Hot, humid, and windy too. That’s today at the BOL. Wind was crazy last night, blowing steady 5-10mph with significant gusts beyond that. Couldn’t keep a lantern lit on the dock last night. At 84F it was pleasant for my radio and tiny little fire.
Got my morning stuff done, and eventually got out of the house and on my way yesterday. Had D1 and the dog in the truck so my pack was a bit different. Not as much stuff coming up here loaded into the back.
Got here and installed the stairs. Had help from my fisherman friend, with the main work done by the block and fall. Stairs fit without modification. Spooky how my life works sometimes. They aren’t perfectly suited to the job, but are more than merely adequate. A bit longer with a few more steps would have been ideal, but hey, they’re in, I didn’t have to build them, and they will be fine for as long as we need them. I have a little bit of fine tuning to do for the bottom landing, and some lights would be nice, but I got really freaking lucky with them.
Today will be electrical work on the dock. I think I have a plan and all the stuff I need. If it goes well, hooray. If not, we’ll plug away and do what we can. After the electrical, it’ll be time to do some plumbing for sprinklers.
There is plenty to do. I did add some frozen food to the stacks up here, and some more paper products. There were a few medical supplies as well.
Keep working on somewhere to go if you have to get out of Dodge. Keep stacking.
nick
“Rogue One” has a mix of Carrie Fisher overlaid on her daughter’s head.
The last decent “Star Wars” film, but I didn’t dislike “Solo” even if Ron Howard was working out something weird with the Girl Boss who looked like his daughter.
The movie also features a digital Peter Cushing which looks like the image was pulled from one of his horror films, but I can’t quite put my finger on which one.
The studios are going to let the strikes go on to the point where they can exercise the Force Majeure clauses and write off a lot of the woke material financed for streaming.
Why does anyone have money in Bank of America anymore? They’ve been a ward of the state since the financial crisis. 15 years?
That DHS campus is a huge new pork project in DC which has the construction companies and other contractors salivating, especially since pace has slowed on the Amazon “HQ2” across the river.
I didn’t work on the toll road servicing the DHS campus, but my 395 project interfaced to the last plaza on the road heading to/from the campus so that all tolls added to one “trip” when reconciled at the end of the day … to fund the Australian and Canadian pensions … cough … but I digress.
Seven (?) of the richest counties in America are around DC. Piglets at the trough. I’ve never been up there to look first hand, but last weekend I stayed on the outskirts of Franklin, TN, another county frequently ranked in the top ten, and I imagine that the houses, stores, etc. are similar.
Franklin still had Staples stores. Mittens!
Even in Clarksville, the people all seemed to have their teeth, the previously abandoned towering Rodeway Inn undergoing renovation, and the main Post Office buiding now housing a boutique restaurant, “The Mailroom”. Of course, Clarksville is all funny money from the $1 Trillion DoD printing press budget, but, heck, what’s a few billion between friends. Party on!
That would hinder reporting on a person’s credit reliability difficult. While I despise the credit bureaus with their errors in people’s files, difficulty in correcting information, and most annoying the inability to keep the information secure, there is some reasonable need to aggregate credit information on people. The penalty that should have fallen on Equifax for releasing personally identifiable information should have been termination of their business license and the company shuttered and bankruptcy level fines to the top 10% of the executives.
Even more frightening is a company called LexisNexis. The not only handle credit information, they keep information on the person such as driving records, insurance information, information on any property the person has owned, professional associations, insurance claims, and claims on the property the person has owned or currently owns. I even found information on flights I had taken overseas in my file. Basically, every item that can be associated with an individual now or in the past. They are more dangerous than any credit reporting information.
The really sad part is that there is no way to have the information contained by LexisNexis corrected. I got a dump of my information which LexisNexis is legally required to provide. But the information was coded and there was no way to determine what the coded information meant. LexisNexis fulfilled the legal requirement but made the information useless. The result of another ill-formed law by clueless dolts that write the laws.
There were several items in my report that I was able to figure out and the items were incorrect. LexisNexis provided no way to have any incorrect information corrected or removed. That is bad because the information maintained by the company is used for insurance decisions.
Franklin, TN is nice. Vanderbilt has an extension clinic there, and we often go there for my son’s endocrinologist appointments. It saves us a half hour and the pain of going directly into Nashville.
Lots of medical dominates Nashville and Memphis. The St. Jude building, accessible from the Danny Thomas Blvd. offramp is impossible to miss driving down the main freeway in Memphis.
The only time Steve Jobs seemed to make visible progress in his cancer battle was during the year he spent in Nashville, waiting for a liver transplant and living by the program’s rules, away from the Stanford doctors who were more prone to cater to his whims.
Driving from Nashville to Memphis, I also saw three billboards welcoming “Blue Oval City”, the new pork barrel battery plant being built somewhere out that way by Ford using the Fed printing press largess they received … but don’t call it a bailout … even if it was about 15% of their market cap.
Well, at that time, the market cap. Pay no attention to the 10,000 Mach-E’s currently sitting on dealer lots as the 2023 model year counts down.
