Cool and clear with hot later. It was 73F when I went to bed, after being quite warm in the sun.
Started in Houston with my hobby meeting, which was nice. Meatspace. Friends and acquaintances that don’t talk politics or prepping… it’s a nice break.
We do talk about current affairs, price increases, long lead times, and the economy. One of the guys owns a company that provides a value added technical service to real world goods, and he’s seeing orders slow down. His work is both mundane, and sometimes high tech, with aerospace customers and other plain industrial customers. Hard times are coming to the business and industrial world.
After the meeting, I headed up here and basically didn’t do any work. Didn’t catch any fish either. Did chat with two neighbors. One of them is catching fish, over 40 crappie in 2 days. Good eating. He mentioned bringing over his crappie tackle box and showing me what he’s using… I’ve got a lot of learning to do.
Today will be mostly focused on plumbing, with some other stuff thrown in for variety and recovery time. That’s the plan anyway. We’ll see if it happens. I’d rather spend time drowning bait…
Stack up some friends and relations. Stack up some helpful neighbors.
nick
That’s why you want to fire a few rounds into a damaged battery, to force it to release its energy now, when you’re watching it, not at some random time when you’re not there. You shoot it from a distance of course. Safety first! #FollowMeForMoreSafetyTips
Consumer Reports magazine tested the new electric three motor F-150. They said it had astonishing acceleration. And they got 320 miles from the extended battery. And they are trying to buy one for a long test but cannot find one for less than $100k. That is serious money.
62 F on the wild west side of Fort Bend County. And overcast. The coffee is real hot. And thick.
My Aggies lost to Alabama but they put a real scare in them, 24 to 20. I was proud. The backup quarterback finally figured out he can not hold on to the ball for more than 2 seconds.
Re-roofed the shed yesterday. It came with a tar-paper roof, which shrank and split over the past year. Cheap stuff, apparently. Anyway, I ordered simple asphalt shingles ages ago, and they finally arrived. So yesterday, after a dry, sunny week – ideal time to do it, because everything has dried off.
So, of course, it started drizzling as soon as I started. But once started, there’s no going back. So there’s some dampness under the shingles, which is exactly what I hoped to avoid. Ah, well, I suppose a few sunny days will dry most of it out.
I am also remarkably sore. It wasn’t hard work at all, just tedious, so I’m really surprised at the soreness.
They have made that more and more difficult. Your life will be easier if you just use an MS account. Which, of course, is exactly what they intend.
Or move to Linux, and fight entirely different battles. My current machine isn’t even dual-boot anymore. For the few times my employer needs something explicitly Microsoft, the browser-based applications work fine.
Cheap!
It will be a while before the Ford collectors are sated. Plus the base model price increased to nearly $50k.
This popped in my YouTube recommendations yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXfp7pVFV4
GM, but still relevant.
Linux doesn’t like EFI secure boot for the most part. I’ve found Fedora and Ubuntu flavors are okay with it.
Windows 11 won’t install without secure boot. You can force it, but I wouldn’t trust that long term.
I managed to get my primary desktop hard drive imaged and replaced this morning. I think this is the last replacement for this iteration of the system since the motherboard is 14 years old.
All the moving and reseating of cables seemed to make a difference for the LG Blu Ray. I don’t have to pull that out of the case today, but I still consider the drive suspect.
Yep, I installed Ubuntu on the new machine with no problem, secure-boot and all. Apparently, MS no longer holds the only valid key.
Which, of course, was a really stupid situation. I wonder how many bribes MS had to pay?
The last pro-level quarterback Jimbo had a had in developing was Jameis Winston, but the Seniors whom Winston learned from in his red shirt season in Tallahassee were recruited by Saint Bobby.
Close game. You wonder how it would have been if Alabama’s starting QB was playing, but that’s why they play the games. My son was at the game with 90 something thousand of his closest friends. He said the atmosphere was electric.
Alabama vs UT next week should be good.
