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Hermione has a bit of a stomache ache and a slightly elevated temp, threw up once, and is too sluggish to read.
I keep telling myself, "There is no logical way it's covid," but I have no idea what it might be. Cities around us are under "boil water" orders because of power outages at treatment plants, but we're not, and the rest of us are fine.
Worried about her.
it doesn't sound like Covid at all, but you are well within your rights to worry about any fever.
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Keeping clothes on for this one.
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...they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
You sure you are not dying, dad?
What about now?
Hey! You can't do that! I'm black and adorable! They'll never accept you!
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I disagree with your contractor about toilets.
That video is full of crap!
/crappy joke
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Hermione has slept most of the day and is feeling a little better, hasn't thrown up again.
And Mesquite is *also* under the "boil water" order as of this afternoon.
Val also now has a bit of stomach ache.
I'm betting that's what it is.
I almost never drink tap water, only canned fizzy water, and WW's innards are made of cast iron.
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Good news! Apparently only close family members and friends were involved in the mass departure at the corner store:
- The butcher and his apprentice are still there
- The produce guy is still there
- The non-family-member checker is still there
So he just took his whole extended family when he left, and I ended up showing up on a day when NONE of the people who stayed were working.
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...and I am now looking forward to dying in a mysterious accident and having Freehold and Drejk show up trying to convince my manager that they're my kids.
I think even with the accent Drejk would have the advantage...
EDIT: The lion's share of our insurance is Global Megacorporation's ludicrous life insurance policies that give the kids 15x my annual salary if Joanie and I are both killed in an accident. It's relatively cheap (under $100/month) for some excellent peace of mind.
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...and I am now looking forward to dying in a mysterious accident and having Freehold and Drejk show up trying to convince my manager that they're my kids.
I think even with the accent Drejk would have the advantage...
I told you, I'm *adopted*.
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Hermione has slept most of the day and is feeling a little better, hasn't thrown up again.
And Mesquite is *also* under the "boil water" order as of this afternoon.
Val also now has a bit of stomach ache.
I'm betting that's what it is.
I almost never drink tap water, only canned fizzy water, and WW's innards are made of cast iron.
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Good news! Apparently only close family members and friends were involved in the mass departure at the corner store:
- The butcher and his apprentice are still there
- The produce guy is still there
- The non-family-member checker is still thereSo he just took his whole extended family when he left, and I ended up showing up on a day when NONE of the people who stayed were working.
That's a win!
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The lion's share
Wait, I have a share?! Why?! You should fix that mistake, quickly!
Hermione has slept most of the day and is feeling a little better, hasn't thrown up again.
And Mesquite is *also* under the "boil water" order as of this afternoon.
Val also now has a bit of stomach ache.
I'm betting that's what it is.
I almost never drink tap water, only canned fizzy water, and WW's innards are made of cast iron.
For some reason, this post just sent me into watching this video again, before I ever looked it up.
(I know you're not in LA and this has nothing to do with rain. Just how my mind works.)
Also, I'm sorry. I know how unhappy those times can be. But I'm happy you're doing better!
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I told you, I'm *adopted*....and I am now looking forward to dying in a mysterious accident and having Freehold and Drejk show up trying to convince my manager that they're my kids.
I think even with the accent Drejk would have the advantage...
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Though jokes aside, Impus Minor photos from a few years ago looked not far off from how I looked in late elementary/early lyceum.
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Well, there is a good sign. Impus Major hadn't rechecked with you where are all the documents and instructions you prepared in case of your demise... Yet.Ah, the joys of growing older! It looks like I didn't post about this, so:
(1) On Friday the 5th the kids were horsing around in the kitchen running into each other, so I said, "I really need to teach you guys how to do a proper shoulder strike," at which point Impus Minor, with his entire 190-pound frame, struck me with his shoulder just to the right of my solar plexus. I don't think he cracked a rib, but he definitely bruised one, so for the next week my chest was pretty tender.
(2) On Friday the 12th we needed all the painting supplies so I moved a large amount of stuff out of the studio shed, including ladders, dollies, and a ping pong table. I thought I was moving things "properly", using my legs instead of my back and whatnot, but guess what? When one part of your core is injured (for example, your chest), the rest of your core overcompensates, so I managed to strain my back.
