Hopefully going to be cool and clear today, but the local forecast says ‘nope’. Supposed to be cold, raining, and flood-y here today, but then clearing by Sunday. We’ll see. It was light overcast until late afternoon, then it got cool and gorgeous again. Wow, I’m really loving the weather this Spring.
I did office stuff, including working on my non-prepping hobby website, and some auction stuff in the morning, then I went to my shop and broke down the laptop cart/stand/rolling things. I won more so I’ll be doing more of that next week too. With the scrap sale, I’m actually being paid to harvest the stuff I want from the carts. Crazy.
Today I have a pickup or two to do and more stuff to break down and organize. I’ve also got household stuff to do, and office stuff as well. We’ll see what gets done and what doesn’t.
I am stacking good stuff with the batteries and chargers. I just need to find the time to do all the regular stuff too.
Do not falter.
Stack.
nick
Denis, The Hen looks entertaining but I probably won’t watch it. I watch hardly any movies or shows because I usually have something more productive to do. (I say, as I type you a message…)
The comments on the movie’s trailer were interesting. Some were by people who obviously have kept poultry, some were by people who obviously have not.
“Red Dwarf” did the best ”psychic virus” episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOE7qTAK87o
“We can’t possibly do that. Who would clear up the mess?”
I have my own Mr. Flibble puppet.
@Denis
I have high hopes of finding the surface of the workbench in the BOL garage…
Take photo to document rare event. Snap pigs flying, too.
It’s a worthy goal, but like Sisyphus, I’m not sure any mortal will get there….
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64F and wet. I was levitated out of bed around 4am by thunder so loud it made me float a foot above the mattress. Then I went right back to sleep.
I don’t feel as rested as I should with almost 8 hours of sleep, but that’s ok, I feel better than yesterday.
With rain and t storms in the forecast, I guess I’ll do my pickup and household stuff. Should have cut the grass in the back yard yesterday evening when it was cool and dry…
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It does happen. Less common than a total solar eclipse but more common than a newsman telling the truth about an event with no spin.
Aye, aye, Sirs!
Workbench not yet found, but I did locate W1’s bicycle, which was on the honey-do list, so that’s a plus. I also found the stuff for filling the miniscule stone chip in W1’s car windscreen, so there might even be Brownie points.
SteveF, maybe, perhaps, if I can figure out this internet business, I will watch “Hen” and report. I am a bit like you though, I rarely watch “entertainment” of any kind.
Ironically, typing this while eating leftovers of chicken curry!
I can’t help but feel like scrapping out the laptop cart things is an incredible waste of embodied cost… the casters are from McmasterCarr, and were $169 EACH when new. There are several custom aluminum extrusions, with machining, and one with machining and weldments. They have lights built in, and of course the battery/inverter/chargers… plus a 7″ touch screen to manage and control the functions…
They look like they’re being replaced because they got knocked over and the plastic cover cracked. I actually haven’t tried to see if they are usable or working…
All the engineering, build cost, and energy spent, lost because the plastic broke.
n
See also: modern automobiles, modern household appliances, …
The bond ghouls continue to feast in Texas, and the schools continue to p*ss away capex.
Plus Apple once again set the standard with the new MacBook Neo. Anyone not selling a laptop with charging and docking capability through USB-C is selling obsolete hardware unless the price is very low.
Something missed in a lot of the reviews is that the MacBook Neo also has a battery that is easily replaced.
From the “Ruh-Roh” desk:
The vending machines have not been restocked at the office in a week.
At $1.75 a can on campus, you would think that Aramark would have the incentive to keep the machines full of product.
the MacBook Neo also has a battery that is easily replaced.
– you can now buy an AED that uses off the shelf batteries. I don’t think anyone will be able to sell one with proprietary batteries that cost almost as much as a new AED again. I’d never buy one.
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(I own several surplus AEDs. Replacing the battery is crazy expensive, and manfs will end of life a product that is perfectly fine, so no new batteries get produced. Forced upgrade.)
Are these from schools, or hospitals?
When I worked for “non-profit” Houston Methodist, we called them COWS (Computer On Wheels”, until the nurses who used them got offended that the name was being used to refer to the nurses. We switched to WOWS (Workstation On Wheels) to appease them.
