Slightly less hot, but no less humid. And sunny. Days of summer still left, no matter what the calendar says. It was certainly hot in the afternoon yesterday, even if it did start out with the barest edge of ‘cool’ in the breeze while waiting for the school bus. National forecast has Houston in the clear, with no precip, for at least the next few days.
I sat at my desk pretty much all day. I did auction stuff, and medical stuff. The visit to my new GP resulted in a sheaf of recommended consults with specialists. I started booking them. Every one has a different online portal. Every one needs the same history entered. No one has access to any of my existing medical records, unless I can get them and have them transferred. And at that, they will probably be printouts.
The promise of electronic medical records and of course HIPAA (which has the word “portability” in the title) is an empty one. Since I’m convinced that you get the opposite of what a law is named, I’m not surprised, but I am frustrated and even saddened that it’s all come to this. We stopped being able to get things done, and to deal fairly and squarely with people as a society some time ago. Those of us that still remember the ‘before time’ are cursed by knowing what we could do, and what we’ve lost. *
I did get the initial meetings all scheduled. Since most of the specialist treatment will involve testing, I’m sure there will be a second round for the actual tests, and then a third round for communicating the results. It’s a fricking part time job worth of stuff to do.
Today I’ll be doing more paperwork for taxes. Maybe I’ll get some cleaning and organizing done too. I intend to head for the BOL at some point today. Wife and kids to follow later. The timing will depend entirely on what I get done, and what still needs doing.
Hopefully I’ll have some room in the truck for more food and supplies to shift from here to there. Gotta keep stacking.
These kids aren’t gonna feed themselves, and they do eat. Lots. Not as much as teen boys, but still………
Times are gonna get tougher. So suck it up, and stack it up.
nick
*anyone else notice the correlation with the anti-smoking campaigns and the decline in our ability to get things done as a nation? Weaning most of the population off of a powerful stimulant doesn’t seem to have helped productivity. And consider the Enlightenment… fueled by the new stimulants of coffee,tea, and chocolate, and social activity involving them. Tobacco was in that mix too. Reading the book of poetry “Ballads of a Bohemian” by Robert W. Service, published shortly after WWI, I was struck by how often he refers to his pipe, or to other peoples’ pipe smoking. No cigarettes, even though he was in Paris, but a pipe many times a day. Hmm.
That may be a factor. Others include
There are probably others but those are what pop out before I’ve had coffee, itself a powerful, legal, inexpensive, and unstigmatized stimulant.
Slightly cooler waiting for the bus. Big full moon in the sky.
Have to take the dog to the vet today, forgot about that. Also cleaning service day, which always disrupts my routine.
“Get off my lawn!”
grumpy today.
n
August was unseasonably cool for us. We’ve had a few days in the 90s but many more where the high didn’t reach 80. Last night’s low was around 46. It’s been wet, too.
We are on day 11 of spay surgery recovery for the two goldens. It would be impossible without Trazodone to keep them calmer(er). Still, my dog (traditional golden) sometimes still wants to just GO! The English Cream golden is more laid back overall, but still has hyper spurts. After complications for both, they are in the home stretch. It will be nice to be able to get back to a normal routine.
@Nick
Enemy action largely behind the first part. Hobble, handicap, detour and roadblock the front runner, and the pack can catch up. Hand in hand with the deterioration of the rules of law and the application of blind justice.
Also not a coincidence that one of the first things rich bastards do when they get rich is to buy newspapers, magazines, and tv stations/networks so they can protect their spoils and grind their heels in the faces of the proles.
Lung cancer is an ugly way to die, and cigarettes are the proximate cause of most of it. So how is it that the states have extracted billions from the tobacco companies which keep toodling right along making cigarettes ? Couldn’t have anything to do with the <cough> obscene tax revenue that the states get? And just a coincidence that all the law firms involved in litigations are heavy D contributors?
And how is it that Democrats in all states want to regulate and control e-cigarettes, which are simply nicotine delivery systems without the thousands of combustion products, particulates, and carbon monoxide that do 99% of the harm to the body? The most effective means of reducing the harm to society, and they want to regulate it out of existence?
