I stumbled across the video below, and I marveled at a few things:
1) A refrigerator that you can open with your foot? I’d actually like that.
2) A refrigerator with a lifetime guarantee? Beats today’s built-in obsolescence models.
But I do wonder how the heat from an electric coil is more nutrition-saving than from a gas flame?
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I haven’t checked the video yet but it’s amazing that it’s from 1935 when a lot of folks didn’t have electricity. Of course most twons and all larger cities did. Also this was GE showcasing all it’s newest technological innovations, some of which may not have been available to the public at the time.
Another cool morning here looks like “Fall” will be here at least another day before it gets hot again.
Mornin’ Gang
Good morning everyone. 32 degrees here right now, heading to about 70. Going to be a nice weekend to finish off the garden.
Woke too early. Coffee
Morning from the cactus and bee brush covered hills of centex where we’re opening up at about 53 degrees this morning. Still dark out, but no rain in the forecast. A quick check at the calendar shows that it’s High School Football Friday. The Armadillos travel to Dublin to take on the Lions later this evening. I’m not traveling, but I’ll watch on TV. And of course, the other big Friday event that you have all been anxiously awaiting:
That’s right, it’s Weigh In Friday also. Today is day number 358 of the planned keto diet program, so there is one more week to go before we reach the 1 year mark. As of right this minute, total weight loss since the start (excluding the first week which I consider any losses to be mostly gas and water and not actual fat) stands at 69.7 pounds. The first six months yielded around 50 pounds, but the rapid weekly losses have slowed considerably. You may recall that I declared the first 50 to be success and then embarked on phase two to eliminate the remaining 30 that was still marking me in the obese category. So the past 6 months should reflect a loss of about 20 by next week, or in the neighborhood of 1 pound per week plus or minus. Of course, my intent is that nothing in my dietary habits will change going forward and I will continue to place less emphasis on food and just stick with the simple plan that is working for me.
Meat, greens, fresh tomato when I can get it, olive oils, butter, eggs, sharp chedar cheese, bacon/sausage – that about covers it. The little local meat market has been a godsend, and despite the high cost of quality meats, I splurge a little there since the volume I consume is reduced considerably from what it used to be. A nice 12 ounce rib-eye will make 3 meals, a pound of fresh ground chuck is good for 3 meals – you get the idea. In the good old days I could wolf those things down at one sitting. The George Foreman grill has been an absolute necessity, and of course I usually just nuke the veges – and keep a sharp knife for the tomatoes. It’s really that simple, and after a struggle for the first few days (maybe even up to over a week) is kinda tough, but after that, my body has adjusted and it’s clear sailing. I don’t have cravings and I don’t allow myself to get hungry.
So as usual, there’s a lot more that you ever wanted to know about Weigh-In Friday. Stay away from the Carbs and the Sugar. They are evil and will kill you dead. And they are addictive – even more than alcohol. So read the labels, there is sugar everywhere – BBQ sauce, catsup, lurking in processed foods, everywhere. And it must be avoided like COVID. They say to avoid processed foods, but I eat store bought sausage, canned corn beef, Hot and Spicy Spam, and those don’t seem to have a negative impact on my program. OK, enough of that.
If you are as overweight as I was, you are also at risk of COVID in addition to all the other normal stuff like heart attack, stroke, worn out joints, and who knows whatever else. But mostly, it’s amazing just how much better I feel when I’m not dragging all that excess around. So jump on the train and change your lifestyle if you need to – and only you know if you need to or not. And have a great day. More later.
And here is Ammo Grrrll today. She lost her father this week. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-395.php
As of right this minute, total weight loss since the start (excluding the first week which I consider any losses to be mostly gas and water and not actual fat) stands at 69.7 pounds.
Congrats, El G-man. The future you will thank the present you. I need to get back on track myself. I haven’t fallen off too much, but more than I would like.
I am 5’9″ and my weight is 165 give or take a few, depending on the day, morning or evening.
Congratulations El Gordo! 70 Lbs in a year is quite an accomplishment but if you make reasonable plans and goals AND stay the course you can do it. Also you have elected to make permanent changes in your diet so you can keep fit most folks go back to their old habits and gain the weight back in short order. We had a division secretary at NASA that was about 5 foot nothing and usually weighed a couple of hundred pounds. Over the years she went on three separate diets losing down to about 120 or so and she looked nice every dang time she gained it all back and then some, getting bigger each time. After the last time I told one of my partner’s in crime that hoped she didn’t go on another diet because come out of it weighing 300 pounds.
