Chilly is probably a good word to start the day, then warming a bit, before ending cold. We’re still supposed to be clear sky and sunny, so it should warm up a bit later in the day. Yesterday was really nice. It was a bit on the cool side, but as I was working outdoors, it felt great. By midnight, it was pretty dang cold and damp though.
I spent the day doing Halloween stuff. My decorations went farther than I thought, and they came out looking good. I like the chance to do some quick and dirty creative work that is physical and fleeting in nature. You can do a lot with very little if it only has to last a few hours.
Today I’ll keep putting stuff away. I’ve got one pickup to do, and D2 has a competition in the early afternoon that I’m going to try very hard to attend. Then it will be back to the list, with finishing out the pantry/laundry room makeover at the top. By the end of the weekend I hope to have that done, and move on to the next thing.
And I really need to go through some of the food stacks and get rid of the breakage/waste while sorting and re-stacking what’s left. Then I will replace the breakage. Although I might not do it in the first couple of days of the month. No need, if the people go nuts. And people do go nuts. I watched people fighting over bottled water while it was still coming out of the tap, and they could get all the water they wanted. So, yeah, nuts.
Stacking and a preparedness lifestyle means not having to take risks for daily needs. Do more!
nick
Good morning!
Yesterday was Hallow’een, so today must be the Solemnity of All Saints. A day to remember the saintly people who didn’t become offically canonised. I count my late parents among them, godly and kind as they were. I miss them.
No Hallow’een callers last night. I fell asleep right after watching the BRSO and choir perform Mozart’s Requiem. What a masterpiece.
Paul, belated birthday wishes!
Time to get out of bed. The nights are getting so long, I don’t want to miss what daylight there is. It’s starting to feel and look like winter. Getting my winter tyres fitted on Monday.
-modest cough-
The only reason I haven’t been sainted is I’m not dead.
And not Christian.
And suspect that I’m a god myself.
And then there’s that whole personality thing.
But aside from that, I’m totally a saint.
HEB, like Walmart, is more dependent on remittances flowing south of the border.
Don’t expect the Federal Government to do much about that grift either.
The courts along with the FTC did, however, stop the Gecko’s Albertsons-Safeway and Kroger merger scheme.
That combination would have created a monopoly dependent on EBT to stay solvent in many areas of the country, particularly in the Northwest. The new WA State Governor campaigned on the issue since the state was burned by the Albertsons-Safeway tie up a decade ago.
The last WA State Governor was such a tool for Costco and the other major grocery players that you could almost see “Kirkland” stamped on his forehead.
Lynn, what is the motivation for the move?
What did you learn from the last move, that you can apply to a future move?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15231427/starbucks-dunkin-close-home-value-drop.html
Well, that means our little suburban area is high tootin’ fancy and stuff. We’ve had Dunkin for a while and have TWO Starbucks. One is in a new grocery that opened earlier this year and the other is a stand alone that will open next month. Less than a mile apart.
No, I hate Starbucks. I won’t drink it even if there is no other choice.
What is it with The Mail and Rite Aid?
That drugstore chain has been circling the drain for nearly 40 years.
@EdH An oddity: everyone was very nice, I had noticed that the children and adults were quite polite,
– I’ve noticed this for the last couple of years, but it was particularly strong this year. Parents were coaching the little ones to say thank you if they didn’t, but most were already there with a thank you or a compliment on the decorations.
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I think it’s cool out, didn’t look on the way to the coffee machine. Sunny with the air barely stirring.
My back is SO sore. All the bending, crouching, lifting, and carrying did a number on me. I thought I could get ahead of medicating it, but I halved the dose before bed, and it wasn’t enough. Liver poison for me if it doesn’t get better in the next hour. I even had to stretch before getting out of bed.
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Time for some coffee and breakfast.
n
Dutch Bros. aggressively targeted Austin in the last couple of years and seem to pop up near Fancy Lad neighborhoods, but I still don’t see how they make money in the long term.
It’s pretty likely that they ‘had no food’ before the storm too.
Desperate Jamaicans say we have no food’ as looting breaks out after Hurricane Melissa left devastation across Caribbean
The category five storm devastated Jamaica’s south-west, flattening homes in St Elizabeth and Westmoreland and cutting off entire communities.
n
Thank you for the cheerful first post, sir! It is usually some gloomy post from my Sweet Summer Father. I don’t think he sleeps, probably a vampire or sumpin’. Immortal blood sucker, but not really a God.
67F
Coffee so good.
Egg and sausage muffin pretty good too..
n
If only you had some assistants in the household, assistants with youthful joints and muscles, assistants who could bend and lift and carry. Perhaps it’s time to inform the purported assistants that if they don’t do any assisting, perhaps their time in the household needs to come to an end. (And take their allergenic flowers and their germs with them.) Hope this helps.