@SteveF
For now. They’ve been trying to restrict chocolate to the elites for years, and if they ever get a handle on how they can take our coffee, they will try it. If the match hasn’t been lit by then, that will do it.
how they can take our coffee
— just make it too expensive to import, by eliminating cheap shipping, displace the indigenes that grow it, tax the heck out of it (luxury taxes, remember those?)
I’ve got cans of the cheaper stuff on the shelf. They should last for decades.
n
The Coffea arabica and Mitragyna speciosa plants are between shin- and knee-high now. I’ll post more once they are actually big enough to produce fruit / leaves in quantity. I do chew the occasional m.s. leaf, and it does help with my back pain (yeah, it’s pretty bitter).
Growing coffee in North America would be a nice backup plan.
n
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/01/londons-blade-runners-might-win-the-battle-n575110
It’s wrong to commit vandalism.
It’s more wrong to acquiesce to the
creepingbounding surveillance state.If I moved back to my home county and built a greenhouse, I might be able to grow coffee – about 800-1500 feet altitude, depending on which relative’s house we’re talking about. OTOH, I’m planning to leave NYS as soon as the last of my elder relatives die, so that seems pointless. OTOOH, who knows what the future will bring? If a meteor swarm blots out NYC, Albany, and the cities along the Mohawk River, NYS could be a good state again.
OTGH,
On the Gripping Hand, as JEP might say.
TAMU has a pilot project to grow coffee down near McAllen/Brownsville, but the costs are astronomical.
I believe Florida recently changed the state dessert from Key Lime Pie to Strawberry Shortcake since Key Limes are no longer produced in sufficient commercial quantity in the state.
No one wants to work a Key Lime tree, even illegal labor.
Strawberries aren’t fun to cultivate either, but the migrants will work those jobs until the fields get turned into stucco cr*p shack developments or, near I-4, Amazon warehouses.
The smoker cabal at the tolling company was a drain on productivity in the Austin office. It wasn’t just about the lost time for the addiction as much as it was a clique with their own wy of getting things done, often at greater expense than if they proceeded as if they didn’t have someone watching their back to cover laziness and/or stupidity.
I saw it to a lesser extent at CGI too.
Where I currently work, the management is fanatic anti-smoking, the CEO being from a medical family with their name on a local hospital.
Housing, even the primary residence, viewed as an investment and not just a place to live thanks to perverse manipulations of the tax code and a couple of decades of bank/insurance company sponsored home improvement shows on basic cable.
>> “Get off my lawn!”
One of the advantages of life here in the desert is the preponderance of xeriscaping and the associated mininal maintenance. When we left FL, I traded our lawnmower to the gardener for what we owed him. I don’t miss the mowing nor the associated sweating.
Sooner or later: holographic lawns
And if I do the programming: holographic Daisy Mae to do the watering, weeding, and bending over.
FL also has HOAs and FS 720 which turns simple fines into liens without due process. Sure, you can sue the Little Hitlers afterwards, but, if you lose, you pay their legal bills.
“My stucco cr*p shack would be a tenbagger if it wasn’t for Skippy’s lawn.”
>> “Get off my lawn!”
One of the advantages of life here in the desert is the preponderance of xeriscaping
– get off my raked gravel!
n
– rich liberals building utopias… hmm, history sure does rhyme.
n
More fertile CA farmland turned into AirBnB rentals.
Marc Andreesen is tied with Senator Rick Scott (RINO-FL) on my list of public figures in tech most likely to go “Full Bond Villain” if the sh*t ever hits the fan.
Or even if it doesn’t. They look and even act the part now. All either one needs is a cat.
The Legend of Marc … His Mother Works at Lands End answering Phones …
Not a joke.
I have a friend with a rental house on a corner, neighborhood kids with bikes thought the DG xeriscaping in front was great. Eventually it ended up with putting a little rail fence in, after paying the gardener to fix and re+compact the DG, several times.
A civil engineer friend told me the meaning of DG.
