Still warm in the late afternoon. OK, hot in the late afternoon. Morning temps are around 70F which is nice, and the RH is down with the lower temps. BUT while it’s finally Fall, we aren’t into sweater weather yet. Still hitting 90F most days.
WELL, yesterday was a big fat bust. Didn’t get much sleep the night before and was in no condition to drive 3 hours each way to pick up my items. No way, no how. I fight to stay awake while driving in the best of conditions. Running on only a couple of hours of broken sleep was not going to help. So I rescheduled my pickup to tomorrow. I’ll get to bed early tonight, and make an early start.
I did manage to do a couple of small projects before getting to all the kid stuff and dinner.
Today is more of the same. Whatever I can do in the morning, and then late afternoon occupied by kid chores. D2 has an activity from 630-830 which really breaks up the evening too. My Tuesdays and Thursdays are not my own.
It would be nice to get some cabinets and shelves moved around today. W1 is definitely getting agitated by the lack of progress in the back yard and the driveway. I’m hoping for a cool morning and a strong back today.
So much to do, and so long not really being productive. I need to break out of this funk and get back to making progress. Being well rested is probably desirable to make that happen, as is eating less sugar. I’m going to make an extra effort now. There is a ton of stuff happening on the family calendar, with very little unallocated time between now and the new year. We’re about to start the headlong rush to the Christmas and I’m not ready.
Time seems to be flying by.
Get your life organized, your stacks topped up, and your friends on speed dial…
nick
A reality check on unskilled young males can go sideways.
A couple of days ago a saw a video of several young guys ripping up the pavement in the middle of a road. It was unclear where the video was taken. The road looked pretty good, except for the intentional damage. Could have been Africa, could have been Bumfuck, USA.
Anyway, the explanation of the video was that they were caught doing this, to set a trap for motorists. You come along, see the massive road damage, slow way down, and then your car gets swarmed.
What do you do with useless people? Actually, worse than useless – it doesn’t take many barbarians to tear down a civilization.
I don’t understand that threat. Does Iran really want war with *all* of it’s neighbors? Israel is downright friendly compared to what someone like the Saudis would do. Surely Iran cannot be that stupid?
Not enough bullets?
Seriously, though, the situation in that region seriously sucks, and there is no solution. Israel’s enemies want it gone at any cost, but lack the power to achieve that. Israel is too small to do any serious conquering, so they cannot get rid of their enemies. Last but not least, the soft-hearted in the West insist on pretending that peace is an option, and get upset anytime reality impinges on their good intentions.
@SteveF: Don’t be afraid to hire help, where possible. Surely a lawn service for the brother would be better than five hours of your own time, unless you needed to do other things there as well.
You Ain’t Got No Ice Cream games have started again.
People are stupid and spend way too much of the day staring into their phones.
Of course Costco and the other big box retailers dependent on cash flow are going to play along.
Two new Costco stores opened within 20 minutes of my house since 2020.
My employer’s stock is back to near the level where the execs got their share grants in the Spring.
Gonna need a bigger layoff.
HEB is going to return to stocking the TP they put in their stores in Mexico.
People hear “supply chain interruption” and they feel the need to stock up. If they’d have learned the lesson, they’d already BE stocked up.
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another clear, mild morning. Ground the coffee beans for the week, made the lunches, brewed the bean broth. About to head out to await the bus…
n
Nah, I tried to behave like a civilized person back then. Then as I got in the military and was trying to grow up I found that self-relief was better than I thought.
Yes, because it don’t take no crap off anyone.
I saw a chap walking out of the local grocery store with one of those big industrial rolls, the one with 47 miles of TP, that he stole from the bathroom. I informed the store manager and he said getting the police involved was not worth the hassle. I know who he is and with the size of his wife and two daughters they probably really need that much.
The Attorney General is a slimeball with his own set of Kenny Boys, but the “Republicans” who backed impeachment were part of the Bush cabal who were bitter that their plans for putting George P. (Diddly) Bush into the Governor’s Mansion and, eventually, the White House, were derailed in the 2022 primary when Paxton won nomination for his reelection, defeating Jeb!’s offspring’s bid for the stepping stone.
The “shortages” are back just in time for the election.
People don’t have stimulus check money to speculate with on consumer items like last time … at least for now. Plus, penalties for non-payment of student loans like wage garnishments resumed on Tuesday.
The “broistas” at Dutch Bros. are gonna need a new side hustle.
gonna need a new side hustle.
