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He played football, and had a lot of concussions. He seemed like a nice guy whom had a loose thought, and acted on it.

In the air he seemed odd. At times he wanted to land. Other times he wanted to just fly around. He did a barrel roll. He wanted to see the Orca who pushed it's dead baby around the bay. I was hoping for a good ending.

A guy I know said the tech is so good you let your guard down.

He said there are days on 101 around 4:30 when he puts his sunglasses on and closes his eyes. He knows he taking a calculated risk. He's in bumper to bumper traffic.

He also said their were times he let the car drive home, with one eye open because he was tired.

With tech that good, I can see where drivers let their guard down compared to a guy in a old truck with a clutch. A vehicle he knows inside and out. A vehicle that needs his constant attention because of the sketchy alignment done years ago. Plus--he just can't afford a fender bender, or worse an ever increasing frantic fine. Hell--the stress of the old car might keep him more alert? Kinda like being in the woods when you know it's your wits, or a bear might tear you apart?

I would gander 1 out of 100 refuses to do something when faced with loosing money.

Psychiatrists=Most know antidepressants don't work, but they still prescribe them. (Irving Kirsch)

Lawyers=Happliy take that retainer knowing you will be found guilty.

Chiropractors/Osteopaths=Subluxation does not exist, unless in a bone bending accident.

Religious Leaders=Most mouth the words, and collet the money.

My point is most people can't afford to have morals. If it's not illegial; 99% of you will follow along the money trail.

Who ever speaks up at a FANG that isn't independently wealthy when they see something slimey. How many people spoke up over the NSA?

There are no standards on how many pieces of thin walled pipe a vechicle can use. It's usually a spiders nest of hoses.

You need to change you blower motor, or do anything that involves the dash, radiator, you are taking a calculated risk. Most mechanics might have a recovery system, but it's usually in the corner of the shop covered in dust.

It might help if the federal government standardized parts for the AC system?

I'm very careful, but the last time I changed my blower I borrowed a recovery system, but still made a mistake, and released all the gas. I was going to recharge it, but the generic evaporator core outlet to an ac line was 1" short. I had to go genetic because I couldn't find OEM.

And no don't make a mechanic's life harder with a bunch of regulations. They are already over regulated, and it's a hard job.

I've noticed not much difference in price in the small blocks (The blocks that fit in your hand. I'm to lazy to look up the weight.) are sometimes more expensive than grated, or sliced.

I'm pretty sure the companies know most of us do not want 5 lbs of cheese in our fridge, so they jack up the smaller blocks?

While I'm here, I try to buy my spices, including dehydrated onion, at Costco quantities. Most restaurants use the same, but get better pricing through Sysco type companies.

Some Costco's sell yeast blocks which last a long time refrigerated.

If you are lucky, you can find high gluten bread flour there too. It's much cheaper than the better bread flours (King Arthur, etc.) at the supermarket.

The one thing I disagree with is bottled lime/lemon juice. After it's opened once, it tastes nothing close to a fresh lemon/lime.

We needed ships.

The government went in and built a huge shipyard. They hired private contractors, and built 24/7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinship)

They needed workers. They hired Frank Loyd Wright to build huge buildings to house workers arriving mainly from the south.

The huge apartments went up very quickly.

There were few regulations. I imagine it was like the way China puts up huge projects.

After the war, a lot of the workforce moved on to greener pastures. America used to have a lot of good blue collar jobs.

The apartments are now used as Section 8 housing.

Jump ahead to today. The town of Sausalito didn't like looking at low income Anchor-Outs. They didn't mind when Paul Allen moored in then same spot for months though on his mega-yacht. The town basically hired some dig bat who was related to a town council member to spit out a study on the dangers these Anchor-outs are doing to the Ell grass in Richardson bay. The town used that "cooked" study to confiscate boats, and crush them. The low income people basically went from boat dwellers to living in tents in Dunphy Park. I'm sorry about my tone, but I don't like it when authorities abuse their power, especially when it comes to the low income.