I also know that organic is just another word for hydrocarbons.
Ask me for all kinds of knowledge.
Freefall: Aldrin Cycler
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4000/fc03951.htm
I never knew what an Aldrin Cycler was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
See, you should read the funnies, it is a learning experience.
All flavors/colors are “natural”.
The capital of Iowa is Wisconsin.
I am at 200+ pages on Seveneves. So far, fairly good book.
When did we replace whining with whinging ? I don’t like it.
Wrong.
The capital of Iowa is “I”.
The capitol of Iowa is Des Moines. Which has two capitals.
Follow me for more grammar tips.
I also know that organic is just another word for hydrocarbons.
Sorry, no. Hydrocarbons are any chemical with just Carbon and Hydrogen in them. Like methane, CH4. Or Ethylene, C2H4. There are hundreds of hydrocarbons.
Organics are any chemical with Carbon in them. Organic chemicals can also have hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, chlorine, bromine, nitrogen, etc, etc, etc. There are billions of organic chemicals. Like Ethylene Glycol (antifreeze), C2H6O2. Or Methanol (wood alcohol), CH3OH.
When I was about 12 years old, I lived in Victorville for a year before being sent back to my aunt and uncle. This would have been about 1963. Many of the yards were just gravel, rocks and a couple of native desert plants. The only maintenance was to spray the weeds every so often as the original creator of the yard failed to put down weed fabric. That may not have been possible so that water would drain into the soil to water the other plants.
Then there were others that have nice green yards, a sprinkler system that watered the yard, sidewalk and part of the street. Mowed a couple of times a week and bagged, powered edger to trim the edges. A lot of effort and expense. One guy even had a golf green yard and mowed with a golf green mower. It looked like artificial turf (which had yet to be invented, so from memory). He mowed once a day.
Taking a mis-delivered package down the street to the correct address, I noticed the “Show Ya” neighbor, who punched a big hole in the side of his garage to run a 240 V outlet for his “GT” Mach-E, may have replaced the vehicle with a Tesla Model S.
Or, at least, the Model S was parked in that spot last night.
Tommy Boy has a big problem.
Yes. Wisconsin has lots of water. Demons’ Island floated up there a few ice ages ago. Sequitur.
BC: Nice Ant Burrow
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2023/09/01
Uh, no. That is nasty.
Lynn says:
I think that “whinging” was originally a Britishism.
There are probably others but those are what pop out before I’ve had coffee, itself a powerful, legal, inexpensive, and unstigmatized stimulant.
They are trying to stigmatize coffee but have yet how to figure it out. The studies keep on reversing themselves.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/coffee-and-health/faq-20058339
Taking a mis-delivered package down the street to the correct address, I noticed the “Show Ya” neighbor, who punched a big hole in the side of his garage to run a 240 V outlet for his “GT” Mach-E, may have replaced the vehicle with a Tesla Model S.
Or, at least, the Model S was parked in that spot last night.
Tommy Boy has a big problem.
The Tesla Model S with the Plaid package is supposedly the fast car (accelerating, 1.99 seconds to 60 mph) on the planet. Nothing touches a Bugatti Chiron for raw speed though (260+ mph).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Chiron
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-s-plaid
Stephenson digs that kind of thing. Woe-toe-hice. Hut hut hut.
The MoPoP (or whatever they call it now) in Seattle has the handwritten Baroque Cycle manuscript in their collection, which Stephenson drafted with a fountain pen and, IIRC, a special type of paper.
Wow, crashed out for a while in the chair… Guess I can do the rest of my stuff now.
n
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/01/londons-blade-runners-might-win-the-battle-n575110
It’s wrong to commit vandalism.
It’s more wrong to acquiesce to the
creepingbounding surveillance state.Reminds me of when I was in Germany back in the middle 1990s. My agent and I had come up on a smoking camera post at a red light intersection. Somebody dropped an old tire around the camera post, filled it with gasoline, and lit it. The cameras did not survive.
Thanks. I never learned much chemistry.
