Still hot, although less so yesterday because the sun hid most of the day. Parts of Houston even got rain. Some of it got a lot of rain. I drove through some on the east side, but nothing at home. Maybe today?
Slept most of the morning despite my alarm going off more than once. Got up late and did auction stuff, then pickups. Well, one pickup. And I got a couple of things out of storage, including a new 8″ chef’s pan. I like the NSF rated simple non-stick pans that Costco used to carry. They end up in auctions surprisingly often, so I stock up. Or stack up… Since they should only be used for a while, and replaced when overheated or when the coating gets damaged, I consider them disposable items. I do take the pan to the scrapyard to be recycled. I like my heavy stainless and my cast iron, but some things are just easier to cook in non-stick.
Today I’ve got pickups, and I’d really like to be inspired and find a nice gift for my wife. It’s not a milestone birthday, but it’s always nice to celebrate things.
I’ve also got to load some stuff for the lake and get ready to head up. I’ve got frozen and cold food to take with me and I’ve got my normal pile of stuff that accumulates between trips. There’s always something that needs to go up.
So stack it high at home, and then duplicate that at your BOL. You’ll have twice the fun.
nick
Eh? Are we married to the same woman?
I’ve stopped letting my wife drive my vans because she’s damaged every one she drove. She broke the side mirror off one (twice!), scraped the side similar to the woman in the linked article, and backed into something (which admittedly wasn’t much damage, just scratched the plastic bumper cover and put a minor dent in the bumper itself). Almost never cleaned after filling the back with something dirty, wet, or stinky; always promised to but was always too busy to do it.
Got really pissy when I wouldn’t let her drive my van about five years ago. Refused to acknowledge that her driving record was the reason. “It was just the one time!”
List of contacts to take care of the hundred things around the house that you take care of, since you never do anything around here, or whatever D1 said and W didn’t correct.
Ray? https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/68/68/2c/68682c808fd66263b040c5873c990055.jpg
Friday! Good morning (nearly noon here).
Deer season starts for me next week. Woohoo! Off to the BOL later to get it and myself ready.
W1 and I have tickets to see Jazzrausch. Looking forward to that…
The man speaks truth. I just spent a jolly half-hour loading the car. Must not forget rifle!
Another downside of half ton work trucks becoming $60k codpieces even for basic trims is that the insurance companies total the vehicle over what would, in the past, be considered very minor damage resulting from the owner actually using the pickup for … work!
Imagine.
The owner is obligated to make the insurance company aware of the situation since he’s carrying full collision until the payments are finished. If the vehicle ends up in another accident, the carriers involved will get nitpicky over past repairs done to the vehicle, and a $20 gizmo from Amazon will tell an investigator if the paint on a panel is “factory”.
I don’t know about the other insurance carriers, but the Geico Gecko owns a large chain of new car dealerships, the Van Tuyl Group, ~100 dealers across 10 states.
Flo, The General, Limu Emu, et al probably have similar investments in new car dealers but probably not wholly owned or as transparent.
Well, as transparent as the Gecko operates. He’s a slippery lizard.
The current canon “Doctor Who” lead is the poster child for the “Chav” stereotype white girl who lives in those complexes.
Doctor Who. The Cavviest girl in the council flat.
Weep for Britain.
Watch “Picard” Season Three and pay attention.
“Deep Space Nine” is a tragedy centered around the Sisko family, the war, and the consequences of one son’s desire not to lose both parents regardless of the costs.
It didn’t start that way, but the show runners were told to fix the ratings problem in the fourth season or face cancellation.
Ironically, Billie Piper helped create the “Chav” meme with her role as Rose Tyler in the series reboot 22 years ago.
The first season of the reboot emphasizes Rose as poor. It isn’t a lifestyle suggestion, but the UK still deals with the fallout of from two seasons of“The Young Ones” Cultural Weapon of Mass Destruction.
I moved one hunting rifle and an AK to my buddy’s gun safe at the BOL. Until I have a safe of my own up there, it’s gonna be limited to that and what I can carry.
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There are aspects of American society that I admire but I don’t want to be an American. I would rather see us adapt them to our Canadian society.
— this is very close to the attitude I encountered most often while working in Canada, 17 years ago. I think they mostly want the US of the late 50s, and not current US. They had a bit of a chip on their shoulder about it, often insisting quite loudly that they weren’t American. They got the multi-culti conditioning full force which leads to things like actively recruiting refugees, even knowing they have links to terrorist orgs. Then there is the healthcare thing, fraught with misunderstanding, but they’re very proud–despite often coming to the US for treatments. I had long conversations with young men in the trades giving up HUGE percentages of their earnings at the start of their careers to pay for “free” healthcare they wouldn’t even use for a decade or more.
I went to dinner at a co-worker’s house in a distant suburb of Toronto, and it was like my childhood – tree lined streets, clean, well kept modest houses, and beautiful maple leaves in brilliant colors everywhere on the streets and yards. Idyllic. Probably overrun with mosques now.
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76F this morning. Sun is coming up. Looks like a clear day, maybe partly cloudy. No thunderstorms until later if at all.
Coffee is brewing. Breakfast is in the microwave. Kids are out the door. I’ll be at my desk for a while, then auction pickups.
n
BTW, they don’t teach history much anymore. Texas does, with a strong dose of Texas history, but mostly what the rest of the country teaches is social studies and how everyone else is better, and we suck.
This is different from HS in the 80s. We got FAR too much European and British Empire history. War of the Roses? The tribes moving across the same dirt, back and forth, but no context even then. Franks? WTF are they?
I even had an AP History class, and a teacher who made it interesting, but mostly US kids of my generation got Western Civilization from the Greeks and Romans thru the Renaissance and Reformation, English wars of succession, and then the US Revolution followed by the Expansion West. We’d RARELY get past WWII, never tying that long history into the present day. And it got taught in that order at every grade level getting more detailed each time. And never getting to the present.
Now I look at it and think “too many inbred MFs selling their daughters to cousins to keep it in the family”.
Our ‘dynastic’ families are johnny come lately pikers in comparison.
n