I painted the trim and baseboards in my son’s room yesterday. I’m as sore from doing that as I am from doing a days worth of yardwork. Bending over and unnatural angles for long periods of time takes its toll. Now just the other sides of the doors to paint today. Maybe his closet too, since it’s almost empty. I will leave intact the height measurement marks by the door though. I’m really glad I made a template of the marks at our previous house before we moved and transferred them. It’s fun to be able to see the entire range.
Fedora had a key even pre-IBM. IIRC, the issue was corporate sponsorship and certain guarantees about the security of the keys.
The next stink will be Microsoft forcing EFI-only drive support on the mainstream motherboard manufacturers. Fedora recently floated the trial balloon of making that distro EFI-only, but that was quickly shut down.
My home server is a BIOS drive format going back more than two decades across multiiple storage upgrades and imaging. I would have a problem if Fedora stopped supporting the legacy partitioning.
@Nick
Any professional firefighter dumping water on an EV battery fire should have his hose cut off.
Original quote was mine.
When all you have is a hose, you pump water. Eventually there will be proper equipment and a protocol that recognizes the thermodynamic and chemical reality. In the meantime, 100k gallons of water dumped on an EV battery fire may wear it out eventually and make the firefighters think they’re doing something, but the only real accomplishment is creating 100k gallons of contaminated water and a hazmat problem.
@brad
When shingling your small shed you stress your muscles in unaccustomed ways: up and down the ladder umpteen times, working from the ladder to start shingling, and then finishing the job on an inclined surface while you try to be careful and not damage the shingles you already installed.
An asphalt shingle roof is not completely installed when you finish nailing. If you look at the bottom of a shingle, it has a line of adhesive near the bottom edge. It takes a few sunny days with a surface temp high enough to activate the adhesive for the shingles to seal down properly and achieve their full wind resistance. If you get high winds before that happens the shingles will lift and get stripped right off the roof. If the installation is done late in the fall the shingles will not seal until the temps go back up in the spring, and some areas may not seal because wind and water have allowed enough dust and dirt to contaminate the surface.
If you have any shingle edges that are up slightly it would be worthwhile to apply some dots of roofing cement with a caulking gun to stick them down.
Cap shingles are particularly vulnerable. The last time I cut my own caps I used a form and a heat gun to set the angle before they were installed.
The upholstering of Dr. Jill
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/10/09/tweeps-hobby-of-finding-sofas-and-other-objects-that-jill-bidens-dresses-are-made-from-results-in-spectacularly-hilarious-thread/
Back from a short vacation, a couple days of car camping.. Beautiful weather in the Eastern Sierra Nevada’s. *
71F and 60%RH with sun and blue skies.
Hands still not normally responsive (stiff and sore), and a bit of trigger finger in my right, even though I didn’t do much yesterday. I hope this is not the ‘new normal’.
Slept shockingly late today. I was in bed slightly early, and thought I’d be up around 8. Body said otherwise. This site is on a hill, and just walking up and down the hill dozens of times a day takes a toll. Less now than a couple of months ago, but still wears me out by the end of the day.
WRT water on EV fires, you’re not fighting the fire, as such, you are removing one of the three legs of the stool, the heat. The water won’t stop the combustion, as far as I know, nothing will that they have on the truck, including the aircraft foam, but it removes the heat and then the chemical reaction slows and stops…
There’s an opportunity there for a clever chemist…
Lot of energy stored in one of those batteries.
Lot of energy in a gas tank too, but it disperses when you rupture the tank, and apply a couple thousand gallons of water. I suppose if you could convert the battery pack into a fine dust and disperse it, that would work too. Absent a freeze ray, we’re going to see a lot of water on EV battery fires for a long time.
n
FWIW, I don’t think you could get approval from safety authorities to park a car with a big tank full of gasoline under you master bedroom, if we hadn’t been doing it all along.
Every day is like camping at the lake! Except for the food, sanitary facilities, beds, people, … ok not at all alike…
Night Sky look nice where you were EdH?
n
@drwilliams: Thanks for the tip. I haven’t shingled a roof for forty years. I thought that was what the black patches were, but wasn’t sure. If we don’t get any more hot days, I’ll get out the glue. I do have the right stuff, and already applied it around the edges of the roof…
The theme of today’s breakfast is “patties”. Sausage patties, hash brown patties…
I’ll add an egg to mine.
