Cold and damp. Warming slightly. Then, later, more cold. FROST on the grass fer Pete’s sake.
They got most if not all the piers and jacks in place yesterday so today we get to see a housefly. Or a house fly. Sorta. While still sitting on the ground, it will rise up, about 3 inches. Unlike most things that go up, hopefully this one won’t come down.
I did knock off a couple of small tasks yesterday, and I might get a couple more done today. I want to watch them work, so I might not. What I SHOULD do is run the gas line for the furnace. Put a new toilet together for the hall bath. (They will remove the existing to video the drain after lifting the house to make sure it’s still intact. Might as well put the new one back instead of the old.) And finish stubbing out the plumbing supply for the kitchen sink. At a minimum I need to cap the ends so we can pressure test before they replace the water service to the house. That only takes a minute with sharkbite fittings. It would be awesome to get the stubs in and pressure test them at the same time.
Any of those things would be a good thing. All three will be a miracle of actually working on stuff, and good luck that it doesn’t cause a failure cascade.
We’ll see.
I also brought up my really tall and sturdy extension ladder. I will hang the new cell booster antenna pole, if the U bolts I got fit the bracket. If not, I’ll head to the store first. Lowes doesn’t carry many U bolts, and about half were out of stock. If I’m feeling sporty, I might use the ladder to trim some trees. IF.
One of the things I got done was assembling a 3/4 sized propane patio heater. It was cheap because the hardware was missing. I had plenty in my coffee can of loose screws and hardware. Along with all the batteries, that can of random fasteners has saved the day more than once. Now the guys can stand under it and get some of the chill off. Later I’ll take it down to the dock to bolster my fire ring at night. I was going to grab one of the full sized ones from the house, but didn’t have time. Maybe later.
Always be working the plan. Always be stacking…
nick
@paul
Have you checked whether your current connections’ (Ethernet / WiFi) network is set to Private as opposed to the default Public? – this overrides most of the funny firewall / antivirus issues…
Second on the SMB1.0 CIFS advice – just make sure to UNTICK the SMB Automatic Removal option, else Microsoft will disable your SMB1.0 support randomly with updates 🙁
good luck!
I’m guessing it went something like:
“Thirty years ago, that cute girl at the supermarket with the petition was awfully nice and I said, gee, what’s the harm with signing. Her smile was so pretty.”
Texas will not be spared. Gas is a global market, and there are pipelines.
This story came up a few weeks ago, dropped by one of the trolls looking to bore the room with debate about a poorly reported story from Sinclair wires about Yet Another Crazy Floridian With A Gun.
Following up. Not that the TImes reporting is any less lazy than Sinclair’s TV newsroom just down the street and around the corner, but a few more pieces of the puzzle get presented.
The Times is across the river, near the performing arts center, a shorter drive, but across the bridge. I’ll refrain from a joke about evil entities and crossing running water.
Sinclair is WFLA TV, at the river near the Selmon Expressway.
Both bureaus are marked on the map if you zoom and move around. Paywalled, but The Times allows casual reading a few times a month.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/10/19/new-details-emerge-shooting-death-19-year-old-university-tampa-student/
I’m not buying that the cops missed the house key, but ok.
Ah, morning. So much fun to sleep thru…
47F this morning, so much warmer than yesterday. And in long pants and long sleeves, feels a bit different too.
The house is nice and warm, compared to yesterday. Because I realized, I’m a prepper! Before I went to bed in the increasingly chilly house (no furnace), I thought, why not use the backup?
So a quick trip to the shed yielded two of the oil filled (look like steam radiators) electric heaters. One in the living room/kitchen, one in the bedroom, a couple of fans, and Robert’s your father’s male sibling…
69F in the house, 71F in the kitchen, and warm in the bedroom. Prepping for the WIN!
Plan for today definitely includes the gas line to the furnace.
n
@whitehorse, thanks for the additional detail.
n
So, you won’t takes yer medicine, Skippy, but we’ll force it on your kids and they’ll likes it.
Shut yer yappin’ and stop yer thinkin’. You talk too much. We all want to get back to “normal”.
https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-votes-add-covid-19-214627862.html
All of the Control group must be eliminated per the edict of Pope Fauci.
