Cool, damp, and hopefully clear. Warming later with some sun would be nice. That has been the pattern for the last week, so all I really want is some continuity, right? Actually, I’d take a little rain today and tomorrow if it left the weekend clear.
Did my errands Wednesday. Picked up the needful thing. The forms have changed yet again. I need to hit another store and get some “food” to “feed” it… Stopped by my auctioneer and chatted for about 40 minutes. I’m slowing my sales through them for a week or two while they concentrate on other estates. They make more money on an estate than on consignment, and they need the cash. I really need to get back to listing and sell some of the high value items I’ve been holding back. This lull would be a good time to finally do that.
I didn’t win anything in the ham radio estate auction, so I could go to the BOL tonight with the family. I might delay until tomorrow anyway to do some shopping. We’ll see what I get done today. I’d like to have a bunch of stuff for projects so I can maybe knock one or 6 off the list, if I get motivated. Plus, I hate to make the trip without being fully loaded up. I’ve got a bunch of stuff from the auctions this week, but I need some actual building supplies too.
Today is all about getting ready for the long weekend out of town. Groceries, Home Depot, dig through the stacks and move some stuff… The usual.
————–
Peter over at BayouRenaissanceMan touched on one of my preparedness points this week when he mentions not putting all your preps in the same place. I’ve been talking about that for a long time, going back to Cali’s recommendation that earthquake preps be kept in sealed bins outdoors or in a lightweight shed structure. Been a while since I talked about earthquakes, so I know I’ve been talking about it for a while. More recently I’ve been talking about using a storage unit on your way out of town, and the balance of what to keep where if you have a BOL. (Keeping stuff with trusted friends or family is another option, but one I haven’t mentioned since the last trip to sibling’s place in Michigan.)
There were some devastating hurricanes in OK that really prompted me to start an offsite “secondary” location with preps stored there. If you lose your house, you will likely lose your preps in the disaster too. It’s IMPORTANT to have some stuff elsewhere.
The BOL serves that function well, but it adds the question of balance. In a world with limited resources, what do you put where? I have lots of stacks here in Houston. Since we got the BOL, I’ve been moving stuff there too, but — what if we can’t get there? I don’t want to strip our primary residence, the place we are most likely to be when (certain flavors of) S hits the Fan… I also don’t want to bail out to the BOL and leave all my resources behind. Taking them with me might not be an option.
In an ideal world both would be equally well equipped, but that is VERY unlikely and essentially “wastes” half your preps.
So, what to do? “Waste” the preps and stock both as well as possible is my compromise solution. I’ve already acknowledged that given the poor storage conditions, I will have higher than average “breakage” or losses. So I just have to acknowledge that if both locations are well equipped, in most scenarios I’m going to “waste” one, by using the other. In reality, there is nothing that says the other location won’t be used at another time, or that someone else won’t benefit from it. If I can’t get to the BOL and the world as we know it really does “end”, I’m happy to think my neighbors up there might be able to survive a bit longer with access to my stuff. Same for the ones left here, if we get out of Dodge, and leave it behind for good.
What I am not interested in is having it confiscated to be given to the wastrels who should have been making their own plans. This is a bit tougher if you are an advocate for prepping. If you are known to have taken an extra step or two, people will remember, they will say something, or they’ll come themselves. Peter is likely F’d. I’m not well known IRL, but I’m not quiet about telling people about “hurricane preparation” either. IRL far too many people know I prep, at some level, although there are plenty who dismiss me because of the somewhat “goofy stay at home dad” persona. When you pull stuff off the stacks to help people, they hopefully learn a lesson so they don’t need help next time, but they CERTAINLY learn a lesson that you are someone with resources…
So I have stuff here, I have the secondary location, and I have the BOL. I have my online persona, my “goofy” grey man persona, and my actual IRL serious persona, and mostly they are separated…but still. There is leakage. Which could come around to bite me on my hairy white a…
I think I’ll probably have a lot of preps I never use, no matter how everything plays out, and that’s ok. I can afford it. I don’t feel like I can afford NOT to have it. I’ll keep reassessing the state of the world, and my response to it, and I’ll adjust my plan and resource allocation accordingly. There may come a time when we are at the BOL more than here. Or I may give up the secondary location, moving that stuff to the BOL, or a different place. It’s not exactly in the right direction to grab from if we were headed out of town. On the gripping hand, if we had to head in that direction, there is some stuff along the way… it’s not cached in the traditional sense, but it’s “stashed”…
Think hard about how to protect and keep what is yours in an environment that allows others to come looking for it. There are lots of strategies and techniques that can help.