– how convenient for them that the newest one in my neighborhood is in the parking lot of the Goodwill outlet. They can look for flips on their lunch break….
I guess daytrading Bitcoin isn’t working for them anymore?
n
This.
Odd, if so. Things like the longshoremen’s strike are surely composed of people voting Democrat. But shortages now will tend to hurt the party in power. For that reason, I think they screwed up. The longshoremen may think they will get some quick bennies just to shut them up. Ain’t gonna happen, if only because the time-frame is way too short.
Vance seems to have made a good impression. Trump continues to blather nonsense. Maybe the Republicans should have followed the Democrat’s example, and replaced their official candidate at the last minute 😛
Only 4-½ more weeks of nonsense. Followed by…well, we’ll see what it’s followed by.
Well that was good for my morning wakeup laugh.
and my second laugh
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/10/03/watch-a-trump-impeachment-witness-n2645664
I just punished another amateur hour reseller with a refused delivery due to an inadequate packing job. I don’t even open the box anymore if it arrives damaged.
The new Dutch Bros near my house is across the street from a Goodwill serving the Fancy Lad Griddy house neighborhood stashed behind the HEB on the corner.
Some of that is stockpile discipline. A lot of people, for example, stockpiled toilet paper after 2020. I can even recall a lot of non-preppers saying they had a couple of jumbo packages of toiler paper stockpiled away, so that didn’t happen to them again. Then, they run out of TP, but they don’t feel like going to the store. “Oh yea, I have that extra package tucked away in the basement.” There goes the stockpile.
On a side note, the best prep for toilet paper shortages isn’t just stocking up on TP when it’s plentiful. Install a bidet. Even if you don’t care for them you can always not use it, but if you ever run out of TP it’ll be your new best friend.
Yes, at dinner with friends last night and one mentioned the local Costco shelves were barren yesterday.
My own stocks have shrunk but are still substantial, and I do have a (uninstalled) bidet.
My understanding is that TP is USA sourced anyway.
Sondland is serious Deep State out of the Northwest.
He founded Provenance Hotels which owns many top tier properties, including the Heathman in Portland, one of the main settings in the “Shades of Grey” books.
Trivia that may only interest me.
DYI tip of the day
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2024/10/wirecutters-home-repairs.html
HD parking lot repair crew most likely
Hey, it has a U-bend, what more do you want?
I need to do something about our bathroom sink. It drains veeery slowly, probably accumulated hair. Easy fix, right? Block the overflow hole and use a plunger on the drain. Only, I’ve realized I don’t actually own a plunger. I threw away our old one when we moved, because it had gone brittle, and haven’t needed on in the new house until now.
In other news: I bought the hearing aids yesterday. $7k, ouch. But this latest pair they gave me to try are very comfortable and very effective with my odd frequency deficit. For better or worse, I can understand the women in my life a lot better 😛
We need to clarify insurance, in case I lose one, or step on it, or whatever. The seller offers insurance at crazy rates. I expect a rider on our household insurance will be cheaper.
They make a thin flexible plastic strip with barbs, just for that:
https://www.amazon.com/original-Zip-Remover-25-inch-Overall?tag=ttgnet-20/
Our local dollar store carries them for $1.99.
In my experience hearing and understanding women are two very different things…
I just take the trap apart under the bathroom sinks when they start draining slow. That nasty goo that is a combination of hair, shaving cream, soap, and who know what else gets dumped in the trash. I really don’t want that crap gong further down the pipe. I also clean out the pipe pieces before reassembly. Lately, I scrub the insides with some bleach too. I might do this once a year? Not really sure.
Remove the stopper mechanism and use a drain auger with a ling enough coil to reach past the U.
I have owned hearing aids for 4+ years. I have never dropped or lost a hearing aid. A friend of mine lost one of hers within 6 months. Maybe I have a Sheldon gene lurking somewhere.
Good. It will make a difference in your life. The cost is insane for good devices. I feel lucky the VA pays for mine. I find I forget I am wearing mine. The custom ear molds are part of the reason, no domes. I am guessing you got rechargeable devices. That is what I have and the batteries last at least 18 hours. I have never run them down. I have about 300 batteries left over from the battery powered ones I had previously.
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/powerless.html
Get yourself a piece of appropriate diameter nonconductive tubing. Insert those batteries in series with proper polarity. Connect wires to the end batteries. Just in time for Halloween pranks 😉
That seems unlikely. As long as power doesn’t go out – and modern distribution sysytems are very redundant – no one cares.
