Cooler and overcast with a chance of thunderstorms. That’s from the national forecast. Local calls for clouds, north of here is calling for clouds. Where the totality is is likely to be covered with clouds. It’s a cruel universe that sets up a compete solar eclipse and then hides it from us.
Spent yesterday avoiding work. Cut the whole back yard for the first time this year. Some of the weeds were 5 ft tall. Had to use the string trimmer first, then follow up with the mower to mulch and level everything out. That took a good long time. Then I blew the debris back onto the lawn and used the mower to mulch them, and since I had the blower out, I blew all the leaves in the front yard too. The lawn guys tend to blow the leaves toward the house, where we have some plantings. There used to be bushes there, and sometimes mulch. Not so much anymore. But they don’t like picking up leaves so they blow them there, as if they were mulch.
Took a while to blow all the accumulation out onto the grass and then use the mower to mulch it. It was dark when I finished up.
All that to avoid setting traps in the attic for whatever creature is scrabbling around up there. I’m convinced it’s possums using the soffits to move around. I don’t see any obvious evidence in the attic proper, and nothing is eating the rat bait. I’ll set the traps today, if we don’t got searching for the eclipse.
Wife is convinced we should head to the BOL and onward into the path of the moon’s shadow. But she’s also convinced that it will be poor weather. So there is conflict in her soul about leaving early today to try to make a viewing location in time. We didn’t leave last night, because of the weather forecast, but if things change… I won’t have to put the traps in the attic.
[man, my writing is disjointed and choppy at 2am]
I’m up for the road trip if she decides to go. Otherwise, I’ve got plenty to do.
IF we stay home, I’ll be doing all the stuff I’ve been shirking for the last week. And dropping off auction stuff, if I can.
Oh, and shopping if I get the time, because this stuff won’t stack itself. Join me?
nick
There will be stickers on all future sales along with a paragraph in the sales contract. There are a lot of “Stupid People” stickers on many products.
No eclipse viewing here, clouds all day with possible rain.
@Lynn
New “mayhem like me” insurance commercial yesterday with Larry Bird.
73F and overcast at tthe moment.
n
I figure I was about 10 when people explained to me why riding in a moving trailer is a bad idea.
But then, doctors are smarter than us and have all the answers and arenever wrong, about anything. Just ask them.
Today’s forecast says “Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Patchy fog between 10am and 11am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 80.”
Yesterday it was “Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm.”
Foggy this morning while walking the dogs. It looks like it’s clearing.
Don’t open the door while an Airstream is in motion. The aero design creates a suction that will pull all the people out and the air along with them, creating a perfect vacuum that will then manifest zero-point energy and open doors to other dimensions.
Cats, of course, are immune.
So true. So very, very true.
Call Dr. Buckaroo Banzai at BR5-49.
High end pediatric specialist doctor in a teaching hospital. Plus, early X-er female.
They do have all of the answers.
(Sarcasm)
That’s too bad about the doctor and Airstream trailer.
It reminds me that used to call the Beech Bonanza V-tail’s “Doctor Killers”.
As another pilot explained it to me, doctors were smart enough to get their pilots license, wealthy enough to afford a fancy plane with all the gadgets … and too arrogant to know their limits.
The number one cause of aircraft accidents is pilot error.
studies of medical errors have estimated errors may account for as many as 251,000 deaths annually in the United States (U.S)., making medical errors the third leading cause of death.
But we need to trust doctors implicitly.
OMG. I’m in small town Indiana where the demographics are 93% white and people speak English.
About to set out on a walk to a park where there will be live music, and the skies are clearing.
I forgot what this feels like, since I moved to Texas 10 years ago.
Is it possible you are in Willoughby?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Stop_at_Willoughby
One of my favorite episodes on so many levels. The Twilight Zone covers such breadth, from truly terrifying to quaint from today’s perspective.
Are you sure you are in Indiana and not Ohio? Do you have a one-way ticket? Just checking…
New Orleans was a bit of an adjustment last week since the city has not surrendered the core business and tourism districts to the homeless on the same scale as Austin.
Homeless were around, sleeping where they could, but none had tents.
Modern medical practice is like a hardware store, with apologies to Forrest Gump. Old fashioned hardware stores contain some of nearly everything, from items that solve problems on an almost miraculous level to very dangerous things. It is up to the customer, sometimes helped by the proprietor, to be informed and choose wisely.
