Cooler, wetter, darker? We’ll see. It did rain yesterday. And lightning. And sun. So we had all the weather. Might get the same today.
Yeah, it was a bit of a dog’s breakfast yesterday weatherwise, and that got me in a weird headspace which meant not a lot got done. I needed good weather to move out of my storage unit. Didn’t get it. I had enough to do some cleanup in the driveway though. And I did some cleanup indoors moving stuff into the attic. I’ve been taking stuff out of the attic too. There’s a bit of a sorting and shuffling and re-stacking going on.
Today we’ll see what happens with the weather. If it’s good, then I’ll get at least a load moved. I won’t be loading up for a trip to the BOL. W and I decided that the kids have too much going on this week. So instead of a nice week off, we’d have a non-stop tight schedule of moving from here to there. It sucks. I really needed to get 4-5 days of work at the BOL with some cushion if things went badly. No way I could get that if they were leaving Friday morning. I’m unhappy about how this week is shaping up, but it will be more relaxing and a lot less hectic if we do the holiday here.
One of the activities scheduled was going to the Renfair on Sunday. I would like to go this year, and that meant coming home on Saturday anyway. Get there late, leave early, nah. Not this time. Like I said, it sucks. Stuff changes though and you have to deal with reality.
Dealing with things as they are rather than as they “should be” is a skill that can be practiced and learned. It’s vital to success if you are not a chosen one with a smoothed path. But it is a pain in the fundament.
Keep working. Keep stacking. Don’t lose heart.
nick
Tuesday. Up with the lark. Half a day’s work done by 10am, then off to get blood drawn.
The phlebotomist is a witch – I have “difficult” veins, but I never feel a thing with this lady, who hits
oilblood first try, every time. These days, I just get the doctor to give me a signed prescription in advance, so I can go to the phlebotomist ahead of whenever the next appointment with the doctor will be. That suits both me and the doctor; saving me discomfort and bruises, and saving the doc time and embarrassment.Time to break my fast. Wishing you all a good day!
Yesterday’s weather was cat poop? Ewww…
Hear me out: Humans are mostly water, right? And water is ⅔ hydrogen, right? So if we managed somehow to extract all of the hydrogen from warmenists, we’d have a lot of green hydrogen, right? Everyone wins!
Warmists have most of their water locked up as poop—big deposit in the head, and generally full of it.
The EV agenda came first.
He’s The Real Life Tony Stark!
Sex robots come first now. Eliminating cars for most people was just a test run of what’s coming for 99% of the population as that agenda plays out, starting with currency debasement much worse than what we have seen to date.
The new agenda will delay Elon being fitted for the orange suit under the next Dem administration.
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/11/25/young-people-yearning-for-socialism-and-ai-governance-is-a-dangerous-combo-n2196498
The current generation of idiots.
Give it a year in NYC.
The problem for NY the state is that the Mayor of the city is the symbolic executive leader of the region. Mamdani will influence the midterms and how centrist Hocul and Schumer can pretend to be during the primaries.
They think they can play on their PS5 all day, not work, have gourmet food, a car, apartment, and folding money. All because communism farts money like skittles out of a unicorn’s butt.
Technology will make it work, just 1,000 years from now. We’ll all be going to Star Fleet Academy.
What’s the canon for people in the starfleet universe with sub-110 IQ? Or mental pathology? Or those that just don’t like living that way?
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70F and bright blue sky. I think I’ll be moving stuff in the truck today. Once my back loosens up anyway.
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@lynn, every day, everywhere, except inside school functions, inside my home, and at the BOL.
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Cancelled series walking, even before it airs the first episode.
I saw an article at done point which talked about Frakes directing his last “Star Trek” episode ever. Apparently, he isn’t signed for the second season even if Skydance doesn’t pull the plug before cameras roll,
Autocorrect. Grr.