Say, where is Herr Doctor these days?
Still jab free here.
I’m starting to think that the “boosterthon” at the elementary school isn’t about school spirit, but I haven’t seen any clarification on the web site. The ISD board is already in trouble in the upcoming election, starting with the dopey chairwoman.
WRT GPS. There are 2 different data streams in a GPS signal. There is a lower precision stream that is not encrypted and the precision stream that is. The non-encrypted stream was supposed to be degraded; the air force applied a drift signal. But they applied the same drift signal to every satellite, which enabled differential GPS to remove the drift.
When the Air Force went back to Congress for funds to replace the birds to fix the error, Congress denied the money. So commercial GPS is more accurate than it was supposed to be. I doubt any of those ‘bad’ birds are still in orbit, so they COULD turn the dithering signal on. They probably will if/when there is an imminent military threat to the US.
I have never heard of a successful attack on the uplink to the satellites. That signal is encrypted at at least the same level as the military stream. So I doubt that any of the reported hacks have actually used the GPS downlink. REPLACING the signal is a whole other kettle of fish and has been done. Military receivers are largely immune, since the P-stream would fail decryption. Well, immune as they won’t be spoofed. They would still be jammed by the signal. The military has spent a lot of money to develop a cheap and accurate inertial navigation system, with varying degrees of success.
Most everyone here knows this, but GPS cannot track you. There is no transmit function in a GPS receiver. A phone might send the GPS coordinates out using a different system, but using GPS does not give the GPS users location to the government.
Not according to current crime shows. Apparently any car made in the last 10 years can transmit GPS coordinates knowing nothing but the license plate. It also possible to access any financial institutions records on any account. Immediate notification of any credit card transactions. Location can be determined within feet with a single cell tower. Facial recognition from a grainy security camera with seconds. Immediate access to every security camera ever installed with the ability to track vehicles. Access to all employment records and tax returns without a warrant. Oh, and don’t forget, the ability to read a license plate from a 480×640 security camera, at night, reflected off the hubcap of a 57 Desoto.
Sad that people actually believe the FBI can do such crap.
29F this morning at the RV site. Electric heater going in the RV keeps it OK. Cool in the RV this morning at 60F as I had the heater on low as the wife made me painfully aware. One more night here.
Not many people here, 5, including our trailer of the available 18 slots.
We did take the short drive to Cumberland Falls which are really awesome. Surprisingly many people there for being in the middle of the week. Weather was great, trees a little past peak color, so people there to see that.
We face some difficult challenges hooking up tomorrow morning based on the difficulty we had getting the trailer in place. Will have to hook at an angle to make it work and probably a couple maneuvers to get out. If we come back to this place I now know there are only two spots that would work OK.
The furthest we got into TN in August was Chattanooga, and we saw Ruby Falls along with Rock City and the Incline Railway.
Ruby Falls was worth all of the hassle and the mile round trip hike through the cave.
“American Gods” nails Rock City. I have a picture that sums it all up.
The next morning, in Chattanooga, was when I really started to feel the effects of having the Wuxu Flu. 20 minutes in the shower, however, and I was good to get back on the road.
“See Rock City!”
“See Ruby Falls!”
Those signs, and buying hermit crabs at roadside stands, and all the slag glass shops, that’s what I remember most about the drive from Chicago to Fla. when I was a kid.
🙂
n
They can, close enough for government work. All they have to do is make up results to fit the desired outcome and then sign the papers saying that chain of custody and proper lab procedures were filed. Easy-peasy.
My parents had a 57 DeSoto, so I can relate to hubcap reflections. I had a 57 Plymouth with the iconic and much imitated conical hubcaps. Those would not have made useful reflections, but were beautiful.
My hubcaps were stolen while the car was parked on the street at home. That was in 1962, and hubcap theft had become fairly rare by then, except for really desirable ones. I had never thought there was a risk. Silly me.
Or the various states could BUY a LNG tanker, flag it Anerican and crew it. Or the various utilities could. Or a consortium of the above.
Biggest problem would probably be finding USCG credentialed crewman, certified for LNG fuel transport/transfer.
John McPhee’s Looking For a Ship talks about the excess of American sailors, waiting ashore for a slot on a US flagged ship.