MMMmmmmm, bacon fat.
n
Unlike EV batteries, gasoline does not spontaneously combust, but politics probably wouldn’t even permit garages attached to single family homes today.
There is an agenda with the “EV only” movement. I’m not sure most Americans would like where we are headed, but the masses are deluded into thinking that the government will make $100k F150 Lightnings and “Ludicrous speed” Tonymobiles affordable for everyone.
Musk is late with the Jesus Truck or we would have had Cash For Clunkers 2.0 rolling out of this Congressional session. Circa 2000 half ton trucks get a reprieve … temporarily.
From EdH:
We used to go tent camping at the Kennedy Meadows Campground.
I’m thinking about joining the British Royal Navy:
Big Lizzie’s real-life Iron Man! Moment Royal Navy servicemen fly through air over New York harbour using JET PACKS and land on HMS Queen Elizabeth as warship hosts Anglo-American military conference
Definitely NOT Hammer-Tech.
Decent, although a waxing moon made the “faint fuzzies “ almost impossible to see. But any night under the sky is a good one. Luna, Jupiter, Saturn, a few clusters down at the tree line in Sagittarius, M31.
I did see a Starlink train of satellites go over, an odd sight.
The ISS also went over, just as my brother and I walked into the meadow at Grover Hot Springs park. This was happenstance, thirty seconds later and we would have missed it.
I wanted to visit Kennedy Meadows but there wasn’t time 🙁
@brad
Easy to check by lifting gently on the edge of a shingle. A credit card works, but the best tool is a flat cake frosting spatula or lab spatula.
https://www.chicagoknifeworks.com/ontario-spatula-second/
Handy tools to have around.
Prepping Note: The coffee I brought along on the camping trip for the pour over maker was a 1lb sealed canister of pre-ground Yuban, with a marked BBD of 4Mar2020.
It was a bit metallic in taste, but still drinkable.
(Of course Yuban is pretty foul to start with…)
If using coin cell batteries in devices be aware of an issue. There is a coating on the batteries that make them bitter to stop small children (and many high school freshman) from ingesting the batteries. This coating will interfere with the operation of the battery in many devices. Before using the batteries wipe the battery with an alcohol swab to remove the coating. Voice of experience speaking.
actually, my favorite video is the second…
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/09/sunday-smiles-memes-and-tweets-of-the-week-n500941
Our government protects us…
Ban cyclamates
Child-proof caps on everything
Unleaded gas
Seat belts
Air bags
Ban strike anywhere matches
or maybe not…
Safety gas cans guaranteed to spill gas
Vaccines that kill
Lock seniors up so their families can’t visit and the cheap illegal labor can bring the pandemic to them
Energy policy that makes food more expensive and freezes people in the dark
Cars that catch fire and can’t be put out
Murderers released without bail to kill again
Millions of illegal immigrants with no health screening
Fentanyl from China, mostly via our friends in Mexico
>> Out here in the suburbs, the Germans still dominate the Grocery Getter market, but Dad has to get the toy. That used to be a Porsche.
I guess Dad gives Junior the “used” Porsche to drive to high school after he takes delivery of his Model S Plaid.
And speaking of Tony-mobiles, I never had heard of this function until an acquaintance showed it to me in his car. Very clever!
>> That’s why you want to fire a few rounds into a damaged battery, to force it to release its energy now, when you’re watching it, not at some random time when you’re not there. You shoot it from a distance of course. Safety first! #FollowMeForMoreSafetyTips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38mE6ba3qj8
>> And they are trying to buy one for a long test but cannot find one for less than $100k. That is serious money.
I knew that sooner or later they’d be sorry that I canceled my subscription!
>> They have made that more and more difficult. Your life will be easier if you just use an MS account. Which, of course, is exactly what they intend.
