Hot and humid. Cool enough to start, but broiling under the sun later in the day. Highs yesterday were mid 90s. Probably get the same today. I’m blessed that most of the work I’m doing is in the shade.
I continued working on the side patio. I’ve been grabbing a task here and there as I drive the machine back and forth to the piles of dirt and the work area, like leveling the area in front of the entry door, or pulling a root ball, so MOST of the regrading of the front yard is actually done, or very close to done.
I should be able to finish the grade and backfill on the side in the morning, leaving a few other ‘could do’ ‘would be nice’ and ‘you’ve already got the machine…’ jobs. Pulling down the concrete steps from the house to the yard is technically one of those optional tasks, but it needs to be done and I’ve got the machines…and the dumpster still has room in it.
The machines are crazy useful.
And I’m getting pretty good at fixing pvc pipe that was/should be/will be buried, after breaking it.
Still have all the dock electrical to do, but don’t have the panel. Wife has approved doing that next visit. I need to secure it before I leave though. I’ve been here a long time. It’s a bunch of massive projects. Time to finish and get home.
Always working to improve my situation. If I can’t stack, I’ll work… but stacking is good too.
nick
Y’know, if you’d just bulk up a bit you wouldn’t need the machines. Need to dig a big hole? No problem! With a 2 sq ft shovel and your giant muscles, you can dig a hole in no time. Need to remove a few tons of concrete? No problem! Grab one corner of the slab and shake it with your giant muscles, then carry the chunks to the dumpster. Really, you needing the machines is just a testament to your refusal to hit the gym.
By the way, when you get the 2 sq ft shovel, make sure to get a solid steel handle. Not wood, not fiberglass, and not steel pipe. In turning this stinkin’ clay soil for Grandma’s garden with an ordinary shovel, maybe half a square foot, I keep cracking the handles. Very annoying.
No outstanding chicken shenanigans to report. Their coop has a roosting rail which sits in notches. Every now and then it gets knocked down, probably by the rooster walking under it; he’s by far the largest of the birds. Yesterday I was going to put the rail back up in the evening but all of the larger hens were standing on it and didn’t want to move. The black and the brown hens bawk-bawk-bawked away when I scratched their necks and chests but the red hen (the smallest of the bigger breed; alas, the little red hen does not know how to bake cakes) likes being scratched and just leaned into it. I finally got the doofus to move but then some other birds stood on the newly-vacated rail. -sigh- I eventually got the rail back up and the coop closed for the night.
The rooster’s been less aggressive in chasing me when I open the coop. A couple days ago I swung a leg at him when he charged in. Didn’t kick him but the side of my food brushed him and he ran squawking back up into the coop. Is he capable of learning of permanent lesson? We’ll see.
Amazon “HQ2” is just across the river, in between the Pentagon and the DHS campus, with a maze of private tolled express lanes (including one of my projects) interconnecting everything and extending down to Quantico and Fredericksburg by the end of the year.
The exit point of the temporal vortex in “First Contact”. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Lf3rOJYE0
@Brad – Be sure to include that flick in your “even” “Star Trek” movie marathon.
No Whoopi! Alfre Woodard appears instead as a personal favor to Jonathan Frakes — a huge improvement.
The musical cues will spoil “Picard” season three if you’re paying attention. Consider yourself warned.
@Greg: thanks for the suggestion!
78F and I can hear the noise of the ‘backup’ alarms on the equipment at the neighbor’s new house project. If they’re working, I should be.
Today looks just like yesterday. But I’m off to a slow start. Overslept my alarm, despite getting to be an hour early. I’m sore today worse than the last several days. I did a lot of moving with the speed at “rabbit” and that throws you around in the machines.
Got plenty to do, I should drink the coffee, eat the egg, and the bacon, and get off my [sore] azz.
n
@stevef, alas, I’ve opted to hide my magnificence while here on your planet. If I revealed my true nature, there wouldn’t be any females for the rest of you and the human race would end in one generation… so machines it will have to be.
n
PopTarts! were one of the forbidden fruits of my childhood. I’m enjoying them now though… Funny how that works.
n
and when the kids hear “popeye” they think chicken not cartoon
There’s never been any forbidden fruit for the kids, so far as I’m concerned. I’ve seen the effects of forbidden fruit when the kids go to a friend’s house or go off to college. Dumb. Instead, I’ll let the kids eat junk food and watch stupid YouTube videos and what-not – in moderation. And the junk food should be eaten after getting some good food in you. And the videos or social media or FPS games are after homework is done.