The prop and ammo supplier has discovered that when people you associate with F up, you can get splashed too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15244711/Alec-Baldwin-Halyna-Hutchins-sued-Rust-gun.html
– remember that this is a guy who had live rounds mixed in with dummy rounds in his shop, just not live rounds that matched those on set.
At least according to the lying cops and prosecutor’s office.
n
Bah. Bah, I say!
I don’t need as much as most adults. I’m not getting as much as I need. I’m woken probably six nights per week from the M-i-L yelling or the aides walking across the uncarpeted floor or occasionally noises from outside. Sometimes I’m able to get back to sleep, usually not. It gets wearing, after about the first six months. But I still have to get up at dawn to take care of the livestock which is in my care – doesn’t matter if I’ve gotten six hours of sleep in three nights, or for that matter if I have a broken leg, they’re my responsibility.
Blood suckers can be characterized as parasites and I’m anything but. I’m the increasingly unwilling host. Family issues aside, about 50% of my gross income goes to taxes and mandatory fees, very little of which proves to be of any use to me. Roads and … that’s about it. (Related note: Isn’t it interesting how property taxes always go up? House assessment doesn’t much matter, economic downturn doesn’t matter, the gross amount goes up every year and the rate is adjusted annually as needed to make sure the gross goes up every year.)
Blasphemy!
People sometimes ask why I’m vehemently opposed to the judicial death penalty.
It’s been 49 years since I went to Jamaica on vacation. I grew up comfortably Midwestern and middle class, This was my first view of extreme poverty. The resort areas were exquisite and upscale. Getting away from them was eye-opening. The socialist government was proudly touting their achievements in making sure each village had a central concrete block building containing a lavatory and source for clean water. Basically on par with Texas state parks, except the entire village had to hand carry water home.
Shortly after that, they went full-scale Socialist, kicking out American mining interests, and threatening tourism, plunging the island deeper into poverty.
I haven’t kept track over the years, but I would be surprised if they’ve done a good job of wealth creation.
But supportive of the extrajudicial death sentence?
n
Um, did the alien spacecraft make a course correction as it slingshotted around the sun?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15246059/Interstellar-visitor-3I-ATLAS-sun-shocking-maneuver.html
n
The crowds were decent, probably in the top five, not upto the time that someone called us into a local radio station, but still good.
An oddity: everyone was very nice, I had noticed that the children and adults were quite polite, and my friend’s wife brought it up later as well. Even the teenagers seemed nice (for them).
Nice !
Just setting this out there: If chickens could learn not to poop in their bedding, life would be better for everyone. If chickens could learn not to poop in their water dishes… If chickens could learn not to poop in their treats dishes…
So far they’ve never pooped in the scoops of their main food container but they sometimes poop on the lid. If they could learn not to do that…
Dang, we had one of those open here within the last year too. It’s about a mile from the new Starbucks, and you could hit the building with a rock from the Dunkin parking lot.
This trailer ran in front of “Back to the Future” last night.
Once again, freeze frame and look at the picture is on the money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3RaCg0aqKE
Yeah, “Screw your freedoms”, but I’m hoping for a cameo.
I got bored and changed the clocks this morning. Why wait?
Lynn, what is the motivation for the move?
What did you learn from the last move, that you can apply to a future move?
I want to get out of the Houston area. Specifically, the Asians who have taken over the Fort Bend County government and are corrupting it. I do not understand why the Asians vote for the dumbrocrats in such high numbers but they apparently vote over 90% for them. Corruption does not appear to matter to them for some strange reason. BTW, staffing up the bureaucracy is a corruption all of its own.
I would like to live somewhere between Fort Worth and Abilene because that would allow my wife to live between her relatives that she dearly wants to spend time with. Her sister lives North of Dallas and some of her cousins live in the Abilene area. Her sister will probably move out of the Dallas area when her husband passes on soon.
I like the Temple and Waco areas because they have nice hospitals, Chikfilas, HEBs, Sams Club, and other sundries.
I have been an old dog for a long time. I do not learn new tricks, I just repeat the old tricks over and over again. And I have managed to amass enough wealth to do as I want now. I am trying to keep my software businesses going but I am down to 4 people now (plus myself). I had 15 people in 2008. I have lived through several booms and busts in the oil patch. Oil booms are a lot more fun than what is going on now.
“If You Buy 300 Buses From China, Don’t Be Shocked That They Can Shut Them Down at Will”
https://thelibertydaily.com/if-you-buy-300-buses-china-dont-be/
I do not trust anything coming out of China now.
Because they view cheating as part of the game. Get away with it and you WIN.
I’ve never heard anything negative about Eastland or Cisco. Pretty much in the middle ‘tween Ft Worth and Abelene. Getting off of I-20, Stephenville looks nice driving through it. Comanche is nice. Brownwood, too.
