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Heck.. a guy like you probably keeps that much in your wall safe at home 😝

CALSTRS is CA teachers retirement system. I belong to CALPERS which is all other CA employees other than teachers. It includes municipal, first responders etc. Currently CALPERS is the largest retirement system in the country with assets od $466 Billion. Last years investment produced 5.66%...

I now live north of JT but we have similar rainfall. 2020 - 5.1”, 2021 - 3.82”, 2022 - 6.27”, 2023 8.19” and 3.76” so far this year. We won’t have any more rain until the monsoons in August

Yeah… what goes around comes around

Back in the 60’s,Piggly Wiggly gave out individual pieces of flatware with grocery purchases.My mom collected them and accumulated about a serving of 12 including all the serving pieces and a beautiful solid wood storage box. I inherited the and still use them daily.

Hello…. Jacoby and Meyers’s?

We had the milk and coal deliveries, but about once a week an old stake bed truck would come around and deliver cases of beer and put it in your ice box if you wanted. The beer came in heavy cardboard boxes with a double fold down lid that covered the top. Also, there were a number of Italian...

The advantage my solar has for SCE is that all my production stays local. No cost for the utility to build additional production facilities or expensive long distance transmission costs. 28% of CA electric is from solar. If solar was eliminated how much do you think electric cost would go up...

My wife and I were watching FBI on the tube last night. I noticed that in every episode a FedEx truck is clearly shown passing through a scene :rolleyes:

Apparently you don’t have any investments. When you invest you anticipate getting a return on your investment. People who can’t afford to invest do not make that return, they pay the return to the investors. If you invested in oil or pharmaceuticals then non-investors are providing your return.

California about wiped out the solar market in CA. Both SCE and PGE got the Public Utilities Commission (who they OWN) to basically make solar a minimum of 20 year payback. Thousands of solar installer jobs have been lost in the last year.

This dog likes “hauling” anything https://fb.watch/p-j2WAXWv-/

My daughter is in Toronto and just sent me this. Fact, not fiction. 😝

Installed new blades on my Blecavator. I found out that JD5 blades fit perfectly

You could disable it if you wish, but if you get killed because it didn’t work, don’t come back here and COMPLAIN. :LOL:

But in a Democracy it is controlled by the majority. Sorry if that’s not your group.

Maybe your nuts identify as Chinese :LOL:

There are fewer and fewer but they cast a long shadow

When I as a kid we called the toilet a Hopper!

The early Saabs had 2 stroke engines. Running long times with the throttle closed at higher RPM reduced the amount of lubrication. Thus freewheeling.

Three different bridges from different eras.

Inflation or recession. Choose your poison.

I hear they moved to California’s for a better life :ROFLMAO:

When I was in college in the 60’s I worked the registration line for free because you got to pre-register which guaranteed getting the classes you wanted. Back then, many students paid their fees in cash. After the fees were counted the cash was put in a canvas bag and walked across the street...

Yeah,I raced on Riverside Raceway. It was a great track!

My wife is a retired Navy Captain so we get the majority of our health care at the Naval Hospital. Recently she had a hearing issue and we got a consult to the hospital audiologist. I wear custom hearing aids that cost over $4,000 at an outside audiologist. I found out that my cost at the...

They don’t build them like they used to…

In a number of office buildings I built, we installed wall thermostats, but also installed duct stats which overrode the wall stats. Management set the max/min temperatures. It let the employees happily “control” their temperature within an acceptable range.

Remember when

Lost my last furbaby 3/10/24 she had just turned 12. Just now able to write about her. Farewell to you, my pup, Navy seal. With your sleek black coat and unwavering zeal, You were more than just a dog, you were my partner in crime. Together we conquered, in every mountain we climbed You were...

Our Boy Scout leader was a National Guardsman. In the basement of the armory they had a rifle range. I got good enough that at 100’ I could usually put 9 of 10 in the 1” bull with iron sights. Always got 1 flyer never hit 10.

When I was 13 or 14, I would go up the local grocery store and a buy a box of .22 ammo. Go home, pick up the single shot rifle, walk up the street to the woods and go target practicing. Nobody cared.

