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Smile…HE’s Got This…Monday Open Comments

Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA by Yves Lavignasse

Isaiah 40:12 – Who measured water with his gait, and measured the heavens with his span, and measured by thirds the dust of the earth, and weighed mountains with a scale and hills with a balance?

<He’s got the whole world in His hands,
He’s got the big, round world in His hands,
He’s got the wide world in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

He’s got the wind and the rain in His hands,
He’s got the moon and the stars in His hands,
He’s got the wind and the rain in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

He’s got the gambling man right in His hands,
He’s got the lying man right in His hands,
He’s got the crap-shoot man right in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

He’s got the little bitsy baby in His hands,
He’s got the little bitsy baby in His hands,
He’s got the little bitsy baby in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

He’s got you and me, brother, in His hands,
He’s got you and me, sister, in His hands,
He’s got you and me, brother, in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

He’s got everybody in His hands,
He’s got everybody in His hands,
He’s got everybody here right in His hands,
He’s got the whole world in His hands.

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68 responses to “Smile…HE’s Got This…Monday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    That’s some picture. Well it’s cooler her with 48 degrees but heading for the low 70’s. Yesterday was fabulous after the rain, bright and sunny and topping out at 72. The coffee sure is this morning.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From last night;

    TexMo says:
    November 27, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    Houston has issued a boil water notice for the entire city due to low water pressure at one of its water purification plants.

    Texpat says:
    November 27, 2022 at 9:37 pm

    96 TexMo

    WTH ?

    You’ve got to be kidding.  These Democrats can’t even keep the water running.

    BTW; My thoughts exactly and I usually don’t keep up with the news on the weekend but I heard that on national news and thought that only happens after a hurricane. You just don’t have those issues in a big city like Houston.

  3. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Supposed to be in the 70s and be bright and sunny today, but 35 degrees out here right now.  I was happy to see that the pilot and his passenger who flew into a power transmission line in Maryland were rescued but with injuries last night.  What are the odd of flying a small Mooney airplane into a high tension transmission tower and surviving both the crash and the electrical hazard?

    I’ve got most of the house recovery chores done after the company departed.  Overall it was a good exercise of the areas of the house that I seldom go in to anyway, although I had made an effort to clean things up prior to their arrival.  I’ve got a couple of beds to make up today and a little stuff to put away, but that’s about all that is left to do.

    OK, you all have a great day today.  I’ll report back later with important news events of the day if something happens.

  4. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    A boil water notice has been placed for the City of Houston’s Main Water System after power was lost to three different areas to a water treatment plant, according to officials.

    Well, at least it’s not because of problems with the water – but low water pressure because of a power outage… I guess…

    I need to change morning news stations…

    “The US is lined up for a ‘DO OR DIE’ match with Iran in the World Cup…”

    Somehow, that seems like a very poor choice of words – but maybe it’s just me…

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It seems that the longer the Ds are in power, the worse things get.  Does anybody know which plant and what areas of the city are actually affected?

  6. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #5 – Bones, I looked at the 2 stories from which I quoted – and all they said was “out of an abundance of cautions” the boil water notice is for the whole City of Houston water system – so I guess if you don’t got COH water as your provider, you’re OK???

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Messed that one up. 😉

  8. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Volcanic activity in Hawaii – https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/worlds-largest-active-volcano-mauna-loa-erupts-hawaii-not-publish-pre-rcna54571

    Of course, it’s NBC News so who knows if it is true or not.

  9. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    There is a small plane hanging from a high tension power tower in Maryland near DC.  Lots of people without power, but the occupants of the plane are in communication with ground personnel.  Some YT news reports out there too.  Be interesting to see how they are going to get them down.  Be interesting to see how the plane wound up where it did as well.  https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4112234/posts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYr1TN_zGQ

    (SQUAWK’S COMMENT RESCUE SERVICE MOVED EL GORDO’S PENDING COMMENT FROM LAST NIGHT TO THIS MORNING)

  10. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sorry El Gordo that my mug is on your comment.  But that is the way WordPress works when I move a comment from one thread to another.  Hey it could be worse.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wimpy’s got hair now!