We’re still solid overcast with a very light rain. No eclipse for us.
n
As expected, no eclipse viewing by me in SA. It is darker, but overcast so I can’t use the Dwarf II.
Sponge Brain was told the moon would cover the sun. He then said that he did not know Hillary’s ass was that big.
Had a moment when it was darker outside. My neighbors were in the street with their glasses and said there was an instant when it cleared enough to see the sun. I missed it.
Oh well.
n
Well, our (San Antonio) eclipse was a bust. Just a few seconds of “Sun peeking through the clouds” occasionally about 5 minutes pre-totality, then solid clouds as it got quite dark AT totality. Our solar-powered driveway lights switched on, and then turned off as the sky started to get brighter. A disappointment for our last total eclipse, although we’ve seen others.
We had clear skies, but only 83% of an eclipse. I drove to the totality zone in 2017, but decided not to this time. Though, I did go outside with everyone else and stared at the sky with my disposable eclipse glasses. It was very… eclipsical.
A doctor is only as good as the support staff, and most of the people working in a typical private practice office might have a semester or two of community college beyond high school but that’s it.
We were in the totality zone here in North Austin, and the clouds momentarily broke enough to see the full ring. My wife took a few pictures.
Pretty cool show even if it was brief.
We had a 47% eclipse here in the Mojave Desert. My office is in a windowless room in our basement, but there is a bit of light that comes through an open doorway. That balances with the room lighting, so any dimming from clouds or eclipses is noticeable. The sky was clear.
Going outside, the dimming was hardly noticeable. I used some pinholes and a couple of lenses to view the moon’s bite out of the sun. Ironically, a crude “pinhole” made with my fingers and thumb worked better than more formal implements. The longest focal length lens I have is about 20”, and its image of the sun is so bright that the bite was not visible. The best distance with the pinholes was about 4-6 feet.
Last October’s eclipse was 75% here, so there was very noticeable dimming, even while outside. I had forgotten about it, but saw it from my office. Much more dramatic than this year. I have seen a total eclipse, and it was stunning.
“Houston father sues Hindu temple for branding his son in religious ritual”
https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/texas-hindu-temple-brands-boy-19390766.php
“The 11-year-old’s father is suing a a Texas Hindu temple claiming its guru permanent scarred his son and left him “sad, mad scared, frustrated, and betrayed.””
Child sacrifices to Baal should be occurring soon.
BTW, I have been in this temple. An employee took me there for lunch one day about 15 years ago and we got a tour. In our socks.
@Lynn
New “mayhem like me” insurance commercial yesterday with Larry Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrbPVsQB3vw
Never turn down the chance to make a few bucks. And, to get your name back out there in the public. Even if Larry Bird is worth $75 million.
The clouds cleared up here. Solid clouds to clear sky. The various noisy birds got quiet for a bit but they are back out in force singing for sex. Penny was with me and seemed to wonder why are we here and what happened to supper.
As it got dark a flock of six buzzards flew over. I think they nest in the old growth cedar trees we have. I see them coming from that direction when walking the dogs in the morning.
I have polarized sunglasses. Wear a pair and hold the other pair in front and rotate to control the brightness. The clouds made a huge difference.
I got to see a total eclipse. From my yard.
A cool day.
Here in the California high Desert it was clear, and I found a place to sit out of the north wind with my eclipse glasses and a pair of Lunt 8x Sunoculars I bought a while back.
At totality there was noticeable dimming, but not enough to send the animals to their beds.
There was a large sunspot near the center of the disc that never quite got covered by the moon, and a lesser sunspot that was covered and then uncovered nearer the limb.
A friend in Maine texts that it is about half covered now.
New Orleans was a bit of an adjustment last week since the city has not surrendered the core business and tourism districts to the homeless on the same scale as Austin.
Homeless were around, sleeping where they could, but none had tents.
One of my lasting memories of New Orleans is stepping around a passed out drunk on Bourbon Street, laying in his own throwup. We were heading over to get some beignets, that took some bloom off the rose.