Anyway for months he would leave a dead mouse on the house mat.

I felt sorry for him, and let him stay in the utility room, and showed him how to use a dog door. (I would have kept him, but he ended up having a home. He lived in a 8 million dollar mansion, and was feed fresh Salmon, he hated the dog.)

I found all that out later. I couldn't let him in the house 24/7 because of allergies.

He would sneak in and bring on mice. The mice were so quiet, I didn't even notice them until he arrived.

I found out later he was going to multiple houses daily, and we all spoiled him.

He did want to live with me, but finally gave up.

I think some wild animal got him though. The wealthy family that owned him was devistated. People on that Neighborhood social site condemned the family for not keeping him indoors, but they didn't know he liked his freedom.

He lived a full life, but killed a lot of rodents. Which didn't bother me at the time. Well it kinda did, but rats I just can't live with.

I used to believe all cats should be kept indoors, but once certain cats are used to freedom it's painful to watch them suffer mentally by being inside. I learned where the Tom Cat phrase came from by knowing him.

This devise has a lot of potential uses. I bet we will see these in resturants.

2. Why did prices for pretty much everything go up the week, or two, after the media started talking about the war, supply chain problems, and government spending?

Prices were pretty steady during Covid, at least on food, and gas, and most consumer products, except building materials, and appliances.

I personally think corporations used the war, and Covid, to raise prices seemingly overnight. My Chevron station went from $4.29 to $6.25 in a day.

These companies made record profits during Covid, but poof in a couple of weeks just blew up their pricing?

I think they used found a few good excuses to raise prices; and they all fell in line.

Kinda like my $5.49 rebate on my $800/yr. insurance policy at the beginning of Covid. Mercury by the way, and they used to be fair.

Yea, I was uncomfortable with Powell throwing money at the stock market, and buying all those mortgage backed securities, when housing and the stock market thrived during Covid. His response was, 'I kept my agreement with the financial sector.'

Weird times for sure.

1. It's not cheap to park a RV anywhere. Pretty much every road is off limits to overnight parking. Those fines are very pricy too. (Watch Something about Schmidt.)

2. Living out of an RV is a pain. Stuff breaks down, and I don't know of one public street, or parking lot, that allows the owner to repair their disabled vechicle.

3. They get horrid gas mileage, and their are state/federal taxes on gas. Registration, Insurance. Plus because they are on the road, they are more likely to get one of those ever increasing traffic tickets. A parking ticket in SF is 80.00. Crazy! (Neusome has a bill on his desk that would do away with late fees on parking tickets. I hope he signs it.)

4. RV-ing is fine, but they pay in indirect ways.

5. I worked with a guy who tried to live cheap in a small camper truck. Every other night he would get a knock, and flashlight shined into his eyes. It was always, "move along, or I will ticket you!". He tried the shower thing at 24 hour Whatever gym. Once the manager figured he was just using the showers, he was told he needed to workout. (Yea--I can't believe how petty some people are.). We worked construction, and the last thing he needed was a workout before 7:00 am.

Another guy I knew tried the RV lifestyle. He too was harrsssed by cops. Cops would tell him straight up he was not breaking any laws, but if he didn't move along he would get another ticket. Oh yea, the next sentance I'm about to write still gets my blood pressure up. One night my friend was sound asleep on a rural county road. He tried to hide. He knew the drill. He did have a 25 lb dog. This cop pounded on the side of his camper. He opened the door, and the dog growled. The officer took out his side arm and shot the dog. I have so little respect for some of these cops.

The last time I looked at what it would cost to park/sleep in a private RV park it was $79 a night.

This is in the Bay Area though.

Their is a pilot program in the Bay Area for low income RV'ers. I believe it's near the bay? It basically a lot that RV'ers can park for free. It's only available to county residents though.

My point is uless you have money, that whole RV lifestyle can be a nightmare.

