Cool and clear again, warming later. Yesterday was nice again. Crazy to get so many nice days in a row, and not be out rolling around in a meadow celebrating… or something. Today should be similar.
Which will be nice if I end up doing any of the outdoor stuff on my plate.
Friday I did my pickups, crisscrossing town, and burning time and gas. Got good stuff but still, it took longer than it should have when I missed a pickup on my big loop and had to backtrack. That cost an hour and 50 miles. I try to make a loop or to ‘clump’ errands to minimize time and gas expense. Blew it this time.
Today I’ve got a couple pickups that I couldn’t do yesterday, and one that was only available today. I am picking up several AEDs. They’ll need new batteries and pads, but that is a lot cheaper than buying the whole thing new. If you’re 20-40 minutes from help, and think you might be in line for a cardiac event, wouldn’t it be worth $1200 so your survivors could at least know they had every opportunity to help you? Or to actually help? If you have the medical history, your insurance might even foot the bill… Other than tourniquets, I can’t think of any medical prep that gives you the same bang for the buck and is so suited to its use. If you need an AED, you NEED it. It’s cheaper than a moderately nice rifle and some range ammo, and more likely to save a life.
A lot of what we do as preppers is pretty basic, and I’ll admit that having an AED in the house or car SOUNDS pretty advanced, but so did seat belts and fire extinguishers back in the day. Think seriously about getting one or more, and learn to spot them when you are out and about. I used to have the kids count fire extinguishers and AEDs when we moved through public spaces like airports or hotels. You’ll learn where they usually are, and you’ll know where one is if you need it. It’s also a good exercise in awareness. (spotting cameras and exits is good fun too.)
Stack some awareness, and some good habits. And stack some more medical preps. Everything degrades, public services lead the way. The extra minutes might make all the difference in your world…
nick
On the plus side, flu deaths were reduced to zero for a couple years.
I question “millions”. Yes, some people undoubtedly died of the bioweapon who would otherwise be alive today. But between misclassification of other deaths as “covid deaths”, the blurring of “died of” and “died with”, the comorbidities, many of the deaths being nothing more than advancing the death by a few months, deaths caused by lockdown but attributed to the bioweapon, and outright medical malpractice, I can’t say with confidence that more than a few thousand died because of the disease. That’s not a good thing but it’s not of the same order (literally) as millions. Or the “potentially billions” which some jaw-flappers were threatening us with when they were pumping up the scare.
Austin has several Sprouts which emphasizes organic food.
From what I’ve observed with the family, Asians aren’t into “organic” in any greater proportion than the rest of the population. The California relations fuss about using plastic food containers, but that’s California.
Trader Joe’s has some organics, but it isn’t a health food store.
The final decision was still the Orange Man’s, and he lost his nerve. That should never be forgotten, and forgiveness should only follow a serious mea culpa, which he’s probably incapable of delivering.
Sure, blame the Scarf Queen. That’s easy.
New Orleans travel notes:
Classic Amish pimps/hookers working Love’s on I-10 about an hour west of the city.
A low rent car dealer type with a vehicle on a trailer who fussed at me about not moving out of the pump area quickly enough for him suddenly had all the time in the world to get his strange on once he noticed the Amish girls.
More closed fast food places than usual closer to town.
A lot of road construction all around the city on the surface streets, but I never saw anyone working on the projects. Easter?
I noted the locked down Walgreens yesterday. In the parking lot, I saw a masked older woman park a Transit Connect with what looked like everything she owned piled in the back. Van living?
Masks. Lots of Good Germans living in New Orleans, especially Amish.
The hotel for the conference was a Hilton but had a lot of broken infrastructure, including an elevator, an escalator, and the card reader for the self parking exit.
Restaurants in the business district were seriously understaffed.
The condition and contents of a lot of parked cars on side streets near the convention center made me wonder if workers lived in them at night.
Plenty of weed being smoked on the streets. “Medical” marijuana.
Buc-ee’s in Baytown has a big car wash under construction, similar to the facility in Katy.
I-10/SR 71 between the west suburbs and Houston and the Gigafactory has heavy traffic during daylight hours. Maybe Katy becoming a bedroom community for the factory isn’t too far fetched. To a Californian, a three hour drive to work is nothing.
