought about growing your own coffee plants? It does best in hot, humid climate, which many of you brag/complain about.
Headline says “hotel”.
Story says “hotel room”.
One is bad, the other is 100 times worse.
Article has the email of the person who allegedly wrote the article, who may not be culpable if she did not write the header.
Nonetheless, there is a careless dumbass at the GP.
Grumble….taxes filed….
It does best in hot, humid climate,
– if they could grow coffee in the US*, someone would be doing it. I think there is something about altitude too. It’s always shown in mountainous settings, something that Houston is not known for.
n
I think it’s actually temperate rainforest at altitude…
*outside of Hawaii
re: growing coffee in South Texas
Don’t know about Houston, but this A&M prof is doing it in Texas
Gggling the commanding officer’s name, the other thing that comes up is 15 members of SOC investigated for involvement in illegal drugs on base, earlier this year.
Maybe a followup?
I note that the FB I’s statements says they were “assisting” socom…
n
Growing coffee might be biologically possible in the US but may not be viable from a commercial standpoint due to labor costs.
Key Limes are no longer grown in the US on a commercial basis even though the trees do quite well in Florida below the freeze line to the point that Key Lime Pie is the official state dessert.
The last commercial Key Lime grove in Florida was bulldozed as part of the Parlucci family’s Heathrow development north of Orlando.
My question about growing coffee was for personal use, not commercial. A level of effort that might be feasible for your own consumption would not be feasible for commercial operations.
The point about altitude was a good one. I’d forgotten about that.
The car suddenly flashed a bunch of warnings. Turns out tha the diesel particle filter is stopped up, and not fixable. Since we’re waiting on a new car, that is actually now enroute to arrive in a few weeks, it’s not worth fixing. So the garage is going to offer some interim solution, probably a loaner car or something.
How many miles (kms) are on it ? Diesels do not do well when you restrict their emissions, they are big air pumps. I cannot believe that the particulate filter is not worth replacing though.
I always thought coffee grew on trees. But it’s a bush that can get big. Kind of like poinsettia plants. Those are always small, maybe waist high. But in Puerto Vallarto they are 15 to 20 foot tall trees….. and they look cool.
Here’s a thought that is suddenly bugging me.
Even more 15 years ago one of my co-workers was apparently trans sexual. He transitioned to she. He TRANSITIONED. TRANS = TRANSITIONED.
He lived as a woman, worked as a woman, presented as a woman, and as far as I was concerned as a casual acquaintance and coworker, WAS a woman (albeit, not particularly feminine or pretty.)
Another co-worker told me she started as a he, or I wouldn’t have known.
The trans people we see in media today aren’t TRANSITIONING. They are a NEW category “trans-woman” or “trans-man”. They have internalized the “neither fish nor fowl” aspect and now highlight it.
They aren’t living as a man or a woman, they are living as “a woman who transitioned to male” or “a man who transitioned to female.”
The difference is not subtle once you see it, and that is why I think they are caught up in a mania, and that it’s more about narcissism and self promotion than about a serious mental disorder (although the mental issues go hand in hand.)
This is something new and different and bears a closer look.
n
This x 1,000. I posted earlier that a lot of the LBGTQWERTY and tranny people just want to be on the cool side. If a tranny doesn’t take hormones and get the snip ‘n clip, they are just transvestites, like drag queens.
Somewhere around 180000km,so a fair bit over 100000 miles. They tried to “burn through” the filter, dunno exactly how, but that’s certainly not quite…legal. Anyway, they couldn’t.
I expect replacement just isn’t worth it for the few weeks we have left to wait. This garage is expensive, but honest.
I even expect they’ll still honor the (minimal) trade-in value, because the car will be shipped to Eastern Europe anyway – where they will just remove the filter.
It’s raining it SA today. I got bored so I went to Bass Pro and bought a shooster. It is still raining and I have a new shooster. For some reason my background check went through in a minute. The salesman said he never saw that before. The guy in the queue before me was still waiting on his. It usually takes 10 minutes or more. The FBI might show up on my doorstep. At midnight. With Special Forces. To take me into a room with the rubber hoses. I better throw this thing in the river right now.
I would think the most difficult part of producing your own coffee beans would be the roasting. From shows I have seen it is tightly controlled process to keep from burning the beans. The roasting must be stopped quickly when completed.
People also brew their own beer and hard liquor (with a license) so I guess anything is possible given enough resources and desire.
When I was working at my last job I had to add a field to the database and on the member screens to indicated gender change. Out of 440K+ members, probably 150K+ still alive, there were almost 100 members with a gender change. These are highly intelligent people, engineers with advanced degrees, top of their class to get into the organization. What was not indicated in the system was their prior gender affiliation but that could be derived from the change in the first name.