I know nothing about the local politics. They may all be run by loons.
No HEBs up there but a grocery store is pretty much a grocery store.
And there, with your ticker might be the best place. You could go north a bit, it’s pretty country around Hillsboro. But Abilene ain’t a little town and Ft Worth, well, I guess find the place with the best docs.
India is totally corrupt, and always has been. Not even the British were able to clean things up. Indians coming to America are simply bringing Indian business practices and “morals” into western society.
And standards of cleanliness and personal hygiene.
“Greta Thunberg Announces Plan to Copyright “How DARE You!””
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/31/greta-thunberg-announces-plan-to-copyright-how-dare-you/
Heh.
How DARE she!
Temple has the original Scott & White hospital, incuding a transplant unit, right next to the massive VA Clinic pork barrel project which kept our former walking corpse Congresscritter in office for decades.
The transplant center in Dallas/Fort Worth would be Southwestern. The nurses in the transplant program … well, lets say that my father-in-law died under mysterious circumstances there with one nurse collecting a mid-six figure number from his life insurance policies.
South Asians (Colonist) or Oriental Asians.
Based on my experience with the in-laws, I’d say that Oriental Asians vote Democrat because it is the “California” thing to do and they all seem to have a serious hard-on to llive in the state. Plus, for the last 40+ years, the mainstream media presented voting Democrat was the “smart” thing to do, and they all want to look “smart” as well as “California”.
I also don’t discount the soft tyranny of Number One Son among ethnic Chinese, especially recent immigrants from the Mainland. Defer to the firstborn and the leadership of the local government, even if they kill a few people, or everybody starves.
“Are sodium-ion batteries finally ready to compete with lithium?”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/are-sodium-ion-batteries-finally-ready-to-compete-with-lithium/803998/
“Proponents say sodium-ion batteries degrade more slowly, operate more efficiently and have lower fire risk. But high-profile failures cloud the U.S. market.”
“One big advantage is a 90% reduction in auxiliary power use — a direct benefit of passive cooling. Grid-scale LFP batteries draw significant amounts of power to run the active cooling systems needed to prevent thermal runaway, reducing their cost-effectiveness. Peak says the difference can save operators $1 million or more per year, per GW.”
“Peak also says its batteries are more durable, degrading 33% more slowly over a projected 20-year lifespan. All told, lifetime costs come in 20% lower than comparable LFP systems, Peak says.”
I had no idea that this was occurring.
Well, I had plans for today. Turned out that youngest’s thing was an all day affair. At least they didn’t advance to the finals, and so she’ll be home soon. We got out just before the rain too.
Now I’m finally home and the rain is starting here, having chased me in from the east side. Thunder too.
I think I’d like a snack, and might nap.
n
Lawmaker: Federal Government Can’t Use Contingency Funds to Pay SNAP
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/01/lawmaker-federal-government-cant-use-contingency-funds-to-pay-snap-n2665810
Upon reflection, the Trump DOJ should simply argue that the failure to fund SNAP is the consequence of a perfectly proper vote in Congress, which does not constitute an emergency. Trump should ask for an emergency stay of any order where the judiciary seeks to inset itself into spending issues that they have no constitutional authority over, and ask Thune to schedule another vote in the Senate to confirm the legislative intent.
If the judiciary persists, Trump as executive should declare that absent any funding legislation showing intent, available funds will not be used to keep the federal circuits open,and shut the salaries and lights off. Maybe take a page out of Obama’s book, but rather than put employees on overtime shifting traffic barriers to deny veterans access to parks, use those same traffic barriers to shut the parking lot and close the doors of federal judiciary buildings.
There is apparently a much greater voltage drop with discharge when compared to the lithium technology, an cell operating range of 1.5 – 4.5 volts. So a big change in the auxiliary power handling equipment.
Everything has a tradeoff.
Another dime dropped.
LA ties WS Game 7 in the top of the 9th inning, Jays do not score, extra innings…
That’s a lot of Blizzards at DQ.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/berkshires-cash-pile-hits-record-382-billion-amid-continued-stock-sales-t-bill-purchases
Dodgers 5-4 after 11 innings
Fireworks in the neighborhood
yes, I was sitting here watching TV and suddenly started hearing M-80s outside, figured it have to be a Dodgers win.
Very quiet here in Toronto.
Last chick has returned to the nest, only 10 minutes late. Boy troubles with her girlfriend delayed her slightly.
I told her she needs to manage the situation, but never to leave her wingman behind.
Considering the stuff I was getting up to at her age, I have no complaints.
bedtime though, and certainly something extra for my back.
n
I hear that Toronto couldn’t afford the tariff on the trophy, hence their “dramatic” loss.
jdTho
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