Cool and damp this am, followed by really nice. Thermometer says it got over 100F in the sun but I find that hard to believe. Didn’t feel like it at all.
I got a bunch of stuff done, but the pace was a bit leisurely, and some stuff jumped up the list and had to be dealt with. Stuff that I thought would be next week, and done by someone else! It just points out that every single system here, and all the parts, will need to be updated. I have no idea how I’ll get to the hose bibs, outside of opening interior walls, but I know I better do it before they fail. I’ve got at least a rough plan for the other stuff.
Today should involve some electrical, some plumbing, and maybe some carpentry. I’m also meeting with the foundation company’s foam guy to talk about getting the house ready, and to take a look at the bulkhead. It’s a lot easier to do electrical and plumbing when the family isn’t here. I can turn stuff off without considering them, and I’m not under the gun to get it back on. On the other hand, it’s awfully quiet.
That should end tomorrow evening.
Having some spare parts stacked sure made yesterday’s issue a whole lot easier to tackle… stack some repair and maintenance parts. And if you don’t already have the knowledge and skills to use them, stack some reference books. !Stack all the things!
nick
From what I saw looking around, the bottom line is still $50,000+ initial cost in China plus the monthly nut for the battery swap plan.
The charging time debate is a distraction from the real issue – cost.
Most of the population cannot afford a $50,000 vehicle regardless of what has gone on inside F&I rooms in dealerships across the US over the last decade. The point of the EV-only policy push is to eliminate private ownership of cars for most of the population while limiting the range and free time of the 20% or so who do real work and could theoretically drop that kind of cash on transportation with a rearrangement of priorities.
The people making these decisions don’t want the rabble gassing up and heading to Yellowstone on a whim. Or Disney. Of all people, I heard Glenn Beck rant about this point last year. Beck doesn’t want to stand in line behind the masses any more than Mayor Pete and his husband.
Plus they still haven’t answered the question of where the electricity will come from.
Re: hose bibs. I never gave them a second thought until this house.Our house is on a slab, so that means all the pex plumbing is in the slab. Well, most of it. The hose bibs are fed off of other fixture supplies and run up walls and overhead in the attic. I first had one leak by the garage. I came out one day to water pouring out of the wall, right behind the water heater. I was able to leave the water heater in place and open the wall. The water had frozen and split right before the metal to pex joint. Replaced it with one that drains automatically.
The second and third issues were on the line that feeds the backyard hose bib. That line runs over the master bedroom. The first time, I found the carpet by that outside wall saturated. After opening the wall, the pex had frozen in the one spot that wasn’t insulated by the builder. That spot happened to be where it penetrated the top plate. So the water froze, the pez had no way to expand, and a split formed. I repaired that and put in a shutoff valve in the attic for the winter. I was able to clean the carpet and repair the drywall without any big issues.
The third issue I think I’ve mentioned here before. I cam home to water dripping from the master bedroom ceiling (and the smoke detector, which is hooked to power). Fun. Same line as the second issue above. I traced the line to the master bath toilet. I opened the wall behind the tank and cut the line there. I will eventually connect it back and install a shutoff valve, but if there is no water above it can’t leak.
The repair this time was more involved. I had servpro come in and dry everything out. I learned something, and if it happens again I’ll do it myself and save a chunk of change. I had someone come in and repair the ceiling drywall and mud it. I painted it. I installed wood floor instead of carpet. I was able to find the same style and color that we currently have in the rest of the house.
I traced the third hose bib pipe (that is at the front of the house) to its feed from the master shower, and cut and plugged it as well. That pipe goes over my office. I do not want water in there.
My plan is to feed the two disconnected hose bibs from the master toilet. I want to run the pex inside pvc and seal both ends. More expense, but anything to try and prevent water issues in the future.
I’ve been able to live without them because we have a sprinkler system (on a separate meter) and I installed a hose bib by the raised beds for use.