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Bike still for sell?

    Yes it is.

    What’s the lowest you will go on it?

    About 2 mph, anything less you’ll tip over.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got up to find early Christmas in the kitchen.  I couldn’t think of what I wanted when Hubby asked me for ideas, but after some thought I told him some slicer/shredder attachments for my Kitchen Aid mixer would be nice.

    He’s already achieved Husband status by purchasing said attachments plus a case of wide mouth quart jars, for which I made no request.  He knows the wide mouth jars are precious in this area, and he got a heckuva sale price on the attachments, so there ya’ go.

    He wanted me to have the attachments early so my life would be easier for the party prep we are undergoing for his car club event here on the 10th.  If only those attachments could dust and mop….

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Now, to coffee…I’m late getting up.  The tinnitis wound up around 6:30 and woke me up.  First time that’s happened.  Went back to sleep but it sure felt like I’d been rode hard and put up wet.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In Maryland,

    First, they had to shut down the power.

    Second, linemen had to ground and test the tower for stray voltage.

    Third, a large crane had to be brought in and stabilized.

    Fourth, the plane had to be tied off and secured to the tower.

    Fifth, check for presence of fuel and make sure there’s no chance of fire.

    Sixth, remove the seriously injured two people from the plane.

    Seventh, disconnect the plane from the tower and lines and bring it to the ground.

    Eighth, inspect the tower and power lines.

    Nine, turn the juice back on.

    They got all this done in 6 hours.  Excellent job, Toxic Masculinity.

  16. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Damn.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    C&C NEWS ☙ Monday, November 28, 2022 ☙ MRNA ALCHEMISTS 

    Good Monday morning C&C! We’re climbing back into the saddle at central HQ today. Our first post-vacation roundup includes: Fauci’s last day was as vile and revolting as you imagine it would be; a horrible study about investigations and covid disinformation; a horrible study about the “real” cause of vaccine injuries; and Canadians are literally dying to get past the pandemic.

    Childers starts off with his usual colorful commentary on Fauci’s last day/press conference.  He noted that the highly affirmed spokespox for the White House was protecting him when any hint of real journalism was thrown his way: “You’re disrespecting our guest.”  Yeah, well, he disrespected us, first.  Care to count the bodies to see how disrespectful he was?  Or maybe just his bank account.

    Childers notes that Fauci wanted to suck our taxpayer dollars til he died die in office, but civilians have more legal rights than government employees when it comes to subpoenas.  Didn’t think of that, but it makes his departure time more understandable.

    I agree with every descriptive term that Childers uses for Fauci.  And then some.  Apply that to all his sycophants.

  18. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Next up on C&C: the “disinformation war”

    To give you an idea of the authors’ collective points of view, the article non-ironically uses the term “science denialism,” and the authors identified the single largest source of covid-19 disinformation as: Donald Trump.

    So. It was all gibberish, of course. But there was one interesting part: how the article began. Here’s the very first sentence, which framed the rest of the discussion:

    Much rests on the public inquiry into the UK’s preparedness and response to the covid-19 pandemic, with organisations and individuals scrutinised about the advice they gave and the decisions they made.

    The authors widened the usual misinforming suspects to include official government agencies as well as scientists, both now potential agents of disinformation:

    /snip

    That was the key. I got it. This article wasn’t just normal misinformation mumbo-jumbo. This was battlespace preparation. They are trying to cover their butts by labeling as disinformation ANY skeptical inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic.

    … The article tried to transform into “disinformation” any investigations by legitimate government agencies (like Florida’s Surgeon General) or legitimate scientists.

    Of course, Orange Man had to be part of the problem, despite his worrying insistence that people get the jab.  Yeah, a guy who’s promoting the clot shot is handing out disinformation on the clot shot.

    I get it.  You’re afraid of him.  That’s #1.  You’re lying liars who lie.  That’s #2.  And you are too invested in the agenda to investigate the truth. (see #2).  That’s #3.

