Cool and damp. Windy too.
Yesterday was off and on rain in the morning which limited my outdoor work. As y’all know, I spent the time indoors on the computer. It finally dried out enough for me to get out in the driveway around noon.
I managed to get some stuff done. I got some shelves set up where I took a pallet of stuff apart, moved recent food there, and wrapped the whole thing in plastic to keep it dry. It’s less than ideal, but better than nothing. (I didn’t get the batteries replaced in my weather station. It’s not even waking up in the daylight. Today for sure.)
I found and went through the portable forced air respirators. Unfortunately due to moisture intrusion, they got moldy in storage. It sucks because there are spare canisters, and bunny suit hoods. No actual face masks, but I have a couple that would work, if I didn’t want to use the paper hoods. I even got the correct battery packs in another auction. Despite that I’m going to put them in the auction. I don’t have time or desire to clean them, and I can use the money for other things. I figure they should sell, given the state of things. Since there are about 20 I may keep two and two of the batteries just in case. They are awesome for woodworking at the lathe if things go back to normal.
This is not the first time moisture and mold got me. The Rubbermaid Cargo containers, black rotomolded tubs with grey lids and red latches, are absolutely NOT water tight. Every one I’ve had, in any size, had water inside after long enough. Even under a tarp, both big chest sized tubs were damp, and one had 1/2″ of water in it. FWIW, the black tubs from Costco or homedepot with the snap on yellow lids aren’t water tight either. Taping over the padlock holes helps, but if water gets on the lid it will get inside eventually. It’s possible that it is some sort of thermal pumping drawing in humid air which then condenses and can’t dry out, but I’m pretty sure there is direct intrusion through capillary action.
Hamfest is Saturday, and I’ll be in the parking lot swap meet selling a truck load of stuff. It’s a long but fun day, and I usually make good money and clear out a bunch of stuff. There are people I only see at the hamfest, once a year. Nice to touch base.
I’m a bit concerned about being around all the people, but it is outdoors and I won’t be closeted with anyone. I will be using hand wipes a lot more than in the past. I don’t think I’ll wear a mask, but I’m bringing some. Forecast says clear weather, which will be a nice change.
That gives me today and tomorrow to get all the stuff out of storage, unburied, organized, priced, and loaded on the truck. AND continue to monitor the Wuflu and get myself squared away here.
No rest for the wicked.
Keep stacking, it’s here and it will be doubling every 3-5 days. People will be losing their minds by next week.
Take this time as a gift, and get ready.
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California has one death from KungFlu and declares a state of emergency. Of course that gets them federal funding. I have never seen this reaction for flu which has terminated more people. As reported “The unidentified victim was 71 and had underlying health conditions”. Even though the victim may have died from the underlying health issues the death will be reported as KungFlu related.
My management had a meeting yesterday about having me travel the last week in March just to give the customer face time. Of course, I wasn’t present and found out after the fact.
I’m not into the hysteria, but I don’t want to head to DC right now just so a customer can have a warm and fuzzy moment. As an asthmatic, I am in a high risk group for exposure, and I can’t help but believe the secrecy didn’t have as much to do with the virus as it does managment’s continuing crack smoking fantasy that the Music Ed major in our support group can do my job.
@Greg: Maybe management is hoping you get the KungFlu virus so the music ed major can get your job without having to fire you.
A study suggests why WuFlu is less contagious than it originally seemed: genetics. Orientals are more likely to have some receptor in their lungs which the virus attacks. Caucasians are less likely to have the receptor and blacks even less likely. This was based on a small sample of lung transplant patients so it might not be generalizable.
Sorry about being light on details. This was from an article and abstract I read early this morning and now I can’t find it again.
oh great, some evidence of a new version —
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/beijing-hospital-confirms-covid-19-attacks-central-nervous-system
And Ray, just playing Devil’s Advocate, maybe ” I have never seen this reaction for flu ” because this isn’t the flu? After all, you are consciously or unconsciously taking the Chinese number of deaths as fact, when we have a lot of evidence the deaths have been massively underreported.
Why do we not have pictures of rooms full of recovered people in china? Surely they’d be trumpeting their success if they could? We’ve got one, maybe two westerners who have given interviews about their illness and recovery, in this day and age of internet instafame, why not more?
Then there are the reports of people dropping dead after recovering, and now reports of a more deadly version with neurological effects.
There is also the dawning realization that there are at least two versions out there, which makes observations about severity and lethality moot, without knowing which version people had.
