Clear and damp, with a little coolness, rapidly heating up. It was only 72F when I put the kids on the bus yesterday, but it got warmer throughout the day. I’m glad I didn’t have to get in the attic at my client’s house, but using the ladder in the yard was a bit sweaty. I think today will be even warmer, but maybe some of the humidity will blow out.
There are a lot of mosquitos this year, and they are even biting me. They normally don’t, and if they do, it doesn’t leave a mark. Wonder what it’s gonna be like at the lake?
Which is where I’m headed later. Have to get loaded up and make a pickup on my way out of town. The auction had the wrong times listed, and I thought I would be able to make it. I guess it’s good I didn’t drive up last night… although I would have liked to start the day at the BOL, not driving.
Did get some stuff done yesterday. Got the NVR to display image from the existing cams. Well, mostly. I may even be able to re-use a couple to extend coverage with the new system. Can’t order the cams until next week because B&H closed for a long holiday. Memorial Day weekend must coincide with a Jewish holiday this year. Maybe every year, but I never noticed…
In any case, I’ll be back out at the site to swap out cams in a week or two. In the mean time, at least the NVR is recording.
I’ll be taking a load of stuff up with me. Mostly not food, but I’ll add a couple of buckets if I can. I saw a pair of rats on the patio yesterday. They’ve eaten all the stuff they can get into, except the stuff that exploded, so they aren’t wrecking more, but I’ll refill the poison baits anyway. Cleaning up that whole area has been pushing down the list for a week or more, but that was when I though it was a possum in the mess. Possums I can live with, rats, no. So it’s back to the saga of the rats for me. Good thing I bought those buckets of bait blocks.
Stack some rodent and pest control. They’ll be increasing as city services decrease, and you’ll be on your own. Remember when there was nothing in the stores? That will happen again.
Stack all the things!
nick
They’re not counting your mom in the passenger seat.
Aside from that, as Gavin said, it’s a marketing term rather than an engineering term.
The world’s ultra-rich and the world’s dictators (some category overlap may be observed) come to the US for their critical medical care. They don’t go to Canada or Cuba or Mexico or Thailand or the PRC if they have the choice. There’s a reason for this.
The press in Florida are still upset that the known meth head and Benny Crump sock puppet whom they supported in 2018 in order to “make history” failed to win the Governor’s Mansion.
During the pandemic, the Florida media, like the press everywhere, went insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT9R_XYlVNE
From Warren Buffett’s TV station in Miami, a former property of the Washington Post and the only TV station he’s kept.
A**clowns on parade. Note the station logo on the face of the field reporter.
One old Cuban doctor, Chief of Staff of one of the hospitals, doing the Big Papi power trip routine screaming about people dying without the mask mandates in a booming “El Presidente” voice, was a particular favorite of tbe WPLG newsroom, but I can’t find the footage offhand.
Like 2×4.
An EV “half ton” pickup weighs 6000 lbs, half of that weight being battery.
Sun is out. Coffee is brewing. Truck needs loading and belly needs filling, but the day has started.
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first reaction, without a close look, DeSantis has hired the wrong people. First he has a wormtongue whispering in his ear that this is his moment. It’s not. Let Trump take the arrows, and ultimately blow it, THEN step forward. If the wrong people make a recommendation about staff and consultants, and he’s sabotaged from the start.
Add that the entire US press is against him and will be twisting every word (many ill chosen to start with) and EVERYONE will be making sh!t up, like they did with Trump, he doesn’t have the depth or personality to triumph. He’ll come out of it broken and worn out. Then a deep stater will be put up, and people will jump at the semblance of a choice, and 8 more years of stalling and malaise while the prog agenda advances inexorably.
The thing with Disney’s Reedy Creek district is CLEARLY retaliatory and malicious and selective prosecution, he’s said as much. It’s exactly what you don’t want .gov doing with business and other orgs.
If you think the SJWs and sexual deviants have “ruined” Disney, wait until every thing they do has to get past one hundred lefty bureaucrats with a grudge and an agenda. The story of the golden goose comes to mind.