So I’m looking at my pine trees this morning. 4 inch wide stripe from tip to ground, spiraling around the trunk, where the bark is blown off, down to the inner wood, which has a ½ ” crack in it. Some of the bark is 15-20ft away. What I can’t see is the initial point of contact at the top. The crack just narrows and ends. Never seen anything like it.
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X7-ntPtCGE4?feature=share Funny pets. Notice that the ankle biter went for it anyway, and was prepared to scream all the way down…
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I think someone is attacking my network. I had to re-login to my wifi the other day, on a device that normally auto logs on. Someone kick me off and capture the handshake?
Hmm.
n
Jammie Booker, a man pretending to be a woman, has been recognized as the world’s strongest woman. The runner-up, a woman, did not win the title.
You know what this sounds like to me? Sounds like none of my concern. Men have been told for years to stay out of women’s issues.
My dad carried his Ruger LCP .380 in his pocket everywhere. Church, our office, Post Office, inside his home, grocery store, outside his home, Port Authority meetings, Chamber of Commerce meetings, etc, etc, etc.
My wifes brother, my best friend, was murdered in April 1982 by two guys from Detroit who had been in Houston for a week. They murdered him for $65 with a sawed off shotgun in the back as he walked away from them.
My parents bought the house in Port Lavaca in 1986. The teens had been using the empty house for two years for parties. I do not know for sure but somebody broke in the middle of the night while they were sleeping. Dad always carried a gun and slept with a gun under his mattress after that.
I have Dads Ruger LCP somewhere in a very small clip holster. The gun does not print at all. Very small.
My .380 is basically a Taurus version of the LCP. I carry in a DeSantis pocket holster in my front jeans pocket.
Tip for those wanted to carry concealed: Get fat. Really fat. Rolls of flab which have flab rolls of their own. Then you can conceal a large-frame handgun within the flab rolls. #ConcealedCarry #LivingYourBestLife
Oprah could hide a howitzer.
Won’t your gub rust under a flap of flab?
That’s what stainless steel and plastic is for.
On a more serious note, it’s easier to drape untucked shirts over hardware if you’re slimmer.
The economy is going in the ditch as fast as I can see. We have not signed a new contract in over three months, that includes renewals that are just hanging out there.
One of my neighbors is a freelance accountant. He handles small stores, small businesses, etc. Does quite well, they built a 6,500 ft2 house a couple of years ago, spent well over a million dollars, maybe $1.5m. They have his mother, their youngest son, his wife, and their new baby living with them. Four generations in one house, I would go crazy.
He says everything is dropping sales like crazy, his customers are freaking out. His wife is an accountant for a small company that just got bought out. The new owners laid everyone off, including his wife so she is looking a full time job. My wife told her that we are looking for a 10 to 20 hour per week accountant but she wants full time. Benefits.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X7-ntPtCGE4?feature=share Funny pets. Notice that the ankle biter went for it anyway, and was prepared to scream all the way down…
AI. Note how the curves are all very smoothed.
BC: Skinny Turkey
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2025/11/25
Oh my. That is just wrong.
“Trump pardons turkeys ‘Gobble’ and ‘Waddle’ in annual Nat’l Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation ceremony”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-pardons-turkeys-gobble-and-waddle-in-annual-natl-thanksgiving-turkey-presentation-ceremony/
We are a really weird country.
Questionable Content: No phone, got lost
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5708
Yeah, the Gen Z and Millennials are way too dependent on their phones. I don’t know about the Gen Alphas yet but I get a bad feeling.
The Silicon Graybeard, a ham operator, had a lightning strike a while back and mentioned weird and arbitrary damage to his equipment that he kept finding for weeks or months afterwards.
“Who Needs Spies When You Have Insurance Companies?”
https://www.schiffsovereign.com/trends/who-needs-spies-when-you-have-insurance-companies-153934/
“Imagine the cost to insure James Bond against all the destruction he leaves in his wake—torched cars in Istanbul, collapsed buildings in Venice, botched assassinations in Macau.