(3) After three days of attempting to rest it, knowing full well that it's a 1-2 week healing process, I had to take yesterday off of work.
(4) I'm trying to work today, but I now understand the appeal of those sit/stand desks. With an injured back, standing is much more comfortable than sitting.
Anyway, we'll see how the day goes, but hoo, boy. Back issues are a PITA.
True story: Impus Minor was helping Impus Major clean his room and found my instructions as to what to do in the case of GothBard's and my sudden demise. Impus Minor thanked me profusely for doing it, then took ownership of the paperwork because, "Impus Major would never know what to do, even with these instructions."
On the one hand, he's right -- he's far more assertive and better at bureaucracy. On the other hand, they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
$2.3 million? That should just about cover one class with the books.
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TMI Moment: Our contractor just put in the "tiling floor" (I have no idea what you call the layer between the plywood subfloor and the tiles, but it's the special stuff you glue the tiles to). As part of the job, he had to hook up all the drains, including the toilet drain.
He pointed at it and looked at me conspirationally: "I know you don't have a toilet yet, but from personal experience: You're a dude. Just get an inverted traffic cone, stick it on in there, and you're good to go!"
Er... thanks?
Sooooooooooooooooooooo
Plywood floors...........................................?Eh... Its very dry where you are but that still sounds not OK to me.
Er... check under your house. I suspect that it has:
(1) A concrete foundation that touches the ground with a crawl space underneath.(2) Plain old wooden pillars resting on the concrete supporting the rest of the structure.
(3) Massive wooden joists connecting all the pillars and providing a framework for the house.
(4) Either (a) planks (old) or (b) plywood creating the subfloor.
(5) Whatever nice stuff is on top to create the "real" floor.
This has been true of every wood-frame house I've been under in every area of the world, including England and Scotland, not known for their dryness.
Admittedly, I didn't crawl around under your house, but I'd expect to see a wooden frame supported by wooden subflooring...
Nope. Modern houses have a concrete foundation and concrete flooring. You put whatever flooring you want on top of the concrete, usually with a sturdy platic sheet as a sub floor.
Pipes and such are usually bolted to the bottom of the concrete floor.Older houses have brick foundations and wooden beams for support. You have a wooden plank sub floor, on which you put your actual floor. Either wood again. Or if you wanna get fancy, carpet.
Usually its wood on wood, due to living in a swamp, which means that if there is a problem with damp/rot, you can take out a very specific part of the floor/subfloor and replace it.
Here you can see them putting in a new concrete foundation under the old brick foundation. You can see where they cut off the old wooden beams of the flooring
Gotta scroll to the bottom however.
Wooden joints connecting pillars is unknown to me.
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I finally got a snow shovel this year (after our shovel was stolen last year and I'm extremely picky about my snow shovels (they can't have that stupid little metal strip a lot of companies like to put on them) but it's not for the sidewalk it's for excavating a snow fort out of the giant snow pile in the front yard.
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Nope. Modern houses have a concrete foundation and concrete flooring. You put whatever flooring you want on top of the concrete, usually with a sturdy platic sheet as a sub floor.
Pipes and such are usually bolted to the bottom of the concrete floor.Older houses have brick foundations and wooden beams for support. You have a wooden plank sub floor, on which you put your actual floor. Either wood again. Or if you wanna get fancy, carpet.
Usually its wood on wood, due to living in a swamp, which means that if there is a problem...
That's pretty much exactly what I'm describing, except are the beams laid directly on the brick? Around here they raise the house about a meter above the foundation to provide a crawl space. So it's foundation-crawl space-beams-subfloor-floor. In the link, you see the beams are unsupported. That's a no-go in earthquake country.
And my house was built in 1929. Hardly "modern".
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God, I love the weather. This morning, they said "No snow tonight". When I woke up, they said "A slight chance of a few flurries". When I came to work, it was "Maybe a snow shower or two, but nothing much". It's been snowing for at least 90 minutes, we probably have 1/4" already, and now they're saying "It should end by 7:30".
And they wonder why people think weather forecasters are a joke.