Stacks and stacks, and some other stacks to distract them with, can help. Stack!
nick
I feel that. I’ve always had a terrible memory. Now it’s worse. Ugh.
There are so many realtors who are just completely useless. When we were looking for property to build on, we were in contact with a bunch of realtors. There were the ones who barely listened to what we were interested in, instead showing us what they wanted to sell. There was the guy who was catching up with his friend on the phone (while we were standing in front of him). There were the ones who never responded or followed up. How any of them stay in business, I don’t understand. Maybe they don’t?
I have no problem with buyer’s agents. If we had engaged one in our property search, instead of going to all the sellers’ agents, it would have saved us a lot of time. Anyway, assuming we managed to find a good one…
I read Mother of Learning on SteveF’s recommendation, and I second it. The books are *very* long, in a completely comfortable and enjoyable way. Great character development. My only, very minor criticism is that the ending actually went kind of fast compared to the rest of the series.
I’ll be checking out some of the others he mentions…
I was going to re-read a long series by Raymond Feist. I remember enjoying the books a lot, many years ago. After 1-1/2 books, no. I just can’t get into it anymore. It’s all Kingdom politics, with a bit of magic and warfare on the side. I found the same thing, when I tried to re-read Dune – all politics, no action, bleah.
No need. Now that his social media company has gone public, he really is a billionaire. If he unloads some shares before the price crashes, he may even stay a billionaire.
And, yes, the price will crash, at latest after the election. Whether he wins or loses, the site will lose much of its relevance at that point.
That’s something worth thinking about. Unfortunately, with the Internet, it’s easy for a little research to connect the dots. I have such a prominent Internet presence here (foreign name in a small country), that I’ve mostly given up on personas. I don’t know how difficult it would be to find my comments here, or on other forums, but likely not difficult at all.
Just out of curiosity, I asked an LLM what it knows about me. It immediately named one of my hobbies, but then got coy, and talked about privacy. So information is in there, just waiting for the right prompts to get it out.
And lawyers, and accountants, and private investigators, and …
The justification for government licensing and regulation is to keep the bozos and crooks out. Licensing and regulation clearly are not accomplishing that goal. This means that licensing and regulation will be ended soon, riiiiight?
I’ve noticed an increasing number of unrecognized cars coming down our dead-end street, very commonly containing three or four young black men. Albany is ten or so miles away and Troy is closer. Neither is an internationally-recognized turdhole like Chicago but they’re both turdholes with largely black populations which are becoming increasingly restless and entitled. The restlessness and entitlement is matching the national trend, from what I’ve seen over the past few years.
It’s possible that poor whites are also becoming more crime-prone but I’m sure not hearing anything like that, either from reporting or from ears on the ground.
As has been said about gun crime, intentional vehicular homicides, and some other societal problems, we don’t have a crime problem, we have a black problem.
Several obvious solutions exist. We won’t take any of them.
I’ve been keeping up, barely, on my day-to-day tasks to keep life going. Have hardly been able to put any time or attention into larger projects or long-term goals. I’m constantly distracted and interrupted and demands are constantly made on my time. Some of this is by choice – I don’t have to let the chickens into the yard and keep an eye on them while doing things or attempting to work on the computer, but they’re pets and I spoil them – but most comes from the family. I don’t blame the mother-in-law for being needy, what with the brain-rot, but it’s always something. Much the same for The Child. It seems to me that she could clean up after herself without me reminding her repeatedly, but on the whole she seems to be no more
burdenbother than most teens. And that leaves the wife, whom I conspicuously do not, not blame…Not much to be done about it, that I can see. I would feel terrible to leave the house and leave the mother-in-law solely in her daughter’s care. Grandma was a big help when the sons were younger and a huge help when the daughter was born. It wouldn’t be right to ditch her now that she needs help. On the other hand, my wife has become intolerable.
Making things worse, I can’t just up and walk out, between the daughter and the chickens. If it were just me, I could throw things in the van and drive away. As is, I’d need to find an apartment somewhere near The Child’s school. Either be able to move the chickens there, give them to someone who’d care for them, or kill them all.
Don’t know what to do about this, other than drudge through each day and hope that my wife and her mother die in a traffic accident.