I wonder if this is a moral panic, like ventilators for COVID patients?
Transformers are steel vessels full of mineral oil, not delicate items. Copper lines and ceramic insulators don’t care about water either. I think you would want to assess their condition before turning them back on, but I suspect there’s not as much damage as people think.
Georgia and North Carolina were close before the storm.
All the Walkin’ ‘Round money handed out over the last year starting in the SC primary won’t mean anything if the AC is out at home.
Not that I believe the story in the post. Isn’t Bayou Renaissance Man one of the wannabe “warlords”?
Some days I feel like the turd that does not make it down on the first flush.
I suspect there’s not as much damage as people think.
– and a lot of the “rules” go out the window when there aren’t any real choices. After Sandy, all the flooded gear was dried out and put back in service, marked for early replacement in the future. Dunno if any was actually replaced.
Ditto for the switchgear under Chicago flooded by the canal leak.
Ditto for Houston’s underground and above ground switchgear that flooded on more than one occasion.
There is a danger of corrosion, and of silt infiltrating and causing excess wear, but that sh!t’s expensive, yo! So there is a lot of incentive to just keep using it.
This, of course, is an issue the next time your infrastructure is challenged, as it often fails early the NEXT time it’s damaged.
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Peter at BRM isn’t a wannabe warlord, but his prepping posts are ‘odd’, and he sometimes has a weird “giggly” feel to his writing. I usually cut him slack as he’s suffering from chronic and acute pain, and I know it can affect you in strange ways. Ditto for Sarah Hoyt when she’s sick or depressed.
Both of them have started writing about prepping, as if they have done it for years, but Sarah never mentioned it at all… I get that their blogs are primarily about other things, but sometimes they leave me shaking my head.
n
@Ray: yup, and yup. Ad far as losing one goes, it could just happen through dumb bad luck. If the insurance isn’t stupidly expensive, I’ll get it.
You don’t hate the government nearly enough:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/hurricane-helene-has-a-critical-lesson
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13921167/doctor-warns-goodwill-bins-woman-contagious-disease.html
– yeah and so do public toilets, restaurants, day care centers, hospitals….
I always wear gloves at the bins. They sometimes have broken glass shards, or mysteriously wet fabrics…
And the chances of what she got coming from the clothes vs one of the other shoppers is probably near zero. Those clothes have been in the sun, warehouse, trucks, collection points, and stores for days if not weeks.
n
Clay and Buck were pushing these today, “Rapid Radios” and making some wild claims:
https://rapidradios.com/
1. “These radios provide NATIONWIDE coverage, whereever you are located. With no monthly fees, no contracts, and no hassle!”
2. “Keep in touch with your friends, family, and more – wherever they are located. UNLIMITED Nationwide RANGE* with UNLIMITED use!”
3. “Talk for DAYS without losing battery charge!”
4. “Our PROFESSIONAL GRADE Radios are SELLING Fast, sold out MOST PLACES, and available for a limited time with FREE Shipping!”
National free coverage, really ?
From @nick comment at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/powerless.html
“There seems to be an undertone of OMG!!111!! Hurricane recovery will take months!!! what will the sheeple dooooo???? throughout a lot of the media and even alt media. My reaction is “So what? That’s how it ALWAYS works.” I’m in Houston Texas, and have been here for over 20 years. During that time, we’ve had a dozen major weather events, or more, and it always takes time to recover.”
“Months and years even.”
“So why would this one be any different?”
“Disasters suck. They disrupt and end lives. They cost a ton of money. The emotional toll is great.”
“The national press moves on in about three days when the wind and flood damage are in Texas or Florida and they rarely even mention when there is destruction in the other Gulf Coast states.”
“We are still feeling the economic effects of 2017’s HARVEY in my neighborhood. We were slated for storm drain upgrades and street work but the budget was used for Harvey repairs and the work still hasn’t happened.”
“I know it’s the distraction de jure, but it’s not significantly different from any of the other floods and hurricanes that have devastated various areas in the last 20 years.”
“It is, and should be a “teachable moment” about preparedness. It should be a time to assess response plans, and response actions, so that changes can be made, lessons can be learned, and outcomes can be improved for next time. Because there will be a next time. And a time after that, and after that…”
“The shoothouse rules apply.”
All very true. Those who did not prepare at all for the disaster scream the loudest.
What are the shoothouse rules ?
