Chilly and wet. Becoming less so later. We ended up getting rain yesterday and it didn’t clear up. The rain stopped late afternoon, but it was blowing and cold while it lasted. I’m hoping today is dry. I’ve got pickups in the pickup…
Did my test in the morning. I’ll know in a week what the result is. Imaging center had switched to another new paperless patient management system. They send a link to a site where you can do things like check in, name an emergency contact, etc. The drop down list for emergency contact relationship had “aunt” and some other non-useful thing, no “spouse” or “child” or “sibling”. That was a required field too. The address selector insisted on “country” first, and had an alphabetized radio button list. I had to scroll to the bottom to select USA. Because “Afganistan” makes SO MUCH sense as a default. Do they not test this crep at all? I know it cost a ton of money, and I know they will replace it in a year.
After I got home, I did a bit of domestic bliss, cleaned up after the dog, and fell asleep for a bit. Did some auction stuff, then started on the kid stuff. D1 changed her plan 4 times so I went grocery shopping. Pork ribs were on sale… but limit two. I’ll go back and get some more today. There were plenty of eggs, but heavy cream was down to a couple of pints.
Spent the next couple of hours shuttling kids around.
Then I wasted some time on the internet with my friends.
Today I’ve got another appointment in the morning, a couple of pickups, and maybe a drive up to the BOL. I might wait and go up Thursday morning, but I SHOULD go up tonight. I want to be sure I’m there before the relatives show up. I’ve got that last bit of electrical work to finish, and I need to turn the water back on to the hose bibs.
There’s always something more to do. And I’m not feeling 100%. Kid 2’s friend is sick with the flu and she was here on Friday… I really hope I don’t get sick.
No matter what though, I’m still stacking…
nick
Stay well, Nick. Lots of fluids and vitamins!
The past week or so has been aging like a fine milk…
An empty propane tank, and no delivery on the horizon. Will have to look into how to plumb in a reserve bottle for emergencies. Also get some electric space heaters! Prepping, we need some (more).
W1 hit a sunk-down manhole cover in her around-town car, and the steering took some damage, possibly the roll bar link has failed. Time to get out the floor jack and have a lie on the ground for a look-see. Joy.
While driving the “country” car, I noticed a knock in the right-rear brake assembly. I’ve booked my mechanic buddy to take a look at that on Friday. More joy.
Snow is forecast. Yet more joy.
Add in two nights of working late (getting too old for that nonsense…), and I am feeling, and probably looking, like the antichrist this morning!
2566 was a big house in 1977.
Refrigerators were a lot smaller back then.
I didn’t even have to see the date to know when the house was built. My parents house in Florida was the same era.
So was the “Dallas” house which is not nearly as big as you’ve been led to believe through the magic of TV.
If you ever want to see the real interior of the “Dallas” house without traveling in person, watch the episode of the rebooted series centered around J.R.’s death. The staircase and foyer from the actual house were used as the “fleabag” motel where J.R.’s body was discovered so that the location would be preserved as long as the house stands.
The most famous shower in TV history is in the master bath, splitting screen time with an identical fixture located on a sound stage in Burbank, another deliberate choice by the production company to preserve history.
“It was only a dream …”
The upside of a 70s era custom build is that the house in the listing, like the “Dallas” house, was probably built well, and the termite treatment probably never had to be repeated.
Also, as you see on TV in the episode, the shower has no privacy. Walk through a door from the upstairs hallway, and you can almost see naked Patrick Duffy standing in there, just like in the scene.
Yeah, I don’t believe 2500 sqft. The kitchen/dine in area looks like some sort of old addition/expansion.
Nice big lot though.
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WRT touching ceilings, are they popcorn? And if not, what are they and when was the work done? For the era, popcorn would be appropriate. I’m not afraid of the asbestos content, but some people are. Should be fine encapsulated by paint…
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The shed around the boat looks like very lightweight construction…
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WRT metal roofs and noise, it’s not loud at all. Whatever they do, modern roofs are quiet. I don’t even notice mine at the BOL. When a branch falls on it, it’s loud, but not during rainfall.