I haven’t seen the “Grand Theft Auto” bashing meme in a while. I guess that will be a thing again unless the rumors are true and the DEI consultants neutered the new game.
@SteveF: It won’t be too long, before the Child is 18 and (theoretically) adult. I assume at that point she is likely to leave home for college. Plan for that day?
The plan for years had been to move out when The Child turns 18 or when she goes off to college. The current plan is leave after the m-i-l dies or gets bad enough she needs to be put into a home. That’s an indefinite time, which makes it harder to plan for and also harder to put up with.
“Grand Theft Auto” bashing
– I think in this case it’s not bashing so much as descriptive.
n
Borrower Defense is the established mechanism for correcting problems in the student loan program, but the reputations of a lot of “good” schools would be roasted and soup bowls threatened if going that route became popular.
Reading between the lines in the story, my guess is that Grandma had a very good time as an undergrad at Mundelin and then graduate student at Loyola. Ironically, Mundelin went bankrupt.
Using the Duck to fill in some blanks, it seems that Grandma is working the media right now. Seven years at Loyola?
A very good time. Probably a trip to Europe or two in that loan balance also, but I’m smelling wealthy parents so the loans probably funded cr*p for the most part.
Mail readers in the UK are filling in the blanks too as they indulge in schadenfreude. “I say, Millicent, these Yanks really get themselves into sticky situations with their student loans.
BTW, the guy I know indirectlly who went to [the most expensive engineering school in the country] is still unemployed as of this morning, six months after being cut loose from NI after eight years, mostly as a manager, because he studied EE at a “good” school after all and has that piece of paper with the name.
Of course that household also has student loans and votes Dem.
The train to the Rockford Airport would have been a major soup bowl for thousands of consultants, construction industry types, and unions who ended up running the line.
That look on your face when you realize your deep state friends will in fact let your son go to prison for acting as their cutout…
A picture of misery: Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents arrive at a court for sentencing that could see $8bn crypto fraudster, 32, imprisoned for 50 years
n
n
Does your wife have a Number One Son brother or “Boss” cousin?
What I don’t get, is how Bankman-Fried can be so smart, and yet so stupid. Both of his parents are high-caliber lawyers. His mother specialized in ethics. His father actually worked for the business. How did he (and his parents) not clue in to the fact that he was violating all sorts of laws? Greed got the better of all of them?
His parents are next up on the block. If not directly for crimes, then to claw back the $millions they were illegally given.
We had a group of five hawks overhead yesterday, actually circling over the neighbor’s house while my chickens were in our front yard. Yes, everything has to eat, but you’re not eating my chickens. So I stood prominently in the front yard and read my Kindle rather than sit in my van and work on my computer until the freeloaders flew elsewhere. And then the rain picked up from spatter to actual rain so I brought the birds back in, so it didn’t matter anyway.
You know your situation best. On the other hand, perhaps you are too close to it, to see possible answers? There is no reason that taking care of your mil has to involve staying with your wife.
Also, what Greg asked…
When I’m walking my dog and see a strange car I get my phone out and take pictures. I make a point of the driver seeing me step out in the street to get the picture of the license plate.
They raised the kid to be the sacrificial animal in this kind of situation and will be well compensated by the Deep State.
”Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Lits of “moral flexibility” at Stanford, which reminds me that the Blasey-Ford bimbo is making the rounds again.
Yet another cutout.
What makes you think he’s smart? The Stanford degree?
Please.
How did he (and his parents) not clue in to the fact that he was violating all sorts of laws?
– they knew very well, but since they were laundering money for the Dems and other deep state they thought they would be taken care of. They are politically connected and son was a massive donor (of other people’s money).
They might still be ok, if the kid needs to do a year or two at Club Fed, so be it. If he gets a max sentence and the machine goes after them, then they F’d up somewhere and the wrong person got wronged…
n
WRT the stabbing deaths in Rockford, IL., we need to repeal Amendment 222 so that knives can’t be used to kill people.
He got 25 years. From the comments, he apparently must serve at least 85% of that, even in the best case.
I expect the bankruptcy court will be clawing back the gifts made to his parents with Alameda money. Because, why not?
>> When I’m walking my dog and see a strange car I get my phone out and take pictures. I make a point of the driver seeing me step out in the street to get the picture of the license plate.
@Bob, strange cars often have strange drivers…never leave home without “it”
Did they say where the sentence will be served?