Basically you get a year afloat then someone takes your place and you are back on the hard awaiting your turn again.
Great book, by the way, as are most of his. Wonderful commute or long drive audio material.
Hmmm. I had a cassette version, does not seem to be on Audible.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005E8AF0S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&tag=ttgnet-20=
Who remembers “freeze a Yankee” the last time this happened? Their lack of planning does not have to be your emergency.
I’ve had this mild-but-annoying cold for three weeks now. That’s not normal at all – colds usually go away after a few days. So I’m pretty convinced I have one of the Covid variants. We had a quick-test left from last year, but it had partially dried out, so I wasn’t able to use it.
Not sure if I can be bothered to go get a new one from the pharmacy. Whatever it shows isn’t going to change anything.
Aha, so both streams are always available. That’s what I wasn’t sure of…
– – – – –
We are now in week 5 of the semester, and the annual split is becoming evident. I have students who doing great. And others who have finally decided to try a couple of exercises from week 1. Oh, not so easy, when you try it yourself! Yes, I really did mean it, when I said “write a program every day” and “don’t fall behind”. Sucks to be them, but they aren’t going to catch up. As a teacher, it’s always discouraging to see this happen.
OTOH, those are people who we don’t need cluttering up later courses, and it’s my job to weed them out.
Of course, the school administration wants more, more, moar students, so we should find some way to retain even the dumbest and least motivated. We’re a state school, so student numbers shouldn’t actually matter, but top managers always use Excel sheets for brains. Personally, I think we should downsize, and get rid of another 20% or so of the worst students.
@Nick
“If I’m feeling sporty, I might use the ladder to trim some trees. IF.”
Strongly advise applying your talents elsewhere and hiring a tree monkey.
Otherwise, you could make a list of jobs you could do with 500% better efficiency by hiring a manlift for a day.
NOTE: Previous comment mucked up in editing;
I used my GPSr to record a location in my backyard 30 times, at least 3 hours apart to use different satellite combinations. Then assuming a normal distribution for the errors, I calculated the standard deviation to characterize the precision.
Note that the quite expensive brand Trimble GPSrs used by professional surveyors are much more precise than those for hobby usage.
My son seems to be settling in to college life. He has a lighter load than normal. He took a lot of AP classes, and tests, in high school. That allowed him to not have to take any English classes (and some other liberal arts classes), and he only has to take a couple humanities courses. He’s taking Philosophy -yeah a snooze fest, but it’s easy. He also has Chem I, Calc I, an intro engineering class, and a business class (he is doing the 5 year program where you go an extra year and come out with an MBA). He’s projecting all A’s except for Chem, which will likely be a B. I have no issues with that at all. Proud dad…
I tell people – CS students, wanna-bes, interns, parents who are pushing their kids to get a good-paying job – that you become a programmer by writing programs. Classes may help (or may hinder; some teachers or curricula are worse than useless), online videos may help, shoulder surfing an experienced programmer may help, but in the end if you don’t write lots of programs, you won’t become a programmer.
I estimate that under a third of the people that I say this to, listen. Unfortunately, between the academic pressure not to flunk out incapable students and the powerful drive of many employers to hire and retain incapable programmers if they have the correct genitalia or melanin , the lesson is diluted. “I got a degree in CS, so I’m a real programmer!” “I’m being paid, so I’m really a real software engineer!” Never mind that they can’t write a program that will compile, let alone do anything useful.
WRT GPS. There are 2 different data streams in a GPS signal. There is a lower precision stream that is not encrypted and the precision stream that is. The non-encrypted stream was supposed to be degraded; the air force applied a drift signal. But they applied the same drift signal to every satellite, which enabled differential GPS to remove the drift.
What happens when you cross the data streams ?
“The coming fight over the gig economy, explained”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/12/23398727/biden-worker-misclassification-independent-contractor-labor
“The Labor Department’s new classification rules could give workers for companies like Uber and DoorDash more rights — if they ever take effect.”
Regulators want to regulate everything.