I set up my W11 PC with an account. I figured that sooner or later an update would be running and it would ‘blue screen,’ telling me “my” PC is blocked from finishing further updates until I create an account. (Only half-kidding.) I created an account at Outlook.com and use that address for the PC and nothing else. Haven’t seen any marketing emails from M$FT nor any spam in the account. PC doesn’t need a password to unsleep and logs in after a reboot just with a PIN – never actually have to specify the email address. Painless enough for me.
>> When all you have is a hose, you pump water. Eventually there will be proper equipment and a protocol that recognizes the thermodynamic and chemical reality. In the meantime, 100k gallons of water dumped on an EV battery fire may wear it out eventually and make the firefighters think they’re doing something, but the only real accomplishment is creating 100k gallons of contaminated water and a hazmat problem.
Remember, it’s Florida, the 100k gallons of run-off can just go back into the wetlands. Won’t bother the gators all that much.
>> Lot of energy in a gas tank too, but it disperses when you rupture the tank, and apply a couple thousand gallons of water. I suppose if you could convert the battery pack into a fine dust and disperse it, that would work too. Absent a freeze ray, we’re going to see a lot of water on EV battery fires for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xjHdSRwEV4
>> @brad
Easy to check by lifting gently on the edge of a shingle. A credit card works, but the best tool is a flat cake frosting spatula or lab spatula.
https://www.chicagoknifeworks.com/ontario-spatula-second/
Handy tools to have around.
Umm…make sure you clean it thoroughly before putting it back in the kitchen drawer.
I wonder if a cold gas or liquid would work? Dry ice ? Liquid N2? Cold AND inert.
You probably don’t want to crack the battery casing, or worsen it if already cracked.
>> If using coin cell batteries in devices be aware of an issue. There is a coating on the batteries that make them bitter to stop small children (and many high school freshman) from ingesting the batteries. This coating will interfere with the operation of the battery in many devices. Before using the batteries wipe the battery with an alcohol swab to remove the coating. Voice of experience speaking.
Now they need to add that coating when chicken is mixed with Nyquil. Seriously, what is wrong with these kids? Or do we blame the parents?
Kamala: “Hey Joe, how about Chick-fil-a for lunch today? My treat!”
The Postal Service has a new expansion of their surveilance powers at the kiosks as of this weekend. You must enter name of the recipient as well as the sender. The disclaimer page says it is voluntary, but the system does not allow the transaction to proceed to the payment page unless the name fields are populated.
Another tactic on the F150s, both EV and otherwise, that I forgot about until I heard the Car Pro show while doing errands this afternoon is that Ford cherry picks the potential owners on the reservations lists for various models and asks them to consider an upgrade in return for being bumped up on the delivery date.
I doubt anyone but a very loyal fleet buyer is getting F150 Lightnings for $40k right now. The same goes for the $19k Maverick mini pickups.
And I could see a fleet going after the Mavericks in large numbers. A Lightning would be a toy for … the fleet buyer.
Strange that Car Pro was on Sunday, when most of the dealers in this state are closed, and in the old Rush Limbaugh EIB contract timeslot for reruns on the big San Antonio flagship IHeart station too.
My desktop does not even have a PIN. I just power on the machine. My Surface laptop does have a PIN and facial recognition. I have no issues with creating a MS account. I have to have an account for Apple, there is no other option, if I want to get apps and updates. No one complains about the Apple requirement. In both cases the accounts have been benign. I don’t think either entity, MS or Apple, sells or gives away the account information. Google on the other hand sells everything they know about individuals.
I am still mystified how anyone knew I needed a RV water filter. I purchased a RV water filter using my CITI credit card. Then I got ads from Amazon about RV filters and my FB feed has ads for RV water filters. This informs me that CITI sold my purchase information. That is really annoying. I also suspect that is how the credit cards support the whatever% cash back.
@Greg, did you buy a new Speed Queen clothes washer ?
Thank you the link to not having a MS login. The Tom’s Hardware link worked.