The televangelist Jim Bakker got sent to Marion, IL for stealing a lot less money. Club Fed is not automatic for white collar crime.
Rip-proof window screens and/or window film.
I have triple pane windows with a piece of plastic to cut noise in them. Supposely will take a 2×4 at 100+ mph (hurricane, tornado). The noise cut is for the train horns three blocks away.
I have got a cold again. Had one back in January. Yellow gunk pouring out of my sinuses. I am using lots of tissues per hour. Maybe tissue boxes per day. This sucks.
I feel for you, man. Some days it feels like the drudge is more than can be borne.
I feel for you too, Lynn. I was there last week (my gunk was green!), and I’m starting to feel right again only now after a course of cefuroxime that finished yesterday. Don’t tough it out. The longer you let it get established in your sinuses, the harder it is to get rid of. Search for “Peru Balsam” here in the comments for a useful home remedy that complements the modern medication options.
Estate agents (realtors). Oxygen thieves, every last one. An unscrupulous, incompetent, (or probably both) EA almost lost us the house she was supposed to be selling by failing to communicate correctly our offer to purchase to the vendors. She was gambling on getting us to up our offer price, and thereby her cut of the sale price, which was not going to happen. It cost me a lot of time, aggravation and legal fees to clean up her mess. Private sale inter partes is the way to go, whether buying or selling.
White man’s burden, sort of.
More aptly, the duty of an honorable man to pay his debts, sometimes at great personal cost.
The uncertainty of timing and the absence of concrete plans puts you in limbo until things develop. It’s like being imprisoned with an indeterminate sentence.
I’ve got no advice, just sympathy.
A thought experiment, though. Suppose The Child is safely off to college for her STEM degree, and Grandma is no longer an issue, and you leave. What happens to the wife? She has a job, family, community, and other resources, yes? Visualize what she does to survive.
Now add Grandma back into that situation. Are the resources enough? Would they be enough with a little monetary help from you?
In any event, it’s not too early to start researching community and government programs for elderly with dementia. Grandma’s decline may not be rapid, but it’s likely progressive and may accelerate. The better assisted living facilities often have waiting lists.
It might comfort you to have a plan in place for her institutional care, even if it’s too early to execute the plan.
Cool, I started a mild flame war on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dilbert/comments/1bpctsi/robots_read_news_about_protecting_freedom/
I feel for you too, Lynn. I was there last week (my gunk was green!), and I’m starting to feel right again only now after a course of cefuroxime that finished yesterday. Don’t tough it out. The longer you let it get established in your sinuses, the harder it is to get rid of. Search for “Peru Balsam” here in the comments for a useful home remedy that complements the modern medication options.
I have to be incredibly careful with antibiotics. I am desperately allergic to penicillan and keflex. Three inch diameter hives the last time. My doctor yelled at me for a long time. And it was not a good yelling, he was mad.
Lynn, if you hook a garden hose up to a small-diameter hose, you can shove it up one nostril. You can then rig an adapter from another small hose to a wet-dry vac (use the wet side) and flush all of the gunk right out.
If you need advice on other subjects, I also give legal advice, career counselling, and marriage/relationship advice. And it’s just as good as my medical advice!
>> I have to be incredibly careful with antibiotics. I am desperately allergic to penicillan and keflex. Three inch diameter hives the last time. My doctor yelled at me for a long time. And it was not a good yelling, he was mad.
@lynn, you have an appropriate Medic-Alert bracelet?
>> Lynn, if you hook a garden hose up to a small-diameter hose, you can shove it up one nostril. You can then rig an adapter from another small hose to a wet-dry vac (use the wet side) and flush all of the gunk right out.
Certainly not as much fun, but there is this: https://a.co/d/0ULhw49
xkcd: Cursive Letters
https://xkcd.com/2912/
Is there anything that Randall cannot graph ?
My 82 year old mother is the only person that I know that still writes in cursive. It is almost illegible due to slant and compactness but I love her for it anyway.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2912:_Cursive_Letters
And I just thought of another person who writes in cursive. James Patterson writes all of his books in cursive in a notebook for each book. He has at least 30 notebooks at any given moment.
“Benelli M4 H2O 12 Gauge Semiautomatic ARGO Shotgun”
https://www.academy.com/p/benelli-m4-h2o-12-gauge-semiautomatic-argo-shotgun?sku=12-gauge
Papa needs a new shotgun. Apparently you can leave this in the bed of your pickup for a year or three and it will still shoot without incident. A little pricey … $2,099.