Walmart used to let RVers park overnight. I have a feeling that privilege is gone. America the great? Our biggest concern is finding a place to sleep.

Off topic, but the one thing Russia did well under Communism is build apartments. I didn't realize just how many units they built until I saw pictures of Ukraine.

Now the easiest white collar profession (8 courses that are easy) require we work for a broker for years. Usually a broker who got their licence without becoming a salesperson first.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill because he wanted competition.

Gov. Brown eventually signed it.

I was concerned my instructors might question wether I typed it, or used a dot matrix printer. None had a clue.

I was one of the first people to have a computer and printer, and I was embarrassed. It felt like cheating.

I will never understand why we as a society go from a device that works and is built well; to overpriced gadgets that are constantly trying to trick us to giving them more money.

I would like to see a ratings system, like that one we had here from I believe the EU that rated items on repair, but include any other shinaggigans after sale.

It's too bad Brother's caved in to greed. I was one of their unpaid promotional guys up until today.

I like to give credit where credit is due. I throw this in.

If you need a plumbing fixture buy Moen. I have two faucets that I have gotten free parts with for 15 years plus. I fill out a simple form, and send my receipt to them via email, and the parts arrive in the mail. In all honesty, I need to change my pipes to copper, or pex, but have procrastinating for years. Hence, I always buy Moen, and tell people just how good the company is. Moen recently changed up their lifetime warranty, but most products are still lifetime. If I was CEO at that they would go back to a simple lifetime guarantee on every product. It's free word of mouth advertising, and it's honest customer advertising. Once a company has word of mouth fairness on their side; they will actively have to make stupid decisions to not attract new customers. They should teach this in MBA day school. Just be fair, and honest.

At first diagnosis, the doctors told him to go home.

He later got a call from a doctor who said he would operate. He then called back and said he couldn't. I imagine the hospital looked at the tests, and found it traveled to far, and disallowed the Wonderboy doctor to waste money.

The Wonderboy doctor called back and said sorry. I would have been nice if the doc didn't drag him into office visits, and give him sanctimonious speechs on alcoholism though. This was a good hospital in the Bay Area.

My point is if this study pans out, he probally would still be around?

(If you have money. Get a full body scan. And no they don't pick up on small tumors, but are better than nothing.)

I've always felt the reason why most people fail quitting any drug America deems unsafe, is because of this all or nothing approach they have to quitting. American black and white thinking.

I've seen so many people quit a drug (Alcohol, nicotine, benzos, opoids, and even meth) by going cold turkey. It has dismal failure rates. Yes there are people whom have one cigarette, and they are up to 4 pack a day. Yes--there are people whom have one beer, and are buying 1.75 L of Jack daily. Those addicts are not typicical.

Tapering down over a long period of time seems to make more sence. And then allow the recovering patient access to a very low dose of their drug of choice forever.

Sorry about my speech. Personally, I have found cutting way back on a dangerous substance has been successful. And the way our government handled this opioid crisis has me seeing red. Yea--just make it impossible to get any regulated opioid, and then wonder why we have people dying by the hundreds daily due to street fentanyl.

I do know people with certain psychological disorders (I believe Schizophrenics) crave nicotine, and Psychiatrists don't have a clue why, like most of there art.

Nicotine appears to calm them down?

I had a friend who smoked 4-5 packs of cigarettes a day. If he was vaping, I bet he would still be around today?

(To those that cannot stop smoking cigarettes. I got down to 3 packs a year. Instead of just stopping, I use a tiny amount of tobacco daily, or when ever the urge hits hard. In my case 2x weekly. I buy a rolling papers, and roll tiny cigarettes. In one cigarette I can roll five tiny cigarettes. I would buy loose tobacco, but the taxes are worse than filtered cigarettes.

My point is use your vice in moderation. Most of you can. This black/white attitude towards drugs in America is troubling.)