That’s why, in the real world, intelligence officers—whether they’re CIA field operatives, FBI investigators, or high-level national security officials—all carry professional liability insurance.
This type of coverage protects federal employees when they’re personally sued or investigated for actions taken in the line of duty. It covers legal defense costs, civil damages, property destruction costs, and maybe even wrongful deaths.
That’s a lot of risk for an insurance company to take on. So you can imagine that, in order to even assess the policy risk, an underwriter would need access to extremely sensitive information on their prospective customer.
This might include data like someone’s clearance level, field deployment history, clandestine status, and more. And in the event that an insurance company needs to pay out a claim, they would likely even need classified operational details in order to conduct their own investigation.
That’s an extraordinary amount of highly secretive intelligence being made available to a private company… and it would amount to a major score for a foreign adversary.
Yet somehow, no one in the US intelligence community noticed when “Wright USA”—a little-known insurance firm that specialized in liability coverage for the CIA and FBI—was quietly acquired by Fosun Group in 2015.
Who is Fosun Group? It’s a Chinese conglomerate with deep ties to the Communist Party. In fact, the money to buy Wright USA actually came from the CCP, funneled through four Chinese state-owned banks.”
No freaking way. Oh wait, this is the incompetents at the federal government.
Tempting but…. I’m not planning to travel, dogs, and if I do go somewhere my phone has 6GB data which is plenty to check mail, read here, and do banking stuff. But you never know what’s going to happen.
I’ve always figured I’d take the Kindle Fire and hotspot it to my phone for the larger screen.
Well, A free Mini in standby mode for $5 a month sounds great And like folks say, one is none and two is one. 50% off Roam which appears to be $70 a month, so $35 ?
I need to think about this.
Oh, and “Standby Mode, where available, offers speeds up to 500 Kbps download and upload.” which is a pretty decent speed for what I do. When I first got a wISP and off of dial-up, the speed was 125 Kbps and it was grand.
“Autodesk projects quarterly results above estimates on cloud subscription, AI design tools demand”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/autodesk-projects-quarterly-results-above-221038756.html?guccounter=1
“Autodesk’s shift to cloud-based subscriptions has provided stable recurring revenue and strong visibility. Rising performance obligations and increased use of its flexible token-based access model have supported customer retention while expanding access among occasional users.”
I told my partners 12 or 14 years ago that we needed to move our software into the cloud. I also told them it was a five year development project for five software engineers and a project manager. The cost would be five million dollars. They refused to raise the money so it did not happen. Then they continuously asked me why our sales were declining. It was very tough for me to not start yelling in every quarterly meeting that they knew why things were going in the ditch.
That reminds me of a lot of public projects over the years. For thirty years say “We’re not going to develop the Alaska oil fields and build a pipeline because it would take twenty years before a drop makes it down to the lower 48.” Don’t start a system of regularly inspecting bridges in the state because it would take a year to get the teams trained up and that would be an expense and there wouldn’t be anything to show for it.
Midnight of the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. Time for bed.
Alas, Starlink has not extended that offer here yet. I have our full-size dish on the 5 bucks a month standby plan. It travels where we go, because I need to be sure that I can telework in case the usual network at the BOL or elsewhere goes down. A mini instead of the big unit would be more convenient for travel.
I had an opportunity to examine a Beretta 71 up close this evening. Nice little gub. Very small and discreet. Only .22lr, but if they were good enough for Mossad…
The Autodesk product line just draws the pretty pictures. It is not computationally intensive on the level of your simulation code, especially since graphics cards crossed a line where even an office use system will feature 2 GB of discrete video memory just to make scrolling in Word tolerable.
About a decade ago, the standard graphics text, Angel, switched from C++ and a full operating system to JavaScript and the 3D image panel in HTML on the standard web browsers.
I imagine a lot is possible with a browser, JavaScript runtime, and Wasm.