     

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More on the “misinformation” front:

    The study claims, … that vaccine injuries are actually caused by stress-inducing misinformation about the jabs. I know you think I’m exaggerating, so here it is, word-for-word, from the study’s third sentence:

    Fear mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorise people into staying unvaccinated is not just causing people to remain susceptible to viral outbreaks, but could also be causing more side effects seen in the vaccination process.

    How, you ask, could misinformation cause blood clots and strokes? Don’t worry, Mr. Palmer has the answer:

    [M]ental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels. Therefore, if subjects are panicked, concerned, stressed or scared of the vaccination, their arteries will constrict and become smaller in and around the time of receiving the vaccine. This biological mechanism (the constriction of veins, arteries and vessels under mental stress) is the most likely cause for where there has been blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, dizziness, fainting, blurred vision, loss of smell and taste that may have been experienced shortly after vaccine administration.


    The extreme mental stress of the patient could most likely be attributed to the fear mongering and scare tactics used by various anti-vaccination groups… many apparent side effects seen shortly after a subject has received a vaccine could be the result of restricted or congested blood flow from blood vessel or arterial constriction caused by emotional distress or placebo based on fear around vaccines.

    What the heck?!  If this is true, then every shot I got would’ve killed me by now.  Even without the stressful “misinformation,” getting all of those painful penicillin shots when I was a teenager for my repeated bouts of tonsillitis has surely taken years off my life at least, since I’m still vertical today and didn’t die at 17.

    Some digging on the author of this peer reviewed article is a nut job who calls himself an “mRNA Alchemist”.

    Childers ends with this question:

    We’ve been told that questioning The Science™ is a sin, a sin called ‘science denialism.’ But, who is gatekeeping The Science™ to make sure termites like Palmer don’t burrow in? I’d like a word with that person.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Canadians have a new MAID to deal with:  Medically Assistance In Dying.  Yep, medically assisted suicide for the mentally ill, etc.

    That’s one way to clear off the taxpayer rolls of non-producing folks.

    A few days ago, Catholic mag The Pillar ran a story headlined “‘We Must Do Better’ – Canada’s Slippery Slope on Assisted Suicide.” The article claims that, according to government statistics on Canada’s MAID program (“medical assistance in dying”), ONE IN THIRTY deaths in Canada last year were people killed by doctors.

    That seems like a lot.

    The standards to qualify for MAID don’t seem to be super high. For example, here’s an uplifting story about a Canadian guy who was recently approved to be suicided for “back pain,” but he admits it was actually because he was broke and didn’t want to be homeless. After folks donated $60K, he fortunately changed his mind and didn’t go through with it.

    /snip

    Now, I know everyone thinks there’s some kind of vast conspiracy to depopulate the non-elite world. But assisted suicide is health care. Don’t say it isn’t. That’s disinformation. How dare you.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    BTW – I like how Childers trademarked “The Science”.  /snuffle snort

  22. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 8:55 – pretty danged snappy service!

    Especially w all the various responders needed to getterDUN!

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    PJMedia said they thought this must be a Babylon Bee satirical take on a college course description.  However, terrifyingly, it is a real course at Kenyon College for which parents will stupidly pay $80,100 annually to turn their child into a petulant, obnoxious woke idiot.

    Upgrade your tinfoil hat before you try to read this so you don’t lose significant brain cells.

    Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214 CREDITS: 0.5

    How do you read gender? How do you read sexuality? How and in what ways have gender and sexuality been written and rewritten? This course serves as an introduction to queer and transfeminist theories and practices in gender and sexuality studies. Conceptualized through its intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class, and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights, and LGBTQ social movements, not only sheds sharp light on how gender and sexuality are regulated and troubled, but also animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise. At once world-building and world-shattering, representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity in the same gesture as they bow to reproducing it. Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies that have shaped the politics and aesthetics as well as the ethics and affects of gender and sexuality. Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity that determine desiring subjects and their objects. As a class collective, our aim will be to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced. The geographic and generic focus of this course may vary; for more information, students should contact the instructor. This counts toward the methods requirement for the major and an elective for the women’s and gender studies major. Open only to first-year and sophomore students. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Got my MRI and elbow x-ray scheduled for early this afternoon.  Was gonna cancel the elbow, but even as I spoke with the nice lady about scheduling, I started feeling strain in it again.  /sigh

    May as well get it done.  It’s only a few extra bucks (we’re paying out of pocket) and if it helps the doc figure out what the heck is going on in there….