During my tenure at Houston Methodist, they spent about $300,000,000 PER YEAR on capital improvements.
The cost of replacing a damaged WOW is nothing. Sweet, sweet Medicare and Medicaid money on top of gouging the commercial insurance payers. Oh, and copayments.
In this day and age, I don’t understand designing around weird batteries for something that isn’t micro-miniature. An AED is box-like. Use 18650s or 14500s or something similar. Even my Morserino (on order) was designed with a 14500 in mind. 3.7 volts, recharges in an external charger, plenty of capacity for the task.
Ok, scratch that. AEDs are medical devices, and they have strange regulatory requirements. I bet the stupid batteries are soldered in because one time in 10,000 a socket-mounted battery would fail.
lpdbw, you could have called them Suitably Lifted User Terminals.
@lpdbw, they are from hospitals. These bunch actually says “COWS” on them in spray paint stencil, but the manufacture calls them something else.
The auctioneer specializes in medical equipment, and has had robotic surgical suites, xray machines, etc. The current listings include laser stuff, lab equipment, surgical lighting, and lots of beds/stretchers. Unlike some other sellers, he doesn’t require you to have a medical equipment refurbisher license to buy.
One of the auctions I used to like was the Harris County system. Then they went to requiring a license, even on dual use items like ultrasonic cleaners and microscopes (my two most common ‘medical’ purchases.)
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FWIW, the AEDs have removable batteries, but the module is proprietary and includes some sort of comm chip. I bet it’s full of normal batteries, or maybe the Tadiran long lifes…
n
Huh, looking at the pictures, this batch must be newer as they are branded “rubbermaid healthcare” instead of a brand I’d never heard of. And the pics show the management system working.
https://www.directbids.com/medical-equipment-auctions/rubbermaid-healthcare-mobile-computer-workstation-lot-of-2-z5vdvioj
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coming down in buckets at the moment. Been doing so for a while too.
Power keeps browning out.
Sugar Land and parts of Katy were reporting golf and tennis ball sized hail this morning.
Time for me to get on the road. Hope it’s not too flooded.
n
Something, a software install I suspect, borked my MSOffice installation. I run the 32 bit version but some software installer installed the 64 bit version of an Excel module. This required I removed all versions, and traces, of MSOffice from my system. Then I had to download the software, version 2021, from Microsoft. The installer says Office 365 but apparently the license key determines the package installed. I have no real license key as the install is tied to my account at Microsoft.
Then I needed to install Visio 2021. Some notice on the install saying Office 365. When that was done Visio said it was not part of Office 365 on a splash screen. In small letters on the bottom is a link to input the activation key, which I did, and it worked. Why Visio is tied to an activation key and not my account at Microsoft is strange.
Then OneNote complained about my file being corrupted and was now in read-only mode. The solution was to create a new file and copy over my pages. Creating the new file was less than intuitive to get the file in the location I needed. I need the file on OneDrive so I can access my notes on my Mac, iPad and iPhone. What a convoluted mess. I now have three OneNote files listed on OneDrive. Only one works. There is no way that I have found to get rid the other two files.
This entire mess started because some software package decided it could do what it wanted with my system and corrupt another software installation the software package had no business messing with.
Then Quicken decided it was going to download my investment transactions, which I wanted. The problem was the downloaded transactions did not show up. The flag was there stating there was downloaded transactions, but that was it. Running Quicken on my MacBook (W11 PRO ARM under Parallels) and the transactions showed up.
I uninstalled Quicken, downloaded, and tried to install. Nope. Installation failed. I removed all traces of Quicken from my W11 PC and did the install again. That now worked. The transactions are already in the register from the Mac, so I don’t know if the problems till exists on my Windows PC.
Adobe is the worst at installs. On my Mac the battery was running down excessively. Research showed an Adobe app that was running 24×7 and was consuming the CPU. I terminated that task and stopped all the Adobe software auto startup stuff from running. I then removed the offending program. All the other Adobe stuff still works so I have no idea what the software I removed was doing.
Visio was originally made by a different company. Maybe there are still some terms or limits from the buyout affecting how it’s licensed?