Not saying your wrong, just weighing cost/benefit FOR ME. The consequences of not believing that it’s bad and being wrong far outweigh the consequences of believing it’s bad and being wrong.
For me anyway.
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“On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency request to let health-care workers use N95 respirators intended for industrial settings. While the FDA regulates N95 masks used in medical settings, most respirators are used in construction or other industrial settings to protect workers from particles or fumes. ”
“This week the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health published new reports on expired respirators tested for performance at 10 stockpile facilities. Nearly all of the respirators tested, including some as old as 15 years, met the agency’s standards, according to the reports. Most facilities had stocks between eight and 12 years old.”
–I knew this was coming. They’ll ok use of timed out gear next.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-04/some-va-stockpiles-of-protective-medical-masks-aren-t-usable
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/ppecase.html
WA State is not going to require schools to make-up lost school days due to Covid-19.
The politicians in DC (and many states) are dreaming up all sorts of Covid-19 related legislation. Nothing can go wrong here.
And the elephant in the room is that it is looking like Covid-19 is something made in a Chinese lab and they inadvertently allowed it to get loose. Of course, we will never know.
I wonder what the baseball parks are going to look like on Opening Day? Seattle is wanting to ban all activities with more than 10 people so let’s see if they allow Baseball Stadiums to open. Oh no, we cannot be without our Sports Ball :my guitar gently weeps:
Hey guys, take a lesson from what’s going on around us, and in the NY lawyer case in particular.
If there’s anyone here who ISN’T getting ready to stay buttoned up for a month at least, think about what kind of situation you’ll be in when your neighbor gets it and your whole subdivision is locked down. No last run to the store for you. You’re stuck at home with what you’ve got.
Keep in mind, these idiots are supposed to be QUARANTINED….
It’s gonna be the other idiots that kill you.
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@dadcooks, I’ve seen a couple of articles about games taking place without an in person audience. I think the Middle East is leading the way on that front.
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Thousands are held on Grand Princess cruise ship off California with 21 feared to have caught coronavirus after 71-year-old US passenger died of the disease following Mexico voyage
TL:DR – one guy from the ship’s previous cruise has died from Wuflu, many people still aboard from his trip are showing symptoms. Some people gonna die.
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@Greg: Maybe management is hoping you get the KungFlu virus so the music ed major can get your job without having to fire you.
No. They actually need someone to do the work for which the Music Ed major receives credit.
And I think Texas’ unemployment insurance rates increase geometrically like Florida’s to dissuade employers from taking advantage of places like San Antonio, where a lot of high skill labor exists but the salaries tend not to keep up with living costs. The same thing happens in Tampa.
@brad, one of the chinese people who has been tweeting about corona, mentioned that 300K chinese are in Italy, which adds support for your comment yesterday.
I would really like to know the ethnicity of the majority of cases in Italy.
NOT that I think non-asians don’t get it, but to support or dismiss the idea that PREDOMINATELY asians get it.
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“Jennifer Zeng
@jenniferatntd
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Mar 3
…As it tries to find out its patient zero, local Chinese people are feeling the pressure. There are about 300K people from #Wenzhou, #China, in Italy. “
Hey all, does anyone have a link or remember any indication of WHERE OR HOW the NYC lawyer got his WuFLu?
The last article said he had pneumonia BEFORE getting wuflu, but then why was he exposed if he was sick? All the articles focus on who he gave it to, not one I can find explains where HE might have gotten it. I find that weird.
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Also, FEMA still hasn’t put wuflu back on their daily newsletter as a threat they’re working on although it was listed for several days in the beginning.
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@SteveF: Maybe this is the study to which you refer? It seems to be in that wheelhouse.
Comparative genetic analysis of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2) receptor ACE2 in different populations | Cell Discovery
My hunch is they’ll try something like what the Euros are doing with soccer: Close the stadiums but play the games and televise them as usual. Makes sense, actually – entertainment for those in quarantine, and TV revenue continues for the clubs.
@dadcooks, I’ve seen a couple of articles about games taking place without an in person audience. I think the Middle East is leading the way on that front.
MeTV is cycling through “Buck Rogers” episodes again, and the episode featuring the 24th century Olympic Games without in-person audiences will re-air soon.
I read the Pllugs-Flu got Warren. Bye Bye. Plugs is the only one who has a chance to beat tRump. Komrad Bernie is getting another house.
And most of his supporters will stay home. And Trump gets another term.
(Barring levels of electoral fraud which will kick off the shooting war.)