I’m hoping for better, but I’m also spending a lot of money to get out of town, and provide as many things for my family as I can, independently of existing infrastructure. What happens when the puppeteers decide they can’t win in TX or FL and decide they have to be destroyed?
n
“An EV “half ton” pickup weighs 6000 lbs, half of that weight being battery.”
F150 Lightning is listed as
8,250 curb weight
240 mile range
10,000 towing capacity
2,000 lbs max payload
$74,474 Starting MSRP
https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150-lightning/2023/features-specs/
vs
F-150 w/ V6 Flex Fuel
6,470 curb weight (22% less)
494 mile range (105% more)
13,900 towing capacity (39% more)
1,765 lbs max payload (12% less)
$45,410 Starting MSRP (39% less)
https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150/2023/features-specs/
For decades we have been cursed with donut spares to save 15 lbs on a passenger car for better mileage. Now we are going to save the planet from a fiery death by driving electric vehicles. It took only two generations to destroy the American educational system so that this shiite could be sold to the illiterate and innumerate young people and their parents.
Breitbart is widely quoted as “Walk toward the fire.”
If he were alive today I’d ask if he would be carrying a can of gasoline.
“The thing with Disney’s Reedy Creek district is CLEARLY retaliatory and malicious and selective prosecution, he’s said as much. It’s exactly what you don’t want .gov doing with business and other orgs.”
I dunno.
Disney had a sweet deal for decades with advantages that other businesses did not have. At what point is enough? And if they don’t like the prospect of being treated like other businesses in Florida, they are free to leave. After all, isn’t that the universal reply when people don’t like how they are treated in their jobs?
Add in the fact that Disney has turned into a pure propaganda machine, not only using their “entertainment” to groom children and normalize deviancy, they have used the excess profits produced by their privileges to actively and dishonestly influence political discourse. “Don’t Say Gay” is a gross leftist perversion put forward by a multi-billion-dollar company to prevent the elected representatives of the people of Florida from doing the job they were elected to do. If those elected representatives don’t use their power to respond who will? Maybe go door-to-door with petitions, or set up a table at the bleeping mall?
I’m not comfortable with it, either. But I’m not willing to cede that particular tool to the PLT’s, who are already using it with impunity at every turn.
Even if Rhodes is “guilty”, what did his minions do? The LSM continues to report on the number of cops “killed” on J6. The only one killed was Ashley Babbitt. She was killed by a cop. The DOJ is obviously going after tRump. Plus, jacking up these “conspiracy and sedition” charge and decades long sentencing is a tool to scare people. Bradley Manning got 35 years, then OnumbNuts commuted his sentence after 7 years. For treason. Less than half of Rhodes sentence. I guess they are meeting up at the local bath house. A Redumblican President needs to get in and stop this insanity. Fearing our goobermint is the sure way to CWII.
Plus, fcuk the IRS.
My bad.
8000 lbs empty. Good God. I was going on old Ford PR specs from January of last year which still had the weight of the “Pro” Lightning at 6000 lbs.
Of course, the base MSRP was still $40k in that same document.
“Normal” F150 curb weight ranged from 4000-5000 lbs not that long ago.
The tire companies must love the new trucks.
Disney lost in Florida. They’ll either have to go back to the way the Parks management used to stay out of the state’s politics or face a decade of grief from the Legislature, regardless of who is Governor.
And DeSantis is Governor until January 2027 unless he moves up.
After DeSantis will probably come Gaetz, and The Mouse isn’t going to get a break from him either.
Mickey doesn’t have as much to worry about from the Florida politicians as he does from Super Mario and Donkey Kong, who arrive in 2025.
When the leftists control government:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/24/irs-opened-investigation-into-matt-taibbi-the-same-day-he-blew-the-whistle-on-twitter-and-the-feds-censorship-scheme/
The irony is that Taibbi was in the club until recently.