“Tesla robotaxis: Wall Street weighs in on Elon Musk’s latest gambit”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-robotaxis-wall-street-weighs-in-on-elon-musks-latest-gambit-181643531.html
“Musk’s announcement of Tesla’s Robotaxi after the bell on Friday followed a Reuters report that Tesla had canceled plans to build a long-awaited sub-$30,000 EV, which some have called the Model 2. Reuters said that Tesla would instead focus on a self-driving robotaxi, with Musk responding on X that Reuters was “lying (again),” before returning to the platform later to announce the unveiling of the robotaxi, generally understood to have no steering wheel or pedals. It’s still an open question whether Tesla will eventually unveil a low-cost EV.”
Run for your lives ! Wild cars on the loose !
Just wait until the master computer decides to rebel and kill off nasty humanity. Yes, there is a book, “Day Zero”.
https://www.amazon.com/Day-Zero-C-Robert-Cargill/dp/0062405810?tag=ttgnet-20/
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More time to edit would be nice.
As for old growth cedar trees, if you have seen houses with cedar porch posts, that’s the kind of trees I have. The 8 to 10 inch posts are not cheap.
Harvesting might be a problem for a few reasons. Access being one problem.
“New Paper Finds Effect of Human-Caused Carbon Emissions on Climate is “Non-Discernible””
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/08/fresh-science-challenges-unproven-claims-that-human-caused-carbon-dioxide-controls-climate/
“Every now and then, a giant of modern science should be allowed to express himself in language that we all understand. In the informative Climate: The Movie, the 2022 Nobel physics laureate Dr. John Clauser thundered: “I assert there is no connection whatsoever between climate change and CO2 – it’s all a crock of crap, in my opinion.” While not expressing himself in such forthright terms, the Greek scientist Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis might agree. He recently published a paper that argues it is the recent expansion of a more productive biosphere that has led to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and greening of the Earth. It is widely argued that changing atmospheric carbon isotopes prove that most if not all recent warming is caused by the 4% human contribution from burning hydrocarbons, but such anthropogenic involvement is dismissed by Koutsoyiannis as “non-discernible”. Koutsoyiannis is Professor Emeritus of Hydrology and Analysis of Hydrosystems at the National Technical University of Athens.”
I totally agree. The energy and material balance around Earth is not solvable to any degree of precision. The energy and material balance around the Solar System is totally incomprehensible.
I think that very few people comprehend the total hell that the greenie MBAs in the White House and EPA are getting ready to put us through.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
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More time to edit would be nice.
Fixed !
“Will the ‘Invisible Hand’ Finally Stop Doctors From Putting Kids on Experimental Gender Drugs?”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/08/will-invisible-hand-finally-stop-doctors-putting-kids-experimental-gender-drugs/
“NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Doctors across the country have seemingly thrown caution to the wind, prescribing experimental drugs to block puberty and to chemically alter young people’s bodies in the name of a nebulous gender identity. Rising rates for medical malpractice insurance may cause them to think twice, however.”
““Clinics that are getting into this kind of work … were surprised at the rates they were being quoted for malpractice insurance,” Latham Watts, vice president of public affairs at the nonprofit law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, told “The Daily Signal Podcast.””
““Some of the quotes they were getting back were five times what they were expecting, and those rates continue to rise,” Watts explained in an interview at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in February.”
Yup, it is all about money. The doctors thought that they had a group of people to fleece.
Um, the “fools” or “commies”, your choice, that yell about global warming and stuff….. ya know, it was pushing 80f before the eclipse and it cooled off enough that I thought I might want my windbreaker jacket.
It’s not CO2 controlling the climate.
Not Willoughby.
Girlfriend and I walked around the town and commented that it looked just like many of the old Texas county seat towns, only this one isn’t dead. Not necessarily thriving, but holding its own. It has some tourist attractions and some active businesses.
Weather was perfect. We saw the whole eclipse. Totatlity lasted 3+ minutes and was glorious.
I used the app on my phone recommended by Destin, the Smarter Every Day youtuber. It was a great help.
Birds reacted as predicted, shadows went wonky, temperature dropped 9 degrees F. Yes, we brought a thermometer, doesn’t everyone? There was a breeze before. Streetlights came on.
It was definitely worth the travel.
The live music was…. interesting. A country-rock band out of Evansville. They re-interpreted some Skynyrd and Allman tunes in their own fashion.