If I ever build another house, it will not be on a slab, it will be a crawlspace. All plumbing will be underneath – nothing overhead (one story house). I wall also spend the money and have everything home run with valves for each run.
Water in a house is a terrible idea. It’s also a great idea.
I’ve also finally learned this: water. always. wins.
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2022/10/06
Is that Nick I spy in the last panel on the right most rock?
I am still under the beta testing NDA so I cannot confirm or deny. But I do like your thinking. (wink)
When testing is complete I have no idea what I will do with the device. I upgraded my phone plan to unlimited for $30.00 a month per phone for two phones. That allows me to tether, basically what the hotspot provides. I am not allowed to sell the device. I suppose I could trade.
The device I am testing has ethernet or USB-C tethering to a device in addition to wireless. The device does allow up to 32 devices to connect well beyond what my phone will allow. The devices also allows ethernet connection to a network with wireless failover which works really well. The device can basically act as a home wireless access point connected to ethernet to a wired modem. The ethernet port works both ways as a connection to the internet or a connection to a device. The USB-C port charges or tethers. The device will operate with or without a battery and the highest output setting can only be obtained when the battery is removed from the device.
I am on the fringe of 5G for T-Mobile, the carrier I used to test the device. I was able to obtain speeds of 100 Mbps or greater on wireless. More than enough speed for a couple of connected devices such as laptops. I connected my Macbook Air and my Surface Pro Laptop and used both at the same time watching Youtube videos without difficulty. The maximum number of devices I connected was five.
65F and 70%RH this fine day…
Sunny and blue sky.
Made pancakes for breakfast. I’ll be fighting to stay awake all morning, but I wanted to check that the bag of mix was good. It was. I’ll put the horrible slop that was supposed to be pancakes on the last visit down to ‘operator error’ on my wife’s part. Nothing wrong with today’s pancakes.
(fwiw, you really do need to sift or otherwise fluff the mix before measuring, and you really do need to wait a bit (instructions say 2 mins) for the bubbles to form before using the batter. The skillet needs to be the right temp too, water drops should sizzle and move, but not skitter off the griddle. If your pancake has a dark edge, with light color just inside, you have too much oil on the griddle or the temp is too high.)
Bob used to comment that recipes for powders should be by weight not measure because of the variability of compacting the powder. What he seemed to miss was that they addressed that by sifting the flour first (2c. sifted bread flour, forex) which took any settling out of the mix. Accurate scales were rare, especially one’s that could measure small amounts. Measuring cups were common and very easy to produce. They found a way to make it work. (eventually the spring driven “kitchen” scale became widely available but the recipes were mostly already by volume, so it stuck.)
n
Weird too that some things are sold by weight but used by volume, and vise versa. Rice, for example.
Plumbing adventures…
We’re having a partial bathroom remodel done. The shower leaked and there was mold, nasty.
None of the copper pipes revealed by opening up the walls were straight. It looked to me like the plumber cut the pipes, and finding them too long, he just bent them into random shapes to fit.
The bathtub pipes were routed through the half-wall on the side of the shower, which means the pipes need to be relocated in the concrete slab. First issue was that both cold and hot were 2 pipes each, joined inside the half wall. Presumably those go off to the sinks or something. The contractor had to do some tricky PEX work to fix that.
He dug up the floor and found another pipe in there, uncapped. I guess that was a mistake during construction and they just left it.
I replaced the vanity lights. One wasn’t grounded.
Professionalism seems to have been absent during construction of this house.
Back when Dr Who was good they did an episode on that.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1413314/
Y’alls plumbing stories. I like doing handyman stuff, but somehow I hate plumbing. That’s where I always bring in the professionals.
In the apartment building I mentioned: since I’m taking on more responsibility there, I’ve also had a couple of walks around. The shutoff valves (for water in individual apartments) are original, ancient, and probably don’t work anymore. There’s a new shutoff for the whole building, so at least that should work.
