77F well before 8am. I’m guessing hot and humid today…
The whole family is home again, the dog and the daddy are happy.
Time for my once a month non-prepping hobby to meet this morning. I hope the wife and kids leave me some job to do later today…… oh, who’m I kidding, all of them will be there for me.
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When you order it online vs when it comes in the mail
For once, the SJWs have done something that made me smile!
When you order it online vs when it comes in the mail
During my last “Contingency Planning” (scab deployment) event at the Death Star, I called the company who supplied the inflatable rats used by the union to ask about buying one for our conference room. $9500 for just the 6 ft rat — made in USA by union labor.
Killed that fun idea. God only knows how much the 12 foot models for the picket lines cost the CWA. Maybe they sneak theirs in from Mexico.
Hey, how about the cop coin flipping to decide outcome off cuffs and arrest or ticket and release?
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/13/georgia-police-flipping-coin-arrest/
And the progs complain about the impact of tRump appointees to judgeships.
During my last “Contingency Planning” (scab deployment) event at the Death Star, I called the company who supplied the inflatable rats used by the union to ask about buying one for our conference room. $9500 for just the 6 ft rat — made in USA by union labor.
Inflatable rat ?
The first time that I looked at this I saw “inflatable raft”.
Dropped the wife and son off at the airport this morning. They are taking a quick trip to Southern Cali to visit her dad. On my own until Tuesday evening.
I stopped at Walmart on the way home. I’ve been a little lax lately in accumulatin food, so I thought I’d pick up din er for myself, and some canned goods for long term storage. We don’t really eat soup, but I was going to get some anyways. We would all eat it if needed. All of the small cans now have the pull tab lids. When did this happen? If I was going t9 use them in the next year, fine. But I don’t think I want to chance it when they will likely be on the shelf for years. Luckily, the bigger family size cans are still the traditional type top, so I grabbed a few of those. I’ll get back in the habit of getting some extra canned goods every week.
Greg told the story some time ago. He meant rat.
It became pretty well complete years ago.
Check the store-brand cans. They’re more likely to have the traditional lids. That said, the family-size cans are usually a better unit price.
Dropped the wife and son off at the airport this morning. They are taking a quick trip to Southern Cali to visit her dad. On my own until Tuesday evening.
The wife left yesterday about 10am and arrived at her dads nursing home at around 4pm. Not bad for driving 300 miles in today’s overcrowded Texas highway system from southwest of Houston to northwest of Dallas. BTW, she is driving her 2005 Honda Civic coupe that I paid $5,000 to have the engine rebuilt and the manual transmission bearings replaced three years ago. Turned out to be a good investment except I worry about the small size of the car. I am hoping that this $6,000 that I am putting in my 2005 Expedition works the same.
I made scrambled eggs, pepper, cheese, and turkey sausage for Lady and I this morning. Lady gobbled hers up. So did I. I then put my birthday present from the wife together. My old 1978 Steelcase chair is just not supporting my bad hip very well anymore so the Space chair has a lot more padding.
https://www.amazon.com/Seating-Adjustable-Gunmetal-Ergonomic-Managers/dp/B000WJVB1Q/?tag=ttgnet-20
Watching the Astros and putting water in the pool now. We used 24,000 gallons of water last month and half of that went in the pool.
Oh man, the wife just called me and said that her sister got a letter from UPS that if her husband does not show up for work on July 17th then he is fired. Her husband is in a rehab nursing home for his emergency neck surgery three weeks ago. He can talk now but he cannot walk yet without a walker. He has worked for UPS for over 30 years. My wife read the letter and said that it was very aggressive.
I am guessing that my BIL’s short term disability expires on the 17th. My SIL filed the paperwork to get him on long term disability but UPS turned him down. The union rep told my SIL not to worry unless she got a letter. So my wife is going to stay another couple of days helping her sister out too as things are totally crazy there.
And my BIL told his wife a day or two ago that he was in an accident at UPS a couple of months ago and got his neck hurt. He filed the paperwork at the time but did not take any time off. So this may actually be workers comp and not normal sick time off. BCBS may be very interested in the job injury as his neck surgery was not cheap plus the three week hospital stay and now rehab for a couple of months. One also hopes that the Teamsters have an employment lawyer.
Well, I was right about the hot and humid part, despite some overcast it got hot.
Went by the rent house and cut the grass. Did some finish work on the porch. Came home, cut the grass. Temp in my driveway is 102F with 46%RH. It’s ok in the shade, with a breeze. Sun is BLAZING HOT.
Picked up a few more things at the same estate sale as yesterday. Passed on some 5 gallon water jugs. I’m full up on jugs.
Part of my lessons learned from the rat issue is to cover the tops of cans. A simple cardboard sheet would have protected the cans from rat p!ss, and probably made it obvious they were traveling across it. Given the humidity here, I’m beginning to think it’s worth it to dip the cans in lacquer to seal the ends. Wouldn’t take long and real lacquer dries fast. It’s also totally worth it to repackage any pasta in cardboard into plastic. That way, damp or water can’t hurt the contents.