“Biden-Kamala Regime Burns $1 BILLION in FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Immigrants — FEMA Now Lacks Resources for Disaster Response!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/biden-kamala-regime-burns-1-billion-fema-funds/
“Why? Because over the past two years, they have funneled more than $1 billion in taxpayer dollars away from American disaster relief efforts — and into the pockets of illegal immigrants.”
“For the second consecutive year, FEMA has implemented Immediate Needs Funding, putting long-term recovery projects on hold due to a severe shortage in the Disaster Relief Funds (DRF), according to a report from NRDC last month.”
Why am I not surprised ? I was wondering where Biden stole the money to pay for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to jump on a airplane outside the USA and fly here for free. Now I know.
“If you want to be infuriated…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/if-you-want-to-be-infuriated.html
“… take a look at the CBP One app being circulated by the Biden administrators to would-be “refugees” and “migrants”. Literally, within five minutes, with no ID, background information or verification of anything, they can set up an appointment at a border station to be processed into the USA as a refugee with an open timeline for their stay, and given access to thousands of dollars worth of government assistance from Day 1. It’s all paid for by you and I, American taxpayers.”
Biden / Harris are thieves.
@lynn, those radios look like they are cell phones built around the push to talk feature. They have LTE in the name, so they are probably using 4GLTE cell network, as that is the coverage map they link to.
So no worky when the cell network is down.
the bit about contracts and monthly fees probably means a ‘pay as you go’ cell plan.
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shoot house rules.
n
JEP used to say that Congress controlled the “purse”, if they (Congress) are willing to assert that control. The executive cannot, willy-nilly, spend funds where it wants.
NO Licenses – Includes SIM card with 1 year of service per radio. Renew for another year for $50/year (no subscriptions/contracts/monthly fees).
– yep. cell network.
n
Dang it is hot.
I was out replacing some drip lines that critters had chewed through, half an hour of light work and I am dripping with sweat.
Checked on coming back inside: 105F at noon.
“Mountain Mule Packers Deliver Relief Supplies to North Carolina Flood Victims as Biden-Harris Regime Fails – MUST-SEE VIDEO”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/mountain-mules-join-cajun-navy-do-what-biden/
“According to Dr. Clayton Forrester, The Mountain Mule Packer Ranch, based in North Carolina, a company that provides pack mules to the US military, is using its mules to deliver supplies to the stranded residents in Black Mountain and Swannanoa, North Carolina.”
Unreal. My wife was telling me about this.
One of my church friends took off Monday for the Florida panhandle with his pickup pulling his 30+ foot trailer stacked full of donated plywood, paper towels, cleaning fluid, baby diapers, etc, etc, etc. I have not heard how it is going but he plans to make several trips to the area. He does this all the time there is an emergency within a couple of thousand miles. Plenty of people in my church are willing to donate stuff for him to take.
I was cleaning and moving stuff on the back patio and had to come inside to cool down. Sun is baking my brain.
n
If I could be in Dripping Springs next weekend, I’d be here…
https://www.estatesales.net/TX/Dripping-Springs/78620/4163079
Not for the “prepper” stuff but for all the tools, tooling, and machinist stuff…
n
In the not too distant future … next Sunday AD …
https://instapundit.com/675956/
Biden-Harris incompetence.
Construction guys have been asking for an adequate replacement for Nextel’s PTT ever since the provider got absorbed by … Sprint?
Easily going back a dozen years or more.
The trainwreck I worked for in Seattle had someone working with on an iPhone app to implement an app to duplicate the service. I had some ideas about how it could be done, but the management classified me as O.L.D. and, thus, unqualified.
Geesh, I thought someone would have built the concept long before now.
Maybe the Clear attempt at the Pizza Box Dream bought Nextel and Sprint inherited them.
Multitasking.
@JimB, CowboyStu, (& anyone else!): My local astronomy group is having a dark sky party at Red Rock State Park, Saturday night, October 5. I will be there, and guests are always welcome.
“Red Cliffs is on Highway 14 approximately 24 miles north of Mojave. Heading north on the 14, the road into the Red Cliffs Natural Area is a right turn about a quarter mile before (south) the Abbot Road/Riccardo Campground entrance to Red Rock State Park. Turn right at the big red cliff that’s been featured in dozens of movies and TV shows. If you get to the the Abbot Rd/Ricardo turn off you’ve missed it and gone too far north. ”
Basically it is a parking lot with a vault toilet, but surprisingly dark.