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n
1977. Probably popcorn but no asbestos.
At least that’s how it was in Florida.
My parents previous house was pre-US Home Arthur Rutenberg, built in 1972. That house didn’t have any asbestos either.
I believe that, like tobacco, suspicion about asbestos ran high for a while before the government did anything about the problem. Mining companies used to be a big deal in the economy.
3M – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
65F and some lightening on the eastern horizon. Sun might be poking thru…
Currently dripping wet, with “dew” everywhere.
n
Better hurry if that is the Leaf. Nissan walked away from the merger talks with Honda.
@Ray
“I got the cap on my tooth replaced. It fell off this Saturday. It has been on the molar for so long I did not even know I had a cap on the tooth. Fortunately the old cap was able to be re-glued.”
Getting glued back together is a win anytime, but moreso as you get older.
Well, crapola. One of the main coil springs on the garage door broke. I know enough to leave that replacement to the experts and have someone coming tomorrow. I value my arms and fingers and really don’t have the correct tools. The door made a loud bang when I attempted to open the door. The door is so heavy I cannot lift the door without the spring assist.
The same company installed the replacement current garage door opener. The original one had a chain and the sprocket wore down. Of course, the socket was not replaceable, so a new garage door opener. Belt drive, battery backup, much quieter.
Garage door springs: Yes, they store a lot of energy when wound. For someone with sense, the danger is greatly exaggerated. I’ve re-tensioned a couple of them now. A couple pieces of rebar with one end ground down just a little bit to fit works great.
There are two springs. Both springs will need removed and replaced. One spring is still under tension. It is a double wide door and the shaft on which the springs surround will need removed. There is a lot more involved than retensioning. I suspect it will require two people. People who know what they are doing. I may have the steel rollers replaced with synthetic rollers to further reduce the noise.
Some stuff I know my limits. This is one of those items. 35 years, at least, on the current springs.
A couple of news items I’m watching:
My wife wants to buy this house north of Abilene: 3/2.5/2 2,566 ft2 on 2.1 acres on the north side of I-20 in Abilene for $385,000
https://www.har.com/homedetail/-abilene-tx-79601/6532590
Dude, that house is a LOT smaller than it looks in pictures. They are doing the weird stretching thing with the camera or lens. Clock looks like it’s 3ft across.
Original kitchen cabinets. Every drawer is probably worn out. Oven is 30-40 years old. Cooktop too. Island probably blocks the oven door or the fridge drawer. Appliances are all mis-matched so some are replaced, and with whatever was on sale, or cheap. They didn’t change the knobs on the cabinets, and you can still see dirt near the edges and around knobs. Kitchen is a gut remodel in other words.
Doors and knobs are original to the house, builder grade, 40yo, and worn out.
So you are saying if I buy the house and lot, bulldoze the house, and build a new house, 4,000 ft2 or so. Gotcha.
BTW, the house is only a half mile away from a Chikfila and two miles away from HEB. Convenient !
Then I wasted some time on the internet with my friends.
You left out a word. Then I wasted some time on the internet with my crazy friends.
So much for clearing up, it started raining after my Dr appointment.
Took a nap, ate lunch, and I’m looking at more errands…
n
Dreamed i was walking in a theme park, holding my dad’s hand.
The shed around the boat looks like very lightweight construction…
Abilene routunely gets 100 mph winds, I am surprised that shed is still there.
And nobody mentioned that the house is only 3 inches above the ground. I would build any new house at least 2 feet above ground. Abilene gets flash floods too. My wifes uncle over on north 1st street was rebuilding a VW bug in his front yard. They got 12 inches of rain and the bug went floating down the street to the pond.
@lynn, it might be easier that way 😛
BTW, how far to a regional med center with a cardiac unit?
n
And nobody mentioned that the house is only 3 inches above the ground.
– I actually looked to see if the foundation concrete was showing (it is supposed to be, and it is) but I didn’t look at flooding. Looks like there is drainage and a detention pond just a few hundred feet away…
n
Definitive proof we are living in bizarro or reverso world…
n
Then ask how the cardiac unit is staffed with providers on weekends.
