My LG washing machine attempted to do whatever the Korean equivalent to Sepuku is called. If there is one. So I spent my Saturday morning diagnosing the problem, then ordering the part on Amazon prime for shipping the next day. Sadly, it didn’t arrive until Sunday night after dinner when I was too drunk to work on electrical devices. So I did it after work on Monday. If you’ve never done any repair work on a washing machine I offer one bit of advice: there is soap…everywhere, have a towel handy.
It was then I was informed the ceiling fan I installed in the living room 8 years ago also took a shit. Its cool because I save money on Mexicans making repairs around the house by being Mexican myself.
Now for some links!
We all wanted one of these politicians that locked everyone down, and threw secret parties held to some sort of accountability. I just didn’t think it would be Argentina.
¿Por que? ¿Por que no?
Wait…the whole scheme is voluntary?
“The measure is ineffectual. It establishes a registry system but fails to set deadlines,” said Gustavo Pinheiro, an advisory board member at Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. “It is a voluntary regulation, as it does not generate any obligation.”
If paying homage to your climate worldview was so popular, why would you need to make it mandatory?
I’ve seen people doing this.
The so called “banana republics” are taking note of our newfound status as a banana republic.
When your closest trading partner wants to snub you to make a point…
Today seems like a good day for a mellow tune.
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree that he says will create a national carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Brazil ranks sixth in the world for climate pollution, according to Climate Watch .
Two things jumped out at me: 1) is any national leader described as “far left?” and b) what with the Amazon rainforest and all, shouldn’t Brazil already be a net reducer of CO2?
a) Not to my knowledge. Anyone insufficiently left-wing is a “far-right extremist”.
b) Seems to me that should not even be a goal unless you want to start feeding the plants Brawndo.
I believe Rodrigo Duterte is still referred to with that adjective.
Far right*, Duterte is far too entertaining to be a leftist.
I’m still coming to grips with the election of BongBong Marcos.
The Philippines definitely has an authoritarian streak.
People have an authoritarian streak, Scruffy.
Rainforests are carbon neutral.
“Far Left”? I have vague memories of seeing Evo Morales described as “leftist”. Not “Far Left”, but the best I can do.
French TV news always refer to Bolsonaro as extrême droite. So, it’s not limited to the Anglosphere.
How gauche of them.
They must feel left behind.
When your closest trading partner wants to snub you to make a point…
I, for one, am glad that we are respected on the world stage again.
The US generally views diplomacy as a one-way street.
dementia tweets > mean tweets
If you’ve never done any repair work on a washing machine I offer one bit of advice:
You’re going to cut yourself on sheet metal?
No. Too much caked on soap to make that sharp.
Yeah. My experience is the blood price must be paid.
From the dead thread:
“Crisis-prone individuals don’t just like to live in a state of high alert—they seem to relish being called upon to fix all those problems that are causing the crisis,” Susan Krauss Whitbourne, professor emerita of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, wrote in a 2014 Psychology Today article. These people, she explained, “seek—if not revel in—drama, become worked up over small problems, and tend to see themselves as the center of their all-too-frenetic universes.”
Haha, I worked with a couple of those guys. They’d swoop in and stir up a big panic over some bullshit “crisis” which, as luck would have it, they were able to solve, thereby saving the day.
So
fucking
tiresome.
Amherst? THATS EDUCATIONAL!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4V5XjyR6s
Nailed it.
Family & staff of the Asian-owned Princess Bride Diamonds jewelry store at the Bella Terra Mall in Huntington Beach, Calif. successfully fought off a group of black robbers who were armed with hammers.
Inconceivable!
Andy slippin’ in the “don’t tell me what to capitalize and what not to” thing.
I’m glad they finally fixed up the depressing wasteland that was the Huntington Beach Mall.
Becoming a protectorate of Japan after they beat up the Russians a bit?
fought off a group of black robbers who were armed with hammers.
Don’t bring a hammer to a, uh, you know…
A kung fu fight?
Like poundy type hammers?
Or MC Hammer pants?
The thing!
Interesting that funds raised by the away-team is listed as the top “bright spot”.
Sanctimonious cunte is sanctimonious and cuntey.