That’s almost certainly the same study. It’s not what I read 11 hours ago. I thought I had read the abstract of a paper (most likely the draft of a not-yet-published paper and probably not yet peer reviewed, given timeliness) but maybe it was a differently formatted version of that letter to the editor. Thanks for finding that. I find that I comprehend it better in the late morning than in the early morning.
I read the Pllugs-Flu got Warren. Bye Bye. Plugs is the only one who has a chance to beat tRump. Komrad Bernie is getting another house.
They need to keep Plugs on whatever dementia medication they switched him to yesterday.
Grandpa Joe — oh, the TV/movie references will go on forever — seems to fare better in quiet situations. *If* Biden is the nominee (still an ‘if’ in my book) and he deigns to debate Trump, look for a one-on-one at a desk with a moderator in a studio, one 90 minute session.
George Snuffleupagus -er- Stephanopolous as most likely moderator if I had to place a bet.
Okay, one more reference — though I hate to use the B-word — “Beto and the Man”
An reboot of the 70s classic except, instead of Freddie Prinze, try to imagine that the van-dwelling Latino was portrayed by Danny Most, better known as “Happy Days” Ralph Malph.
(Okay, I’ll concede that Ralph Malph was generally smarter than Robert Francis, and canon says that Ralph eventually had a real job as an Optometrist.)
A datum on panic buying: I stopped at several stores yesterday evening, in an unincorporated area just north of Albany, NY. No shortages or empty shelves that I noticed, including in the pharma and paper sections of the grocery store. No long lines. One (grossly overweight, probably 40-something) (that is, 40-something years, not 40-something stone) woman was wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves but no other protective gear that I noticed. The Korean market had only one customer besides me, but it’s a small store and it was 8PM on a Thursday, so that’s not surprising.
I went shopping last night because my mother-in-law had run out of rice and tofu and fish and all her other staples but has been afraid to go to the Chinese market. My wife crabbed at me about having gone in their place and possibly bringing germs back to the house, which is a reasonable concern, but the fact is that my wife and mother-in-law need to eat and they were out of food in the house. For a variety of reasons (age, race, and health foremost among them) it was safest for me to pick up their groceries.
I didn’t have time last night to point out that I have a quantity of food in the house, sufficient to feed my daughter and myself for two or three months, but I plan to rub it in my wife’s face. She constantly criticizes me for the food and the week’s supply of drinking water. (I’d had another hundred gallons of drinking water tucked into a closet, but my wife disposed of it when I wasn’t looking, along with using up the toilet paper and medicines and all the rest.)
You’re a brave man. You should not be concerned about KungFlu as your wife may do you in. Hard to eat your food supply when you are sleeping on the streets.
(Barring levels of electoral fraud which will kick off the shooting war.)
There are only so many illegal voters and paralegals at Perkins Coie in Portland theoretically willing to help the cause by doing the grunt work filling out the ballots for the mail truck accident scenes. All on overtime, of course … and don’t forget comped dinners.
Didn’t Dr. Pournelle put election fraud at around 2% of ballots cast in most cases.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. | CDC
CDC has resumed reporting the number of tests done at its lab. Remember, cases detected only become “official” when confirmed by CDC.
One 50 year old male presumptive COVID-19 in Clark County NV (Las Vegas).
I went by WinCo today here in the high desert.
Things were normal – I’d missed my Sunday shopping and wondered if there was a run on things. They were limiting hand sanitizer and wipes to 4 boxes each, but no-one in line (that I saw) was buying them. The cashier hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary.
I bought a bag of rice, I’m getting down to the bottom of the current bag. I’m always a bit concerned about bugs so I’ll freeze it, though, given the choice between starving and bugs I will always – ahem – choose the lesser of the two weevils….
Woof! Smith’s here in Vegas is still stocked, except for Ramen.
Just got back from a Costco run in Silverdale WA. No TP or paper towels, but bleach and butt-wipes were available. Picked up a package of butt-wipes (our supply of paper products OK), and a 5-pack of disinfectant wipes (small display near the checkout area).
Stopped in the Dollar Tree store: some hand sanitizer left, half the usual amount of liquid bleach. I have plenty of hand sanitizer on hand.
Then the local WalMart for a few other things. Noticed empty shelves of pain relievers, about 20 multi-packs of TP. The canned soup section was low in stock but plenty of ramen. Noticed one guy loading up on canned goods. Other sections looked OK; restocking of cereal and canned fruit was in progress. Dairy and bread section OK. Only noticed one mask.