”Locums” is not the answer you want to hear.
Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed, however:
Really, Turtle? This guy needs to retire. I hope the Redumblican Party shuns him from now on.
Then ask how the cardiac unit is staffed with providers on weekends.
”Locums” is not the answer you want to hear.
Both of my heart attacks (2009 and 2013) were solved with drugs. Lopressor and Morphine. Massive quantities of each. No paddles needed.
My first heart attack was in Port Lavaca in a 10 ? 15 ? bed hospital. The ER was staffed with a 17 year old intern. She called in the ward nurse who called the cardiologist in Victoria. The nurse administered drugs from the cardiologist over the phone line until the Morphine and Lopressor kicked in five hours later.
Abilene has two 250 ??? bed hospital complexes. If my heart does not rip in half from all of the dead areas then I might survive.
I was told by my first cardiologist in Houston in 2010 that I never should have made 20 years of age. I was 49 at the time, he told me that I would never make 60. I will be 65 in a couple of months. This was a world class cardiologist, head of cardiology at Houston Methodist Hospital, one of DeBakey’s guys. He had 8,000 patients and and 6,000 heart surgeries to his career. He had never seen anyone like me make it out of my teenage years, people like me usually just dropped dead.
And nobody mentioned that the house is only 3 inches above the ground. I would build any new house at least 2 feet above ground. Abilene gets flash floods too. My wifes uncle over on north 1st street was rebuilding a VW bug in his front yard. They got 12 inches of rain and the bug went floating down the street to the pond.
BTW, my wife’s uncle let me use his engine stand in his front yard to swap an 80K mile engine from a wrecked 1975 Subaru to a 1972 Subaru with 160K miles back in 1982. The engine stand made it easy and everything bolted in. Just a three hour job. I drove the 1975 Subaru for the next six months. No A/C, AM radio, etc. I downshifted one day coming into town at 75 mph and the muffler blew off the car. Amazing how loud that little opposed four banger was with a straight pipe.
“Alan Dershowitz Puzzled by Courts Overstepping into Trump’s Presidential Powers”
https://thelibertydaily.com/alan-dershowitz-puzzled-courts-overstepping-trumps-presidential-powers/
“Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, speaking on “Hannity,” highlighted what he sees as an unusual level of judicial interference. Dershowitz argued that the courts are stepping into areas traditionally reserved for executive decision-making, particularly in matters related to Trump’s actions while in office.”
““The courts are intruding significantly into the core areas of presidential authority,” Dershowitz stated. He was particularly critical of judicial decisions that he believes set a dangerous precedent by undermining the separation of powers, a cornerstone of American governance.”
Lincoln would have put the rogue judges in jail. At one point, Lincoln had 2,300 ??? political people (newspaper editors, etc) in jail that were actively fighting against the Civil War.
Trump may have to put these rogue judges in jail. He has my ok.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“BREAKING: Fighter Jet Crashes Into SoCal Harbor – 2 Pilots Ejected”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-fighter-jet-crashes-socal-harbor-2-pilots/
Not good, we do not have many of those planes. They are electronic warfare models of the F-18.
“The EPA Gold Bar Scandal”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-epa-gold-bar-scandal/
“EPA officials were “throwing gold bars off the Titanic” to undermine the new government and the American people. They were quickly handing wasteful contracts out to their leftist allies to get jobs and keep Trump from winning once in office. There was no oversight or accountability of the pencil pushers.”
“An undercover Project Veritas reporter spoke with EPA Advisor Brent Efron, who admits they planned to give away billions of dollars by January 20th as an ‘Insurance Policy’ against Trump. The plan was to funnel billions to climate organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic,” the advisor said. They hoped they could then land jobs with these Biden-allied companies.”
““Over the last year, we’ve given out $50 billion dollars for climate things…so to go work for one of these places would be really cool.””
Hopefully Trump can recall all of this money.
Questionable Content: Hot Cocoa Vibe
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5504
Oh yeah, that is a vibe. Some places have more stuff off the menu than things on the menu. I get an off the menu hot grilled filet cobb salad at Chickfila every Thursday for lunch.