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat – this is the longest string of gibberish I think I’ve heard since Biden’s last press conference.

    Holy moly.  And parents pay good money to do this to their offspring?

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    December 9th is one week from this coming Friday.  Be forewarned and prepared.

    On Nov. 21, Train and engine service members of the transportation division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) voted to turn down a deal that was brokered through a board appointed by President Joe Biden. This unit officially joined three other unions in turning down the proposal. The main grievance is the number of paid sick days: the unions requested 15, and the railroads returned with one. Railway companies that slashed operating costs to boost profits contend that adding so much more paid sick time will force them to hire additional personnel.

    Both sides have come under pressure, as any disruption in service would dramatically raise the cost of various goods, from chemicals to energy. In total, between 30% and 40% of US cargo shipments by weight would be frozen. The other factor in this issue is that nearly all passenger rail would come to a halt because half of the commuter trains operate on tracks owned by freight railroads. At the same time, industry trade organizations argue that the rail industry has cut too many costs that have impacted service and threatened safety.

    and this,

    Chlorine used by treatment plants to purify water would be challenging to purchase. Gasoline and diesel prices are expected to climb because refineries would suspend operations since they would be unable to receive the ingredients necessary to manufacture fuel. Supermarkets would have fewer food items for two reasons: 30% of all packaged food is transported by rail, and chickens and pigs would not have enough feed to survive.

  27. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    TP @ 10:36 – ‘Might’ take 48 hours MAX to clearly illustrate real live panic if no one ‘wakes up’ to prevent this next potential ‘Destroy America’ scenario………..

    *NO SMILEY*

  28. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Democrats are supported by the unions, including the train unions.  Democrats want to shut down the fossil fuel industry to force everyone into electric cars, presumably under the assumption that electricity comes out of the ground and does not require fossil fuels to produce.  Opening up a pipeline would result in safe and efficient transportation of fossil fuel feed stocks to refiners, thus shutting off the rail carriers currently delivering those goods to the refiners.  So the pipelines must be shut down, and they are.  But the oil is still flowing by rail, so now it’s time to shut that down.  So promise the rail workers that they will be properly cared for while they go on strike for more money and benefits, knowing that just like affirmative action, no matter how much is given, it will never be enough.  So the Dems and the Unions marching arm in arm to further crush the American middle class, all the while promising better days ahead.  Classic Dem playbook.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Two-thirds of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have depleted their stockpiles by sending weapons to Kiev, according to an alliance official. Even larger NATO states are struggling to meet the demands of Ukraine’s war effort.

    The New York Times reported on Sunday the North Atlantic alliance is struggling to meet Kiev’s battlefield needs. According to one NATO official, 20 out of 30 members are “pretty tapped out” regarding their ability to supply Ukraine with additional weapons. While larger states like the US, France, Germany, and Italy have the ability to arm Ukraine, those governments have also resisted sending specific weapons systems requested by Kiev.

    The Chicoms are looking over the Western landscape at how this Russia/Ukraine/NATO/USA conflagration has been like a slow motion circular firing squad.   All the players are pouring their vast ballistic inventories onto a giant bonfire in Ukraine while they are building up arms like never before in the Far East.

    (bold emphasis in the original)

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    25 EG

    There are conflicts here.

    The single largest generator of cash and profits for Warren Buffet are the CSX, BNSF and other railroad lines he owns carrying oil from North Dakota and Canada.

    Rail stops – the money stops.