There are current LTE devices with PTT. https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/lte-user-devices/lexl11.html
n
Mayorkas: We Spent the Budget on Illegal Immigrants and Have No Money Left for Disasters
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/10/mayorkas-says-fema-doesnt-have-funds-to-last-through-hurricane-season/
Nextel/sprint “gave up” their spectrum after 911 during the push for interoperability so that contiguous blocks could be reassigned and auctioned.
Their PTT function used PCS, Personal Communication Services, and was implemented over trunked radio on business freqs not as part of the cell system. LOOKED LIKE, and even worked like, cellular, but wasn’t.
n
(from memory, so some details might be wrong.)
Scott Adams Says:
“AmazonKDP reverses their disapproval”
“I had trouble with AmazonKDP (where independent publishers upload their books to Amazon) because they kept rejecting the versions of Win Bigly (2nd edition) in softcover and Kindle. No reasons given, canned messages, no way to reach a human.”
“So I lit them up on X.”
“Problem solved.”
“My suggestion for all of you having trouble with tech support is to first get a million followers on X. I’m not aware of any other solution path.”
That is not a good production model.
Skynet became active…
US Army is testing ‘Lone Wolf’ robot dog with AI-powered rifle in the Middle East
At least it is overseas. I wonder if it is waterproof.
LTE doesn’t reach inside certain types of construction.
The Seattle trainwreck’s original “spin” was making a set of WiFi hot spots in a “suitcase” configuration which could be strategically placed inside buildings under construction to provide seamless communications from an iPhone or Android device.
The PTT app they had under development was intended to work on IP networks.
The CLEAR boondoggle ran until around the time we left Vantucky, ten years ago this Summer.
Sprint ended up with the spectrum, but they had to give Dish (!) a big chunk of it in the T-Mobile merger under the guise that the TV provider would build a fourth cell network to compete with the Co-Dominium.
Thanks, Ed, but I have other plans. Too bad, because It would be an easy drive for me, and an opportunity to meet some of your group. Maybe next time.
The weather should be very comfortable temperatures, with some clouds and an early moonset. Probably be much colder next time. Not looking forward to winter.
Hmmm.
Alarming rise of ‘super-fit’ slim young people suffering heart attacks – as experts reveal theories for the surge
n
@JimB: no problem, hopefully there will be many more chances for both of us.
– except that people, a large number of people got the shot, and a not very large number of people got severe covid… and I’m guessing the number that got severe covid, had heart damage from it, and DIDN”T get the shot is smaller too.
n
“just a few bad apples.”
Didn’t get canned until he used the n word on video…
n
We’ll see who rusts first.
In other news: I bought the hearing aids yesterday. $7k, ouch. But this latest pair they gave me to try are very comfortable and very effective with my odd frequency deficit. For better or worse, I can understand the women in my life a lot better
We need to clarify insurance, in case I lose one, or step on it, or whatever. The seller offers insurance at crazy rates. I expect a rider on our household insurance will be cheaper.
Good night, that is expensive. My parents are both wearing hearing aids that they got from Costco for $2k each pair. Dad’s is real good, Mom’s is ok.
“2024 Electoral College: No Toss-Up States”
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/no-toss-up/electoral-college
281 for Trump / Vance, 257 for Harris / Walz, projection at 33 days out. Has Pennsylvania going to Trump which does not reflect the current polling.
The dockworker strike is over. Clear Channel didn’t even get a good 24 hours to stir the pot about the “shortages”.
I turned off the morning drive show on the big San Antonio station heading to work this morning when they got obnoxious.
I didn’t even bother to turn on Cutie Pie driving home.
Well, I swapped out one of the open shelf units on the patio for a closed metal cabinet. Ran out of daylight so I’ll have to stock it tomorrow, and put all the stuff back.
I found one failed gamma lid on a bucket of flour- it let water in. And one on a bucket of rice, again with the water, but funny thing is the soy sauce smell and the brown rice fermenting at the bottom of the bucket.
Two aquatainers had brittle corners from UV exposure. Not direct sun, but even indirect was enough to break the plastic down. The spout/lid/spigots were shot too. I put the spigot inside the lid, and screw it in, but they crack and fail. Dunno if it’s the chlorine in the water, or just time and bad design.
My storage situation sux dead bunnies. COOL, DARK, and DRY is best.
n
I was going to watch a movie. Phone rang and well, 45 minutes later, it’s too late to start a movie at 7:30.
