Hot and humid again. Pretty nice yesterday, although hot, the humidity was lower and in the shade it was very pleasant.
I got some pickups done, and took some stuff to storage. Oh, and I used the dumpster at my secondary location to get rid of more debris from the BOL.
Today the plan is to get another pickup done, then move stuff from storage to the auction, and get an item for my non-prepping hobby swap meet sale this weekend.
I might make a run up to the BOL depending on timing and how I feel. That would put me up there overnight and part of Thursday. If I’m there, I might as well do some work… and if I’m doing work, I will do it in the garden. I’ve got a whole load ready to go up anyway.
Meanwhile, the world turns. The stock market might be finally reacting to the other stuff going on, and the thing that can not go on forever will come to an end. Remember that in 2008 the collapsing market values were a stairstep down, a pause, then again, and again, and again. There were mini recoveries, but the trend was down. I’m hoping against it, but I think this might be time. It is well overdue by most accounts. We’ll certainly know soon enough.
No matter what happens, as many folks have been saying in one way or another, stacks will help.
So stack, like your life depends on it. Because it might.
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It was 79F when I went to bed, but it’s only 72F now, of course, it’s 99%RH this morning.
Still betting on ‘hot and humid’ for the day.
n
NT and successors are “VMS: The Next Generation”, originally architected by Dave Cutler. The kernel has never been the problem.
Requiring signed drivers and dropping 16 bit code earlier would have prevented a lot of problems, but the ability to run on cr*p “$0 after rebate” Black Friday CompUSA hardware was a Windows competitive advantage.
Supporting cr*p hardware and Solitare.
As for Unix tools, Cygwin proved a Posix environment was possible, but no one was interested. Try to find a developer under 50 who isn’t dependent on Visual Studio Code to be productive.
This rings really true. I had really significant bruising where the straps were placed. Leg was very sore, probably more pain there than where the actual procedure took place for the first three days after the operation. I think I am still suffering discomfort in the leg from the stoppage of the blood supply. I have pain in locations on my leg that are not even close to the operation site.
Full recovery is supposed to take a year. I am almost to the 10 month mark after my surgery and still have some issues. The issues are slowly getting less but it is an annoyingly slow process. I was told that knee replacement is the most difficult joint replacement in terms of recovery process and time.
My biggest mistake was overdoing things during recovery. I used the walker for one week, then a cane for the next three weeks. Shortly after that I spent two hours walking up and down the sidelines at a football game. I really suffered after that. I was also doing the therapy to the max, really taking it to the limits. I wanted to recover fast. I learned recovery was not a sprint but a marathon.
Two days after the operation I was taking shower. Permitted as the bandage applied is waterproof. I slipped in the shower and jammed all my weight on my right leg where the knee had been replaced. I finally found out what is meant by level 10 pain. I screamed and almost blacked out. Had difficulty breathing for a couple of minutes the pain was so intense with tears running down my face.
I did make the mistake of watching a video of the knee replacement procedure. A brutal process involving saws, hammers, chisels, and probably the occasional DeWalt tool from Home Depot. Little to no blood. The video never covered the tourniquet part of the process.
Make sure you don’t have “don’t use highways” turned on.
Google maps has failed me many times, but is still the best IMHO. I still have Waze, but rarely use it. The TomTom nav in the Subie sucks as most built ins. I reached the year limit on free map updates on the TomTom, but Subaru extended it to June 2022 due to the pandemic.
anybody know what Tesla uses for maps?
On iPad vs Kindle:
I’ll keep using the Mini for reading, but all e-ink readers are easier on the eyes. I try to scan or find pdfs of any manuals I have. Apple Books syncs across all my Apple hardware and thus I have manuals readily available. You could stuff them in a Kindle, but it would be a PITA.
When my heat pump went out during the Great Freeze, I realized I didn’t have any manuals on it. I searched on line and found some. I also took pics of the data plates on various hardware pieces and added them to a pdf. Same with the water softener that came with the house.
You’re so right about that. We wanted to avoid the interstates, so we chose “don’t use highways”…. and that got us similar experiences that @EdH had. Took us through residential areas and the worst parts of town, it seemed to avoid all business districts. So we tried turning it off until we got past the interstates and were on the highway we wanted before using the GPS normally again, and discovered 30 miles later that the stupid thing took us in a round to get us back onto the interstate.