Of course, if you leave a shotgun in the bed of your pickup around here, it won’t be there the next day.
If Momma finds out that I bought a $2,099 shotgun, there will be hell to pay.
“Texas faces ‘explosive’ 2024 hurricane season, scientists say”
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/atlantic-hurricane-season-texas-19372970.php
These people do not have a good prediction track record. In fact, their track record sucks. Just ask Judith Curry. She used to be one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry#Views_on_climate_change
It turns out he hasn’t precisely written many, many of his books. He uses co-authors and ghosts.
The problem is, there are no consequence to being wrong. So they predict disaster after disaster, in the hopes that sooner or later, purely by coincidence, they will be right.
I’ve noticed an increasing number of unrecognized cars coming down our dead-end street, very commonly containing three or four young black men. Albany is ten or so miles away and Troy is closer. Neither is an internationally-recognized turdhole like Chicago but they’re both turdholes with largely black populations which are becoming increasingly restless and entitled. The restlessness and entitlement is matching the national trend, from what I’ve seen over the past few years.
One thing that every one in my neighborhood seeing the videos is commenting on is how nicely the home invader robbers are dressed. Black slacks, nice dress shoes, nice shirts and jackets. Very nice car. It is incredibly strange and counter to what one thinks that robbers are like.
There is even an argument about whether the men are middle easterners or Hispanics. Very hard to tell.
I read Mother of Learning on SteveF’s recommendation, and I second it. The books are *very* long, in a completely comfortable and enjoyable way. Great character development. My only, very minor criticism is that the ending actually went kind of fast compared to the rest of the series.
https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Learning-ARC-1-nobody103-ebook/dp/B09M2R6QLF?tag=ttgnet-20/
Kindle and audio only. No dead tree versions. Welcome to the future.
Also, the Senate in Texas is in play this year so scaring the h*ll out of transplanted West Coast residents into voting for Collin Zachary over Rafael Edward is important.
I’ve seen abortion and voting rights covered in Collin Zachary’s primary commercials, but I haven’t seen any spots for the general election yet.
When I’m walking my dog and see a strange car I get my phone out and take pictures. I make a point of the driver seeing me step out in the street to get the picture of the license plate.
I would not step out in the street. That car can accelerate faster than you can.
You are carrying, right ?
I’ll bet that hey’re using the toll roads too if the tags on the cars are stolen.
Also, the Senate in Texas is in play this year so scaring the h*ll out of transplanted West Coast residents into voting for Collin Zachary over Rafael Edward is important.
I’ve seen abortion and voting rights covered in Collin Zachary’s primary commercials, but I haven’t seen any spots for the general election yet.
Abortion and IVF played big in the Tuesday election in Alabama that flipped a solid red R to D.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrat-marilyn-lands-wins-alabama-special-election-ivf-abortion-righ-rcna145210
I amazed that any court would get in the middle of IVF. That there is some special stupid. I’ve got a friend with two kids conceived via IVF that is considering using one of the remaining IVF eggs to get a third kid. Her husband is not very happy. It is costing them $800 per year to keep the eggs while she makes up her mind.
That look on your face when you realize your deep state friends will in fact let your son go to prison for acting as their cutout…
A picture of misery: Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents arrive at a court for sentencing that could see $8bn crypto fraudster, 32, imprisoned for 50 years
I am surprised that Caroline Ellison is walking the streets. She should be in jail too. I suspect that she knows where the money went too.
It turns out he hasn’t precisely written many, many of his books. He uses co-authors and ghosts.
And you know this how ???
https://www.thoughtco.com/most-successful-james-patterson-co-authors-4126695
This one…?
https://www.amazon.com/My-Identity-Doctor-USA-Bracelet/dp/B00QEXJQAC?tag=ttgnet-20
“Democrats Are Pushing Dementia Joe to Enact as Many Regulations as Possible Before Trump Inevitably Kicks Him out of the White House”
https://thelibertydaily.com/democrats-are-pushing-dementia-joe-enact-as-many/
Many, if not all, of these new regulations are unconstitutional. Biden is President but he thinks that he is a dictator. We were born free but that may not last.
I have just finished reading a James Patterson novel, “The 23rd Midnight”. I got it from my public library in ebook format. Now reading a John Grisham novel “The Whistler” from the library in ebook format. Nope, no more Big River kindle ebooks.
