Cool and wet again, maybe.<\/p>\n
Certainly rained most of yesterday.\u00a0 The ground is saturated.\u00a0 I have standing water in my yard.<\/p>\n
I got some very small things done, but had a very late start.\u00a0 Felt good to sleep though, after staying up way too late.<\/p>\n
Today I’m supposed to be able to take some stuff to one of my local auctions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll do that on the way to my rent house, where my tenants have managed to twist the handles off the new shower valves.\u00a0 I think they are just cranking the everloving heck out of them.\u00a0 The knobs and the valve stems were new.\u00a0 If they normally fail in a couple of weeks, I think Home Depot might complain to the vendor about the returns.\u00a0 Therefore, I think it’s operator error.\u00a0 If the stems aren’t ruined, I’ll replace the knobs again, and epoxy the freaking things in place.\u00a0 I know you only need finger tight to shut the valves off, I checked when I installed the new ones.\u00a0 An uncomfortable conversation with the tenants is in my future.<\/p>\n
The year is finally nearly over.\u00a0 It’s NOT that I expect 2021 to be better, in fact I expect it to be worse in almost every way.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s that I would like to see the clean break of the year change.\u00a0 It’s POSSIBLE that will have a positive effect on at least some people.\u00a0 A lot of the baggage of the year will be behind us too with the date change.\u00a0 It’s superstitious, and somewhat silly, but that describes most people too.\u00a0 FWIW, this will be the first year I’m not anxious about a terror attack on Times Square.\u00a0 That’s gotta be a blessing.<\/p>\n
No matter what happens with the presidential election, I expect politics in 2021 to be INSANE.\u00a0 Half the people will feel cheated and disenfranchised.\u00a0 Violence is almost certain to increase.\u00a0 It’s much easier to destroy than to create, and some things once damaged, can’t be fixed.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, it’s possible we’ll end up replacing stuff with totally new ideas, execution, or tech, but I’m rating that lower than a meteor strike or aliens revealing themselves.\u00a0 You need optimism and prosperity for those sorts of changes.\u00a0 What you get from anger and desperation is a whole lot uglier.\u00a0 Add that we have historically gotten ourselves out of similar fixes with massive wars, well, the future I’m preparing for isn’t bright.<\/p>\n
It is possible to get through it though.\u00a0 There are still Jews in Germany.\u00a0 There are Romans in Rome.\u00a0 There are good ol’ boys in the South.\u00a0 Norway and Finland survived WWII as did the UK.\u00a0 Almost everyone BUT the US was impoverished by it and disheartened for a couple of generations though.<\/p>\n
In any case, I want to get myself and my loved ones through the trouble I think is coming.\u00a0 Skills, connections, and stuff should all help with that.\u00a0 So I’m stacking.\u00a0 You should too.<\/p>\n
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Cool and wet again, maybe.<\/p>\n
Certainly rained most of yesterday.\u00a0 The ground is saturated.\u00a0 I have standing water in my yard.<\/p>\n
I got some very small things done, but had a very late start.\u00a0 Felt good to sleep though, after staying up way too late.<\/p>\n
Today I’m supposed to be able to take some stuff to one of my local auctions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll do that on the way to my rent house,<\/p>\n