FWIW; I’m not being mean and I felt sorry for her, she was a nice, sweet lady but she needed a female friend to explain to her about diets and maintaining your normal weight.
Not to be rude but if I lost 70 pounds I’d be at about 107. 😉 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Questions about our supply chain and the wisdom of offshoring coupled with Just in Time inventory should all be answered by now – IT IS BAD POLICY!
As a skinny challenged male, that was rude.
I’m 3′ 11-1/2″ and 342 lbs. Thinking I can get back to my fighting weight in a week or two though. 8^]
Congrats, Gordo.
You obviously have chosen the better path than I. For the last year I’ve been trying to add 6″ to my height to achieve the proper height/weight ratio with not near the success you’ve had.
GJT I used my blade mount trailer hitch the other day and man that is the ticket. It’s amazing how much control you have with the front hitch and short wheel base of the Kubota. And I can’t lie I do love my power steering call me a wimp, I don’t care.
#11 #12 😀
I was struggling with the head last night, but I made it through my Latin class, even tackling some of the exercises without resorting to my answer key book. I totally lost the first six weeks of class due to the hospital event and the subsequent meds that made mentally foggy and outright stupid feeling. Best thing I did was to quit taking those meds. I have good days and bad days, and just trust that one day I’ll be free…but I digress.
It was worth struggling through the class last night. Our teacher announced that we’re going to cover the next chapter, and then he’s probably going to start a second class from the beginning. It seems there some people who wanted to be in on the class but were unable to join for various reasons. He doesn’t have time to run two separate classes, and wanted our opinion on what to do.
I was able to posit that since I had medical reasons that put me behind from the beginning, I would welcome the opportunity for review and start again. Another member (she’s so funny) said “I don’t have a medical excuse, but my memory is so bad that I could use a second round, too.” The general consensus was that we agreed to the start over. He’s given us information on self study materials should we want to move forward on our own.
I’m pretty happy about that. There’s a lot of rote memorization involved, and he moved at a pretty good clip, so I never had time to get the work in. Others who have kids and full time jobs were probably in a similar boat.
Rich Little does a Biden impression on the Huckabee show.
#13
It is super maneuverable from the front hitch, I just have a 2” ball welded to the top lip of the bucket and use it all the time. I got my 3 point receiver hitch from Tractor Supply mounted but I haven’t used it yet. I had a draw bar already with a ball on it but had nothing connected to the top link so it would roll. I mostly need it for the neighborhood Halloween hayride we always do.
Today marks the start of the Ft. Bend County Fair. The schools always give the kids this day off. I thought about taking my youngest to the parade in Rosenberg this morning. Last night I tried to find the start time and the route.
It turns out the parade has been canceled because wait for it… the Rona! So people sitting along a parade route and those walking or riding in the parade are going to catch the Rona. Let’s not mention the thousands if not tens of thousands that will visit the actual County Fair at the County Fair Grounds just south of Richmond off Hwy 36. They will all be immune.
I love Rich Little he even did the guy with the green teeth and advertises for Rosland Capital. His Biden was pretty good but not like his Reagan.
This has potential.
HEADLINE: Scientists created the world’s whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.
I think the claim might be a bit exaggerated, but minimizing solar gain is always a good thing here in Houston. Painting the roofs white is a great idea for flatlanders, but not so much for fairly dense hilly communities. A bright white roof on a sunny day can blind drivers and cause all sorts of other problems; like cooking the house next door, if it is up the hill from you.
Today’s Coffee & Covid
Good morning, coffee swillers. Today’s exciting roundup includes news about Florida beginning to source more lifesaving mAB treatments; llamas come to the rescue; another study endorses mABs; NPR reports the pandemic may finally be winding down for good; New York’s new governor announces a plan to replace all the icky uninjected nurses; more awful side effects and damage caused by experts to kids; college football defies “mask science;” and I fisk an unintentionally comical Atlantic feel-good piece originally written to reassure nervous vaxxers.
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The UK has been in the news a lot this week.
♂️ Governor DeSantis of Florida announced yesterday that the state has signed an agreement with UK-based GlaxoSmithKline to purchase 3,000 doses of monoclonal antibody treatments, right after Joe Biden suddenly rationed federal shipments of the drugs to the Sunshine State for “equity.” In the next weekly shipment, Florida was scheduled to receive fewer than 18,000 doses, state officials say. That’s down from 70,000.