The left eye has been bothering me for a couple of weeks. Use of soothing drops (Systane, Refresh, etc.) have not helped. So off to the ophthalmologist today.
Turns out I have very dry eyes. He recommended some drops for daily use and a gel at night when I go to bed. The daily drops seemed to have helped almost immediately. The drops are expensive for OTC stuff. 30 single use vials are $15.00. It will be costly using it four times a day. I am looking at $60.00 a month, a small price to pay for vision. I checked Amazon and the price is about the same, but I can order larger quantities.
While there I asked about replacing the lens in the left eye to see if I can improve my vision. Cataract surgery was several years ago. What with the new-fangled lenses I thought I would ask. That option was quickly discounted, even scowled upon. Apparently, removal of the existing lens after it has been installed for a year is very difficult and a risky surgery. Blindness, tearing of the retina, infection (always mentioned) are very real possibilities. The doctor strongly recommended that I not even consider that as an option.
The doctor said the dry eyes are sometimes a result of cataract surgery. The daily use drops the ophthalmologist recommended are Refresh Celluvisc and the nighttime gel is Systane Nighttime. A piece of information to stash for Mr. Lynn with his recent, and upcoming, lens replacement.
AI. Note how the curves are all very smoothed.
– there are a lot of shorts featuring the same three pets, and they are cute. No eagles stealing kittens.
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Finished my grocery shopping. Paid $1.79/lb for ‘fresh’ turkey because I’m worried about thawing one now. I’ll get it in brine tonight, probably.
There were a few things on sale at HEB, but most of my list was not. Freaking PIE CRUSTS cost as much as a whole pie.
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I lost count of how many HEB pies we threw away during my October volunteer shift at the food bank because they were a few days past expiration by the time the truck brought them into the sorting facility.
We splurged for a pre-brined HEB brand turkey.
The Autodesk product line just draws the pretty pictures. It is not computationally intensive on the level of your simulation code, especially since graphics cards crossed a line where even an office use system will feature 2 GB of discrete video memory just to make scrolling in Word tolerable.
About a decade ago, the standard graphics text, Angel, switched from C++ and a full operating system to JavaScript and the 3D image panel in HTML on the standard web browsers.
I imagine a lot is possible with a browser, JavaScript runtime, and Wasm.
I was going to make our web server a compute server. Our chemical process simulator cannot run in a interpreted environment, too slow and too much code, 850,000 lines of F77 and C++ code. Just doing the JIT conversion from code to machine language would take too long.
While there I asked about replacing the lens in the left eye to see if I can improve my vision. Cataract surgery was several years ago. What with the new-fangled lenses I thought I would ask. That option was quickly discounted, even scowled upon. Apparently, removal of the existing lens after it has been installed for a year is very difficult and a risky surgery. Blindness, tearing of the retina, infection (always mentioned) are very real possibilities. The doctor strongly recommended that I not even consider that as an option.
When you get a new lens, the lens sack will shrink and conform itself to the new lens. Deplanting a lens from the lens sack is dangerous and can cause a retina detachment.
The doctor said the dry eyes are sometimes a result of cataract surgery. The daily use drops the ophthalmologist recommended are Refresh Celluvisc and the nighttime gel is Systane Nighttime. A piece of information to stash for Mr. Lynn with his recent, and upcoming, lens replacement.
I put glaucoma drops into each eye at night, Latanoprost. That is very similar to Refresh except it stings like a blank blank blank.
This is why I went with the single vision lenses. The multifocal lenses cause a lot more gyrations of the eyes. I would wait for the 30 year trial results on the multifocal lenses before getting them. I was very tempted but the claimed failure rate is 20%. The failures are continuous halos, halos at night time, and/or very blurry vision. Not good if you are part of the 20%.
Again, replacing the eye lens is a once in a lifetime thing. Deplanting a lens is very traumatic to the eye. I am hearing that retina detachment following a lens deplantation is running around 10%.
