Chilly, cold, damp, cold, hurts the hands cold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ice in the buckets, frost on the roofs.\u00a0 I know, you’re laughing at me as you shovel the walk and driveway…\u00a0 supposed to be cold again all day.\u00a0\u00a0 Was 29F at midnight last night.<\/p>\n
Spent Saturday at a fifth grade basketball game.\u00a0\u00a0 The girls are making progress.\u00a0\u00a0 The coaching is very aggressive.\u00a0 Elbows out, hands on the girl you’re guarding, setting picks, all kinds of pro league bad behaviour.\u00a0 And the kids still can’t pass or dribble or shoot well.\u00a0 D2 got two baskets and a freethrow.\u00a0 They still lost.<\/p>\n
One girl in a mask.\u00a0 Couple of masked spectators.<\/p>\n
Took child and did a couple of pickups.\u00a0 Lots of driving, more than I thought looking at the map.\u00a0 I got stuff for camping and for the new place, but it was a lot of driving.\u00a0 No masks at pickup locations.\u00a0\u00a0 Chatted with the auctioneer and his wife at the second place, out in the country about an hour outside Houston.\u00a0 Both had the coof.\u00a0 Neither got a vax before, or after.\u00a0 Very aware of alt news, inflation, shortages, and the coming war.\u00a0 Stacking stuff, getting rid of cash dollars.<\/p>\n
Dropped stuff off at my secondary then went by my rent house to see why the tenants were cold.\u00a0\u00a0 I suspected a fan issue, or loose duct connection in the attic, if there was a real problem.\u00a0 I confirmed the problem with low air flow was a clogged up filter in the return air plenum.\u00a0\u00a0 They said “we changed that\u00a0 a couple weeks ago” and “we usually change that every 3 months…”\u00a0 but it was black, solid, and bowed up into the duct like a salad bowl… when I removed it, there was good air flow.\u00a0\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n
Chatting with them, she’s preggo, and they’re looking for a house to buy.\u00a0 Right on schedule as far as I can tell.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We may take the opportunity to swap out the water heater, or blow in some foam in the attic, or upgrade countertops in the kitchen when they find a place and move out.\u00a0\u00a0 Spent some time chatting with them as they are pretty red pilled for being so young.\u00a0\u00a0 They have been seeing shortages at their grocery store too, and are aware of supply chain issues.\u00a0 They mocked FauxXi and are boycotting the olympic coverage.\u00a0 They don’t see any reason for us to fight the Russian but are sure we will get involved anyway.\u00a0 They are racing inflation to buy a house.\u00a0 Pretty long and interesting talk.<\/p>\n
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Stopped and got take out sushi for dinner.\u00a0 Youngest loves sashimi.\u00a0 Not a cheap date, that one.<\/p>\n
Wife and D1 are due back from horse camp later today, hopefully early afternoon.\u00a0 I’ve got housecleaning to do before then.\u00a0 So I’m off…<\/p>\n
Stack the stuff you need.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 It’s not getting better, it’s getting worse.\u00a0 And it will get worse yet.\u00a0 Stacks give you breathing room.\u00a0\u00a0 They give you choices.\u00a0 They take the pressure off.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, in normal times they can have negatives associated with them, but these aren’t normal times.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s long past time to be building up your reserves.<\/p>\n
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Chilly, cold, damp, cold, hurts the hands cold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ice in the buckets, frost on the roofs.\u00a0 I know, you’re laughing at me as you shovel the walk and driveway…\u00a0 supposed to be cold again all day.\u00a0\u00a0 Was 29F at midnight last night.<\/p>\n
Spent Saturday at a fifth grade basketball game.\u00a0\u00a0 The girls are making progress.\u00a0\u00a0 The coaching is very aggressive.\u00a0 Elbows out, hands on the girl you’re guarding, setting picks, all kinds of pro league bad behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n