Pearls Before Swine: Life In Perspective
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/02/12
Bald headed dude looks good for being 100 years old.
From my wife’s cousin in North Carolina:
“Why are people are mad about DOGE? You are mad at the person that auditing your bank and find the bank has been stealing your money, and you’re angry at the auditor. Why?”
“Fired Inspectors General Sue Trump To Get Jobs Back”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fired-inspectors-general-sue-trump-get-jobs-back
“The IGs claim that their firings – which came in the form of a two-sentence email, were illegal because they violated a federal law requiring the White House to inform Congress with 30 days’ notice, and provide “substantive rationale” for the firings, according to their 32-page complaint filed on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia – where we’re guessing they’ll find a sympathetic judge.”
Funny, I do not remember that federal law being in the USA Constitution.
The USA Constitution trumps everything.
Lots of soup bowls are tied to that wasteful Federal Government spending.
One man’s “waste” is another family’s meal ticket.
Again, 7 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the US are near DC.
He should let those organizations know we still have Predators and cruise missiles.
There must still be grift money to hire all the lawyers. But, I’m sure there are plenty of shysters willing to Pro-Bono the ORANGE MAN BAD!
I can’t imagine what the sooper-secret avionics cost on that plane.
After tRump booted the AP from briefings when they wouldn’t use “Gulf of America” I decided to check what Apple and Google are doing. They both claimed they changed their maps. I launched my VPN and set it to Mexico. Apple still says “America”, but Google says “Mexico”. Setting the VPN to other countries still got “America” from Apple. The best Google did is Morocco which had “Mexico” with “America” in parentheses. tRump should tell Google to get it right or the Predators and missiles can head their way, too.
“There’s a lot going on…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/theres-lot-going-on.html
“If you haven’t already read it, click over to Coffee & Covid and read today’s essay. It’s a bit mind-blowing in its implications. I won’t try to excerpt it here – just go read it there. It’s worth your time.”
“The Left thought they had Trump boxed in with lawsuits. Instead, they’ve spent weeks planning and fighting over emergency injunctions that will soon be completely irrelevant. The Deep State was preparing for trench warfare in front of judges, but Congress is unleashing a drone hellscape from their rear.”
“Trump tricked them all. The same activist judges siding against him using Congress as an excuse, must now twist into legal pretzels somehow arguing that neither Congress nor the Executive hold the power of the purse, which is even less constitutionally plausible. In other words, Trump tricked the judges into committing to a Congressional-powers argument, which becomes moot when Congress does it.”
It is very mind blowing.
I can’t imagine what the sooper-secret avionics cost on that plane.
There are so much sooper-secret electronic warfare that the guns have been removed and the missile capability is almost nil. I am suspecting Israeli jammers that crash cell phone networks and electrical networks are on that plane.
The plane’s nickname is the Growler. I am guessing that it makes so much electronic noise that almost nothing can stand up to it.
I just found my retirement home:
4/2.5/2 single story in Clyde, Texas on 5 acres with three other buildings for $725K:
https://www.har.com/homedetail/468-s-hays-rd-clyde-tx-79510/6814292
“Beautiful 2381 sqft 4 Bedroom 2.5 bath on 4.8 oak tree filled acres. Pool, Pool house with half bath and kitchenette, three shops, one with solar panels, one 24×24 shop with a 24×24 carport, one 1500 sqft shop with a 25×50 lean to and a 750 sqft one bedroom living quarters. Also has a 400 sqft Building with a half bath and small kitchenette. Eula water and has a well for the sprinkler system.”
This is what I think that I would love to retire to. Even in Clyde, Texas.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/468+S+Hays+Rd,+Clyde,+TX+79510/@32.4055057,-99.5272241,47m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8656be344af602a1:0x1be58b4a1342bef7!8m2!3d32.4056025!4d-99.5258761!16s%2Fg%2F11gv179zlr?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIwNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
My daughter can live in the “750 sqft one bedroom living quarters” that I cannot find in the pictures. Ah, I found it, it is a separate building from the complex with a separate driveway. Weird.
https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=32.405405%7E-99.526689&lvl=19.1&style=h
Bummer, no hot tub in the pool.