But I did use the free sanitizer wipes at the entrance for the cart, which I used.
Windy here today. Whitecaps at the Hood Canal bridge which we have to cross (stores are on the other side of the bridge from us). Waves at the bridge were about 3 feet high, I think. Bridge still open for vehicles, though. (Weird thing about the bridge: when it is open, it’s closed to cars; when closed it’s open to cars. People around here say that the ‘bridge is closed’ when it is physically open, but closed to cars. Like George Carlin used to say “we drive on the parkway, and park on the driveway.)
EdH (Hume, no?) GROAN!
*****
Also on the lighter side, I’ve been buying gallons of the wrong stuff!
https://tinyurl.com/sgeffas
Seriously, this is a friggin’ BRILLIANT marketing campaign.
Tito’s: For INTERNAL Use Only! 😛
Hit the store again, details later, need to visit my mechanic and toy store.
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Just to change the topic and the tone…
I have a number of devices at home on a cabled network including an old Netgear ReadyNAS. After a recent MS Windows 10 update I lost file access but not HTTP nor Media access to the unit. The unit has self-certified certificates which creates other problems. I tried many changes and did considerable trawling in the Net against similar issues until yesterday. I finally found a related article at the Netgear site. It turns out to be that MS has been really aggressive trying to deprecate support for SMB after WannyCry given that version 1 was the vector for that attack. The update had removed SMB CIFS1.1 support from my networking stack…
After re-enabling the support for that, all my devices showed up. The “funny” thing about this is that the other Windows 10 devices connected to my LAN had also disappeared and came back after enabling the stack. Given that SMB goes up to version 3, it means that they are all using the lowest level of tha protocol, possibly because they communicate with the NAS.
Hope this helps someone.
Maybe this is the study to which you refer?
That’s almost certainly the same study. It’s not what I read 11 hours ago. I thought I had read the abstract of a paper (most likely the draft of a not-yet-published paper and probably not yet peer reviewed, given timeliness) but maybe it was a differently formatted version of that letter to the editor. Thanks for finding that. I find that I comprehend it better in the late morning than in the early morning.
My son has been claiming that the WuFlu is targeted to Asian males for over a month now. And ZeroHedge had an article on it on Feb 13:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-02-13/why-most-coronavirus-deaths-have-been-chinese-men
An important note is that your ability to catch the wuflu is the same for everyone. But the lethality is based on your race according to the conspiracy theory.
As of a couple of hours ago my small northwestern Indiana town’s Krogers has begun limiting sanitation/disinfectant supplies and paper goods. FWIW.
“How Much Ammo Is Enough For When Things Get Really Bad?”
https://www.ammoman.com/blog/how-much-ammo-is-enough-when-shtf/
“If people don’t want to go out shopping, that can radically affect the retail sales of ammo. Rather than go out and mingle with the potentially infected public, they will stay at home and order via computer. For an online retailer like Ammoman, that seems like a good thing.”
“And if I’m honest, it does. Right up to point where you realize some of those people staying home and not going to work are the people who make and ship ammo to Ammoman and other places that sell ammunition. Then things get weird. If people are not able to make or ship ammunition because of a medical emergency, the supply chain for ammo can get really tight, really quickly, just like it did almost 12 years ago.”
“Minimum Ammo Stockpiles for The Prepared Gun Owner”
“Here’s what I consider to be a minimum level of ammunition to have on-hand at any given moment.”
“Rimfire ammunition (.22LR, etc): 1000 rounds of practice ammo per gun, 100 rounds of specialty ammo per firearm.”
“Centerfire pistol ammunition (9mm, .45 ACP, etc): 1000 rounds of practice ammunition per handgun, 100 rounds of specialty ammunition per gun.”
“Centerfire rifle ammo (.223/5.56mm, .308, etc.): 1000 rounds of practice ammunition per gun, at least 100 rounds of specialty ammo per rifle.”
“Shotgun shells: 500 rounds of practice ammo per shotgun, 50 rounds of specialty ammo per gun.”
After re-enabling the support for that, all my devices showed up. The “funny” thing about this is that the other Windows 10 devices connected to my LAN had also disappeared and came back after enabling the stack. Given that SMB goes up to version 3, it means that they are all using the lowest level of tha protocol, possibly because they communicate with the NAS.