HireRight, run by and for HR droids in big company HR departments is also scary and tends to accumulate gossipy information since the droids tend to peak in high school.
Where I currently work, HireRight also coordinated the background screening and drug test upon hiring.
The drug test had a particularly onerous schedule, and the test was considered a failure if the future employee did not rigorously adhere to the timetable for submission of sample after receiving the offer email.
Yet, but: the way credit-scores work in the US is weird: you *improve* your credit rating by being in debt. Someone who never needs a credit card, because they pay for what they buy, has a lower score than someone running around with big credit-card balances. If you are financially disciplined, not going unnecessarily into debt and generally paying your bills, that should suffice for any reasonable loan.
Hi ho,. hi ho, it’s off to woke we go!
Yes, I agree. One has to have debt to be allowed to get debt. Where does a person start? Knowing the difficulties in obtaining credit when I was on my own, I got my son a credit card in his name with me as a responsible person. He was able to establish credit while he was still in high school.
My credit score is very high, a lifetime of debt and loans. Such debt eliminated several years ago and all loans paid off. My score is still impacted because I have no recent loans and no mortgage. In other words, the score would be higher if I owed money making my ability to pay less than the ability is now. The fact that I pay everything off makes me more of a credit risk.
If I had paid cash my entire life, never had any debts, my score would be in the low 300’s. Basically unable to get any loans. Even if had a million dollars in the bank my score would be tanked. I would have to secure any loan with the money in the bank and pay the highest interest rates.
It is almost impossible to operate in society today without a credit card. Online shopping requires a credit card. Traveling by air requires a credit card unless one pays in cash and enjoys a strip search by the TSA. Traveling in Europe a credit card is essential for the trains.
And I learned a lesson in Europe. Since DB lied to me I had to pay for the train ticket from Vienna to Prague rather than use my German rail pass, which DB told me would work. Nope, different train system even though the train appears in the DB app. When I was required to purchase the ticket on the train (thankfully no penalty) I was asked if I wanted to pay in US dollars or Euros. I said dollars. Big mistake. I was charged an exchange fee. I had I said Euros the credit card company would have covered the exchange fee. Always pay in the local currency.
Disney hasn’t learned a damned thing.
As for the casting of “Snow White”, The Mouse will do anything to keep the South American tourist money flowing in Orlando for their “once in a lifetime” experience, especially now that theme park revenue depends on the $100-200 surcharge for Genie+ “Lightning Lane” passes on popular but still mediocre attractions like The Seven Dwarves Mine Train.
The crazy thing is that I’ve never seen any adult from that demographic on the rides who look like they are having a good time despite all the money they spend. “Papi” especially always seems bored even as he shells out a grand or more per day to be there.
Peter Dinklage. Geesh.
The flick may still see release even as yet another Disney bomb. Synergy.
tRump is a dictator:
Biden forgives $39 BILLION in student debt for 804,000 Americans: White House goes around Supreme Court ruling to give handout to borrowers who have been paying for 20 years
plugsy McSpongeBrain The Last. tRump, tho.
When our Twins hit 18 in High School, we got them a “college” checking plan. Checking, savings, debit card, and credit card. We made sure they paid each semester at UNLV with their credit card and then paid it off. They have friends of the same age that have jack for credit.
82F and overcast this am. Not horrible. I’m sure it will get there though.
WRT retaining PII, they could record the loan application, amount, time, person, without recording all the other stuff. That would be enough to track what they ostensibly “need” to track.
WRT loaning to the indebted, you are making a mistake by assuming they want what you would want from a borrower. THEY want to pump money into the system of consumerism. They want to give the money to someone with a history of spending beyond their immediate means. They want that money in the economy quickly and spent on non-durable goods. They have a secondary desire to see people indebted as ‘debt slaves’. They need you to spend at some multiple of your means to keep the economy moving, and they want you to be tied to job and place.
As someone who used to travel internationally for work, I’d say “read your particular credit card agreement” wrt transaction fees, currency conversions, and fees on cash advances. Sometimes it’s cheaper one way, sometimes another. It was cheaper for me to advance my AMEX in AbuDhabi at the hotel desk in dinar or whatever the local scrip was, than to convert USD elsewhere or use an ATM. It was usually cheaper to get some ‘walking around cash’ at my bank in the US before departing, and the plus was having tip or emergency money upon arrival.
Leftover cash or local coins make an interesting souvenir when combined with a couple other cheap things in a shadow box.
Ah, there is the sun. Didn’t take long.
Slow start this morning. Spent a bit longer than I intended on the dock last night, and the shower and post. Needed to sleep in a bit to get more than 5 hours. But coffee is mostly in my belly as is the breakfast. Croissants were a bit disappointing this morning. They are a week old and even toasting them doesn’t make them great again.
Enough delay, time to start working.
n
My credit started with a Sears charge card. If you bought something large, and financed it, they’d give almost anyone a charge card. ‘Course that is gone now. I suppose the equivalent is a secured card from a major issuer? Maybe a financed vehicle?
n
I wonder if plugs will call me out of retirement after we lose all of our reservists in Europe. Most of them will “immigrate” to the UK anyway.
