Cool and wet again. 60F with misty drizzle when I went to bed, and no reason to expect any different. Yesterday was mixed and variable. At times, the sun poked through and I thought we might get a nice day, then the overcast and very light precip started back up. I think today and tomorrow will be similar.
Monday morning I got the kids and wife out of the house, then met up with a guy to do a deal for some pipes. I think I did well, but not necessarily awesome. I spent more per pipe at the estate sale where I met him, but I got more pipes and accessories this time. I had a good time talking to him. He’s hustling and a sharp trader who has been doing it for a while. Interesting guy. I meet a lot of interesting people by getting out of the house and talking to everyone. Recommended.
In the afternoon, I did one auction pickup, missed the other due to traffic and weather, and spent a few hours breaking down scrap and harvesting gold plated bits and pieces at the shop.
Today will likely be very similar. I’ve still got a couple of auction pickups, and all the rest of my lists still need doin’. I ordered parts to fix a couple of resale items too. If I can do that for a few items a day, and do a few easy fixes, I can move more of this stuff out of storage and into a sale. I have to start and build some momentum.
Stacking is good, but not enough. Using and learning are critical too. Do all the things.
nick
I fell asleep in my office, late morning. I’d say that that never happens, but it has twice in the past month or so. Getting very tired and run down. My wife is working her job (from home) and taking car of her mother. I’m doing everything else around the house and yard, plus earning a living. It gets wearing.
And, after I’d been asleep for less than an hour, my wife came in and woke me, babbling at full speed and full volume because she needed something. Marriage in a snapshot…
It is Brown-Jackson. Make sure that the huband’s white, old money family heritage going all the way back to the signing of the Constitution and beyond has proper representation.
Brown-Jackson is considering retirement?
Yeah, that confirmation process would be a trainwreck if it wasn’t an African-American woman.
Alito sits in O’Connor’s seat so the pressure would be on to nominate a woman.
Isn’t there a woman on the short list?
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61F and it looks like there is some water on the ground, although there is some bright light peeking over the house roof too…
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Didn’t sleep particularly well. Tried to stay on my right side, to keep the arm sensor in the air and un-pinched. It worked for the sensor, the graph for overnight is mostly flat and no dips. Less jitter too. But my sleep wasn’t great, and the whole point of being in bed at night is sleep.
More data is called for.
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Lunch is packed. Females have all made noise like they were awake or headed that way. I may go back to bed for an hour or two as my first opportunity to do a pickup is 10am.
No coffee then, but maybe something to eat.
n
Barbara Lagoa currently sits on the 11th, not the 3rd circuit. She is of Cuban heritage and was one of the pro bono lawyers for Elian Gonzalez’ uncle in the Johnny Reno kidnapping of the child 26 years ago as of Wednesday.
Putting Lagoa in Thomas seat with the Florida circuit jurisdiction would seriously frost Dem Pop Tarts with the Demings political machine trying for the FL Governor’s Mansion, and the attempt to fillibuster her for the appeals court seat failed in an 85-15 cloture vote.
Plus, Alito oversees the 3rd, and that would mean Incitatus would be involved with the selection.
I don’t see Thomas retiring unless a Dem victory looks likely in 2028. The longer he stays, the more it upsets people on both sides.
You mean Krotchrot Brainless Jerkwad?
Show some respect. Both sides of that hyphen are serious money, power, and influence, exactly what the Dems pretend that they aren’t about.
Leaving out Jackson, the seventh generation Harvard-legacy husband’s side, which is money so old it farts dust and includes a signature on the Constitution, the Brown side has a father who was lead attorney for the Miami-Dade school system and an uncle who was Chief of Police in Miami.
You want the Dems putting brain dead people on the court. Hermione Granger Kagan is the only one left who can write, and if the recent reports about the abortion case opinion process are correct, the Marshalls are taking her out back for a lot more smoke breaks as of late.
The pressure is on.
