Cool, or even cold to start the day, then warming later. Yesterday went from 48F to mid 80s. CLear for the next few days too, according to the national forecast. Very pleasant to be outdoors.
Did some stuff at my desk, then got out and got some stuff together for the auctioneer. Took me so long to find the stuff that I missed the close of business. Now I have the stuff on the truck, ready to drop off later today. I want to move as much stuff as I can before people’s buying shifts into Christmas buying. Big picture, I want to sell as much as I can while people still have the money to buy it.
Today I’ve got some auction pickups after I do my drop off. Looking at the invoice, a fair chunk is cookies. That’s followed by makeup/beauty supplies. That stuff is crazy expensive to buy at retail. The rest is household stuff, or for the BOL.
I’ve already begun pulling back, so I figure others must be too. I am not even bidding on stuff I’d have gone after a year ago, if it is far away, or the pickup terms are onerous. I’m dropping out of auctions at lower amounts than I might have last year too. I’m still winning lots, so others are dropping out even earlier. All this is to say that I’m seeing a tightening in spending that is probably more general and widespread if it’s affecting even super bargain shoppers.
It’s also an opportunity. If people are reluctant to spend, the prices will come down and someone who has money and the desire to spend it will be able to get some great bargains. Some good stuff will be selling at fire sale prices. Great news if you’ve got the scratch.
Stack it while you can.
nick
I was to guess, I’d guess that it was a misfire and it hit the ammo stored in and under the hospital.
Live at the beach and your car is done in about five years in Florida, especially on the Gulf side.
Inland is better, but it is hard to escape the marine environment on the Peninsula with the prevailing breeze off the 80+ degree Gulf water all Summer. The I-75 corridor from Brooksville south is “Lightning Capital of the World”.
Ford has (had?) a semi-secret test facility outside Fort Myers going back at least 100 years, when Henry used to Winter in town with Edison and Firestone.
The 2016 Jetta we bought from my wife’s nephew started as a lease in Miami before going to Germany for a couple of years, and it has a fair bit of rust.
The resumption of payments and accruing interest on student loans has been crushing discretionary spending since before the ink was dry on Roberts’ majority opinion about Corn Pop’s forgiveness scheme.
Up until now, the slowdown just affected the arbitraged items like PS5 and OLED Switch consoles or rapper concert tickets, but now, with Christmas already in stores, things are getting serious.
At our house, I wasn’t aware until last week that my wife was offered $10,000 of her paid-off loans back on the premise that the repayment scheme would wipe out the balance had the forgiveness decision gone the other way.
Yeah, the loans and the companies involved are evil.
If the Republicans hold their ground on House Speaker over Ukraine, things will get really bad as the continuing resolution term winds down and the media starts to gen up panic over a shutdown. The RINOs may even cut a deal with the Dems. Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries will arrive early.
Still, the student loans are back and wreaking havoc.
53F this am. Chilly. Very tired today. Would like to be back in bed. Oh well. Would like a lot of things I ain’t gettin’.
n
–pretty hard to make money with stores that get robbed every day.
n
Rite Aid has been in trouble for a very long time for many reasons beyond crime problems.
Being enablers for opioid addicts and “pill mill” clinics is their current big problem as the class action and individual lawsuits get cranked up.
The irony is that they were one of the major corporate chains setting nationwide policy against the pharmacists dispensing the “horse paste” medicine during the pandemic.
Buying what was left of Eckerds from the Canadians didn’t help. The only chain with worse internal management systems than Rite Aid was Eckerds circa the mid
Our President:
Biden points finger at Palestinian groups for Gaza hospital explosion after he lands in Tel Aviv with peace mission in tatters
plugs calls Israel’s enemy “the other team.” Mr. Lynn is right, plugs is there to tell Israel to suck it up. It would not surprise me if plugs offered political refuge to Palestine. At least DeSantis is telling Palestine they get nothing.
Do you really want plugs at the helm of a shooting war? How about two? “Wake me up when we lose half our forces. I’ll make some kind of bumbling speech.”
They’ll keep Corn Pop drugged.
Star Trek “Patterns of Force”. The episode featuring the “Hogan’s Heroes” wardrobe (literally) on Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
We’re living that life imitating art.