After plugs sends all of our missile defense systems to Herr Zelensky, we won’t be able to defend our skies, either.
Game over, man, game over.
tRump, tho.
LOL. All the A-list millionaire actors are walking out of premiers, etc. Did I mention they are millionaires many times over. They don’t give a shite. Think they would take a pay cut so others could get better wages? Nah.
When independent and foreign films start to hit the theaters and airwaves, will the studios crumble? Or will they threaten theater owners with a boycott once the strike is over?
I wonder if S02 of “Reacher” is done and Amazon will release it.
In the meantime, I have plenty of old shows to watch/rewatch. And about 100 books on my waiting-to-be-read list.
Debt is like stocks: it can be a good time to buy some when it is on sale. Don’t buy more than you can afford, and pay it off by the rules.
I had a friend, long passed on, who was born in Holland and came here after WWII. Old school European. He cautioned me about the folly of using debt to build our home during a time of high inflation. He said people in the old country lived with earlier generations and eventually inherited their homes debt free. He had no earlier generation relatives in this country, and was never able to save enough cash to own his home. He always rented. He was a great guy who died with a net worth of around zero. He did say he never missed a meal after coming here.
My father taught me to establish credit. I took out a small credit union loan to buy my first TV. Paid it off in three months, with less total interest than the cost of a cheap lunch. Later, when I wanted a car loan, they welcomed me with open arms. I will never know if that TV loan made a difference, because the modern credit bureaus were still a few years from going into operation. Even after they did, I never saw my credit score until decades later.
There is something satisfying about using Other Peoples’ Money. I have studied some famous rich people. Some of them have used debt very successfully. One all of us hate used debt to crash the British pound. Just think, one individual crashed the central bank of England by clever use of debt. When that was done, he profited enormously.
One of my college professors used to say, “Don’t should on yourself.” He explained that there is a system and rules. They are never perfect, and we may not agree with them, but that misses the point. Successful people learn the rules and figure out how to use them to their advantage.
When my son turned 16, I added him as an authorized user on my AMEX card. Used it for gas and other things I allowed. I will have him keep that, or another card if I decide to switch, forever. Even when he’s on his own, a safety net never hurts, and he is responsible and has earned my trust.
He did get his own credit card at the start of the summer. A Discover card marketed to students. My only condition was that he pay off purchases as he goes for now, thereby helping to reinforce the reality that it’s not free money.
Bankruptcy “reform” and the courts ended the Sears card — and, thus, Sears — in the mid-90s. There is no modern direct equivalent.
My first card was a Discover, through Sears, as a 19yo (I think…21?), an age bracket that no one else was interested in serving.
I still use it, though if they go anti-2nd Amendment (they flirted with it last year) we will part ways.
@MrAtoz: My two grandchildren will be in Las Vegas this weekend. JimB met my granddaughter at the Indian Wells Brewery last month.
High Desert weather: It is supposed to be 108F today, and 113 tomorrow. And not below 103F for the next 10 days.
I try to get my yard work done before 10am.
WRT the local political situation in my town, Huntington Beach, currently very good. Last election for our city council last November could not have been better, The four winners ran hand in hand as a team and are very conservative. The votes are now 4 to 3 with the bideradoos sticking together.
There will still be problems with gov newscum having the state sue us for not providing new slums for the disadvantaged with our tax dollars.
Bankruptcy “reform” and the courts ended the Sears card — and, thus, Sears — in the mid-90s. There is no modern direct equivalent.
Discover is the grandchild of Sears charge card. Two of my relatives work for Discover in Chicago.
Geez. MrsAtoz surgeon called this am. The anesthesiologist crapped out. Blood work was done. Paperwork done. Fasting. All for naught. Rescheduled for August 23.
Well I’ve got most of the conduit and feeder in place for the new breaker panel. Even found a 50A 220v GFCI “hot tub” breaker/disconnnect to replace the fused disconnect that feeds the dock. I’ll install that last when I pull the disconnect out.
Figured out the existing circuits in the dock. One lighting, one GFCI for receptacles, one for boat lifts, two for dock house, one for sprinkler system, and a 220v for the irrigation pump. I’ll need to clean up the lighting wiring a bit, and swap out an old POS box for new. The rest should land in the panel without changes. ‘course, all the existing wiring SHOULD be replaced as it’s just romex stapled to the structure. That will have to wait. Getting back to where we were, but more safely is the current goal.
WRT credit, it’s very easy to abuse, especially in college. I spent 10s of thousands I didn’t have on food and drinks over the years. The result was bad. Well past that now, but it took a long time.
nick
Doesn’t JCB own Discover now?
Sears didn’t have the traditional credit card in the sense that the terms included a clause that allowed them to repossess purchased merchandicse or pursue the borrower in court for anything permanent like paint bought with the card, even if they were under the protection of Bankruptcy.
I saw the aftermath of a carpet repossession at a friend’s house in ~ 1990 – everything down to the tack strips, including the pad. Sears did not kid around, which ultimately landed them in legal trouble.
