Overcast, damp, but hopefully cool.
We got a bare dusting of rain in the early morning yesterday, and it was still sitting on stuff at 6pm. THAT’S how damp it was in Houston. You sweat just standing still, even at 76F.
I did one pickup, of stuff for the house mainly. I did get 3 partial jugs of smokeless powder for reloading. Not something I do, but I’ve got most of what I’d need to reload shotgun… or I’ll sell it as a bundle and hopefully get more than I would for just the pieces.
Today I need to rent a trailer to get all the things. Mainly I bought 2 pallets of fiberglas batt insulation. I am going to finish my bathroom project this fall/winter/spring. It was 2/5 the price of lowes, and that’s a pretty big discount. I really only needed one pallet, but for the first time in months, the pallets went for less than $200 and my ‘safety placeholder’ bid won. I’ll use it up in the attic over the kitchen where the existing insulation is minimal.
I’ve got another pickup before that one. I won some shotgun ammo in a local estate sale. It went for much less than the crazy high prices the rifle and pistol ammo brought. Shotty will work just fine, come the day.
Before all that though, daughter 1 has an orthodontia appointment this morning. I’ll be taking her to that, then back to school.
After all my other tasks, then I’ll use the trailer to move one more thing in the late afternoon/evening and I’ll be done running around for the day.
The local and regional PD have been working overtime on surveillance and arrests. The other night a massive task force went after the street racers. Then there was some drug surveillance involving DEA and their aircraft. Today it was auto theft and armed robbery. They followed the bad guys and grabbed them as soon as it started to go down. Had the helo up in case the guys ran. Some other thing was running too, involving ATF as one of the partner agencies.
The interesting thing for me is that the bad guys still manage to lose the good guys lot of the time. Or they spot some of the surveillance and avoid doing any crimes in front of those units, but they can’t help themselves and still commit crimes in front of the others. Often, the good guys will use a marked unit to make the stop, almost always after establishing probable cause so the target never even knows they were being watched. I can’t believe how many crooks have broken tail lights, or do really stupid stuff in traffic. I’d say that 99% of the stuff the local PD and the task forces do never even gets noticed by the press. Get a scanner and start listening. It’s enlightening and well worth just having it on while you’re doing other things.
So much to do, I better get busy. Keep getting ready, keep stacking.
nick