“This sacred obligation to defend the peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president except one,” Cheney said. …
“At this moment, we must all summon the courage to stand against that. The question for every one of us is: In this time of testing, will we do our duty? Will we defend our Constitution? Will we stand for truth? Will we put duty to our oath above partisan politics? Or will we look away from danger, ignore the threat, embrace the lies, and enable the liar?” the embattled Wyoming lawmaker said. …
“The defense of our republic, the defense of the constitutional foundations of our nation, have to matter. In a republic, there are no bystanders, there are no spectators. As citizens, every one of us has a duty to set aside partisan battles and stand together to perpetuate and preserve our great republic,” she said. “We are engaged in a battle we must win, and with courage and clarity and grit, it is a battle we will win.”
Careful what you ask for, Liz.
Both TEAMs have been shitting on “the constitutional foundations of our nation” over a hundred years.
Care to comment on that, Liz?
Interesting listening guys who have been hurled out of the mainstream media.
Judge Napolitano talking to Col. Douglas Macgregor
https://youtu.be/Fa7puJrsJC0
Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://youtu.be/ygAqYC8JOQI
Good rant by MacGregor
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/30-years-with-no-strategy-brought-us-the-war-in-ukraine/
I did the Necrons first because they’re easier to paint. The May element of my self-imposed challenge is three models from completion. Sadly those three are Space Marines, which means small details.
Mass shooting at Texas Elementary school.
Kids are reported dead.
Fuck
*CNN et al salivate*
I have a hypothesis about the immigration status of the murderer
I have a hypothesis about whether hypothesis #1 will cause this story to be memory-holed forever
True. My initial thought is that it will be another white that *adjust tinfoil hat* was groomed by the FBI or at least on their radar. The guy killing adult blacks didn’t seem to get the response the powers that be were looking for (everyone with two brain cells to rub together learned that shooter is a self-described left-authoritarian). So they figured they’d try kids again.
I endorse your hypothesis, even if I wouldn’t use the word hypothesis.
Well he was hispanic and in a shoot out with border patrol agents near the border. So not a bad hypothesis.
Ah. IOW it’s time to breakout the memory hole.
Ding ding ding.
They’ll just pivot from “white supremacy is terrorizing the U.S.” to “guns are bad.”
He attended a local high school, was a US citizen and went nuts after killing his grandmother. That much is now known. Also he is dead. 15 people killed, 14 were kids.
went nuts after killing his grandmother
Are you sure that you have that in the right order?
That’s how it’s being reported…
Shooter was a murder suspect being chased by police after he killed his grandmother earlier today. The pursuit ended near Robb Elementary. He apparently ran into the school and started firing.
This got more interesting:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10850557/Active-shooter-loose-Texas-elementary-school-campus-plunged-lockdown.html
Huh. Not sure where the 14 number came from.
Here is something I don’t understand. The gunman was running from the border patrol and got into a school and then started shooting kids. Why kill hostages? Panic? To get them under control?
Supposedly he also shot his grandmother.
This is going to be a weird one.
If there was a running gunfight with USCBP going on, there are…other possibilities.
I sincerely hope you are wrong. But it seems pretty damn likely.
You have my condolences, amigo. Modern washing machines are the devil. I had a Bosch puke the bearings. Turns out they were part of the drum assembly. Fucking part was more than a new washer.
Lovely song. Excellent selection!
No need for that. I got that beast running again. With luck it will last another 10 years.
Pointless tyranny it is.
Feinstein said, “The recent shooting in Buffalo showed us yet again the tragic consequences when young people can so easily obtain a deadly assault weapon. This bill won’t prevent all mass shootings, but it’s a small step that I hope will start to bring some sense of sanity back to our nation concerning firearms. It makes no sense that it’s illegal for someone under 21 to buy a handgun or even a beer, yet can legally buy an assault weapon.”
Actually it won’t prevent any crime anywhere. And I agree. The age of majority is 18. Lower the drinking age and remove the prohibition on handgun purchases.
Pretty sure NY has an assault weapons ban.
It makes no sense that it’s illegal for someone under 21 to buy a handgun or even a beer, yet can legally buy an assault weapon.