Of course, this allowed the cardholder to eat and deal with emergencies such as a car repair or appliance replacement even when facing Bankruptcy/Liquidation. And it was very easy to get a card, as @Nick pointed out.
I’m old enough to remember one Sears specialty catalog which sold meat and other food in bulk quanitites, delivered to your house. They sold everything until the late 70s.
“NHTSA Confirms First Passenger-Side Takata Airbag Death; FCA Issues Do Not Drive Recall For 2003 Dodge Ram 1500”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/consumer-alert-nhtsa-confirms-first-passenger-side-takata-airbag-death-in-2003-dodge-ram
“The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is confirming another Takata rupture fatality, the first due to an exploding passenger-side inflator. The latest death brings the total number of confirmed Takata fatalities in the United States to 26. NHTSA says the latest incident is also the first in a 2003 model-year Dodge Ram 1500 and one of the 385,686 2003 Dodge Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500s recalled back in 2015. NHTSA estimates roughly 84,000 of these pickup trucks are unrepaired, and occupants of these unrepaired vehicles are at grave risk of serious injury or death. If you have one of these vehicles, DO NOT DRIVE it until the recall is completed and your defective air bag is replaced.”
As an engineer, I have ALWAYS thought that airbags were incredibly dangerous. Seat belts are much safer and we have problems with those too. My brother was severely injured in a car wreck because he was asleep in the back seat and let his seat belt slide above his waist. Of course, I broke my leg in two places in the same wreck since I had my leg under the front seat which collapsed on my leg.
Doesn’t JCB own Discover now?
JCB ?
“Biden White House Cancels $39 Billion in Student Debt”
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/2c2f50ee-1f34-36dd-9db1-9dfb30ce2cc1/biden-white-house-cancels-39.html
“President Joe Biden’s administration has announced it will cancel student debt for over 800,000 borrowers, in relief that totals up to $39 billion.”
SCOTUS … SCHMOTUS. Who cares what SCOTUS says ?
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-program/
I am back to getting 40 to 50 spam emails via gmail in the last few days. Apparently the spammers are using ChatGPT to reformat their spam emails. Isn’t that nice ?
“Mid-Year Pickup Sales Race: Ford Dominates”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/mid-year-pickup-sales-race-ford-dominates
Wow, I did not realize that Toyota is so far behind Ford in truck sales.
56,047 for Ford Maverick, 523,054 for Ford F series.
116,845 for Toyota Tacoma, 59,735 for Toyota Tundra.
I have bought my last Chevy and Dodge so I don’t care about those.
And I am reading reports that electric Mustangs and electric F-150s are accumulating at the Ford dealerships across the nation.
>> Why does anyone have money in Bank of America anymore?
No money in BofA, but I do have a credit card of theirs that I’ve held onto as it has a very nice cashback.
“Drone warfare in Ukraine, and its lessons for future wars”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/drone-warfare-in-ukraine-and-its.html
“Dnipro 1 commander Yuriy Bereza [says], “It’s incredible how drones are changing the war. If I turn on my phone – a rocket will come out of the sky and land on me. The Russians can track it and they have orders to kill me. So many things in war now are about WhatsApp, Facetime, Signal — wars are being run out of phones. And if you leave a phone on in the wrong place you can die.””
“The Russians are neither stupid nor technologically naive. According to reports, Ukraine is losing around 10,000 drones per month to Russian electronic warfare. When I spoke to Dima earlier in the year, he told me how much better the enemy was getting at jamming and disrupting his attacks and how much more advanced they were in medium-range drones. Now, 18 months on, despite all their problems, the Russians remain in the field and they are getting better. They have significant technological capabilities — and, crucially, they are learning from their mistakes.”
The people planning Civil War II in the USA are watching and noting these tactics.
>> The St. Jude building, accessible from the Danny Thomas Blvd. offramp is impossible to miss driving down the main freeway in Memphis.
Their fund-raising must not be going well of late – I’ve seen two their commercials where they show a picture of a kid that didn’t make it.
Shriners has upped their game with the fundraising ads.
Side Quested: Dragons Enjoy Boring People
https://sidequested.com/page/93/
They are apparently delicious.
So are the people who are not planning CWII but are planning on surviving it.
The hands on anesthesiology provider got word that their student loans were forgiven and decided to shrug.
Finding something else to do in life once the loans get paid isn’t uncommon among the CRNAs who actually do the work in the operating room while the doctor supervises. I imagine that there were many of those folks contemplating the next chapter of their lives this morning.
Blanket loan forgiveness for everyone would decimate medical care in the US.
“Emergency preparations: Disposing of your trash”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/emergency-preparations-disposing-of.html
“I’ve had ongoing conversations with several readers about the wider implications of such situations. The other day we were talking about how the disposal of trash (anything from normal “dry” waste products, through spoiled food and liquids, to human waste) can affect our health, hygiene and other preparations such as water purification, etc. I thought it might be worthwhile to address the issue in a blog article, for wider circulation. It’s a big topic, so obviously we won’t do more than scratch the surface of it here. There’s lots more information available on the Internet if you look for it.”