No deviation from koolaid is permitted.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-2024/index.html
A follow-up poll showed that half the favorable respondents believed it was Joey Gambino running.
Want to be a Seattle firefighter Lt.? Best know your woke reading list!
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/26/want-to-be-a-seattle-firefighter-lt-best-know-your-woke-reading-list-n553430
What’s next? “Upon arriving at the fire, the official in charge will Inquire as to the fire’s preferred pronouns and establish a dialog to prevent any conduct by firefighters that could be construed as excluding or failure to celebrate diversity in combustive philosophy.”
Maybe RickH could help us out on this question – Does the Seattle Fire Chief, Harold Scoggins, live in Snohomish County like the former Police Chief?
Yeah, he’s African American and Snohomish County is 97% white, but the former Police Chief was also African American and she seemed to get along fine living up there, more than an hour’s drive from Seattle and, most importantly, at the time, the CHAZ.
Disney is in Florida BECAUSE of the deal the state was VERY happy to make at the time. All of the central Florida economy exists BECAUSE of Disney. It was swamp and orange orchards before WDW. WDW being the largest private civil engineering project at the time, they created modern central Florida out of thin air.
They got government powers because they are providing the services that a government provides, roads, power, sewer, water, flood control, safety and security for an area larger than most governments. Plus there was no entity of state or local government that could provide those things at the time. They’re as big as the state of Rhode Island, and more people go thru there than RI.
For those reasons and all the existing structure, (it’s not offices that you can move to MD and rent), they CAN’T ‘just leave’ and DeSantis is leveraging that.
After Disney took the risk and built a business in the middle of the swamp, all the parasites want a piece of them. They see the money and want some of it. They don’t see the expense or the liability and they certainly wouldn’t run it to the same standard of service. Anyone really think WDW would be a nice place that generated flocktons of cash if it was run by the same people that can’t keep homeless addicts from f’ing up city parks?
See my previous comment about the LA bus shelters to see what happens when you are subjected to local government.
YES, Disney should have stayed the F out of politics. So should every major corp. Whose going after Universal? Or one of the other big media companies who run editorials in their papers, and use their massive networks of TV and other outlets to influence gov and politics?
DeSantis and FL legislature are Darth Vader in the cloud city. “But we had a deal!” “The deal has changed, see that I don’t change it some more.”
n
BTW, there are a lot of areas governed by other forms than trad city council, etc. Most of them are more successful than the cities, see Mesa AZ for example, or the massive developer communities in southern California. You want big projects in your area, you make allowances.
And with that, I”m hitting the road.
n
Wait, what????
Lily-Rose Depp, 23, passionately kisses girlfriend 070 Shake at LAX… amid backlash over masturbation scene and graphic nudity in new ‘torture porn’ series The Idol
WHOSE nudity???
n
OK, I guess I have reached peak “GOML”.
I read this in total confusion:
Wha-wha-wah, 23, passionately kisses GIRLFRIEND … wait-that’s-someone’s-name? at LAX… amid backlash over masturbation scene (strange but interesting like Mullholland Drive, or something else?) and graphic nudity – maybe one or both of the aforementioned ladies (that’s an assumption at this point) in new ‘torture porn’ (wait, really, is this a thing? yuck) series The Idol.
Obviously, I didn’t bother clicking, but it’s a good reminder of how much IDGAF about mainstream stuff any more.
Before “Mullholland Drive”, it was “Bound” with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly.
Gershon still pops up in film, but Tilly plays poker professionally. She also has ownership of some piece of “The Simpsons”.
Universal is at the mercy of the Dem political machine in Orange County, ironically funded in part by … Disney!
Kabletown may yet deliver the short term death blow to The Mouse, however, since the terms of the Hulu deal may require Disney to cough up as much as $30 billion this year to buy out the rest of Universal’s stake in the streaming platform, which is essentially worth zip on the open market post 20th Century Fox acquisition.
It is a good thing that Disney is a diverse company with lots of cash flow from … um … uh … well, they have $10 billion in the bank.