Agreed. Lower the age.
Argentina’s president and first lady will pay a fine of 3 million pesos ($24,000) for hosting a party in July 2020 that violated the quarantine orders the head of state himself had ordered to prohibit group gatherings as a way to stem the spread of COVID-19.
He must not know the right way to handle these situations.
Bolsonaro’s decree states that unnamed economic sectors can register their carbon footprints in a new registry and then present an emission reduction curve within 180 days. This deadline can be extended for another 180 days.
“The measure is ineffectual. It establishes a registry system but fails to set deadlines,” said Gustavo Pinheiro, an advisory board member at Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. “It is a voluntary regulation, as it does not generate any obligation.”
First step registration, next step confiscation.
The song is good.
That’s probably my favorite Dire Straits. Supposedly “Guitar George” is George Young, Malcolm and Angus’s older brother
Nice tesseract
General Lee speaking I am against the pushing of name changes from historically illiterate morons that cannot think beyond their feelings.
n independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that commemorated Confederate officers, including the change of Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Fort Liberty. …
Fort Bragg in North Carolina is currently named after Gen. Braxton Bragg, a senior Confederate Army general. It would be renamed as Fort Liberty, the only one of the bases named after a concept, with eight others being renamed mostly after individuals with ties to Army history.
Short version: After the war, there was a very deliberate and massive reconciliation effort between north and south. The whole point was to bring both sides together as one nation, with a shared heritage. Congressional assumption of Confederate pensions was part of that. So were the national battlefield parks like Chickamauga and Gettysburg. So were things like base and ship naming.
All this current un-personing of EVERYTHING Confederate is a deliberate de-reconciliation. It’s got nothing to do with real history, and is rather a very specific part of the kulturkrieg that includes white southerners as its favorite targets. Again, this is de-reconciliation that is DESIGNED to tear the country and culture apart. Period. And it’s done by the progs in the USG.
And it’s going to work.
I got into an argument with some nitwit about why the losing side was allowed to raise monuments once. I kept having to repeat that we have a first amendment, and it was a civil war. That we needed to bring the country together again afterwards and that there was nothing that the feds could do about people being proud of their side. He kept bringing up Waterloo (enemy invasion successfully fought of) Vietnam (same) and could not quite wrap his head around how the south could be proud of being on the losing side.
You can’t fix stupid.
“As many as 14 elementary school kids are killed after Texas gunman barricaded himself inside school during shoot-out with border patrol: Shooter, 18, is killed by cops”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10850557/Active-shooter-loose-Texas-elementary-school-campus-plunged-lockdown.html
‘The Nazis are coming!’: Shocking moment men dressed as Hitler’s Brownshirts stage kidnap of man wearing fake Hasidic sidelocks outside Beverly Hills Hotel
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10849419/The-Nazis-coming-Los-Angeles-Sheriff-investigating-hate-incident-outside-Beverly-Hills-hotel.html
What?
Sounds like an elaborate setup prank…
Flyers claiming to be from the Goyim Defense League have been found in Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas, California and Maryland
Curious choice of states.
Goyim Defense League? Sounds like something OMWC would be a member of.
Why would I not be shocked if it turns out this is a false flag operation
Because the feds already did it twice with the “nazi” glowies that supposedly had bombs at the library in DC?
Filming a movie?
That’s what it really sounds like but that headline would be boring
“Folks, I’m excited to tell you that the first flight from Operation Fly Formula is loaded up with more than 70,000 pounds of infant formula and about to land in Indiana.”
So I guess we’re going to see a bunch of pop-up formula stores off the highway this summer. I wonder if Krazy Kaplan has room next to the fireworks.
Supply chain problems are a symptom—the underlying problem is misallocation of capital, insufficient or mismanaged infrastructure, and a broken political system. Why? The Federal Reserve has lost control.
ZIRP was unsustainable? Easy money gets thrown at low/no return? No way!
*Zero Interest Rate Policy
I for one am *shocked* that decades of encouraging everyone to borrow beyond their means, and punishing savings, has had negative consequences.
