Good morning 🌞 my beautiful CoSo friends. New shocks smooth out poorly maintained roads and keep you safe. While you're under there, check your brakes. Also, keep an extra key handy. This public service announcement is brought to you by #coffee ☕ 🩵🖖

Line stolen from The Expanse.

Do not hope that God is on your side, hope that you are on God's side.

That seems crazy that they would change them all at the same time - president Senate and House total new vote.

On top of president, Mexicans next year will also pick all the 128 senators and 500 members of the lower house of Congress, plus the choice of nine state governors including Mexico City’s, one of the most prominent political jobs in the country.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-07/mexico-ruling-party-picks-sheinbaum-as-presidential-candidate

I posted this and later realized that I have literally years of experience living at least this close to a dozen diesel motors grinding 24/7, pipes clanging and people yelling. So I don't know why I even brought it up. I guess I'm just a whiny old dude anymore.

Screw it. I'm walking down to the bar in a minute so that when I come back I won't hear it anymore. Cuz that's basically the way we handled it in the oil field when I was in my 20s and 30s.

Did you ever noticed that @th3j35t3r made the phone app like Las Vegas? You can't see your clock while you're here. 🤣

Well 5:00 pm came and went and I just realized that the diesel pump in the street that's been running all day, sitting 30 yards away from my very open bedroom window is going to continue to run all night. I kind of thought they'd turn it off at 5:00 when they went home. But they apparently didn't get a temporary fix in the sewer line so run it must. 😕
#PublicWorks

Crowded Panama mini islands getting new on shore housing in schools. Sounds like an overall plus but yes they are being driven off the island by rising sea levels they've only got a meter.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/were-going-sink-hundreds-abandon-caribbean-island-home-3749066

Watching "White House Plumbers" and they're just as fucking incompetent and criminal as the current group of trumpublicans. I saw G. Gordon Liddy in the mid 70s at college doing the lighter and hand routine. I thought he was a dick then and I still think he's a dick.

So I'm driving along listening to Sirius XM on my phone when it stopped. No cell service, and I keep driving. I get home and still no so cell svc. . I check no sim. It's a virtual sim but what the fuck? I downloaded a new virtual sim. Got back on google fi and all is well. But wtf?

I wish I was this succinct with my words when trying to put my thoughts to paper. I could easily have spouted this but I can't drag it out of my brain onto the paper, so I appreciate when I see this. #birdsite

Well got back to the house in PR and found it's been bugged! Evil weevils! I don't know how I forgot to put that bag of flour in a plastic bag or container. Worst was I thought it was termites at first. I picked up a straw hat sitting on the dresser and put it on my head noting just as it went past my eyes that it was full of bugs.

Aaaaaaaggggghhhhh!

Good morning, all, arrived at 1:00 a.m. , have an 8:00 a.m. flight out. No coffee shop 🥱. Lots of seating, but no laying spaces, in airports should be criminal. It's not like the homeless are coming here to lay down. You have to get through TSA first. What are people supposed to do that have overnight LAYovers. And when lots of people get stranded due to weather or other flight delays. Oh, and the air conditioning is set like a walk-in cooler. #travel ✈️

Master electrician sez whaa?!
He had to pull all the circuits out to install a grounding bar that was left out. And we had to run different ground to the new outside panel. Several other fixes were needed for the previous guys work around the house.

Uufft! Hard to get going just now making coffee.
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I worked til 9 last night running new electrical in conduit with my electrician friend who showed up after his work day. Earlier in the day I cleaned up the downstairs unit for new guests and then went over and helped my other electrician buddy rewire the panel that the original "electrician" I ran off had done wrong. Now that guy's suing me for payment but both my union electrician buddies say he hasn't got a foot to stand on. So it goes. ✌️

Cholesterol good enuf - all other indicators nominal. I'm a lucky human. Most folks my age have more than a few significant issues.

Ha! 110/60 - after 3 cups of coffee my home BP cuff must be off.

Good morning all off for my annual physical that Medicare allows me. My cholesterol and blood pressure will probably be up. But only to the lower edge of concern. So I try to deal with it by diet and exercise. I ain't taking no bloody pills.

The square footage they estimated is ~30% larger than the actual area of tile. Extras and add-ons that are unneeded. And they will destroy the subfloor and charge her extra to fix that because they won't be able to pull up the Hardie board without screwing up the half inch decking.

Good morning all get your #coffee and start the day. Yesterday I pulled baseboards for a friend who's having LVP installed because the very nice tile in her kitchen makes her feet and legs hurt. She knows I could have installed it but went to Costco and had a bid/ quote prepared. I reviewed it and I'm just incensed and about to go to Costco and kneecap somebody. They're taking advantage of a 72-year-old lady who has no idea. Made her pay all up front. Wouldn't commit in writing to hauling away.