Biggest failure of presidential advisors since Bobby McNamara told Kennedy that they could build an electronic wall across Vietnam.
Bobby was JFK’s. Fauci and Birx were supposedly well-vetted veterans.
JFK had the entire MSM covering up for any little peccadillo. Trump couldn’t get a pass on a crooked tie.
JFK had zero b.s. impeachments, or impeachments of any kind. Trump, tho.
And Trump had Teddy’s good bud Maverick, the RINO’s, that rotting tub-o-lard Liz Cheney, the entire Democratic smear machine, and the Deep State, which heretofore was not a thing, arrayed against him.
The final decision is always The President’s, and if that is the only standard then FJB should get screen door removal surgery scheduled for Nov 7.
While people watching from the balcony at Royal House in New Orleans the other night, I noted that standards still haven’t deteriorated to the point where a tourist in jean shorts can get into Antoine’s, New Orlean’s oldest restaurant.
Jean Shorts was quickly directed to the restaurant’s bar entrance.
Fauci and Birx never held jobs outside of government, and Fauci was well known to have botched the early AIDS response in the 80s, obsessing about surface transmission which turned out to be impossible.
Gee, that sounds familiar.
FIFY
Sprouts is the Poor Man’s Whole Foods. Fewer variety and higher cost. My primary carnivore diet is grass fed beef and pasture raised eggs. I’d be broke buying that at Sprouts. My local H-E-B has plenty of both at better prices.
Another “in a nutshell” summary of the RNC. If tRump is re-elected, it will be with no help from the RNC. Independents, Amish, and Hispanizoids will make the difference. Good luck with that.
Sounds like there there’ll be a lot of “defectors” from the Dem base: non-government unionized workers, blacks breaking away from the plantation, young people whose heads are not fully up their butts.
But the Dominion vote and the dead vote and the noncitizen vote will be firmly for a straight Dem ticket, so none of the above will matter.
Beautiful day today. Sunny and shirtsleeves with some breeze.
Coffee is in the machine. Waiting waiting waiting…
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Don’t forget we weren’t the only country affected by the chinkyflu. Millions is correct, based on video and other factors. You can say it was clearing out societal deadwood, but there’s no evidence of that outside of where the US allowed mass murder, NY I’m looking at you.
The hispanic community in the US was hit very hard.
n
IIRC, Trader Joe’s belongs (perhaps belonged) to the Albrecht family, the one-half of ALDI people.
Our local ALDI (a “Nord”) carries a number of rather good Trader Joe’s branded products, especially raisins, other dried fruit, nuts and seeds.
The golden sultanas are particularly nice; I like to sprinkle some over my ALDI knockoff of “Special-K” breakfast cereal. I actually prefer the Aldi one to the Kellogg’s, as it is less sugary, although I suppose my golden sultanas are basically just sugar added, plus a bit of roughage.
Trader Joe’s is ALDI Nord’s chain in the US.
ALDI Sud runs the US ALDI branded stores as well as Winn Dixie and Harveys since the acquisition of Southeastern Grocers.
WTF is Iran doing? “We’re planning an attack.” “We’re going to attack!” “Our attack is going to be massive!!!”
If they now don’t attack, they will look stupid. But if they are, giving days advance warning is just dumb. And if they do manage a massive attack, parts of Iran will cease to be habitable.
Is this some meta-level diplomatic game? Or are they idiots?
“fatally killed”, ffs.
n
The Albrecht brothers had a falling out in 1960 over selling cigarettes in the stores and ALDI has been split into Nord and Sud ever since.
Eventually some kind of reconciliation between the two companies will happen and ALDI will return to being one corporate entity. In the mean time, they do share suppliers and certain infrastructure as well as coordinating store locations in the US.
Doral. Another one of the state’s garden spots.
And 3:30 AM.
My brother says the hail is melting at his house, 16 hours later.
The 25 square miles of solar fields here in the high desert are lucky it was pea sized, not golf ball sized.
