Cold again, but maybe no rain… Yesterday managed to stay dry after starting out with nightime rain. Everything was still wet when I got up, but it must have stopped sometime after 1am. It stayed overcast all day though. Wind picked up and was throwing the trash cans around. That was BONE CHILLING cold. By southern US standards anyway. Some of you are laughing as you wear shorts and flip flops to cross the crunchy snow to get more firewood for the stove…
I did get a few things done. I made progress on my big item. I got it working by moving a serial number dongle to another USB port. Something is wrong with its normal port, and it’s nothing I can see. I might reflow the solder in case it cracked or whiskered, but then again, I may just disclose the issue in the listing. 15 yo tech always has some issues.
I did my pickup, and talked to them about doing some consignment with them. I’ll talk to the boss on Monday, and maybe I can get some stuff out of the house and the storage unit next week. The deal would have to be pretty bad for me to NOT take it.
Hit the HEB for fresh veg and sundries. Picked up ground chuck at $4.05/lb, but no other meat. Got a few Knorr pasta envelops for side dishes. They were on sale. Nothing major jumped out at me other than there were a lot of “placeholder” displays like in the wuflu supply chain issue days. They don’t normally have an open top cooler end cap just filled with bagged lettuce. It’s usually filled with a featured “meal deal” combo. There were several bins in the produce section that were filled with boxes instead of fruit and some bins had a layer of filler so the items were only one layer deep. Dunno if it means anything, just making the observation.
I added the pasta and some box meals to the stacks.
Gas was $2.49 at HEB. That’s low.
Today I’ve got my monthly meeting, and then a pickup and dump run afterwards. We’re home this weekend and still trying to get the Christmas stuff put away. W will be working that if she can get her nose out of the Dungeon Crawler Carl book…
We’re already almost half way through January, and that is amazing. Don’t slack off on stacking though. Still lots of ways for this to go wrong and they all seem to be pushing them.
Head on a swivel, stacks nice and high…
nick
31.8F in my driveway, with bright overcast.
@alan, the “lake cam” is sitting in a box waiting for all the infrastructure to get pulled thru the attic. Maybe next visit.
I’m headed out to be social.
Gird my loins, and pickup donuts…everyone loves donuts.
n
The MUD (Metropolitan Utility District) collects Christmas trees today in theory so I was up before 7 AM, cutting our tree into two 4′ segments which got dragged to the curb.
We’ll see if they actually take the tree leftovers. In previous years, the contractor has been overwhelmed, and, when that happens, the MUD has homeowners take the trees to the community center for mulching the following weekend.
I have 2, maybe 3, inches of snow. It is below freezing, roads are covered, so I am not going anywhere today, maybe the same tomorrow.
ZuckDroid 4.0 speaks. He’s still looking for root access on iOS.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/zuckerberg-trash-talks-apple-in-interview-with-joe-rogan/ar-BB1rfRkG
Conservatives, you have no one but yourselves to blame if you’ve ever spent more than about five minutes a year on Facecrack.
The Legend of Zuck, a business built on a film with a script so good even an old soap opera retread like David Selby looked like Olivier in the key deposition scene.
If you have time to kill and want to see a good Rogan interview, he had Mel Gibson in the studio the day before. That is candid. Mel is slightly crazy in a cool way.
Okay, a *lot* crazy.
The money scene from “The Social Network” which is arguably responsible for making ZuckDroid a billionare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mehUC5l-lGM
Even if you just click a link to that site, the meter starts rolling at Facecrack HQ.
Flush your browser cookies immediately anytime you have contact with the ZuckDroid’s services.
19F this morning. No wind. Clear skies. Everything is covered with frost. The dogs didn’t take long to do their business and that’s a good way to start the day.
We ended up with around 4 inches of snow by noon. Some areas got some sleet afterwards, but not here. Lots of kids out sledding and I went ahead and shoveled a path on the driveway. I would just let it melt, but it is a decent slope and faces east. This morning the shoveled part is bone dry. Neighborhood roads are slushy, but reports of main road conditions are pretty good. I don’t have to go anywhere until Monday morning, so I’m staying put.