“China Offers To Send 100,000 Soldiers To Taiwan To Assist With Earthquake Cleanup”
https://babylonbee.com/news/china-offers-to-send-100000-soldiers-to-taiwan-to-assist-with-earthquake-cleanup
“BEIJING — In what the media hailed as an inspiring show of international diplomacy and compassion, China offered to send 100,000 soldiers to Taiwan to assist with earthquake cleanup.”
“Following a devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake, the Chinese government graciously reached out to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to inform her that China had 100,000 soldiers ready and waiting to enter the country to help with rescue efforts.”
“”We are here for you,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a statement. “We see that you are in a very weakened and vulnerable state following this unfortunate earthquake and would like to extend an offer to send an inva — er, excuse me, search and rescue force including 100,000 highly trained military personnel to help you clean up the mess. Don’t mind the fact that they will be carrying fully automatic weapons and shouting angrily at civilians. These are only precautions.””
Oh my goodness.
“Israeli Officials Express Optimism Over Cease-Fire Talks With Hamas”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/israeli-officials-express-optimism-over-114906087.html
and
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news-04-07-2024-5257a90302686de80788469f74aab40c
It has been six months since Oct 7, 2023. I doubt that any more of the hostages are still alive.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“Best Buy’s Geek Squad Hit With Massive Layoffs”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/best-buys-geek-squad-hit-with-massive-layoffs
“One laid-off employee said he hadn’t been scheduled for 40 hours a week since last year.”
Are we going to lose Best Buy now ?
I have been buying all of my appliances lately from Home Depot though.
I’ve posted before about the breakneck pace at which construction was proceeding on the two new childrens hospital complexes near my house until Abbott signed the bill banning “affirmation” care for minors in Texas.
You could almost hear the sound effect of the coyote attempting to screech to a halt before hurtling over the cliff.
Given the names on the building, I doubt either hospital expected interference from Austin. I wonder what changed last year … well, other than the Republicans needing a distraction from the property tax increase they put on the ballot in November.
My GP’s office is supposedly where the Governor goes to see one of the partners, and the magazines in the waiting room are … interesting.
I sort of figure any doctor wanting to mutilate a kid because of “gender problems” needs to have the operations personally themselves. First. You know, Voice of Experience and all that. Get your double mastectomies aka zipper tits and get castrated along with all of the drugs.
I also sort of figure any doctors and the parents pushing this on children need to go to jail for a long long time as protective custody because once the kid sorts their head out they would be murdered. Assuming the kid doesn’t go insane and suicide first.
Best Buy was heavily dependent on the student loan payment moratorium continuing to remain in business. The weekend after the Supreme Court decision, all three previously unobtainium major game consoles were suddenly on the shelf with “Easy Financing Terms” signs.
A interest-free year on an OLED Switch? Seriously?
$90 Billion annually going MIA is going to hurt a lot of businesses.
Losing Best Buy wouldn’t be like losing Sears. Go back 25 years and Sears could dictate appliance designs.
Wait, what new Pravda and Ivesta and NYT propaganda is this?
Why would you deal at all with the charming folks that declared “from the river to the sea Palestine must be free”.
That’s pretty much a “kill all the jews” declaration.
I think the cure is for Israel to buy an island. Madagascar and Ceylon come to mind. Then move the Wailing Wall and other important landmarks ala London Bridge to Arizona. Glass what remains.
It’s not going to happen. I know that. They like to fight each other.
I’ve never cared for Best Buy. Over-priced with a lot of FU attitude from the pompous idiot help.
It’s sort of like Macys versus J C Penny’s. I shopped both but Circuit City got my money almost every time.
I think the cure is for Israel to buy an island. Madagascar and Ceylon come to mind. Then move the Wailing Wall and other important landmarks ala London Bridge to Arizona. Glass what remains.
It’s not going to happen. I know that. They like to fight each other.
Cyprus. That ought to get the Greeks blood flowing.
I am fairly sure that if the Jews thought that they could kill all of the Palestinians, they would.
BTW, there are two million Palestinians living peacefully in Israel that vote and have jobs. I wonder what the difference is.
“I broke up with my console. Now it’s my Ex-Box. It wasn’t anything personal, I just felt like it was time for a switch.”
