Mrs ERJ found a DVD of exercises she can do at home. I asked her why she picked that particular video. She said it was because I usually don't want to exercise with her and the blurb for the video said that dumbells were optional.
Mrs ERJ also told me that "fasting" is making a comeback with regard to dieting. I impressed her when I told her that I had fasted for 21 hours the previous day: From 7-till-11, 12-to-5 and 6-till now.
The birds are tearing up the bird feeder. Mom said we had 17 inches of snow during the previous snow-storm. I don't know. The wind blows the snow. Snow settles even when temperatures are below freezing. I will cheerfully attest that we got over 10 inches of snow but I refuse to go on record saying how much.
I ran into one of my neighbors while walking Zeus. He said the ammo situation is easing up. That is a good thing. Another neighbor recently had solar panels installed on the roof of his house. The roof has a 4-12 pitch and the panels are covered with at least 10" of snow. I doubt that he is getting much juice from them.
I am currently procrastinating. I have to strip the tiles off of the ceiling in the guest room (the room previously known as Kubota's). I also have to rip the drywall off the walls before drywalling. It promises to be a dusty job.
Go Fundme just committed suicide. What a bone-headed move on their part. They diverted funds that people donated to the Canadian truckers and are giving it to charities Go Fundme thinks is more worthy. It is analogous to my buying my mother five pounds of chocolate on Amazon and Amazon deciding Mom was too fat so they used my payment to send boxes of aftershave to the University of Pennsylvania Women's Swim Team.
Felonia von Pantsuit was overjoyed to hear that Herpes outpolled Biden in a recent Florida poll.
Britain's government proposed giving residents subsidies because there is not enough natural gas. Start the count-down for when they have to close factories and lay-off workers because there is not enough natural gas to run them. That will lead to shortages of other necessities (What? No bangers-and-mash?") and inevitably cause higher prices.
Subsidies cannot eliminate pain, they merely displace it. It becomes a game of Whack-a-Mole. It is almost impossible to solve a problem after the feedback (pain) is transferred from the party-with-agency to some hapless dupe. Pity they don't stop heating government buildings but still require MPs and their staff to report to them.
I had no idea you did stand up, too.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, snow vs. those 'green' energy sources... Texas found out how well they worked last year (they didn't)...
ReplyDeleteYes, ammo and gun prices are getting much better, though it still pays to shop around since some prices are stupidly high.
ReplyDeleteI suggest you buy now because I'm sure they'll spike when the ATF tightens rules this summer.
My benchmark item for ammo pricing it Tula 9mm. It's been holding pretty steady at $315/1000 for several months now, so I'm not seeing any significant easing of price yet. I'll have to find a different item to watch once Biteme's Russian ammo ban kicks in.
DeleteAnd expect a run on Desert Eagles with the excellent Jack Reacher series on Prime prominently featuring and naming same. It's a hog but a terribly sexy looking hog, particularly in the hands of the man mountain they've got playing Reacher.
DeleteERJ, GoFundMe has hopefully jumped the shark. In the past they have shut down fundraisers that they disagree with but I believe just returned the money. The fact that they are "allocating" it to more worthy charities is theft, plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteI have only donated once or twice to GoFundMe related funds, but no more. If the liberty minded side was right thinking, they would start finding alternative means and methods for charity and donations.
They have-GiveSendGo. I just donated to the Canadian truckers new campaign there a few minutes ago.
DeleteThank you Freeholder! I literally found out about them right after I posted this.
DeleteIf you have solar panels on the roof, you need to have a plan for both removing snow and washing them from time to time. This is why my panels will be ground mounted.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! The only thing then is to watch for thrown rocks, etc, from kids and mowers that can break panels.
DeleteI have some friends who got panels last year who had declining output and didn't know they needed cleaning.
There are many reasons to make a ground based array and no good reason to mount them on the roof.
DeleteGoFundMe is fixing to learn a lesson they can learn in no other way.
ReplyDeleteCan you say class action lawsuit? They're backpedaling but with that many contributions there's gonna be some screwups and it's gonna pay huge dividends in a bad way.