There is also just one hot water pipe that has one bend covered with calcium. It’s not presently leaking, but apparently only because it plugged itself. Timebomb waiting to happen. Unfortunately the pipe is just barely visible, most of it is embedded in a concrete wall. Let sleeping dogs lie, I think…
Definitely happens. Mismeasure ingredients, put something in twice, or not at all. My wife never lets me forget the first cheesecake I baked for her, back when we were dating (and dinosaurs roamed the earth). I forgot to add the sugar. The cheesecake looked gorgeous, but…did you know that unsweetened cheesecake tastes like wallpaper paste? Really, astoundingly awful…
Professionalism seems to have been absent during construction of any house.
Fixed it for you.
As complete amateurs, we stopped a number of stupid decisions by subcontractors working on our house. I don’t want to know how many things we didn’t catch, that will someday bite us. We expected our general contractor to supervise the subs, but supervision was a joke.
Watching the work progress on the crazy neighbors’ house: There are currently two young guys wandering around. Occasionally, they pick up a drill or a screwdriver. As likely as not, they then set it down again. I think they are supposed to be putting siding on house, but it is honestly impossible to tell WTF they are doing. Lack of adult supervision.
I don’t understand people like that. Don’t they have any sort of work ethic? Do they enjoy standing around being bored? I don’t get it…
WRT Thermal Radiation:
Consider a campfire on a cool evening with a slight breeze. Stand facing the fire and you feel the warming on your face. Turn around and facing away and you will feel the breeze cooling your face and the fire warming your back. The fire will be warming the air at the fire but there will not be radiation warming distant from the fire.
I loathe glue traps. My conventional traps have been empty while I see mice scampering.
I laid out glue traps. Eventually caught two. More mice seen outside the front door, under the large porch and boldly capering along the walk. I placed a few more glue traps.
As I was leaving tge house I watched a mouse boldly run in front of me ACROSS the glue trap, feet making full contact.
As I was outraging another family member commented it was probably the air temp. It’s mid 40’s F.
I’ve got a growing mouse problem. Not unexpected given the chickens / rabbits. Grrr.
Very true. that why when we built this house, I paid a structural engineer to inspect it before sheetrock went up to make sure the bones of the house were ok.
The biggest shenanigans seem to be with plumber sand electricians. Every friggin outlet I’ve replaced in this house so far (for various reasons) has been back stabbed. I have a hot water pex line in the attic the is draped over the main hvac duct. Funny how no city inspector caught that. I’ll fix that one of these days…
re how to measure ingredients for baking, weight of ordinary white flour can vary by at least 5% due to humidity. I’ve conducted that experiment myself. Measuring flour by mass is probably generally more consistent than measuring by volume but it’s not perfect.
Can you train the
chickensmini-velociraptors to hunt the mice?You do what you have to do to make it work. I take the mice and drown them if they are still alive. Evidence seems to suggest that a mouse can hold its breath for 2.5 minutes.
I use bait in the traps. Some type of gel in a tube that mice are supposed to really like. It seems to work. In a two week span I trapped 20+ of the little rodents. We never had a mouse problem until suddenly we discovered we had a problem. We generally get one or two a year until that one year when there must have been some sort of mouse convention.
My son’s home was the same way. 59 outlets that I replaced before he moved in. Back stab is code compliant. It is quick is why they are used. I just don’t like them as the back stabbed devices are more prone to failure.
If you are doing electrical work get an ECX screwdriver. You will thank me later. You can apply much more torque, the driver will not slip, the screws will not get damaged.
Probably not against code. I had electrical lines holding up A/C duct work. I relocated the lines and attached proper supports.
Many things in my house were incorrect. Bad wiring, bad plumbing, the electrical panel had rusted buss bars. None of that was caught by the inspector.
When I built a lawnmower shed the inspector was all over every little stinking detail. I wired the shed for electrical, 240V to a sub panel in the shed. Inspector pitched a fit because I used non-metallic (Romex) wiring instead of outdoor UF non-metallic wiring. I fought back saying the interior of the shed is “indoors” as it is a closed building. He eventually OK’ed the wiring.