I am currently at one of the most expensive stages in life – kids college. I had a good chunk saved up in a 529, and plan on paying for the rest as we go. His full tuition scholarship was a great plus. I’ll end up needing to come up with money for room and board for his senior year and 5th year (MBA). Not a big deal, as I am actively saving that money monthly right now (plus could pull from reserves in an emergency).
The real problem is everything else. We all know how inflation has soared. I’ve found myself in a situation we haven’t been in for 20? years. We really have to watch the spending on basics. Granted, we haven’t altered our retirement, and other savings, but those monthly numbers have essentially stayed static, while everything around us gets more expensive. Add all that to supporting another human in a remote apartment, and wow. I don’t know how households with more that one kid in college do it.
Of course, I’ve made clear to my son that one of the great gifts we are giving him is zero college debt. He kind of understands now, but it will really sink in later.
A lot of big companies and even many small/medium places pay tuition reimbursement for the graduate degree.
If the MBA is a year-long PD program with a steep pricetag, you’re just paying for the credential so it is better let the employer foot the bill for the paper. The “education” is worthless from those since the academic standards are different in Professional Development.
We just had a huge argument at our house about taking on Parent Plus loans or debt in any form regardless of who signs for child #2 to study art at a Fancy Lad school. Yeah, that isn’t happening, especially since we can swing in-state tuition/room/board, “scholarships” are a possibility based on class rank, and the kid has 120 credit hours of tuition on Florida’s Pre-Paid College Plan until she turns 26.
I still have my 69 Chrysler New Yorker, now just as a parts car. I operated it one year in Florida, and it took great effort to protect it from rust. I bought it from Chrysler in Michigan, but immediately took it to Iowa, then Illinois, Florida, and California. I was very familiar with Michigan rust belt corrosion, but Florida was much worse.
I am happy to be away from the rust belt, and will never return. We have different problems here: plastic rot. No place is perfect. Nothing is permanent. My next new car has already been manufactured, and I hope its present owner is treating it well.
From what I hear about the latest cars, I will probably look for older ones. Much older.
I worked with a girl at the tolling company who was excited about Mayor Pete running for President in 2020 and the potential of getting her $200k in Parent Plus loans to attend [the most expensive engineering school in the US] covered by a promise of blanket forgiveness since she decided to slum it at what I estimated to be $60k/year income running our validation tests, a total waste of her pricey education.
“It isn’t fair to ask my dad to pay that much money back.”
No, snowflake, it isn’t. You need to find your bliss elsewhere.
And, yes, she’s still there.
My local Rite Aid is ½ mile away and it is the pharmacy that I use the most and I planned on stopping bye this afternoon. After seeing that they are not on the closure list just know. I am very happy!
Kid asked why I wear clothes from Goodwill, until they literally fall to rags on me, when we own three houses….
Wife pointed out, kinda pointedly, that we own three houses BECAUSE I wear clothes from Goodwill until they’re worn out.
n
(and all the other things that being that thrifty entails.)
Great response. It also shows how helpful it is to have husband and wife on the same page.
On kids and college:
Every one of our daughters had a college investment plan. None of them had any student loans. Three of them have advanced degrees (paid by themselves). Start a plan for your kid. A couple hundred a month managed right will get them a degree. Maybe not some Ivy League hoo-hah degree, but they got the paper, with no debt.
@brad
“As far as the hospital is concerned: it is entirely believable that Hamas would bomb their own hospital, precisely to create outrage against Israel. That wasn’t a misfire. This situation is going to get really, really ugly.”
Agree in principle, but that would presume Hamas has any ability to aim and hit.
the rust belt
– dad worked his whole career in steel mills. Imagine what caked on iron ore dust did to 60s and 70s era American cars, especially when you add road salt.
I think every used car I had as a kid had a floorpan made from cookie sheets or sheet steel cut from old ductwork.
Mom’s 69 Galaxie convertible didn’t last long once dad had to drive it to work…
n
So we’re giving both sides money?
Biden compares Hamas attack to ‘fifteen 9-11s’: President says U.S. will stand by Israel, urges them not be ‘consumed by rage’ and announces $100M in aid to Gaza and the West Bank in Tel Aviv speech
n
Every teen should read The Millionaire Next Door for good perspective. I could have written it when I was that age.