Similar for partying, having sex, whatever. Be smart about it, to the extent that teens can be smart. So far, so good.
Possibly the most lethal food product Kellogg makes with the possible exception of Cheeze Itz.
Don’t look at the nutrition details. You don’t want to know.
There is a simple explanation. They didn’t alter death certificates. If you do a search for a given cause of death in a state and there are from 1 to 9 deaths with that cause of death in a given year, they won’t show up in a search. They are “suppressed”. Why? Because at that granularity, it’s possible to link an individual DC to a person, a violation of medical data privacy regulations. CDC has been doing for over 10 years. It’s fully documented on the WONDER database information pages.
Also, at least one of the supposed deaths connected to a COVID virus was from the J&J version, the one that uses a viral carrier.
“supposed deaths connected to a COVID virus”
Is the contention that no death occurred, or that “Covid” listed on the death certificate under cause of death does not mean what it says?
Harvard and Yale scientists investigate new condition dubbed ‘Long Vax’
There is no more bee hive. Jose and Jose set the tree on fire this afternoon. I got home at 11pm and one of the logs was still on fire with flame coming out two feet tall.
I was worried that the flame was going to set the Spanish moss in my 60 foot tall Cypress tree on fire so I grabbed my 100 foot water hose, added a 50 foot extension, and hosed the log down for 30 minutes. The log was two feet across and about 18 inches was open due to the bee hive and fire.
Sigh. I suspect the fire was out when they left but the log formed a chimney and they did not properly put it out so it probably relit after they left. Me, I have a smidgen of fire training and know that you put water on something for five minutes after the smoke is gone. Sigh. I really don’t want my house burned down today.
Lynn, glad you averted disaster. That would have been a bit much.
I am still freaked out about this. I texted Jose the bigger after I put the fire out last night and he came by at 2 am to make sure the fire was out.
I am still amazed at the reaction of my wife. I ran in the house at 11 pm and tell my wife that the tree is on fire in our front yard. She walks out back, looks through our back gate, and says “the flames are only a foot tall, no big deal”. I corrected her and said that the flames were two feet tall and about to set our 60 foot cypress tree on fire because the spanish moss was hanging low over there. I grabbed the hose, turned on the water, and stood there for 30 minutes spraying down the area in my business clothes and boots. My nephew comes out in bare feet and gives me a hand when I went to go find another hose for an extension.
Jose and Jose came by this morning and grabbed the rest of the logs and took them to the dump. I now have a eight foot wide area where there is no grass anymore due to the fire. Good night, what a mess.
The female half of the Colonel Bat Guano neighbors who lived behind us in Florida had a really irrational dislike of Spanish moss, to the point that she called the county code enforcement to see if they could order it removed from the trees in the neighborhood at the expense of each homeowner.
I’ll bet they’re still laughing about that one at the code enforcement office.
Spanish moss is the sign that you live in a swamp. Even though I live on the high side of our neighborhood, spanish moss is on every crypress tree and some of the oak trees. My neighbors that flood occasionally have spanish moss in great quantity.
I’d say that the two guys who lit the tree on fire and left it were on the high side.
Or maybe they were on the low side … of the bell curve.
Every piece of land in Florida south of Gainesville is “swamp”. Good luck avoiding Spanish moss unless you’ve got Disney maintenance money.
Colonel Mrs. Bat Guano was born and raised in Hawaii but she wasn’t of Polynesian ancestry. In fact, she was freakishly borderline albino.
My wife refused to see her in the office so her partner ended up with El Diablo Blanco, as we also called her at our house. He came to regret accepting that file folder.
10. The cocaine was prescribed by a doctor to staunch the bleeding when Hunter was deeply cut by Occam’s Razor.
Man injured by neighbor’s target shooting
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/07/06/man-injured-shooting-n72267
No excuses. One of the first things I was taught was to be aware of how far a round could travel and do not fire unless you knew that the bullet would spend safely if you missed.
It’s been more than thirty years since a coworker was shot in the face by some idiot with a shotgun that didn’t know there were other hunters over the hill. He could have been killed or lost his sight, but was “fortunate” to escape with months of pain and some disfigurement.
stanch!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stanch
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staunch
Interesting, I would have made the same mistake.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/07/06/white-house-changes-story-on-cocainegate-n2625387
BTW, the hazmat team is on tape talking about “the library” which is in the East Wing, not the West.
“like the vice president’s limo or SUV park.”