My favorite statistic: When I was living in Davis, my local newspaper switched over to AccuWeather. My impression was that they were terrible. So I started tracking a simple "Rain: Yes/No" table for them. One year, for the entire month of February, they got it wrong. Every day they said it would be dry, it rained, and every day they said it would rain, it was dry. That's just staggeringly bad.
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Hermione just woke up all smiles and energy, no more stomach ache or headache. We're boiling the heck out of everything and handwashing dishes in boiled water.
I'm really angry. The water problems are from the water treatment plants losing power, and the loss of power is the direct result of... well, it's political, so I can't go into it here.
We're lucky that we just had a feverish, shaky little girl for a day. 17 people have died, and and 14 children are currently in the hospital from carbon monoxide poisoning from people desperately trying to heat their homes.
Let's just say that ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas), and the Texas Railroad Commissioner (which has nothing at all to do with railroads and is actually is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry and is responsible for our pipelines, gas utilities, as well as coal and uranium mining) are moral f***ing midgets.
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Personally, we're really enjoying all the local papers reprinting Texas politicians' quotes about how incompetently-run California is because we lose power during natural disasters...
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.
Oh, no; we're not claiming that *WE* don't have massive issues. *OUR* politicians just didn't go around talking about how terrible Texas' government is.
If you're going to get on a soapbox and talk about what a terrible place another state is because of the way it's run, you kind of need to make sure you don't have the exact same issues...
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The problem with Texas is they're all about independence from the federal government in case they have to secede so all of their energy infrastructure is completely in state so when you have all these power plants freeze up and crash you can't exactly ask for neighbors if they don't mind sharing some of theirs.
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Okay.
So.
Its been snowing here a fair amount this winter not as much as I would like, but still. During the all of the previous snowstorms we have had, the job has been very proactive and told us from the day before that we should not come in to work.
That was not the case today.
Came in to work, shoveled the walk and salted, and will do so again multiple times throughout the day. Ubered in today as I knew the parking situation would be bad, and the price for it wasn't so expensive.
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.Oh, no; we're not claiming that *WE* don't have massive issues. *OUR* politicians just didn't go around talking about how terrible Texas' government is.
If you're going to get on a soapbox and talk about what a terrible place another state is because of the way it's run, you kind of need to make sure you don't have the exact same issues...
Yes. And that inhuman piece of garbage with that soapbox just got on a plane with his family for a holiday in Cancun.
And the disgusting thing about Texas is, he will probably STILL get reelected.
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I told you, I'm *adopted*....and I am now looking forward to dying in a mysterious accident and having Freehold and Drejk show up trying to convince my manager that they're my kids.
I think even with the accent Drejk would have the advantage...
Ha! I'm Impus Medius!
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Though jokes aside, Impus Minor photos from a few years ago looked not far off from how I looked in late elementary/early lyceum.
None of the children look like me. I am adopted and the apple of NobodysHome's/GothBard's eye.
I also cook breakfast on Saturdays.
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.Oh, no; we're not claiming that *WE* don't have massive issues. *OUR* politicians just didn't go around talking about how terrible Texas' government is.
If you're going to get on a soapbox and talk about what a terrible place another state is because of the way it's run, you kind of need to make sure you don't have the exact same issues...
Yes. And that inhuman piece of garbage with that soapbox just got on a plane with his family for a holiday in Cancun.
And the disgusting thing about Texas is, he will probably STILL get reelected.
I honestly thought that was a joke.
That was serious?
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.Oh, no; we're not claiming that *WE* don't have massive issues. *OUR* politicians just didn't go around talking about how terrible Texas' government is.
If you're going to get on a soapbox and talk about what a terrible place another state is because of the way it's run, you kind of need to make sure you don't have the exact same issues...
Yes. And that inhuman piece of garbage with that soapbox just got on a plane with his family for a holiday in Cancun.
And the disgusting thing about Texas is, he will probably STILL get reelected.
I honestly thought that was a joke.
That was serious?
I wish it weren't.
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Nope. Modern houses have a concrete foundation and concrete flooring. You put whatever flooring you want on top of the concrete, usually with a sturdy platic sheet as a sub floor.