“Texas finalizes private school voucher rules, will let families put $10,300 toward preschool”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/25/texas-school-vouchers-education-savings-accounts-final-rules/
“Texas will let some families use public funds for private schools or homeschooling starting next year. Most families can apply starting Feb. 4.”
And here we go with the great experiment on privatizing the public schools in Texas. I hope it succeeds as maintaining the status quo will not work in the long run.
Some of the ISDs in the outlying areas around Austin are talking about four day a week school.
Tonight’s movie was going to be Dancing With Wolves at I’m not starting a 3 hour movie at 4PM. Maybe tomorrow.
So I watched This is Spinal Tap. What is this? A satire of documentary films? I’m missing the joke. It wasn’t exactly a bad movie but it goes onto the Library Thrift Shop stacks of discards.
That would have been great when I was in school. Just for the almost 4 hours a day on the freaking bus. But then what? School from 8 to 5? No way.
Tonight’s movie was going to be Dancing With Wolves at I’m not starting a 3 hour movie at 4PM. Maybe tomorrow.
So I watched This is Spinal Tap. What is this? A satire of documentary films? I’m missing the joke. It wasn’t exactly a bad movie but it goes onto the Library Thrift Shop stacks of discards.
“This is Spinal Tap” is a satire of the Rock-n-Roll movies such as “Tommy” by the Who, “Yellow Submarine” by the Beetles, “The Song Remains The Same” by Led Zeppelin, etc. It just had a 2.0 release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap_II:_The_End_Continues
How will that play with the parents who use schools as daycare?
Be a great opportunity for private daycare to fill that fifth day gap. Be very efficient if you put the Somalis in charge–they could serve 1,000 kids out of a regulation mailbox.
I have a Blu-ray of “Sneakers” waiting for a Mary McDonnell autograph.
My high school’s most notable graduate, Bertie Higgins, is bigger in Asia than he ever was in the US.
Just like Spinal Tap.
Tonight’s movie was going to be Dancing With Wolves at I’m not starting a 3 hour movie at 4PM. Maybe tomorrow.
BTW, that is a great movie. I watched it with my mother several months ago for the 5th or 6th time. Kevin Costner and Mary McDonnell. Kevin Costner wrote the screenplay from the book.
Mary McDonnell’s Indian name was “Stands With A Fist”.
After feeding the dogs their dinner I finished off the fake Hamburger Helper I made the other day. There wasn’t enough left for breakfast tomorrow. It was good cold from the fridge. I nailed this batch.
Three days. One supper, two breakfasts, a snack tonight plus a few spoons of “Best supper ever!!!” each day for the dogs.
I’ve got to get over it and just cook. A lot of stuff I know how to do is for four people. But it’s just me now. Heck, a frozen pizza takes me three days to eat.
One of the ISDs, Leander, has pieces of Colonist developments north of Austin.
Colonists don’t use the schools as daycare, but, if they work, the mothers make their child care issues everyone’s problem.
@paul
“A lot of stuff I know how to do is for four people.”
Freeze for three and call it a prep.
Sam’s Club has box of 8 individual Marie Callendar’s Chicken Pot Pies for $8.48 through 11/30. That may be the best deal of the season absent $2 gasoline.
There are a lot of rock and roll touring ‘in jokes’ in Spinal Tap. The “ours go to 11” bit is part of our general culture now.
Even people that don’t know where it came from know the joke about turning it up to 11.
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In the industry we called the type of sketch that resulted in the mini stonehenge “napkinCAD” There are lots of jokes about it, and someone even gave out “napkinCAD” tchotchke at a trade show.
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Neighbor has leased their house (next to me) to an org that runs group homes. Supposed to be recovering from health or drug issues, or abuse, but not ex cons or pedos. Saw the first one today. 4 plus a live in social worker… Didn’t notice a moving van so I texted with the owner when I noticed a guy get dropped off in front, but walked up the driveway and entered from the back.
