Hot and humid, chance of rain.<\/p>\n
Yesterday did get hot.\u00a0 106F in the driveway.\u00a0 Pretty humid too, but mercifully overcast for much of the day.<\/p>\n
My back pain is funny.\u00a0 I can walk ok most of the time.\u00a0\u00a0 I can sit ok almost always.\u00a0 Transitions between the two are like being crippled.\u00a0 Burning pain, electric shocks, “twang” in my hip.\u00a0 All kinds of fun for a while, then the transition is complete and I feel ok.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn’t get to the chiropractor.\u00a0 I called to see if there were any special requirements (like\u00a0 an appointment) but they weren’t answering the phone and never called back.\u00a0 Their web page was less than helpful.\u00a0 I will try them again later today.\u00a0 I need to be headed in the right direction with this.<\/p>\n
Since I was feeling ok, I picked up the dog bombs, and the unusable pecans, then cut the grass.\u00a0 Back yard is in shade most of the afternoon, so it was tolerable.\u00a0 Lawn guys did the front this week.\u00a0 They cut, blow, trim, and collect the leaves every other week, I just mow every other week.\u00a0 Although, since March I’ve kept them out of the driveway and the back yard and I do those myself.\u00a0 I use the string trimmer every other week in the back.<\/p>\n
For some reason, I feel like I need to get the extra water tanks sorted.\u00a0 I’ve got two back there that are not currently full.\u00a0 They need to be cleaned and then filled.\u00a0 Since they’re on carts with wheels, it’s still possible to move them when mostly full.\u00a0 My plan was to use then for bathing and washing water if it came to that.\u00a0 Don’t know why I’ve got the feeling to get them in place and filled, or why I was thinking about moving my other two 100L tanks into place in the garage.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve learned though that I shouldn’t ignore that little voice when it pipes up.<\/p>\n
Did a couple of little things in the garage.\u00a0\u00a0 Dug out an ebay item that someone wanted to buy.\u00a0 I was pretty sure I knew where it was, and it was there.\u00a0 Hooray.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll make $8 on it.\u00a0 It’s been listed for a year?\u00a0 Maybe more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strange which little items have sold in the last months, all really long term listings.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s why I’m sending bins full of stuff to the local auctions.\u00a0 Stuff is just not moving.\u00a0 Admittedly, I’ve been slack on new listings, and ebay boosts you if you do new listings.<\/p>\n
Dinner was fresh turkey legs baked, with canned green bean and mushroom soup casserole,\u00a0 mashed potatoes with saute’d onion, garlic, and bacon crumbles, pillsbury crescent rolls,\u00a0 and mango cobbler for dessert.\u00a0 The rolls were from a tube and were 9 months past BB.\u00a0 Except for the outermost layer, they were fine…\u00a0 the crunchy onion for the casserole topping was a year past BB and was fine (foil pouch).\u00a0 The mango was from a jar from Costco, past BB, too soft to eat on a plate but great in the cobbler.<\/p>\n
I’ve got to do an auction pickup today or tomorrow.\u00a0 I bought 3 cases of Charmin TP, and a couple of other things.\u00a0 Paid about double what I would have on sale just a few months ago, but in line with current Costco pricing- when they have it.\u00a0 Scott commercial TP, the thin shiny stuff, sells for about 50c a roll, so Charmin at $1.50 isn’t that unreasonable, just more than I’d like.\u00a0 And that is the case for the future too, until serious deflation sets in.\u00a0 We’ll be paying more than we’d like, for less than we’d like.\u00a0 I don’t see “waiting for it to come back down” to be a wise choice.\u00a0 While there is more available now, it’s still sketchy and not cheap.\u00a0 If it does come back, I’ll have spent more than I’d like but can buy more cheaper later.\u00a0 If it doesn’t ever really come back for some time, then I’ll be glad to have paid the price to restock now.\u00a0 (for any value of ‘it’…)<\/p>\n
I’ve also been buying multiples where I would normally buy only a couple if they were on sale… like coffee filters, or iced tea mix.\u00a0 Easier to buy a case when it’s shipping anyway.\u00a0 Better to have it than not.<\/p>\n
New food and other supplies will go back to my secondary location.\u00a0 I don’t think we’ll have serious movement restrictions any time soon, and we’ll have some warning beforehand, if they are reinstated.<\/p>\n
As schools in some parts of the country are starting back, right away they’re seeing cases.\u00a0 Students in class, student athletes, and staffers too.\u00a0 In person learning is going to be a clusterflock.\u00a0 There’ll be a LOT of back and forth, which will be pretty disruptive.\u00a0 We’ll be sitting that mess out.<\/p>\n
If you missed it, there was an announcement that Jerry Pournelle’s wife Roberta passed away.\u00a0 The old guard is leaving the field…\u00a0 may they find peace.<\/p>\n
Historically, the world doesn’t fight the next big war until the generation that fought the last one has mostly passed on.\u00a0 Guess what’s coming.\u00a0 Famine, war, plague and pestilence.\u00a0 Keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid, chance of rain.<\/p>\n
Yesterday did get hot.\u00a0 106F in the driveway.\u00a0 Pretty humid too, but mercifully overcast for much of the day.<\/p>\n
My back pain is funny.\u00a0 I can walk ok most of the time.\u00a0\u00a0 I can sit ok almost always.\u00a0 Transitions between the two are like being crippled.\u00a0 Burning pain, electric shocks, “twang” in my hip.\u00a0 All kinds of fun for a while, then the transition is complete and I feel ok.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n