So far, I’m not a fan of Win11 Pro. Seems to have a huge amount of junkware. Huge icons and weird colors. Visually, I like Win7 better. I’ll get use to it eventually. Some of the dislike could be the screen resolution, I’m using a 17″ or so Vizio for a temp monitor.
Anyway. I don’t have a mouse. It lights up. I tried another, it also lights up. Pressing ctrl shows where the pointer is. I don’t know if the PS/2 to USB gizmo puked after three or four hours use… I suspect not. Win11 did an update. After rebooting, I had it find my Lexmark printer and it had the drivers. Test page printed. I checked Windows Update again and it d/l a couple of things. Rebooted. No mouse.
Oh. And Device Manager? Tab around and select something and the dialog box pops up but it’s empty. Doesn’t matter what you pick.
Tomorrow I’ll try an old mouse that has a ball. And maybe I’ll find a USB mouse, I should have one somewhere unless I gave it away.
Yes. A TC5. All of the washers have been crippled by the government’s standards, but that was the least bad option. Pricey, but Maytag junk was $700 at Home Depot.
I spent 22 years fixing the previous washer for one of two chronic conditions every six months, and, after my wife’s pinhead friend tried to fix a leak problem when I was busy one weekend, the washer body was never right again, making it a challenge to open up and put back into operation without a half hour of wrestling with the sheet metal.
I *earned* that Speed Queen. And we went to the local dealer, not Best Buy.
The dealer sales guy asked if we tried EBay for the valve assembly on the old washer, and I told him I was done with the machine.
Like either would patronize a christian business.
When the Chick-fil-A opened in Vantucky (Vancouver, WA), the lines stretched for hours, and, from what I understand, are still bad.
During our sentence -er- tenure there, the furthest west Chick-fil-A had franchises on I84 was Boise. Dillard’s and Cracker Barrel also stopped there.
To me, Windows 11 Pro is emulating Fedora, Red Hat/IBM’s “bleeding edge” Linux distribution where the new tech gets tried first before finding its way into CentOS Stream and, eventually, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
My “road” machine is Fedora, and I run the distribution on my home server.
Fedora handles limited screen resolution and light resources better, however. My “road” laptop is a POS (name brand omitted) with a 720p screen which the manufacturer cynically marketed as a $400 Windows 10 machine maxing RAM at 4 GB. Yeah, right.
IIRC, Windows 11 license covers downgrades to Windows 10.
For the record, we still have our $375 (2004 dollars) refrigerator in the kitchen. I can still get parts and ordered new rails for the cheese drawer last week.
My wife did hit the salesman up about refrigerators, but lead times on those were astronomical if you wanted something decent.
If the lead times on the washer were similar – think January if ordered now – we probably would have bought the Maytag and dealt with it until the first major out-of-warranty repair.
Mastercard has a deal with Google. Dunno about Visa.
I threaten Citi/Costco Visa with cancelling the account 3-4 times a year over “late” checks. Now Amex wants to play that game.
Everyone has cash flow problems.
https://explorerpatcher.com/
I use this on my Win 11 desktop. Gives lots of added functionality of win 10 back, plus it lets me move the start button to the left where it’s supposed to be.
Well, yes, but only because I’m married.
@Alan
Not a problem. The nice ones with wooden handles I use in th lab and workshop. The kitchen gets the thermoplastic dishwasher safe models.
@EdH
Part of the problem is the battery includes it’s own oxidizer, so excluding air doesn’t put it out.
Cooling it below autoignition temperature is the goal, but the inefficiency of water (or CO2(s) or N2(l) is horrendous and the time required is long, all for little gain in the end.
And the downside is the potential to pollute the vicinity. Not just the aquifer. When some of that water flashes to steam it’s going to carry some goodies with it. You don’t want anyone you care about to be downwind.
A bakery posted their price increases since Biden took office:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/10/09/local-bakerys-post-on-inflation-is-jarring-and-shows-how-much-trouble-we-are-in-n640220
Although 5/10 are up 100% or more, and another 3/10 are up 50% or more, the official year-on-year CPI is just less than 10%. I don’t bake much, but I buy bread and flour and I know the price is up a lot more than 10%.