Tomorrow!
Tonight’s 1.5 mile walk was HOT. No breeze. We are ready for another cool front.
“You stupid bitches,” he said.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/10/03/how-the-just-stop-oil-activists-who-targeted-a-van-gogh-painting-wound-up-in-prison-n3795352
and…
“one hour after the sentencing, another group of Just Stop Oil campaigners did it again.”
Five years mucking out the King’s horse stables would be a good start for this next group.
State and Federal Governments Impeding Hurricane Relief
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/03/state-and-federal-governments-impeding-hurricane-relief-n3795333
As soon as practicable there should be tribunals for military officials, impeachments for government officials at all levels, and massive class action suits from people who lost loved ones.
There should also be a law passed that prohibits people who have been found to have violated their oath of office in failing their duty to protect and serve from ever holding another government position. It should include a provision making pension funds vulnerable assets to class action suits.
–Hung Cao, Republican candidate for Tim (beat-male father of terrorist) Kaine’s Senate seat in virginia
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/10/03/hung-cao-debate-n2645680
I would like very much for this man to guard our lives and liberties as a U.S. Senator.
Has Democrat Fundraising Platform ActBlue Been Caught Redhanded in a ‘Smurfing’ Scam?
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2024/10/03/has-democrat-fundraising-platform-actblue-been-caught-redhanded-in-smurfing-scam-n2180118
What this article does not make clear is that the “different accounts” are phony–people not associated with the donations are being claimed as the donors, and those donors have been shown by investigators to be unaware that their names are being used.
A very simple law would stop this practice dead in the water.
First part is that no donation can be used until it is publicized on a publicly accessible database on the internet. (I’ve advocated this for years)
Second is that when a donor reaches $100 cumulative, and each $500 thereafter, a form is generated and sent to the donor acknowledging to gift and listing the tax status.
Third is that any donor can request a refund withing thiry days of the publication in the publicly accessible database on the internet.
People will learn to check their names on the database very quickly. When the neighbor up the street waves a $500 check around for refund of funds that she never donated (aka “free money”) you can bet the local internet is going to slow to a crawl.
I have a strange deal going on with my wISP. I was paid several months in advance, because I wanted to.
Then he offers deals like “pay your bill today and we will match it or pay however much you want and it will be matched.” Yeah, the stench of a cash flow problem is strong. So, send $500 and it’s matched. So….. after a while of doing this kind of stuff, I have an almost five grand credit balance. Which is like five years of prepaid internet. Hey, his rules….
I’m about to hit 67 (I think) at the end of the month. So, paid up for five years means I ain’t participating in any more special deals.
So he offers me a deal. “Lend me this money, including your credit balance, and I’ll replace your radio with a newer and better radio, and when we get a GB radio on the tower you’ll get another new radio and have 500×500 speed. And no charge for internet forever from right now.”
Sounds good. I have the money and I think he’s good for it. And yeah, I know where he lives. We talked a bit more (this is all on Discord, like mIRC but with memory) (and I have screen shots) and I said add my neighbor to this deal. “Oh, you drive a hard bargain!” Hey man, she’s a poor widow woman.
And while you are there to replace her radio, fix her wi-fi so her Kindle can connect. It’s a bad password somewhere. And that tablet she won at the Christmas party…. She’d kinda like to have that, too.
So he went for the deal. Or I got suckered. Dunno. He says he ordered the new radios today. I don’t know from where, not Big River.
I told all of this to the poor old widow woman and she started laughing . Oh, and she got a pic of the tablet on charge today. So, yeah.
And the fancy PC he needs? Some kind of AMD 24 core with two nVidia cards. He’s doing some AI stuff or something.
I don’t know. I might be getting snowed. But I know where he lives and I have a baseball bat.
@nick
“– except that people, a large number of people got the shot, and a not very large number of people got severe covid… and I’m guessing the number that got severe covid, had heart damage from it, and DIDN”T get the shot is smaller too.”
The argument above (quoted, not @nick’s) is pure b.s.
Young people had no significant risk from Kungflu, so the proper comparison is comparing the risks by age.
“But I know where he lives and I have a baseball bat. ”
And friends that love baseball.
@paul, sometimes it’s worth a bit of risk, to help someone out. As long as you are comfortable with the potential downside… and he doesn’t have a substance abuse problem.
n
I’m trying for an early bed, as I have a lot of driving to do tomorrow…
See ya on the flipside.
n