“Trash disposal is one of the things to which most people pay little attention. We’ve become so accustomed to bagging our waste, tossing the bags into an outdoor bin, and wheeling it to the roadside once a week for collection by the waste disposal company, that we don’t give it a second thought. However, what if our garbage was not collected? The consequences are many, and very unpleasant.”
What a mess ! And burning trash is a very dirty thing with lots of ash. My grandparents burn barrel on their farm did not work very well, even after I put vent holes in the bottom.
My experience with that is “too much trash at time doesn’t burn well”. Start small and add.
“A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/a-rivian-owner-was-in-a-fender-bender-the-repair-bill-was-42000/ar-AA1dSxg2
“The incident, which occurred February in Columbus, Ohio, was at first believed to be somewhat minor, according to the Times report, which said the other driver’s insurance offered to pay about $1,600. But, after the electric car was taken to a repair shop that was certified to work with Rivian products the cost jumped to $42,000, the publication said.”
“The repair cost over half the starting price of the vehicle. One of the primary reasons for the high price was that the accident affected a panel that reaches from the back of the vehicle all the way to the front roof pillars of the truck and fixing the panel required service workers to remove the ceiling and front windshield, the Times said.”
Wow !
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
How long does the post office take to deliver a letter from San Antonio about 100 miles to Burnet? More than three days. Maybe tomorrow.
Yeah, I know, from SA to Austin and then out to the sticks. But if it was “mailed” on the 11th like the guy said and picked up morning of the 12th, just saying.
I normally wouldn’t pay attention but hey, a $5400 cashiers check is Something To Watch The Mailbox For. If only to miss the total hassle of having it replaced if the a-holes that like to smash mailboxes get involved.
It’s kind of hot. 108f last time I looked. Beats 40f.
I use to burn the trash in a 55 gallon drum. After a few burns I’d dump the ashes and bag the cans and melted glass to take to the trash at work. I can do that again. Or somewhere out here on 40 acres I can dig a hole to toss that stuff into. Ad a few large bones and toss in some metal coins and hey, 500 years from now someone will find a treasure.
We don’t make a lot of trash. I flatten boxes and fold up feed sacks. I crush my beer cans and save them for a trip to the recycle place. 40¢ a pound is free money. Tin cans from veggies and etc. are flattened if I can cut the bottom off. If I can’t cut the bottom off I fill the cans with other stuff, like, smaller cans and k-cups. It’s almost a full kitchen trash can every two weeks. The boxes take about a month to fill a Miller High Life 30 pack box. It takes a few months to fill a feed sack with folded up feed sacks.
I’m good with sewage. I have a septic system.
Spoiled food is relative. Yeah, the orange has gone bad “to you” but go toss it way out back if you don’t have chickens. The various critters roaming around are not as picky. Go figure. Left-over supper? Dogs LOVE that stuff and the cats are interested.
My weak point is water if the a/c goes out. But I have plans for that.
Bayou Guy has a lot of good points.
“A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000.”
Screw that. Time to take them off the road. If we have a bumper design requirement (yeah, I know, it’s morphed into a joke with repair shops charging $300 to reskin a bumper and match paint) then there has to be such a thing as a flawed design lack of durability rendering them not roadworthy.
They’re nucking fugly, too.
“Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/report-linux-desktops-hit-3-global-market-share-but-are-declining-in-us/
“Linux gains (or loses), Windows slumps, macOS jumps—it’s been quite a year.”
“he was already a big no but this bit of stupid really seals the deal. No Pence. ”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/07/14/watch-tucker-carlson-just-ended-pences-campaign-whether-he-knows-it-or-not-n2385411
If I was twenty years younger I’d apply to be Trump’s VP. When he interviewed me I’d tell him that we could play “god cop, bad cop”. As long as he was ok playing good cop.
World cycling body reveres course, bans trans athletes from competing against women
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/07/14/world-cycling-body-reveres-course-bans-trans-athletes-from-competing-against-women-n564703
Ghost of Bud Light.
My weak point is water if the a/c goes out. But I have plans for that.
Don’t you have a water well ?
Do you mean electricity instead of a/c ?
My water well at the office is 240 feet deep with the water at 160 feet IIRC. I cannot imagine digging down 160+ feet to get an open well. That would be horrible and very dangerous. I really like that 30 gpm pump at the 180 foot level. But it does take 13 amps at 230 volts to run.
DIE nation proud to send hair-sniffing pervert to Finland to assault little girls
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/07/14/creepy-joe-awake-enough-in-finland-to-embarrass-the-us-again-n564677
I look forward to FJB encountering a little girl that’s been taught to resist with a snap kick to the nuts.
@Lynn
A typical windmill with 8 diameter wheel can lift water 185 feet and pump about 150 gallons an hour in 15 to 20 mph winds when using a 1 ¾ “pump cylinder.
https://www.agritechtomorrow.com/article/2018/03/using-windmills-to-deliver-water/10595
“he was already a big no but this bit of stupid really seals the deal. No Pence. ”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/07/14/watch-tucker-carlson-just-ended-pences-campaign-whether-he-knows-it-or-not-n2385411
Something is wrong with Mike Pence. He is more and more RINO every day.
