#36 mharper42, I agree, it is too darned hot (and humid) to be out during the day unless it’s a quick trip in the car to wherever you need to go. The humidity makes it “air you can wear” and much worse than low humidity heat, that in itself is dangerous enough. After becoming overheated several days ago even having… Read more »
All those many years ago after 9-11 when we first went into Afghanistan and Iraq, I followed Michael Yon through years of his combat reporting and said some prayers for him too. He was an invaluable, independent journalist all over the Middle East and beyond. I haven’t checked on Michael seriously in a few years. Here he is with Emerald… Read more »
mharper42
July 21, 2023 6:17 pm
I had hoped to do some hand watering on selected spots in the yard that don’t get much shade, but it’s too hot for me to be out there.
#32 Shannon, As luck would have it, we got 1/100th of an inch as the rain gage captured it. I don’t recall if the whole yard got it or just the front yard. There was a large wet spot on the sidewalk up to the house. That’s all gone now except for one tiny spot in the shade. But it… Read more »
Cherries are darn cheap this year. I only buy them when they are in season. Usually they are $3-$4 on sale. I found ’em for $1/lb at Aldi yesterday. Handyman said they were $.87/lb at HEB.
If Hubby can’t eat them all, I guess I’ll dry them. I have Fred full of colored bell peppers right now.
About 795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled every year due to misdiagnosed medical conditions. A new analysis led by experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore looks more closely at diagnostic error and its impact. “Prior work has generally focused on errors occurring in a specific clinical setting, such as primary care, the emergency department or hospital-based care,” lead… Read more »
Texpat: I was so happy the day I could fire QuickBooks from my life. At one point, I had hired a bookkeeper to deal with them because she was a licensed QB instructor and I got fed up with them. You ought to be able to handle one part-time employee without QB. My thoughts exactly. I have an email in… Read more »
#16 Tedtam – I was also a patient at the UTHSC Dental School, there in the Med Center… I have been on a med for 40+years that has strange effects on one’s gums… I won’t say that I really ENJOYED being their patient, but they seemed more intent and careful than many dentists I’ve seen in general practice.
I was so happy the day I could fire QuickBooks from my life. At one point, I had hired a bookkeeper to deal with them because she was a licensed QB instructor and I got fed up with them.
You ought to be able to handle one part-time employee without QB.
I’m researching an issue with payroll in Quickbooks. I see this: John received a gross paycheck of $1000.00. Their net pay is $751.34. Jane received a gross paycheck of $500.00. Their net pay is $401.35 Ummmmmmmmmmm….nope. It’s HIS and HER net pay. Intuit must be woke. Oh, and I can’t run payroll unless I submit to their $500/yr subscription service… Read more »
22 Shannon The best part of your post is the link at the very end. I think the first fishing reel I ever owned as a kid was a cheap Zebco. The story of how the Zero Hour Bomb Company (Zebco) started out as an oil patch explosives company and ended up being a huge fishing rod & reel outfit… Read more »
A team from Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University was testing the resilience of the metal, using a specialized transmission electron microscope technique to pull the ends of the metal 200 times every second. They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum. Cracks caused by the kind of strain… Read more »
From American OIL & Gas Historical Journal, This Week In Petroleum History July 16, 1935 – Oklahoma Publisher produces First Parking Meter As the booming Oklahoma City oilfield added to the congestion of cars downtown, the world’s first parking meter was installed at the corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue. Carl C. Magee, publisher of the Oklahoma News, designed… Read more »
From the C&C comments: Our clients are passing away at higher numbers. I never had so many claims and estate settlements going on. And the companies processing the claims are backed up. Of course it is baffling. #ABV *** Ed Dowd. Look him up. There is a whole book on sudden deaths and he’s writing another one. He just did… Read more »
mharper42
July 21, 2023 11:46 am
#15 Adee Adee, I too moved to Houston (from Austin) summer of 1980. Initially I was just taking a break from UT after first year on a PhD. I easily found a job I liked in Houston and never considered moving back. I did go back to pack up all my stuff and get it moved. I don’t recall now… Read more »
Bsue – I didn’t realize I was grinding until a dentist pointed out that I’d lost about half of of my front teeth. Just wore ’em down. I look at pictures of me in high school and compare them to now, and he’s right. My dentist says that between the years of grinding and the related baby teeth issues, my… Read more »
Good Morning Hamsters, So, another day before the several-times-announced-then-revised-temp-change finally limps in late tomorrow? or Sunday? Would presume folks who will wager on anything are hot-to-trot (sorry, couldn’t resist it) to wager when Mother Nature finally does something (anything) about this heat. This mess brings back vivid memories of the 1980 long, long string of 100+ temps that broke records… Read more »
#10 Tedtam – I used to have a problem with such things… Went to WallyWorld and got one of those “fit yourself mouth-guards” for football players, self-fitted it, and slept with it for quite some time (a few months, maybe) until I started taking it out in my sleep and putting it strange places… And (knock on wood and THANK… Read more »
mharper42
July 21, 2023 10:44 am
Morning, chickadees. I’ve needed to go run some errands this week, but haven’t even managed to make a list so far. This heat is just discouraging. Heck, I may finish my breakfast and go back to bed.