A friend, or actually a homeless acquaintance, of mine was charged with theft of public utilities because he was caught charging his ancient laptop into a city receptical that was put near the street to electrify Christmas lights.

He was one of the original Programmers of Word Star.

He got zero credit on his contributions though.

He ended up homeless even though he was a decent Programmer.

It always bothered me the way San Rafael Cops would harass him seemingly daily.

It can all go to shit very fast.

They come into the office, and truly belive their childhood was normal.

I busted a mental gasket in graduate school, and thought Therapy would fix me.

I look back, and talking about my childhood did absolutely nothing. I was young, and very verbal too.

Just don't steal money from work to pay for the sessions. Yes--I was so young, and naieve; I really thought those pricy 50 minute sessions would cure me. I never got caught. It was a liquor store owned by the wealthiest guy in my county, so feeling bad over larceny was not a problem.

I still don't belive my childhood was the cause of my problems. My parants tried. I did feel like the only adult in the family though, but being first born I just thought that came with the birth order?

While I'm on my soap box; Neusome (a guy I went to high school with (Redwood, and voted most Fashionable, a liberal Marin county boy) has a bill on his desk that would do away with fees associated with Parking Tickets. As of today, he has not signed off on it. The only reason I can think of is he's getting more middle of the road for a run at the big office?

These extra fees and fines are not fair to the poor. A parking ticket in SF is running $80 bucks without fines. $5-6 an hour if you find the right spot. Neusome knows this personally.

He barely graduated from Redwood High School, and dropped out of college due to some nebulous learning disability. He opened some coke dens in SF, and a few Bootjack liquor stores with family money. The SF bars went up in flames because they were poorly managed. Oh yea, his cousin Brendan has a DUI that disappeared? I might write a book on this guy one day. While I seem pissed, he's better than the alternatives.

If he wasn't born wealthy, he would be in the Embarcadero in SF with a needle stuck in his arm.

I see a lot of virtue signaling out there.

Most of us can't afford a electric vechicle, and those federal credits seemed to just go to people whom could afford any vechicle.

I can't even afford the smog check, and registration, on my 4 banger toyota. A Truck I've keep going 20 years. It uses very little gas. (My vechicle has always been tuned up properly. I thought by now we would have had free smog checks for the poor? In CA we have a low income deal that was enacted when CA decided to require smog checks. It's so complicated most people don't use the "gift". You need to bring your car to a mechanic in order to get any money back. Shade Tree mechanics are out of luck.

My point is the corporations/government will pass any Global Warning measures down to us.

We are already tapped out.

If we are really serious about Global Warming lets go after the wealthy boys first. Take away their private jets.

And enough with their Globalization. If they can make a product that dosen't need to be shipped long distances, have them make it here.

I'm a Democrat, and winced when Biden pretty much gave a FY to the oil companies in order to sound Progressive. I knew at the time, the poor can't afford to pay more for gas, and natural gas.

Now--I don't blame the president for this spike in gas prices, but I would have rather have him say this is a big problem, and we can't just do away with oil.

Be it my PG&E bill that just seems to go up, and the $6.69 gas at my Chevron station, the poor are already paying to much of their income on a complex problem. (My gas station raised their prices the minute they started talking about inflation, and the Russia sanctions. It is pure greed. They made a record profits in the past few years.

Sorry about my rant. I just don't like being squeezed so much, while my wealthy neighbors buy crap from Amazon, and think they are doing their part by driving a Tesla.

We won't have hugh areas of homlessness because the powers at be will be actively using that Broken the Window Pane theory to harass people to the point they commit suicide.

Technology will advance, but only the wealthy will be able to afford it.

The wealthy capitalists will rely more heavily on Globalism to peddle their wares.

I don't even foresee a chit show like current India. Meaning the wealthy live in ivory towers butted up to absolute slums.

The American wealthy will not stand for that. They don't want to see the squalor.