A typical windmill with 8 diameter wheel can lift water 185 feet and pump about 150 gallons an hour in 15 to 20 mph winds when using a 1 ¾ “pump cylinder.
https://www.agritechtomorrow.com/article/2018/03/using-windmills-to-deliver-water/10595
Our average wind around here is more like 3 to 5 mph.
Between the 6.x series Kernel and the ongoing compiler arms race between GCC and LLVM, the hardware requirements for Linux haven’t grown nearly as fast as they have for Windows, allowing for reuse of a lot of older hardware with lots of service life left.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/california-adopting-new-social-justice-mathematics-framework-for-k-12/
Oh, goody. I hope they ram it right down the throats of Stanford, CalTech, and the the entire UCal system, requiring that their engineering departments give full credit for the answers produced by the woke mathematics.
@Lynn
“Our average wind around here is more like 3 to 5 mph.”
Better design a pump that runs on sewer gas if you’re fond of flush toilets.
Wind power goes up with the cube of velocity, so with a 3-5mph breeze, a typical windmill should be able to lift water about three feet.
Not sure that this would be terribly useful.
Just give everybody a straight 100. Anything else would be unwoke.
“I look forward to FJB encountering a little girl that’s been taught to resist with a snap kick to the nuts.”
I see someone believes that little girls should be taught to just submit.
Speaking of “woke”, I tell
peopleleftards that it’s an acronym: White is OK Everywhere. They get annoyed.https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/california-adopting-new-social-justice-mathematics-framework-for-k-12/
Oh, goody. I hope they ram it right down the throats of Stanford, CalTech, and the the entire UCal system, requiring that their engineering departments give full credit for the answers produced by the woke mathematics.
Joequim has five apples that he picked from the local orchard cooperative. Should he sell the five apples for $1.00 each to the local supermarket ? Or should he give the five apples to five homeless people ? You don’t have to show your work.
I see various numbers between 9,000 and 10,000 unsold Mach-E Mustangs in the US right now. That’s not stellar news for Ford since the model year is about to change,.
The deal my wife’s nephew cut for his Maverick was weird. I didn’t ask how much he paid, but he talked about the seller being a dealer insider who put a posting on Facebook claiming that his household wasn’t happy with the truck’s size after driving it for a few months.
I imagine that a lot of Mavericks are being sold in similarly weird deals.
>> My credit started with a Sears charge card. If you bought something large, and financed it, they’d give almost anyone a charge card. ‘Course that is gone now. I suppose the equivalent is a secured card from a major issuer? Maybe a financed vehicle.
If you go to college the equivalent is a Discover card. As long as you are ‘above room temperature, and your name isn’t Hunter Biden, you will very likely qualify. Supposedly their market research shows a good amount of loyalty to the students’ first credit card.
Secured cards are an option but it takes a while unless you open one with a sizeable deposit. So are financed vehicles as long as you avert your eyes as to the interest rate when you sign on the dotted line, F&I guy worked his HPFM.
If you rent in an apartment complex they may participate in one of the programs that report rent payments. And if pay your utilities, internet, etc using your checking account, one(?) of the bureaus has a process to scrape that data and report it.
HPFM = High Performance Financial Magic ???
Yeah, I meant electric, not a/c.
My water pump is about 180 down in a 240 deep well. That’s what the previous owner said. It’s darn cold water.
Sometimes I type and post faster than I can proof read and edit.
Anyway, when I was in HS we lived in the sticks and had an outhouse. Super nice in the RGV when it’s 100f and even worse in the winter. We all lived without flush toilets.
The big deal is to have clean water.
My water pump is about 180 down in a 240 deep well. That’s what the previous owner said. It’s darn cold water.
Our well water around here is 65 F, winter and summer. Dadgum cold when the water heater runs out.
I started with a Sears card. That was awesome. And yeah, I knew that if you don’t pay they will come take the stuff back. It was cool. Seemed honest to me.
My current card is a Discover. Pays 1% cashback. I’ve never paid interest…. are you kidding? At 24 or so % ??
Anyway, when I was in HS we lived in the sticks and had an outhouse. Super nice in the RGV when it’s 100f and even worse in the winter. We all lived without flush toilets.
The big deal is to have clean water.
RGV = Rio Grande Valley, what we call the Valley here in southeast Texas
Clean, pressurized water is a requirement to keep from getting sick. And some place to put the dirty nasty water coming from the house like an aerobic septic tank. Or a septic tank with a leach field like Nick’s BOL.
Leach field’s don’t work around here, too much clay in the ground. Areobic septic tanks work if you put chlorine in them before you spray the twice separated water on your grass.
I’ve used a lot of outhouses in Texas and Oklahoma. A couple in Alaska. Mind the black widow spiders and the wasp nests. Plus the copperheads. I have not seen many varmints in portapotties, maybe they hide better.