Start turning over the cushions at the resorts, especially the DVC properties.
The piling on continues. Got popcorn?
“These Broken Stars” by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217?tag=ttgnet-20/
First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the series and will be reading them soon.
10,000 years in the future, the Icarus is the most magnificent of the millions of spaceships in the human’s fleet. Carrying 50,000+ crew and passengers, she had an enormous ballroom and was the fastest of all, taking only weeks to traverse between the thousands of terraformed planets in hyperspace what took centuries to traverse in normal space. Personally designed by the great spaceship builder, Roderick LaRoux, she housed the many tens of thousands of crew and passengers in comfort, even housing a permanent staff of news reporters.
But, even the Icarus is subject to the rules of nature when her hyperspace engines suddenly fail, restart, fail, restart, and fail again. As the crew and passengers are told to go to the lifepods, only a single pod makes it off the huge ship before it crashes into an unknown terraformed planet. That lifepod made it off since Lilac LaRoux, the daughter of Roderick LaRoux, knew how to bypass the timing for the hyperspace window to settle down first for safety. Lilac and Major Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors on a planet without any other people. Or, are they alone ?
There is a website for the series at:
http://thesebrokenstars.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,205 reviews)
F150 Lightning is listed as
8,250 curb weight
240 mile range
10,000 towing capacity
2,000 lbs max payload
$74,474 Starting MSRP
https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150-lightning/2023/features-specs/
vs
F-150 w/ V6 Flex Fuel
6,470 curb weight (22% less)
494 mile range (105% more)
13,900 towing capacity (39% more)
1,765 lbs max payload (12% less)
$45,410 Starting MSRP (39% less)
https://www.edmunds.com/ford/f-150/2023/features-specs/
Good night ! That means that the F150 EV has the teeth rattling F250 frame. What a scam !
“WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Revealed – Bill Gates’s younger Russian ‘lover’ and her links to notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128919/Bill-Gatess-younger-Russian-lover-links-notorious-Kremlin-spy-Anna-Chapman.html
“Two young women stride along a New York street, barely breaking step to flash smiles at the camera. One of them is slightly out of focus but her face – and the face of her friend – is unmistakable. Chillingly so. The woman on the right is Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, the woman alleged this week to have been the former lover of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates – as well as an associate and financial beneficiary of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. What makes this photograph sensational, however, is the presence of the flame-haired woman on the left. She is none other than notorious Moscow spy Anna Chapman.”
It figures that BG would like the brainy one.
In the immortal words of Alanis Morrissette, a version of his wife.
“Health scares and climate change – all part of the same giant scam”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/health-scares-and-climate-change-all.html
“It seems that the World Health Organization is in bed with the climate change scaremongers, and they’re all trying to leverage health care as yet another front in their assault on people’s rights and freedoms. The Gateway Pundit quotes Michele Bachmann, who’s at the World Health Assembly in Switzerland.”
“It’s all a gigantic lie from start to finish, of course. Whenever you see anyone, or any group, or any official body, demanding control over people’s and nation’s lives in order to deal with some threat or other, you can be sure they’re not trying to increase our safety. No, they’re trying to increase their control over us. What’s more, whenever the “threat to safety” they’re pontificating about has passed, you may be sure they won’t surrender the control over us they’ve gained by exploiting it. Freedoms once lost are almost never restored unless those wanting them are willing to dig in and fight for it.”
Yup.
This has bugged me for years also; but thinking back on the other hand, in 51 years of driving I have actually used a spare tire four times, once on my mother’s car in the first year, and most recently about 20 years ago. That includes a mess of off-road driving where one of the needs occurred, had a full size spare on that vehicle.
A version of Ann Winblad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Winblad
@Paul Hampson
“This has bugged me for years also; but thinking back on the other hand, in 51 years of driving I have actually used a spare tire four times, once on my mother’s car in the first year, and most recently about 20 years ago. That includes a mess of off-road driving where one of the needs occurred, had a full size spare on that vehicle.”
Notice that pickups have full-size spares?
