Hot and humid, because it’s Houston in the summertime… and it gets hot in the swamp. We had a brief bit of relief with some quick showers yesterday, but it was mainly hot and humid. I decided NOT to do outdoor work, and especially not to do work from the roof of the house.
I should have gotten the pole saws out and cleaned up the damage to the big tree. I want to get the branches onto the pile of stuff the city contractor left behind, so that when that gets picked up, my debris will be too. But. HOT.
Did my kid driving duties in the afternoon, and auction stuff in the morning. Got a second coat of drywall mud on the ceiling repairs. Haven’t seen any more rats, alive or dead. I’m sure they are still up there.
I did win some more bait boxes in the auction. These are “professional style” so maybe they’ll work better. They’ll be novel, and the rats won’t be used to them so maybe it will make a difference.
Today I’ve got one pickup in the afternoon, and might try to get another on the other side of town… There is some lighting for the BOL in that auction, and I’ve decided to go up for the weekend after all. I’ll do my non-prepping hobby on Saturday and then go up, W and the DDs will head up tonight. We’ll stay through Monday so I have an extra day. Father’s Day will happen up there…
It will give me some more time to work up there, and with the extra day, maybe I’ll get some time to just chill and try to catch some fish. That would be nice. Might even get a chance to do some floating in the lake.
W asked what I wanted to do for Father’s Day and I couldn’t think of anything. Doing nothing might be nice.
While I slack off, you should be stacking like your life depends on it. Because it might.
nick
VTSMX has everything in an attempt to match the index while avoiding a lot of selling and/or dividends.
Another project on my list is to understand the math behind that kind of fund. I *should* be able to do that number crunching with the EE background, but the kids these days and their fancy software …
Vanguard still puts TSLA in the top 10 of growth stocks they put into in VIRGX, but barely.
EVs are toys. If you want a toy, buy a toy if you can afford it.
Not my kind of toy.
But i would contribute $20 to a fund to buy a house next to the activist judge and turn it into a rehab center for meth addicts.
Remember William Frawley as the political advisor in Miracle on 34th Street?
It’s really too bad he’s not available to play FJB when they start filming the true story of the Biden Crime Family.
At the moment, my life depends on moving veeery slowly. Freshly operated on, sent home, trying not to use those belly muscles for anything at all :-/ Coughing is right out…
Better that staying in the hospital, that’s for sure. At home, you have all your entertainment options, can wander the ouse around aimlessly, whatever. My wife makes a killer pizza, and that’s what’s for dinner tonight.
She’s off on the dog walk. My kindle is charging. I think I’ll watch Terminator II.
Not A Vaccine, And Never Was
2brad
“I think I’ll watch Terminator II.”
No comedies.
No memes.
Take care.
What to hear a really funny joke that will make you laugh? Nah, I didn’t think so.
When I had my knee replaced, I spent 24 hours in the hospital as a guard against infection. The surgeon wanted to check the incision the next day. Home was much better than the hospital.
Except when I took a shower the same day I arrived home. I slipped and put all my weight on the knee that had just been replaced. I found out what is considered level 10 pain. Enough to make a person black out.
Good luck healing.
@brad, take care of yourself, and do not overdo it.
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88F so far, and overcast. Probably headed higher.
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Time for some sweet creamy coffee.
n
– no one ever showed that a bump stock was used in the murders in Vegas. The ban was an anti-2A power grab, nothing more.
Hell, no one ever showed that the guy found dead in the hotel room was the shooter.
n
Hell, no one ever showed that the guy found dead in the hotel room was the shooter.
– If you doubt me, please link to any publicly available (or not) sources that show autopsy results with powder residue tests from the “shooter’s” hands, face, forearms etc. How many different powders? Do those powders match any of the weapons and ammo found in the room? Please link to forensic examination linking recovered rounds to any weapons in the room. Please link to forensic examination of the weapons found in the room showing them to have been recently fired, particularly any fitted with bump stocks.