When friends mention organic vegetables, I sometimes ask if they are created by sprinkling diesel fuel on the fields. They think I am nuts. Since most vegetables contain at least some carbon, they already are “organic.” That would include nuts.
“Numerous Tesla owners say they’ve been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. Here’s how to manually open a Tesla door if you get stuck inside.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-manually-open-tesla-door-if-battery-power-dies-2023-8?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=
I don’t care how pretty the car is, getting out of it in a hurry is a safety feature. This is just wrong.
I’ve had a former C-130 load master who was my systems programmer and data base analyst. Smoked and could not kick the habit despite trying very hard to do so. He was an excellent employee, smart and insightful. Burroughs/Unisys called him with problems and did pre-release testing at our location under his control. He didn’t want to work for them. We were the first community college to install desktop computers that could run database inquiries on the mainframe data and he got things to work that surprised Unisys.
I managed to raise his pay over that of mine and over the objections of some the managers.
Thanks. I never learned much chemistry.
When friends mention organic vegetables, I sometimes ask if they are created by sprinkling diesel fuel on the fields. They think I am nuts. Since most vegetables contain at least some carbon, they already are “organic.” That would include nuts.
Caffeine is an organic chemical too. C₈H₁₀N₄O₂.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
New York City has extensive plans to toll the surface streets on the south end of Manhattan, using all optical detection/tracking paired with plate cameras and RF tag readers. Those devices would be prone to that kind of mischief.
The magnetic loop detection systems are more secure, but the tech is twitchy. Plus, a lot of the guys who knew anything about designing and maintaining those kinds of sensors are dying off without any replacement.
Necklacing. I believe it was a favorite with Winnie Mandela back in the day, only with people. They didn’t survive either.
@Lynn
“Nothing touches a Bugatti Chiron for raw speed though (260+ mph).”
Craig Breedlove’s Spirit of America
We lost Craig in April. Amazing man. First land speed records over 500 and 600mph.
Secured in place with barbed wire.
After they wipe out all the white farmers I wonder how long it will take the Chinese to move in and show them how genocide is done.
Ace does a nice takedown on Disney:
https://ace.mu.nu/
YouTube link for the embedded video:
The Death of Disney – Narrated by A.I David Attenborough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG4JL6ntJsw&t=11s
Perhaps the seed was sown when Walt had to take Mary home after the employee’s 1955 opening party descended into a drunken orgy.
Over the years, I’ve heard a number of low-level managers complain that one of their staff made more than the manager. Well, Bubba, who’s more valuable, the guy with decades of experience who can deal with any problem that comes up and whom the customers ask for by name but who doesn’t want to be a manager, or you, a replaceable paper shuffler and resolver of minor difficulties with your team members who doesn’t directly bring money into the company?
A fraction of these managers acknowledged that the old guy was worth more to the company and to the customers and deserved the higher pay. The great majority didn’t see it that way. “I’m his supervisor so I’m more important and have to be paid more.” That’s annoying to see but their foot stomping can generally be ignored. The real problem is when the corporation’s policy is that managers are always to be paid more than staff, regardless of contribution to the bottom line or fair market value. I’ve seen a number of senior engineers leave their jobs because of that. I’ve done it myself.
“Nothing touches a Bugatti Chiron for raw speed though (260+ mph).”
Craig Breedlove’s Spirit of America
We lost Craig in April. Amazing man. First land speed records over 500 and 600mph.
Yeah, that was a special built vehicle, not for a daily driver. The Tesla S Plaid and Bugatti Chiron are daily driver capable. Would I drive a Bugatti Chiron daily, probably not for a $3 million car.
Over the years, I’ve heard a number of low-level managers complain that one of their staff made more than the manager. Well, Bubba, who’s more valuable, the guy with decades of experience who can deal with any problem that comes up and whom the customers ask for by name but who doesn’t want to be a manager, or you, a replaceable paper shuffler and resolver of minor difficulties with your team members who doesn’t directly bring money into the company?