I had problems with Windows 10 on my newish Lenovo T470 connecting to my Samba Linux file/print server and remembering the credentials. Ultimately, after much frustration, as a last ditch effort, I wiped the machine’s OEM install and installed Windows 10 from an ISO I downloaded from Microsoft. After reinstall, all of the problems with Samba went away as did a lot of other irritations with the machine.
Nuke it from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
The OEM installs and restore partitions from the major manufacturers are extremely suspect.
Perspective: Oklahoma health services say 5600 Oklahomans have been hospitalized with the flu and 63 have died this season.
I plan to rub it in my wife’s face
You’re a brave man. You should not be concerned about KungFlu as your wife may do you in. Hard to eat your food supply when you are sleeping on the streets.
Hard to eat your food supply when you are sleeping with the fishies.
Fixed that for ya.
(I’d had another hundred gallons of drinking water tucked into a closet, but my wife disposed of it when I wasn’t looking, along with using up the toilet paper and medicines and all the rest.)
100 gallons water * ft3 / 7.4805 gallons = 13.4 ft3
That is the bottom 1 ft of a 3 ft by 5 ft closet. Not much space to store that much water assuming a high efficiency of storage.
True. But I recall he’s outta there in a couple/three years when the kid is out of high school.
Hey, my Dad seemed to always be “you son of a bitches are out of my house when you graduate high school”. And then he wondered why I never visited….
Not to self: In the future, when ordering from Walmart’s ship to wherever, DO NOT ask how to pay for extra product.
No, don’t need a replacement for the dented can.
No, don’t want a $5 coupon for my next order.
I just asked “how do I pay for the extra can of soup you sent?”.
Seemed the right thing to do but it totally messed them up.
The latest reply was Aussie sorta English but must be one of Greg’s Freshers because of the syntax.
Good times, sorta.
@lynn,
I have it from friend of a friend that there may be 25 more cases in Ft Bend County, waiting for confirmation or not. F of F works for Home land Sec. I guess we’ll know pretty soon.
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@lynn,
“Two people in northwest Harris County have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Harris County Public Health.
The tests have been verified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These cases are travel-related and, at this time, there is no evidence of community spread. The man and woman live in the unincorporated area of northwest Harris County, outside the City of Houston.
Fort Bend County also reported a presumptive positive case on Wednesday.”
I have it from friend of a friend that there may be 25 more cases in Ft Bend County, waiting for confirmation or not. F of F works for Home land Sec. I guess we’ll know pretty soon.
I am not surprised with Fort Bend County being 25% Asian.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/coronavirus-2-cases-harris-county-houston-outbreak-15108596.php
“Both patients, and the man in Fort Bend county that tested positive for COVID-19, had traveled together to Egypt, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.”
What ? All three, apparently Rice Professors, went to Egypt recently together ?
What ? All three, apparently Rice Professors, went to Egypt recently together ?
You’re surprised?
You’re surprised?
Hourly.
egypt is showing only 3 cases. Guess they’ve got more than they think.
it’s good news for us though.
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I got this from ebay just now.
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And they just killed the listing.
Fuckers.
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This just arrived via email:
Support the Mission of Dr. Pournelle and Save ChaosManor™
Hmm.
@mediumwave – yep … that’s the new “Science Fiction” place being run by Jerry Pournelle’s kids (mainly Frank), with me doing the geeky back-end stuff.
They are re-releasing old books, plus a few new ones, including Jerry’s last work – “JANNISSARIES IV: MAMELUKES” , written by Jerry and finished by his son Phillip and David Weber (due out in June, I think).
Apparently, there wasn’t enough estate planning done, so additional fundraising, plus book publications, is helping to maintain the “Chaos Manor”. Subscribers (which have always been a part of Chaos Manor) are getting some nice ‘spiffs’ when they subscribe.
Ok, kids in bed. Dinner eaten. Web reading caught up.
Stopped into the neighborhood “small” HEB grocery store, meaning to just do a quick pass thru and see if there were holes. Ended up spending $350.
They were sold out of water, except boutique brands and one half pallet of gallon bottles of store brand. They had rice in small bags, no large. I didn’t see bleach, wipes, lysol etc because I’m good and I forgot to look. The Campbells soup display had been hit hard. A few cans of most flavors, and 6 of chicken noodle were all that was left. Beef consome’ still in stock… I got a flat of mixed flavors.
Canned veg, flour, sugar, tortilla mix, corn meal, etc were all in stock. Grabbed a flat of drunken beans, green beens, and mixed and matched cans of mixed fruit, peaches, peas, and sweet potatoes. About 4 x 12 more cans. 4 bags of tortilla mix, 2 more of corn meal, one sugar, and some tea mixes. Several different drink flavoring options and pouches of rice seasoning. I’ve got lots of rice.