Bailey will start eating while standing up but after a few minutes she gets lazy and lays down. I have a raised bowl from my previous rescue and will give it a try.

Looks like the “Big Boys” are giving upon their tree trimmer.

My dog is a lazy eater.

That can’t be. Everyone is leaving CA according to the experts :ROFLMAO:

That can’t be…. I saw Tom Cruse do that many myself :ROFLMAO:

I know I’m old as all 4 of my brothers and their wives are dead. I’m the last of my generation. My father would have been 123 last September.

Perpetual motion machine o_O

Many times military trucks are fueled with JP-8 (aviation fuel). Different from diesel

When I built my house I was at the end of the pressure zone and due to undersize mains in my area the water company boosted the pressure to 150 PSI.I felt that that was too much pressure for the 2” 700’ long PVC lateral to the house so I added a pressure regulator at the meter set at 80 PSI. 80...

Second time I’ve seen a Gyrocopter with a transponder. And its at 7000 msl and 96 kts. EDIT. We are currently experiencing strong wind from the North. Probably explains air speed.

Electric is going new places.

Titanic anchor. 19 tons!

When I was a kid of 8 or 10. my father got a load of used brick. His plan was to build a 24 x 24 garage with brick veneer. I spent many a day using an old one lung compressor that you used a rope to start and didn't have a muffler. We had an old Cleco chipping hammer to knock the old mortar...

Vets are double MD’s and DDS. Four times general population. I think it is the stress of constantly putting down animals.

Doctors and Dentists commit suicide at twice the rate of the general population. Hmmm…

I read an article recently (sorry I didn’t save it) that salvagers are are recovering steel from WW2 sunken ships. Apparently most steel made after the war contains a minute amount of radioactive material from nuclear fallout. In some specialized applications the radioactivity interferes with...

When I was 16 (1963), we moved from PA to TX so that I could go to college with resident tuition which was about $100 back then. We were basically poor and made the trip in a ‘39 Plymouth pulling a home built trailer. When we got there and unloaded the trailer we found a 5 gal bucket of bent...

Maybe the ones in Wyoming aren’t that smart, just like a lot of people.

It may be over for this year, but it’s not over. Keep guessing.

They get their training from education and experience, not wild ass guessing like some people.

My dad told the story of when he was a steeple jack during the depression (in addition to painter, roofer, mechanic, coal miner, and circus elephant dung cleanup). You did whatever you had to to survive. Him and his brother used to clean the tops of cement plant stacks of accumulated “cement...

My new rescue is a lazy eater!

Unless it’s overcast :ROFLMAO:

My system is a ground mount in a 120 MPH wind zone (desert). Footings would hold up a small building and rail system is heavy. It adds about 25% more cost than roof mount. My cost was all in for everything, design permits etc.

We picked up a new pup today from a Golden Retriever rescue. She’s already velcroed to me. It must be “Dog Day” as on the way to pick her up my wife was on the phone with my niece. My niece told her that her sister also picked up a new dog today and another relative did too! (y) Three the...

As a general contractor, I installed my 7.5 kw system for under $14K. I bought wholesale and that of course did not include my labor or equipment costs. Markup is huge if you’re paying someone else. Being in the desert, my system produces 15.5 Mw per year.

When I was in college in Texas in the 60’s I bought a Nash Metropolitan for $100 as I needed cheap transportation. After college I got a job in San Diego and drove it to CA. Drove that car for a number of years with almost no problems and sold it for $200!

Not a dog picture (just yet) but a story leading up to pictures. We had to put our rescue down in December. We got her from a kill shelter in Downey CA. They had 500 dogs so you know they kill daily. When we saw her we knew she was the one. She was very sick and the shelter vet said she...

My solar went positive for the first day this year. That’s normal for where I live as January and February are cloudy months. It will only get better as May is my peak output month. Peak output was 6.9 kW. Not bad for a 7.5 kW system.

Back in the day, I raced mostly midgets in Texas, but one time I got a ride in a sprint car. With about 2 pounds per HP, they are frightening! Now they are 900 HP with 1400 pounds. On a properly prepared dirt track, you can actually get more traction on dirt than asphalt. Scared the **** out...