We finally stopped using any GPS or mapping software for travel, and went back to our faithful paper atlases. Our issue is that (1) we want to avoid the interstates, and (2) we have specific routes we want to use (ie, US 84). All of the software seems to optimize for fastest routing, which is normally great, but not when we want to go through particular towns or see particular attractions.
I don’t remember which ones Paul used… Google maps was one, and I know he has Waze but not sure if he had it then.
A challenge for industrious people like yourself. I’ve friends and family who ended up in much worse shape because they insisted on not being safe and on doing anything that didn’t seem to hurt. But they are working people who have a fear of being invalids so it is understandable.
The waze integration with google maps sometimes produces some really weird routing. I’ve had google take me off the freeway, then get back on an exit later for no reason at all. I’ve had a route with 10 turns in a mile, when I can SEE the onramp one mile straight ahead on the main road…
I like the alerts for speed traps and debris on the road, especially the debris warnings.
Google has been very slow updating for construction in a couple of places around Houston though, much slower than is reasonable. I-10 west out past Katy has been under construction for at least 3 years. THere is no reason the google map can’t be accurate at this point. The I-45 expressway south of Houston thru League City has been torn up for at least a year. The dang thing still tries to use onramps and offramps that are blocked. And the 288 northbound into downtown is completed but google wants you to get off, go a mile on surface streets, and then get back on. It’s been done for a year.
There are trips I’ve made out into the countryside that google made very simple. A lot of farm to market roads wind around, intersect with dozens of other little roads, and change direction many times. Trying to follow directions manually while still watching the road would have been tough.
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In the early days of Google maps I theorized that it was smart enough to realize that people weren’t using an on/off ramp and to route around it, and it seemed to behave that way. In the last few years it appears to have dropped a few IQ points. On my drive home there are 2 places where it consistently tells me to use the ramp on the left to enter I-10, when I’m already on the freeway.
Maybe it’s one of those products that only the original designers really understood and they have moved on to a new project?
I was told during therapy that there was no harm that could be done by taking the therapy exercises as far as I felt comfortable. I asked about walking the sidelines at a football game and was told it was OK as long I was able to do so without a lot of pain. My mistake was enduring the pain when I really did not have to endure.
Recovery takes a year as the bones have to heal and attach to the implants. Regardless of my pain and exceeding expectations, full recovery still takes a year. There are goals to meet but exceeding those goals does speed up the recovery process. Not meeting the goals is a real problem. There is a lot of data on joint replacement and how to proceed in recovery.
I have been careful to not do anything that really is dangerous. No playing of sports, no running (like I did that anyway), no situations that will stress the joint unnaturally, taking it slow walking up and down slopes to avoid falls.
The outer portion of my knee will always be numb. There is a nerve that has to be cut during the joint replacement. I can feel touch but sticking a needle into the skin does not hurt, just feel pressure.
Standing for two to three hours at a baseball game makes the joint stiff. That is just muscles and a few stretches and everything is back to normal. I still cannot kneel on the knee and was told to not do so until after at least a year. That makes getting up somewhat awkward and that may just be getting old.
We always have at least one really bad route on a vacation while using a gps – doesn’t matter if it’s a dedicated one, car oem, or google maps – that wants to take us down some obviously wrong road. Usually a glorified driveway, dirt road,or in the case of one CA trip, the ocean. We actually kind of enjoy it, as it’s our “Bob’s road” moment of any trip. Name that movie @Greg…
You didn’t have the correct essential oils in your diffuser. A quartz pendant to draw healing energies into your body would have helped too.
Start at I35 and attempt to navigate to the Pflugerville Target without using toll roads or a map app.
I think that shopping center is the poster child for the reason behind the change in Texas law that mandates access roads with every new toll road built.
No clue. Most of the 90s were a blur, sacrificing our 20s to my GTE “career” and my wife’s persuit of her medical license, neither of which were worth the time we gave up in retrospect, even if it would have been dedicated to just watching bad movies.
I have my own witch doctor, thanks. Problem is in TN it is almost impossible to find a virgin to sacrifice. He tried using teeth but found none that weren’t rotted with meth. Next option is something involving “shine” which is plentiful.