  31. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Buffet’s hole card – government subsidies.  He knows they will bail him out.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    26 El Gordo

    You’re probably right, but that’s one helluva lot of money over a long period of time.  It’s also going to be very hard to hide it, too.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Your government servants hard at work.

    Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport.

    The MIT grad went viral earlier this year when he announced his new role as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy.

    “As one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership, I was welcomed with open arms into the Department of Energy all the way up to the Secretary whom I shared the stage with in a Pride month celebration panel just today,” Brinton wrote on Twitter at the time.

    and,

    “One of the hardest things about being a handler is that I’ve honestly had people ask, ‘Wait, you have sex with animals?’” Brinton said. “They believe it’s abusive, that it’s taking advantage of someone who may not be acting up to a level of human responsibility … The other misperception is that I have some really messed up background, like, did I have some horrible childhood trauma that made me like to have sex with animals?”

    Brinton is also a member of the sacrilegious drag queen society called “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” which mocks Catholic nuns with names like “Sister Porn Again…”

    and this,

    The complaint says Brinton removed a luggage tag from the bag, placed it into a handbag he was carrying, and “then left the area at a quick pace.” Brinton arrived at MSP Airport around 4:27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag, meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint.

    Sam Brinton/Department of Energy

    Police showed the surveillance video to the victim and she confirmed it was her bag.

    Brinton left the airport in an Uber for a stay at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel, where he checked in with the blue bag, the complaint says.

    He returned to MSP on Sept. 18 with the bag in hand for a departing flight back to Washington, D.C., authorities allege.

    Surveillance video from Dulles International Airport shows Brinton traveling with the bag on an Oct. 9 return trip from Europe, the complaint notes.

    The victim said the estimated value of the bag and its contents was around $2,325.

  34. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat @ 10:19 am

    My eyes started to glaze over as I read that course description. As a left brained individual, I have always disliked English literature and composition classes primarily because the grades are so subjective.

    I just want to enjoy a Shakespeare comedy or tragedy without psychoanalyzing the protagonist’s Oedipus complex.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m paying for my imaging and the ladies here are all real interested in my tags that I put on my ID and credit cards. I got tired of wrestling with sliding my cards out of their slots, so I have tags made of clear packing tape on each one.

    You have no idea how much time and frustration that saves me. It’s a real quality of life issue for me.

    The ladies here have all commented on what a good idea that is. It was such an obvious fix to me, I’m surprised more people don’t do it.

  36. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    So the railroad union wants three weeks of sick leave? Most companies only offer one week max. My company long ago combined all the time off into one bucket. I can use the vacation time for an actual vacation or in case I’m sick.

    Since I’ve been at my present employer for over 15 years, I accrue 200 hours per year of PTO (Paid Time Off) which equates to five weeks. We are capped at 400 hours. Up until four years ago there was no cap and there were engineers with 800+ hours in the bank. Instead of having a cash emergency fund they would use their banked PTO to tide them through the lean times. Of course this also means they virtually never took a vacation.

  37. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I am a big proponent of using your vacation time for actual vacations.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TP 12:19:  That thing is a fruit cake.  Obviously mentally unstable.  Absurd risk hiring that thing for anything in legitimate society.

  39. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Texpat 12:19

    Seeing that shaved head and big red lips gives me the creeps. I would not like to be around someone like that, even if he wasn’t stealing luggage at the airport.

  40. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    What is this V A C A T I O N stuff Yall speak of?

    My last actual non work / non BACA trip was summer of 2014 – I skipped the Kid’s campout and

    took 9 or 10 days riding up to Colorado to see my kids & grandkids.

  41. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    In case y’all missed this over Thanksgiving.

    At the United Nations climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the U.S. agreed to pay environmental reparations to developing countries. Days later it emerged that the Biden administration would issue a new license to Chevron to resume operations in joint ventures with Venezuela’s oil company, PdVSA.