Well, most of the lifting is done, they are fine tuning and doing the foam injection. The foam actually is concurrent with the perimeter lift, negating a concern someone expressed here, EdH? (sorry, thin pipe) They raise the edge, then use foam to raise the middle, then repeat… It’s crazy to see the house and fireplace rising ½ ” at a time…
And doors fitting back into jambs.
Low tech, but high tech.
n
Yep, me, sounds like a good crew doing the procedure.
Congratulations!
Well, most of the lifting is done, they are fine tuning and doing the foam injection. The foam actually is concurrent with the perimeter lift, negating a concern someone expressed here, EdH? (sorry, thin pipe) They raise the edge, then use foam to raise the middle, then repeat… It’s crazy to see the house and fireplace rising ½ ” at a time…
And doors fitting back into jambs.
Low tech, but high tech.
n
So is the house going to have a permanent three inch lift ?
Are they going to do anything about the foundation cracks or are those just holding in place ?
Are there any new beams under the foundation ?
I guess that the house is now suspended on the new piers instead of the old semi liquid sand. That is interesting.
“Intel Core i9-13900K Review”
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-13900k
“Taking back the performance crown with more cores, better performance, and lots of heat”
Wow, 5.6 Ghz. And reputedly running 7 Ghz on liquid nitrogen. 24 cores. I doubt that this bad boy will run on air cooling at 253 watts.
A portal will open and take you to Hell or Hadleyburg–try and make it the former.
The Thales/Magellan units I used in civil engineering work in 2010 or so allowed user settable integration times. 1min per station gave us a 4m CEP in theory, in practice more like 2m, using known benchmarks. (Pure Globalstar btw).
CEP varies with the inverse square root of integration time. In theory. We did longer times every half mile or so, 5m. No real difference TBH.
The greatest source of error that we did notice was the surroundings. We were mapping the water channels, and the channel geometry and angles and the protective chain link fence around them really affected the signal. As I said we were normally within 5 feet, but once or twice we saw consistent differences of almost 100 feet from actual, almost always in deep channels surrounded by high block walls and chain-link fences.
“Windows Terminal is now the Default in Windows 11”
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-is-now-the-default-in-windows-11/
I still use plain old command shell. Oh well.
“Sempra, Bechtel finalize Port Arthur LNG EPC contract”
https://www.ogj.com/pipelines-transportation/lng/article/14284503/sempra-bechtel-finalize-port-arthur-lng-epc-contract
“Under the EPC contract, Bechtel will also perform Phase 1 commissioning, startup, performance testing, and operator training. The amended contract includes a price of $10.5 billion. Sempra initially awarded the EPC work to Bechtel in 2020 (OGJ Online, Mar. 3, 2020).”
“Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 is permitted and expected to include two 6.75-million tpy liquefaction trains and as many as three 160,000-cu m LNG storage tanks. A similarly sized Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project is also under development.”
Bring your big checkbook. And there are more LNG liquefaction plants coming in the USA as $5 to $10 natural gas can be resold in Europe or Asia for $30 today. I am not sure what tomorrows price will be.
Did you experiment with putting sheet metal panels between your receiver and the presumed reflective sources of error?
You sleazy lowlifes enjoy a story about other’s misfortune. So I will indulge your warped sense of what is funny.
We decided to leave the state park early. No place to bike, we saw the waterfall, we were just sitting in the trailer watching movies. Might as well do that at home.
No sewer connection at the site so a dump station was used. Apparently last time I used the trailer I failed to close the valve on the black water tank instead just installing the cap. When I went to connect the hose at the dump station I failed to check the valve (another lesson learned). I have to get on the ground and reach under the trailer to connect the hose to the dump station.
Upon removing the cap I was greeted with wonderful foul smelling discharge. Gushed all over my arms, my legs on the ground and some splashed in my face. I don’t know why it is called black water because it is a wonderful shade of ugly brown with lumps.
I got the valve closed as soon as I could but there was still a mess, on the ground and on me. I attached the hose, opened the valve and let the rest of the material dump including the grey water tank. While this is happening I am rinsing myself off with the water hose and using the water to herd turds to the drain. Not entirely successful on both accounts.
I reeked all the way home, windows partially open even though it was quite cool. When I got home the pants went into the trash and the shirt went into the washer. I showered long with lots of soap.
So how was your day?