Twister. One of my favorite bad movies.
We’ve got cows!
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FLYING cows!
Ok. I saw that one. My bad. Still a blur.
I’ve told the story here before how I was fired and re-hired during the running time of “Toy Story 2”, when I played hooky the Sunday afternoon of the opening weekend and dropped off the grid for two hours.
Again, my manager’s style was Al Pacino in “Scarface”. The whole firing/hiring drama played out on my answering machine, which I regret not recording for GTE HR.
“Twister. One of my favorite bad movies.”
Helen Hunt (sigh)
I like the alerts for speed traps and debris on the road, especially the debris warnings.
It is probably just me but there seems to be a lot of road gators (shredded tires) this year.
We always have at least one really bad route on a vacation while using a gps – doesn’t matter if it’s a dedicated one, car oem, or google maps – that wants to take us down some obviously wrong road. Usually a glorified driveway, dirt road,or in the case of one CA trip, the ocean. We actually kind of enjoy it, as it’s our “Bob’s road” moment of any trip. Name that movie @Greg…
What About Bob ???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_About_Bob%3F
Twister. One of my favorite bad movies.
Great movie ! I don’t think that Helen Hunt or Bill Paxton made a bad movie. And the screenplay was by Michael Crichton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(1996_film)
“Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April from a year ago, remaining near 40-year highs”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/11/cpi-april-2022.html
Ol’ sponge brain does not understand that it is ALL of his policies causing the inflation. Eliminating competition for energy, massive illegal immigration, giving away money right, left, and sideways, etc.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“Hot and humid today.”
Finally, I understand. The Most Important Relationship in the South:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=e46xs-_RAb4
Memories of living in Ft. Lauderdale are coming back. Winter was wonderful, except for the rain. When we came to the desert, it was a hot spell in late June. We were out enjoying the nice weather, and wondered why there were so few people out. Later, we asked, and were told that it was something like 108 that day, unusually warm. Based on our memory of the swamp, we thought it might be 85, or possibly 90. Low humidity can do that.
That video is good, and part of a series. Some are pretty cute, and all are well done.
“Democrats’ National Abortion Bill Replaces Word ‘Woman’ With ‘Person’”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/10/democrats-national-abortion-bill-replaces-word-woman-with-person/
These people are freaking disturbed.
– so what if the modified adenovirus has mutated in the wild, and now is causing hepatitis in kids?
It’s coming from somewhere.
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(quote is from Health Alert Network email from CDC.)
I just annoyed HR, or at least the company’s “Chief People Person” -eyeroll-, by declining to provide my preferred gender pronouns. After about three attempts I managed to rewrite my first response, “I’m not interested in playing along with endemic mental illness”, as “I really don’t play that”.
But the CDC says it’s “harmless”. They would never lie.
lol
The agenda comes first.
I had to sit in the lobby of my new employer for nearly two hours yesterday because, between 4:30 PM on Monday, when I took my Covid test for clearance to access the building, and 10:15 AM yesterday morning, no one was on duty “working from home” in HR reading the test results sent to the website and updating the information in the computer system that controls the badge readers.
In theory, my vaccination status is supposed to be confidential from my management. Well, that’s over now.
I was not in VMS Engineering when I was at Digital, but we had communications channels, much like blogs, only 15 years earlier…
Rumor is that Cutler was one of those “super coders” of the type who would write stupidly opaque unmaintainable assembly code in order to save a few microseconds of execution time.
Fact is that after he decanted to Microsoft, and helped create a kernel that looked remarkably like VMS, one of the biggest parties the VMS engineering team had was when they finally removed the last line of Cutler code from VMS.
BTW, V+1 = W, M+1 = N, S+1=T, so VMS transforms into WNT (Windows NT). When asked directly “Is this on purpose?”, Cutler did not deny it.
Sigh. Decamped, decanted. Whatever. I suppose you could say he was poured out of his bottle. But that’s not what I intended.
Follow-up re: Social Security Office.
I decided to beat the line by showing up at the office in person before they opened.
I got stuck in traffic so I got there at 0830, a half hour before opening. A little later than I intended.
I managed to be about 40th in line.
People brought chairs, umbrellas for the sun, and settled in for a long wait. I made the best of it with an episode of Old Time Radio’s Johnny Dollar.