Canned chicken was gone. Shelf stable meals (dinty more mostly) were fully stocked. OTC meds were stocked including Nyquil. I got the wormer I was looking for, and one of my eye meds. (got both my prescriptions refilled a day or two ago).
Added two more heads of cabbage. It lasts a long time, and is tasty in a couple of different ways.
My cart was full to overflowing and I got more than one funny look with the 6 flats of cans piled up in a tower.
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Checked on my Expy. They had it back together and breaking in. Showed me the parts and the photos of the insides. RUST in the coolant passages. Dry rust. Water pump had mostly failed, no coolant was getting to the top of the engine. I guess the oil cooler was working as it never ran hot. They looked at the cylinders, no damage or scoring. No oil sludge build up at all. Timing chain looked like new to me, but the guides had disintegrated. Of course they replaced it, and the guides. New bolts and gaskets. He said a coolant flush would have revealed the rust and pointed to an issue. I always thought coolant flushes were a scam so that was news to me. They are going to look at the tranny tomorrow to check for a known issue that causes shuddering. If they drop the pan and find pieces of the circlip, they know that was the issue. Replace a <$3 part, refill, and I save $800 labor. I hope it's the circlip.
It's gonna be a whack load of money, but I'll finally get the tranny issue fixed too. I had a serious problem that could have hit me anywhere, which is now fixed. All in all, the timing was a lot better than it could have been, and it should give me year of service still.
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Gun store buddy says "buy ammo". Aesop said the same today. Must be a theme.
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This seems to be the current theme vis WuFlu. I've seen the same phrase in many places today and yesterday. "but said 80-percent of people who have coronavirus experience mild to moderate symptoms and fully recover."
given the list of ongoing health issues that "recovered" people have, not to mention the whole 'sudden drop dead syndrome' I've mentioned, I don't particularly want to be in the 80% either. (To understand why a statement like that is pure BS, remember that even the earliest of the recovered have only been well for a few weeks at most. NO ONE knows what even short or medium term effects will be, let alone long term.)
It's not going away. It's bad. It's probably worse than they are letting on. A whole lotta people are going to get it and die.
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This video is worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9cmAahzVEc
“Planning does not equal preparation.”
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Apparently, there wasn’t enough estate planning done, so additional fundraising, plus book publications, is helping to maintain the “Chaos Manor”.
Since it’s in aid of Roberta, I’ll be re-subscribing. (I’ve already pre-ordered Mamelukes IV.)
Awww, I hope JEP left enough of an estate to keep Roberta in the style to which she’d become accustomed. Chaos Manor itself must be worth a pretty penny…once you haul away the annual dumpster full of shït.
Omni was so cool. I remember reading Garett Hardin’s _Tragedy of the Commons_ in it, only to find out later it was many decades older.
I always sent Jerry cash. On July 4th. Somehow it seemed appropriate.
RIP
It’s gonna be a whack load of money, but I’ll finally get the tranny issue fixed too. I had a serious problem that could have hit me anywhere, which is now fixed. All in all, the timing was a lot better than it could have been, and it should give me year of service still.
Sounds like should give you another 50K miles. Maybe 100K miles. Sensors are not your friend now. I think that my original tranny died on a dead sensor since it still worked fine in reverse. But at 190K miles, was probably almost worn out.
I went to the local Rediclinic in my our local HEB today. The PA said that I am still alive and that my cold is a cold, not the flu. I was worried it was headed into my ears but no sign of that. Continue taking muscinex and take shots from a flonaise thing that I bought. Cost me $40.
The closet was smaller than that and the efficiency was much less than perfect, but yah, it was less than three vertical feet. Stack some paper products, a small box of OTC medicines, and some lightweight but bulky food products on top, and the closet was pretty well filled. And that was the problem, apparently.
That’s the plan, though it’s five years, three months, and a few days out. Not that I’m counting.
I have an acquaintance whose father, on the kids’ 18th birthdays, took them out the back door and broke the plate that they’d just eaten supper on, saying, “You’ve eaten your last free meal here.” If my parents had done that I’d have told them they’d never see their grandchildren and walked out the door. (Which would be a poor second to a better retribution, which wouldn’t have occurred to me in the moment: waiting a couple decades and putting the doddering father into the worst nursing home available.)