Update on the gym startup:
We’re trying to open a home equity line of credit to get some startup cash, but the first bank we went to used some type of automated appraisal process and lowballed our appraisal by about 100k. So now we’re starting over at another bank. We found a few potential locations but nothing ideal, and we don’t want to sign anything without our startup money. Meanwhile, the original gym is closing this weekend, so we gave the owner a deposit and now instead of moving the equipment to a new location, we’re going to have to store it. Today we have 15 medicine balls, 6 foam rollers, a few benches, and some jump boxes in my basement and garage. It’s like Warty’s nursery in here.
You have my interest
What sort of gym are you planning to make?
I’m confident it will earn the coveted Warty seal of approval. My wife’s been going to a gym for 5 years, and the owner lost his lease and decided to start a pot business in Michigan. He was going to sell all the equipment, but we offered to buy about 85% of it and start our own gym. It is very much a free weight gym. Dozens of Olympic bars, metal and bumper plates, deadlift platforms, squat racks, and some kettle bells and dumbbells. There are some custom rigs that have monkey bars and things like that to train for obstacle course racing, and a few treads and bikes. The current members are mostly Olympic/power lifters, cross fitters, and strong men. That’s the kind of people we’re interested in, but Mrs. TOK wants to bring in more women.
Yes, that sounds pretty fucking great.
Provided that he institutes an appropriate chalk policy.
My gym’s official policy is no chalk.
Unofficially.. bring your own and don’t make a mess.
All chalk welcome, and dropping weights is fine.
Excellent.
Dropping weights is dumb, though. Especially deads.
Make sure you sell yoga pants at the front desk for proper retail markup.
* adds “write dress code” to To Do list *
1. Yoga pants are a privilege, not a right
2. You may have this privilege by being hot or paying a 1 time $100 fee
+2 bobcats fighting it out in a sack.
What you don’t want to see someone weighing 400 lbs wearing yoga pants?
I’ve posted this before, but will do so again.
Seen on the men’s room wall in a bar in central PA:
“Yoga pants are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
“No they aren’t. If I wore yoga pants, you would not be happy.”
“Thanks Obama!”
I like this.
Lol. The joys of small business!
I get it, I spent 5 years with my own marketing/web site business and I loved it. But there were of course headaches. The Mrs. has a ton of enthusiasm but is having issues with patience.
At one point my three car garage was completely full of tools and product.
Patient wives are pretty important!
Or patient husbands…
Indeed.
Fuck. Off.
As waves of new coronavirus variants circulate the globe, one thing has become clear: human immunity against the virus fades over time.
To maintain durable protection against the virus that causes Covid-19, scientists are working around the clock to develop next-generation vaccines. But some of the nuances around why and how immunity against Covid-19 fades remain a mystery. …
“Some vaccine platforms give a very high degree of protection but the durability isn’t very long,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in an interview with CNN.
Fauci said that the mRNA platform may be one of those. …
The United States is at a point in the pandemic now where health officials are grappling with the fact that to maintain immunity against Covid-19 in the community, the nation will either need to administer booster shots on a regular — or possibly annual — basis, or will need to rollout an entirely new vaccine altogether.
Or…you know…we could stop the insanity of treating people like pin cushions. Just sayin.
We just need one more injection. Just one!
“scientists are working around the clock”
Top. Men.
Hey, Tonio. Off Topic, but we were talking about fact checkers once on ZOOM!, and the thing I was trying to remember about why book publishers don’t fact check, but magazine publishers do comes down to who holds the copyright of a given piece. Magazines tend to have it for any original articles they publish, but authors have it in the book world. And whomever holds the copyright is the one responsible for fact checking.
This thing is going to turn into another variant of the common cold and these guys will be chasing it with vaccines until the end of time because PANIC.
You misspelled PROFIT.
Or…don’t. Doctors and hospitals are efficient killers.
It makes no sense that it’s illegal for someone under 21 to buy a handgun or even a beer
She got that part right, anyway.
Not bad advice for many situations. ;^)
The Atlantic has stopped the MSM COVID narrative and now this too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/population-growth-housing-climate-change/629952/
“One legacy of this intellectual tradition is the modern xenophobic anti-immigration movement. ”
Oh, there it is.
Never change, The Atlantic.
NPR of the written word.