I got inside about 0930 (had to put on a stupid mask*. FJB) and went right to a window where there was a black man who spoke only fair English, and very quietly at that, and muffled by his face diaper and the plexiglass separating us to boot. I did see one (exactly one) white employee in the background. She stood out compared to all the rest.
I eventually convinced him about my 2 problems.
I forgot to double check that my application for SS benefits was in place, but I’m hopeful. I’ll wait until August and see if the deposits begin as promised.
re: * masks
Fortunately, I bought a supply of masks from Fake Mask USA, so I could breathe just fine.
I eventually convinced him about my 2 problems.
They are doing exactly what Congress wants them to do, teach you a lesson about your stage in life. You now depend on them and should show obeisance. Be glad that they are throwing a few pennies your way !
If they really cared about you, they would pass along their latest stock tips to you.
That reminded me of the Costco trip on Sunday. They had removed all of the plexiglass at the checkouts. No employees wearing masks either (that I saw).
“Apple is no longer the world’s most valuable company”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/11/saudi-aramco-surpasses-apple-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-company.html
“Aramco’s market valuation was just under $2.43 trillion on Wednesday, according to FactSet, which converted its market cap to dollars. Apple, which fell more than 5% during trading in the U.S. on Wednesday, is now worth $2.37 trillion.”
The world is turning again.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“Hot and mostly sunny weather ahead, but at least skies should be clear for Sunday’s lunar eclipse”
https://spacecityweather.com/hot-and-mostly-sunny-weather-ahead-but-at-least-skies-should-be-clear-for-sundays-lunar-eclipse/
“The good news is that, with this pattern, we should see mostly clear skies on Sunday evening, when there will be a lunar eclipse. From 10:29 pm CT through 11:54 pm the Earth will move between the Sun and the Moon, casting a reddish light on our satellite. Such total eclipses of the Moon are relatively rare during the evening hours, so you should definitely check it out.”
Cool !
You really need to be careful about speaking like that. Your words had an effect.
Even moreso when I realized there’s an element of truth in them.
Good thing I’m not a shoot-the-messenger kind of guy.
Apple’s wokeism and COVID pussification of its workers will be the downfall of the company. Nobody wants to come back to work. Chinese slave factories that make iPhones are revolting due to COVID lockdowns. Ya think Tim “God Made Me Gay!” Cook gives a shite about them? He’ll never want for a dime. I’m invested in Apple hardware and WANT them to succeed. Cook has crippled the company and it will take The Ghost of Jobs to come back like from Next to fix it.
In China, the workers are apparently locked inside the factory.
As for the US, no one wants to return to the office at any company, but Apple has some very expensive new buildings to fill not far from my house. Sooner or later, Tim will lower the boom.
With virtually (I’m sure) all the funds going to women, it seems ripe for a sexual discrimination complaint. The courts either find that only women have abortions, or establish that men should get proportional funding. Either outcome is acceptable in bumping the Absurd-o-Meter.
@lpdbw
That does bring an image, but I suspected you meant “decamped”.
Took me a minute. I had an image of Balmeire working the churchkey on a new six-pack of programmers.
What is going to bump the Absurd-o-Meter is transwomen demanding and receiving the full gynecological experience with the Feds picking up the tab.
Coming soon.
Ever since getting my sweaty fingerprints on the plexiglas case of the Mac II prototype.
I need to make a decision soon about the M2 Macbook Pro. Heart says Apple, head says it’s like giving the woke more money to f8ck up the country.
>> Google has been very slow updating for construction in a couple of places around Houston though, much slower than is reasonable. I-10 west out past Katy has been under construction for at least 3 years. THere is no reason the google map can’t be accurate at this point. The I-45 expressway south of Houston thru League City has been torn up for at least a year. The dang thing still tries to use onramps and offramps that are blocked. And the 288 northbound into downtown is completed but google wants you to get off, go a mile on surface streets, and then get back on. It’s been done for a year.
Have you tried submitting map update requests to them?
That came up at my former employer’s largest client, a group of about sixty practices. The Electronic Medical Records system they used had a slot for the patient’s sex but only one such slot and no good way to distinguish between birth sex, medically/surgically transitioned sex, and preferred sex, so management decreed that whatever the patient said they were was the sex which would go into their records. This, of course, resulted in people with penises being automatically scheduled for mammograms.