And yet she’s a brainless jerkwad.
Respect is earned by individual merit. Demanding respect because of ancestors or family connections is just about the most contemptible thing imaginable.
See also: royalty, nobility, and dynasties in general
Missing /sarc tag?
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Picked up some thin sliced pork “loin” chops on sale for breakfast meat… I forgot how much I liked pork chops and eggs.
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This country and the ideas behind it were founded by guys with serious mental chops. The Congress was also filled with some of our best and brightest.
As time has passed, fewer and fewer people of real education and intellect have occupied those spots, and it’s a real problem. We have actual imbeciles and idiots elected to those positions now and that means that the actual governing is happening elsewhere, which we now call the deep state. Or the Rthchilds or illumin ated, or tri’latteral commission, or the inbreeders at davvos, or masonry… or whoever. It’s not the people elected by the people.
Knowingly appointing fools and idiots to positions of power, especially judges with lifetime appointments is the height of folly. We reap what we sow.
n
Ugh, the Running Man remake sucked donkey balls. Please don’t ruin Russell’s legacy as Snake. Is Hollyweird trying to erase conservative cult classics?
Yes, /sarc is missing from the Skidmark Jackson comments.
“If I were robbed in Japan, would I then be Japanese?”
Krotchrot Brainless Jerkwad, indeed.
StudioCanal made “Emilia Perez” IIRC.
Edgar Wright knew better. That’s what was so shocking about “The Running Man” remake.
Wright ignored the studio exec notes about putting Chris Rock in “Hot Fuzz” and made a mess of “Last Night in SoHo” giving Diana Rigg a last hurrah.
The only fun portion of the film was what I call “Scott Pilgrim’s Revenge”, right down to the casting of Michael Cera.
– demand can stomp their little feet and pout. Unless new capacity comes on line, you can’t get blood from a stone.
n
(and the “demand” won’t be there if there isn’t capacity, it’ll be “planned” projects being cancelled, or projects never getting planned in the first place.)
You don’t really need the AC set at 72. ERCOT will determine the optimal temperature for your household and adjust the thermostat remotely.
@SteveF
Someone posted video about a woman who thought she was being invaded by glow-in-the-dark garden gnomes, and it turned out to be chickens in reflective vests. Very funny, and made news anchors LOL and almost ROFL.
Turns out, it was AI generated.
But the reflective vests are real. Supposedly keeps them safe from traffic and predators, and widely available online. There are actual (?) videos of them.
I’d do it for the humor factor, if I had chickens.
You don’t really need the AC set at 72. ERCOT will determine the optimal temperature for your household and adjust the thermostat remotely.
– only if they make it compulsory, and enforce with inspections and armed men… and then there will be spoofing devices. A hot pad near the Tstat would be enough.
I’m not saying they won’t, but it’s 15 – 20 years out and the whole world will look different by then.
n
Traveling south through Houston on 290, then 610, in the rain is not fun. The lane markings are barely visible. Then Tony, “The Tiny Pee Pee” in his lifted F-350 thinks I, or the driver in front of me, or the next five drivers in front of that car, are not going fast enough so tailgating is the solution.
Not at my house. ‘Sides, I run the a/c at 80.
I like to be able to feel my toes.
70 during the day for heat and 67 at night.
Cheaper: Extend the tstat wire to a warmer place. Like a sunny window. Or upstairs. Or maybe simply raise it a few feet.
One of many advantages of driving a minivan at least ten years old. Go ahead and rear-end my car. The damage to your car will be much more expensive than the damage to mine and my front and rear cameras will show what happened.
Hmm. Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
A number of my neighbors are stupid and superstitious. (They go together, as you may have noticed.)
It is Brown-Jackson. Make sure that the huband’s white, old money family heritage going all the way back to the signing of the Constitution and beyond has proper representation.
Brown-Jackson is considering retirement?
Yeah, that confirmation process would be a trainwreck if it wasn’t an African-American woman.