NOW, FED ☙ Friday, July 21, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, early this morning I awoke sweating with jungle tummy worse than whatever made hit Country star Jason Aldean suddenly flee the stage mid-concert, and even more ominously, the beginnings of a sore throat. As… Read more »
Slow getting going this morning. I’ve been taking full size muscle relaxers to try to keep from grinding my teeth so much at night, and it sure makes me wake up slowly. In my email this morning I received notice that Annunciation is having its next speaker the evening of September 8th. You can see the info here. A former… Read more »
Listen to the Reverend John K. Amanchukwu, Sr. lay down the law to the Temecula, California School Board. Temecula has become a raging battleground between the local brave conservatives who run the Board and the authoritarian thug, Gavin Newsom, who is trying to ram through a bill specifically to punish and fine Temecula for refusing state-mandated LGBTQ textbooks. Ten Things… Read more »
As far as I know, Buzzfeed is run completely on whatever free or cheap AI they can find. Last I saw they had laid off the office cleaning crew and were going to be de-listed from NASDAQ because their stock was trading for $0.48 a share. It’s what happens when you let your company be run into the ditch by… Read more »
Ahh it’s an Audrey Friday thanks wagonburner and where has this week gone? Hard to believe it’s Friday again, time moves on. That is a great picture and looks to be in color as opposed to being colorized. It’s still hot here but we may get rain tomorrow and cool things off a little. Well it’s time to start the… Read more »
Oops that may have been the index.
I was distracted.
Barbie says that it is still 99F in Galveston.
#37 Texpat,
How nice to read about Michael Yon again. Happy that he is still with us.
#36 mharper42, I agree, it is too darned hot (and humid) to be out during the day unless it’s a quick trip in the car to wherever you need to go. The humidity makes it “air you can wear” and much worse than low humidity heat, that in itself is dangerous enough. After becoming overheated several days ago even having… Read more »
All those many years ago after 9-11 when we first went into Afghanistan and Iraq, I followed Michael Yon through years of his combat reporting and said some prayers for him too. He was an invaluable, independent journalist all over the Middle East and beyond. I haven’t checked on Michael seriously in a few years. Here he is with Emerald… Read more »
I had hoped to do some hand watering on selected spots in the yard that don’t get much shade, but it’s too hot for me to be out there.
#32 Shannon, As luck would have it, we got 1/100th of an inch as the rain gage captured it. I don’t recall if the whole yard got it or just the front yard. There was a large wet spot on the sidewalk up to the house. That’s all gone now except for one tiny spot in the shade. But it… Read more »
32
Darn it. It blew up and promptly disappeared.
Cherries are darn cheap this year. I only buy them when they are in season. Usually they are $3-$4 on sale. I found ’em for $1/lb at Aldi yesterday. Handyman said they were $.87/lb at HEB.
If Hubby can’t eat them all, I guess I’ll dry them. I have Fred full of colored bell peppers right now.
Adee
Are you getting any of that rain that I see in your neighborhood?
28 bsue
I’m assuming it is still true. UT Dental School was for years the #2 rated dental school in America behind only Harvard’s dental school.
About 795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled every year due to misdiagnosed medical conditions. A new analysis led by experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore looks more closely at diagnostic error and its impact. “Prior work has generally focused on errors occurring in a specific clinical setting, such as primary care, the emergency department or hospital-based care,” lead… Read more »
Texpat: I was so happy the day I could fire QuickBooks from my life. At one point, I had hired a bookkeeper to deal with them because she was a licensed QB instructor and I got fed up with them. You ought to be able to handle one part-time employee without QB. My thoughts exactly. I have an email in… Read more »
#16 Tedtam – I was also a patient at the UTHSC Dental School, there in the Med Center… I have been on a med for 40+years that has strange effects on one’s gums… I won’t say that I really ENJOYED being their patient, but they seemed more intent and careful than many dentists I’ve seen in general practice.
26 Tedtam
I was so happy the day I could fire QuickBooks from my life. At one point, I had hired a bookkeeper to deal with them because she was a licensed QB instructor and I got fed up with them.
You ought to be able to handle one part-time employee without QB.
I’m researching an issue with payroll in Quickbooks. I see this: John received a gross paycheck of $1000.00. Their net pay is $751.34. Jane received a gross paycheck of $500.00. Their net pay is $401.35 Ummmmmmmmmmm….nope. It’s HIS and HER net pay. Intuit must be woke. Oh, and I can’t run payroll unless I submit to their $500/yr subscription service… Read more »
JS Bach played on glasses.