>> And the downside is the potential to pollute the vicinity. Not just the aquifer. When some of that water flashes to steam it’s going to carry some goodies with it. You don’t want anyone you care about to be downwind.
Like I said … but yeah, it’s only Florida 😉
And in other Tampa news (shoutout to @Greg), the Yucs beat the Falcons, and early this morning seven people were shot and one was killed:
Chief Mary O’Connor said the shooting happened at around 3 a.m. at the LIT Cigar & Martini Lounge on North Franklin Street.
Amish. Some caught in the crossfire may have well been non Amish from out of town, however, since the nearby Floridan does host wedding receptions and the clueless may have ventured over to Franklin looking for some night life after the party ended.
The Yucs got lucky with a bad call. As I noted yesterday, Gronk’s shoe commercials are running again
BTW, Falcons reclamation project Marcus Mariota was the QB whom Lovie Smith passed on to begin the Jameis Winston era in Tampa. Whether or not Lovie made the right choice, the story is that drafting Winston came down to Lovie getting Jimbo Fisher’s word that it would work.
The rest is history … as was Lovie’s pro coaching career until this season.
Oh Christmas Tree … Oh Christmas Tree …
Good Lord, Chucky had Mariota for the previous two seasons. Poor kid. Maybe he’ll work out in Atlanta.
More Six Degrees of Yucs — Rich McKay, CEO of the Falcons, helped architect the Warren Sapp era as General Manager in Tampa, including the drafting of Sapp and Derrick Brooks — look for the name in Gronk’s shoe commercial — and the deal to build Raymond Jame Stadium — filming location of the shoe commercial. And we all know about Chucky.
See why the shoe commercial airing again is significant?
Went to see a rebroadcast of Billy Joel’s 06/23/1990 Yankee Stadium concert this afternoon.
Really, really good, grainy video and all.
I hope the theater does more of this. We truly enjoyed it. Even our ten year old thought it was excellent.
Snow is galloping down the mountains. Forecast for snow sometime next week. Dry yesterday, rained hard overnight and most of today. A sled left out had 3”, though to be fair the sled wasn’t level. Had some youngsters helping us yesterday. Moved one woodpile, worked on a second woodpile. Moved quite a few stinky bags of rabbit poop. Fixed a gate. Moved some dirt. We all worked hard for several hours. The efforts probably saved me three weeks of puttering.
Chicken winterizing nearly done. I acquired rectangular buckets to turn into a new feeder, new waterer, that will sit flush on the fence outside the chicken run. We will be able to do all the chicken chores without entering the run. Need to route the electric cables from various winterizing devices and put up a bit more wind protection. not much more work.
I have a lot of stuff I’d like to do on the rabbitry to make winter chores easier on me. I haven’t started and if I don’t get them done before it drops below freezing I’m unlikely to. It’s just too hard to work outside in any extended capacity when it’s below freezing. Tarps and plastic get brittle and fragile. Harder to work in gloves, make more mistakes. Not worth it unless it’s critical. I think I’ve convinced myself to slaughter my two bucks and hold back a buck from the current growouts. Less feed over the winter, more meat in the freezer, and I’m not happy with temperament on either. I’m not going to rebreed my doe for one last 2022 litter. Kits would be born when we have hit below freezing temps, and would do their growing during some of the toughest parts of winter. Will next breed the rabbits mid January I think. They’ll still kindle in below freezing temps but growouts will develop on milder temps.
2022 litters went well but didn’t quite follow the schedule I’d intended due to early on buck problems. Learning process. And writing that sentence has me second guessing culling both bucks… thinking, thinking.
Costco was nuts today. They were out of a lot and had shuffled stuff to unfamiliar locations. Took twice as long as usual to get thru.
“Fed Up British Drivers Unglue Climate Protestors the Hard Way”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/09/fed-up-british-drivers-unglue-climate-protestors-the-hard-way/
“h/t Breitbart; Faced with repeated police inaction towards disruptive climate protestors, a handful of British drivers have taken the law into their own hands, dragging “Just Stop Oil” protestors from the streets.”