Alito sits in O’Connor’s seat so the pressure would be on to nominate a woman.
Dadgumit, I meant Clarence Thomas, not Brown. I rewrote over 2,000 lines of Fortran code to C++ yesterday and I was tired when I wrote that posting.
– demand can stomp their little feet and pout. Unless new capacity comes on line, you can’t get blood from a stone.
n
(and the “demand” won’t be there if there isn’t capacity, it’ll be “planned” projects being cancelled, or projects never getting planned in the first place.)
We are getting about 10,000 MW of new capacity in ERCOT this year. Half solar and half emergency gas turbines.
But that demand is not going to happen. Wall street is not going to provide the trillions of dollars to build the data centers without a serious PAYING customer base. And that PAYING customer base is not there.
“Medicine, health and gender ideology”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/medicine-health-and-gender-ideology.html
“I hadn’t realized how endemic the gender apocalypse had become in the health care (?) industry until I read this article.”
Sigh. We are living in Heinlein’s crazy years. Which are, by definition, crazy.
The agencies have an unlimited need for storage of their surveillance of the helots.
“Why is Tesla only testing robotaxis in this part of Houston?”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/tesla-robotaxis-houston-dallas-22217905.php
“Tesla began rolling out robotaxis in Houston and Dallas. Good luck finding one.”
Wait, weren’t the first robotaxis only two doors ? I always thought a two door taxi was stupid.
The agencies have an unlimited need for storage of their surveillance of the helots.
Storage does not need huge amounts of ram and gpus. Storage is lot cheaper than a fake Eliza masquerading as a ultra smart human being.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
And the gooberment is getting ready to run out of cash. The financial apocalypse of the federal government is nigh, maybe as soon as 2029.
That reminds me that I was referring to a coworker as BS some time ago. When she found out and started yelling about it, I informed the room that it was not short for Bullshinola. It was short for “Bacon Strip on the drawers of this team”. This did not make her any happier. Some people are just never satisfied.
One of many advantages of driving a minivan at least ten years old. Go ahead and rear-end my car. The damage to your car will be much more expensive than the damage to mine and my front and rear cameras will show what happened.
Are you happy with your auto camera ? Does it work well or do you have to mess with it ?
I really need to install front and rear cameras in my vehicles.
My camera works pretty well, as does the one I put in The Child’s car. The Child’s is an American name brand (though no doubt made in China), the name of which I don’t remember but can find if you care, while mine is a no-name Chinese brand. Hers is just a small-screened unit attached to the windshield, not big enough to use as a backup camera. Mine is a much larger screen which fits over the rear-view mirror. Each has wires running to the rear camera; neither of us cares about wires, so long as they’re reasonably neat and not flopping all over. Overall, each works fine and will last as long as they do, at which point I’ll replace them.
The only potential downside is that they’re powered only when the car is on. Neither of us drives often, so there’s a real chance that the car wouldn’t start because the camera drained the battery. (They’re also much easier to install this way, just plugging into the cigarette lighter/accessory plug.)
Tuesday midnight. A busy day, glad to be about to sleep. Goodnight!
I’ve had four emergency flood warnings on my phone today. It has not rained very hard at all today. Not heavy enough to make the pathways look like creeks. Or puddles in the driveway.
Just an almost constant heavy mist. Enough that an umbrella is worth the hassle.
Hey, maybe the last time I called Verizon did actually change something? My phone is on charge, laying on a file cabinet and I have had 2 bars instead of zero bars when I look at it.
The forecast for tomorrow is warmer. And maybe some sun. Who knows at this time of year.
This morning one of the calicos was on the porch with Kitler*. All hugged up in a pile and with a kitten that looks just like the calico mom. Kitten is not cool with the dogs. Duh. Kitten is cool with me. I may have made a new friend today.