This house complex looks better by the day.
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi Files Charges Against State of NY, Gov. Hochul Over Illegal Aliens
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/12/breaking-ag-pam-bondi-files-charges-against-state-of-ny-gov-hochul-others-over-illegal-aliens-n2185515
Put the hammer to Schroeder first, and document all conversations/communications he’s had with other officials.
If we can have a special court set-up for FISA, maybe we need one to address the wholesale violation of federal immigration laws by the states. Fast-track the charges through a court whose primary purpose is to thoroughly understand the law and the law-breakers, get the “convicted felon” stamped on their foreheads, determine that they are not white-collar criminals by virtue of their enabling the murdering, rapes, and drug-related deaths caused by illegal aliens, and send them to the appropriate SuperMax. Shame that Trump won’t allow men in women’s facilities–such roomates would only be fitting for Kathy and Letty.
Cali has been warned and their legislature is conspiring to violate federal law. How about calling Gruesome and telling him that if any such legislation gets signed the next step is his arrest along with every recorded “yes” vote.
The Growlers used to be Prowlers, modified A-6 airframes. They may have simply wanted a variation on the name.
The EW planes also have a “listen” mode. I’ll bet that the plane was listening to Mexico.
Every EW platform which could fly off of a carrier or out of Italy was probably in the Eastern Med until recently.
No problem. Mention you’ve forgotten, and ask your wife about it.
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So the first work day after my son was born in 1983, I had to work a 12 hour shift (no overtime for junior engineers since I was exempt so they saved money by sending me). I drove a company truck over to our power plant in Monahans (200 miles each way) and got back the 2,000+ lbs of overhaul equipment that they had stolen XXXXX borrowed from us. We were getting ready for the overhaul in the fall. I get back to my power plant and there is a message from my mother-in-law that my wife was running a 106 F fever and that she took my wife back to the hospital in Abilene after she threw my wife in an ice bath to reduce the fever to 104 F.
So I drove the 80 miles to Abilene and got there about 10 pm. They had just put over a $1,000.00 of intravenous antibiotics into my wife to knock out the uterine infection. My wife’s aunt and uncle in Abilene took our one week old baby to their home and I went home to Sweetwater (45 miles away). On the way home, I hit a piece of junk in the road (was a torched wheel spindle) that broke my front left CV joint and ripped a hole in my oil pan, also bent my frame. I left my vehicle in a park on I-20 and caught a ride home from a trucker (3am in the morning). Long day that started at 6 am.
The next day I called the VW dealer in Abilene, he sent his tow truck out and grabbed my VW Rabbit Diesel and started the two week job of fixing it. The next week there was an article in the Abilene paper that a tow truck operator was throwing vehicle junk out on I-20 for people to run over and him to tow off their vehicles at great expense. They put him in jail for two years but I could not get any money out of him since he filed bankruptcy. My insurance company gave me some money but I still had to pay $1,000 out of pocket.
In other words, my wife does not remember that month either. It was a tough month.
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi Files Charges Against State of NY, Gov. Hochul Over Illegal Aliens
I would pay hard cash money to see Letitia James in handcuffs doing the perp walk.
Bad news for those of you who thought that the “Buffy” reboot would work without Josh Wheedon.
Disney continues hurtling towards the cliff. Got popcorn for the final plunge?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/all-we-know-about-chloe-zhaos-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-as-one-star-would-love-to-return/ar-AA1yJRpD
Those of you hoping for an Apple bailout should realize that Tim only cares about Pixar. He can find a new studio partner for distribution.
Get them all arrested and then look forward to the bail hearing, where the government presents video after video of their commitment to breaking the law. They’ll rpobably get bail anyway, but the taps on other people’s phones for the ongoing investigations will probably get them re-arrested in no time.
And Tim will take care of Pixar as part of Jobs’ legacy and to keep the Emeryville building open.
“There’s a lot going on…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/theres-lot-going-on.html
“If you haven’t already read it, click over to Coffee & Covid and read today’s essay. It’s a bit mind-blowing in its implications. I won’t try to excerpt it here – just go read it there. It’s worth your time.”
“The Left thought they had Trump boxed in with lawsuits. Instead, they’ve spent weeks planning and fighting over emergency injunctions that will soon be completely irrelevant. The Deep State was preparing for trench warfare in front of judges, but Congress is unleashing a drone hellscape from their rear.”
“Trump tricked them all. The same activist judges siding against him using Congress as an excuse, must now twist into legal pretzels somehow arguing that neither Congress nor the Executive hold the power of the purse, which is even less constitutionally plausible. In other words, Trump tricked the judges into committing to a Congressional-powers argument, which becomes moot when Congress does it.”
It is very mind blowing.
You know that they are going to try to assassinate Trump now. I am hoping that he kept his ex-Mossad guards as his inner guard. They will be earning their money.
Bad news for those of you who thought that the “Buffy” reboot would work without Josh Wheedon.
Disney continues hurtling towards the cliff. Got popcorn for the final plunge?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/all-we-know-about-chloe-zhaos-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-as-one-star-would-love-to-return/ar-AA1yJRpD
Those of you hoping for an Apple bailout should realize that Tim only cares about Pixar. He can find a new studio partner for distribution.
Joss Whedon already wrote the stories in 2010. You can buy them today. Somebody just has to turn them into scripts. Funny, I know of a guy who can write the scripts who happens to own the trademark “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Season/dp/1593078226?tag=ttgnet-20
And it is Hammer Time !
McConnell is already retiring at the end of his term, presuming that he survives that long. I’m certain that his successor will face a tough fight.
“Maybe most shocking, Elon reported that only 10,000 government employees could resign in a month because the records are stored in a literal mine shaft, and record processing is constrained by the speed of the mine elevator. The federal government recently spent $160 million to “modernize” this sad state of affairs and failed, so they just gave up. More waste and abuse”
“Musk offered many examples of fraud, waste, and abuse. Elon said the $59 million that FEMA paid to New York hotels to house illegal migrants this week was at double normal room rates—even at a 100% occupancy rate. ”
But what probably most panicked the Swamp creatures was when Elon said —with the President of the United States nodding along right beside him— that DOGE plans to investigate public officials who somehow got rich in office despite their nominal salaries. Boom again.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/swamp-apocalypse-wednesday-february
Deep State populated by Commies, something so very Soviet is no surprise.
NB: One little factoid left out of the comments in the attached about the $59 million is that the Roosevelt Hotel where payments for illegal housing were going is reportedly owned by the Pakistani government.
And why am I reminded of the Feeding Our Future scam, which featured logistical gems like payments for 5,000 school kids a day getting fed at second-story walkup apartments? Anyone have cameras on that hotel?
Anyone else noticed this?
https://www.theverge.com/news/609951/trump-lightbulb-efficiency-standard-rollback-led-incandescent
Yeah, but…
Typical need for home lighting is much lower in the 15 to 18-hour daytime of summer than the 6 to 9-hour daytime of winter. In summer the sun is up when most people get up and they need half the lighting or less in the morning, and when they get home the sun is still lighting up the house for hours after they get home. Rough estimate is that lighting consumes 3-4 times more energy in winter than in summer.
So in winter, we get 10% light and 90% heat from i-bulbs, and that heat is concentrated in areas with people, so it is arguably making them more comfortable where they live.
The people that want to prohibit incandescent bulbs are the same folks that want to ban your natural gas furnace and force you to use electric heat. Which you are already doing in a fashion if you use incandescent bulbs.
If I was a hotel owner, housing illegal invaders, I would charge double my highest ever rate. Those invading scum would trash the rooms and steal anything that was not bolted down. The repairs on those rooms will be very expensive. Stereotyping? Damn right.
Typical need for home lighting is much lower in the 15 to 18-hour daytime of summer than the 6 to 9-hour daytime of winter. In summer the sun is up when most people get up and they need half the lighting or less in the morning, and when they get home the sun is still lighting up the house for hours after they get home. Rough estimate is that lighting consumes 3-4 times more energy in winter than in summer.
So in winter, we get 10% light and 90% heat from i-bulbs, and that heat is concentrated in areas with people, so it is arguably making them more comfortable where they live.
I cut the electric bill in my 5,300 ft2 office building by over a hundred dollars per month (maybe $200/month) by converting the 100+ can and ceiling lights to Curly Q bulbs then LED. My office building has so many computers that it rarely needs heating. Maybe 30 days a year.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/02/12/noem-claws-back-funding-sent-to-house-illegals-in-new-york-n2652104
I’d suggest a successful RICO prosecution, confiscation of the hotel, and put up a parking lot.
Sooner or later, I’m going to get an AMD 8500G and motherboard with the capability to set the TDP via a BIOS configuration on the chip. In theory, the 8500G has enough GPU horsepower built in to do most office tasks and even basic modern gaming.
I want to run the system at 35W TDP and see what the performance is like. If it isn’t terrible, that may become the new home server.
My current server APU/motherboard has 35W TDP, but the combo is approaching eight years old and only has two CPU cores.
RICO is the way to go, but who does the investigating? SS and FBI are compromised.
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heard about the claw back on the way up tonight.
Hooray.
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It’s 45F and windy. I may forgo the fire and just curl up with a book and an early bedtime.
Or read til 3am.
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First I need to call the wife and nail down the menu for this weekend. I hit the HEB and their sale items had changed. Prime sirloin steaks, $5.89/pound. Limit two packages (of 3#s). I brought them up. Also brought 8 pounds of brisket. It was on sale $5.49/# which isn’t great, but is pretty good. I was thinking of a crock pot brisket, but this would be a good weekend to fire up the smoker too. Might have W bring the third 4# chunk, smoke 8# and crock pot the rest.
So many choices.
What a country.
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I hope T keeps jabbing, bobbing and weaving. He said he’d like to see the Dept of Ed shut down, and gave reasons…
“Hit em when they’re up, hit em when they’re down…. ”
n
You Will NOT Believe How Feds Process Retirement Papers
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889437908094042277
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/12/you-will-not-believe-how-feds-process-retirement-papers-n3799751
Gee, wonder what else is in those tunnels?
I worked on a flight simulator for the F-18a. If you want verisimilitude, you have to put it in a partial sphere and project on the whole thing. The seat is tipped back far enough that you can see behind you by turning your head. That is really unusual. It makes the CGI and projection tough, and the physical spherical screen is very hard to make.
All the big names were involved. Lock-Rock-Collins-Mart…
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(it’s crazy good fun to fly the sim…)
When? Where?
I did a job for the McDonnell Douglas simulator group once in St. Louis. Sometime between 1988 and 1991, I can’t remember. They used a VAX system to run the simulator, and I had to make a modification to the VMS operating system kernel to support that real-time function.
VMS was not a real-time operating system, but you could tweak it and get awfully close.
They did not offer me the opportunity to fly it.
TIME TO NAME NAMES: Trump to Reveal the Biggest Fraudsters and Beneficiaries of Gov’t Waste
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/12/time-to-name-names-trump-will-reveal-the-biggest-fraudsters-and-beneficiaries-of-govt-waste-n2185522
In Dallas the week they got 14″ of snow overnight. About 13 years ago…
I’ve got some cool pics I can’t show …
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I’m headed to bed. Only an hour later than I wanted to…
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Stereotypes provide a good first-order approximation. One does need to remember that individuals may differ. However, until you have specific data on the individual, you proceed with the data you have.
When I first saw that, I was convinced it was a joke. Apparently not…
DOGE is doing great things – I hope they can keep up the momentum. I was especially enamored of the $3 million spent on a DoE report about how DoE reports were not being read by anyone.
Geez, those dang Ring doorbells are everywhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7mDnIQcYo
Not too mention the higher(?) than normal number of planes falling out of the sky.
>>Fighter Jet Crashes Into SoCal Harbor – 2 Pilots Ejected
What’s the minimum altitude required for a successful ejection?
I presume the plane is now on the bottom of the harbor? At least it’s in US waters.
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