Please link to any sources for who leaked the crime scene photos, taken before evidence techs put down any markers, and WHY they leaked the photos.
Please link to any sources showing the provenance and ownership/purchase history of the weapons found in the room.
Seriously. I want to read any and all of the above, and I never saw any of this in any of the reports I did find and read.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/counterfeit-titanium-found-boeing-and-airbus-jets
Chinese supplier falsified certification statements. Imagine that.
n
A hand-held xrf can differentiate between ss alloys. They don’t have something that works on Ti?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/anti-israel-student-activists-at-california-state-u-take-over-building-with-administrators-trapped-inside/
The only proper response to terrorists is to kill them immediately.
I wonder if substituting pork fat for liquid teflon in Glaser Safety Slugs would compromise the ballistics. Probably easier just to load bacon fat in your hollow-points.
“A … er … sticky (legal) situation?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/06/a-er-sticky-legal-situation.html
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments over whether car insurance should pay out benefits to a woman who caught a sexually transmitted disease from a policyholder in his insured vehicle.”
“. . .”
“Upon review of the parties’ arguments, the court finds that consensual sexual relations inside a car do not constitute a ‘use’ of the automobile within the meaning of the subject policy,” the judge wrote in his decision.”
“The judges questioned M.O.’s attorney, David Mayer, on whether his client’s argument would make GEICO responsible for every unwanted pregnancy that might have occurred in an automobile.”
People will sue over anything.
“BREAKING: Judge orders liquidation of Alex Jones’ personal assets to pay Sandy Hook families”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-judge-orders-liquidation-of-alex-jones-personal-assets-to-pay-sandy-hook-families
This is getting worse by the day. At least they cannot take his home in Austin.
Local Faux News had the clip of the Sandy Hook kids graduating from high school this week. I don’t think the timing is a coincidence.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/counterfeit-titanium-found-boeing-and-airbus-jets
Chinese supplier falsified certification statements. Imagine that.
n
My understanding from my fellow engineers is that all Chinese metal is faked and must be tested after delivery before payment. All of the field engineers are complaining bitterly. The bridge builders are reporting that they are having failures as they build.
BTW, Chinese EVs are made with Chinese metals. Good luck with that.
Soon Hecho en Mexico with Chinese metals.
En fuego. $98/share would be the tipping point for the algorithms so that wasn’t going to happen today. The specialist probably held things together this afternoon.
The rumor is that an emergency board meeting happened in Burbank yesterday.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DIS/
Go space lesbians, go broke.
It’s been 4+ decades since Engineering Practices and Materials Science courses in college, but my recollection is that the big airframers used to test materials & parts randomly as they came from their vendors. There were departments devoted to that. Certificates were not enough.
Odd. Did he not have an LLC set up and himself as an employee?
It’s absolutely ridiculous. The 51 “intelligence officials” who signed a statement that Hunter “The Bad Son” Biden’s laptop was Rooskie disinformation LIED. That has hurt my feelings. They should each pay me $1 million. The justice system is a political disgrace.
The last job had Clapper on the board until the NY Times and Washington Post walked away from supporting that Russian disinformation explanation for the laptop.
Clapper’s name disappeared really fast, but the damage was done.
The final nail in the company’s coffin was turning product architecture over to the DevOps pinhead, however.
>>nick flandrey says:
14 June 2024 at 11:23
@brad, take care of yourself, and do not overdo it.
“…do not overdo it.”
Hmm, how does it go? Pot calling the kettle black.
Generally, it is bovine excrement, which is tolerable, if it is not immediately beside one’s residence, and if the farmers abide by the rule of spreading only before or during rain.
No human, thank goodness.
Every now and then there is a nose-wrenching stench of porcine. That is after the illicit nocturnal tanker trucks coming from Flanders and the Netherlands get here. There is no piggery within many miles of this location, but one or other of the local farmers is taking black cash to pump pigshit, and who knows what other shit, onto his fields.