On the analytics and machine learning side, this decision inserted a bit of noise into the results but not as much as simple data entry errors.
After I noticed that one person had toggled between living and dead half a dozen times in a few months I found that the EMR did not retain history for patient details. I started snapshotting patient details weekly, then started analyzing the changes in sex, deceased, date of birth, and what-not. It was either grim or hilarious, probably more the latter as few or no clinical decisions were made solely on the basis of what the database said.
I recommended a number of database and procedural changes and a number of reports to accommodate both the multiple sexes thing and the flood of data entry errors. The former was rejected because it wasn’t inclusive or some such nonsense. Right. It’s better that Mary Johnson’s prostate explode because it was never checked when she turned 40 six years ago, than for some people feel like they’re being singled out for special handling.
U.S. gun homicides reached highest level in 25 years during Covid pandemic, CDC says
Nothing showing correlation so we’ll just imply it to generate some clicks.
Have you tried submitting map update requests to them?
-= didn’t know that was possible, or my job. I do choose the frown face at the end of the trip, and select “road closed” for my reason. That combined with everyone skipping the step in the directions should clue them in. They could see the traffic flow in real time if they wanted to.
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the pandemic may have played a role
—or it could be BLM and the like, or defunding the police, or woke prosecutors not prosecuting, or bail “reform” letting violent offenders back out to offend again…
Or it could just be the collapse of western civ.
n
Apple isn’t the worst offender by a long shot.
Facebook was more involved with attempting to influence the election for starters, and it is “free”.
Interesting, the regulator on my propane grill seems to have failed. I swapped it out with one from my smoker and now the grill works perfectly again. While I was at it, I replaced the grills again.
It was a very expensive Jenn Aire grill, bought at a significant discount because it was a floor model and had a dent. That was about 15 years ago. I’ve replaced the burner tubes several times, the grills at least three times, and the “heat shields” once. I don’t count the piezo igniter, because I don’t use it anyway. And now I’ve replaced the regulator. I’ll keep my eyes open for a grill on the side of the road and grab one there as a final replacement. Or I’ll get lucky and find one of the many I’ve saved over the years but absolutely couldn’t find today.
The burner tubes were $99 the first time (for three), and got cheaper every additional time. I think they were $30 delivered the last time. They were cheap enough I bought two sets, one of which included the heat shields. The grills were replaced with some cast iron grills I picked up off the curb once, once with heavy wire grills from somewhere, and this time with actual replacement parts I won in an auction a year ago.
The body of the grill is still in good condition (is stainless steel), but this might be the last round of repairs. Some parts of the fire box area are finally getting eaten away.
In fairness, I run the thing REALLY hot. I like the grills to be burned clean before use, with anything on them turned to ash. That high heat plays heII with the metal.
Definitely got our money’s worth with this grill, even with all the replacement parts.
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(it cooks really well, has a ceramic infrared element for the rotisserrie, and the rotisserrie attachment which is very handy.)
Well, first we gots to remove this strange growth blocking the passage…
Even the DM is suspicious…
Bill Clinton’s special advisor who let Epstein into White House seven times and flew on the Lolita Express dies at 59 – the latest associate of the former President to suffer an early demise
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Grandpa’s axe, Theseus’s ship, and nick’s grill.
It was a very expensive Jenn Aire grill, bought at a significant discount because it was a floor model and had a dent. That was about 15 years ago. I’ve replaced the burner tubes several times, the grills at least three times, and the “heat shields” once. I don’t count the piezo igniter, because I don’t use it anyway. And now I’ve replaced the regulator. I’ll keep my eyes open for a grill on the side of the road and grab one there as a final replacement. Or I’ll get lucky and find one of the many I’ve saved over the years but absolutely couldn’t find today.
I love Jenn Aire stuff. I had our 20+ year old 30 inch cooktop replaced with a 36 inch cooktop in the kitchen island last year. The wife won’t tell me but she loves it because it just works. She uses the new cooktop at least once or twice a day with zero problems. Highly recommended.
https://www.jennair.com/cooktops/gas/downdraft-gas-cooktops/p.black-36-inch-jx3-gas-downdraft-cooktop.jgd3536gb.html
I do have to admit that I am still wondering how to clean the raw egg out of the downdraft fan that she dropped down there a month ago without a complete dissemble of the fan assembly. The problem may have gone away though due to evaporation.