I was promoted to Senior Engineer at TXU when I was 27. That was three promotions over the Junior Engineer starting point. Most of my peers had not been promoted even twice yet. There was a lot of people unhappy with that. One of my peers dropped by my office for a closed door session at which point he griped about his plant manager hold him back for five years as a Junior Engineer.
>> The capital of Iowa is Wisconsin
Is the Capital of Kentucky “Louis-ville” or “Louie-ville”?
Management hierarchies and perks
I did contract work for a while at McDonnell Douglas. Besides rigid pay scales that only reflected your position in the hierarchy, and not your contribution to the company, they also had a strict cubicle/office policy. Serfs got cubes, overseers got double cubes with a visitor chair, foremen got double-and-a-half cubes with bigger desks, managers got bigger offices with a door but no windows, directors got windows. I have no memory what the actual job titles were, but they were well-defined and rigid.
There was a team similar to a skunk works that took over an entire empty floor to set up an avionics product development and testing lab. They scavenged all their cubicle walls and desks and chairs from a warehouse, and outfitted the floor in a very ingenious and productive way, and they put it all together themselves.
About a year into the project, HR discovered what they had done, and threw a huge hissyfit. They had worker bees with big cubicles! They had low-level supervisors with offices and doors! They had a huge open workspace in the middle of the room with lots of tables pushed together to brainstorm the product and hold their test equipment!
And worst of all, almost every cubicle was in line-of-sight of a huge wall of windows. Horrors!
When HR got done, they assigned everyone a “proper” cube, had closed and locked up most of the offices, and actually lined up cubicle walls against the windows so no one could see outside.
Later, I worked with 2 of those guys. Some of the brightest system engineers you could ask for. One of them was on the team that developed the JDAM and Pop-up bombing. The other is the best software engineer I know personally, with both BS and MS in Aerospace.
Favorite story about the JDAM guy: He was called in as a trouble-shooter to a late and not-yet-successful project. After being briefed about the requirements and what they had done so far, and some of his own anaylsis of where they messed up, he did a slide show showing the system diagram. He took a pointer and said “Well, I may not be a rocket scientist… [pause] … Actually, I am a rocket scientist.” Then he went on to point out where they went astray and his idea how best to get on course.
Which leads me to one of my favorite Mitchell & Webb episodes.
Wrong 4 times in one sentence!
Louisville is pronounced “Lou-(a)-ville”, where the (a) is more of a stop than a vowel.
Capital of Kentucky is “K”. Capitol of Kentucky is Frankfort.
On the west coast, and some other places now, we have Kaiser Permanente Health Plan that I have been covered by most of the time since about 1955. I’m not sure when they started digitizing records, certainly more than ten years ago. When we moved from the CA region to OR eight years ago all of our records from both regions remained available to us and our new Kaiser doctors on-line. Every doctor and specialist, including dental, has immediate access, and any notes they enter are available to me by the time I get home, usually with an email reminder. Fulfillment of the promise may be uneven throughout various systems, but it does happen.
Regarding zero to 60 and top speed, I think folks here started out referring to production cars. Calling the Bugatti Chiron a production car is correct, but a bit of a stretch, because only 500 were made. One of the earlier ones, the Veyron, required several miles to achieve its top speed of about 267 mph. Read on.
Usually, the records that are talked about are for piston engine wheel driven cars, and that would include Sir Malcolm Campbell. He set a significant record in 1931 at 231 mph. He gained knighthood for that. Later, in 1935, he was first to exceed 300 mph. His son, Donald Campbell, set a jet powered land speed record of 403 mph in 1964.
Don Vesco still holds the Guiness world record of 458 mph for a wheel driven car, set in 2001. That car was powered by a gas turbine engine. Later versions have hit a one-way speed of 503 mph. The record requires two runs in opposite directions in less than an hour.
If we talk about unofficial as well as official records, several cars have gone supersonic. The (disputed) first was on Rogers Dry Lake, California in 1979 by the Budweiser Rocket Car, a hybrid liquid and solid fuel car. It could not make a second run to set any speed record. Also, sanctioning personnel were not present as the run was intended as a trial. Photographs seem to show shockwaves off the front wheel. The speed was measured by radar, and the setup accuracy was in dispute. The claims of witnesses hearing a sonic boom were disputed, and unlikely because of the tremendous noise. I knew one guy who consulted on that team. The whole story is colorful. I have not read any good published account of the story of the project.
