Sunny and hot, humid of course. It’s supposed to be a very hot weekend. Lynn has been watching the power generation numbers here in Texas, and the heat is going to drive some really high usage… I’m kinda selfish normally, but if we are careful to reduce unneeded usage for the weekend, we’ll all have the power we need to keep cool.
I spent yesterday in the heat. I might have spent too long in it, as I was feeling poorly by the end of the day. I did a couple of pickups, then spent the rest of the afternoon sorting and stacking at one of my storage units. I finished up by loading the truck for today’s run up to the BOL.
Our weekend commitments will come first, mainly swim team practice, but also lawn cutting and general weekend stuff. Then I’ll find the last few things I need to get together for this week’s work – seeds, camping hot water heater, plumbing bits, hardware cloth, outdoor shower stuff… wife has decided we will have an outdoor shower at the BOL until our septic situation is resolved. Conveniently, I have a propane fired instant hot water heater stacked somewhere, as a prep against a long outage here. I need to get it out, look at what is involved (a hose, propane tank, and shower head, presumably) and get those parts together too.
I’ll have some time in the morning to get that stuff done before we head out.
Then my comms will be spotty as before.
I’m testing out a prep this weekend, you should too. Dig something out and use it. Then stack whatever your test reveals that you lack….
nick
There is one prep I test daily: Coffee.
Adams wants to have sex with the Shot Girl. A lot of people obviously want the same thing, men and women.
You can see that persuasion skill set at work any Friday night on 6th Street here in town. That’s how a lot of tech deals get done in Austin.
I don’t view infatuation with the Shot Girl as being as dangerous as the otherwise conservative Vets who walk into my wife’s office carrying on about Tulsi Gabbard and expressing the wish that she would run for President so they could vote for her. Gabbard is frequently cited as having participated in the same “young leader” classes as Mayor Pete or Wee Pierre, and she doesn’t shy away from expressing Prog views on many topics.
It has already happened to several vehicles in my area. An expensive repair. Several catalytic converters have also been snatched.
Every 100,000 Jesus Trucks will be another 1200-2000 MW, depending on manufacturer.
“Son, ah only plug my truck in at night Ah swear on my momma’s grave.”
Peter Noone, “Herman from Herman’s Hermits”, has a show on SXM. Oldies from the era.
Won’t all those “smart” EVs be controlled by the electric supplier to prevent overloading the grid? Won’f they also be subject to time-of-use rates? TANSTAAFL.
Radio Caroline also has a Flashback channel which plays that era 24/7, but I’ve heard “Henry the Eighth I Am” on their main channel too.
Why EVs aren’t cheaper than gas:
Contrary to what people believe, electric vehicles are not cheaper than gas-fueled vehicles
Goobermint is gonna replace that sweet tax $ somehow.
tax2
5:00 PM until 8:00 PM Eastern Time.
I no longer listen to broadcast local radio. Around here it is either crappy country, fecal hip-hop, or head banging acid rock. None of it worth listening. There is one classical music station which is relegated to the folks that think the public should fund their art museum and long hair concerts. My opinion of that is if the venue cannot support itself, it does not deserve taxpayer funding. The funding of a specialty platform for the elitists is wrong.
Anyway, I listen to Sirius-XM exclusively. The local radio stations are so overrun with commercials, at least 50% of the airtime, that listening is just annoying. I know they have to make money to stay in existence. There is the rub. As far as I am concerned, they can just cease to exist. Another 25% of the time is wasted by mouthy on-air personalities, inaccurate weather reports, and some day-old news. Broadcast radio around here just sucks.
ah, forgot. The cleaning crew came this morning and so I didn’t get the network rack back together after the HVAC inspector left. That will be one more thing to do before we leave. We’ve been just using wifi for the last two days, but that means my cams are all down. I def want them running if we’re not here.
– so of course my across the street neighbor had his truck broken into last night. I’ve got great views of the street and his house, when the cams are on.
n
80F and sunny and clear, 90% humidity.
Now for the mad dash until departing for the BOL.
n
But what about bail reform? What about ‘restorative justice? Oh right, it’s only a tragedy if it happens to ME.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
n
I tried Apple music for a time. Dropped it and use the SXM app or browser to stream in the house. I keep a subscription in the Subie and it comes with streaming.
In Texas? You’re kidding right?
The state government’s short-term response to the near collapse of the grid during the freeze of February 2021 was to essentially cross their fingers and hope that another similar event didn’t happen ahead of the filing deadline for the February 2022 primary races. Last December … 13th (?).
The long-term response will consist of a bailout for the electric utilities when the Legislature reconvenes … after the election.
This state invented “swimming naked”.
To be fair, Florida has done the same thing with homeowners insurance since 2004.
Tolling of surface streets is coming. The only limitation is the pinheads in charge at places like my previous previous job. Fortunately, the competition is worse.
Henry the VIIIth, Peter Noone
He is still performing and has an active FaceBook account where he chats regularly and posts many live videos. You can pay to have him leave a voicemail greeting as a gift. If child reaches adoring fan stage I’ll spring for it, currently she wants to rock out to that one song and doesn’t care about him as the source of the song. Healthy attitude
The guy works hard and looks pretty young for his age. I’ve enjoyed listening to him on Spotify.
Could be worse. I was exposed to Tom Lehrer too young thanks to our local horror host, Dr. Paul Bearer, and his fondness for lip synching “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_wmomQeDU
I wasn’t the only mind so corrupted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAaiYKF0cs
Yes, “The Big Bang Theory” did “The Elements”, but the difference is that Jim Parson’s hated the song and has clearlyl stated such in interviews. The kid is clearly into it.
For many years in my early twenties (the early seventies) Every Sunday night from 6 to 10 KMET in LA would do the Dr. Demento show. The syndicated version was two hours cut from the real show. Tom Lehrer was always played. I used to have one of the Christmas shows but it’s been lost to cassette tape.
Dr Demento and Tom Lerher both awesome. First heard the B-52s on the Dr’s show…
about to shower before heading out.
about 80% of what I wanted to do before I left got done, and I’m only 1 ½ hours late leaving….
n
The only one responsible for you is you. No one is coming to help. If you have a critical item, you better have enough of it. Determine what level “enough” is, then replace stock as used, so you don’t run down significantly below your safe level. Or suck it up and pay the price.
(note that free market is working, there is formula available, only a click away, but they don’t want to PAY for it. They were free to buy as much as they needed, could have gotten 2 for 1 for the same money last week.)
n
Baby formula has been the subject of much racketeering going back to when my first child was born. I don’t remember a time with either child on formula that we weren’t scrounging for cans in Tampa.
At one point, after 9/11, Tampa PD made a show of busting one of the rackets, run out of a convenience store near the university by Palestinian Jihad (!), but other operations popped up to take their place.
The problem might be worse now, but The Mail is being lazy. What’s next? A hog-n-dog rodeo bust near their bureau office in South Florida. Coverage of a raid on a cock fighting ring might be too obvious.
Arbitrage of formula is pretty low, however. As Dr. Pournelle pointed out on many occasions, the free market without regulation carried to the logical end would see the peddling of human flesh in the marketplace.
That story must be warming many a heart in the UK this weekend. “I say, these Yanks would sell a kidney on EBay if they thought that they could get away with it.”
And that statement wouldn’t be wrong. We live on Ferenginar if life and death is supply and demand.
plugs lying:
For some reason people are doubting Biden’s story about how many times he’s been to Afghanistan & Iraq
The Lame StreamMedia just nod along.
“Sunny and hot, humid of course. It’s supposed to be a very hot weekend. Lynn has been watching the power generation numbers here in Texas, and the heat is going to drive some really high usage… I’m kinda selfish normally, but if we are careful to reduce unneeded usage for the weekend, we’ll all have the power we need to keep cool.”
I have seen some temperature extremes here in the zone between Sugar Land and Rosenberg. 6 F on Dec 24, 1989. 113 F on Sept 4 ???, 1999 ??? (Labor Day). No curtailments in 1989 but serious rotating curtailments in 1999. And of course everyone in Texas knows about the unprecedented severe curtailments for four days in Feb 2021.
I am afraid that they have gotten used to the curtailments and have decided to live with them until the new battery systems are built. The renewables are causing the severe curtailments since they do not function very well in extreme conditions (below 20 F or above 100 F across the entire state). But in Texas alone, we will need some 40,000 to 60,000 MW of battery storage with 8 to 10 hours of capacity and I just do not see that happening due to the expense. Or maybe not, the economics do not make sense unless they raise the consumer electric rates extensively.
The future is so hard to predict. I do think that we are going to see quite a few curtailments in Texas this summer though.
Curtailment? A euphemism specific to Texas? Is it the same as a BLACKOUT?
Curtailment? A euphemism specific to Texas? Is it the same as a BLACKOUT?
A blackout is where the whole grid goes down. A curtailment is where a portion of the grid has been blacked out.
We have not had a total blackout of the grid in Texas since the 1950s. We did have a 50% (SWAG) curtailment in Feb 2021.
Just say “rolling blackout”. One day of those this week would cost Paxton his job at a minimum, probably Abbott in November.
“They’re Going to Get Us All Killed: Biden Regime Helped Ukraine Sink Russian Ship the Moskva – Then Leaked it to Warmongers in Liberal Media (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/going-get-us-killed-biden-regime-helped-ukraine-sink-russian-ship-moskva-leaked-warmongers-liberal-media-video/
Do we have USA troops in Ukraine ?
Our thermometer under the carport, in the shade, on the house, says it is 102F. The NWS current observations for Brown County are not available, but it’s 108F in Comanche County, next door to us.
And it feels like it. The air feels like a blast furnace.
Thanks, La Nina.
I hate La Nina years. I’ve seen it hotter in May, I remember one year since we moved here that it got to 112 in May …. Of course, 108 to 112 is a matter of course out in western Texas, but we had hoped to escape the high temps, arid lack of rain, and constant wind. No such luck.
Come on, El Nino! Faster, please!
Infant Nutrition Council of America is also encouraging parents to keep a 10-day to two week supply of formula at home
Or you could nurse. I did the nurse and pump thing. Man it sucked. It was hard work and pretty exhausting. It took a few months before we got the hang of it. Neither my daughter nor I took to it with the ease that is implied one should.
But we persevered and we were independent of formula. Never fed commercial baby food or rice cereal or that other stuff. Yeah, and cloth diapers most of the time. Was it harder? Sure.
It’s down to 104f here from 105f. 95f in the attic….. so we did something right with the metal roof.
PEC had an insert in the last bill that didn’t seem all that cheery. Pretty much if Ercot says shed load, they are going to do so. You have a medical condition where a power failure is a problem? How about a fire station? Or a hospital? Tough stuff and “you might look for alternatives”. The electric company for the house in Edinburg has said the same thing.
Gee, if only there was an answer. Like a nuke plant out there in the middle of no-where where they have lots of windmills.
I’ve lived in the Valley and we didn’t have a/c. “Sweat like a pig” to the point you strip down in the bathroom and wring out your underwear is a thing. Two blocks from Mobile Bay with no a/c was worse. But if the juice goes out, what happens to the water supply? Fun stuff to think about.
The pediatricians will prescribe supplemental formula for certain conditions. Our son had reflux issues so he got AR fomula for a while. We often scrambled to find that stuff and eventually I learned to shop the Walgreens in bad neighborhoods where the Palestinians were to scared to venture.
Do you have to ask?
Sadly the old bits from HBO’s “Not Necessarily The News” are not online. I’m reminded of the old CIA recruiting ad they used to run:
“We’re the CIA. People you don’t know … in places you’ve never even heard of … doing things … well you don’t even want to think about.”
One of the NNtN CIA commercials is at the 5:00 mark in this video, but an “Amtrak” spot starts around 4:30 which would still be relevant today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5S-Ao3wGI0
For all that is holy, can I please have the hours back I wasted on Picard season 2? We just finished the last two episodes. The wife didn’t want to finish, but I said “we’ve made it this far, let’s see how the train wreck happens.” I should have listened to her.
Infant Nutrition Council of America is also encouraging parents to keep a 10-day to two week supply of formula at home
Or you could nurse. I did the nurse and pump thing. Man it sucked. It was hard work and pretty exhausting. It took a few months before we got the hang of it. Neither my daughter nor I took to it with the ease that is implied one should.
But we persevered and we were independent of formula. Never fed commercial baby food or rice cereal or that other stuff. Yeah, and cloth diapers most of the time. Was it harder? Sure.
My wife nursed our son for three months and then he would not stop biting her. So he got moved to cereal at that point. My wife nursed our daughter for a year, never a problem. But our son is the healthy one, go figure.
My mother told me last year that my brothers and I were raised on formula or whatever passed for formula in 1960. Mom was dry, did not have a drop for us. Mom took me to the doctor who delivered me at a month before we moved to New Jersey. I weighed the same as birth weight so he told her to put me on the rice cereal. I gained a pound a week after that.
Just watched the series finale of Ozark. Surprising, but not out of left field ending. Some winners and some losers.
Well, made it to the BOL. Did some work. Wife and kids did painting.
I got the mower running and mowed. 0.8 acres of hill, there were some very tense moments. I’m learning. Never had a riding mower before. It’s very physical on the bumpy hill.
It’s hot here but not over 100F. Nicer now that the sun went down. I should get one of my weather stations set up. At least an outdoor thermometer… The one hanging in the shade read 80F at about 6pm.
I’m off to bed soon. I’ll be sore from wrestling that mower around…
n
“Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/07/cancer-surgery-causes-climate-change/
“Operating rooms are a massive source of greenhouse gas production for hospitals, representing 70% of their waste and generating three to six times as much carbon as the rest of health systems.”
You have got to be kidding me.
Remember that the carbon they want to get rid of is you.
n
Shivering, hungry, sick, in the dark.
>> I’ll be sore from wrestling that mower around
Two words: “Pet Goats”
My wife keeps asking for one(two???) and I keep reminding her that we have no grass here in the desert.