22 Shannon The best part of your post is the link at the very end. I think the first fishing reel I ever owned as a kid was a cheap Zebco. The story of how the Zero Hour Bomb Company (Zebco) started out as an oil patch explosives company and ended up being a huge fishing rod & reel outfit… Read more »
A team from Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University was testing the resilience of the metal, using a specialized transmission electron microscope technique to pull the ends of the metal 200 times every second. They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum. Cracks caused by the kind of strain… Read more »
Hop to it, toots. Beaucoup chop chop.
From American OIL & Gas Historical Journal, This Week In Petroleum History July 16, 1935 – Oklahoma Publisher produces First Parking Meter As the booming Oklahoma City oilfield added to the congestion of cars downtown, the world’s first parking meter was installed at the corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue. Carl C. Magee, publisher of the Oklahoma News, designed… Read more »
R.I.P. Tony Bennett,
the man whom Frank Sinatra called the best singer in the business.
Ten possible reasons for SADS.
Too funny. It’s a replay of “we don’t know for sure, but everything could kill you”.
I remember one year when Handsome Son was quite little. I had washed my car and it then proceeded to rain every day for 11 days.
My car *is* pretty dirty right now…
From the C&C comments: Our clients are passing away at higher numbers. I never had so many claims and estate settlements going on. And the companies processing the claims are backed up. Of course it is baffling. #ABV *** Ed Dowd. Look him up. There is a whole book on sudden deaths and he’s writing another one. He just did… Read more »
#15 Adee Adee, I too moved to Houston (from Austin) summer of 1980. Initially I was just taking a break from UT after first year on a PhD. I easily found a job I liked in Houston and never considered moving back. I did go back to pack up all my stuff and get it moved. I don’t recall now… Read more »
Bsue – I didn’t realize I was grinding until a dentist pointed out that I’d lost about half of of my front teeth. Just wore ’em down. I look at pictures of me in high school and compare them to now, and he’s right. My dentist says that between the years of grinding and the related baby teeth issues, my… Read more »
Good Morning Hamsters, So, another day before the several-times-announced-then-revised-temp-change finally limps in late tomorrow? or Sunday? Would presume folks who will wager on anything are hot-to-trot (sorry, couldn’t resist it) to wager when Mother Nature finally does something (anything) about this heat. This mess brings back vivid memories of the 1980 long, long string of 100+ temps that broke records… Read more »
#10 Tedtam – I used to have a problem with such things… Went to WallyWorld and got one of those “fit yourself mouth-guards” for football players, self-fitted it, and slept with it for quite some time (a few months, maybe) until I started taking it out in my sleep and putting it strange places… And (knock on wood and THANK… Read more »
Morning, chickadees. I’ve needed to go run some errands this week, but haven’t even managed to make a list so far. This heat is just discouraging. Heck, I may finish my breakfast and go back to bed.
NOW, FED ☙ Friday, July 21, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Roundup: Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, early this morning I awoke sweating with jungle tummy worse than whatever made hit Country star Jason Aldean suddenly flee the stage mid-concert, and even more ominously, the beginnings of a sore throat. As… Read more »
Texpat re 10 things – I watched that video yesterday. The dude is awesome, and spot. on.
Slow getting going this morning. I’ve been taking full size muscle relaxers to try to keep from grinding my teeth so much at night, and it sure makes me wake up slowly. In my email this morning I received notice that Annunciation is having its next speaker the evening of September 8th. You can see the info here. A former… Read more »
Listen to the Reverend John K. Amanchukwu, Sr. lay down the law to the Temecula, California School Board. Temecula has become a raging battleground between the local brave conservatives who run the Board and the authoritarian thug, Gavin Newsom, who is trying to ram through a bill specifically to punish and fine Temecula for refusing state-mandated LGBTQ textbooks. Ten Things… Read more »
As far as I know, Buzzfeed is run completely on whatever free or cheap AI they can find. Last I saw they had laid off the office cleaning crew and were going to be de-listed from NASDAQ because their stock was trading for $0.48 a share. It’s what happens when you let your company be run into the ditch by… Read more »
I thought BuzzWord was fini.
Id rather be Alabama than North Carolina. Utah tickled my funny bone.
Dave are you saying that Cletus has summer-teeth? You know, summer there and summer ain’t.
Ask AI what Europeons think people from each state in the USA look like.
We’ll see what Dave thinks about the first entry.
Buenos días amigos.
Dang it’s early. Just getting started on my first cup of coffee.
Ahh it’s an Audrey Friday thanks wagonburner and where has this week gone? Hard to believe it’s Friday again, time moves on. That is a great picture and looks to be in color as opposed to being colorized. It’s still hot here but we may get rain tomorrow and cool things off a little. Well it’s time to start the… Read more »