To say that I’m concerned might be a bit of an understatement.
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Assume that is the price for the 8-pack, so a good deal.
Walmart has the same thing for about $3.50 ea – these are the large size 15 oz ones. Very good, has large chunks of chicken. Easy to microwave. The turkey pot pies are also good, also with large chunks of meat. I order my food through WalMart, since they deliver, which is convenient when you are without transportation.
I also use the Hormel microwaveable bacon, which comes in individual four-piece pouches that cook quite nicely in the microwave. Cook about 3 ½ minutes to get the bacon crispy. Good for one BLT (without the lettuce, since that doesn’t keep well) and a hunk of mayo on a ciabatta roll. The 4 pieces of bacon are good for this one-person space, and convenient to cook in the microwave just for me. I suppose if you have dogs, then using a fry pan on a pound of bacon is more preferable.
Neighbor has leased their house (next to me) to an org that runs group homes. Supposed to be recovering from health or drug issues, or abuse, but not ex cons or pedos. Saw the first one today. 4 plus a live in social worker… Didn’t notice a moving van so I texted with the owner when I noticed a guy get dropped off in front, but walked up the driveway and entered from the back.
To say that I’m concerned might be a bit of an understatement.
Crap. Adults or kids ? I do not know which is worse. Or makes more noise.
We have several group homes in Fort Bend County. One of them takes the kids age 16 – 20 to HEB at 10 pm to get their stuff. I can tell the ADHD ones immediately.
The people living next to the group homes are complaining a lot. And calling the cops a lot.
However, my brother-in-law is in a group home for sick people. One nurse 24×7 and 6 patients with different problems. The youngest is about 50 who had a stroke a couple of years ago and lost a good portion of his brain, his dad got guardianship. He can walk but has trouble talking. He sits with my brother-in-law a lot and talks to him.
-coughcough- I buy 10# restaurant packs of bacon and divide them into four subpackages and freeze them. Cook two and a half pounds at a time last summer and now when The Child is home from college for a few days. Taking into account the facts that she is a young woman in her late teens, not overly large, and not overly active, she certainly eats her share of each batch.
I made a 2# loaf of french bread today, baking it in the bread machine to make a tall loaf rather than long, skinny loaves. Tomorrow I’ll make french toast and bacon for her and myself and possibly one of her friends. May make more french toast on Friday and continue to eat leftover bacon; the bread should make better toast after it’s had a couple days to get stale.
Tomorrow I’m also making a batch of cookie-brownies, as I described a couple weeks ago, to give to my nieces’ kids on Thursday – they’re the only small children in the family, and as the appalling uncle*, it’s up to me to get them hyped up on chocolate and sugar. I’ll also make a few loaves of pumpkin bread. My dad’s wife and two of my sisters are handling the cooking, so only peripheral stuff is needed.
* Some years ago, one of my nephews, who’d moved to Texas for work, got married in a hurry. He brought his bride up to meet the extended family a month later and she was looking, let’s say, kind of bulgy. He introduced us all in turn. “This is Grandma. She used to be a police officer. This is Uncle A. He races cars.” and such. When they got to me, his brain locked up. I suggested, “Hi. I’m Steve, the appalling uncle.” He, his sisters, his mother, my mother, and pretty much everyone in earshot agreed with this description with more enthusiasm than was really polite.
On the one hand, people who are trying to turn their lives around deserve a chance and don’t need a hundred hurdles placed in their way.
On the other hand, the statistics on group homes and halfway houses are not very encouraging.
Can you and the neighbors require the organization to put up a million dollar bond for any harm that comes to persons or property in the neighborhood? Sue the neighbor and/or the organization for the immediate drop in your property values? Is there anything in village/township/whatever rules about private homes being used for such purposes? If there is such a rule and it was waived, you have standing and possibly grounds to sue. As usual, consult an attorney.
