Warm, damp, and might rain. I hope not. It threatened most of yesterday but never did rain on me, and it cleared up by afternoon. I drove around with the windows open and it was nice. Had the A/C on too, in the later afternoon when the heat caught up with the humidity.
Spent the day doing domestic bliss. Laundry, taking down some of the decor. I can’t take down anything that’s not really dry. Or I could, but it wouldn’t be smart… so I hope it stays dry today.
Checked the traps while I was in the attic. Turns out I had a small rat in the trap after all. One of the new, tunnel traps, the same one that got the first rat on the first day, got another. He was smaller and didn’t move the tunnel, so I didn’t see him on the cam. Guess I should check more often. In any case, I re-baited the live traps, and the other new tunnel trap. I didn’t clean and reset the first one, I’ll save that for another day. I did take it outside, in a bucket.
Then it was kid taxi service, and a quick trip to the theater when they thought they had an issue with sound. They didn’t really but the kid has his hands full and he didn’t have time to troubleshoot. One of the reasons the shows always sound so bad is that they never give any time to the sound guy to work with the actors and the mics. They don’t have enough rehearsal anyway, barely getting the show blocked before opening, so sound gets short shrift.
Like most things in life, if you don’t take the time, practice, test, and refine, you won’t get a good result.
Today I’ve got an auction pickup or two. I need to buy and assemble a drywall dolly to use when I pick up my new bed. It was $130 to rent one, and $199 to buy, so I’m buying. I’ll use it again. Later in the day I’ll pick up the trailer for the bed too. Lots of running around. AND I’ve got to get some stuff together for my non-prepping hobby quarterly swapmeet on Saturday. I’ll do that, then drive toward the BOL, picking up the bed and some other stuff on the way. Busy, busy, that’s me.
Don’t falter, right?
And find some time to improve your situation. Stacking is easiest.
nick
I thought I was the only person who uses that expression, since JEP is no more. Glad you use it too! Good luck with all you have to do.
Not alone. I am in the same situation as Brad. I have to tread carefully, but I am finding those in my entourage who are enjoying it too.
Just hearing the atrocious news of organised Islamist attacks on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam. I hope that the missing/kidnapped can be recovered soon and unharmed.
I expect the retribution from Mossad to be swift and terrible. I do not hold out much hope of the same response from the Dutch. Poor Anne Frank, they learned not.
I am busy picking up the pieces after an elderly and vulnerable family member was the victim of the grandparent scam. Very nasty psychological tricks were employed. Let us say that my cup of human charity is not presently overflowing. A poor choice of timing for the barbarian hordes to kick off trouble around here…
And you’re one of the people who advocate legalized weed. There is a correlation.
Plus, they really do enjoy their “pizza” and “pasta” inside the Beltway.
This is why I have a lot of tools. I do most of my own maintenance and repairs. I can afford to hire most of it out, but I actually enjoy doing it. Usually. If the purchase price of a one time use is close to the rental price, I will almost always just buy. If the purchase price isn’t close, but I realistically expect more use out of it in the future, I will buy. The decision gets easier as the cost, and size increases too.
My last rental was a large hammer drill and a 4″ hole saw to make an opening for my garage mini split heat pump install a few years ago.
I will admit it was nice to just be sitting back and let other guys handle the downstairs heat pump install on Wednesday. They had a hell of a time getting the old air handler out of the attic. 5 ton unit, and it only fit by completely disassembling it. Same for the new unit.
And they say Perl is a write only language.
Thanks Charlie, I’ve got another series of audiobooks with similar naming across 20 disks that I’ll probably tackle at some point. Whoever did the first rip got lazy and then the lazy naming got enshrined in the online db, and now the tracks don’t sort properly in the car…
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Going in to help the sound kid this morning. He needs a bit more confidence in the changes we made. Then it’s off to start my errands.
n
#coffeesogood
wrt “keeping it quiet”, I keep trying to remind myself that I was once a young idealist. It took until I was in my mid-to-late 20s to realize that I was not hearing the truth about many things.
Most of the young (under 30) people in my life fall into the “This is the end of democracy” camp, as do the single women over 30. I gave them my reasons why I thought DJT would win and why it would be a better thing for the country well before the election took place, so now I am holding my tongue when they talk about electing the “Russian rapist.”
They are suddenly also talking about the “missing” 20 million votes. I will personally wait until all the returns are in (sparing you all my rant about that), but it could be a learning opportunity if they go back to look at the numbers in 2012 and 2016 in comparison to 2020.
One noticeable exception is the one that busted his butt in school, moved for a good job, owns a house, and has a fiancee. Correlation?
I have noticed that they have suddenly stopped talking about how the Electoral College is unfair, and we should just go with the popular vote. So at least there is that.
I wonder what percentage of the pople in DC are on welfare? And what percentage on long term welfare?
Ole Snakehead is on the inner tubes wondering how the Dumbos lost when they had the money, celeb endorsements, incumbent, machine, etc. Hey, dumbass, when you have that and your message is “tRump is Hitler” is the answer. They refused to have a positive campaign and instead went the low road.
We can only hope Ole Snakehead vanishes to the dustbin of history. Did he even participate in the Kamel Humper campaign? All we saw was him calling everybody names.
I’m sick of foreign celebriturds demonizing our President and our country. Pull their visas immediately. Throw them out. Don’t let them in. Super model? Cara Delevingne is leading the pack asking for protests and disruption. Ban her from our country. Confiscate any property she owns here.
“Later in the day I’ll pick up the trailer for the bed too”
single roping the mattress to the roof of the ‘sploder and heading up the highway at 80mph not good enough for ya?
The Dems haven’t taken Carville seriously for years.
He was lecturing at Tulane and keeping a fairly low profile until he got into trouble for saying something non-PC to a class while making a joke.
Live by the sword …
5 ton is at the upper limit for residential AC.
I’m surprised they didn’t recommend splitting the zone if the downstairs is about 2000 sq ft.
The drain for our 5 ton unit was never installed right in Florida because the installer didn’t want to take on removing a rafter, even on a temporary basis, but still wanted the job.. As a result, the air handler had constant water leak problems, and the unit rusted apart in less than 10 years.
Brownells rocks. New Timney trigger for my Weatherby Vanguard in time for a stalking trip to Scotland? No bother! Not cheap, but good. Recommended.
Don’t feel special. My mother-in-law got scammed out our $1,200. Her “grandson” called and said he was stuck in jail in Mexico and needed money to get out. She went to Walmart, got a gift card, and gave the scammer the numbers. The person called back in 30 minutes and said he needed money for a lawyer. That is when she got suspicious.
It was too late. The person making the call knew enough information to convince her, the name he called her, the name of his parents, the city the parents lived, the name of one brother. The scam was done by someone who knew the grandson, or the more likely scenario, the grandson answered some “survey” that gathered the information.
Our kids have a safe word to let us know it’s really them. Thanks for making me think about extending that to the grandparents.
FWIW, they also have one that lets us know it’s them, but acting under duress. The whole family shares the same words, so they can know if I have to send someone to meet them too.
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back from volunteering. Time to head out on my other errands.
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we got some rain this morning, just enough to get everything wet so I can’t take it down and put it away. Dang.
n