There are other attempts at supersonic records, but I will leave them to your finding.
As for acceleration, nothing beats top fuel dragsters. They can accelerate at 6g off the line. I couldn’t find zero to 60, but zero to 100 is about 0.8 seconds, and 60 feet of travel! The run was shortened from a quarter mile to 1000 feet some years ago to limit top speed. Now, the record is 3.6 seconds at 336 mph. The engine produces an estimated 11,000 hp. At only 1578 hp and 304mph (with the 261 mph speed limiter defeated,) Bugatti has a ways to go. I could not find how many miles it would take, but a lot more than 1000 feet.
The lesson is, no matter how fast you are, there is bound to be someone who can out accelerate you, or go faster.
I was an engineer there for 45 years. A couple of times I was told that I could not be promoted to the next level up. I then located a possibilty for another job to transfer me in where I would receive an honest evaluation for promotion. Shortly after notifying the current managers of my opportunity and they should find a replacement for me, my promotion there became a reality.
Rick and lpdbw are demonstrating a shocking and appalling ignorance of the English language. Shocking! Appalling! The capital of a state or nation is a city. The capitol is a building, generally where the legislature meets.
Not sure about pay, but early in my career I worked for a company where Marketing was allowed to openly say they were the most valuable function, because of course they sold the products that produced income. No stated acknowledgement of anyone else, except maybe the top level executives. Engineers were considered a necessary evil. I left after a year. Good move.
“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to
spelluse a word.”With apologies to Andrew Jackson…
“Calling the Bugatti Chiron a production car is correct, but a bit of a stretch, because only 500 were made.”
That was the production and sales threshold for a stock car until 1964, when it was raised to 1000 to keep the Chrysler Hemi out of competition. Now, after several more changes, they don’t even pretend to have anything but a nodding resemblance of shape.
And me in my little truck will catch up with you at the next stop light.
Likewise. Marketing weren’t the only ones who believed that they were the most valuable. They were paid much more than anyone in the engineering department, got company cars, and each one had an expense account larger than the entire engineering department’s budget for software and reference books (before the internet had anything useful). Engineering turnover was very high, averaging less than a year. Development of a major new product faltered and the company got absorbed by a competitor.
I stand corrected, and humbled.
A friend’s company paid their “Salesman” a third of his sales contracts. He, the owner, cleared well under that – 8% to 12% in good year. After he hired the salesman, their sales went up annually by 300% to 400%. Everyone was happy.
The product was formal training in office skills marketed to small to medium companies in southern California.
“Trump in Sworn Testimony: I Averted ‘Nuclear Holocaust’ While in White House, ‘Saving Millions of Lives’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/trump-sworn-testimony-averted-nuclear-holocaust-white-house/
“A transcript of former President Donald Trump’s sworn testimony from an April deposition held in regards to a civil case against him and his company by the state of New York for fraud was released Wednesday.”
“In it, Trump said under oath that he was too busy “saving millions of lives” by preventing “nuclear holocaust” to pay very much attention to what was happening at his company.”
“I was interested in solving the problem with North Korea, which was ready to blow up, and solving the problems we had with China, who was just ripping us off left and right, and making sure that Russia never went into Ukraine, which they didn’t, under our auspices and, you know, a lot of other things,” Trump explained. “There were a lot of things that were happening in the world, as you probably know.””
I actually believe Trump. I remember him persuading the little dictator to an actual meeting.
Correction:
The capital of the word “Iowa” is “I”.
The capital of the state of Iowa is Des Moines. That is where the capitol is.
There are two capital letters in Des Moines, Iowa. But only one capitol there.
Follow me for more grammar and spelling tips. But don’t assume that I am going in the right direction.
