Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! A very muggy 72˚ this morning cloudy 50% chance of rain. It will be nice to see all the political trash gone.

Mom called crying yesterday, she had got a call from her grandchild that he was in jail and needed $5,000 cash to make bail and please don't tell his mother. It took me a while to convince her it was a scam, she kept insisting it was her grandchild voice. We got the mother on the phone and she said her son was in school. Hate scammers of the elderly.

Yep, there ought to be a special place in **** for people like that. I learned, many years ago, that it's much safer for the scammers to scam the elderly because, even if they get caught, they aren't likely to go prison. For one thing, the elderly victim is quite likely to not be a good witness in court to get a conviction. For another thing, if caught, the scammer may offer to return that one victim's money if they won't prosecute and the victim usually needs to get that money back more than he/she wants to see the scammer go to jail. It's a tough situation for both the victim and the police.

I would put an automatic jail sentence for card scammers equal to 1 day in jail for every dollar they scammed. Build more jails.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 58F this morning, overcast, 1.4 inch in the rain gauge, light wind. More wind than forecast through early afternoon, stayed overcast all day, and high temp of 59F. Led the SILs out of the subdivision, Men's meeting this morning, tried unsuccessfully to do some consulting, nap, bike ride and called it a day.
Mrs mostly says thank you for all the birthday wishes :cool2:
Randy hope Ellen recovering nicely.
RNG, BMW running, progress on van what will you do with yourself?
Nice thing no political ads :drink:
prayers for all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, BMW running, progress on van what will you do with yourself

Still some to do on the BMW, and a whole winter's work to do on the van, Mostly. But who knows, might have to start on a shop by Spring...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Build more jails.

I'm more of a pay-as-you-go sorta guy, and never vote for bond measures. Except when they're for building jails.:thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-11-08, 0322

38 right now...high in the mid-40's....bit cooler today.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 50 going to 56 and partly sunny. Need to go to the grocery today, what else, we will see.

Praying for you all, Have a great day. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

53 going to only 58 and cloudy.

Hope Mrs. Mostly had a great birthday, and Ellen's tooth is feeling better.

Had a good visit with my mom yesterday...went to Virginia Beach and took her to get some laser work on her eye. Nice lunch and talk. Traffic was smooth and kind...even the tunnel was easy. I though we had a lot of political signs around here, but they had many more elections there, including mayor, city council and school board, so signs on top of signs. We don't elect the school board in this county - appointed by the elected county supervisor for each district.

Have a great day.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning! Hope you all have a sun in the face, wind at your back kind of day.
Ellen seems to be fairing quite well with the tooth.
54 going to 58 they say.
Went to see mom yesterday and she was having a decent day. More and more she hates for me to leave, sometimes crying. I think she senses the end coming and is afraid when I leave she won’t see me again. I go at least Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, sometimes as much as 5 days a week. I wish I could bring her home to finish her days but the care she needs just won’t allow it.

Have a good day folks and God bless.

 

[Thomas]

38F clouds upper 40's for high w/sun.

With all the wind we got yesterday oak leaves are hanging on for dear life...arrrr.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

45 high of 57 today rain tonight

Prayers for those in need silent or spoken

Prayers for Ellen Randy and his mom

Drew and his doctors appointment yesterday

 

[Buppies]

Off to work this morning acid reflux acting up damaged my left arm barely can use it I’m coming apart getting old I just love it

 

[daugen]

Good morning all, rain has moved out, cloudy day today, colder weather finally coming in.
Buppies, feel better.
Toppop, that has to be hard on you, hope you have as much time as is good for your Mom. I'm glad Ellen is there for you.

Have no idea what I'm doing today. Kind of nice actually to have nothing planned for once.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 56˚ misting, 80% chance of rain, NW wind, high of 61˚.

Rotate tires and a oil change today in the Subaru. A few house and garage maintenance projects today.

Mom seems to have settled down after being rattled. Mom said she called the sherif and they were glad she did not give them any money but beside that she said they did not seem too interested. RNG thanks for the suggestions, some are already in place, just because of something just like this.

Buppies take care of yourself, we aren't getting any younger and as a good friend said: "It only gets worse."
Hmm, I guess that's not very encouraging. Hope your arm feels better soon.

 

[ronjhall]

No coffee yet this morning. 35° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 43° with some sun. Trip to airport was not as bad as it could have been. But still glad I do not have to do it for my job anymore. Early morning doctor appointment for 1 month visit after surgery. Then return for first cup of coffee.

Buppies, take care of that arm.

Randy, Prayers for you Mom.

Don, I have been getting some of those scam calls lately. Disgusting. :thumbdown:

Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Don, I have been getting some of those scam calls lately. Disgusting. :thumbdown:

What scam was attempted?