Funny how this
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/3499372-biden-administration-waiving-limitations-for-truck-drivers-to-speed-baby-formula-production/
And the Jones Act can be suspended when required.
OFFS.
There he is again with his arms flying over the gears that control the economy, tie loosened and sweat dripping off his brow. All for us!
Chasing thing to thing is healthy for economies that like stable and predictable rules…don’t you even bro?
“Look at me! Look at me! I’m doing things!”
If only his tie would get caught.
Unintended consequence when companies or a independent operator pushes it and falls asleep at the wheel and slams into a school bus went up.
Speaking of gym equipment, I shall rant some more about the Hammer Strength crap at my (hopefully soon-to-be-former) gym.
One of the giant overweight overbuilt power racks (does it really need to weigh 800 pounds? What’s it made of? Three-eighths-wall rectangular tubing?) has what I believe is/was called a “smith rack”. An olympic bar on a track, with arrestor hooks. The track, instead of being vertical, is on about a 15degree incline. WTF?
I never use those stupid barbell-on-rails things. The purpose of doing a squat or press with the barbell free is to develop and maintain my balance as well as strength.
Not sure about the angle but the primary purpose is safety. Even if you try to do a squat properly, sometimes things will get out of control and that is when people get injured. Plus it allows you to concentrate more on a specific muscle group. Not saying it is better but it is safer.
Relevant
And it has pictures!
Smith machine. Devil spawn.
See if there is a CrossFit gym near you. At least they will have proper equipment.
This is a really good way to get injured. Contra NaE, I’ve seen heard of lots more people getting fucked up by Smith machines than dropping/failing barbell lifts. If your body gets out of alignment with the rails’ bar path there’s no adjusting the bar. Also, if the hooks don’t catch, its coming straight down. No pushing it away from you. Pretty sure that chick getting killed trying to squat 400 in a Smith rack made the rounds here.
Neither is particularly dangerous when you are lifting within your range, by the way. I don’t mean to paint them as death machines. Lots of people think because it has hooks and rails it means you don’t have to engage your brain. That’s probably the most dangerous part about it.
I was only speaking as to why it was designed, not the result. Probably should have made that clearer. I have found that if people think something is safer, they push the limits more. In this particular case, they lift more than they should.
human immunity against the virus fades over time.
Let me guess. The presence of specific antibodies declines.
The template is still there, and the body can make and release new antibodies when it sees the virus again. But that doesn’t help Pfizer.
My triple vaccinated mask wearing coworker just got it.
She is in her 20s and healthy so I’m expecting she will be back in a week or so.
My mother in law, and my middle kid (who lives with MIL) both have it this week. Neither are vaccinated. Sound like medium intensity cold/flu symptoms.
The purpose of doing a squat or press with the barbell free is to develop and maintain my balance as well as strength.
Exactly. And that incline just looks completely wrong. You’re going to train yourself to move away from a balanced stance?
Sigh… ex just came downstairs all weepy to talk to the kids about Texas school event. My quip that I would wager any amount that the victims were hit by the Border Patrol doing the standard LEO “spray & pray” was extremely unappreciated.
That’s why I only made it here.
You are a wiser man than I. 50 years old and I still haven’t learned when to keep my gob shut.
Come sit by me. ?
Maybe the ex should learn to keep her mouth shut and not try to panic the children.
BP’s USPSA team was not bad, IIRC. Not as good as USMC’s.
I tried repairing my mom’s washing machine over the weekend. It needed a new gearbox. The repair videos made it look easy. In theory it was easy. In reality though, there’s that one screw that is on so damn tight that you can’t get it loose. I should have read the comments to the video where people said they needed an impact wrench to get the screw loose. I gave up and told her we’d order a new washer.
“Salvador Ramos”
So the rest of the week will be about gun control, not white supremacists.
Or they’ll say he is a “white hispanic”.
Not those fucking guys again!
Seems the school wasn’t his intended destination as he was fleeing from killing his grandma.
“TEXAS ELEMENTARY SHOOTER named as Salvador Ramos
Purported shooter’s Instagram was discovered”
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1529207068355346434
He looks a bit like Richard Ramirez.