When the wee-wee gets whacked off then you know they are serious. Otherwise I too question their motive. Other than flogging their mule in the ladies restrooms while identifying as female.
“The End of the World Running Club” by Adrian J. Walker
https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Running-Club/dp/149265602X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a three book dark fantasy science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Sourcebooks in 2017, originally published by Del Rey in the UK in 2014, that I bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the series.
The asteroid storm came through Saturn’s rings but was totally missed by the various asteroid monitors. Several months later, the thousands of 10 meter (30 feet) and larger asteroids started hitting the northern hemisphere of Earth. The authorities had very little warning for the crowded populaces of the United Kingdom.
Edgar Hill managed to get his family into their cellar with a few items of water and food after he saw the warnings on the newspaper. As the asteroids crashed down on their town in Scotland, they could hear the noise and feel the heat of the crashing asteroids, even in their uninsulated cellar. Weeks later, they were rescued from the rubble of their house by an army unit looking for survivors.
The author has a website at:
https://adrianjwalker.com/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (7,464 reviews)
“‘Evoke eminent domain’: JP Morgan CEO Says Gov’t Should Seize Private Property to Build Wind & Solar Farms: ‘The window for action to avert…climate change is closing’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/07/evoke-eminent-domain-jp-morgan-ceo-says-govt-should-seize-private-property-to-build-wind-solar-farms-the-window-for-action-to-avertclimate-change-i/
This is the diatribe of a thief. A rich thief, but a thief.
A rich thief, but a thief.
–and if not a pedophile himself, then an enabler who was fine with epstein’s behaviour as long as it made the bank money.
n
“Car Loans Hit 7% Average, With Average Monthly Payment $730”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/car-loans-hit-7-average-with-average-monthly-payment-730
“If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, be prepared for some vehicle financing shock. Edmunds.com’s first quarter data shows the average new vehicle financing interest rate is at its highest level since 2008 – at 7% – which is driving a record share of $1,000+ monthly car payments. The average car payment is a record high $730 a month in Q1, up from $656 year-over-year.”
I forecast a record amount of car repossessions.
Well, that is interesting:
https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html
Texas is getting ready for the financial failure of the USA Dollar.
The government should seize the assets under JPMC management and replace them with Social Security vouchers.
In a few years, the finance companies will just disable the vehicles remotely and wait for the owners to call with a credit card to make the back payments or pay the towing fee for removal of the gigantic boat anchor/fire hazard out in the driveway.
Tommy Boy has the state of Tennessee using eminent domain to build “Blue Oval City”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/as-tennessee-welcomes-fords-blueoval-city-some-black-farmers-say-they-are-getting-left-out/ar-AA19tt3y
When is this going to result in a drop in auto prices?
I’m in the market for a new (or at least new to me) truck.
Used car prices are not going down; trucks even more so. Problem is related to supply. People are keeping cars longer. And the big fleet buyers, including rental companies, have cut back on their purchases the last couple of years, resulting in fewer cars in the resale market.
And people aren’t buying new cars because of pricing and higher interest rates. Which reduces the number of trade-ins that would be in the used car market.
Don’t expect used car pricing to come down. If you find something that meets your needs, pounce on it.
When I was working at my last job I had to add a field to the database and on the member screens to indicated gender change. Out of 440K+ members, probably 150K+ still alive, there were almost 100 members with a gender change. These are highly intelligent people, engineers with advanced degrees, top of their class to get into the organization. What was not indicated in the system was their prior gender affiliation but that could be derived from the change in the first name.
Apparently a significant number of the transitioners are transitioning back to their birth sex. But what is not revealed at the beginning is that what was once inverted from an outie to an innie is no longer as large as before. And when you cut the nerves accidentally during the first or second inversion surgery, oops.
When is this going to result in a drop in auto prices?
I’m in the market for a new (or at least new to me) truck.
Not gonna happen. 330+ million people living in the USA and a significant percentage of those do not care about registration, inspections, and catalytic converters that work. They keep the prices up by making a viable market for beaters that can pull a small trailer. That significant percentage may be as high as 15% that are here illegally.
“Power Showers May Be Banned”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/07/power-showers-may-be-banned/
Here come the smart water meters. I wonder if they will have an electric valve in them once you pass your allocation.
Anything with a V8 and free of rust issues is going to fetch top dollar right now. Those repossessions won’t even make it to auction or, if they do, the auction politics will kick in and the buyer will be known before the truck even goes under the gavel.
Three or four years ago a problem was revealed by the medical records that we analyzed: the Electronic Medical Records systems used by our customers didn’t support sex changes or even “preference” in registered sex. This was revealed by biological men being scheduled for cervical exams and such.
Some practices attempted to handle this by putting the patient’s birth sex in the field but that ran afoul of corporate diktat.