Kamala may not be the brightest candle on the cake, but if FJB goes down the presidential aides exiting the White House are going to look like Quaker Oats shooting rice out of a cannon.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/07/06/man-injured-shooting-n72267
No excuses. One of the first things I was taught was to be aware of how far a round could travel and do not fire unless you knew that the bullet would spend safely if you missed.
It’s been more than thirty years since a coworker was shot in the face by some idiot with a shotgun that didn’t know there were other hunters over the hill. He could have been killed or lost his sight, but was “fortunate” to escape with months of pain and some disfigurement.
I put two rounds over the berm out of 600+ rounds when I was training at Front Sight a number of years ago. I got a stern look the first time from senior range instructor. He missed the second time as he was yelling at another idiot.
@SteveF
funeral orgies
“Since sending out the tweet, Ben & Jerry’s parent, Unilever, has lost $2.6 billion in market capital ”
And Vaseline sales are in the …
never mind.
Actually, I should start a movement to send KY to Ben and Jerry’s corporate headquarters.
A replacement VP won’t make it to a floor vote in the House if the vacancy comes up before January 2025.
I went to Tractor Supply today. Six 44# bags of cat food and two 40# bags of Diamond lamb and rice for the dogs. Two trips out of the store.
Yeah, I can shove the flat grocery cart around loaded with 350# of critter food and get it across the parking lot to the truck. But, why?
It’s all stacked in the feed shed. I’m set until Thanksgiving minimum.
Nice day. It rained a bit. Smelled good. I got soaked. But a warm rain so, nice.
Supper tonight is going be either Sue Bee Chicken and Dumplings or Dinty Moore Beef Stew. Cans… heat and eat.
Tomayto vs tomahto. You’ve stopped the flow.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-architectural-genius-of-the-geodesic-dome-and-the-challenge-of-putting-it-all-back-together-180982492/
@lynn:
So would I, because it’s the same in British English.
G.
I went to Tractor Supply today. Six 44# bags of cat food and two 40# bags of Diamond lamb and rice for the dogs. Two trips out of the store.
$1.00 / lb ???
That is a lot of food. How do you keep the cats out of it ?
Our 15 lb Siamese is able to rip open the bag with ease but he is too lazy. Much easier to walk around the house at 3am screaming his head off that he is starving and has not had anything to eat in days. Actually, he just ate all the food we left out for him and puked it up. He is not a dog, he won’t re-eat it.
Tree story
I was overwhelmed in trying to maintain the grounds at the farm I used to own, and some of the trees were covered with invasive choking vines. I would cut the vines at ground level, and they would shrivel and die.
That was unsightly, and pulling them down from these very big trees was too much work. I discovered that I could use a torch and set them on fire. There would be an impressive fire for a few minutes, smoke for a while more, and then things would return to normal, with the vines mostly removed. This was in the midwest, where the danger of spreading fire was low.
I expanded this approach from the very big healthy trees to a couple that were less healthy. In fact, approaching death. I lit my fire, it burned as planned, and that’s when I discovered the tree was hollow. Fire took hold inside the hollow, and it burned like a Swedish Fire log. For a brief time, the flames shot up about 80 feet into the air.
I had enough garden hose to run from the house to the tree, barely, and ran it out there with my best nozzle. I managed to retard the flames, but not extinguish them. Every time I thought I had it taken care of, and totally soaked, I’d come back in an hour and see it in flames again.
It was far enough from the house I eventually decided to just let it burn, and went to bed.
Next morning, all that was left was a stump, and the stump was more of a crater.
I had planned to cut that tree down for firewood to heat the house.
As George Washington is reputed to have said: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
I really don’t want to see a demonstration table for that product at the supermarket the next time we visit South Texas.
The Bud Light product demonstrator started packing up 15-20 minutes before the top of the hour.
Don’t hesitate to check with the vet when you notice that the cat isn’t keeping food down and feces disappears from the litter even for a day.
With our cat, any vet visit required sedation and careful coordination with the vet regarding time of morning, and I think I let what would have been a treatable UTI linger too long before I could get her into the office.
The next cat goes to a new vet, one that doesn’t sedate for “tortitude”.
The sedation never metabolized out of our cat’s system before she passed. I would have given anything to hear one last purr.
And here we have the real reason for July 4, 1776: Spelling!
No, pronunciation. Sssh-edule. Al-um-min-nium.
The madness!