Finally broke down and ordered some of the family’s favorite jam- Smuckers Sugar Free Cherry Preserves. It’s not coming back to the store, and isn’t even on the manf website. They do have their higher prestige brand with the same thing, so I ordered that. I ordered 6 jars at $4/each and $5 shipping. That’s a buck or so more than I used to pay in the store. If it really is the same product with a different jar, I’ll order more. It’s WAY cheaper than Amazon, and there don’t seem to be other online retailers who carry it.
As an economic observation, I note that Sears is hiring Appliance Repair Technicians. I’ll bet demand for repair has an inverse relationship to the state of the economy. When times are hard, people fix things…
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@Lynn, any special reason(s) why you chose the Space Chair?
I am starting to look for a new chair and want a “big & tall” style as they seem to hold up better. It also looks like the lumbar support is adjustable. Thanks.
People, mainly Trump cheerleaders and investment managers, have been saying for months that the economy is booming. I’m not seeing it. Oh, sure, the Dow is doing well and I’m sure certain sectors are doing fine, but the little things aren’t adding up. And no numbers coming from the Department of Labor can be trusted; that’s been the case for two decades, they became mendacious utter bullshit under Zero, and there’s no reason to believe they’re not all lies now.
@Lynn, any special reason(s) why you chose the Space Chair?
I am starting to look for a new chair and want a “big & tall” style as they seem to hold up better. It also looks like the lumbar support is adjustable. Thanks.
Because I am big and tall ? 6’1″ and 245 lbs. I have had one at work for a year ??? now and it has been comfortable. It is not cheap but I have a bad right hip from sitting on my wallet for 40+ years (like an idiot). It is also not as expensive as the Aero ? chairs. The wife has the not big / not tall version at work also. She is 5’4″ and 180 lbs.
https://www.amazon.com/Seating-Breathable-Adjustable-Gunmetal-Managers/dp/B00BT2SR8U/
And yes, there is a slidable horizontal lumbar across the lower back. It can be moved up or down about six inches.
ADD: At the office, I am rolling around on bare cement floor. At the house, I am on a cheap persian rug. Not the same rolling around capability.
Best thing I ever did for an office chair was have my wife sew material around a 3 inch thick piece of memory foam. Add that to a $200.00 leather chair from Staples and it works well. Bought such a chair for home, with the added pad, and then got one for the office where I worked. Left the chair and pad for the new chap that replaced me. The foam pad really made a difference. But it must be memory foam, the cool gel kind.
It is not cheap
That is a good price for a good chair. If you are going to sit in something for long periods cost should not be a consideration. Get what is comfortable. Even $1000.00 amortized over 15 years, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is a trivial amount for ones posterior comfort.
Karma is obviously punishing you for your wealth. If you’d been broke, your wallet would have been so thin as to not be a problem. #CheckYourPrivilege
I have a hip problem, sort of, in that an XRay suggests that I broke my pelvis some time ago, but didn’t realize it and kept walking and running. It’s hard to be sure, as the XRay was taken twenty-ish years after the event, but the pelvis is definitely not symmetrical. -shrug- A high pain tolerance is not always a good thing. The hip doesn’t bother me in walking or biking, only when I have to sit straight, so I don’t worry about it.
Amusingly, or not, a series of skull XRays had a couple docs asking me to confirm that I’d had several skull fractures as a small child. -shrug- Dunno. Well, they were pretty sure I had, based on a line here and a fuzziness there. (Or something. I recognized the general shape of a skull, but the details of what they were pointing out were meaningless to me.) I mentioned that my mom had admitted to dropping me three times as a baby and they nodded knowingly.
!!!???
Get outa here with your slacker work habits!
I bought an Aeron chair for my home office and it made a big difference. Of course, it helps to have decent posture and a well adjusted workspace.
I swapped it for a chair I got at auction. It was designed for 911 center operators. they are not usually small people. It is leather, wide, tall and very adjustable. it has inflatable lumbar. It has 1/4″ thick steel bracketry. Yes, 1/4″ thick. It’s very heavy duty.
Most of my time in the seat is much more passive than when I was working from home, so I appreciate being able to lean back like a big arm chair.
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Speaking of office chairs, I’ve been pining after this one:
that I’ve heard good things. Price is just a tad on the high side. 🙂
ok, here’s a link http://ironhorseseating.com/office-chairs/3000-series/
they are rated for 300# and the 4000 series is rated to 400#. They are warranteed for 3 year on everything, then 5 on some things and 10 years for the frame.
The one I paid <20USD for, that just needed a seam restitched (10 minutes work) retails for well over $1200. I got 3 in various conditions for $50. I kept the best, sold the other two on to make one good one.
It's very comfortable, and SOLID.
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“Applebee’s waitress was stabbed after she brushed up against diner’s leg, cops say”
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/applebee-waitress-was-stabbed-after-she-brushed-against-diner-leg-cops-say/ShMHHoDxTMd0exxqevrsHK/
Are you kidding me ? Animals.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
That the one that was then pummeled and robbed?