GSK’s wholesale cost to the state per dose is $2,100—about what competitors are charging the federal government. Florida is providing the treatments to citizens for free. Great job, Governor. Keep it up. You’re literally saving grandma.
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A new study of monoclonal treatments in Native American populations published in the JAMA Open Network Tuesday concluded that the mABs were highly effective at reducing Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths. A scientist at Johns Hopkins pooh-pooh’d the results, arguing that the mABs are more expensive than Covid-19 vaccine injections and can only be used AFTER somebody is infected. So. Case closed, I guess.
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The animal reservoir may be having its uses after all. A British study concluded that llama antibodies to Covid-19 may be usable through a nasal spray to neutralize the virus in humans. I am not making that up. Apparently, llama antibodies — called nanobodies — are smaller and simpler than human ones and work great.
“Nanobodies have a number of advantages over human antibodies,” said study author Ray Owens, a scientist at the Rosalind Franklin Institute in England. “They are cheaper to produce and can be delivered directly to the airways through a nebulizer or nasal spray, so can be self-administered at home rather than needing an injection,” Owens said.
Public Health England described the research as having “significant potential for both the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.” It said the nanobodies “are among the most effective [COVID-19] neutralizing agents we have ever tested.” Well.
They get the llama nanobodies by injecting spike protein into the irascible animals, which probably just makes them even crankier, and then harvesting the beast’s nanobody proteins through a process that I assume is not entirely comfortable. In the words of every doctor who ever lived, “you might experience some discomfort.”
The scientists didn’t say how the nasal treatments might affect people’s mood, or whether they might cause bad spitting habits.
The Dalai Llama was unavailable for comment. (Sorry. Couldn’t resist.)
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According to NPR, a consortium of researchers that advises the CDC predicted this week that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic might be over — and said that a steady decline in confirmed coronavirus cases through March could very well be on the horizon. The CDC wasn’t paying attention though, because it was checking its TikTok feed right at the time the researchers said that.
Justin Lessler of the University of North Carolina — who helps to run the group of advisors — told NPR, “Any of us who have been following this closely, given what happened with Delta, are going to be really cautious about too much optimism. But I do think that the trajectory is towards improvement for most of the country.”
Their model predicts that “Deaths from COVID-19 would fall from about 1,500 a day now, to fewer than 100 a day by March 2022,” NPR reported. New infections, according to Lessler, would slowly but surely continue to drop from approximately 140,000 per day to approximately 9,000 a day by March 2022.
The scientists’ predictions are based on increasing natural herd immunity — ironically, thanks to the more transmissible Delta variant. “I think these projections show us there is a light at the end of the tunnel,” Lessler said. “The biggest driver is immunity. We’ve seen really big Delta waves. The virus has eaten up the susceptible people. So there are less people out there to infect. … [I]mmunity always wins out eventually.”
Natural immunity. If only we’d had someone to tell us about that from the beginning. Oh, well! And the drop will come just in time for an election!
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New York’s new Governor Kathy Hochul — who replaced disgraced Andrew Cuomo — has been thinking really really hard about firing all those nurses for being un-injected. She might not be the sharpest kitchen cutlery in the knife block. She answered a reporter’s question yesterday about how the state could replace unvaccinated and terminated hospital workers. She said they were working with the Department of State to try to hire nurses from the Philippines. Brilliant.
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According to newly-released CDC data, “the portion of 5-11-year-olds who are classified as overweight or obese is now 45.7 percent, up from 36.2 percent before the pandemic.” That’s an increase of 25% in the rate of obesity among young children, the largest ever recorded in HISTORY. By far. I wonder what could be responsible for this bizarre, inexplicable phenomenon?
Oh wait! I know! Experts.
And, by the way, obesity is a FAR worse killer than Covid, regardless of age. Obesity can and does lead to Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and even certain cancers. But the experts were SURE — one hundred percent positive — that throwing ALL other health measures into the dumpster was worth it, to bend the curve.
Oh wait. The curve never bent.
So we traded all these other awful health outcomes for no advantage at all. Because Dr. Fauci said so. Thanks a lot, dummy.
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One of the least-reported stories these days is how jam-packed college football stadiums have been this Fall. Here in Gainesville, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium holds about 100,000 folks every game. Two home games have opened to a packed stadium. There aren’t a lot of masks, that’s for sure. Reports from attendees and available video suggest that fewer than 10% of folks are wearing the dirty face rags.
The first game against Florida Atlantic University played on September 4. So we should be seeing the super-spreader event by this point, right? Two weeks after? Where is it? Hmmmm?
So … if college football games aren’t killing everybody, then … what’s the emergency? For real?
The other factor I’ve been watching for — and missing — is, where is all the hapless hysteria about the terrifying risks of big sporting events like we witnessed last year? It’s not gone — it’s just mutated into grim battles over Covid injections, jobs, and forcing kids to breath through bacteria catchers all day.
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An unintentionally hilarious Atlantic article published on Wednesday tries to soften the blow for Covid-injection fans who bought all the experts’ lies that the shots would keep them from catching the disease. It is headlined, “‘Post-Vax COVID’ Is a New Disease.”
Hahahahahahahaha! A NEW disease! Oh my gosh! That is so pricelessly comical! The shot kept you safe after all! You aren’t sick with Covid! It’s something totally different! It’s “Post Vax Covid!”
Oh it hurts to laugh this hard. Thank you, Atlantic. Whew, that was a good one.
Just to put things in perspective, the Atlantic’s editors and reporters are NOT vaccine skeptics. Oh no. They LOVE the injections. They’re probably on their fourth booster by now.
Still, take a look at how watered down the claims are now about the Covid injections. What’s the opposite of a “ringing endorsement?” It’s like that.
The article begins with an anecdote about a breakthrough measles case from over thirty years ago. So that proves … something? Nothing? No stats on measles breakthrough cases. “It happens.” Okay then.
Here’s the money paragraph:
”We’re not yet at the point where we can officially label post-vaccination COVID-19 cases as ‘modified’; maybe we never will be. Some immunized people are still getting dangerously sick. But the shots are softening COVID-19’s sharp edges: On average, breakthrough infections seem to be briefer, milder, and less contagious.”
They are just giving me too much material. Let’s walk through this amazing paragraph line by line.
> ”We’re not yet at the point where we can officially label post-vaccination COVID-19 cases as ‘modified’; maybe we never will be[.]”
This is SO awesome. In other words, we can’t REALLY call the disease that you got after believing the injection would keep you safe something different from “Covid.” We wish we could. But … it’s NOT different. Never will be. But we can suggest the IDEA to you. So YOU can call it something different from Covid. Because you’re a dummy, dummy.
> “Some immunized people are still getting dangerously sick.”
Okay, it HAS to be bad for them to be admitting this, right? The feline is out of the fabric sack now, right? Because about ten seconds ago, admitting this would have gotten the Atlantic’s editors disinvited from every swanky cocktail party and hedonistic masked gala in New York City.
> “But the shots are softening COVID-19’s sharp edges: On average, breakthrough infections seem to be briefer, milder, and less contagious.”
On average. As a lawyer, I notice certain carefully-chosen words that people use when they say stuff. These words leap out at me. My brain is a finely-honed BS detector. People try to lie all kinds of ways. Using weasel words is one of them.
So guess which word is the giveaway in that quoted sentence? It’s SEEMS. Seems!
It SEEMS like breakthrough infections are briefer, milder, and less contagious. Seems like.
Hahahahahaha! What does “seems” mean? It means nothing! You can’t hold me to it! It just seemed that way!
The internet defines “seems” as: “gives the impression or sensation of being something.” It’s a feeling word! Not science.
The internet definition also mentions this, “used to make a statement or description of one’s thoughts, feelings, or actions less assertive or forceful.”
Less assertive. Less forceful.
And it finally adds this one, the rivet in the body box: “be unable to do something, despite having tried.”
Oh, dear. That’s not too good, Atlantic. The injections just “seem like” they make infections less serious. They just seem that way.
And — oh, man — what a gift this article is. It just keeps giving. Check out this delectable line:
> “Since the start, COVID-19 has been tough to define.”
It’s been tough to define! What even IS Covid, after all? Who knows!
The Atlantic just swerved awfully close to calling the whole deal a “Scamdemic” right there. That kind of talk used to get you cancelled. I bet I even get a banner warning for including that word in my post this morning. Facebook! It wasn’t me! It was The Atlantic!
It continues:
> “Inoculated bodies are less hospitable to SARS-CoV-2, making it harder for the pathogen to infect them; when it still manages to, it seems to be purged much faster, affording it less time to cause symptoms—especially the bad ones—and fewer opportunities to hop into other hosts. ‘I think about it as defanging the virus,’ Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory, told me.”
Seems. I “think.” More:
> “These qualitative shifts aren’t easy to capture, especially with the studies coming out now that measure vaccine effectiveness in the real world. Most of them gravitate toward metrics at two opposite ends of the SARS-CoV-2 spectrum—how well the vaccines protect against all infections, or against severe disease, hospitalizations, and death—with less precision around the murky hinterlands of mid-level symptoms that exist in between.“
Less precision! The murky hinterlands in between. That sounds like something I would write. I love it. The murky hinterlands of ignorance.
> “COVID-19’s march toward diminution won’t be linear or uniform. Immune cells forget; viruses shape-shift; our vaccines will need touch-ups or boosts.”
Immune cells forget. In other words, it doesn’t last. We’re going to need some new vaccines.
But don’t worry! We can always just start focusing on the people who DON’T die:
> “A small number of post-vaccination infections are now trickling into my social circles, and it’s actually been sort of comforting to hear some of the stories.”
Sort of comforting! Sort of comforting to hear about the breakthrough cases. It’s been sort of comforting because some of the people with breakthrough cases did just fine and didn’t die after all. Which is, by the way, just like people who recovered naturally — but pay no attention to THOSE stories. We don’t need to focus on THOSE. They aren’t comforting, like breakthrough cases are.
If they keep this stuff up, I’m going to need a bigger blog.
For those of us who decry the willy nilly issuance of military medals these days as opposed to the time when we actually won wars (as evidenced by Milley Vanilli’s ostentatious rack of “thanks for showing up” ribbons), I offer this.
I survived the coof and all I got was this lousy $20 medal. Oh yeah, and shipping was not included. So there’s that.
I have become convinced that somewhere in the basement of the Pentagon there is an office staffed by a Lt. Colonel, four junior officers, three senior NCOs, two Spec4s and a PFC (who does all the actual work and makes the coffee) which is tasked with promulgating one new “Thanks For Showing UP” medal each quarter.
Now, they don’t actually come up with the ideas themselves. Once a month some guy from the medal manufacturer takes the Colonel out to lunch and hands him a folder with pictures and descriptions of new ideas and a job application for a high paid management position at the medal manufacturer’s firm.
Once a month some guy from the medal manufacturer takes the Colonel out to lunch and hands him a folder with pictures and descriptions
of new ideas and a job application for a high paid management position at the medal manufacturer’s firmof said Colonel with farm animals or underaged human objects of perversion.
Given what Milley and some other brass have pulled, I don’t think my edit is so far out there.
It’s been 51 days since my rotator cuff operation, but I was ready to go find one of my reciprocating saws last night and remove my left arm. The pain was that bad.
We had our quarterly “Dialog That Matters” (lines up with company tag line “Chemistry That Matters”) yesterday. Past topics have included racial bias, wimmins issues, and other similar issues.
Yesterday’s was “allyship”. Thank heavens it was a WebEx thing. I lasted about a minute before I set my headset down and minimized the window and got on with doing what I’m paid to do.
I also thank heavens that these things are not done via some in-person means like an auditorium or big meeting room where they’d want to have “interactive exercises”, etc. because I’d prolly be unemployed right now on account of I’d say something or otherwise call out their BS. I know me. I’d do it.
26 texpat
I think by this point I’d be having a series of open and frank discussions on topics of mutual interest with a doctor and/or physical therapist or two.
28 wagonburner
I’ve been making fair progress and the doctor told me last week the recovery is not a straight trajectory and will take four months. He said I should see a big improvement around 3 months
I’ve been going to PT three times a week for at least an hour and doing some easy exercises at home. I don’t know what happened yesterday.
#8
Morning, all. Have y’all noticed that Dave always prefaces his most cutting remarks with “Not to be rude…” ???
//Scram//
🙂
Oh crap. I’ve gotta subscribe to AppleTV now because of this. I am an absolute huge fan of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and it is finally being adapted into a TV show. I am not sure how they will do it since the Foundation books cover 500 years. If you throw in the Robot novels and the Galactic novels, you span 20,000 years from the time of the first robots and humanity traveling into space to the end of the Foundation series.
#29 TP: Compare how you felt yesterday to:
before surgery
about 7-10 days post op
It is not uncommon for there to be peaks and valleys in your recovery. You may have simply pushed a bit too hard yesterday or the day before.
I started reading the ‘Foundation’ books a few years ago and loved them. Not about to give any of my $ to Apple, YT, or any of the usual suspects I so thoroughly despise though, even as interesting as I find it. I’m guessing I will be able to find a torrent for it online in due time and avoid funding the totalitarians.
#26 Texpat
The pain you describe is what opioids are meant to relieve. What pain medications are you given for this?
Rose McGowan says she is being darkly harassed and stalked. Someone broke into her apartment, cloned her cell phone and tried to run her off the road.
34 mh42
What pain medications are you given for this?
None. I haven’t needed any in a long time and opioids make me miserable.
#30
Yeah putting “Not to be rude” in front of you sho gotta big butt and you’re ugly too makes it all nice lol.
Hollywood is an ugly, sinister place.
Yup. All the more reason to do everything possible to starve the beast.
Wow, I’m on a roll today. Went for coffee following the weigh in festivities noted above (sorry, still no pictures as I don’t want to break the internet), and now got the yard mowed. Most likely last mowing of the year. It’s dry and grass and dust flying everywhere – I’ll have to shower and rinse out my eyes, nose, and mouth while I’m at it. I’ve got an excess of lawn mowers right now, so I selected the self-propelled Club Cadet, and it’s a nice machine. I normally use push mowers, but this self-propelled made the job easier and I was able to do everything but the west side without stopping for a break. I’ll skip the west side anyway since nothing is growing over there except rocks right now.
Mail man should deliver 2″ masonry drill bit shortly, and then I can decide whether or not to take on the drilling through brick on the side of my house. That’s a job that I need to be certain I can complete before drilling and then having to leave a hole there for any period of time.
Can’t remember if I mentioned that I’m having to dump my old 3G flip phone that has been living in my car for several years since the new stuff is pushing the old stuff out. Anyway, my idea of a good phone is something that costs under $10, but I had to go ahead and spring for a $30 refurb Samsung Galaxy of some kind, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s locked for 12 months on to the Verizon system and there are no Verizon towers out here, only ATT. They want $150 to unlock it, etc. – I’m learning a lot more about cell phones that I ever wanted to know with the crash course I’m taking on the internet for the past 2 days. I need to drive about 20 miles to the east to get into the Verizon hemisphere where they can then migrate all my stuff from the flip phone to the new phone. Once that is done, I may or may not have phone service right here at home like I do right now since my flip phone is on ATT and they have a tower just down the street from me. But that really doesn’t matter if I have service or not here locally because it lives in the car and only get taken out for a ride every now and then. But this one will do stuff like a computer, so it’s “smart.” I can use that part of it right now connected to my internet without need for a tower, but I’ve already got a house full of computers, so I really don’t need another one – except I am going ahead and setting that part of it up. I had hoped to get through life without ever having to learn anything about smart phones, but looks like I won’t make it and will have to learn. I’ve made it this far without any tattoos, so maybe I can make it the rest of the way without one of those – so I’ve got that still going for me. More later.
Have y’all noticed that Dave always prefaces his most cutting remarks with “Not to be rude…” ???
putting “Not to be rude” in front of you sho gotta big butt and you’re ugly too makes it all nice
Bless your hearts.
Just got back from my Pfizer vaccine trial appointment. Still not getting the jab, and I asked the guy if he was serious about still wanting me in the trial.
“Absolutely, this is still critical data for us,” he said, as he handed me the usual paperwork to sign, including all the warnings about possible heart damage, etc., from the jab.
I signed the paperwork, acknowledging that I’ve been warned about the negative physical possibilities, and then they drew a couple vials of blood. For this, I’ll be compensated over $100. And he reminded me to keep filling out my online phone diary and collecting my $5/week for that chore. I’m getting some of my tax money back, as I see it.
I feel weird being in the study, but he still wants me to stay in, so I guess I will. For now.
I know it’s rare but a new guy we hired got his second jab Wednesday afternoon, he was feeling nauseous and weak pretty bad yesterday so had to go home. He’s here today but says he’s still not feeling very good.
3 et al
I’m still a fireplug 😉
#43
I know it’s rare but a new guy we hired got his second jab Wednesday afternoon, he was feeling nauseous and weak pretty bad yesterday so had to go home. He’s here today but says he’s still not feeling very good.
I mentioned recently a German friend of mine who didn’t want to get jabbed but succumbed to the pressure because it was the only way she could fly home after her mother died.
This is a usually tough lady. Knocked her down for a coupla days.
I heard a rapper lady say that she has a cousin in Africa who has a friend who knows a guy whose testicles swelled up real big when he got the job.
That’s why they don’t get a job. HeeHee
4 ELG
What a tribute.
Lotsa cut onions in here.
Blonde? Brunette? Red Head?
Wow. Things are happening quickly over here.
Hubby and I recently made the decision to start liquidating our properties. We were going to take it slowly, since we’re not “distressed sellers” in any way and want to make sure we have time to line up a financial advisor for the proceeds and to get with our CPA regarding tax implications.
Not long after we agreed to move forward on our plan, someone called Hubby and is VERY interested in our 11 unit Montrose area property. We had our third visit with him (the last with his investor) and we may have a contract on that as soon as next week. I’ve already gotten a verbal promise from my investment banker friend that he’ll take a huge chunk of it and put it to work asap. So that cash will have a home…
One of our problems was our river property. With two units gutted from Harvey, we were planning on tearing down those two units so we could try to sell it; no bank would finance it without being able to get insurance on it. Those two damaged units would make that impossible. We were waiting to get some vacancies filled and the weather to cool before we started the teardown.
We’ve listed it twice with realtors, but were unable to move it. It’s making money, but not much and not worth the effort we’re putting into it. When all 3 units were rented – and they were never without tenants – that thing was a huge cash cow. Now it’s more like weakly calf.
Yesterday, some guy called Hubby and is extremely interested in the property. Hubby was pretty blunt about the condition of the property and our walkaway price, but the guy is still interested. I’m watching for a contract to arrive by email.
Didn’t expect that. We know what we’re going to do with much of the money, but I haven’t arranged for our consults yet.
But we’ll figure it out.
Fast. Very fast.
48 Shannon
From #4 Ammogirl’s tribute to her druggist father:
As the daughter of a small business owner, I knew that he damn well DID build that. We had one family vacation my whole childhood because he could not get away.
We can identify with that as drugstore brats.
39 Shannon
That’s a great version of the song. An American, Irish and Canadian harmony trio. I haven’t heard Michelle Wright in years, but what a voice she has.
From #4:
When I came into this world, I had all four grandparents, a feisty great-grandmother who was the bane of my grandmother’s existence, and 6 sets of aunts and uncles. They are all gone now except for Aunt Carol in her early 80s, my uncle’s widow and not a blood relative. I am the oldest person in my immediate family, the Matriarch, a very odd situation. I hope to use my new power only for good! Just as soon as I stop crying which I hope is soon. Often, I don’t even realize that I am crying; my eyes just leak. Grief is astonishingly exhausting.
I remember when Dad died. Eldest Sis and I were talking, and she said “We’re parentless now”. It sounded so sad, and together we felt like orphans. Parents are our rocks when we are young, always there to console, correct, comfort, and advise. I never went to my parents for advice, but the idea that I *couldn’t* talk to them was unnerving.
And just as Ammo Girl says, being the oldest matriarch surely must impress upon her (and Eldest Sis) the sense of her own mortality. I feel it more and more every day. Part of the reasons we are making the changes we are is because our last day is drawing ever closer. Ignoring it won’t make it go away; it will just mean we were unprepared for the inevitable.
And the day my last blood relative of the aunt/uncle group died was also unnerving. A whole generation gone. Now I’m part of another generation edging ever closer to that veil that separates the now from forever.
Wandered into my appliance guy’s place the other day.
A plain Jane GE electric range is $530.
No self cleaning.
SMH
55 Shannon
You can have Sarge and TexMo come over and cover your entire house down to the ground with solar panels and then you can run that range free.
CDC Chief Overrules Her Own Advisers After Panel Doesn’t Recommend Booster Shots For Frontline Workers
You mean she didn’t follow the science?
Got my nap in a little early due to the yard mowing and now I’ve started cleaning out the outdoor storage shed. I’ve gotten rid of enough stuff in the house that I can bring some of the electrically powered tools in from the shed (no gasoline fumes, cleaned up, etc.) to make room for more gasoline powered stuff out there. Most all that stinky stuff then then have an indoor shed of its own. I determined that sawing holes in the wall was a full day, well rested application so I’ll wait until tomorrow to schedule that exercise. I’ve got 3 full propane bottles outside, and I hate to store them indoors, but the shed is outdoors enough I guess. No matter how large or small a store room is, it’s never large enough, so I’ll just do the best I can with what I’ve got. Meanwhile, I’ll just keep on pluggin’ right on along.
#50 – be careful about accumulating too much gold and silver bullion, and guns and ammo as well. Those things have a bad habit of tipping over into Galveston Bay when you go fishing and stuff.
Their CPA is out celebrating, drinking margaritas, taking Friday afternoon off.
ITS FRIDAY AND I AM LEAVING WORK!!!
SEE YA!
Slacker
Good afternoon Hamsters,
Lovely here with a start at 52 at 6am with low humidity and a high this afternoon of 82 with even lower humidity. A Snoopy Happy Dance day to be enjoyed. Have not opened windows today because the ragweed pollen count out here is very high unfortunately, and yesterday we had only opened one in the garden room that let in too much pollen to be comfortable without an antihistamine to the rescue. Of course we will not have a frost in time to kill the ragweed and take care of the pollen deluge. One home in the neighborhood has wild ragweed plants that are taller than spouse is by a couple of feet, and he’s 6.0′. I don’t think the owner has a clue about allergies.
Ferris Mueller, the Shemp of special persecutors, is still above reproach.
The acronym “JEDI” has become a popular term for branding academic committees and labeling STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) initiatives focused on social justice issues. Used in this context, JEDI stands for “justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.”
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As we will argue, our justice-oriented projects should approach connections to the Jedi and Star Wars with great caution, and perhaps even avoid the acronym JEDI entirely. Below, we outline five reasons why.
Oh Lord, they gonna go and make me a Star Wars boi.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo accused of sexually harassing female producer while at ABC News
Geesh
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-chris-cuomo-accused-sexually-harassing-female-producer-abc-news
#67 Hammy
OMG, so that is what has become of Scientific American, a magazine that was worth reading, once upon a time, long ago.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could treat all people as individuals, regardless of their physical attributes, and judge them by the content of the character they reveal? How about being able to agree to disagree and live and let live?
#71
Nowadays that would be wayciss.
OMG, so that is what has become of Scientific American, a magazine that was worth reading, once upon a time, long ago.
My sentiments exactly. Someone should sue Scientific American for false advertising. They’re neither Scientific or American.
Nothing escapes the rot of woke academia. Not even the hard sciences.
It’s about time for some San Saba Armadillo football over on San Saba radio.com. for live streaming. I get better coverage of San Saba football than I do of Rice football, but that’s OK with Rice these days. They’re better off with no one watching right now until they get a coach and a new AD. I’ll try to keep some scores posted for you cause I know you are dieing to keep up..
Tubi has “I Can Only Imagine” playing for a few more days. I love this movie.
Fourth time watching. What Bart Mallard went through as a kid…
…so glad there was redemption and then success.
Kroger shooter was a Vietnamese white supremacist. Gotta admit, didn’t see that one coming.
70 mharper42
I hate to tell you, but Scientific American ran their reputation off into the ditch over 20 years ago when they starting leading the hair-on-fire climate change parade. SA started publishing outlandish articles on global warming before most respected journals did. They’ve been a joke for a very long time.
77 Hamous
You just can’t trust these sushi chefs. They’re like postal workers.
#77
That anything like a white hispanic deal?
racist
77 Hamous
It’s Nixon and Kissinger’s fault. If we hadn’t pulled out of Vietnam like we did, this shooter would be in Vietnam today digging ditches for $2/day and would never have ended up in Amerikka with a house, a mortgage, a nice car and a freely owned rifle to shoot strangers with.
#78 Texpat
I can’t recall when was the last time I read anything from Scientific American, but it must be way more than 20 years.
Not to be rude but I just came into my office and the little TV was on CH 4-2 and the Houston Academy Raiders are whooping the Florala Wildcats 42-Zip! Only in Alabama. 😉
My #84, If you didn’t know Dothan Alabama is in Houston County.
You would never be rude. 😛
#85
And no, I did not know that!
You just can’t trust these sushi chefs. They’re like postal workers.
That’s why I switched to Poke instead of sushi for my raw fish. Hawaiians are a much friendlier bunch.
#73 Shannon: I must be missing a major cultural reference. I remember the movie coming out, but I am quite sure that the clip in your link is the only part of that cinematic masterpiece I have ever seen. It strikes me as so bad its funny.
89 bones
Never heard of the movie, but your #71 made me think of Rodney King, and you’d be surprised what comes up when you DDG and YT Search that phrase.
I couldn’t resist that one, obviously.
Jack Nicholson holds a special place in my mind.
So I’m glad I never saw the movie.
It’s actually a funny movie, if you like really stupid movies, which I do.
Armadillos are going down in flames again tonight. The put up a valiant effort but just didn’t have the horses to keep up. Better luck next week.
In other news, it’s about bedtime. I’ll check back again tomorrow. Nite nite.
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