    /snip

    The U.S. vetoed the loan. Its reasoning was based on August 2021 Treasury “guidance on fossil fuel energy at the multilateral development banks,” which says that the U.S. will “promote ending international financing of carbon-intensive fossil fuel-based energy.” After two years of working with the IDB to ensure proper due diligence, the company had to go back to the drawing board. 

    Meantime China, with no such restrictions, is aggressively signing contracts to build infrastructure in Guyana and getting in on the oil boom. And the U.S. is turning to renowned polluter Venezuela to boost crude supplies. What could possibly go wrong?

    Guyana is an English speaking ally in South America and we are telling them to BOHICA. About seven years ago ExxonMobil discovered sweet crude in offshore deposits and now we are letting the Chinese help them get that oil out of the ground. With all the disdain many Central and South American countries have for us, our support of Guyana could serve as an additional beachhead against the Maduros of that region.

    This president is so enamored with keeping fossil fuels in the ground he is willing to purposefully make poor foreign policy choices to pay homage to that environmentalist cult.

  42. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Showing 77 degrees out here today with no clouds and bright sunshine.  It rained the entire time company was here, and while we all had a good time staying indoors, it would have been nice to go sight seeing at least one day.  Just about got everything back in place now.  College football is winding down, and I’m not big on that gorilla golf, so it’s going to yet turn out to be a long, cold winter.  So I’m gonna enjoy this sunshine while I can.

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    That’s what I miss most about working – vacations! 😀

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I always liked watching slow motion explosions.

  45. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Getting harder to rob your Alabama Tractor Supply store now that Brother Dave has moved there.  https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4112427/posts

  46. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Hey, Tedtam just informed me that some of y’all thought I might have died today, but on checking, I see that I did post a short #32 this afternoon. No emergency, no calamity, I just wasn’t feeling energetic today so I haven’t gotten anything done. I still have my to-do list and hope to be more active tomorrow.

  48. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    That is a beautiful view of the Grand Canyon, and you don’t have to be a geologist to appreciate it.   Seeing it in person is awesome; your first thought is that no human could ever create something to rival this.

    Busy here taking down and putting away colorful fall decorations around the house and replacing them with Christmas/winter decorations that will keep the inside merry and bright in the dead of winter come mid-January.

    Back in the Midwest the dead and worst of winter usually comes around the last two weeks of January and through February.  Of course that doesn’t keep snowfalls or ice storms from happening in late November through February or even March. Before the holidays there are lots of entertaining things leading up to Christmas and New Years.  And it is always nice to watch snowflakes come down on Christmas Eve, no matter how much snow is on the ground already. After New Years Day about the holidays to look forward to are St. Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day.  The winter days are taken up by younger folk interested in participating in winter sports.  Older folks mostly just watch from the sidelines or in the comfort of their homes and TVs.  Or they head out for Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, or even Mexico to escape winter.  California was also as popular some time ago, but their Governor has messed things up so bad that people are leaving there in droves.

  49. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    GJT – passed the turn-off to the “Conroe Race-way” almost to Cleveland  today, and we were wondering if ya’ll ever compete there?????

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #38 El Gordo    😀

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was a little disappointed the Alabama boys let ’em get all the way out of the parking lot before they shot out the tire.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Never saw anything in a Tractor Supply worth going to the pen for.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Our parents were pharmacists, as was our maternal grandfather, and owned a small chain of pharmacies.  Druggists don’t get vacations, don’t take vacations and don’t even know what they are.  Our paternal grandparents finally reached a point where they could rent an old wooden barracks style beach house (no A/C) down on Bolivar when we were little and a couple of the mothers could take all the cousins down there for week.  The men came down for the weekend and that was it.

    Our parents took us on one vacation to San Antonio and the Longhorn Caverns when we we kids.  The second vacation was a long weekend to the new Six Flags in DFW.  That was the sum total of vacations in our lives.  My father didn’t take a real vacation until he was retired in his 70s shortly before he died.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One slight correction…

    Mom and I went to California to travel Hwy 1 with her sister and her husband.

    Saw the redwoods, etc.

    __________

    I never made enough money to take what most people would call a real vacation. Just some nice, quick getaways.