Corn Pop is prepping a $100 Billion request for Ukraine and Israel to go up to Congress as soon as the RINOs finish the kabuki about the new Speaker.
The Dems won’t support another “motion to vacate” unanimously since Israel has the training to utilize pricier weapons systems from the contractor cabal.
The take that I have heard, and that makes sense to me, is that Clinton & Obama cliques are warring behind the back of the increasingly senile Biden.
The Clinton Foundation recently announced operations in Ukraine so they have a lot of graft at stake wrt a continuing fight there. Obamas fondness for various authoritarian muslim states is well known.
I say warring cliques, but they probably struck a deal to loot this country to fund both (with 10% for the Big Guy).
Am I remembering wrong, or did the headlines used to say “$91Million tunnels”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12639229/The-nightmare-300-mile-maze-Hamas-tunnels-standing-way-Israeli-troops-IDF-soldiers-face-bloodbath-hand-hand-combat-terrorists-40ft-deep-Gaza-Metro-rat-run-rigged-booby-traps.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-12639747/300-mile-maze-Hamas-tunnels-standing-way-Israeli-troops.html
Maybe they can use SloJoe’s gift of our tax money to rebuild the tunnels…
n
Unrelated, while waiting for my auction stuff to open up, I thought I’d pop a new psu into that backup pc I bought. I’d swapped its psu into my desktop machine.
I grabbed two psus from my deep stacks, a thermaltake quiet power, and another high end unit.
F-me. One has a motherboard connector that is short 4 pins, and one is missing the additional 4 pin connector that plugs into the mother board separately.
Both are labeled “ATX” power supplies. WTF? When did the standard become not standard?
n
Dell? I know for the longest time they used proprietary ps connectors. I haven’t had the need to touch one though, in, 15? years.
This definitely calls for a “Oh, my sweet Summer child!”
ATX is one of those “standards” that never was, starting with the direction of the airflow.
Also, check the polarity of the connectors. I replaced a PSU and plugged in my existing connector. “Poof!” went 4 large hard drives. Yup – polarity was different, and I should have swapped out the power cable that used the exact same connector. I guess the motherboard had a diode, so at least it didn’t let out the magic smoke.
Intel introduced ATX 3.0 and ATX12VO 2.0 last year. ATX 2.0 adding the four extra pins goes back to … 2004?
All bets are off with the warehouse club machines. God only knows who really makes those.
The situation is akin to “Hunter Fans” sold at Home Depot and Lowe’s.
@nick:
Successive iterations of the standard. Originally a 20 pin main connector with standard pinout, later expanded to 24 pin, with extra pins at one end of the 20 pin connector to allow for (extra?) 3.3 volt rails, and then again for the separate 4 pin 12 volt motherboard power connector.
Curent versions suppress the -5 volt, +5 volt, and 3.3 volt outputs in favour of expanded 12 volt capability, using on-motherboard local regulation for lower voltages.
A 20 pin PSU will plug into a 24 pin motherboard, although it may not support more recent, power-hungry CPUs
I mentioned the 20 pin “standard pinout”. Dell, at one time, violated that standard, by moving pins assignments, which would let the magic smoke out.
The Wikipedia article has details, particularly in the “Power Supply” section.
G.
That book is out of date in places, particularly with regard to education costs and the distortions introduced by the nationalization of the student loan program simultaneously with the rise of popular lottery-funded “scholarships” in many state university systems over the last decade.
The problem with getting a proper update out of the writers is that the book sold so well that they became … millionares!
At the VA today to get my finger, knee and hip checked out. The finger will not fully straighten, and not from uses that come to mind. It is the ring finger on my right hand. Knee still has some clicking which should have dissipated by new. The right hip, same side as the knee, is starting to hurt just sitting.
VA sent me off to another medical facility for X-Rays on all the parts. When I find out something I don’t know.
Last time I used this facility, ordered by the VA, the VA did not pay the bill even though I delivered the bill to them multiple times. The bill was finally sent to collections and that is when I had to come down hard on the local VA office. The bill was finally paid and the collection rescinded and removed from my record.
I also got the flu shot while I was there, but no recommendation of a Covid jab.
@Lynn you’re probably aware of it, but, in case not, have you tried the new windows terminal app? Essentially it gives a tabbed interface to your terminal sessions, each tab can be cmd, powershell, linux (if you use WSL) and you can set the size at startup in the way god intended by defining columns and rows.