And to the memory hole it goes
The facts will be forgotten. The emotions will be kept for the cause.
14 kids were shot. This won’t get memory holed, it’s too useful. They’ll pick at the scabs of these parents to their last breath.
They will have a much harder time making it about white supremacy, but if I have faith in them to do one thing……
I can’t wait for Beto to talk about Salvador. That’s going to be epic.
If he had a kid he’d look like him?
White hispanic supremacist.
Looks like they ran those pictures through a Xerox machine on “lighten” mode.
Something something assault weapons. Something something the Hispanic face of white-supremacy.
The left/MSM will have both angles on this one.
“Arizona Dept of Education provides a resource link for LGBT students. The link takes you to an online chat room with LGBT adults and teens where they talk about sex and gender.
The online chat room has a “quick escape” feature in case a kid wants to hide it from their parents.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1528854755560157185
There is even a cartoon about how to use it.
I don’t see how that can be interpreted as anything but pedophile Heaven.
Worst. Chatroom. Ever.
This grooming has been paid for by your Arizona tax dollars.
Seems our focus has moved from Arkansas to one of the Carolinas…wife wants to be near water or beach but not a city.
If I may be so bold as to suggest – Englewood, Florida. Some of the best beaches on Earth, great tarpon fishing, and (if you really need to go) just a 2 hour drive from Tampa.
She shot down Florida.
Oh now she is open…lol
We have water in PA.
Come visit! But unless you are in the mountains, it’s already hot as balls. The last thing I wanted to do was retire near Parris Island, Lejeune, or Bragg.
You don’t have to worry about retiring near Fort Bragg any more.
Poconos and north are filled with lakes. 2 hours from a major city
On my list.
Let me know if you need info or have questions.
Is that in PA¿
I’ll throw up a question in the forum
Northwest PA has a number of lakes (including Erie) but it gets cold and snowy in the winter. If you like skiing, though, NW PA is close to some decent skiing in western New York. The ski areas SE of Pittsburgh are OK, but nothing special (I grew up and learned to ski there). If you go south into WV, there is some good skiing there too.
Western PA is a little gun friendlier than eastern, if that matters to you. In general, PA is great for guns, although in the eastern part it is less so. Pittsburgh area has tons of gun clubs and competition shooting but Allegheny County is always trying to place illegal restrictions on RKBA.
Central PA has a number of lakes and plenty of state forests for camping and hiking. It is also gun heaven. You can easily find some forested land and have a nice rural life.
Stay away from southeastern PA and the area around Harrisburg.
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/HlMeJNc_g5Y
🙂
Love it.
Fred and Grady are one of the best teams in comedy.
Any idea who has this available?
Stars and Amazon prime look to offer it.
Gracias
Free shipping and some decent sales prices.
https://normashooting.com/
Must resist…
I tried, then saw that the Military Arms Channel guy loved the stuff.
https://youtu.be/M6i65Zm_nBI
So not helping.
Sorry 🙁
I bought some in your stead.
“ The measure is ineffectual. It establishes a registry system but fails to set deadlines,” said Gustavo Pinheiro, an advisory board member at Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. “It is a voluntary regulation, as it does not generate any obligation.”
I spent a night in Glasgow once. I remember it like a dream, or more like a nightmare…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wIgQB9GIA
When your closest trading partner wants to snub you to make a point…
China and Canada are both larger trading partners with the U.S. than Mexico, and the EU (as a bloc, natch), is also larger.
Unless you meant “Mexicans.” We haven’t got a lot of those. And we kinda like ’em, so’s we’re not gonna trade ’em wit youse…
https://twitter.com/LyonsL48773597/status/1529044908501352448
LOLOLOL
Amazingly, Tennis Channel went to the end of the Carreño Busta/Simon match instead of giving us a potted interview or repeat coverage of stars.
Guessing the ladies were done for the day.
Yes. This was the one match still on after Musetti/Tsitsipas.
I try to catch a little before work and during lunch and I noticed that Tennis Channel only shows the ladies, unless you are Nadal or playing Nadal.
Normally, I turn to the mix channel since I’ve got DirecTV. I was just curious to see if TC would show the end of that match.
As for the women, Świątek has to be an even heavier favorite now.