Of course NBC News would tell you that abortion and IVF were key issues.
OTOH. Alabama. “Ma” Ivey’s state.
I have just finished reading a James Patterson novel, “The 23rd Midnight”. I got it from my public library in ebook format. Now reading a John Grisham novel “The Whistler” from the library in ebook format. Nope, no more Big River kindle ebooks.
See if your library has “When The Wind Blows” in ebook. Awesome book by Patterson. First of a two book series about genetically modified kids.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Wind-Blows-James-Patterson/dp/0316693324?tag=ttgnet-20/
The car regulations aren’t going anywhere, even if Trump reverses CAFE to a more “reasonable” 38 MPG.
The countdown will begin to the Dems taking back Congress if they don’t take both the House and Senate in November.
There are a bunch of Abrams and Bradleys parked across from the front yard of the office. They are on a railroad siding.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/03/28/felon-on-parole-shot-after-invading-new-mexico-home-n1224367
Give the PLT’s video and they will find something to charge the homeowner with.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1773117641890148730
Things went wrong shortly after this video was shot, when a
morbidly obese manavoirdupois-enhanced person texting on the top step tripped over the ball and rolled down three flights of stairs, killing hiexself and 12 other texters.This brings the total number of texter deaths in NYC to 48 so far this year, which is on track to double last years record.
FNY AG Letitia James announced that she will file suit against Apple for making texting on iPhones too attractive and a public nuisance, and she will sue Trump as well for Orange Man Bad.
You should start to worry if they start to de-train, it is overkill for a home invasion response, but that’s SWAT for you.
He is a case study in a course I’m taking on book publishing. He uses a co-author/ghost to do the actual writing and he edits. Just Google “does he write his own books” and there are many sources, including news sites, that corroborate this.
Been running around all day, and then shopping the lowes and HD. Now it’s dark and I still haven’t got the truck loaded.
BTW, I’m sneezing and snotty too. Thanks Lynn. 🙁
Can’t find my list for the pack either.
n
Been running around all day, and then shopping the lowes and HD. Now it’s dark and I still haven’t got the truck loaded.
BTW, I’m sneezing and snotty too. Thanks Lynn.
Can’t find my list for the pack either.
24 miles away and I gave it to you. Now that is a virus !
We don’t need no stinking lists !
Trump is not President but he wants to be the
presidentdictator.FIFY.
IMHO.
People, and I use the term only as a courtesy, keep saying that Trump wants to be a dictator, Trump plans to stay in office for life, Trump blah-blah-blah. Whenever I ask for evidence to back their claims … crickets. “Well, if you look at what he’s said!” Riiiight. Could you be more specific?
TDS is a beautiful thing to watch, if you’re into bleak humor.
Amazingly, Rio Arriba Sheriff’s Major Lorenzo Aguilar’s advice to homeowners following these attacks was to put security cameras inside their home.
As seen in my neighborhood’s two home invasions (attempted and completed) on Monday night, the cameras are just about worthless. Both families posted a lot of camera footage to nextdoor and gave it to the sheriff’s deputies. The sheriff’s deputies ran the vehicle paper plant, fake of course.
So unless somebody recognizes the miscreants on nextdoor and is willing to identify them (two steps there), the cameras are worthless. The only worthwhile would be to stick a shotgun out the door and start shooting.
Camera footage will help if they get caught later. They use it as a club to get a confession and a plea bargain.
It won’t protect you or your stuff though. Usually. That night the kids were checking every vehicle door on my street they looked right up into my camera and then skipped my house. I’ve got a couple of big obvious cams, and the IR flood light glows red and catches your eye at night.
————
Made it to the BOL. An earlier 3 car accident on the freeway had cleared by the time I got there, so I made good time once I left the house.
60F here, it’s “crisp”.
n
It is 57 F here. We are going to warm up tomorrow.
The wife dropped the price on her townhouse from $429,500 to 409,900.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/1837-brookview-dr-carrollton-tx-75007/8062477
We do not like what Bidenflation has done to the interest rates.
The people who looked at the townhome want us to replace the floor with modern tiles. Not gonna happen.
Good for Mrs Lynn. Why would any seller take on costs just to suit a particular potential buyer’s whim? If you want tiles, buy the house and tile it to your heart’s content. Reduce your offer by the projected cost of the tiling job, if you think you can get away with so doing.
More Netflix SciFi movies (some of them are actually good):
@lynn, thanks for the SF list.