I proposed the obvious fix of adding a field to the database and the data entry screens, for “gender” or “sexual identity” or whatever they wanted to call it. If that was too difficult to push through, have all practices enter a note with the standardized format of Physical Sex: x” and we’d parse the note and
Nope. Not acceptable. If the patient said she was a woman, then all of the forms must say that she’s a woman, and just ignore that prostate gland.
Aside from messing up sex-specific exams and a few other clinical or billing issues, this messed with statistics gathered for government reports, statistics used for insurance purposes, the data mining that we did, and probably other things.
But all of this was a small price to pay so that the corporation owning the medical practices could signal their virtue.
The prostate still has to be monitored with the PSA test and physical exam.
The gynecological exam is *not* necessary, but the VA has been granting exemptions to those who want the “experience” and can’t get it covered by private insurance at outside providers.
Your tax money at work.
Greg, Greg, Greg… You obviously need to spend more time with corporate suits if you think that a little thing like medical necessity is more important than commands from on high.
Says who? They’re already ignoring 15 dimensions of reality. Let their prostate cancer catch them by surprise.
Half of them will suicide before that’s an issue anyway.
Our rental last week, a 2023 Camaro, was burning oil. Brand new.
This is the last year for those so GM dumped them on the rental car companies.
I had never heard of half of the names at the rental car facility at Tampa Airport.
We rented from Sixt?!? Apparently they bought what was left of Advantage.
Reducing Bill Gates by 90% and Climate Whackos by 99% would be a good place to start. Single slice measured from the floor, or should we use a Vitamix and do it by weight?
Ocean Wind 1
5-year Total, Level B Takes
Blue Whales, 4
Humpback Whales, 37
Sperm Whales, 24
Other Whales, 321
Dolphines, 10, 347 (includes porpoises)
Seals, 2,416
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/04/07/awesomesauce-its-been-a-bad-week-world-wide-for-windfarms-n542381?cx_testId=1&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXIO3RTI8YOF#cxrecs_s
Tying Bill Gates, John Kerry, Jaime Dimond [added ]and the entire sealife-murdering staff of NOAA to wind turbine blades for a study in rotational stress testing would likely “adversely affect, but is not likely to jeopardize, the continued existence of
any speciesgreen-weinie stupidity”I’d lash up NASA GISS ad the Sierra Club, too, just to make sure we had a large enough sample size
“Climate Obsessed British Politicians are Embracing Fantasy Energy Solutions”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/02/climate-obsessed-british-politicians-are-embracing-fantasy-energy-solutions/
“h/t Peta of Newark; The British Government is seriously telling people in working class areas they will have jobs at an operational, power producing nuclear fusion plant by 2040.”
“The British Conservatives know they face a difficult general election in 2025. They would really like to hang on to working class areas they snatched from Labour in 2019.”
These government officials are mentally deranged.
>> pissed off lesbians
As the old saying goes, “better off than, on” oh wait, that was supposedly one of OHBM’s kinks…
>> My question about growing coffee was for personal use, not commercial. A level of effort that might be feasible for your own consumption would not be feasible for commercial operations.
@nick must have this accounted for somehow in his preps – from his comments, without coffee in the AM, it’s best to keep some distance 😉 Probably the same can be said of others here.
Coffee … and bacon.
>> This is the diatribe of a thief. A very, very rich thief, but a thief.
F I F Y (to the tune of ~1.5B)
There are a lot of ‘hobby’ coffee roasters. Someone I know roasts his own. It’s like hobby brewing, or growing tofu or any of dozens of niche pursuits. There are people standing by to help you spend your money…
I try to keep a few months fresh ground on site. I’ve got many #10 cans of ground in storage. I’ve even got sleeves of instant for meals and grab and go.
High value, low weight cargoes will be a priority if trade needs to be re-established.
In the mean time, I’ve got a couple years stored.
n
Coffee: IMO, vacuum packed heavy foil “brick” packaging tastes the same no matter the vintage. Some of the prepper food sites will sell canned green coffee beans for self roasting. High markup. Ol’ Remus, RIP, suggested freeze dried instant for long term storage.
Of course, best taste is freshly roasted beans, ground at making, with precise measures and pour over or press per smallish pot. 🙂
Lots of ways to store coffee.
Green beans have the most options and will be stable for longer periods. Vac-sealed with oxygen absorbers, 10-20 years.
Roasting beans alters the oils and makes them less-stable in storage. Vac-sealing and oxygen absorbers won’t do much good over manufacturers packaging. Freezing will slow the deterioration. Should get 3-5 years easy, maybe more.
Coffee is a low-density material and pound-for-pound will take up about three times the volume of a ribeye in the freezer. Depending on quality, the value ratio is about the same. The result is that I’m not willing to put a year’s worth of coffee in the freezer at my current consumption rate, so the freezer stash is limited to about one-seventh (once a week). That’s all theoretical. It’s all very well to talk about limiting coffee to once a week, but after years of daily consumption it’s not likely practical.