I’ve been to 29 many times. My wife is a retired Navy Captain who was stationed there. Yeah, 4 bars on the shoulders. We still go there for 100% paid medical care. Navy medicine is the best! And they give the Marines a RIDE! Thanks Jack.

New technology that the Marines are using for training out here at Twentynine Palms. Technology

Are you talking about one of these Widow Makers? Got it down in a trench and it’ll turn you into mush.

The first time I flew in a commercial plane at a major airport, I walked out the unlocked door of the terminal, through an unlocked chain link gate in a 4’ high fence and climbed up the stairs to the plane. Yeah, that’s old.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Dewey Cheatem and Howe :ROFLMAO:

How about you put the lid on the ground, roll the generator on it an then put the tub over it. Set a weight on it if needed

When you need any employment to stay in school you can get you deal with it. Since it was a kind of “charity” by the company, they allowed me to work any hours or days I could.

When I was in college working on my Metallurgy degree, I worked part time for a steel fabricator. It was their way to help struggling students. One of my jobs was to make prints on an old ammonia machine. The project wąs a mobile launch tower at Vandenburg AFB. The tower weighed 7 million...

Don’t worry. I’m sure God will let you into heaven the same number of days you attended church :mad:

I don’t know when they were naturalized, buy “one nation under god” was not added until 1954 My dad and much of his family came over in 1907 or 8. Several of my uncles have similar but different last names and my father does also.

I did a Go Fund Me for you. So far we have $8 but it’s looking good :LOL:

Sheep dog kills 8 coyotes

I was the 5th son (no girls) and by the time they got to me I think my parents were worn out. The never hit me, but my brothers had stories.

Being in the construction management field, when one of my subs states he has 10 years experience at his job, I often wonder if he really means he has one years experience 10 times. Some never learn beyond their first year. "That's the way we always do it!"

In 2023 China is no longer the largest importer to the US. MEXICO surpassed them! (y)

Actually last 4 years were 5.11, 3.82, 6.27 and last year due to Hurricane Hilary 8.19

Yeah…. We got a whole .7” and a major 4 minute power outage. Glad I got that standby generator or I would have been miserable. LOL

Years ago when we lived in Joshua Tree we had a major flood on our property. After the flood stopped I walked out to see how bad it was. I walked in too far and my feet sunk down a foot into the mud. Tried to pull my slip on’s out but one disappeared. A couple of days later, my Golden went...

When I was a kid in PA back in the 50’s,I used to play at a friends farm. They had a bank barn. Partial underground stables and 2 story above ground. Walls were all solid stone, probably 18” thick at bottom. It had hand hewn beams that a couple were more that 12” and spanned a long length...

There was a lawsuit in San Diego a number of years ago when an off duty Police officer had his Explorer ( I believe) go into a run away. He tried to stop it by pushing the start button, but no luck. Why he didn’t just put it in neutral, I don’t know. He stayed on the brakes until they failed...

The oddest one I’ve seen was on one of my housing projects. We had to connect to an old sewer main that over time was covered with soil until it was 25’ deep. No backhoe at that time (45 years ago) could trench that deep. One of my subs had this ancient trencher that could. He called it a...

A friend of mine was running a D6 creating haul roads for the loggers of the timber company he worked for. He hit a bog and buried it up to the bottom. The foreman brought in a larger Cat and they broke 2 very expensive straps trying to get it out. Foreman said wait. Got on his radio and 30...

I’m not sure the wall is sinking as much as the land is rising. Thats why archeologist have dig to uncover the past.

My weatherman lied! He said it would be raining continuously for the last 14 hours but not a drop yet.

A different stuck story. A good friend of mine was a Marine Combat Engineer in Viet Nam. From time to time a tank would get stuck in the mud because the flat bottom created a suction that held it in place. He said to get them out, they would take a small amount of C4, push it under the tank...

Here in the desert area municipalities are requiring projects to build water retention basins to improve water percolation and conservation. It accomplishes 2 things. Improves the aquifer and reduces storm damage due to runoff. Due to minimal annual rainfall, most water is handled by surface...