Regarding zero to 60 and top speed, I think folks here started out referring to production cars. Calling the Bugatti Chiron a production car is correct, but a bit of a stretch, because only 500 were made. One of the earlier ones, the Veyron, required several miles to achieve its top speed of about 267 mph. Read on.
Not many people can afford the $110K Tesla S Plaid either. But, both are production vehicles for the 1%. There was actually a Bugatti Veyron crashed into a tidal pond here in the Houston area several years ago which turned out to be an insurance scam.
I chose the 5.7L Hemi for my 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Of course, I didn’t really need it; however, I assumed that this would be the last vehicle that I would buy, so why not? Now, or never!
Yeah, probably take it when we go up to see EdH and JimB at The Joint in Randsburg.
>> I sat at my desk pretty much all day. I did auction stuff, and medical stuff. The visit to my new GP resulted in a sheaf of recommended consults with specialists. I started booking them. Every one has a different online portal. Every one needs the same history entered. No one has access to any of my existing medical records, unless I can get them and have them transferred. And at that, they will probably be printouts.
@nick, good to hear you’re on the road to sorting out any possible issues, hope all is well.
Regarding medical records, I have a multi-page spreadsheet with my info on conditions, surgeries, medications, physicians and test results. If a new provider has only ‘print and fill’ or no online pre-appointment forms, I print a copy of my records and mark most of the boxes as “see attached” and let the MA* do what they get paid for. Works 90 percent of the time.
* medical assistant
Packed and headed out.
Hopefully only a few errands on the way…
n
>> We are on day 11 of spay surgery recovery for the two goldens. It would be impossible without Trazodone to keep them calmer(er). Still, my dog (traditional golden) sometimes still wants to just GO! The English Cream golden is more laid back overall, but still has hyper spurts. After complications for both, they are in the home stretch. It will be nice to be able to get back to a normal routine.
How old are your goldens? Were the spays done before their first heats?
>> They are trying to stigmatize coffee but have yet how to figure it out.
IIRC, they tried that with alcohol as well…didn’t work out so well.
>> Nothing touches a Bugatti Chiron for raw speed though (260+ mph).
https://www.nhra.com/news/2022/brittany-force-sets-national-record-fastest-top-fuel-run-history-33848-mph
>> New York City has extensive plans to toll the surface streets on the south end of Manhattan, using all optical detection/tracking paired with plate cameras and RF tag readers. Those devices would be prone to that kind of mischief.
Seems the NY(F)PD has this already figured out…for their personal vehicles…since only half of them live in the five boroughs.
Something to do with their trees: https://twitter.com/placardabuse/status/1579271630878277634
NYFC already has traffic cameras for red light violations and speeding in school zones…but, rules for thee, not for me.
The oldest is almost a year and a half, and the other is about a month younger. They already went through their first heat. We think the younger was just about to go into heat again, as she had some minor bleeding about 5 days after surgery.
This is the first time I’ve ever had it done this late. Every time before has been very young. The theory is that waiting lets the dog mature before you go messing up their hormones. No way to tell, of course.
>> Necklacing. I believe it was a favorite with Winnie Mandela back in the day, only with people. They didn’t survive either.
‘Well done’ (ouch) in Season 3, Episode 8 of “The Americans,” Divestment.
>> Rick and lpdbw are demonstrating a shocking and appalling ignorance of the English language. Shocking! Appalling! The capital of a state or nation is a city. The capitol is a building, generally where the legislature meets.
Capitol can also be applied to the area near a capitol building, for example, “Capitol Hill” in Washington D. C.
“Capital” and “capitol” are homophones, which means they sound the same but have different meanings and are spelled differently. Additionally, the choice of capitalization can be important when using these words, particularly in the context of the main governance city of a U.S. state.
Capital (with an ‘a’):
Capitol (with an ‘o’):
In summary, “capital” with an ‘a’ refers to a city that serves as the seat of government, while “capitol” with an ‘o’ refers to the actual building where a legislative body conducts its business. The capital of a U.S. state is typically where the state government is headquartered, while the Capitol, when used in the context of the United States, usually refers to the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Congress meets.
>> And me in my little truck will catch up with you at the next stop light.