Dad Joke from Borepatch.
I wonder what the difference is.
–spies. embedded saboteurs. Or just not particularly political or religious.
n
“The EPA’s Phase-Out of Gas-Powered Cars Has Ominous Historic Echoes”
https://thelibertydaily.com/epas-phase-gas-powered-cars-has-ominous-historic/
“(AIER)—The Biden administration last week rolled out new emissions regulations that the New York Times said will “transform the American automobile market.””
“In what the paper called “one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is mandating that a majority of new passenger vehicles sold in America be hybrids or EVs by 2032.”
“The Biden administration and defenders of the policy argue that the EPA’s regulation is “not a ban” on gas-powered cars, since carmakers are not prohibited from producing gas-powered vehicles. Instead, automakers are required to meet a government-mandated “average emissions limit” across their entire vehicle line, to force them to produce more EVs and fewer gas-powered cars”
“Forcing automobile companies to expand production of their least-profitable product lines at the expense of their best-performing ones is economic madness. It calls to mind collectivized agricultural policies in the Soviet Union, where central planners embraced the worst farming methods.”
That is not a pleasant comparison to Stalin forcing the end of family farms to collective farms in the 1930s. That did not go very well.
I wonder what the difference is.
–spies. embedded saboteurs. Or just not particularly political or religious.
n
Or educated, literate individuals not bound to a fake religion of violence.
Last Monday, I drove from Austin to just outside Baton Rouge in the Camry, with enough gas left in the tank to push on to New Orleans with ~50 miles to spare. Since we had a trip to Oak Alley planned for the next day, however, I made sure to fill up before heading to the hotel.
47 MPG. 600 miles of range on the highway. Conventional 2.5 L engine, no hybrid or turbo.
I’m not sure what additional efficiency could be wrung out of the current TNGA platform by making the 2025 Camry hybrid only, but Toyota has no choice but to try.
Secular Israel is a much more appealing place to live than many of the theocracies in the Middle East.
Sighting of sanity:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/04/08/college-athletics-association-bans-trans-women-from-competing-against-biological-women-n3786151
One of the minor things I did today was try to reset a tablet I’ve had for a while. No wall wart, and it’s a very small barrel plug, so it stayed untested, sitting in my office. I finally found a power brick so I charged it up.
Did the “clear /cache, factory reset” but when I fire it up it phones home and wants a log in from a google account that had previously synced to it. in other words, despite a “factory” reset, something about the device is retained, or it is designed to check with the mothership, and I can’t use it. All the online help stops after resetting to factory. Nothing talks about setting up a new account or being unable to use it after…
It’s a Smartab ST1009, and google says “We noticed a new sign-in to your Google Account on a Southern Telecom ST1009 device” when I tried to use my own google account on it.
does anyone know if this means it’s locked to a carrier? Or know a way to really reset the thing so I can use it?
n
It’s a Smartab ST1009, and google says “We noticed a new sign-in to your Google Account on a Southern Telecom ST1009 device” when I tried to use my own google account on it.
does anyone know if this means it’s locked to a carrier? Or know a way to really reset the thing so I can use it?
You are braver than me. I would have never put my email address and password into it. Unless, you used a throwaway email address.
You can buy a refurbished Smartab ST1009 at Walmart for $50:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Southern-Telecom-ST1009XBK-Smartab-with-WiFi-10-1-2-in-1-Touchscreen-Tablet-Refurbished/56107069
It says that it is 32 GB, wifi (no provider needed), and 3G/4G (provider needed).
You did the factory reset from the recovery screen? That should wipe everything.
Google Marshmallow stopped receiving security updates in 2017. If you side load F-Droid and can install/run Fennec and K-9 Mail from the repository, you probably have a usable toy which merits further experimentation, but I still wouldn’t suggest using the tablet on the road on public WiFi.
If you’re willing to take the privacy hit from Google, the 8″ Samsung Galaxy Tab is a deal at ~ $100-120, and it can run just about anything from the Play store.
I still use a 7″ Kindle Fire as a media device for travel, however. If it was stolen or broken, I’d only be out $50. Plus, the 7″ still has a standard headphone jack … or did.
