Hot and humid.\u00a0 We’ll see about the rain, but with a hurricane in the Gulf we should get some.<\/p>\n
I’ve got a pickup today that I really don’t want to do in the rain.\u00a0 Every thing that has to ride in the bed of the truck will be ok if it gets wet, but it’s just a bigger mess to deal with.\u00a0 I guess it beats 105F and sunny….<\/p>\n
Yesterday I had lunch with frequent commentor and friend of the blog Ray and his wife.\u00a0 It was a bit weird ‘de-cloaking’ from the semi-anonymity of the web, but I had a great time meeting them.<\/p>\n
It was the first time I’ve been in a restaurant since March.\u00a0 People seemed to be coping and accommodating themselves to the current situation.\u00a0 No way would I call the pace of business in the place “brisk” but there were customers, and it was only a Monday afternoon.\u00a0 For a place that mostly did a business lunch trade, I’d say that was ok for conditions.<\/p>\n
Still overall, traffic is light, business volume is clearly down.\u00a0 If the rest of the country is even worse off than Texas, the ‘new normal’ is going to settle out into a deep depression-absent a world war to encourage production and then destruction of all that production…<\/p>\n
Or hey, after a Trump landslide, when he has the mandate of the people, maybe we’ll see a glorious renaissance and explosion of growth…\u00a0 or get plunged into a civil war for the very nature of our country…\u00a0 I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess which one I think is more likely.<\/p>\n
Food, water, shelter, security, skills, companions, resources.\u00a0 You need more.\u00a0 Keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid.\u00a0 We’ll see about the rain, but with a hurricane in the Gulf we should get some.<\/p>\n
I’ve got a pickup today that I really don’t want to do in the rain.\u00a0 Every thing that has to ride in the bed of the truck will be ok if it gets wet, but it’s just a bigger mess to deal with.\u00a0 I guess it beats 105F and sunny….<\/p>\n
Yesterday I had lunch with frequent commentor and friend of the blog Ray and his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n