Most tire dealers stock little to nothing. In a metro area they pull from a central warehouse. Having a road hazard damage can ruin a fay or a weekend.
For decades we have been cursed with donut spares to save 15 lbs on a passenger car for better mileage. Now we are going to save the planet from a fiery death by driving electric vehicles. It took only two generations to destroy the American educational system so that this shiite could be sold to the illiterate and innumerate young people and their parents.
Any weight savings is also a dollar savings in materials. All of the car manufacturers are run by the accountants. Even Tesla.
The owner’s manual and the door sticker for my Frontier says the spare is full sized. Probably not on one of the pretty wheels that the sales guy kept pointing out. Wheels? Meh. Pep Boys and plastic hub caps are still a thing I think.
I need to see how lowering the spare works when the weather is nice. Sure, I can figure it out when it’s 35F and pissing rain. And probably dark, too.
Assuming the valve is up, airing the tire would be useful.
All of the Discount Tire (America’s Tires) stores that I have been to have plenty of tires in stock. Costco also has plenty. Even WalMarts that I have been to have a fair supply.
I only buy tires from Discount Tires. Good prices, quick service, great warranty, free rotations (with re-balancing), and free air checks (even if the tires aren’t from them).
Assuming the valve is up, airing the tire would be useful.
Always carry a compressor in the vehicle for the spare. I have been through that nonsense too many times with a almost flat spare.
I do not like the efiting glitches in this system.
More specifics would be helpful….what is not working? Exact sequences of your process so I can duplicate and determine best fix.
>> No deviation from koolaid is permitted.
What’s the flavor of the day today?
>> For decades we have been cursed with donut spares to save 15 lbs on a passenger car
Plenty of cars now with no spare tire. Instead you get a bottle of fix-a-flat and a small air compressor.
Grape, just like they served at Jonestown.
Stay thirsty my friends.
That’s a problem. Where do I stash the compressor? Under one front seat is the amp for the stereo. Under the other is an amazing amount of wiring harness. Under one back seat, yeah, sub woofer. I’ve mostly filled under the other back seat with stuff that should be useful. I guess I can toss a few ratchet straps and the roll of paper towels to make room. I’ll figure it out.
Jonestown. That reminds me. Oprah’s rep squashed the rumors about filling in for Feinstein through the end of her term.
For the unfamiliar, Dianne Feinstein is the last pol left in office with documented People’s Temple ties.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/would-oprah-replace-dianne-feinstein-in-the-us-senate-her-rep-says-no/ar-AA1bHtAM
Always carry a compressor in the vehicle for the spare. I have been through that nonsense too many times with a almost flat spare.
I have been 4 wheeling up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Mojave Desert for decades. Yes, I have survived a number of tire issues. With a full size spare tire I also carry: a 12 volt air compressor, a pressured can of a tire sealant, a specialized jack, and all needed tools and wrenches.
I and others with me have survived a number of tire failures, Also, once out in the desert we came across a German tourist couple with a rented Jeep with one tire totally destroyed and another with a serious leak. All the tools and the jack had been stolen from the Jeep. On a hot June day we came across them on a dirt load about 30 miles from a paved highway. If we weren’t there to get them going again, well?
I don’t know how many people – almost but not quite all women – who said they don’t care if their car has a spare tire because they have a phone.
When I point out the contrast between “I’m a strong, independent woman” and calling for help which will almost certainly be a man, I get incoherent rationalizations or sometimes anger and accusations. Not once, that I noticed, did I cause a woman to sit back and realize that her self-image didn’t match her reality.
(I also got one sexual harassment complaint that I was applying different standards to women, which was nonsense. I was applying the same standards to men as to women, and that wasn’t acceptable.)
Reason #5 (-ish) why I drive a minivan. Lots of room for the tools, fluids, and parts, while still carrying kids (only three today) and their giant school backpacks and a week’s groceries and a 40# bag of chicken feed and a bale of wood chip bedding. (Plus a three-pound bag of dried mealworms, which my wife uses in trying to train the chickens. With some limited success except for one of the younger roosters, who seems to be stupid even by chicken standards.)