Years ago I was building a High School in the Coachella Valley on a 50 acre site. Common practice in the desert is to install sprinklers and pre water the site for a week or 2 to minimise the cost of water trucks during grading. Then , during grading a water truck got stuck after filling at...

Technically, much of CA is desert. Even San Diego. Anywhere with less than 10” of annual rain.

Strange you should mention that pipe. Many years ago a grading friend wa doing a project east of SD. He was ripping with a D9 and felt a funny scraping noise as he ripped. They potholed and found the top of that pipe about 3’ down with a 3” deep scar on the top. Just imagine if he had ripped...

F35 cockpit

Nah… we’re much more sophisticated than that. And you?

I told my wife to put my ashes in an old shoe box and bury it up on the hill with the dogs. And NO memorial.

Unfortunately laws are only good when they are enforced.

My oldest brother (RIP) lived in both those towns when I was a kid.

Yeah, I should be able to take off my down jacket by then ;)

I have a 150 with the HDPP package with 2592 CCC. Exceeds some 250’s.

My older daughter developed a wheat allergy when little. Any idea how hard it is to prepare meals with NO wheat? Fortunately it only lasted about 6 months and then went away forever.

I turn 77 tomorrow. I know I’m getting old. Some arthritis, aches and pains, slightly high blood pressure but low cholesterol. I don’t do as much as I used to but I still get up on the tractor and maintain my roads. This weekend I installed a reverse osmosis system and installed a 50a outlet...

That reminds me of a “move”we did on one of our school modernizations. There was a 10 x 20 greenhouse that needed to be relocated for some new construction. We took bids and they came in at $10,000, which was more than the value of the greenhouse. The Principal really wanted to keep the...

A reaper practicing targeting on CA 58. Hope its not armed o_O

Then STAY AWAY!

NAH…. Thats a Texas license plate. He’s moving in :ROFLMAO:

You explained what may be behind the problem. They would congregate and socialize at work and my wife would constantly break them up and send them back to their assigned duties.

My wife was Director of Nursing (Ret) at a Naval hospital. A high percentage of Philippino nurses work in military hospitals. While individually they were good people, as a group they were her most problematic. It was a strange situation.

I was. GC for 40 years. Early in my career, I built 2000 dwelling units. Single family, duplex, 4 plex and condos. When I built my custom home, I hired a GC! I was at the time building public works projects with project cost of $25 to $105 million. It’s not always the skills you have, but...

Wow. BMO has 600 branches in US

Ahhh… pretty in pink. :LOL:

My house this AM

TL;DV

I don’t know, but the top unit is $57 million

World skinniest skyscraper in New York Skinny

When is the last time you saw someone smoking a pipe?

One of these would do. https://fb.watch/pxzIJsucLS/

Well, they have air brakes. Oh, wait a minute. There’s no air up there. OOPS!

... and Wall Street in NY. That's where the original wall was that protected the city.

But there was no human caused global warming during the last ice age. Thats just dumb.

I just reported what other REPUTABLE sources stated. I’m not a liar, but you can believe your lies as you choose.

That is the “official” Texas report. Other sources from outside Texas state 700. I sure no politics were involved in Texas’ reporting.

The 700 people who died probably did not consider it a feature

Now how are ya gonna signal that the guy who just cut you off really should go first :ROFLMAO:

Op is in Canada. FEMA is in US

He same way you hand prop an old airplane. 4 fingers on the back edge of the prop, thumb riding on the surface. If the engine starts too quick and your thumb is on the sharp edge of the prop, you might have to go looking for it.

Getting back to the Wolf/Indian saga, there are always consequences when you take someone else’s territory. So the Germans, Japanese and Russians in addition to the rancher found out.

Hey…. Thats a great idea!

Yup, that’s what happens when a rancher invades a territory occupied by wolves for tens of thousands of years and presents a new meal choice for the wolves. It’s the ranchers fault not the wolves.

OOPS! The intended location was 109 degrees west longitude and 37 degrees north latitude. But, because of surveying errors, the popular tourist spot is actually just a bit off. The accurate location would be downhill to the east of U.S. 160 in Colorado and northeast of the San Juan River as it...

Kali has crossed the bridge.