Pipes and such are usually bolted to the bottom of the concrete floor.Older houses have brick foundations and wooden beams for support. You have a wooden plank sub floor, on which you put your actual floor. Either wood again. Or if you wanna get fancy, carpet.
Usually its wood on wood, due to living in a swamp, which means that if there is a problem...That's pretty much exactly what I'm describing, except are the beams laid directly on the brick? Around here they raise the house about a meter above the foundation to provide a crawl space. So it's foundation-crawl space-beams-subfloor-floor. In the link, you see the beams are unsupported. That's a no-go in earthquake country.
And my house was built in 1929. Hardly "modern".
Oh yeah probably.
Im still amazed by these 'all wooden beams and plywood' homes in the USA :DMost houses do have a crawlspace, but since our only real problem is damp and your house sinking into the muck, the beams are just build into the upper part of the foundation.
Here is a nice non moldy picture
Here they are replacing the wood beams. You can see they are in the top of the brick foundation, and under these beams is the crawlspace.
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The problem with Texas is they're all about independence from the federal government in case they have to secede so all of their energy infrastructure is completely in state so when you have all these power plants freeze up and crash you can't exactly ask for neighbors if they don't mind sharing some of theirs.
Which is why the President is sending generators to Texas.
Kind of like the guy who pulls up in his truck when he sees the folls on the side of the road in a little sedan with no chains or snow tires and kids in the back.
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I apologize, everyone. I know I'm crossing the line. I'm just so frustrated and angry. I know too many people who are suffering right now, families who are setting up tents in their living rooms because their indoor temperatures are in the 40s.
I'll stop now, I promise.
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I don't think insulting Texas is political. It's like Florida -- open season, 365 days a year...
...maybe they get leap day off...
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Oh yeah probably.
Im still amazed by these 'all wooden beams and plywood' homes in the USA :DMost houses do have a crawlspace, but since our only real problem is damp and your house sinking into the muck, the beams are just build into the upper part of the foundation.
Here is a nice non moldy picture
Here they are replacing the wood beams. You can see they are in the top of the brick foundation, and under these beams is the crawlspace.
Yeah, that picture is exactly what U.S. homes look like, except in California imagine that every 2m there's a little concrete stand with a post helping support those beams, providing vastly improved strength.
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Well, the spreadsheet is finally done, and we've learned that not only has most of our work not been recorded since 2018, but even all the new stuff we've been producing to keep up with changes in the product hasn't been recorded.
For example, over the last couple of years I've produced 34 all-new lessons and practices based on new product features. That represents at least 68 work days. All written, proofed, tested, and re-tested, so if you include everyone's efforts that's probably over half a year of person-work.
And the people we handed it to just ignored it.
If I'm paying little attention to the "importance" of my work, there's good reason.
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That represents at least 68 work days. All written, proofed, tested, and re-tested, so if you include everyone's efforts that's probably over half a year of person-work.
"staff hours"; "staff time"; "staff effort" "staffing the booth"
I've started using "staff" for people's work in organizations rather than "man".
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Math For Freehold
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There's far more wrong with Texas than we can sum up with "the problem with Texas is..."
Unless the rest of that sentence is "...it's Texas."
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Less than a month till my girl has her first birthday. We're taking her to the zoo, because she likes animals more than me, her mother, and food (which are her #4, #3, and #2 priorities in life respectively).
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That represents at least 68 work days. All written, proofed, tested, and re-tested, so if you include everyone's efforts that's probably over half a year of person-work."staff hours"; "staff time"; "staff effort" "staffing the booth"
I've started using "staff" for people's work in organizations rather than "man".
Good idea. Words should reflect that we're all hustaff, not just staff, but wostaff too.
(It is really weird that human and woman as words come from man; you would think man meant both sexes and human meant male, for that reason, but no, it makes no linguistic sense. English is weird.)
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I don't think insulting Texas is political. It's like Florida -- open season, 365 days a year...
...maybe they get leap day off...
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Insulting Florida is like bowling with bumpers. Its just too easy.
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Well, what happened here with ERCOT and the Railroad Commish is astonishingly similar to the shady-a** calculus that PG&E made that resulted in the Sonoma County wildfires, so, pot, kettle, etc.
Really? Everyone's cooking the books to stay warm, it seems.