During my most recent cleanout, I kept a copy of TurboCAD in shrinkwrap, even though I use Sketchup and the kids use online TinkerCAD. Oh, and I own BeckerCAD but have never used it. This “gotta be online” to work cr@p is getting out of control. Too many things could interfere with that, so I’m making sure I have stuff that works offline.
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Maybe. The acquisition was a long time ago and it would seem those issues would have been solved.
Visio has come in handy for me on several occasions. I designed the lawnmower shed using Visio. The walls, roof and doors. Angles, lengths, etc. It worked quite well.
The other major use was diagramming the video broadcast connections at my former church. Chasing problems was difficult enough in the rack. Having a diagram that showed where a signal started, and ended, made that job much easier. Moving boxes on the diagram and having the connections move with the boxes was helpful.
I also diagrammed the virtual connections in the matrix switch, 40 in and 40 out, where much of the static signal routing was done. One input could be routed to multiple outputs. Moving a connection was easy on the computer. A control panel with multiple push buttons was also configured to change routing with the touch of a button. Visio made all that much easier to visualize.
The Far Side: The Bluebird Of Happiness
https://www.thefarside.com/2026/04/21/4
Yup, we get the other bird now. At least we can eat that one.
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/05/another-fiddly-friday-medically-speaking.html
As Tom Lipton says, “nothing too strong ever broke”. Using plastic was a poor choice.
I have tidied and sorted and put away all I can for today. I didn’t find the workbench top yet, but I did find the top of the rolling tool cabinet, which is next to the bench, so progress.
I also managed to find a place for some shelving to get automotive accessories off the floor and out of my way. I have been tripping over windscreen washer fluid for only five or six years. Now it is out of the way. I really like the plastic shelving that sits on plastic pipe legs. Insert pipe in shelf, bang with a rubber hammer, done.
I am regretting not having bought a second rolling tool cabinet – they are a lot of convenient storage in a small volume. Where did I get so many screwdrivers, anyway? I am going to have to dedicate one drawer to flatheads, and another to Philips, Pozidrive, Torx, etc.
Tomorrow will involve a couple of trips to the recycling park, to get rid of a lot of dross that was taking up space. I am being ruthless about throwing stuff out. Then more tidying…
Bed now. Goodnight!
I have found I have to restart Quicken to get my downloaded FI transactions to show up in the register. Problem started after an update last year, I have given up hoping an update will fix it. One more annoyance, pushing me that much closer to not renewing my subscription later this year.
“Islamic EPIC City Developers Battle Fair Housing Hold-Up”
https://texasscorecard.com/local/islamic-epic-city-developers-battle-fair-housing-hold-up/
“Developers of a controversial North Texas community catering to Muslim families are facing new legal hurdles over fair housing rules.”
“A Democrat judge in Travis County ruled this week in favor of Community Capital Partners, developers of the proposed Islamic community known as EPIC City or The Meadow, who have been blocked in their efforts by the Texas Workforce Commission.”
“But the TWC immediately appealed, placing further action in the matter on hold.”
““This development will never see the light of day,” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in response to the TWC appeal.”
Better hope not. We are getting enough muslim enclaves in Texas already, we do not need one that is mulsim with sharia courts from the ground up.
“Paxton Expands H-1B Fraud Investigation to Nearly 30 Texas Businesses”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/paxton-expands-h-1b-fraud-investigation-to-nearly-30-texas-businesses/
“Attorney General Ken Paxton’s probe into alleged abuse of the H-1B visa program is rapidly expanding, with nearly 30 North Texas businesses now under scrutiny for suspected fraud tied to so-called “ghost office” schemes.”
“In a new announcement, Paxton said his office has issued additional Civil Investigative Demands, or CIDs, to a growing list of companies believed to be exploiting the visa system by misrepresenting business operations to sponsor foreign workers.”
“Among the entities named are Tekpro IT LLC, Fame PBX LLC, 1st Ranking Technologies LLC, Qubitz Tech Systems LLC, Blooming Clouds LLC, Virat Solutions Inc., Oak Technologies Inc., Techpath Inc., and Techquency LLC.”
“Reports cited by the attorney general indicate some of the businesses may be operating out of nonexistent or inactive locations—listing residential homes or otherwise non-operational sites as offices while sponsoring H-1B visa holders.”