Based on what we have found in the house I am guessing the inspector never looked or took a bribe.
@ITguy1998
“back stabbed” – what exactly does this mean? I am unfamiliar with the words in context.
There is a hole in the back of the outlet or switch into which the stripped end of the wire is inserted. No tool required. To release the wire a small screwdriver is inserted into a slot to release the contact strip. The contact strip is what holds the wire in place.
It should be noted that backstabbed outlets are still allowed by code for #14 wire, but not for #12. My personal preference is that backstabbed should not be used for any outlets or switches regardless of the wire gauge.
>> I understand why snaps exist, but I still don’t like them. Having two parallel install systems is – at best – confusing.
With apologies to our late host, but sorry Bob, Linux on the desktop is still not ready for Aunt Sally.
Professionalism seems to have been absent during construction of this house.
Professionalism is not a specification of any house that I have seen.
Get in, slap the job in, and move to the next house is the motto around these parts.
If you are doing electrical work get an ECX screwdriver. You will thank me later. You can apply much more torque, the driver will not slip, the screws will not get damaged.
Got a favorite make and model ?
@Jenny
This guy knows his mousetraps, and he strongly recommends the Flip and Slide.
Some stores carry them, but most likely you have to order it.
Here’s the link to the manufacturer (Made in USA):
https://www.rinnetraps.com/?ref=shawnwoods1
I placed an order with big River for several styles of mouse eradication tools. That was a few weeks ago. Shipment delayed to next week. It’ll get here eventually. Includes the flip bucket, gel bait, and a few more goodies.
The chickens enthusiastically gobble up every mouse they can catch and they do hunt the mice. The mice don’t go in the coop or run anymore. I may go full Green Acres and pen the hens up next to the house for a few days to see if the can catch a few of the nasty beggars.
Milwaukee.
https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-48-22-2041-Ecx-Screwdriver/dp/B00KQCIAL8/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2H2ARP6K05QGO&keywords=ecx+screwdriver&qid=1665077046&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI1Ljc5IiwicXNhIjoiNC41MyIsInFzcCI6IjQuMzMifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=ecx%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-3&tag=ttgnet-20
You can also purchase at Home Depot in a set with two other screwdrivers in stock. A single driver can be ordered as the stores don’t carry the single driver. You want the ECX #1 as the #2 is too large.
That should be possible, whether it is advisable might be another question. We had a couple of chickens in suburbia that were relocated to another household in the midst of a farm. They readily took a gopher away from the rather large resident cat they terrorized for several weeks before he realized he could be the dominant animal.
>> It’s a lot easier to do electrical and plumbing when the family isn’t here. I can turn stuff off without considering them, and I’m not under the gun to get it back on. On the other hand, it’s awfully quiet.
I don’t like working without some background sound. Being able to play all my Sirius XM channels over any of our Echo devices is handy. Also have several portable radios if I’m outside. Good opportunity to check out some of the local talk radio stations. And they run on AA batteries for prep purposes.
Can you train the
chickensmini-velociraptors to hunt the mice?My wife’s cousin outside Breckenridge, TX has Guinea Fowl chickens. She also has a rattlesnake mound about a 100 feet away from the house. They have killed over a hundred rattlesnakes over the years. The Guinea Fowl killed half of those.
I suggested lots of gasoline or diesel and a match. They took my suggestion under consideration.
I killed a rattlesnake den on my parents property in Port Lavaca about 30 years ago with three gallons of diesel. I just poured the diesel down the front hole below the brick fence. I did not know about the hole on the other side of the brick fence as some of them got out using that hole. But they never came back.
>> I am not allowed to sell the device. I suppose I could trade.
I might be able to arrange a swap for some ornery Alaskan chickens ;p
“Biden pardons thousands for ‘simple possession’ of marijuana”
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Biden-pardons-thousands-for-simple-possession-17491812.php
Wow, man. That is so righteous.
“NASA asteroid crash leaves trail of debris more than 6,000 miles long”
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/nasa-asteroid-crash-trail-debris-17488870.php
Oops.