@ray – sorry for your misfortunes. That was a really crappy experience. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
For the reference of others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgRmR024BE
I expected nothing less.
We need the poop emoji.
Ray, that was really bad luck, getting a tank full of political promises.
Nothing to do with luck. Pure stupidity on my part. Not even a bubba event. A foul smelling lesson learned.
While this is happening I am rinsing myself off with the water hose and using the water to herd turds to the drain.
Herding turds is a new one for me. Almost as good as Jenny’s peeing rabbit.
I think they were my wife’s. How do I know? Because they refused to cooperate.
@lynn, the house is suspended on the piers (pipe with a helical head.) The middle is resting on a wide mat of foam. The leveling is done (for now, there is a recheck later) and they are securing the brackets and jacks, and refilling the holes. The foam fills the voids under the slab, both old and new, and provides lift for the center of the slab.
New water supply connection is installed and live to my pex and the old copper. Of course there were issues in the ground with the supply line, but hopefully those are solved now. I have a valve to shut off the house, and one to shut off the new pex and I’m very happy about that.
They hope to finish up tomorrow and be done by the end of the day.
SUPER psyched.
n
If I ever build a house, I am going to build a pier and beam foundation. My brother put his house in Houston on a five foot pier and beam about 13 or 14 years ago. He had two feet of water under his house from Brays Bayou during the Tax Day flood and Hurricane Harvey. No damage and no readjustments needed. Pier and Beam costs more but is more flexible.
No, would have been an interesting experiment though.
Data reduction was a post processing effort. The relative path was visible in the field and looked OK.
I believe we made a note of it, got an OK from the county to dry lab it, (they didn’t want to pay for a redo that might have exactly the same problem), dragged everything 100’ until it looked good on the map, and put it into the ESRI database.
@Ray: That’s terrible!
An experience like that can really brown you off!
from a story on HotAir:
Sounds like a cross between a train wreck and a dumpster fire. What could go wrong?
Fetterman traveled alongside Biden throughout Fern Hollow, the site of a major bridge collapse in 2021, but did not deliver any public remarks.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/10/20/the-biden-fetterman-rally-is-every-bit-as-coherent-as-youd-imagine-n504784
Priceless. Oz will have a new campaign ad for the weekend!
He couldn’t find it?
Volkswagon responds to glued-down climate protesters by locking up and leaving them in the cold and dark:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/10/20/hilarious-this-may-just-be-the-best-response-to-climate-change-radicals-n646173
They should have wheeled in a large flat-panel display and put up a loop of “The Best of Gretta”
Correction. The story ran on Nexstar’s national wire. WFLA is a Nexstar station.
So, the drunk kid thought it was an Uber he had called, but the driver thought it was a car jacking.
Sad.
Tried fishing at sunset. Got a couple of hits, so I know the bait is ok. One got away under water, guess I didn’t set the hook, and one flopped and spazzed out at the surface. It was pretty dark so that’s all I saw. Had some other bumps too, so I’ll try again at sunset tomorrow.
Closest I’ve come to catching one!
Sky is black, stars are out, temps are mild. I’m headed down for a fire and beverage.
n
>> This story came up a few weeks ago, dropped by one of the trolls looking to bore the room with debate about a poorly reported story from Sinclair wires about Yet Another Crazy Floridian With A Gun.
Following up. Not that the Times reporting is any less lazy than Sinclair’s TV newsroom just down the street and around the corner, but a few more pieces of the puzzle get presented.
The Times is across the river, near the performing arts center, a shorter drive, but across the bridge. I’ll refrain from a joke about evil entities and crossing running water.
Sinclair is WFLA TV, at the river near the Selmon Expressway.
Both bureaus are marked on the map if you zoom and move around. Paywalled, but The Times allows casual reading a few times a month.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/10/19/new-details-emerge-shooting-death-19-year-old-university-tampa-student/
I’m not buying that the cops missed the house key, but ok.
Pluralization intended? The South Howard Ave bar scene can get rowdy.
If you have relevant evidence then bring it forward – or at least explain why you choose not to without the shooter’s name. Or is the “evidence” a pretext to get the name and get the inevitable civil suit filed?