““I will not allow the H-1B program to be abused by bad actors seeking to use it as a loophole for allowing foreign nationals to invade Texas,” Paxton said. “My office will continue working to uncover and put an end to fraud within the H-1B program.””
We need to just go ahead and shut down the H-1B program. The fraud is amazing.
Romanian National Sentenced to 28 Months for SNAP Benefits Skimming Conspiracy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/01/romanian-national-sentenced-to-28-months-for-snap-benefits-skimming-conspiracy-n2675391
Yeah, well just f*ck that.
There is nothing in the article that summarizes the dollar damages, but it’s likely in the millions. Legitimate SNAP benefits recipients went hungry.
We need two multipliers here to adjust these sentences upward.
One based on the amount: add a month for each $10,000, and cap the additional at, say, ten years.
Another based on non-citizens plundering citizens: straight up double.
And then start a nice program with Haiti or another shiitehole country to put up nice new shiitehole prisons and have the farm this crap out–win for us, a boost to their economy, and a nice vacation for any attorney that wants to take the case.
Gee, why do I suspect that this is more of the non-citizens defrauding our country?
Fines, prison time, and serve your sentence in Haiti.
Haiti should also be the destination of last resort for ejecting alien invaders. Make a deal to guanatee them jobs doing farm work or something nice and respectable like sewing place mats for minimum Haiti wage.
And I’d like to contribute privately to arrange that no decent hotels are available for lawyers from the U.S. No a/c and frequent power cuts.
These turds need to serve their time in Gitmo.
Speaking of third-world countries…
U.S. drivers seem to be trying hard to enter the ranks.
Full speed before jamming the brakes on at the last second and stopping 4-6 feet past the stop sign.
(or my personal fave, when they see you are going to get to the intersection first, stopping ten feet short, and then rolling through)
Can’t make a turn without cutting through the lanes of oncoming traffic.
Cant park the s.o.b. between the lines.
Can’t back completely out of a parking space, have to stop 45-degrees across the width of the aisle and crank the wheel to the stop.
These turds need to serve their time in Gitmo.
We could ask Haiti if they can do a better version.
If we allowed an exorbitant $10,000 per year to put up a prisoner in Haiti, how many would they have to take to double their per capita income?
12 million people with an average income of $2000? They have room for 2.4 million and it would make them comparatively rich. Dominican Republic is about $12k, so they have some upward room…
My issue started three days ago. Everything was fine, then poof, not fine. Restarting accomplished nothing. There is no problem on the Mac (W11 Pro Arm under Parallels). I have no idea what is going on. Hopefully the full reinstall will fix whatever is broken, on just the one machine.
Quicken annoys me but I have found nothing better, at the same price point, even in the web-based application. I have been on Quicken since the early ‘90’s starting with the DOS version except for a break with MSMoney. I was a beta tester at one time. I found a problem where one of their reports was overflowing 16-bit numbers on a 32-bit system making the report really, really wrong.
Quicken on the Mac, the real Mac version, leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe it is muscle memory but entering transactions is awkward, as are the entire register way of displaying transactions. Quicken for Windows files can be imported into the Mac version, but not the other way around. Even the import doubles up some transactions leaving some cleanup to be accomplished.
I really like Microsoft Money and abandoned Quicken for several years until Microsoft pulled the plug on MSMoney. The interface was cleaner and the product seemed to work quite well for my use, which was not complicated.
I have asked multiple times for Quicken to align the decimal points in the Shares column in the investing screen. Instead Quicken developers invent more useless garbage that less than 0.01% of their customers use.
I don’t use Quicken Bill Pay as my Credit Union system is better and that is not saying much.
If tales of the cannibal army are true, I have a suggestion for whom to hire as prison guards in Haiti.
All the other Adobe stuff still works so I have no idea what the software I removed was doing.
Checking for new colonoscopy images.
If tales of the cannibal army are true, I have a suggestion for whom to hire as prison guards in Haiti.
If there are any adverse reports about conditions I suggest sending the Clintons to look into it.
I have a Starlink Mini to play with. So I will. Because, thinking about it, I don’t need a PC in the EDC anymore. All of the emu have died. I’m the only one here now so I don’t need that PC so I can do stuff without all the freaking noise in the house. (Like mom blasting the TV volume at 60%) In fact, Moa is turned off. Win11 screwed file sharing, so, yeah, USB sticks for backups.