Dang. I ‘m looking for something super cheap and mid sized to put in the Ranger to run media player, and maybe a SDR radio program. Free is pretty cheap, but if I can’t truly reset it, it’s junk to me.
I had a samsung tablet that turned out to be an ATT model, that someone was still paying off, so I couldn’t get it changed to me, and couldn’t get it back to them either. It’s still in the bedroom in the pile of tablets. I even tried loading updated OS on that one without luck. The carrier provided/locked devices must have an additional layer of crap on them to keep them locked to the account and carrier.
I’m not putting any more money into it, or time.
n
I hate Bourbon Street.
We ate in the French Quarter at a few old school places and took a “ghost tour” one evening.
The really nasty aspect of the city these days is the “medical” marijuana everywhere.
Tourists gotta try it. Florida has full legalization on the ballot in November.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/04/08/the-us-is-proposing-a-new-ceasefire-deal-and-hamas-is-not-happy-with-it-n3786159
If any country attacked the USA in the manner that Hamas attacked Israel, six months later the radioactive glass would have been cooling fir five months.
The Biden administration has done something I thought was impossible—it has made me ashamed of my country.
If you can find a second generation Nexus 7 WiFi only tablet, those will accept a fairly current version of Lineage OS and give you the option of using free as in speech and beer Android or installing Google Play for the app store access with privacy invasion tradeoff.
Amazon pretty much killed off the small Android tablet market in this country with the $50 7″ Kindle Fire.
It’s one of the many VERY low priority “wish I had” things on my lists. It pretty much has to fall into my lap to be worth spending any time on it now. That said, Nexus 7 wifi… I’ll focus on that and maybe I’ll recognize it if it shows up.
n
“Never turn down the chance to make a few bucks. And, to get your name back out there in the public. Even if Larry Bird is worth $75 million.”
Baloney. My version of the commercial would have left a battered mayhem guy stuck in a goal after a dunk from Larry, and him looking into the camera and saying, “Even Mayhem should know when you mess with me, you get the Bird”
ten times the value,easy.
“I hate Bourbon Street.
We ate in the French Quarter at a few old school places and took a “ghost tour” one evening.”
Biggest public urinal in the world.
You want old school take a cab or Uber to Pascal’s Manale.
Order the bbq shrimp. Wear the bib.
Biggest public urinal in the world.
–because every bar has the two drink minimum to use their bathroom. So you get in, go, drink your two, go, and move to the next bar… if you have the money and the desire and the crowds are light.
If you don’t, you look to pizz “al fresco”.
Root cause is people drinking and MOVING, and no bar wanting to provide the clean restrooms for randos.
n
>> New “mayhem like me” insurance commercial yesterday with Larry Bird.
“Mayhem” is played by Dean Winters. He has an extensive film and TV career. I remember him from Oz, Rescue Me (both great shows to binge) and most recently in Monsieur Spade (also a good series).
“Eclipse”… hmm, IIRC Mitsubishi discontinued that model back in 2011 … so what did I miss??
>> The number one cause of aircraft accidents is pilot error.
The number one cause of aircraft accidents is
pilot errora plane built by Boeing.Yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3b46SbBbM
FIFY
>> Modern medical practice is like a hardware store, with apologies to Forrest Gump. Old fashioned hardware stores contain some of nearly everything, from items that solve problems on an almost miraculous level to very dangerous things. It is up to the customer, sometimes helped by the proprietor and by the incessant drug ads (ugh), to be informed and choose wisely.
FIFY
>> I hate Bourbon Street.
We ate in the French Quarter at a few old school places and took a “ghost tour” one evening.
The Showtime series “Your Honor,” two seasons starring Bryan Cranston, was filmed on location in NO.
Every once in a while I’m exposed to unfiltered media, and the number of drug ads is astounding to me. Also, the seriousness of the potential side effects, often for drugs treating annoyances rather than life threatening conditions blows me away.
When they changed the rules and allowed direct marketing, that was a dark day.
n
>> If you can find a second generation Nexus 7 WiFi only tablet, those will accept a fairly current version of Lineage OS and give you the option of using free as in speech and beer Android or installing Google Play for the app store access with privacy invasion tradeoff.
Probably more than you want to spend: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145395959973
The “NCIS New Orleans” HQ building exterior is still in place near the Vampire Cafe (!), up the block from Muriels.