I spend a lot of time in GNU Screen. Cool kids use the more modern Tmux even though the feature set most people will use is practically identical.
The command shell could use some of those features … as long as they were accessible via keystroke as in Screen/Tmux.
Yes. Identical. If you’re a DevOps young’n’ who is going to cite the scripting interface, in my day we had Expect and it was a lot less cumbersome.
Or a VHS of the 80s “Children of the Corn”.
When I first saw Frau Greta (Insert Horse Whinny) speak, that was the first thing that popped into my head.
I’m guessing that the shooter is Amish. The current Mayor and Chief of Police are bonkers left wing.
For me it was Rory Calhoun’s garden in Motel Hell.
First thing I thought of was off duty PD.
Puts the PTB in a bind between the wokesters and the police union.
I drove that route in reverse a couple of times moving our cars to WA State in 2010. I turned west at the Walgreens HQ.
You took the last train -er- freeway to Clarksville. 🙂
Read “American Gods” if you haven’t already. Once you have, watch the first season of the TV series with the “Bilquis” scene intact and Gillian Anderson in a series of amazing one off performances as Media in various guises.
I wasn’t impressed with Rock City beyond the views, but Ruby Falls is worth the effort.
I’m not sure we ever stopped at Rock City, or Ruby Falls. We were on a mission to get to DisneyWorld…
Nice night. Bands were all open, 2.500 to 15.400 Heard hams from all over the country, coast to coast, heard commercial radio from NZ. Lots of asian stations I don’t usually hear in the 9mhz and above. Nice fire. Got kinda damp, but it’s only 68F. I put my fleece on as the fire died down.
Deer cutting across my lot, and several grazing the lot next door. LOTS of big fish flopping around. Might have to try night fishing. Forgot to mention dusk had swarms of dragon flies by the water. Not a lot of human sounds tonight.
House is 74F without running any heat. I’ll probably just go to bed and not run the space heater. Didn’t get the gas line run, mostly watched the guys and did plumbing.
All in all, a good day.
n
House is 74F without running any heat. I’ll probably just go to bed and not run the space heater. Didn’t get the gas line run, mostly watched the guys and did plumbing.
I take it the drain pipes handled the three inch rise ok ?
I am fascinated by the three inch rise of the foundation.
I also found a good explanation of the helical piers. Looks like a lot of work.
https://www.olshanfoundation.com/foundation-repair/foundation-repair-methods/helical-piers/
Fentanyl: The Untold Part of the Story
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/fentanyl_the_untold_part_of_the_story.html
Worth reading.
100,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdoses in the last year.
Here’s a video of helical piers being installed
The first part of the video is demolition. At about 14 minutes he explains why he needs to fix the foundation. The actual installation starts at about the 16 minutes mark.
@lynn, they will scope the toilet drains Friday, the cam is too big to scope the sink drains. He ran the shower in the master bath the whole time they were doing the foam install, watching for changes. The master bath is near the “hinge” point of the slab, where it didn’t move much, maybe an inch. The hall bath is even more on the uphill side, and moved less. The kitchen drain we added and connected to the septic, planning for the rise. The laundry didn’t move much, and the drain was in open air as it exits the slab because of the access hole for the jack. If the toilet lines are ok, it all should be good.
There are issues with plumbing venting. That will take some more exploration and possibly some work. They used them like this for 40 years so it should be ok, except the laundry which used to drain ‘to daylight’. I don’t think it has a p trap, or a vent. It will need both. Still haven’t found where the AC condensate drain line goes. It goes into the slab, then where is anyone’s guess. I just want to be sure it’s not just going under the house and into the dirt.
BTW that Olsham site has very good description, although they aren’t who I used. Their web contact form was borked and their phone tree was obnoxious. So I took them off my list, even though they have an office a couple of miles from my house in Houston.
The finished lift was closer to 4 inches at the downhill edge…
n
@lpdbw – that install is similar to what we did, but they installed the piles almost vertical, and they pass thru a bracket bolted to the side of the slab. They then jacked the slab up, and drilled and pinned thru the bracket into the pipe. They had a cool setup that could attach to the pile and jack the house without setting up a jack to the side of the pile. They used that in a few places where it wasn’t possible to set a jack next to the pile. Very interesting mix of hand work and tech.
n
Added– it’s also interesting that the helicals resist uplift too.
dang, house if full of mosquitos again. I’d about gotten rid of them all so I could sleep.