I have yet to drop a gun in an outhouse or a portapotty. I know someone who has though. He claims that it made his Glock 19 tougher. All he did was throw it in the dishwasher and run a cycle. And the fishing with a coat hanger was quite interesting.
The Weatherman speaks.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/13/bob-iger-not-at-all-concerned-about-disney-world-traffic/
July in Orlando is 93 degrees and rain every afternoon. It isn’t Ithaca, Bob, but 100 degrees isn’t happening in that environment.
It looks like we maxed out at about 109F here. But with 4% RH the swamp cooler, on low, is keeping the house a tolerable 77F indoors.
Strange happenings. We had a power blip, very short. Two of my UPSs shut down. Turned them back on for about an hour. Unplugged both and they immediately shut down. The batteries are apparently DOA. Pricing the batteries on Batteries+ it is cheaper to buy new UPSs from Costco. It is strange that both UPSs decided to die at the same time. May have been dead for awhile and just took a power blip to show the demise.
I’ve almost given up on using UPS’ at the house. I can’t seem to keep one for more than a year. The electronics die and the batteries won’t charge. I’ve wasted enough on replacement batteries that won’t charge. I’ve put just about everything on surge strips and will call it good enough. The only exception might be the internet router and switch. I’ll probably keep those on a UPS.
>> HPFM = High Performance Financial Magic ???
Hocus Pocus F***in Magic
Lynn says:
Our 2500 gal on-ground cistern is black plastic. Our “cold” water in the summer is lukewarm.
Our 2500 gal on-ground cistern is black plastic. Our “cold” water in the summer is lukewarm.
Do you have a well or do they bring water out to you ?
The county fire marshall wants me to install a 10,000 gallon cistern at my office building that he can refill the county fire trucks from. The county fire trucks only hold 500 gallons of water. I would refill the cistern from my 30 gpm water well. He wants a standard fire hydrant also. And a pump with a diesel motor or generator.
@Lynn
“The county fire marshall wants me to install a 10,000 gallon cistern at my office building that he can refill the county fire trucks from. The county fire trucks only hold 500 gallons of water. I would refill the cistern from my 30 gpm water well. He wants a standard fire hydrant also. And a pump with a diesel motor or generator.”
Whose budget?
Might be worth checking your fire insurance coverage
About thirty years ago a company out in the county did a project on advice of their insurance broker. They put in a pond that the fire department could draw from, did a live training exercise with the department, and got a large discount on their insurance that amortized the pond.
In your case some strategic siting might shut down some of the annoyance about road easement.
Sikh humor:
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Lynn says:
We have a well, with a new well pump. The existing pump had a nameplate indicating that it had been manufactured in 2011, and I presume it was installed shortly after that.
The fire marshall wants you to install a 10K gal cistern…. At whose expense? And what would you get out of the deal? Why doesn’t the fire department drill their own well?
“The county fire marshall wants me to install a 10,000 gallon cistern at my office building that he can refill the county fire trucks from. The county fire trucks only hold 500 gallons of water. I would refill the cistern from my 30 gpm water well. He wants a standard fire hydrant also. And a pump with a diesel motor or generator.”
Whose budget?
Mine of course.
The total cost of his required improvements for me to build another warehouse was $200,000 four years ago. No telling what the cost is now.
The fire marshall wants you to install a 10K gal cistern…. At whose expense? And what would you get out of the deal? Why doesn’t the fire department drill their own well?
My cost of course. Why drill a new well when he can use mine ? Why put in a water tank and hydrant when he can force me to install one.
I wanted to build a 6,000 ft2 office warehouse partitioned into five 1,250 ft2 segments, each 50 foot deep, each 25 foot foot wide, each with a human door and a 14 x 14 foot rollup door, each with water, sewer, and electrical hookups, and insulated. The cost was $300,000.
The fire marshall wants me to put in the local fire station and sprinklers for the entire building. Hanging all that weight of the full two inch metal pipes upped my install cost to $700,000 so I did not build it.
Now I am thinking about adding two 1,500 ft2 free standing buildings and need to see if he will force me to sprinkler these smaller buildings.
>> My current card is a Discover. Pays 1% cashback.
The Citi Double Cash card will double that to 2%.
That was pretty much the requirements when I was considering building a retirement cabin in the Sierra Nevada a few years back. Had to have a pump – or gravity head of 40psi or so. Plus an access road and turnaround space for BIG fire vehicles. There were a lot of other things basically designed to drive up the cost, metal roof, fireproof siding, no trees within 100’ or something ludicrous. I eventually gave the idea up.
The highest I saw on the thermometer at the dock today was 95F in the shade. Too bad I was working in the sun about half the time. That was scorching hot.
Just finished playing Rummikub with D1, we each won a hard fought game.
I think I’ll go to bed tonight and skip the dock. I already showered and I’m feeling cool and dry.
n
>> Yet, but: the way credit-scores work in the US is weird: you *improve* your credit rating by being in debt. Someone who never needs a credit card, because they pay for what they buy, has a lower score than someone running around with big credit-card balances.
