Relax and behave yourselves, boys, I’ve got the left seat today.
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Dayaam, it’s early!
Very cute Captain.
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Ever pilot I ever met let’s you know so within the first five minutes. I never met a female pilot but I bet this one would tell you how the cow ate the cabbage pretty dern quick.
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Lotsa stirring up going on over at Breitbart.
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There is no country in the world that defends its own sovereignty with such hysterical vigilance as the United States of America. This is a nation born from its glorious refusal to accept overseas control. Almost two and a half centuries ago the American colonists rose up and violently asserted the principle that they – and they alone – should determine the government of America, and not George III or his ministers. To this day the Americans refuse to kneel to almost any kind of international jurisdiction. Alone of Western nations, the US declines to accept that its citizens can be subject to the rulings of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. They have not even signed up to the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Can you imagine the Americans submitting their democracy to the kind of regime that we have in the EU?
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Are airline captains now subject to affirmative action?
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A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Wife wanted.” Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: “You can have mine.”
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GJT, yesterday. family headed to CutNShoot yesterday, but the boys got skeered cuz that’s where the stories of the Squawk monster came from 😉
So we went to the Lone Star convention ctr in Conroe to the Rattlesnake exhibit.
Very interesting about all the different snakes in Texas. Didn’t realize that we had as many different kinds of Rattlers in Texas – more so to the west around Ft. Davis/El Paso direction. My sister has rattlers around the Hutto hacienda and basically, they said that if you walk around and see one; there’s probably fifty or so you missed (on hikes of course). I knew it already, but was reminded of all the great medicines that have come out of venomous snakes (cancer treatments, etc.)Two other items – they are a no-kill group and despise the Sweetwater round up.
And, there isn’t any real product that you can spread around to keep the snakes at bay. (sidenote – the old Chlordane chemical used to work really good though under pier and beam houses)last prayers up for Squawk to have physical comfort today with all he’s
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“Sounds nice for them, I think,” Wikstrom tweeted back. “Good for their well being and thus, public health as well,” The Local reported.
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Texpat – nice article. From the comments ‘Not often we in Britain have had to fight a war for our independence.‘
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#5 EG
Now that’s an example of why affirmative action is a disastrous, illegitimate policy. That the question even crosses one’s mind, much less is spoken or typed… That’s why I hated Big International Companies — such as the one I worked for — pushing to promote women, because they were women. -
I was visiting Mom over the weekend, and she was feeling aggrieved over the prospect that Tiger Woods is building a golf course complex and training center, complete with over the top housing for his well heeled visitors. These visitors usually arrive by private jet into a nearby airport and helicopter in, then stay at these very luxurious homes on the 9-hole golf course on expansive acreage. Mom is astounded that these people have so much money, when there are so many poor people (her included). “The system is so unfair,” she’s been whining for years.
I didn’t want to push the issue with her – I know better! – but questions popped into my head: How much money is “too much”? Who sets that limit? Who’s business is it how much money someone does or does not have? How would she go about creating this utopian society? Should she win the lottery, would she give up her “free money” to others less fortunate than she? How does she know that these people DON’T give money to the poor? How much should they give? Who determines that limit? And the biggie – what has made such a difference in her outcome from those rich people she so despises? What choices has she made in her life that have landed her where she is? And how does one make life “fair”?
Envy is a cruel master.
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If it weren’t for rich people then no one would have a job.
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Yep, we’d all be subsistence farmers, or more likely, dead of some disease. Sorta like a lot of the 3rd world.
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I’m just glad she hasn’t voted in years.
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A total of 121 criminal aliens who were freed by ICE over the five-year period between 2010 and 2014 were subsequently charged with homicide-related crimes within that time frame.
http://cis.org/vaughan/Map-124-criminal-aliens-released-obama-policies-charged-homicide-2010
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If it weren’t for rich people then no one would have a job.
Damn those rich people making me work. Instead of providing the job they should just give me all the money I want to eat drink and be merry. 🙂
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The last X-38, (V201) was orphaned several years ago and stuck in B20, later when they needed extra room, it was hauled over to our West Tower since we had the floor space. Then about a year ago they needed a place to store/assemble the Webb Telescope test fixture so she was moved to the ramp outside and left in the weather. Later it was taken to a lay-down area @ 420 so the tourists on the little tram couldn’t see it going to waste. Now I find out that it was donated to Santa Rosa, TX. Students from Texas State Technical College are putting it together. Very good, an interesting piece of history that was killed by lack of funding. 🙁
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Our shower down in what used to be Lovely Daughter’s room has been completely tiled. The upstairs master bath (which has a shower area large enough for a small party, with two shower heads so I don’t have to wait on Hubby anymore!) is in process.
I’m just tickled pink that we’re finally getting this done! Hubby just has to reinstall the plumbing fixtures in the downstairs shower. The workers should be done with the upstairs work this week. After that, we’ll see if we can focus on getting the upstairs floor in place…that’s gonna be a lotta work! There’s a buttload of stuff that needs to be moved out of the way, sleepers need to be put down, the flooring from the old house that we’re installing in the Dome needs to be moved in so the wood can start acclimating to the conditioned space, the radiant tubing needs to be run..and I’m pushing for some kind of sound deadening insulation in the floor. If any of y’all have suggestions on that, I’m all ears. After we get the insulation, sleepers, and tubing installed, then we can cut and fit the wood floor, refinish it, connect it with the stairs, and then finish the master bath floor.
Yep, could be another 10 years….
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Big projects take big time. Especially when everyone is busy with the regular stuff. It tickles me now to look at a couple of things that seemed like major big-deal-must-fix in the early 2010’s, when due to still working I just couldn’t find time to get references, much less schedule anything. Now I have time, but no longer in a hurry.
To my credit, Hubs discovered a broken window in the computer room last year, and I had it repaired the same day.
Please don’t ask me why I always have to be the one to take care of such things.
Oh and Tedtam, please let us know when your big party-sized shower is finished, and will it be BYOB?
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Additionally, he noted that the 1976 convention was the final time time delegates were bound by convention rules to cast their votes to match the results of binding primaries. However, the “1980 convention rescinded the ‘Justice Resolution’ entirely restoring the prohibition of binding,” Haugland wrote, concluding “every delegate at the 2016 GOP convention is a Super delegate.”
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Note she said AFTER the shower was finished!
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About eight weeks and well over 200 rides later I finally got to speak Portuguese with one of my Uber riders. She was nit from Brazil. Nor from Portugal. She was from Cabo Verde of all places. Our conversation was short due to time but boy were we both pleasantly surprised. I that I got an African Portuguese speaker to talk to and the lady because the gray haired, fat, white guy up front spoke Portuguese.
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Three year old boys and sticky iPod screens do seem to go hand in hand.
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Happy Rounded Pi Day, y’all!
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A two minute Easter message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Enjoy! 🙂
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Yep, that’s a worry of mine, too.
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Tedtam
Hers is one source for soundproofing an existing structure. The best time to have considered this would have been before the second floor was framed in. There are structural prefab truss beams built for soundproofing homes but they obviously need to be part of the original construction.
There are some things you can do now. One product is a foam underlayment to under the wood floor on the deck prior to finished floor installation. Another product I’ve never used is called Gypcrete which is pumped in and poured onto the decking and self-levels. It needs to be done by a trained contractor.
Anyway, I’m short of time and really busy, but I’ll post anything later this week I have time to dig up.
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Upstairs??? Oh. I’ll be out back playin with the backhoe.
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We were thinking about putting the aluminum/bubble wrap insulation underneath the tubing. That will make sure the heat goes up, not down (mostly). There’s a double bubble-sided insulation that I’d prefer to use, but we’ll see.
If we can keep the installers from popping it.
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I don’t know if any of you guys watch Street Outlaws – New Orleans on Discovery Channell, but tonight’s show they will be in Houston, called out by the local guys. Not sure where. My son is in that scene and was there when they were testing the night before off JFK. They all knew they were filming the next day but it was kept secret where. This was a few months ago.
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Hubby loves that show. And any show with cars in it. I’ll let him know.
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Maybe some sound decoupling rubber mounts…have to think about that. I’m more concerned with impact noise, though air-borne noise is also an issue. Now that we’re sleeping in what used to be Handsome Son’s bedroom, we realize you can hear every step that’s made upstairs in the master bath, the office, and the adjacent room. The sound of the shower itself could probably be heard, but since that floor is already done, it may be too late for that. I can only imagine sound issues would be a problem for the master bedroom, which will be above a guest bedroom and has the same flooring issues. Currently, that space is occupied by my craft supplies and various other items that have been stored there until we got other spaces situated.
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Please do, this is very important stuff. Not like all this Kardashian crap.
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Tedtam
You really should consider using something like this product or this one between the wood deck subfloor and the finished wood floor.
The first one is better and the second one is good, but even if you use nothing else these really do help. They don’t stop all the noise, but it does muffle it quite a bit.
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OK, I know better, but I’ve been thinking that if our lovely Captain has to ditch in the water, she already has a nice set of PFD’s,….. Ducks and hauls it outta’ here, before the ladies beat me to death with riding crops and farm implements. 😀
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#29, #30
I am here to testify that knee replacements do permit one to go upstairs. Can’t make an unqualified claim for coming down the stairs, though. That is still a bit awkward for me, especially if I am carrying anything.There is hope for everyone with bad knees!!
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I can’t believe I didn’t get one comment out of my brother about the OC photo.
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FWIW; I’m living in my third house, fourth one if you want to count the one with wheels and I have NEVER owned a two story house, nor have I owned one that didn’t have natural gas for the furnace, stove, dryer and cold/water heater. I was in my 30’s before an older wiser person pointed out the fact that when you get older a two story house could be a problem.
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Who kilt the blog? A group effort?….. I hope.
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The Japanese build their houses with walls made of paper. Rather than try to soundproof everything, they learn how to be polite, respect privacy, and to ignore or otherwise overlook noises and activities of all sorts made by others in the household.
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I think he got drafted to the other team.
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#42 SD
I was in my 30’s before an older wiser person pointed out the fact that when you get older a two story house could be a problem.
I was aware of that even though I was 20 yrs younger and no knee issues at all, when we bought this house. Hubs pooh poohed the long view and said he would have no problems with stairs. And in fact most of his stuff is upstairs and all of mine is downstairs.
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SDMy first house was a two story, cause, it was a two story! Well more of a one story with extremely high ceiling with a loft with two bedrooms, lounge area and bath. I hated it, way too much cubic feet to try to cool and heat. Of course the eighties it was all about AC tonnage per SQUARE feet.
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#42 SD:
You said it! I’ll take a few fewer square feet to not have to deal with 2nd floor issues. Other deal killers when considering a purchase:
A water heater in the attic. (IMO putting a water heater in the attic should be a felony crime.)
Electric heating.
Aluminum wiring (almost got hung with one of these one time!)
Cedar shingles.
Aluminum/vinyl/ siding.
Adobe siding. (this is great stuff in Phoenix – not so much in Houston.)
and, (last but definitely not least) obnoxious deed restrictions and/or homeowners association.
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Now we know why the Jap birthrate has dropped to zero.
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