 

[Looking4new]

31 going to 34F. Wind WNW 15 mph. 40% chance of flurries.

A town run is in the cards for today. Get some fresh(er) greens, and a new pump for the oil tank. Maybe a new oil tank IF the price is right.

I have an appointment for the end of the month to go over the Dodge with 'a fine tooth comb' and change the oil and filters. The air filter looks good.
That is something I should have done right after I bought it, but 3 days after I bought it, I was back to work and it sat all summer. The mechanic says that the suspension is what goes first on them Dodge Journeys and he wants to put it on the front end hoist, which is booked solid to the 28th Nov.

The DIL is hounding me again to get the flu shot. It is only effective for about 4 strains, so in order to be protected with no guarantee that I wont get the flu anyway I would have to get well over 30 shots. That AINT gonna happen. Natural immunities are way better and the only way to build them up is to get the flu.
She says the flu could kill me, I say I could slip in the shower and die. I am on the down hill slide anyway (72) so what is the difference. I plan on living until I am 99, but realistically speaking I am not likely to live until I am 98.:laughing:

Have a good day all

 

[Bird]

Interesting weather we're having. I see many of you expecting a very slight change from the low to the high temperatures today. I was a bit surprised this morning to see that the NWS shows the current temperature, the low for today, and the expected high for today to ALL be 55 with a 60% chance of rain, mainly after noon.

And since I was expecting a cool, rainy day, I haven't planned on getting out, and I already have a big crockpot of Wick Fowler's 2 Alarm Chili cookin'.

 

[ronjhall]

What scam was attempted?

Want to sell me all kinds of medical stuff. You have 1 day to pay a court fine. Stuff like that.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 4:45AM. Sunny. High 71F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph.

I've gotten a flu shot every year for as long as I can remember, and don't recall ever having the flu after getting one. Some pretty bad colds, yes, just not the flu. Maybe I'm lucky, but I just think that getting protection from some strains is better than not getting any protection at all. If you get a nurse or pharmacist that knows what they're doing with the syringe, it doesn't even hurt that much. Mostly, though, immunizing a large fraction of the populace prevents the disease from spreading; it prevents pandemics that in the past have killed many, many people. That's the main reason I get the shot.

My heart goes out to those caring for an older parent. All you can do is do your best and roll with the punches. Enjoy the time you have with them; the world will be emptier when they're gone.

The old 17" laptop came back yesterday, but now I'm catching my self reaching to tap something on the screen, iPad style.:confused2: Very glad to have a trackpad and decent keyboard again.

My suspicions were right about the old BMW: The exciter circuit was open and the rotor wasn't getting the current it needed to magnetize; no electricity was the result. One of the leads to the bridge resistor someone installed had broken right next to the resistor, and pulling the tape off of it made it obvious what was wrong. Put in a new one and still no juice, and tracked that down to a bad voltage regulator. That was another used part that I thought was good, but hadn't tested. I've installed a nifty volt meter/ammeter on the other older BMWs, and it uses an innovative shunt that is very small that's easy to fit to the negative lead of the battery. Went to order another one yesterday and it seems they've been discontinued. Substitutes I've seen so far are pretty bulky and the meter just displays amps, so I'm not sure what I'll do now.

The weather service issued another Red Flag Warning yesterday that lasts until Friday, and so far I've had two robo calls from PG&E warning me that they could shut off the power at any time if they think weather conditions warrant it. Better that than having their power lines spark another disaster, but I can't help but recall that a few years ago they were heavily fined for diverting millions of dollars from a fund set aside to do line maintenance, and using it to prop up shareholder returns. And recently our governor signed a new law that relieved them of any financial liability from the fires of this year and last, even if power lines are shown to be the cause. So we customers sit in the dark while the wind howls, and PG&E says there's no money to do the work they should have been doing all along.:muttering:

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Want to sell me all kinds of medical stuff. You have 1 day to pay a court fine. Stuff like that.

I got an email a while back, using a good friend's return address, that claimed he was somewhere in Mexico, broken down and out of money, facing some kind of fine/legal problem. I was to wire a large amount of money to him and he'd repay me when he got back in country. I responded asking for a photo of himself holding up a local paper to prove he was who he said he was and where he was, and got no further response. Later, I used google to search for a short passage of text from the "ransom" email and got back returns that showed it to be a scam. If I wasn't the suspicious type, my concern for my friend would have cost me dearly. It doesn't take much imagination to understand how easy it is to take advantage of caring friends and relatives, especially those that don't have much experience with computers, the internet, and the dregs of society that pull these stunts with virtually no chance of getting caught.:2cents: