Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 5:30AM. Sunny. High 73F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Good to see a red winged blackbird at your feeder, Ron. Another sure sign of spring!
The Germans have a history of short shifting fuel filters, Drew. BMW once incorporated the fuel filter into the fuel pump on one of its motorcycle designs. To replace the filter, you had to replace the pump, at twenty times the cost of a simple inline filter.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines were based on a genome analysis provided by the Chinese. I wonder if anybody checked their work, and if somehow a deliberately altered genome could lead to mischief in the resulting vaccine? How's that for a conspiracy theory?
Maybe the CDC is worried about the efficacy of current vaccines against the new variants that are emerging? Otherwise, why wouldn't being vaccinated be safeguard enough to allow opening of the cruise lines?
Lots of steel bit the dust yesterday, but not quite enough. One more pallet to disassemble today.
ADT has a bad habit of increasing their rates multiple times per year, then backing off when you threaten to cancel. Yesterday I ordered an alarm from a different company that promises to never raise the monthly fee, and gives half off for the first year. And the final rate is less than half what ADT charges. Now all I need to do is work on understanding the Indian/English tech support accent...
Speaking of Indians, the east Indian kind, have you folks heard about the glitter bomber? He's the guy that puts a gizmo that will broadcast glitter inside a package that gets left on a porch to tempt thieves. When they open it, glitter goes everywhere and a fart spray is activated, all the action being videoed by cell phones that transmit the images for recording. It also has a GPS unit in it so the package can be recovered. Anyway, the guy has branched out to help stop scammers posing as IRS, police, or other government officials that threaten arrest if victims don't pay up, usually with large cash amounts. The scammers prey on older folks, like most of us. And as it turns out, it starts out in Indian run phone centers that then rely on US based "supervisors" that manage "cash mules" to collect and forward the money.
Here's a video with all the gory details, including multiple arrests.
TGIF gang!
Can you say Zombie apocalypse.