  55. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    A little early for bedtime yet, but I may go tune in a movie or something.  I may be back before the covers are pulled up, or I may not, so if not, nite all.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve known a number of wealthy, self-made people in my life who lived long and probably never took a vacation.  Cattlemen come to mind – they couldn’t leave their herd.  Others were small business people whose lives were deeply embedded in their businesses and wouldn’t think to leave them.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have considered the possibility of there being no chlorine available for water treatment. We’ve already experienced some scary delays of deliveries.

    The water will keep coming. You’re just going to have to boil it.

     

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Most of the people I’ve known in my life who were able to take regular real vacations worked for large corporations, oil companies or government agencies like schools districts.  It was built into the deal, the time was allotted, others were available to fill in and everything couldn’t go to hell because there was plenty of backup.  Most of the people I’ve known who owned small businesses took a long weekend if they took anything at all.

  59. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    As a boy my dad worked for his dad in their appliance repair business. We never took a real vacation until I was eight or nine when my parents made the mistake of buying into a timeshare. They never bought the option to allow them to go to different locations. We spent four years straight going to a timeshare on Lake Palestine.

    My dad would contact what he called “the friendly competition” and during that week his answering service would forward calls to his friend.

    Once I started middle school, I could no longer skip out on that week of school to go to Lake Palestine. We didn’t take another week long vacation until I was in the 10th grade and that was out to Big Bend. I never left the state until I was 18.

    My wife’s parents always owned either a liquor store or a convenience store. They never ever took a vacation. On super rare occasions they would close the store on a Saturday so they could attend a wedding or a funeral. My wife did have the opportunity during the summer to spend time with some relatives that lived in Beverly Hills. Her uncle didn’t know a word of English when he immigrated, but he built a rather successful real estate business selling high end houses.

    As an entrepreneur, I remember all too well working on weekends and holidays. Working for a Fortune 500 company, I now consider vacation time almost as important as pay and insurance.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve watched so many of those trains with flatbed cars stacked with large skid-mounted chemical gas tanks.  Many were marked chlorine gas and no doubt destined for smaller capacity users like Shannon’s suppliers.

  61. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat you mentioned that there is backup to cover your duties while you are out. That is true on larger projects. I’ve spent the better part of the last 10 years working on small to mid cap projects with much smaller staffing. As the lead engineer, it is more difficult to step away. It is much easier as the junior worker bee engineer to take time off.

    I mentioned earlier today that some people accrued 800+ hours of PTO. Part of the reason they accumulated so much vacation time is because they felt guilty about taking the time off.

  62. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    My current project is in the chloralkali industry. There is definitely still a strong and growing demand for Chlorine.

  63. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    … but we are connecting two plants via a pipeline.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve worked for two large corporations. One for six years. One for four months. Never worked for the government.

    If the trade off to get vacations and some retirement bennies is to work for an outfit with ridiculous layers of middle management and woke crap, I’ll pass. And did, generally.

    It’s no surprise that big business and big government make such cozy bedfellows.

    The bigger they are, the dumber they get.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    49 TexMo

    I’ve seen the corporate employees who are responsible and seem to always get the short stick in the deal.  The rules and principles of leaders & followers and doers & shovel leaners never changes no matter what you do for a living or how big the organization might be.

  66. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The coming Big Recession coupled with Biden’s business knee-capping policies are going to guarantee one hell of a layoff of dead meat middle managers.  They’re going to be glad somebody offers $375K for that $550K dump they bought.

    See Twitter and Facebook.  Repeat again.

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #42 BSue

    GJT – passed the turn-off to the “Conroe Race-way” almost to Cleveland  today, and we were wondering if ya’ll ever compete there?????

    Don’t know a track by that name, there is a 105 Speedway off 105 just as you are coming into Cleveland, used to be named Bronco Speedway. Been there a bunch but our series does not run there.

  68. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Night Hamsters,

    Interesting posts here today, mainly because they were made by normal people.  (:

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