(In all seriousness, I'm concerned about how America is going to treat the huge spike in homelessness post Covid. I don't like what I'm seeing now. Meaning the powers at be are just harassing the homeless until they move along. I'm embarrassed the way my town of Sausalito made a minor problem of homelessness (Anchorouts whom have been there for over a century), and made the current recipients of a ham handed approach to rid Richardson bay of anyone who is poor much worse. Yes--that last sentance is grammatically terrible, but I'm just to tired to fix it.)

Asphalt tiles are fairly cheap, and that's a good thing. It's the labor that makes up most of the cost of a roof.

I'm trying to get up the nerve to shingle my four bedroom home, and it's not the cost of materials I'm worried about. It's my body.

My fear with global warming measures is the poor, and middle class, will be required to bear the brunt of the preventative measures.

I guess the race is on to develop a 50 year life expectancy, but reasonably priced, white shingle? They might be out there? I really haven't researched them.

If anyone knows a cheap roofing contractor in the Bay Area, please divulge?

Twenty years ago I had a estimate of $25,000. I think that's too much now. I'm a ex General Contractor.

Most people don't enjoy their job, or jobs.

Most people don't like commuting rediculious distances just to make rent, and eat.

Most people realalized during Covid they might have been happier.

The virtual/physical infrastructure wouldn't have been built with work from home. This is our first experiment with working from home, and it went pretty well. Many jobs, with the help of technology, could be done at home.

We still don't know why so many lousy jobs are going unfilled. My take is adult kids moved home--a home they will never afford, and lived with their parents, and it was better than paying 80% of your paycheck for a lousy apartment.

I've always felt the world has two types of people. Those that built their lives around work. They come home, and even like to talk about it. You take their job away, and yes, they loose their identity.

Then there's the slacker, like myself. Work is unpleasant, unfulfilling, mind numbing, thing I just have to do. I don't enjoy really any of it be it the early show up times, or my superiors, and especially the long commute. I could care less about the company. I would be robbing the joint blind if the penalties weren't so severe.

I do know this, but most people don't have a say in the matter:

I have known way to many males wait to long to retire, and because all their personality was geared towards working don't last long. And we men just die so dam early to begin with.

I once got a peak at some union delagates debating retirement ages. It was Local 6 electrical. Guys could retire at 55, or 65. At 65 they got more money. You stll had to put 25 years in both plans. The union liked the 65 year old plan. Why? Because the retirees would only collect a handful of retirement checks before dying. They told retirees they would cover 100% of health care costs at 65 knowing these guys wern't going to see 65. Local 6 union is one of the better unions in the USA too.

It would just be if you want this money do the above.

Now a turkey baster with a partner whom has no STD's might be doable.

I once had a perpetually happy virginal, before me, girlfriend whom would have made a perfect donor.

I guess it's herpes for most of that number?

No not monopolies like we had like the Bell telephone, but we have 2-3 huge companies that collude and stifle competition.

Proving collusion is hard these days though. Too many fresh faced MBA's who are atheists.

(I'm a Watch Repairer. I can't buy parts from The Swatch Group, or Reichmont. Why do we even have The Sherman Anti-trust Act if it's never used? I'm not saying dissolve these obvious conglomerations, but let's not encourage them. Why was ATT and T-Mobile allowed to combine. To tired to go on, but tired of ogliopolyssssss.

I didn't have severe cystic acne though. Diet has nothing to do with acne.

And in this climate of all opiates are the devil, I get it.

We are in a weird state in pain managment.

We essentially don't have anything to cure chronic pain, except cutting nerves.

Opiates make people feel better physically, and emotionally.

They are addictive because they work. Unlike all those tricyclic/heterocyclic drugs.

Young people should never be on opiates, except during surgery.

Old people in pain should not be denied the drug. It should be a right.

(There are numerous studies of older people being given opiates for pain/misery, and most studies they did not want to increase their dosages.)

I made the mistake of not hooking up my rigs because I was afraid of the cost of electricity.

Yes--I see it going below $1000.