I am afraid that I would not be very Christlike to the protestors.
No one should be allowed to block roads and disrupt other people’s lives, period.
Would it be assault if I assisted someone who had glued themself down by adding some additional adhesive? Nice two-part polyurethane spiked with enough catalyst to give it a 60-second set time, but fluid enough coming out of the mixer to seep through clothing.
That was a lost few years for music because of the Gulf War.
This Paul Simon Central Park performance is one of my favorite concert albums. It is kid safe if they put the film into theaters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZLtSbq0yc
A lot of the concert videos of that area haven’t aged well due to the NTSC video, but the audio usually holds up.
If you want to show the young’n something cool that accurately depicts history, get a copy of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” home video release and find the uncut re-created Live Aid Queen performance included as an “extra”. Also kid safe even if the PG-13 movie isn’t.
>> Costco was nuts today. They were out of a lot and had shuffled stuff to unfamiliar locations. Took twice as long as usual to get thru.
Stuff moved by design, or so the story goes…past more items you might not have known they carry that could end up in your cart, plus more time spent in the store may up sales, and you get hungry and pick up a pizza for dinner at the food court un your way out.
Was at Costco last week and passed three manager-types in one of the frozen aisles. They were standing in front of one door in the freezer case having an animated discussion seemingly about product placement. About 15 minutes later (after trying to find where they moved our dog food to) I passed down the same aisle going in the other direction and the three folks from earlier were still deep in discussion in front of the same door. Luckily I found the dog food (on sale for $8 off a bag so I grabbed three) or I was going to interrupt them.
Going back tomorrow, convection oven the wife bought a few weeks back is on sale now for $40 off. Usually they will give a credit and not make me buy another oven just to carry it back to the returns desk with the old receipt. We shall see…
Just ended up dead last playing Rumikub. Sometimes you just don’t get the tiles you need.
Not having a fire tonight, played game instead. I’m headed to bed. Family is going home tomorrow, I’m staying. No word from the foundation guys, so I’m assuming they are working here.
I guess we’ll see.
n
Back hurts way out of proportion to the work I’ve been doing. I am beginning to think it’s from all the casting I’ve done in the last couple of days. Totally unfamiliar activity, twisting the torso, and I’ve done a lot …
>> I am still mystified how anyone knew I needed a RV water filter. I purchased a RV water filter using my CITI credit card. Then I got ads from Amazon about RV filters and my FB feed has ads for RV water filters. This informs me that CITI sold my purchase information. That is really annoying. I also suspect that is how the credit cards support the whatever% cash back.
Selling your purchase history is probable covered in the cardholder’s agreement, printed in four point type, that was stuffed in the envelope when you got the card. And some lawyer-ese probably said something to the effect that by using the card you agree to all the terms and conditions, and if you object to any please send the card back and your account will be closed. And don’t forget the scum in DC want a separate product category code added to your account that will identify cardpurchases made in stores that sell gubs and ammo.
Two main sources: finance charges from customers that carry a balance and higher interchange fees paid by the merchant. So if you and I both go to the same restaurant and both order the same meal and you pay with a rewards card and I pay with a non-rewards card, the restaurant made slightly less money on your meal, maybe half a percent or so.
>> I use this on my Win 11 desktop. Gives lots of added functionality of win 10 back, plus it lets me move the start button to the left where it’s supposed to be.
Start button in W11 can be moved to the left by right-clicking on the Taskbar and selecting Taskbar settings.
>> Some caught in the crossfire may have well been non Amish from out of town, however, since the nearby Floridan does host wedding receptions and the clueless may have ventured over to Franklin looking for some night life after the party ended.
@Greg, just as you suspected…
Wrong place, wrong time.
>> This Paul Simon Central Park performance is one of my favorite concert albums. It is kid safe if they put the film into theaters.
Paul is my wife’s favorite musician. And he’s rumored to back in the studio working on new music. Though any more touring at age 80 is unlikely.