Sleep, it’s what’s next for me.
n
Looks like a lot of work.
– what took the most effort was chipping the side of the slab smooth enough for the brackets to mount. Where they couldn’t get it flat, they grouted or “dry packed” behind the bracket plate to support the plate.
LOTS of hammer drilling, lots of demo hammering of concrete patio, lots of demo hammer chipping… BIG tools. The main skilled guy was built like a weightlifter from all the heavy stuff he uses all day long.
n
Still haven’t found where the AC condensate drain line goes. It goes into the slab, then where is anyone’s guess. I just want to be sure it’s not just going under the house and into the dirt.
That AC condensate drain would make your sand under the slab like pudding if it terminates under the slab.
>> If I ever build a house, I am going to build a pier and beam foundation. My brother put his house in Houston on a five foot pier and beam about 13 or 14 years ago. He had two feet of water under his house from Brays Bayou during the Tax Day flood and Hurricane Harvey. No damage and no readjustments needed. Pier and Beam costs more but is more flexible.
Wait, does the house have a garage? Five feet up??
>> “The Labor Department’s new classification rules could give workers for companies like Uber and DoorDash more rights — if they ever take effect.”
Regulators want to regulate everything.
Yeah, but…here it’s really about what it would cost the companies to have all these contractors become employees – benefits, overtime pay, etc.
>> I attempted to ask Lt. Gov. John Fetterman if he was satisfied on the construction progress of the Fern Hollow Bridge prior to Biden’s speech on October 20, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fetterman’s wife tells me that they are there to celebrate and not do interviews.
–Kyle Mazza (on Twitter)
Maybe Mrs. Fetterman can debate Oz instead of Mr. F?
Two days, two games, ‘Stros 2 – Yanks 0
Do the Dosey Doe…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1583156705609027584
And where was Doc Jill??
No Joe, it’s “Beau,” not “Bobby,” come on now, like we practiced it…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1583155023185182720
Wait, does the house have a garage? Five feet up??
Nope, the garage is two feet up. There is a three foot stairway from the garage to the house.
Ohh, sorry, thought that was Morticia Addams and Lurch, never mind…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1583177891382452224
>> “The Labor Department’s new classification rules could give workers for companies like Uber and DoorDash more rights — if they ever take effect.”
Regulators want to regulate everything.
Yeah, but…here it’s really about what it would cost the companies to have all these contractors become employees – benefits, overtime pay, etc.
About 40 cents on the dollar. They will all go bankrupt in a hurry.
Manager to clerk at Barnes & Noble…
“Uhh, yeah, move those to the Remainders table.”
https://twitter.com/LouisStaples/status/1583077007138906113/photo/1
Scrambling to complete ‘bonus’ fall chores. Snow melted and we’ve been rainy and 40’s. Getting in a bit more work before winter in this week of grace.
Attended a womens weekend thing last weekend. It was… nice? uncomfortable? i don’t know. I can go a long time before I spend two days with fifty other women again.
It wasn’t bad, and I genuinely enjoyed the company of two or three of the women. The speaker was interesting. A lot more estrogen than I’m accustomed to.
Getting ready to process my next batch of rabbits. The doe that had 11 a few weeks ago has proven to be a good mother. She hasn’t lost a single kit. Which is extraordinary. my primary buck has stopped flinging his urine like some misguided climate dork and has temporarily escaped freezer camp.
Was watching the chicken run after the hens had gone to bed via their Wyze cam. I observed a conga line of mice consuming vast quantities of chicken feed. I moved the bucket trap from our front entry to the chicken run yesterday. Caught five zaftig mice, whose gait was rolling from their profound plumpness, in about an hour. They brazenly sauntered out of their creeping places ten minutes after the hens went to bed. Didn’t even wait for lights out. They no doubt mistook the bucket trap for a new tangled feeder instead of an icy bath of doom despair and death.
Doesn’t this make you a “speciesist”? You should be an equal opportunity feeder. Those poor, downtrodden mice.
Or maybe you need a cat.