Get woke = go broke
Although it's not a woke moment, they'll still go broke for supporting totalitarianism.
ReplyDeleteWatching this feral government is like watching the proverbial slow motion train wreck . Great Britain is more like a clown show . I binged on ammo for many years when it was dirt cheap and I was at my earnings prime. Gonna leave the great grand kids a bunch .
ReplyDeleteYou cannot over estimate the power of drywall dust.
ReplyDeleteCan't you just patch the holes in the sheet rock rather than having to tear it all out?
ReplyDeleteTwo walls are damaged to the extent where it will simply be faster and cleaner looking to tear them out and replace. I am also doing the ceiling because the original installation (1975ish) were pressed paper tiles. Drywall is better structure and more fire resistant. Oh, and the paper is held up with staples and they are starting to drop.
DeleteUK is self destructing.
ReplyDeleteBeneath the soil and seas are lots of gas, coal and oil.
We used to use that stuff to make steel, cement and fertiliser.
But our leaders say " We don't need no steenkin' oil gas or coal. We buy our windmills from Denmark, our solar panels, steel and fertiliser from China, India or some other sensible countries. Oh, and Russia lets us have some gas.
RE: Your drywall problem. There may be another solution.
ReplyDeleteSome years back a friend bought a small (1200 sq ft, plaster over lathe walls) house for an investment that needed some repairs. He used drywall compound for spackling the walls because it was cheaper and went through two 5-gallon buckets in 2 of the 5 rooms before asking for help. I suggested not spackling and instead using 1/4 inch drywall to cover the walls. It took us 2 weekends to hang it then he called in pro tapers for one day.
Pro tips: Drywall comes in 8, 10, 12, and 14 ft lengths, get the longest that will fit, the less cutting and fewer joints you have the easier it is to hang and the better it looks. Measure doorways and halls, 14 ft may be the best length to use for efficiency and looks but if it won't turn a corner into the rooms you will have to use a shorter length, but 1/4 thick will flexmore than 1/2". If ceilings are involved, rent a drywall lift, it's MUCH faster, much easier and a lot more "back friendly." Nailing drywall is easy but screws are much more betterer. A proper drywall screw gun is a lot better than a phillips bit in your cordless drill, much faster because the external collar controls screw depth - lock the trigger "on", keep feeding it screws, the bit clutch releases the bit just for that purpose. A 1/4 inch affects how the trim looks, if possible do not remove trim, cut a very clean edge on the drywall or use the "factory edge" hard against the trim and lay a bead of caulk to smooth the transition. A nitrile exam glove (back then they were all latex), a rag and a cup of water to dip a finger into (keep the "smoothing finger" wet and very clean) leaves a very smooth and barely noticeable transition around door and window trim. Removing the trim and replacing it over the new 1/4 drywall will turn out to be a real headache, square off the edge of "fancy" trim with a circular saw (careful with the depth of cut), if some sort of fancy trim really needs to go up, find something that looks good but is 1/4 thinner. These days a compressor and finish nailer is the hot ticket, rent or use the job as a excuse to buy one, they're available for about $100-125. Depending on baseboard trim you might want to add some sort of complimentary trim strip on top of it to "improve the transition," that may require the circular saw thing again to square the top of the baseboard trim. Pro Tapers are FAST and will use quick setting drywall mud so they're in and out in less than a day. They will do a much better looking job in a few hours than you can do in a week. Get a "sanding pole" with a flex-mounted sanding plate - after the tapers are done with the 3rd coat, give it 24 hours and very, very lightly sand the taped seams with 400 or 320 if they didn't do it. Bare drywall really needs primer coat(s) (although the $@#&ing builders won't pay for it) so use a very high quality brand name primer and have a light color dye mixed into half of it it so you can see where it is because you should be doing 2 primer coats with a very light 400 sanding between them and after the 2nd coat. The work you put into priming and sanding will pay off when you do the finish coat. Rolling paint looks easy, and pretty much is, but pay attention to applying enough pressure to remove the very tiny bubbles, and figure 2 coats with a light 400 sand between them.
Fasting: In favor. There's a lot of pretty good science behind it. It also works - you can't gain what you don't eat.
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