The old Kraut family who’ve the place for the last three centuries will get their revenge. I don’t see anything to believe that the 50 year plan which started the clock ticking with Chuckles’ wedding to Diana isn’t proceeding on sssh-edule.
They might have to bump off Chuckles, however. The old Queen held out as long as she could to keep him off the throne.
>> PopTarts! were one of the forbidden fruits of my childhood. I’m enjoying them now though… Funny how that works.
@nick et al, favorite flavor?
>> Possibly the most lethal food product Kellogg makes with the possible exception of Cheeze Itz.
Don’t look at the nutrition details. You don’t want to know.
Yeah but that plus those foil wrappers must be radiation-proof.
And if you had your first PT long enough ago you should remember the original foil-lined paper pouches. Much better for resealing the pouch if you only ate one tart.
Much better.
I used to carefully open a pack, toast them, let them cool, rewrap and reseal, and stick them in my ruck for day hikes or bike rides.
Brown sugar cinnamon was best.
Change your oil often! I can’t stress this too much if you want to get lots of miles from an engine. If you only expect it to last as long as the warranty, you can get away with the manufacturer’s suggestion for ideal conditions, but most of us expect more.
Eric does a Nissan V8 as an example of failure possibly due to long oil change intervals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=T8wwMOsAXxw
Some comments are in order. This is apparently a popular engine, available in several displacements, and used in several Nissan vehicles. @paul might have one, so relevant here. Eric owns one with 145 k miles, and it has only needed routine maintenance, a testament to its sturdiness. The series apparently has a good reputation for long life.
Eric seldom has the history details of an engine, and this is no exception. He can only suppose. He has said that he sees lots of engines that have failed due to running low on oil, but this one was full. He says the filter was a Mobil 1, and this might mean the owner was hoping for long change intervals by using a high quality oil and filter. He said the drained oil was the worst looking and smelling he has seen from a gasoline engine. Look at the bearings.
I really like these teardowns; they show the trends in engine design, and reflect maintenance in service. Complexity is higher than ever, and service life can be short without good maintenance. Stress levels are high. First cost is high. Maintenance cost, due to complexity and poor access, is high.
OTOH, good routine maintenance is simpler than ever. Mostly just oil changes. Spark plugs usually last 100 k miles, but can be labor intensive to change. Some cars have trouble with highly stressed ignition components, but that is about it unless you have one of the engines with cylinder deactivation or direct injection. Many of those have problems. Getting better gas mileage costs money, likely more than is saved by lower consumption.
We went to Palmdale and Lancaster, CA, on Monday for some shopping. There was no traffic, and most stores had only a few customers. Costco seemed fully stocked, but my wife noticed some low food stock. There were few sales on everyday items, but she found everything she needed. I didn’t have any needs at Costco.
Trader Joe’s was moderately busy, as usual. Store was fully stocked. I don’t buy wine out of town in the summer because of the heat, but I looked for amusement. Interestingly, wine prices at TJ’s have not gone up much over the last five years. Several of our favorites have not changed at all. I have the records to prove it. There is a world-wide grape glut. Prices are accordingly low, and quality is up. Yum! We keep a nice inventory of wine at home, in accordance with the old saw, “wine is food.” We don’t drink much, but a nice dinner is enhanced with a little. If TEOTWAWKI happens, we might just drink ourselves out of misery, a prep that seems seldom mentioned.
The transmissions will go before the engines with Nissan.
My mother-in-law has a relatively recent Maxima with the CVT junk transmission, purchased used for blue book from family.
Of course, she’ll never admit something is wrong with the car, but … something has been wrong with the car for a very long time, most likely before she bought it.
Dime Bag plugs can’t nail down where the coke bag was found. This sounds like a disinformation campaign. Just keep the bag moving until it is out of the news cycle.
Quoted for posterity from twitchy:
Vanguard is allowing open season on Disney after the Indiana Jones debacle, and WarnerDiscovery is openly floating the idea of selling CNN in the press.
The news will be the news for the near future.
The manufacturers are under a lot of pressure to placate “green” concerns.
My 2018 Toyota Camry owners manual recommends 10,000 miles between oil changes and 60,000 miles for coolant.
I halve both of those numbers.
The recommended service interval on my 2001 Solara was 7500 miles, and then, a few years later, the engines had sludge issues and the interval was revised downwards after a recall.
I always change at 5000 miles.
I don’t go any more than 5000 miles between oil changes, though I usually do it around 4000 miles. Oil is still way cheaper than a new engine.
“Why a sudden surge of broken heat records is scaring scientists”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/why-a-sudden-surge-of-broken-heat-records-is-scaring-scientists/ar-AA1duLY0
“And then, on Monday, came Earth’s hottest day in at least 125,000 years. Tuesday was hotter.”
We are all going to die.
What a bunch of piffle ! Did anyone record the temperatures worldwide before 1900 using reliable instrumentation ?
I feel my leg being pulled.
I don’t go any more than 5000 miles between oil changes, though I usually do it around 4000 miles. Oil is still way cheaper than a new engine.
I went 8,000 miles on the last oil change for my 2019 F-150 4×4. Maybe I better drop back some. She has an oil life left in the computer, I wonder what the formula is and if it has anything to do with reality. I was at 27% on the last oil change. I did put synthetic in her since she is hot little beastie and runs so well (3.5L V6 twin turbo 375 hp, 470 ftlb).
Also cheaper than oil analysis, which is how we should decide when to change.
Oil contamination varies a lot with environmental conditions and driving cycles. The oil change reminder, based on an algorithm, can do a good job on driving cycles, but only a little on environmental conditions, such as temperature. Humidity and dust are ignored.
So, when in doubt, change it.
@Lynn
One of the most damning questions you can ask is: How many times and how much have past instrumental temperatures been revised?
And I’m remindng you that last week I posted a link from WUWT to a paper that demonstrated that the claims made for trends is not supported by the capability of the instruments. Worth reading if you haven’t. (I know you commented on the 70-year-old guys taking readings at NOAA stations sited on company property in the 1980’s.)
animal learning:
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1676566921083322368
I’ve seen the films of the “tool using” chimps fishing for termites with a slender twig. I’d like to get a compare and contrast on this from a pro.
Where is the water pump on that V6?
@alan, cherry is my favorite flavor. I like them warmed in the toaster, and butter on all the unfrosted bits. There is a special joy in eating them straight from the package too…
My rentals are called off. I will fuel them and hit them with the power washer in the morning. There is stuff that I would have liked to get done, but all the major tasks were completed.
We had a bit of weather blow in mid-afternoon. And by ‘blow’ I mean gusting to 50mph? maybe more. I jumped off the machines and put the flags away, put chairs away, cleaned up the dock, and took down the EZUp that I was using for shade. I thought we were gonna get HAMMERED.
But it blew through quickly. The rain was hard and fat, but did little more than keep the dust down and make all the red clay into slippery red mud.
It also cleared the air and the sky is big and black tonight. I am going to sit on the dock, despite my fatigue and the late hour.
Best sky in a month or more.
n
One of the most damning questions you can ask is: How many times and how much have past instrumental temperatures been revised?
And I’m remindng you that last week I posted a link from WUWT to a paper that demonstrated that the claims made for trends is not supported by the capability of the instruments. Worth reading if you haven’t. (I know you commented on the 70-year-old guys taking readings at NOAA stations sited on company property in the 1980’s.)
Yeah, I don’t have time to read all the stuff coming across WUWT, it is like a fire hose. I try but I am incredibly busy right now. I am desperately trying to get a release of our software out the door so I can get back on the 64 bit version. Not being able to debug on Windows 10 is killing me.
I was a field test engineer before we had computers taking readings every 15 seconds. I have pulled glass thermometers out of thermowells many times to read them. It is incredibly hard to measure water temperature using just four thermowells in an eight foot diameter pipe with well over 100,000 gpm in the pipe, laminar flow requires a lot of faith. I feel the same way about measuring air temperature in these enlightened days where there is just one thermometer for the entire Indian Ocean. And devolving air temperature from tree rings, what a bunch of hooie.
Where is the water pump on that V6?
Uh, in the front ??? That water pump not only pumps water through the block and heads, it also pumps water through each of the turbos and the air intercooler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfO5hFN1NHw
The engine does not have a mounted fan. Instead there is one electric fan in front of the radiator (forced draft) and two fans behind the radiator (induced draft). This is the heavy cooling package with the five row radiator that comes with the Max Tow package. The standard setup is two electric fans and a three row radiator.
When all three fans are running it sounds like it is spooled up and ready for takeoff.
Ok. It isn’t inside the engine.
The electric fan on my Expy is crazy loud. You can feel the heat pouring off of it too.
Headed to bed. Humidity returned and the sky faded a bit. Still more stars than in weeks.
n
>> I expect you have stacks, so you might not have seen the current price of feeding gubs. I also wouldn’t be wasting my supplies by mag dumping in the air.