*Kitler is a kitten from last year. White and black. Friendly enough. Has “the ‘stache” on her snout. So, me being me, is having too much fun saying “Hi Kitller!” to the cat. Oh? Art thou offended? Super!!!
Err, perhaps the correct grammar is Art thee. Not sure, I think it’s a masculine/feminine gender thing. And I think it depends on who is speaking to who. Male is thou. Female is thee. Don’t quote me as Expert.
The agencies built storage south of Salt Lake City ~ 15 years ago. The problem now is analyzing all of that data within a time frame where the information is still valuable.
I’ve got the chinese 4k in my ranger. It will drain the truck battery, if it’s plugged in, even if not on. It’s always on unless you turn it off.
Better cams respond to motion and turn themselves on and off.
And the little LiION battery no longer holds a charge after being in the windshield for one Houston summer.
Still, better than nothing, if I remember to plug it in.
]n
Traveled from Alvin to Conroe, I-45 through Houston and north was a message, all the way to Conroe, at 2:30 in the afternoon. The rain really made it bad.
Stopped at the Costco in Conroe and picked up some berries and gas. In Conroe for a couple of nights, then on to San Antonio for three nights. The planned trip has had several changes. We will drive from San Antonio to Home, with a stop in Meridian as I am not driving that far without an overnight break.
We do have to make a trip to Boerne so the wife can replace the flowers on her mother and brother’s grave. Her younger brother was killed when she was 11 by an illegal alien, driving without insurance, no driver’s license, who got deported, and was back at his wetback job two days later.
The outlets in my Nissan truck are off when the truck is off.. Super duper if you stop for lunch and want your phone to charge. Not.
I’m not sure about the Ford Van. I think the dash plug turns off but the power port in the back stays on. It’s been a while since I played with it all.
My ’92 Dodge truck turned off the power but we changed that. It was not more than moving a connection on the fuse box. How it works now with canbus and such…..
The all optical systems need surveys down to the cm.
“SpaceX posted nearly $5 billion loss in 2025”
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-posted-nearly-5-billion-010403089.html?guccounter=1
“April 9 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s IPO-bound SpaceX posted a loss of nearly $5 billion in 2025 on revenue of more than $18.5 billion, The Information reported on Thursday, citing sources.”
Woof ! That is a little cash.
Ref my comment a couple weeks ago, in response to “Is there anything he can’t do?” Run a profitable company without gov’t subsidies. Which is not 100% true but close enough.
“5792 Andert Rd, Bryan, TX 77808”
https://www.har.com/homedetail/5792-andert-rd-bryan-tx-77808/13482555?lid=10570740
The beautiful 7/5/7 Bryan, Texas house on 4 acres is down from $1,395,000 to $1,295,000. Just another $295,000 drop and I can swing that past the wife.
She wants to retire further north but that gets us further away from our son in Houston. But he is thinking about moving to Denver, Colorado and taking a programming job with a friend there.
Actually Abilene, Texas would be nice also, my wife is from Abilene. Nice 4/3/3 south of Abilene on 8.48 acres for $825,000.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/173-white-dove-cir-abilene-tx-79602/6518674
@lynn, do you get the feeling that someone built their dream house and then died with these style of properties? Those both look really new, but have enough “personal” choices that they must have been custom for a specific person.
n
SpaceX with a 5 billion on 18 billion revenue? What all is included? Starlink, what? I’m not going to watch the video.
As the Saturday Night skit went with Master Thespian, “ACTING!!”
It’s like the USPS losing lots of money each year. But Congress decreed USPS shall fully fund their retirement system. Uh. That’s right about when the Post Office was always broke. …..
“The female judge who told a Michigan man he didn’t have the right to protect his property just radicalized a lot more people”
https://notthebee.com/article/the-female-judge-who-told-a-michigan-man-he-didnt-have-the-right-to-protect-his-property-after-multiple-break-ins-just-radicalized-a-lot-more-people
“In Michigan, you have the right to protect your home from burglars.”