So I will play with the Mini. I have a decent idea of where I need to put the Starlink because of trees. Prove it with the Mini.
Benefits? No more Nanobeams. One less switch. Hub. Whatever. One less UPS aging out and failing and killing the LAN. Save maybe 30 watts of juice.
Maybe I can move Starlink to the house and run the wire from it to the newly relocated router. Yeah, attic work. Might need a longer cable for the Starlink. I’m eyeballing about 7 feet up and then 4 feet to the attic. Then roughly 40 feet across the attic and down into the wall with the other Ethernet and phone wires are. A 60 foot cable, uh, 20 meters?, should just about work but a bit more for slack would be better.
The NanoBeams have been flawless. Are still flawless. Zero complaints. But I bought them 10 years ago. Stuff gets old.
The plan in my head is to get the Starlink at the house. Simplify the LAN. One less UPS. One less switch, Two less NanoBeams. Less stuff to break.
A small project.
Quicken on the Mac, the real Mac version, leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe it is muscle memory but entering transactions is awkward, as are the entire register way of displaying transactions.
W took over the book keeping many years ago. She was gonna second guess me anyway, so I just gave it all to her. I’d been on Quicken for years at that point, so she adopted it for our joint stuff, and all my stuff. She’d been on MSMoney. Eventually she moved it all to Money, then had to move it all back when that shut down.
She got a macbook for Christmas so she moved to the mac version of quicken and took the opportunity to get a fresh start with categories, accounts, tags, etc. I had made some poor choices in the beginning that just carried on, as my accountant was doing our taxes and was used to the format. Of course, now she has had to redo all the invoice stuff, and addresses etc. At this point there is only one, but it was still a hassle. The invoice doesn’t look as professional as the old one did, but I’m guessing no DOS is involved and I couldn’t say that about printing from Quicken with any certainty. LOTS of stuff from design choices and starting in DOS carried forward with pc based Quicken.
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Home from my pickups. LOTS of rain out there. Bayous were looking pretty full for a while, but they seem to be going down now.
Won 2 aquatainers last week, and 3 more this week. If the sun gets on them they do get brittle, and the spout always fails early, but they are still one of the best ways to store water that I know of for the money. Even better at $6.
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Still raining, although slower, and there are streets with significant amounts of water on them. It isn’t slowing anyone down though.
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To all the folks having problems with Quicken and the rest, I salute you. I’ve never had enough money to go beyond balancing the checkbook on paper. Tried MS Money for a bit, because “it’s cool” but too much work.
I don’t balance the checkbook any more. The electric bill is drafted from checking. I have two credit cards I pay in full every month. Yeah. I have it all down to “make sure I have enough in checking around the 20th of the month for the electric bills”. And clicking click on the PC or phone to pay the credit cards.
I scribble all of three checks a year anymore. License plates. Rent, aka Property Taxes. And maybe at the feed store for salt blocks.
@paul, I started because of my expenses. I was making what I thought was good money, but had none at the end of the year. So I decided to see where it went. I was also working freelance and had about 20 employers in a year. I got my accountant when I had unemployment payouts and I would have to file 1040a instead of EZ, and she saved much more than her fee so I stuck with her, and her successor, for 30 years…
It has grown from there, with a couple of investments, 401K and IRAs. My business has been going since the 90s, and that requires about ½ ” of forms. Now we own property too, including the income generating rent house. My wife gets commissions on sales, as well as a base rate, and partnership distributions as well as profit sharing as an employee. That gets crazy complicated.
Despite all that we only rarely can itemize.
But quicken reports can give a lot of information and insight when needed. I once printed 44 pages of reports to convince the IRS to reverse seizing my bank accounts.
n
Now, I’m not saying that we should shoot a Congressman in the head every day until the personal income tax code is simplified to the point that a one-page filing is all that’s required…
You know what, I think that I am saying exactly that.
https://www.alexjoneslive.com/
Yup, Infowars is down.
https://www.infowars.com/
A BILLION dollars… for words
n
Another misleading headline, and another brick in the wall..
–Something called “Wren”
NOT a rival to HD. In fact a PARTNER with HD. And since I’ve heard of HD, and never heard of Wren, no they are not a rival.