Some years ago I saw a screenshot of a TV news program with either “Man murdered to death” or “Man killed to death” in the bottom banner. IIRC, the news program tried to claim that it was photoshopped but then someone uploaded a video clip showing that it was real. (This was before video fakes were practical for the average person.)
Didn’t I see a “narrowly missed cheating death” about an incident survivor recently? Was that here, perhaps?
Roll on AI replacing “journalists”.
Given the quality of journalism on some outlets, AI might be an improvement. I’ve come across a couple of articles this week that were nearly incomprehensible.
AI might occasionally slip up and tell the truth.
The AI articles have a certain “feel” where there are a bunch of declarative statements, but they really don’t say anything…
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Picked up 3 AEDs and a couple of smaller solar panels.
n
And this is different from local reporters?
Never ascribe to AI that which can be explained by outsourcing overseas.
Naw, it’s an ‘author’s voice’ thing. The indian english is obvious in other ways.
n
Each of the popular generative “AI”s has a recognizable pattern of word selection. The appearance of three or more of these characteristic words in a document is a very strong indicator that the doc was generated by a particular “AI”.
WTH:
President Joe Biden Recalls Having a Very Close Relationship With the Greek Church
Is there anybody plugs won’t blow for a vote? Lie after lie after lie.
Baaa, Baaa, Baaa. Wake up sheeple.
Oh, yeah, tRump raised $50 million at his fundraiser.
“Posts About Broken Cybertrucks Fill Tesla Owners’ Forums”
https://gizmodo.com/posts-about-broken-cybertrucks-fill-tesla-owners-forums-1851389945
Yup, all new vehicle launches are rough.
( Beverly Bill Billy’s(yahoo always yahoo) music )
Let me tell you a story about a man name Joe
Had himself a son that caused his family woes
Then one year Hunter smoked too much crack.
Totally forgot to get his laptop back.
Prostitutes. Drugs, LLC’s
Now everyone knows that Joe is running scared
Told everybody ”I’m not taking questions there.”
Tells everybody ”Gotta save the queen”
Nobody knows exactly what he means.
Dementia. No news pool. Classified docs. in car.
It’s the Biden crime family(cue the music).
Well now it’s time to say goodbye to Joe and all his kin
When out of office the Inflation Reduction Act begins
81 million of you voted for this presidency
All we got was inflation, a bunch of gaffs and walk backs and Hunters drug dependency.
Whistleblowers that is. Money wells. Savory plea deal off. The DOJ’s obstructing, I hear!
Can you get the AEDs serviced/refurbished? I seem to recall that the major expense with such apparatus is not so much the acquisition as the periodic maintenance.
Good point about having one, though. I will speak to W1 about getting one each for home and the BOL. I took a resuscitation course, but I don’t remember if she did. Will have to ask her. As the one more likely to need the AED, I would want her to know how to use it!
Oops…
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706
As the one more likely to need the AED, I would want her to know how to use it!
– this. In spades. With cherries on top.
In the US there are a variety of levels of “reconditioning” that you could do… but I just buy a replacement battery and new pads, and change it myself. I’m only using them for myself, not providing them for someone else’s use, so I don’t need a paper trail or certifications. If you were doing that, you’d be better off using a service or just getting rid of them when they age out, and replacing it with a new one that has the correct paperwork.
I figure any chance of it working is better than no chance if I don’t have one, and it’s ⅓ the cost.
At the BOL, we have a volunteer fire department that covers our neighborhood and the adjoining one. For most of the time, that means there are three people that might be available to respond to a call, and maybe only one. Better than none, but not much. We just got an AED for the firehouse, and one of the volunteers will keep another with her, so that she can respond without having to get the unit from the station.
She was first on scene last summer when that guy had his diving accident from our HOA pier so her holding one is a good idea.
My plan is to leave one of these new ones up there for my use. I’ve got one in my master bathroom here, and one that moves from truck to truck with me. I’ve got two older units that I never got new batteries or pads for, because they were so much older. The newer ones are better as they detect pacemakers, and have better diagnostics. Depending on funds, I might add one to the other truck, so I don’t have to move one like I do now, and I might put one down by the dock at the BOL too. It’ll depend on money, and other demands on my funds.
n
at least two of the three I just picked up are cardiac science powerheart aed g3 units.