I get the male players on MSG but only between 8 and 12 so no can watch.
FYI, For those Glibs that have a custom domain on a legacy free Google Apps account, you can now switch to a free option, as long as it’s for non-personal use.
Still working on getting the domain over to Protonmail, but that involves getting 81 year old mom switched over…
You sure you mean “non-personal use”?
Personal use.
Thank you, yes.
Gas today was $4.91/gallon. I put $64 of gas into the car. 🙁
5.15. We have to run the card twice for the business…
You can take solace that you don’t live in CA, where that would have been more like $90.
$135 the other day. Not even a full tank.
Car glibs:
Wife reports AC in the car wasn’t working the other day.
Rarely driven, 2009 Honda, ~ 100k miles. AC compressor was replaced in 2018/2019.
Anything obvious to check? Other than ‘check fuses’, I dunno.
Check the AC?
I should have thought of that.
Was it running?
Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?
Auto AC is not my forte, but I don’t think there is much you can do without some gauges (aside from fuses/relays, like you said). My guess is some part of the system is leaking and it’s low on refrigerant. Could be related to the new compressor or not. You can buy the refrigerant and the tool to add it at any auto part store or Walmart, hardware store, etc. Of course, if it’s leaking that should be fixed, but you could add it yourself to get AC until you can get it fixed.
Check to see that the clutch on the compressor is engaging. Check the relays.
Then try topping off the freon. You can buy a charge kit at any place that sells auto parts. Wear gloves.
If that works, see if you can rent a sniffer to check for leaks. There are also dye kits.
My wife just had her ’16 Subaru in for AC work. Leak in the condenser. The guy told us many new cars are prone to an angled connector on the side of the condenser springing a leak in the weld. Unfortunately, the test is to fill the system with dye and see where it leaks out. New condenser plus refrigerant ~$700.
WTF?
Is this true?
My kids got their licenses within hours of their 16th birthdays.
1 of 3 of mine had no interest. The other two were all over it and would have gone the minute they turned 16 bit covid rules made them wait 3 months for appointment
FREEDOM!
We’ve talked about the mission of the monsters to restrict movement.
Seems like this is a good start.
My oldest has his permit. He seems excited to get it. We do live in the middle of nowhere though, so he needs it to get anywhere.
Got my restricted permit as soon as I could, being the youngest in my class I hated bumming rides.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(The ‘Hyperbole goes down faster than Winstons’s mom’ Edition)
#120
Champ
l0b0t 17
Sean 18
grrizzly 20
Not Adahn 20
Grummun 21
Ownbestenemy 21
Rat on a train 21
Ted S. 21
whiz 21
Tundra 22
QuordleBot 23
kinnath 24
TARDis 24
trshmnstr the terrible 24
MikeS 25
db 26
Grumbletarian 26
SDF-7 26
one true athena 28
Ozymandias 28
Tulip 28
Chumps
Grosspatzer 121
Mojeaux 121
The Hyperbole 123
I was too
lazybusy to look*, but I assume we got our first 1 today. Way to go l0b0t!In other news, The Hyperbole busted and allowed my 25 to win. Instead of listing everyone else that won today, I’ll link you to the tourney page. This will hopefully be enough motivation for Hype’ to update it with today’s results.
Quordlemetrics for the nerds: CLD line: 0 0 6 7 (1). T-line split: 10/14. Worthless Scrabble Score: 32. Average score: 35.4. The top no-Chump streakers kept streaking. The Hyperbole is tied for the most busts in a row at 2.
See you tomorrow, kids!
*@ Hyperbole: we should look at making a master sheet that aggregates all the previous stats. By “we” I mostly mean “you”.
Unfortunately I’ve only been recording the scoring totals not the 4-digit scores so even a master sheet would be useless in checking for 1’s. Also I am about at my limit as far as spreadsheet wrangling goes, if there is a way to consolidate separate sheets into one I don’t know how to do it and am unlikely to learn, I got other fish to fry.
Yeah, file it under, “Would be a good project if we were getting paid to do this.”
Oh noes! Up against the #1 seed tomorrow (Sean).
Good luck whiz, take that Waffle lovin’ fool down.