Not only is it an olfactory nuisance, it is also illegal. The local dairy farmers have a dispensation from the rules that are supposed to limit over fertilisation from creating nitrogen-induced algal blooms in surface water, and leaching nitrates into the groundwater. They have the dispensation pending construction of a local agricultural biomethane digester and effluent treatment works, but only so that they can spread their own dairy herd’s excrement on their own pastures.
One of the black midnight pigshit tankers nearly killed me some time ago. It came rocketing, unlit, out of a side road onto the main thoroughfare, ignoring my right of way and nearly running me into the ditch at speed. No number plate or other distinguishing marks, and by the time I had composed myself and made a U-turn to pursue, the driver had made good his escape.
Somebody in authority has a finger in the pigshit mafia pie. The goings-on are well known (they literally stink to high heaven), but no enforcement actions are taken.
“Upon review of the parties’ arguments, the court finds that consensual sexual relations inside a car do not constitute a ‘use’ of the automobile within the meaning of the subject policy,” the judge wrote in his decision.”
True story:
ca. late 60’s, my parents lived next to a couple in their 70’s who were the personification of Southern charm. Mr. C. worked in the haberdashery department at Sears and was always impeccably dressed. He had cataract surgery on both eyes, one first, then the other, and during that time needed some assistance with a few chores that we were more than happy to assist with. On one occasion I helped carry a suitcase from to the car before a hospital stay, and Mrs. C. had to be talked out of paying me for my help with the “grip”. (I used to enjoy traveling and hearing regional accents and usage of the language, but the media have largely washed that away along with other things)
We were working on a car one evening when Mr. C. stopped over and asked for some minor assistance. He and dad started talking about cars and he related a tale from his youth where his Model A was “borrowed” by someone unknown. It was returned unharmed, but he noted the necessity of having to get new rear seat covers.
Apparently the carpet in the back “fold flat” area of a mid 80s Chevy Chevette had an affinity for short curly hairs.
Sibling had some things to say after trying to vacuum said carpet….
n
So I’m trying to shut stuff down. A part of that is to change the CC USAA charges. I called Discover to ask for an increase. Because last January’s bill for house and car insurance was like $2800. And if I have much of anything else there, it’s going to bounce with my $3300 limit.
Heh. They raised my limit $3000 bucks.
Now I have to deal with USAA or their website to change the card they charge. Tomorrow.
My ’85 Cavalier had the same carpet. Dog hair? Cat hair? Not gonna vacuum out at all.
– they did it for a MAYORAL race, anyone really think they wouldn’t do it for a more serious race?
n
“U.S., Ukraine Sign 10-Year Security Agreement, G7 Gives Kyiv $50B Loan” https://www.oann.com/newsroom/u-s-ukraine-sign-10-year-security-agreement-g7-gives-kyiv-50b-loan/
Oh, isnt that nice. However, that agreement requires 2/3rds of the USA Senate to make it a real thing.
Cue John Barrowman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca7063tXIP4
“Watch out Europe … we’re going … on tourrrrr.”
More trouble for the Pink-Haired Girl
https://people.com/why-convicted-rust-armorer-headed-trial-again-8663471
Nope, definitely not. Actually, today (it’s Saturday here) isn’t too bad. I’m sore in new and interesting places, but the incisions (three small ones, laproscopy) are better.
After the emergency room visit with my wife, and now my surgery: I am seriously impressed with the personnel at the hospital. Incredibly friendly, treat you like a person, etc, etc..
I don’t know a lot about the case, but $1.5 billion in damages for defamation of…if I read right…26 people? That sounds insane on the face of it. US tort system out of control?
Yup. Any company that cares about quality must do this.
I am at my BOL in south Texas. Down here watching the hapless Astros with my Dad. And watching movies on Netflix with my Mom.
Wait, does BOL stand for Bug Out Lake ? If so, I am at my BOO, Bug Out Ocean.
Yup. Any company that cares about quality must do this.
I am not sure that Boeing does QA anymore.