Seeing a lot of 22LR at a nickel per, useful for the range, especially if there exists a 22 version of the same gub in a ‘real’ caliber (eg G44 and G19.) Closer to 30 cents per for brand name 9 in HP.
For the yoga pants aficionados…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/style/yoga-pants-leggings.html
Prices are still high, and supplies are still short. The ‘mag dump’ crowd is not known for their reasoning skills and self control however…
n
Radiators and fans. First of all, a radiator should be measured by the amount of heat it can flow under some standard test conditions, not the number of rows or tubes. Sadly, this never caught on in the mainstream.
Some background. In the old days, radiators had relatively small flow area, so their thickness and number of rows of tubes were of some importance. As the need arose to make cars lighter, someone probably discovered that increasing the flow area of the radiator, while decreasing its thickness, increased the heat transfer capacity while decreasing weight. Notice the trend that many cars now have radiators that have larger area and are thinner. This makes the air flow larger given a similar flow velocity. The ability of the radiator to transfer heat is related to the air flow in pounds per hour.
Rarely, some old radiators were designed with split flow, arranged in counterflow, so the front half of the tubes were downstream of the coolant flow in the rear half. This in theory resulted in lower water temperature exiting the radiator. The idea was discarded as probably not cost effective.
Strictly speaking, the number of rows of tubes is less important than the thickness of the core, but getting even flow through oblong cross section tubes was tricky. Using narrower tubes made even flow easier to achieve. Some tubes also had “turbulators” inside, which were supposed to induce turbulence to spread the flow better. This was also abandoned as not cost effective. There are other design features that proved more expensive than useful.
Look at some old radiators from the 1930s and earlier to see what I am talking about.
Electric fans are probably less energy efficient and definitely more expensive than engine driven fans with hydraulic clutches, but they are easier to control. They can also run at top speed while the engine is idling, increasing cooling and air conditioner performance. Note that heavy trucks and off road equipment still use engine driven fans, sometimes with electrically controlled hydraulic clutches. I doubt this is to save cost.
As for fan noise, it can be misleading. The heat flow vs air speed is approximately a log function: heat flow does not increase linearly with air velocity. Also, noise can be reduced with good blade design and shrouding. This can result in high heat transfer with low noise.
I spent nearly six months in an uncomfortable standoff with a Yoga Pants over the DoD contractor jab mandate at the last job.
Clapper was on the board until his gaffe about Hunter’s laptop was revealed. Of course they were going to adhere to the agenda.
The final coat of mud on the Disney stucco cr*p shack sarcophagi – more appropriate for Florida than the proverbial nail in the coffin – is coming on July 12.
Haley Atwell? Didn’t she work for The Mouse?
Cruise is shameless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Bcsh9Dh5o
Open season.
There isn’t much that will get me into a theater, but I’ll go see that on the big screen.
Cruise is the last big movie star.
I change the oil and filter in my vehicles every 5000 miles. Have been doing this since the mid ’60s. Easy to remember – if the speedometer has three (or four) zeros on the right it’s time to change the oil.
I sometimes change it early if my plans have me a trip when a change will be due or a bit late if I was on a trip. If its going to be late, I check the oil level, etc., before the trip. If my engine uses/drips more than a quart between changes, its repair time.
Now that I’m retired and having three vehicles (1999 Ranger 205,000 miles; 2000 F250 399,000; and 2016 Fusion 66,000 miles) I am only changing the oil three or four time a year across all of them, i.e., the F-250 will gets its first change since 2019 in a few months. The Fusion was changed was twice in the last year.
Cruise has a huge bullseye on him right now from Disney and Iger, which is not something to take lightly given the media resources still at Burbank’s disposal.
I wonder how long Cruise can keep doing these massive action movies? Age catches up to us all. Eventually.
>> Every piece of land in Florida south of Gainesville is “swamp”.
Our house in Tampa was in flood zone X. We were in a narrow band of streets just south of 275 near MacDill.
>> So would I, because it’s the same in British English.
Shouldn’t that be English vs. American English?
That part of Tampa floods in a light rain. Elevation is only part of the problem.
The city had the opportunity to do something about the street flooding in the early-to-mid 90s before gentrification really took hold down there, but the long planned “community investment” tax intended to pay for a lot of infrastructure got used to build the Yucs a new stadium instead.
I guess the theory was that the stadium would increase property values and thus the tax base, but, once Raymond James opened, all of the high dollar commercial property in the neighborhood went into decline and never recovered.