In fairness, I run the thing REALLY hot. I like the grills to be burned clean before use, with anything on them turned to ash. That high heat plays heII with the metal.
Dude, I ain’t gonna let you play with any of my steam boilers.
I did get our 220,000 hp boiler reheat temperature up to 1,115 F once (max 15 minute temperature was 1,015 F) . The operator turned white as a ghost and was up there trying to keep it from tripping offline lickity split. Central Dispatch had called in and told us to reduce load from 170 MW gross to 30 MW gross. He told me to get up there and do it so I just grabbed the steam throttle and dropped her down in about 10 seconds. I had no idea that the boiler controls did not work worth a hoot and one had to manually coax her down or else the temperatures went all wonky. He had her back in shape in 15 minutes before the shift supervisor showed up and did not lift a single safety valve. We both learned a lesson that night and we never spoke of it again.
Better get that cleaned out. It’s big enough for a Chinese COVID lab.
ADDED: the downdraft vent
It’s the near misses you learn the most from.
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@Nick
re: another Clintonista bites the dust
“went to be in the loving arms of God”
but hopefully got tossed down to burn with the other rapists and pedophiles.
Hi ho the dairy-oh’
Swinging high, swinging low
Hope real soon, the Wicked Witch is Dead.
“It’s the near misses you learn the most from.”
You don’t hear the round that gets you.
President McSpongeBrain:
‘He’s lost it’: President Joe Biden starts screaming about food shortages, blames MAGA
This is the amoeba that won with the most votes EVAH!
New top-of-priority-list for January 2023 bills of impeachment:
Merrick Garland
“Gross violation of oath of office in refusing to prosecute violations of 18 U.S. Code § 1507 – Picketing or parading”
McConnell’s advice to Senate Dems: “Read your own oath of office before you vote.”
Upon failure of the vote, the House enters a bill of impeachment for every Democratic senator, alleging conspiracy to violate oaths of office, as supported by the leaked recording of the Democratic caucus plotting.
Senate vote on hold after vote to recuse entire Democratic caucus passes remaining senate but is fast-tracked to Supreme Court by two Obama appointees.
Justice Roberts committed after found gibbering under his desk.
Don’t waste the heat. I use our grill with a stone to make frozen HEB pizzas taste like something from Mandola’s oven.
Heat the grill with the stone on high to 700, open the lid, place the pizza on some cornmeal scattered on the stone, close and dial down the heat until the rising temp is sitting just above where the box says to cook the contents.
Yeah, my grill has a lot of scorch marks on the painted surfaces.
Get a decent stone that will go above 1000 without a problem. Ours came from Williams-Sonoma 20 years ago, but we found another on Amazon that hasn’t out-gassed anything weird.
We also did deep dish experiments making Giordanos-type pizza. The grill offers very good/stable temps for that, but moisture control inside the sealed crust is a problem.
The crust flavor was dead on, however.
skip to 2:25
3 turns and a double twist
8.5 degree of difficulty
landing unfortunately obscured by smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA6UMoEPHEo
The downdraft fan on ours has a trap that is very easy to access. I scraped a decade’s worth of grease out of the trap in March.
What I thought at first was a POS GE contractor grade cooktop turned out to be $1000 GE Profile when I cleaned it up, scraped out the grease, and replaced the knobs. I need to have someone out to pry the gas diffusers off for cleaning without damaging them, however.
The Salt Lick in Driftwood had a fire that started in the grease trap back in February. That’s what got me wondering about our cook surface.
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Police wrapping up their surveillance op for the night, got chatty and mentioned someone in town that everyone is looking for, with a $1M bounty on his head. Some days it’s hard to be a thug…
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Site responsiveness has been very poor today. I’m getting a lot of ‘sit and spin’ on reloads, or changing pages. Stopping and trying again will usually get a much faster load. FWIW.
Seems like whatever is causing the delays grabs something and then it’s stuck until it completes, but the same action that doesn’t get stuck goes thru right away.
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