Cold again, warming later. National forecast has it clear for the next day or two. But it will still be damp. It got chilly last night, and was cool all day in the shade. I wore a hat and sweatshirt to work outdoors.
That’s for what little work I did. I did take in the last two sets of Christmas decorations. And I wrapped up all the extension cords and light strings I had waiting around after taking them down days ago. I also put stuff back where it belongs after the tree guys moved it all out of the way. So not a lot of work outside, but some small things got done. I don’t really decorate for St Valentine’s Day, other than some cute gnomes and a couple of indoor things for the kids.
Today I’ll keep poking at the office and house stuff. I’m going to try to get a load from storage and a few bins from the house over to the shop. I need to do a couple of listings too. And I can do a pickup but will probably wait until Tuesday so I can combine trips. I bought a couple of small things for the kids.
My buying has slowed WAY down. It’s a combination of needing less (since I’ve bought so much) and that the auctions haven’t had a ton of good stuff lately. Even the sketchy auction that looks most like some sort of money laundry is listing cheap items, and listing them individually, when it used to have a lot of big and expensive items, and case lots. I don’t think anyone is dumb enough to pay $1 plus fees for a 68c can of cat food– especially when the MSRP is in the auction listing.
It’s looking a bit like when stores would put 20 identical items on the shelves to fill in the gaps where there should be other product that they just couldn’t get. Which our HEB was doing in a couple of departments last time I was there. Not a good sign if it wasn’t just a bad timing issue, btw.
I’m interested to hear if anyone else is noticing shortages or empty shelves.
On a personal note, doctor visits have eliminated a couple of concerns, and we might have found the root cause of something that was unpleasant for me and it’s trivial to fix. We’ll know for sure in another week, and when the labs confirm it, but I was accidentally taking a massive overdose of vitamin B12. That was causing some immediate symptoms, and some long term bad effects. IDK how it happened, I think I changed brands and the one I’ve been using for several years is about 10 times stronger than the one I was taking when I started (and when I’d decided on 6 tablets.) I never noticed or did the math over until just recently when I discovered the issue.
Meds, supplements, preps, and routines all need to be periodically reviewed. It’s easy to make a mistake or fall into a habit, or to have circumstances change; and what was a good thing can become a bad thing. Or you could just be spending time, money, and resources on something that is no longer beneficial.
Stack, but also review to make sure you are still doing what you need to do.
nick
Good morning!
Thanks for the reminder about the medication/supplements, Nick. Always good to review periodically.
I wasn’t feeling great recently – mostly just a bit lethargic. When I mentioned it to the cardiologist during my annual checkup, he took me off some blood pressure medication. As I had lost a fair bit of weight in the year gone by, it turned out I was over medicated. I count one maintenance drug fewer as a small win.
Have a good week, all!
The therapist said to write letters to all the people I hate, telling them why, then burn them.
Now that’s done, what should I do with all the letters?
45F this morning. Coffee is ready, egg sandwich is in the microwave. Some days it’s just easier to heat up the premade breakfast.
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one kid was up before me, the other is still hiding in her bed. Time to poke the dragon.
n
The end times, the end times!
Starlink for the win!
This guy drives past [what looks like he thinks is an ICE facility under construction] and notes if there are any new vehicles and records what companies are doing work there. I’m sure he isn’t the only one, or the only place.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dtw5cYmxlNE
n
I poked around at the genealogy site Oldguy linked.
They have a bunch of almost right, partly right, and contradictory info about my mom and grandmother. Nothing about me, but a couple of things about my dad. I’d say it’s a starting point but not definitive.
n
Added- after the starting point I just did a quick look at google and found several links to chase. Up two levels on maternal grandfather, and an obit for granddad. Trailer fire, not hotel. FD had been called to the residence two prior times, third time was the charm. The article blames a “faulty oil heater” but also notes that the propane tanks were fine.
The article also says they were trying to find out if he had family. Looks like a drifter doing occasional farm hand work.
n
https://www.findagrave.com
has a ton of relationships and other info
Just a reminder, if one was needed, that you shouldn’t trust anything you find on the internet, or in books, unless you can verify it, and maybe not even then.
But I imagine the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect will strike again.
Was a Sonic Super-Weapon Used during Historic Raid to Capture Maduro?
Too bad the rest of the story isn’t:
And then things started turning black and falling off.
Walz, Frey, and the rest of the Minnesota Dems: “Protest! Resist!”
Trump: “Send another 1000 agents.”
Noem: “Send another 1000 agents”
10,000 Soros-funded protestors fly to Minneapolis.
Minneapolis torched by mob.
Frey, Walz, et al : “Resist! Protest!”
Trump: “Deploy sonic weapons. Turn them up a notch.”
Wow, there is a ton of stuff available now that wasn’t available last time I looked at any genealogy online.
I was able to follow mom’s paternal line all the way to her original ancestor’s arrival in 1663. Mom’s indignant response to me one time “Don’t call us hillbilly, we’re DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) makes sense. That must have been in the family lore the whole time. Which is funny as mom could only go up 2 generations, and she had the name wrong at that.
Slavery and tobacco growers in the past… but started as an indentured servant.
n
you shouldn’t trust anything you find on the internet, or in books, unless you can verify it, and maybe not even then.
– the funny thing is, if you allow for spelling variations, the older sources are more definitive than modern contemporary sources. Census, church, and tax records were official and carried weight. Phone records and credit report addresses not so much.
n
Sounds a lot like whatever the Russians have allegedly been using on other countries’ embassies for years, and also whatever the Serbs used against their own demonstrating public last year.
Official =/= accurate
… as demonstrated by DNA analysis of skeletons and alleged descendants or between man and alleged great-grandnephew. The analyses don’t tell you where the genealogical break took place, only that it did and that someone –cough– cheating wife –cough– lied to the person creating the records.