“Unless they’re stealing from a building that’s detached from your actual house.”
“Oh, and you have to announce yourself to the burglars AND let them see you face-to-face before you shoot them.”
Unreal.
@lynn, do you get the feeling that someone built their dream house and then died with these style of properties? Those both look really new, but have enough “personal” choices that they must have been custom for a specific person.
n
Probably. I like the 1 bedroom apartment with a dedicated entrance built into the Bryan house. That would be perfect for our disabled daughter. That house have been owned by three owners according to the County CAD.
I am a little nervous about our daily 1.5 or 2.5 mile walk around the Bryan house with the 45 mph country roads.
BTW, the Bryan house is two barndominiums built crosswise with metal girders. That house might take a tornado hit, might.
Abilene is nice enough. Out in the middle of nowhere on I-20. But with your heart and what ever else with daughter and wife, do see what hospitals in area are like. Eastland is a bit closer to Ft worth.
The old folks were in Comanche and when stuff when bad they went to Waco or Fort Worth. A couple three hours drive in either direction.
Totally happy for you that you can drop a million on a new house.
It’s like the USPS losing lots of money each year. But Congress decreed USPS shall fully fund their retirement system. Uh. That’s right about when the Post Office was always broke. …..
Congress told USPS to fully fund their retirement system without allowing them to raise their rates more than 5% per year. Those two goals are in severe conflict.
Abilene is nice enough. Out in the middle of nowhere on I-20. But with your heart and what ever else with daughter and wife, do see what hospitals in area are like. Eastland is a bit closer to Ft worth.
The old folks were in Comanche and when stuff when bad they went to Waco or Fort Worth. A couple three hours drive in either direction.
Totally happy for you that you can drop a million on a new house.
Our son was born in a Abilene hospital when we lived in Sweetwater and I worked in Colorado City. He did well, the wife had serious issues. The first baby girl in Houston did not survive birth, my wife barely survived with a five day coma.
I have been working for 51 years and running several businesses for the last 31 years, where has the time gone ? Our current house is worth $650,000 or so. Our office complex is worth at least $3 million and I am asking $4 million for it at the moment, looking for a unicorn. We both have fully funded IRAs. We are doing OK with very little debt.
SpaceX and xAI are both parti of the same corporate entity now.
The IPO will be about the investors heading to the exits.
We spent last Tuesday night at our hotel watching “How I Met Your Mother” reruns on E! featuring Kyle MacLaughlin who was “only” 50-ish at the time. 16-17 years ago? Geesh.
Every six months, we see the current state of basic cable, and it isn’t pretty.
Disney owns “How I Met Your Mother”, but they’ve dumped the series on Universal-owned E!
TBS seems to just play “Friends” and “Big Bang Theory”.
I’m gonna be a jerk here. I was born at 29 Palms. Lived in Oceanside until I was 9. Then we moved to Mobile. Then to Texas.
I’ve been back to Oceanside. What a fucking dump. Texas plates on your car mean you must be a thief too. Nice vibe there California.
Mobile, almost. The neighborhood was full of huge, like five foot trunks, live oaks. All gone. Trees that survived Camille with just a few broken branches. All the new houses built since we moved are half the size of our house we had.
So…… Abilene ain’t what wife remembers. I totally get the entire getting out of the Houston Swamp weather.
I guess, before selling what you have and buying and moving, because once you’ve done that, at our age, that’s it, not again, just rent an apartment in Abilene. Go stay on weekends or for a month at a time. See if it still feels like Home.
I bet it does not.
So…… Abilene ain’t what wife remembers. I totally get the entire getting out of the Houston Swamp weather.
Houston ain’t what it was when I was a kid in 1972. And Fort Bend County has jumped from 200,000 people in 1977 to 900,000 people in 2026. And most of the new people in Fort Bend County are immigrants. Fort Bend County bills itself as the most diverse County in the USA and I do not doubt it.