In most big cities in the US, stop lights are just ‘suggestions.’
Who cares? In East TN it is Capitul. And we also have Principul.
Not just big cities. Even in my little burg.
One of my neighbors lost their miniature poodle to a coyote in their backyard this morning. The coyote jumped their four foot fence and killed the miniature poodle. I guess the drought is making the coyotes desperate.
@lynn, we have signs taped to the stop signs warning neighbors that coyotes have been seen in our area too, and to not let your cats out at night… Small dogs too, I guess. That must have been terrible for them.
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It was 76F when I got here and is currently 72F. Pretty chilly down by the water, which has receded more. About like last year now…
I was wishing for a fire. Didn’t get out the shortwave, instead I listened to a few more chapters of Fool Moon, the second Harry Dresden novel. I really like this reader, he does a great job with the voices and women sound natural. There have been a couple of places where he’s gotten a word wrong, and once a character is called by the wrong name, but that might be in the novel too. From the sound of it, they just read thru without much time for retakes. I listened for most of the drive up, and didn’t want to stop when I got here.
Time for bed though.
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>> >> Nothing touches a Bugatti Chiron for raw speed though (260+ mph).
https://www.nhra.com/news/2022/brittany-force-sets-national-record-fastest-top-fuel-run-history-33848-mph
The fastest street-legal car is the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, with a maximum top speed of more than 330 mph.
On what street exactly did they confirm this?
Oh, only $3.4M.
>> This is the first time I’ve ever had it done this late. Every time before has been very young. The theory is that waiting lets the dog mature before you go messing up their hormones. No way to tell, of course.
My understanding is one reason for doing it before their first heat is if there are also any male dogs in the same household, cuts down on the humping.
>> Oh, only $3.4M.
Reminds me that you need to accumulate a million dollars one thousand times to become a billionaire.
Our female Schnaupin, Lily, was spayed at three months. We got her the next day from the pound. She is now 4 and a half years old. Other than a sensitive stomach, she is in great health. She weighs 35 lbs, the vet wants her to lose 5 lbs.
She races Jack the 130 lb Mastiff next door up and down the fence line. If his legs weren’t over a foot longer than hers, she would beat him.
Reminds me that you need to accumulate a million dollars one thousand times to become a billionaire.
Most billionaires and millionaires don’t have very much cash, they usually have a lot of things worth a lot to other people. Like lots of SpaceX stock, lots of Twitter (X) stock, lots of Tesla stock, etc.
I read a thoughtful article a couple of days ago. It was written by some HR type who had been tasked with finding out the real effects of WFH. His conclusion was what, I suppose, anyone might actually deduce – but it was nice to see it proven by actual metrics. About 20% of their employees produced nothing – it didn’t matter if they were home or in the office – 20% dead weight. Of the rest, I think it was about 50/50: people who were productive no matter where they worked, so WFH was just fine. And 50% who were only productive if closely supervised, so the office was the better environment, where they couldn’t goof off as easily.
That’s more-or-less what we have. We’re not quite “high desert”, but it’s pretty arid. Nothing we have requires watering except for the veggie garden. A large part left as wild meadow. More civilized areas have lots of mediterranean herbs, and other drought-tolerant things. All the wife’s specialty – I don’t know one plant from another.
Such a stupid term, one that offends anyone who ever had chemistry. Every vegetable is organic. They needed a different term for “fungicide/pesticide free”.
Not genocide, but slavery. Ok, they won’t call it that, but that’s what’s coming after the Chinese re-colonize parts of Africa.
If black Africa wants to save itself, it must change. Just as an example: a woman was being interviewed about why she couldn’t afford to feed her family. The main reason was that she had too many children (and apparently no husband). Um…stop having kids, especially with deadbeats? The current population explosion in black Africa is going to cause more and more problems.
This. Management shouldn’t actually be terribly respected. Sure, they coordinate the work of others, but that is not a hugely difficult task, and their value to the organization is generally less than the value of the people they supervise. The idea that moving to management is a promotion, is just wrong. It’s a different skill set.