In the middle of 3 days of voter judge training.
2nd time for me.
It's even a paid gig.
You should look in to it in your county.
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I've been on a treasure hunt in a 4-in sewer pipe for the last couple days. These are some of my trophies. Not pictured are several pieces of gravel, some "white-tailed sewer rats" and a couple of other curiosities. #sewerfun.

When were the first solar electric panels developed?

https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-hadnt-been-kidnapped-would-fossil-fuels-have-dominated-the-20th-century-the-way-they-did-215300

Well I just booked a couple week trip to Hawaii with a friend who has a place there. Big Island. I've never been, nor was looking to go. We'll do some needed work on his small place there.

He had a renter in the main house, and kept a small place in the back. A couple months ago he stopped hearing from the tenant. Turns out he died in the house, and was not found for a bit. 🙁

Insurance called the whole place a biohazard and is apparently tearing out and replacing walls and floors, etc. 😱

Good morn/day all. I've been busy with projects, lurking a bit here, but nothing to post. Staying out of the news feed. Simple statement on the mid-east. I support people, and despise terrorizing organizations. I support Jews/Israelis, Muslim & Christian Palestinian people. Despise Gov't of Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS. You get the point.

It's all Hocus-pocus - everyone guessing. Regulation of price gouging would do more to regulate inflation than interest rate raising - Fed can't, congress can - but won't/can't/doesn't.

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So some of you say it's to keep over-borrowing which leads to bubbles.
- we've had relatively low interest rates since 2008. Bubble?

Some say it's to keep inflation down.
- we didn't have much inflation until post COVID corporate price gouging. (It's not very much labor related.) Which made us afraid of hard landing recession - Bloomberg swore a year ago we'd be in a hard recession by today.

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I discover that it was probably in the city sewer line so called the city. They came out, eventually said It all looked pretty good after rotojetting a bunch of roots out.

Then I had to drive 45 minutes south to pick up some linoleum for a job. Pickup at Lowe's was awkward but I returned home and then came to get tacos and a beer to cure the near migraine that I've had since coffee time this morning.

It's somewhat better now. Joy.
Time for ibuprofen, jammies, and a movie.

Today was...not wonderful.
An hour this morning searching for plane flights that wouldn't cost me an iron and leg to go down to Puerto Rico before less than a week to go to court to get money from a contractor. It's going to cost me more to go down there for the court than the money I'll get back out of the guy.

Then my tenant called and said the plumbing backed up into the downstairs shower. Wonderful! So I spent several hours rooting out to the street.

Can anyone explain why a strong jobs report and economy it's necessary to have high interest rates to drive down employment?
What the fuck?
Over.

How many Scaramucci's did McCarthy last?

#politics #humor

Personal movie night: Dr No.
Bond. James Bond.

A friend who I didn't know wrote poetry just gave me a handful of his compositions. I think I will throw one up here once in a while.

Mortal? I reject the term!
Of ageless stardust am I born,
And to which I shall return.
Created from the empty void,
With all that is, I share this voyage.

- Jack Wallick

I have apparently never watched Paper Moon. Although I'm sure I figured I had. Well, I just watched it. Now I'm sure I haven't and I'm glad I did. And that's that.