The immigrants somehow vote in all of our elections and they are voting in dumbrocrats. The Indian with a dot County Judge just got convicted of two felonies for stealing money from his campaign fund. He got thrown out of office and the judge put in a Chinese guy last week. Next verse, same as the first, except the new immigrant looks to be more honest.
So I want to move out but there are serious complications and complications are expensive. I just put my mother in an assisted living place, four miles away from my house, last October and she is somewhat ok. We really like our church, having gone there since 1989. And my wife has told me only one more move.
And I do not want to be in an HOA anymore. The people that end up running the HOAs are crooks and thieves. And Karens of the first order.
Yes, Abilene has changed since my wife’s grandparents passed away in 1983 and 1986. We buried them, my wife’s parents, an aunt, and her brother in Merkel on the west side of Abilene in a cemetery that was so close to I-20 that you had to yell to hear each other over the cars and trucks.
“Marxist SPLC Indicted on 11-Counts, Including Funding for the KKK, Aryan Nation, and Nazis”
https://rumble.com/v78tsg4-marxist-splc-indicted-on-11-counts-including-funding-for-the-kkk-aryan-nati.html?mref=1wxk5&mc=ehuil
What the ??? The Southern Poverty Law Center was funding people to stir up trouble to get more funding ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“The ‘California Premium’: Why the Golden State’s ‘Take Per Gallon’ consistently outpaces refiner earnings”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/the-california-premium-why-the-golden-states-take-per-gallon-consistently-outpaces-refiner-earnings/
“As California moves through 2026, a clear fiscal reality is visible at the gas pump.”
“For every gallon of regular unleaded gasoline sold in the state, combined taxes, fees, and regulatory program costs imposed by state and local governments now represent a substantial portion of the final price — frequently exceeding the net profit margins earned by refiners after costs.”
“This has intensified debate over the persistent “California Premium,” the roughly $1.70–$1.90 per gallon gap between what Californians pay compared to the national average.”
I know one place I do not want to move to, California.
“Amazon Pulls Paperback Edition of Controversial 1973 Novel, Sparking Censorship Debate”
https://resistthemainstream.com/controversial-amazon-move-sparks-massive-backlash/
“Amazon’s removal of paperback listings for Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints has reignited debate over how major online platforms handle politically sensitive books, raising questions among publishers and commentators about content standards, enforcement consistency, and the growing influence of digital gatekeepers in the book market.”
“The decision affected Vauban Books’ 2025 English paperback edition of the novel, which was reportedly taken down from Amazon’s U.S. store in mid-April.”
Yup, Amazon shadow bans books. They got caught this time.
Abilene is now a Crusoe Energy company town.
Amazon’s brick-n-mortar store in Austin had Chastan Buttigieg’s (as in Mayor Pete’s … er … husband) book on the shelf the entire time the store was open even though stated policy was to only sell “bestsellers and select titles” in the physical space.
@Lynn
“The first written several books (10 ???) are all six star books.”
Writing order:
Agent of Change (1988), Conflict of Honors (1988), Carpe Diem (1989), Plan B (MM1999/Ace 2003), Local Custom (Ace 2002), Scout’s Progress (Ace 2002), I Dare (Ace 2002), Balance of Trade, Crystal Soldier (2005), Crystal Dragon (2006)
Chrono order:
Crystal Soldier (2005), Crystal Dragon (2006), Balance of Trade (MM 2004), Trade Secret (2013), Fair Trade (2022), Local Custom (Ace 2002), Scout’s Progress (Ace 2002), Mouse and Dragon (2011), Conflict of Honors (1988), Agent of Change (1988), Carpe Diem (1989), Plan B (MM1999/Ace 2003), Fledgling, I Dare (Ace 2002)…Mouse and Dragon (2010)
see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaden_universe
Here’s how I would describe the history:
So in many respects it’s amazing that we have more than the first three books.
Now that the series is more “filled in” it’s worth while to go back and try the chronological order. (But is the “Trade” story arc done at three books? And will we ever get more of Er Thom?)
See previous comment about projection, hypocrisy and, er, paedophilia. No allegations have been, that I know of … yet.
– wow, whodathunkit? Besides just about everyone that isn’t making money off of diabetes.
n
Ok, Lynn. I think if we are not on the same page, we are reading the same book,
I have an itch to sell this place. Move to oh, Victoria. Dunno why, it felt friendly driving through 30 years ago. Or Comanche. But smaller land. Like two acres and not 26 acres.
Ain’t gonna happen. But I have an itch.
@Lynn
“She wants to retire further north but that gets us further away from our son in Houston. But he is thinking about moving to Denver, Colorado and taking a programming job with a friend there.”
Hard no on Denver. If your son’s friend is the company owner, suggest he seriously consider moving.
Nuclear Chief Busted on Hidden Camera Dropping Sensitive Info – Quickly Placed on Leave
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/04/21/nuclear-chief-drops-sensitive-information-on-camera-in-okeefe-media-sting-operation-now-placed-on-leave-n2201541
So… about those 11 scientists that have disappeared…
Loose lips and wake up in a Peking basement?
Hey. How about we stop all this about moving to Abilene or Odessa or Denver and let’s all move to Lubbock.
Lubbock seemed really cool way back in 1976.
Abilene is nice enough. Out in the middle of nowhere on I-20. But with your heart and what ever else with daughter and wife, do see what hospitals in area are like. Eastland is a bit closer to Ft worth.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about my heart issues and am not sure that I will survive the next heart attack like I survived the first two. If I do survive the next heart attack, I will probably need a heart transplant since so much of my heart will be dead and the rest enlarged. The one hard and fast rule about heart transplants is that age 69 is a hard limit. I will be 66 in June…
Besides that, I am not sure that I would want to have a heart transplant. Only 2,200 heart transplants a year are done in the USA. Lots of anti-rejection drugs are used afterwards. So on and so forth.
I have an itch to sell this place. Move to oh, Victoria. Dunno why, it felt friendly driving through 30 years ago. Or Comanche. But smaller land. Like two acres and not 26 acres.
I like Victoria, Texas. And my parents used to live 30 miles south of Victoria. Victoria has two Chikfilas, two HEBs, a Sams Club, and a nice movie theatre. But my wife is a hard no.
“Besides that, I am not sure that I would want to have a heart transplant. Only 2,200 heart transplants a year are done in the USA.”
That’s all? Seems like a low number with a pop of 350 million.
I got nothing man. I have my fingers crossed you make it to 85 and more.
Hey. How about we stop all this about moving to Abilene or Odessa or Denver and let’s all move to Lubbock.
Lubbock seemed really cool way back in 1976.
Mac Davis something to say about Lubbock Texas back in 1976 ???.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCm4BXJX40
Dadgum, Mac Davis was younger than my mother.
Disney is so desperate for relevance that they gave Broken Lizard money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJL7uM8q_Hs
The boys could have easily funded “Super Troopers 3” with a Kickstarter like “Super Troopers 2”.
Meanwhile, over at Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen has a $75 million divorce settlement to pay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeetI2DfbaE
I’m with Paul; I keep the air conditioning set to 79, and my electric power bills don’t get too high. Besides, I’m a SUMMER boy; I LIKE it fairly hot.
Unfortunately. my wife ALSO likes it pretty warm, which becomes a problem in the chilly months. We lived in Sacramento, CA for 35 years, and we really liked the snow there; OVER THERE, up in the mountains, where it was PRETTY, and not down in my driveway! So we moved here to San Antonio in 2020, with a friend’s “hardly ever snows” assurance, only to find FOUR INCHES of “hardly ever” in February, 2021.
So our propane bill has been a surprise some times…..
We’ve had snow in Houston about 4 times in the last 23 years. Nothing that stuck around though. Dallas gets snow, sometimes a LOT of snow.
The BOL did get snow this year.
n
If half is zeroed out and half is twice too large, on average it’s just right. But I guess it doesn’t work that way? Sometimes I think that I just don’t understand things.
About 1986 or 1987 I was living in San Antonio, well Live Oak northeast of San Antonio, when we got slammed with 13″ of the white stuff. In three days it was all gone. What a mess while the snow was around.
In 1993, here in East Tennessee, we got slammed with 36″ of the white stuff. Nothing moved for days except my bowels.
And it was in 1987 that Knoxville reached a low of -26F. I arrived a year after that event.
Many are surprised to learn that Hawaii gets snow every year. The actual island, Hawaii, part of the Hawaiian Island chain. On top of the tallest mountain in the world from the base to the peak. Hint: the base is under a lot of water.
Why You’re Sharp One Day and Foggy the Next
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by Tanner Garrity
https://www.insidehook.com/productivity/why-productive-some-days-not-others
How to Sleep Well and Wake Up Energized in 2026
https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/sleep-better-wake-energized
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https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/typing-texting-hands-flexor-tendon-health
The “strengthen your grip” section is not useful. A tennis ball does not have the proper resistance–look for a sponge rubber ball. Likewise, rubber bands are a poor choice. Best method I ever found was small paddles on individual fingers moving underwater. I have no doubt that ten thousand dollars in servos and a RPi could get better results.
@SteveF
“Sometimes I think that I just don’t understand things.”
The first step to enlightenment.
Have a cookie, which is both a reward and another step.
What Years of Typing and Texting Do to Your Hands
https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/typing-texting-hands-flexor-tendon-health
The “strengthen your grip” section is not useful. A tennis ball does not have the proper resistance–look for a sponge rubber ball. Likewise, rubber bands are a poor choice. Best method I ever found was small paddles on individual fingers moving underwater. I have no doubt that ten thousand dollars in servos and a RPi could get better results.
I broke my seventh finger first knuckle the other day. I have no idea what I did this time. Still hurts but an extra baby aspirin takes the edge off. All four first finger knuckles on my left hand are now broken. Arthritis is a B**** that you don’t even realize is riding you until you look at your hands and say to yourself, “why are all of my first finger joints now cockeyed?”.
I am wondering what new and surprising (and painful) things will happen to my thumbs some day. And my finger second knuckles. Based on my parents, all of those will be broken too should I make it into my 80s.
I have no doubt that ten thousand dollars in servos and a RPi could get better results.
– there was a chinese version of this very thing in one of my returns auctions in the last month.
n
This is “everything hurts” weather. Cold and wet.
n
https://bustednuckles.net/my-doctor-loved-it/
I’ve had my face (and hair) on fire. I’ve scraped half of my face off on the Interstate and got 14 stitches in my chin after supermanning over a stopped car. I’ve had MRSA in my elbow bad enough they told me later they were worried I’d lose the arm. I’ve put staples and finish nails thru my fingers. Chemical burns on my eyes. Kidney stones. Broken vertebrae. Wire wheel to the wrist. Hit a brick wall with my forehead so hard I lost time.
Burns, cuts, scrapes, bruises, ruptured connecting stuff, torn bicep, torn ACL, MCL, and dislocated patella.
And a sensei who introduced me to the phrase “it’s not pain, just a strong sensation”. THAT is what I usually say when someone asks me if it hurts. Sometimes, I’m not sure it’s pain until it stops.
There is ALWAYS pain. Sometimes I don’t notice it until something draws my attention to it. Sometimes, that is just reaching for something or bending wrong.
“Tell me where it hurts.”
“Easier to tell you what hurts NOW that didn’t hurt before.”
n
(that said, I heal very well, and consider every day to be a gift, but yeah, some days hurt.)
A six inch piece of pool noodle, either the 2 ¼ or 3 ¼ inch depending on hand size, works well for resistance work.