Note that I did not suggest fire or firearms. That’s because this is kinder, gentler SteveF, not at all appalling. And also because you have a real problem and real advice is maybe more useful than suggestions which you have to be really good to get away with.
Eat half today and half tomorrow and fast for two days.
Well, I will. Not offensively, though it might be merited. That would be illegal and get you in trouble.
But you may want to fine-tune your access to firearms policies to make sure you’re ready for exigent circumstances. And maybe touch base with the HPD, Constable, Sheriff as appropriate to make sure they’re aware what’s going on.
And, of course, make sure the females are all aware of the necessity to keep doors locked and be vigilant when leaving the house and returning. What John Correia calls “transitional spaces”.
High trust societies were nice while they lasted.
Might be a good time for a refresher first aid course too, and stop-the-bleed/tourniquet training. It’s not always bad guys who get shot.
Saw my retina surgeon today.
Retinas are fine.
Macular degeneration is stable and not getting worse.
No glaucoma.
But…
It’s cataract time.
Lovely.
I went over and had dinner with the neighbors for the second time this week. His son is home from Texas with his bride for a few days.
He used to be my help around the yard here, painting and digging and helping with blocks and pavers, till he got too big for his britches and graduated college and then went off and got a job and a wife. People.
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We were watching Raiders streaming in HD afterwards – it’s been years, I’d forgotten what a wonderfully produced movie that was. Just pure entertainment by Hollywood at its best.
I picked up a couple items in the last week from Amazon – supposedly Black Friday stuff.
The purchases were a pair of Airpods and an Anker Solix C1000 “Generator”. The AirPods are for listening to audiobooks while on my walks and ambient noise cancellation, and the Anker is for making coffee and meals with electricity when open flames are forbidden while camping (which is becoming more common in a fire ravaged California).
I actually looked at camelcamelcamel first and the prices I paid are about as low as they’ve ever been, but the Black Friday price was no better than the best low price for the last year.
Can you and the neighbors require the organization to put up a million dollar bond for any harm that comes to persons or property in the neighborhood? Sue the neighbor and/or the organization for the immediate drop in your property values? Is there anything in village/township/whatever rules about private homes being used for such purposes? If there is such a rule and it was waived, you have standing and possibly grounds to sue. As usual, consult an attorney.
Group homes are protected by the ADA, The Americans with Disability Act. The HOAs are totally shutdown, any lawsuits will be reflected back to the plaintiffs with costs, etc, etc, etc. The ADA has some real teeth in it. Any lawyer with any common sense (those two sets might not cross) will run away from anything concerning the ADA. Most federal judges do get very protective around the ADA and sanctions are not uncommon for transgressors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990
It’s cataract time.
Join the club. My eye doctor / surgeon does 12 to 20 cataracts a week. His eye doctor daughter just got out of her 20 ??? year commitment to the Navy and is working with him, doing 10 or so a week at my best guess.
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/doctor/matthew-mcmenemy/
Yeah, we’ll see how it shakes out. Our former neighbors are good people but they can’t afford two mortgages and they couldn’t get the price they needed to sell the house last year. This year, their realtor advised dropping their asking by $50K, which they couldn’t afford to do, hence another year of leasing. I’m surprised because houses in this area sell well, especially ones that have been upgraded to the point they took it.
There is a lot of new housing stock in the area, with more modern layouts and amenities.
5 adults in a house puts additional wear and tear on it too. Supposedly, the rules will mitigate issues but we’ll see. I’m concerned about there being a bigger trend away from owner occupied in the neighborhood, but I don’t have any real evidence of that yet. It is something we’re watching.
3 more years to get the kids thru high school. I love this house, but I’m also willing to move if that is the best option.
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Had my tiny little fire and some reading time. It got chilly enough for me to fire up the MrHeater. No possum tonight, only one black cat.
n
It’s much later than I thought. Good books will do that, but now it’s way past time for a shower and bed.
n