Or are there two?
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That the one that was then pummeled and robbed?
“A waitress required 15 stitches after she was attacked by four women she served Tuesday night at a Henry County Applebee’s, police said.”
“The women beat and punched the waitress and stabbed her in the forearm with a steak knife, McDonough police Maj. Kyle Helgerson told AJC.com. They allegedly took her tip money before they skipped out on a $62.57 bill.”
“Authorities identified the four women as Demetrius Boyd, Keterah Boyd, Lakisha Boyd and Lashondra Boyd.”
People, mainly Trump cheerleaders and investment managers, have been saying for months that the economy is booming. I’m not seeing it. Oh, sure, the Dow is doing well and I’m sure certain sectors are doing fine, but the little things aren’t adding up. And no numbers coming from the Department of Labor can be trusted; that’s been the case for two decades, they became mendacious utter bulls*** under Zero, and there’s no reason to believe they’re not all lies now.”
I firmly believe that the employment is up. But the jobs are all low paying jobs, not the good $50/hour jobs. More people are employed but the jobs just don’t pay that well. For instance, service technicians in Ford dealerships who will jump employers for another $1/hour more.
Plus the leading edge of the baby boomers have retired now. They are living on extremely fixed incomes and do not spend money unless they absolutely have to. I am not sure how they are counted but are definitely out of the paycheck labor force, if they work, they only work for cash.
“Ticks that carry Lyme disease are spreading fast”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ticks-that-carry-lyme-disease-are-spreading-fast/
Pray that you don’t get this horrible disease. And if you do, pray that you get diagnosed quickly and not after ten years like my daughter.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
Employers are still being very picky about qualifications for job candidates — eg, spotless driving records for auto mechanics* or ridiculously detailed experience required for IT jobs or thorough examination of social media history for a wide variety of jobs. This is not a symptom of a booming economy with job growth and shortage of qualified people.
How much of that is because employers fear lawsuits or government action, I don’t know. However, I can’t see any way to reconcile “booming economy, unemployment is at 3%” with “can’t get a job because his Facebook page suggests he’s a right winger”.
* One of my housemates for the summer is a mechanic. He’s 24-ish and can’t get a job at a dealership or Goodyear because he got a traffic ticket when he was 21. He’s working at a no-name local garage for another year until the ticket is four years old, then he’ll be eligible to work at a dealership (for a big pay increase). Unless they change the rules again, of course.
With names like that anyone want to take a guess on the color of their skin?
And speaking of searching social media.
I had a bad experience at a McDonalds. I called their corporate comment line and registered my issues. What was scary is they knew my phone number (caller ID) but also my address and my email address. I had never given that information to McDonalds. I am not sure where they got the information, obviously just based off my home phone number.
There is no anonymity anymore. We really DO have a permanent record to be used against us.
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And others’ permanent records are used against us, if a DMV clerk mistyped a number or if an illegal alien randomly gave your SSN when applying for a job or welfare or if someone has the same or similar name.
In the latter case, there’s at least one other programmer with the same name as I, with a LinkedIn presence, whose work experience is completely different than mine. A recruiter attempted to give me crap about the discrepancies between what I said and what he found with some internet research. Well gee, Satya Kumar, I don’t suppose it’s possible that with a million American programmers there’s some repeat in names? On the plus side, it’s good of morons to self-identify so that I can more easily ignore them in the future.
Linked in keeps trying to get me to link to some people with the same names as people in my address book. Given the way people move around in my previous industries, even I had to look closely to decide these were “some other guy named xxxxxxxxx”, and not my business acquaintance.
Given Experion’s inability to keep my father and I separate in their database, despite our different birthdays and SSNs, I don’t hold out much hope for any resolution to the problem that I or civil libertarians would like.
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Think about the implications of a non-stop online presence from birth to death for things like the Witness Protection Program, or national spy agencies.
NO WAY you are gonna fake 30 years of social media retroactively. So how many of the current accounts are agencies laying the groundwork for future personas?
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(and should YOU be developing and maintaining an alternate for yourself???)
I may be a paranoid nutcase*, but I’m a competent, conscientious paranoid nutcase.
* I’m not, actually. I used to have an evaluation** which said so. I’m unreasonably suspicious by policy, not by compulsion, and my statements that the world revolves around me are jokes, not true belief.
** Evaluated for suitability for a job many years ago. I’m a borderline psychopath (the term used back then; apparently sociopath now, as if changing the name makes a difference), I’m not paranoid, and I’m highly self-disciplined but not excessively so. All of which were very good things for that job, but I didn’t get it because of funding cuts followed by the kind of bureaucratic paperwork screwups which seem to accompany every large organization.
Inflatable rat ?
The first time that I looked at this I saw “inflatable raft”.
The union at Death Star Telephone has inflatable rats for picket lines. They range from between 6 ft – 12 ft tall and bear a striking resemblance to the company CEO.
Randall the Rat.
More chairs,
The Best Office Chair
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