Apologies if trying to teach you to suck chicken embryos
Yes, the new Command Prompt app uses that window. Unfortunately, it is fairly buggy, kinda like the rest of Windows 11.
I keep seven Command Prompt windows going at all times. We have our source code scattered in 7,000 text files around a hundred subdirectories. Those seven windows help me keep my thoughts organized, it is not easy.
Why seven windows ? Because it gets crowded with eight. And super crowded with 15 or 20 windows. Yes, I have done this.
We do not use an IDE with our calculation engine, it is one of my goals to move onto one.
My latest gripe about Windoze 11 is that it groups all windows of the same type together in a single icon. That sucks.
Well, that was interesting. A few days ago we got a letter from the city saying they were finally going to be coming through and grinding the stump of the large birch tree they cut down after the ice storm of February 2020. Yesterday morning a couple of trucks showed up with a stump grinder and a small Bobcat like tractor. By noon they had about 2/3 of the stump ground when they cut the cable line, cutting service to a fair number of our neighbors. Xfinity came out with two trucks. There is one of their junction boxes at the corner of our property and it seems that there are at least three lines coming out of it. The tree had been planted over them when the lines were new, just bare cable in the ground then, about 1959, and the roots thoroughly engulfed it, A level of confusion ensued and by 6 pm there were six Xfinity trucks and personnel gathered around the site. Service was restored soon after that by a temporary line crossing the sidewalk to the junction box, with a suitable bump strip protecting it. They will be back, possibly replacing the entire line from the junction box.
Windows Terminal was open source at one point so I’m surprised some bright minds haven’t addressed the issues.
Tyler Durden cowardice protecting someone mainstream unloading on Robert Francis.
$100,000 buys a lot of makeup to give the normally pasty Robert Francis that Kennedy/Addisons look.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inside-time-sbf-accidentally-gave-beto-orourke-1-million-stolen-customer-funds
@geoff, thanks, wrt plugging the 20 in the 24pin hole, any idea which side to be flush with? I’m willing to try.
n
Agree. I haven’t read that book in a while. Many of my treasured sources contain a mix of out of date facts and timeless wisdom. I try to use the wisdom.
I was mainly addressing the frugality and lifestyle choices made by some people in contrast with other people. There were some good examples of people who outwardly seem of ordinary means, but who are actually worth more than might be apparent.
I also remember a 60 Minutes interview with Ray Charles many years ago. It was partly set in his modest apartment, and the interviewer asked him why he didn’t have a more lavish home. Ray said he could only sleep in one bed at a time, eat one meal at a time, etc. That idea has stayed with me.
I suspect ol’ Ray had at least one fancier pad, but that is less memorable for such a guy.
Maybe they can use SloJoe’s gift of our tax money to rebuild the tunnels…
Why not ? Hamas pried up the water pipes out of the ground that the EU paid hundreds of millions to have installed and used those for rocket launchers and rocket bodies. Hamas is evil to the max, there is no middle ground here. When you destroy infrastructure to throw it at your neighbor, you are evil.
Well, that was interesting. A few days ago we got a letter from the city saying they were finally going to be coming through and grinding the stump of the large birch tree they cut down after the ice storm of February 2020. Yesterday morning a couple of trucks showed up with a stump grinder and a small Bobcat like tractor. By noon they had about 2/3 of the stump ground when they cut the cable line, cutting service to a fair number of our neighbors. Xfinity came out with two trucks. There is one of their junction boxes at the corner of our property and it seems that there are at least three lines coming out of it. The tree had been planted over them when the lines were new, just bare cable in the ground then, about 1959, and the roots thoroughly engulfed it, A level of confusion ensued and by 6 pm there were six Xfinity trucks and personnel gathered around the site. Service was restored soon after that by a temporary line crossing the sidewalk to the junction box, with a suitable bump strip protecting it. They will be back, possibly replacing the entire line from the junction box.
Gotta love Xfinity (Comcast). When one line fails just run a new one. I have three XXXX four Xfinity buried cables in my backyard now after the sprinkler installation in July. I would like to pull the old buried cables with my F-150 but I am nervous.
The problem is that the buried cable marker people have no idea which line is the active line. They just mark the first buried cable they find. You gotta love it.
@nick:
My first comment was (slightly) wrong – the 24 pin has extra 12 volt pins, so you want to left-justify the connectors. The retaining clip should be on the same side – in fact, the clip may well engage with its partner on the other, mating half. Compare the pin diagrams for 20- and 24- pin on the right side of the Wkipedia page.
Look at the motherboard connector – with the retaining clip away from you, the 20-pin cable connector should be inserted onto the leftmost pins.
G.
Windows Terminal was open source at one point so I’m surprised some bright minds haven’t addressed the issues.
My experience with software written in India has not been good.
The book definitely has merit, but, IIRC, it recommended spending big on education for the kids which needs to be carefully considered these days.
When I worked with the product of [the most expensive engineering school in the US], I thought that she did the job well, but I believe that had more to do with the person than the quality of her education. At the tolling company, we didn’t come close to touching her specialization for which the parents will spend the rest of their lives paying at this point.
Strange thing is they make such bloody good
camerasCS YouTube videos.— Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.
There is a setting for that. GIYF.
There is a setting for that. GIYF.
I figured as much but I have not found it yet. It seems that there is zero carryover from Windows 10. They touched everything and made a point of violating the old Windows Design Guidelines as much as possible.
How to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11
“Microsoft Needs to Get Serious About Its Windows 10 Upgrade Problem”
https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-problem
“By October 2025, more than a billion PCs will be running a dead operating system, leaving many computers vulnerable to malware or headed for the trash. What’s Microsoft going to do about it?”
My prediction is that MS will do nothing.
How to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11
Thanks !
Yup, no got that option here.
Gaza hospital: First, never believe ANYTHING from Hamas. Most of it is lies, and the rest are exaggerations and distortions
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1714535497958334678
This photo analysis suggests that the hospital itself wasn’t hit, because it is mostly intact, with few signs of explosions and no visible craters. But there is a substantial burned area in the parking lot adjacent to the hospital, and some relatively minor damage to the roof of the hospital and some nearby buildings. The video of the rocket launch suggests that the rocket broke up in flight and that parts of the debris rained down on/near the hospital. This person suggests that the damage to the hospital was caused by falling burning rocket fuel.
How to ungroup taskbar icons in Windows 11
Thanks !
Yup, no got that option here.
I checked Windows Updates. No updates waiting so I am not destined to get that reverted feature yet.
Re: ungrouping system/taskbar icons
I have Windows 11 version 22H2, and don’t see that grouping setting in Taskbar Behaviors.
Not that I’d want to ungroup the icons. If I have multiple items open for an application (like multiple Word docs), I can just hover the mouse over the Word icon on the taskbar and see the individual documents windows. Same for File Explorer. That works for me.
Windows 11 was about making Hollywood happy at a time when streaming was the most important thing in the world and the previous versions of Windows have vulnerable graphics stacks which enable Torrent-based piracy.
Microsoft could relent on requiring secure boot and TPM, but the DirectX level requirement would still be an issue.
Linux users will have their pick of systems which are still very capable machines.
Re: ungrouping system/taskbar icons
I have Windows 11 version 22H2, and don’t see that grouping setting in Taskbar Behaviors.
Not that I’d want to ungroup the icons. If I have multiple items open for an application (like multiple Word docs), I can just hover the mouse over the Word icon on the taskbar and see the individual documents windows. Same for File Explorer. That works for me.
I suspect that the ungrouping icons on the taskbar is a Windows 23H2 feature. Which has yet to be released unless you are in the Insider program. After alpha testing Windows 92 XX 93 XX 94 XX 95 and beta testing Windows this and that, I am not getting back on that horse.
Windows 11 was about making Hollywood happy at a time when streaming was the most important thing in the world and the previous versions of Windows have vulnerable graphics stacks which enable Torrent-based piracy.
Hollyweird will never be happy. Half of them are getting top surgeries and the other half are getting breast implants.
Did something happen to Teri Garr?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9hXd7ve-9A
The inability to ungroup icons on the taskbar and the godawful window borders and scroll bars are two of win 10’s (and 11’s) worst features.
Microsoft says that this feature is ‘upcoming’.
But there are third-party apps you might try out: StartAllBack or TaskbarX. These apps allow you to customize many aspects of the taskbar, including the ability to ungroup icons.
I have not tried these apps. I’m happy with how the taskbar works (after I changed the display of icons to be left-justified from the default centered).
I have not tried these apps. I’m happy with how the taskbar works (after I changed the display of icons to be left-justified from the default centered).
I find it hilarious that MS did not provide a right justified option for the icons. I guess that MS does not care about the people who read right to left (Aramaic, Hebrew, etc ).
The inability to ungroup icons on the taskbar and the godawful window borders and scroll bars are two of win 10’s (and 11’s) worst features.
Yes. But Win 10 did allow you to group / ungroup the icons. And the scrollbars are so small, looks like someone who likes skinny ties.
And FireFox v 118 has disappearing scrollbars after six seconds. What are they smoking in Mozilla Central ? That absolutely makes no sense.
And don’t get me started on Thunderbird using the “compact” density for the groups and messages. I swear that the text is overlapping on each line.
I have 22H2 and I have the feature. The key is the “…scroll to the bottom….” instruction. It involves expanding several sub-panels in order to keep scrolling past more options.
Dear Ms. Haley,
When you lead the Palestinians ashore to America, please do so on a beach with good sight lines.
–Asking for 10,000 Friends
I use StartAllBack because the icon grouping slows me down. Also, the Start button belongs on the left side, the center position is heresy.
Cost something like $6. Worth it.
Sponge Brain just looks, and acts, like a senile, confused, old man that should be considering hospice. I suspect the many doctors dedicated to his care are just barely able to keep Spongey vertical.
When Trump was president he was on the news every day. Spongey may go two, sometimes three, days without being on the news. I suspect Spongey’s handlers have a lot to do with the news absence.
That reminds me – a new Waffle House is being built not far from the office, just across the tollway.
Got a letter from CVS Health Clinical Trial Services trying to recruit my daughter for a mRNA trial vaccine program. cytomegalovirus CMV.
“Did you know that CMV stays in the body for life? And at certain times, such as pregnancy, it can reactivate and be passed to unborn children.”
–so they want me to give my kid some mRNA experimental vax in case she sometime might be infected, and sometime might have it be ‘reactivated’ and maybe passed along.
HARD NO.
n
I’m going to write a grant application to develop experimental techniques to “reactivate” the ethical standards in doctors and health officials that seem to have gone dormant under the onslaught of the Chinese bioweapon and woke insanities.
I have a prototype sketch of the experimental hardware but it needs to be refined a bit. I’m told it looks too much like the old ECT devices crossed with a device from Tango and Cash.
“Did you know that CMV stays in the body for life?”
So does 230 gr of 45 ACP.
>> I have 22H2 and I have the feature.
More info:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11s-new-never-combine-icons-feature-is-almost-usable/#:~:text=Today%2C%20those%20users%20who%20have,Moment%204%20update%20released%20today.
>> Got a letter from CVS Health Clinical Trial Services trying to recruit my daughter for a mRNA trial vaccine program. cytomegalovirus CMV.
“Did you know that CMV stays in the body for life? And at certain times, such as pregnancy, it can reactivate and be passed to unborn children.”
–so they want me to give my kid some mRNA experimental vax in case she sometime might be infected, and sometime might have it be ‘reactivated’ and maybe passed along.
HARD NO.
@nick, don’t you already have both kids signed up for the Convent? 🙂
And btw, is there a legit reason CVS knows you have a daughter?
And btw, is there a legit reason CVS knows you have a daughter?
– It was addressed to the parent or guardian of [D1’s real name]. IDK if CVS is where my wife took them when they got the shot, we don’t get prescriptions filled there. I’ll be asking her that tomorrow.
To answer the question, no there is no reason for them to have her name and address, or to offer her a chance to be experimented on.
n
>> Sponge Brain just looks, and acts, like a senile, confused, old man that should be considering hospice. I suspect the many doctors dedicated to his care are just barely able to keep Spongey vertical.
Did anyone else happen to see Plugs standing with the accompanying press on AF1 today answering questions? At one point he stops in the middle of his response and he goes into a blank stare (ala McConnell) for about seven seconds before he ‘tunes back in?’ Scary.
Starts at 4:49 in this clip… https://www.c-span.org/video/?531237-1/president-biden-speaks-press-aboard-air-force