But it is another chain store gone broke.
n
“Free” speech is not cheap. Oddly, western civilization is biased to a high cost for words from lawyers, judges, entertainers and the like. Not to mention anyone who gets a hurt feeling over someone else’s words. There’s no correlation between harm and cost, either.
An AED is a compliance item. Most purchases of those won’t be made with an eye towards the cost.
I imagine that the devices have a limited service life sitting on a shelf before liability concerns mandate replacement.
Somebody’s rice/soup bowl. Philips Healthcare took over the Egghead Discount Ponzi Scheme building in Issaquah after that grift ran out of steam.
“Nobody’s Buying Gas at California Border Station With $3 Cheaper Gas Two Miles Away in Arizona”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzSDZiud5l4
Literally insane. Drive two miles east into Arizona and the price of gasoline drops from $7 to $4.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Growing up in the 80s, everyone near the border of Illinois and Indiana would cross the border to Indiana to buy gas. I don’t recall how much cheaper it was, but it was enough that if it was convenient, you’d do it.
n
I drive to Illinois regularly, and never, ever buy gas there. It’s 20 to 60 cents cheaper if you just cross the Mississippi river to St. Louis.
I typically fill up in Houston, drive to Hot Springs or Arkadelphia and fill up, drive around Illinois a while on the last of that tank, and then hit a gas station in St. Louis, Hot Springs, and back home.
At 71 years old, I make it 2 days up, and 2 days back.
When I lived in Illinois and worked in St. Louis, I only rarely bought gas in Illinois. This goes back decades.
I had an acquaintance who went to jail for running cigarettes from Missouri to Illinois. He’d buy cheaper ones in Missouri because of much lower taxes, and then fill vending machines in Illinois with them.
It’s the same gas, and the same cigs. But it’s different taxes.
I’m headed to bed. That Denis makes us look like slackers! He gets a whole day’s work in before we even get going… and don’t tell me it’s time zones, he’s just that much more super betterer than us!
Anywhooo….
Yeah, shower and bed sound nice.
n
I think that an appeals court blocked the sale of Infowars to The Onion yesterday.
I was working late last night and only half paid attention to local Faux News when the story aired.
I’ve been on hard stops during the weekends the last two weeks since returning from Florida.
I slept very little in Florida so I actually use the weekends like normal people use weekends. Imagine!
I actually made effective use of AI credits to solve a complex problem in libcurl code today thanks to a carefully worded prompt.
The AI isn’t going to do my job anytime soon, but it is a useful tool when coding and debugging with boilerplate examples targeting libcurl or the low level Linux DBus C API.
Dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!
Used to be going west towards Illinois while in Indiana on US30, there would be miles of storefronts loudly touting, CIGARETTES! Cross the state line and…. corn fields.
Missouri does have the lowest ciggy taxes anywhere. My Pennsylvania relatives would load up their favorite alcohol when we lived in Indiana.
My boss flew me down to Tampa to share driving back his Corgi dogs and a mini-van full of whatnot. He wintered in Florida, but had his apartment empire and summers in Milwaukee. When I made him aware of the tax differential through the states on the way, he got on the horn to his buddies and stocked up their favorite brand. Militant non-smoker that he was, a bargain is a bargain.
Before the Supreme Court overturned National Bellas Hess, while living in WA State, we never bought anything from Amazon and always sought out of state alternatives which didn’t add 10% of state, county, city, and neighborhood sales taxes.
Newegg.com would deliver most items for free the next day without sales tax using a courier service based at the Portland airport.
The Seminole … reservation … just off I-4 in Tampa used to have a drive thru tax free cigarette shop.
The Seminole … reservation … just off I-4 in Tampa used to have a drive thru tax free cigarette shop.
The biggest tax that cigarettes have nowadays is the never ending fees going to the lawyers that settled the cases in each state. I think it is about $3.00 per pack now.
The second biggest tax on cigarettes is the fee to the health care departments of every state. I suspect that it is around $2.00 per pack now.
I may have these two backwards but I doubt it. I seem to remember a 40% fee going to lawyers in every state.
Yeah, shower and bed sound nice.
I shaved my head again today. Just about 1/16 of an inch of hair left. That is, where there was hair left as my front bald patch and my back bald patch joined each other when I was 30.