Big balances have to be considered in context of your total available credit limit. Owing $5K with $45K available is better than owing $1K with only $1K available. It’s called your. ‘credit utilization.
In your case some strategic siting might shut down some of the annoyance about road easement.
The road easement did not happen. I am sitting here holding the third invoice of $5,430 of the $16,000 legal bill to date. I and my lawyer got deceived with dufus’s lawyer screaming that he was going to take us to court when no such thing was going to happen.
If you’re zoned for ag it’s hogs.
Otherwise, it’s pet pigs.
>> When my son turned 16, I added him as an authorized user on my AMEX card. Used it for gas and other things I allowed. I will have him keep that, or another card if I decide to switch, forever. Even when he’s on his own, a safety net never hurts, and he is responsible and has earned my trust.
Another option is to add someone as an authorized user without giving them the card. No opportunity for them to go on a spending spree but still get the benefits of your credit history relative to that card. Note that that applies the same if you have a negative history with that card.
>> Doesn’t JCB own Discover now?
JCB?
JCB Co., Ltd., formerly Japan Credit Bureau, is a credit card company based in Tokyo, Japan. It is accepted at JCB merchants, and has strategic alliances with Discover Network merchants in the United States, UnionPay merchants in China, American Express merchants in Canada, and RuPay merchants in India.
Sky is hazy without any stars visible, and it’s 87F at the dock. I’m headed to bed. It was a long day in the sun.
n
>> Doesn’t JCB own Discover now?
Discover Financial Services (DFS)
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DFS?p=DFS&.tsrc=fin-srch
Alaskan politicians and leaders are pathetically short on vision and long range thinking.
My husband and daughter are north of here in Wasilla. He drove out after work to pick her up from camp.
About 6:30 pm there was an accident on the Glenn highway between Eagle River and Anchorage in the area known as the S curves, and land marked by a couple of weigh stations. Pull open another tab on your browser and see if you can find it on a map….
An interesting feature about this piece of road is it’s the only way thru. there’s no frontage road. No alternate roadway. I don’t think you can even get passed this section by entering the military base.
Traffic posts by regular folks stuck in it say it’s a single car accident with fatality. As awful as that is, that shouldn’t be all it takes to stop dead traffic coming into the largest city in the state.
For DECADES there’s been talk, tests, studies, countless dollars spent, properties seized / condemned / stolen by the state. All to make way for the currently non existent Knik Arm bridge that would leap across the waters from Anchirage to Pt McKenzie. It‘s true such an endeavor will need to be a feat of engineering to manage the uniquely hostile geography, however it’s certainly no worse than many other marvels.
Why don’t we have it? -shrug- Lack of vision and too busy playing corrupt politician. I don’t know
My family will be fine. They‘re enjoying a leisurely dinner. Some friends that left an hour before them report traffic is stopped dead. I‘m encouraging my husband to give it up as a bad job and crash with friends or get a hotel. It’s not worth sitting in a car for 4-6 hours to get thru a 45 minute drive.
I love Alaska but I’m not keen on the folks we’ve elected.
Huh. Google Maps shows roads going thru where I know for a fact they don’t. Hah!
I admire Nick’s boundless energy. From his writing, he has the same aches and pains as the rest of us in our age bracket, but he keeps on, keeping on. Me, I’m current bored. And enjoying it. Last year was just a pile of work with few breaks. This Fall will be more of the same, with two more new courses to prep. After that, I hope to more-or-less coast the last 1-1/2 years to retirement.
And after that, who knows? Teaching part-time at the local trade school, that seems a likely option. Certainly, I can’t just sit around and build more stone walls, because I’m running out of places to put them. Anyway, old joints protest more and more about lifting too many rocks.
I read an article today that noted the average occupancy in federal buildings is around 25%. The R’s have pushed a bill through the House (the “ShowUp” bill) that would pretty much eliminate WFH for federal employees.
Stupid. Surely it would be better to give the DHS some of that underutilized office space. But that would impact empire building and backroom payola, so…
In a SHTF scenario that’s not such a huge problem. Initially, sure, there will be a lot of dry waste – packaging and such. Some of that can be re-used – what is trash today will be a resource in such a scenario.
Longer term, the waste will be mostly organic: food leftovers, animal waste, etc.. Dig a pit well away from water supplies, fill it up, cover it over, dig the next pit. Oversimplified, but that’s what humans have always done, and it works.
If Trump were 20 years younger, he might be decent a candidate for President. As it is, he’s just blocking the progress of some actual, reasonable candidate out there. And he’s too damned self-centered to see it.
Being a teacher, and a math-lover, I wanted to have a look at the actual document (see this article for a collection of links). Interestiong how none of the links currently work… Maybe the server died from so many people trying to see the documents. Or maybe they don’t actually want the public comment period to produce any comments.
Never paid a cent in interest or fees on any credit card.
Have had a Discover account since 1986. They don’t really pay 1%, but they do pay more on certain quarterly offers, which require signing up. Takes one click in an email, pretty slick.
They keep sending me emails offering low, near zero interest rates for short times. They apparently don’t look at my history.