RickH says:
I’m going to second that recommendation. Service has always been great, and the prices have always been reasonable. I’ve been a customer for 20 years now.
I and others with me have survived a number of tire failures, Also, once out in the desert we came across a German tourist couple with a rented Jeep with one tire totally destroyed and another with a serious leak.
My former USMC son was in a Humvee in the middle of night in the Mojave Desert when the navigator using night vision goggles failed to see the road curving. The driver kept on straight into the deep ravine, ripping all four run-flats and destroying the transfer case on a rock. The 7 ton following them almost drove into the ravine also but managed to turn in time. But his trailer came loose with several thousand phosphorous mortars that they had to destroy during the planned two week trip. Plus all of their water. The trailer landed upside down next to them in the ravine but none of the mortars went off.
So, they got the trailer and the Humvee back up from the ravine and rigged tows for both. Turns out you can tow vehicles with all run-flats flat with that 7 ton. But only half their water survived them gathering it up along with the mortars at 4am in the morning so they got back into 29 Palms a week early.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Tactical_Vehicle_Replacement
Could be worse. Could be turkeys.
The jokes with turkeys are: You need to teach them how to eat. Put marbles into their feed dishes to attract their eyes. And they can drown when it rains by looking up and filling their mouthes/nostrils with water.
Don’t know if it’s true, but it’s too good to check.
And then they will spend two hours wherever they are stuck waiting for AAA to show up.
Longer than two hours in some cases. IIRC, that was what brought me into one of the conversations.
Box-raised turkeys are dumb as a stump but you can’t blame them. All they’ve ever knows is that food appears and otherwise they sit there. Pen- or free-raised turkeys aren’t too bad. (Some family friends when I was a kid had a turkey farm. The birds intended for butchering were raised in boxes not much bigger than the grown birds. The family also raised a few basically as pets.) Wild turkeys are bright enough to survive the northern Winter and to avoid being eaten. (At least one flock lives in the forest behind us. They like to scratch around our compost bin and they can fly well enough to get over the four-foot fence around the garden.)
@RickH
“More specifics would be helpful….what is not working? Exact sequences of your process so I can duplicate and determine best fix.”
When posting from my iPhone if I backspace to correct, everything I type thereafter disappears when I submit. If I realize that I made a correction I can select all, copy, and edit the posted comment by pasting in. One clue that the problem has occurred is that the hard return no longer works to start a new paragraph.
I suspect this is an artifact of a site update not playing nicely with the iOS version, but that particular version did work once upon a time. It will probably go away if I ever switch to my new phone.
@Alan
“What’s the flavor of the day today? ”
Cosmic Journey Citrus. Does double duty as an emetic and enema. Kind of like the white/black hole combo thingy.
@SteveF
“With some limited success except for one of the younger roosters, who seems to be stupid even by chicken standards.”
Roosters have different wiring. Remember the old joke with the punchline “Shhh! They’re about to land.”
My bad. It appears that Universal will get a special district for the new park.
The other videos in that channel are interesting. If true, Disney has really stepped in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q070lAuQBZ0
Re tires…Costco has diy “air” pumps that dispense Nitrogen. Minimum pressure is something like 20 psi to prevent letting out your regular air and replacing it all with Nitrogen. As far as I’ve seen there’s nothing that excludes non-members from partaking.
>> Plus a three-pound bag of dried mealworms.
SteveF serving dinner: “Hey everyone, how about those crunchy french-fried onions I put in the burgers!”
Made it. Took a while to get out of town. Lots of traffic.
Got. My yard mowed, then broke the steering on the HOA lot. I’ll be looking for the part online tonight. Got it back to .my driveway though. . Great weather.
N
Well, found the steering shaft and the bushing on big river, ordered, free delivery, on Monday to the BOL… perfect! We are truly living in the future. Only $32.
And now a shower and a soft bed.
n