And, yeah, bacon.
I’ve got bricks of ground too. Specifically, from the import “ethnic” aisle of our big supermarket. They are vac’d REALLY tight. No air, no oxidation.
I’ve also found that I can put a lot more vacuum on the foil 1 pound bags (shrinkflation has them now only 12 or 14 oz) simply by sucking on the one way valve. It’s the little hole in the bag, about ⅓ off the way from the top. Suck out remaining air, then I throw it in the freezer. I’ve got only a few pounds in the freezer, mainly of special blends I don’t drink every day. Occasionally I open one when I use the last of my daily driver, before opening the next big bag.
I buy clearance, one offs, and auction sale bags to throw in the ‘long term’ storage. Since they were cheap, if I lose one or more, I don’t care as much, they are sized for giving away or sharing, and ANY coffee is better than NO coffee. I’ll also buy the small sample bricks to keep for guests that might not like my strong dark coffee, for travel, or for giving away or trading.
For anyone who wants to store “trade goods” vac sealed bricks of coffee are pretty close to ideal. Bars of soap come in second. Single serving alcohol might have a place too, but I don’t store any. Antibiotics and pain killers are too valuable to share.
n
Mountain House is having a sale on their military packaged meals that is actually competitive.
https://mountainhouse.com/collections/sale
If you want to go to the source, they say that they’ll be varying the items on sale until they sell out.
n
FWIW, caffeine was so important to performance that the military included it in rations. I think coffee and tea are vital preps.
I also store some caffeinated chewing gum for a quick pick me up, and a drink powder called “Sparkle” that is like lemonade with no-doz in it.
n
“HOLY HAMBURGER – I may have found the most expensive McDonald’s ‘value’ meals in the country – here’s the proof”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7824508/most-expensive-mcdonalds-value-meals-country/
“”The prices of a Big Mac combo meal? $16.89?””
“Some of the other menu prices seen in the video exceeded $18.”
“A Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Bacon combo meal was listed at $18.29 while the burger cost $9.39 without a medium drink and fries.”
Wow. That is France prices in the USA.
>> In a few years, the finance companies will just disable the vehicles remotely and wait for the owners to call with a credit card to make the back payments or pay the towing fee for removal of the gigantic boat anchor/fire hazard out in the driveway.
DriveTime did (still does?? search doesn’t provide much info) something like this with the addition of a GPS unit installed in the car, easily provided to the repo tow-truck drivers. Not hard to extend that to remote immobilization.
A few years ago the wife was looking for a specific model Mazda and she saw one at DriveTime. When she called to see if it was still available before we drove there, the woman on the phone was a bit taken aback when my wife said we would be paying cash for the car – from their business model/advertising, it seems that they don’t expect many non-financed purchases. The F&I room there must include harsh spotlights and rubber hoses. Unfortunately we didn’t find out as we bought the car elsewhere. Oh, and the woman was shocked when my wife called to cancel our test-drive appointment, a courtesy I guess they don’t get from most of their clientele.
>> “Power Showers May Be Banned”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/07/power-showers-may-be-banned/
Here come the smart water meters. I wonder if they will have an electric valve in them once you pass your allocation.
FTA, it seems this is just allocation-based and v1.0 doesn’t seem to know the difference between a ‘power shower’ and an extra-large load of clothes in the washer set on Hot.
Both of our current shower-heads have been “adjusted” to support power showers. As much as @nick need his cup of joe in the morning, I need my steamy hot long shower. Better stack a couple of replacements before Plugs issues an EO to make them more tamper
proofresistant.>> I’m in the market for a new (or at least new to me) truck.
@lpdbw, locked into a specific make(s) / model(s)?
Also, are you willing to purchase outide of your immediate area? IE, someplace you’d have to fly to?
http://www.autotempest.com is a ‘cars for sale’ meta search engine that I’ve used that might help.
>> Reducing Bill Gates by 90% and Climate Whackos by 99% would be a good place to start. Single slice measured from the floor, or should we use a Vitamix and do it by weight?
Industrial wood chipper, feet first of course, them measure by volume.
So, picked up the temporary car at the dealership. A newish Toyota that we’ll rent by the month till the new car arrives.
Apparently, repairing the old car would be around $4k, and the rules for diesels have been made a lot tougher, so it’s still no guarantee that an older car would pass its next inspection. Hence, not worth repairing, he’ll try to sell it on to a country that doesn’t care so much…
In the interim, I’ve been driving a neighbor’s ancient Dodge Dakota. Like a trip back in time. Drives, well, like an old pickup, and – wow – does that thing suck gas. I’m guessing around 15mpg. The tank was ¾ full when I borrowed it, I’ve used it now for 3 trips, maybe 10 miles each. Filled it up – 60 bucks. Ouch.