Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 4:45AM. Abundant sunshine. High 59F. Winds light and variable.
As predicted, this latest Pacific storm dropped only 0.6" of rain. And the faucet gets turned off by Saturday, with the 10-day total coming to less than an inch.:smiley_aafz:
Isn't there a saying that goes something like "A man that loves is job never works a day in his life", Paul? Clever idea with the carts, but the "isles" between benches, tool boxes, and machines have gotten so narrow in the garage here I don't think I can roll a cart down them any longer.:shocked: Yesterday's garbage can was so full of metal "project remnants" I could barely get it into the bed of the RTV and up to the cul-de-sac for pickup. Local junk yards are still taking steel scrap, but they pay you nothing for it, so it's not worth the gas to make a special trip.
Always seems to be a crap job on the todo list, huh Mike? I guess it's an Adult Thing to grin and bear it, and just get it done.
What happened to your mother with CVS is horrible, Ron. Fines won't stop it when a corporation is that large; they just consider it another cost of doing business and pass it on to the customer. Corporate officers need to be held personally responsible for their decisions, including allowing such practices to take place. But more on that in a moment. Thanks for the Medicare background and link!
I dunno know, Drew. For what Honda wants for one of those machines, you'd have to blow a LOT of snow to ever get to break even vs. just hiring out the work. Of course all that goes right out the window if you actually
like running a snowblower...:laughing: Asymptomatic spreading, combined with the virulence of CoVid-19, especially the new mutant strain, is pretty hard to deal with. About the only thing that really works is to avoid contact with other people. At least until your body has had enough time to develop antibodies after getting the vaccine. Until that time, and who knows when that'll be at this rate, I'll remain in hermit mode and minimize my trips to town as much as possible.
That sounds like one smart nurse, RS.
I'm happy you're recovery is going well, Rich. But listen to your body and don't try to do too much, too soon. That's a hard balance to strike when you're like me and just can't sit still, though.
That 15-minute pause is to make sure you don't go into anaphylactic shock after the injection. Not much to do with this new vaccine, as any injection can trigger it. Even my allergy clinic recommends the wait, at least when first starting out or when changing doses.
The jumps in SS payments get even larger after reaching Full Retirement Age, Ken, something like 8%/year until you reach 70. But like David points out, if you croak before you get anything, that doesn't matter much, does it?
Good to see you sharing the blame for the English weather with the Scandinavians for a change, Eric.:laughing: More shades of 1984 in establishing jabber training standards. Why do people sit still for that sort of thing?
I haven't been thrilled with Plex on a QNAP NAS accessed via Apple TV, Ken. Seems like the Plex server doesn't always pick up changes to the file structure when I add new media, and the client on the AppleTV sometimes hangs up. So far, bouncing the server and giving the ol' hard reset to the Apple TV gets things going again, but it's a PITA when all you wanna do is watch the next episode of The Jetsons!:laughing:
Spent most of yesterday working my way through the questionnaire I have to fill out for the Fire Victim's Trust set up to handle PG&E claims related to the 2017-2018 wildfires. It's all done through a website, and so far it's pretty buggy. I had to get someone on the phone to figure out why I couldn't complete the W9 form, then spent the rest of the day wading through a blow-by-blow account of the day of the fire and any events related to it ever since. Not a place in my head I like to spend much time on, and by the end of it my hands were shaking and I just wanted to go hide under a rock somewhere. Then this morning I ran across a
new news series an ABC10 reporter put together that details how PG&E has basically gotten away without any personal accountability from anyone in the organization. They've literally gotten away with murder. It's also pretty clear that by declaring bankruptcy, the compensation established arbitrarily by the court is going to everyone else but those that actually suffered losses. It's all another one of those Adult Things, I guess.
It's supposed to be dry today and I'm hoping to get in some shop therapy and knock out another pair of pallet hoops.