“The Scoop: Meta’s historic growth challenge”
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-metas-historic-growth-challenge
“A few hours after I sent out last week’s The Scoop in which I wrote about hiring slowing down at Meta, with production engineering hiring frozen and some teams unable to get backfill, it would be Mark Zuckerberg who indirectly confirmed the reporting was accurate. ”
Looks like a lot of software engineers are going to be walking the street soon.
“A Killing Frost” by Seanan McGuire
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Frost-October-Daye/dp/0756412528?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number fourteen of a sixteen book fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by DAW in 2021. I have the fifteenth book in the series and am reading that now.
Many hundreds of years ago, the many of the fae left a far off land and landed on what would become the west coast of the United States. There they built their realms and fought their wars, both on the land and the sea. The humans do not know of their realms and their travels but, humans do not see everything. This is their story.
October Daye (Toby), a Hero of the Realm, is getting ready to marry Tybalt, king of the cats. In order to get married, she must invite her legal father, Simon Torquill. But Simon has not been seen in years so Toby must find him.
Please note that although the author and I share the same middle and last names, I do not know if we are related. We are McGuire’s, there are many of us. I paid for my book and all of the books that I own written by her.
The author has a website at:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,676 reviews)
Linux on the desktop is still not ready for Aunt Sally.
– actually, neither is windows, but we are used to dealing with it. Constant updates, often breaking things, reboots closing all our open windows, changes in user settings regarding spyware, devices not being supported with current drivers, the need for antivirus and antimalware software…. forced upgrades…
—- foundation foam guy just left. Really nice young guy. Looked at my house, hill, and bulkhead. Chatted for a while. Some of the kids are alright.
IDK about mice, but the rats love the bait blocks so much they will eat their way into the stored poison boxes to get to it. The attractant gel doesn’t seem to work on them. Of course, I’m breeding mine for stealth and smarts… (inadvertently). Glue traps only work if they are stapled down and surrounded by snap traps, for rats anyway.
—wrt pardons for simple possession– that’s the plea. They were usually popped for something much more serious but went with possession to clear the case. (thin pipe, didn’t read the link) That said, the war on some drugs is a bad idea that should be re-evaluated.
Now that I’ve had my lunch, I need to hustle and bang out a bunch of little jobs. Sun is out and it is in fact hot.
n
No problems here with Win 11. Updates are easy and fast. Easy to restore browser windows (History, Restore Last Session). Save all data in open apps, then close them – no big deal. Windows Defender is good enough (although I have Sophos Home Premium). All my devices are supported (I don’t have old stuff). No breakage of anything. All my old apps work just fine.
My experiences with various Linux choices (admittedly, years ago) was not easy.
I’ll give System76 credit for trying with their Pop OS variant of Ubuntu, but the writing is on the wall that the kids in Colorado are going to end up working for HP.
The much vaunted HP Dev One running Pop OS is a bad omen. The end result is a mediocre compromise IMHO, and HP is not going to pursue open firmware should they acquire the company. System76 will be HP’s Alienware.
Day 7 of having the upstairs and downstairs heat pumps turned off. We have the windows open all day and only leave the upstairs open all night. Today is the warmest day so far. It’s 82 outside and 77 inside. That is the temp we keep the house at in the summer anyways. Plus there is a decent breeze, and the humidity is 28%. It was down to 67 in the house this morning. Chilly, but not bad.
What? “Doctor Who” isn’t good now?
I’m not a big “Lord of the Rings” fan, but I’m enjoying watching the spectacle of the pushback over the Amazon abomination.
“Doctor Who” fans were way too timid over saying anything was amiss until it was too late.
Win11 updates are easy right now. Wait a few years when cumulative updates get huge like the current win10 updates and see what happens. As for win10 updates? Yeah, a single system might have no issues. when you deal with hundreds or thousands? Yeah, full time employment breaking the crap storms that happen fairly regularly. And usually, it’s not that an update has broken something, it’s that freakin windows update has stopped working. And don’t get me started about WSUS and updating an offline network…
Yum is a far better solution, but of course RedHat has to make it as complicated as possible. We are currently having challenges getting an offline RedHat 8 repository setup. Guru full time employment indeed.
“No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/no-fix-in-sight-for-mile-wide-loophole-plaguing-a-key-windows-defense-for-years/
“Lazarus is latest group to pull off “bring your own vulnerable device” attack.”
“Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a computer. A cornerstone of that progress was the enactment of strict new restrictions on the loading of system drivers that could run in kernel mode. These drivers are crucial for computers to work with printers and other peripherals, but they’re also a convenient inroad that hackers can take to allow their malware to gain unfettered access to the most sensitive parts of Windows. With the advent of Windows Vista, all such drivers could only be loaded after they’d been approved in advance by Microsoft and then digitally signed to verify they were safe.”
“Last week, researchers from security firm ESET revealed that about a year ago, Lazarus, a hacking group backed by the North Korean government, exploited a mile-wide loophole last year that existed in Microsoft’s driver signature enforcement (DSE) from the start. The malicious documents Lazarus was able to trick targets into opening were able to gain administrative control of the target’s computer, but Windows’ modern kernel protections presented a formidable obstacle for Lazarus to achieve its objective of storming the kernel.”
Not me! Heck, it started going downhill when Clara joined Matt Smith. At least she had a tiny bit of chemistry with him (I’m trying to be generous here). She had none with Capaldi. “The Husbands of River Song” teased us with what could have been if Capaldi had a good, strong companion. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4701546/
“The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring”
https://boingboing.net/2022/10/05/the-man-in-charge-of-time-on-the-internet-is-retiring.html
What could go wrong ?
Points to:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time?mc_cid=01a839570b&mc_eid=d63e057ad6
My favorite Shell station out here in the sticks just raised their gasoline price from $2.899/gallon of regular unleaded to $3.029. It looks like the price jumps have started again. Hang on to your hats, winter is coming !
BTW, not many people know that our peak fuel usage across the USA is in the winter, not the summer. Even here in Texas, had we been able to get all that so-called renewable generation online in Feb 2021, the power demand was probably 85,000 MW. We just hit a new peak of 80,000 MW this summer.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/ERCOT-breaks-demand-record-for-11th-time-this-17317722.php
@brad
More highly motivated students?
Dr. Who started going downhill when Colin Baker became The Doctor, and acheived free-fall with Sylvester McCoy.
When they did the reboot they should have had a John Nathan-Turner lookalike get horribly killed in the first episode, and made that a yearly tradition.
In Auntie Beeb’s defense, they fired Colin Baker.
John Nathan-Turner was trying to get a deal like Grant/Naylor had for “Red Dwarf” and Sony will have moving forward for the next run of shows.
Wait until the SPR withdrawals stop after the election.
Now Biden is playing nice with Maduro because the US needs the heavy crude.
What Maduro wants is what every Venezuelan has been waiting for since the Chavez revolution – US Marines landing on the beaches of Caracas.
>> So why pay $4.60 to mail a letter w/o a way to know if it was received?
A tracking number was issued. A person going to the USPS website can get confirmation of delivery, just not to whom the item was delivered.
Certified Mail also has a ‘Restricted Delivery’ option (at an additional cost) which allows delivery only to the addressee upon display of appropriate ID. This can be added with, or without, the Return Receipt postcard. My grandfather worked for the USPS for many, many years.
well, it’s dark, so I have to stop working. Family is in transit. Hungry Man dinner is sitting in the radar range…
NA beer, michelada style, in the yeti.
Time to start my wind down.
n
Back in Florida, I used Restricted Delivery to mail my HOA annual fees to the Treasurer after he tried to claim I didn’t pay one year. That along with a USPS Money Orders stopped the games since he knew any antics would get the Postal Inspector involved.
USPS Money Orders were notorious in Tampa for a while. The Hillsborough County Sheriff used the Post Office regulations to raid and search the local dominatrix “dungeon” by having an undercover deputy pay for a discipline session with one. Postal Inspectors arrive armed and have warrantless search powers similar to the IRS.
In the end, the dominatrix wasn’t doing anything illegal, but the big Baptist church down the street wanted her gone and had the political pull. I’m guessing the minister didn’t pay his bill and she cut him off.
At least she didn’t ‘cut him off’ like Lorena Bobbitt….
n
“Citing Concern for Free Speech, 12 Federal Judges Say They Won’t Take Clerks from Yale Law School”
https://freebeacon.com/campus/citing-concern-for-free-speech-12-federal-judges-say-they-wont-take-clerks-from-yale-law-school/
“Several judges noted that Yale is the only elite law school that does not employ a single prominent conservative scholar, which they argued had made it more susceptible to groupthink. “It is hard for me to see how one can get a rigorous, well-rounded education in that environment,” one district judge said. “And that is a concern when it comes to hiring law clerks.””
This will get noticed.
Judy Tenuta. RIP.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/ct-aud-ent-judy-tenuta-dies-20221007-ujcfcvn4qvbljbi647lwkd76fq-story.html
For those following the Green Revolution Suicide Pact, two links of interest:
A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”
2021 EU(27) + UK Weather Dependent Renewables performance, Productivity/ Capacity = 18.1%
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/05/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-weather-dependent-renewables-2/
The Penetration Problem. Part I: Wind and Solar – The More You Do, The Harder It Gets
Nine reasons.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/06/the-penetration-problem-part-i-wind-and-solar-the-more-you-do-the-harder-it-gets/
The second link is from Judith Curry’s Climate, Etc. site, and each of the nine reasons is supported by links to previous articles.
I would like to repeat and amplify my previous proposal for a green energy test case: Immediately pass legislation to do all the green things to Washington, DC and our federal government by 2024. Show us the way:
Further, each Senator and Congressperson (the 535) be assigned an Energy Aide with plenary authority to be in continuous contact with their offices in Washington and implement an identical Local Energy State (LES) for each of the 535, so that they can not only live in it 24/7, they will be continuously demonstrating it wherever they go. Each of the 535 will have a webpage devoted to reporting their LES and cumulative stats.
Likewise, federal government offices in Virginia and other locations outside the District will operate under the same constraints.
On the campaign trail in New Hampshire and the District goes to brownout? The Energy Aide shuts down the AC, public address, and turns off the lights in the hall. Insufficient power to charge EV’s in the District? Limit range to the power of the solar cells on the roof of the limo, or break out the bicycles.
I think it’s only fair that any air traveling by the 535 and their entourages be done on electric airplanes, but that may be a lithium cell too far.
The 535 exempt and insulate themselves from the consequences of most of the legislation they impose. Not this time. Let them lead, and as appropriate, bleed.
hmmmm. It would only be appropriate to extend the same rules to the families of the 535, too, wouldn’t it?
wheeeeeee…
https://twitter.com/The_Figen/status/1577123610560368640
Makes my palms sweat watching it….
n
family has arrived, fire is out, and I”m for bed.
That’s what I’m hoping. Also, tiny classes. Their biggest classroom holds 24. The lab group they want me to take over yesterday-if-not-sooner has 5 or 6.
Regarding motivation: the lab group does not get any sort of grade. Is that good? I have no idea… I expect the trick is offering a project that they find interesting.
If I can somehow make it work, and the wife agrees, I’ll give it a try.
Congressional candidate (VA 10) Hung Cao, USN (Ret):
https://twitter.com/NoVA_Campaigns/status/1576713358786502656
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2022/10/06/lost-in-all-the-big-name-mid-term-brouhaha-va-10-and-hung-cao-n501528
>> wheeeeeee…
https://twitter.com/The_Figen/status/1577123610560368640
It’s only the last couple inches that hurt if you take the wrong way down.