Warmer, and damp but maybe not wet. It was misty,drippy and grey most of Sunday, but it did get a little bit of blue sky before dusk. I’m hoping the blue was a harbinger of today’s weather. But if not, I’ll deal.
Spent yesterday casually doing stuff around the house. I was poking at my office cleanup, watching some auctions close, putting Christmas decor away, and half a dozen other things. W did get the tree stripped and the bins loaded for the attic. I put them away at the end of the day. It’s opened up the foyer and living room… and if I can get some of my auction stuff out of here it will open up even more. That’s the goal anyway.
Today I’ll be on the phone making some appointments, if I can. I’ll be trying to get an auction set up too. And I might head south to do a pickup, so that I don’t have to go in opposite directions tomorrow. I’m sure some domestic bliss will happen too. Then it’s a kid pickup in the middle of the afternoon, and the other kid in early evening. I have to build my schedule around that. Finally, if it’s dry enough, I’ll get the last of the outdoor decor down. Or maybe I’ll go back to bed, and spend the day reading. Probably not.
There is always work to be done, and preps to be stacked.
So I’ll get to work, stacking.
nick
Stocking Up
The old tropes are the best tropes…
Year round decor? You must not live in an HOA.
@jenny, that sounds like more than just “strong winds”…
@mediumwave, we call them “the french toast people”.
“year round decor?” – warning to our foes!
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42F this morning. coffee is on the way. Lunch is packed. Extra treats in the bag for the band practice this afternoon.
n
Blue Origin scrubbed…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14277649/blue-origin-rocket-jeff-bezos-live-updates-new-glenn.html
n
I am a huge fan of what SpaceX has accomplished. And they will undoubtedly continue to do great things for a few more years. However.
I really wish Blue Origin would get their buns in gear – that scrub is not a great sign. In the absence of meaningful competition, SpaceX will ossify in a few years.
SpaceX has an IPO planned for this year, and Elon needs more distractions from the decline in sales at TSLA as the EV market continues to shrink in the US.
We went to a local pizza place near the house which is popular with Show Ya, and we saw two newly coronated garage queen Broncos, complete with TX temp tags, sitting just a car space apart from each other in the parking lot.
Nice day. A little cold. The neighbor had their Queen Bronco out of the throne room.
Puerto Rico would be the case study for citizenship in territories acquired which were not automatically on the path to statehood. Congress had to eventually get involed to settle questions of citizenship with the territory since the intent of the US to make it a state has never been clear.
Trump’s joke about making Canada the 51st state may mean they get US citizenship on Day One, but the people there may not want to trade their free-as-in-beer healthcare for the sometimes-free-as-in-speech system in the US.
Canada would have to be really dumb, to join the US:
The same for Greenland, if for different reasons. The main reason that some Greenlanders are unhappy belonging to Denmark, is because they would rather be an independent nation. The majority are Inuit, and are unhappy about their historical treatment. Joining the US would not improve either of those issues.
IMHO, the blather about Canada is just nonsense. The blather about Greenland may be because Trump wants to expand the US military presence in the North Sea, which is something the US could probably just purchase.
Eggs this morning @ Wally Market #10.96 /18 AA lrg.
And the case was loaded.
Tahoe Joe’s advertising $4.99 /dz brown pasture fed large. Not worth the extra miles.
Food costs keep rising.
@Greg
Year round decor? You must not live in an HOA.
After reading my rabbit shenanigan, could you imagine me in an HOA? Heh. No way.
@Nick
“Strong winds” is how virtually everyone is describes it when the wind gets feisty. We are masters of understatement. The power outages are wide spread enough this morning that public schools are closed. Our child’s school is open. The temps are ridiculously warm yesterday, today. In the 40’s F. So much thaw. It’s a real mess as the run off has nowhere to go with the ground frozen solid. Pooling that’ll turn into ice in a few days when the temps drop again.
The fancy Shelter Logic I use as a rabbitry did great with the winds. I was down there last night and though I was buffeted as I made my gingerly way down the hill, once I entered the shelter the wind wasn’t noticeable other than as a roar. Flung me around walking back and forth but rock steady inside.
Really glad we upgraded. It was winds like this that ripped our other two shelters off the ground at the old place, sent them skyborn, then wedged them between the house and other stuff.
Last time I remember this combo of wet and strong wind was 2012. Trees down all over town and a lot of damage.
Glad we seem to have escaped catastrophe at our home.
Canada has the housing prices of New York (avg. 450K USD) the wages of Mississippi (avg. $39,500 USD/yr) the economy of Alabama (Real GDP $47k USD per person) and taxes higher than all 50 US states.
But lots of polar bears.
And the population of California,.
n
@jenny, glad to hear you are good.
n
Houston Police evidence room infested with ‘drug-addicted’ rats to be cleared out.
“We got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying,” the Houston mayor said.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-drug-rats-evidence-20027356.php
Sir, we disposed of the evidence. By burning it.
n
Bongs for everyone!!!
“ANN COULTER: The military that cried ‘White supremacy’”
https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/ann-coulter-the-military-that-cried-white-supremacy/article_ce27e03b-594b-50a3-94f3-de89339ab21b.html
“In retrospect, maybe the military should have spent a little less time worrying about “White supremacists” and paid more attention to Black Muslims. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, an Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who happened to be a Black Muslim, slaughtered 14 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans last week.”
“For the past four years, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and President Biden have warned about the looming threat of White supremacy amid constant references to Jan. 6 — but not to BLM, in which police officers actually died. Apart from getting more girls and transgenders into the military, it seems like rooting out “White supremacists” has become the military’s full-time job. (Proposed new U.S. Marines’ slogan: “We’re looking for a few good men … who think they’re women.”)”
“Biden, repeatedly: “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from White supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaida — White supremacists.””
How did we get to be this racist and incompetent ?
Sometime in the last ~ 20 years.
At the “Blues Brothers” screening in Round Rock last week, I was the only one laughing at the scenes inside the Illinois Nazis’ … clubhouse?
The Chez Paul scene also wasn’t impressing the crowd except for the slapstick with the shrimp cocktail.
“How much for your women? We want to buy them.”
Crickets chirping.
Ok. I have the quote wrong. Not a peep in the theater except for when the boys played with the shrimp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLUiK2lbN2s