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You let the game warden do it.

I wasn't intending to throw stones, just a view from the other side of the fence. That buick sounds like an adventure. Perhaps a gate or a sign is in order. My parents live on the end of a dead end road and occasionally get people who manage to ignore the "dead end" and "private drive" signs. Thankfully none of them have ended up in the back yard. That would be interesting for sure.

Corporate inertia is really big. I bet they started this 10 yrs ago. Somebody high up realized how much they've got tied up in it and told the marketing folks to spin it. Certainly a good attempt at timing to cash in on the impending election panic.

I had a similar conversation with a neighbor, I was the trespasser. I had my 2 yr old in my arms so he could give a different neighbor's horse an apple across a fence, which we'd done several times before with permission from the horse's owner. Useless old bitty got all pissy about it. I told her my thoughts on the matter as well. We haven't spoken since. Booby traps are funny right up until someone gets hurt. Then you get to laugh all the way to prison.

And there's a good reason for that.

I'm pretty much done with the exception of one Roma tomato that simply won't die. Everything else has been pulled up and burned, but this one plant just keeps on going. I've a couple volunteer tomatoes coming up in the flower bed. I doubt they'll bear fruit before frost gets them, but time will tell. In general we did pretty good this year. Canned a modest amount of stuff for the first time with our heirloom canner.

I learned people are stupid and panicky. I didn't need fuel for the duration. I can commute on my motorcycle for 3 weeks on a single 2.4 gallon tank of gas.

Bald Eagles use the same nest year after year. The nests can get huge and weigh a couple thousand pounds. There's a handful of eagle cams set up on known active nests. Late winter to early spring is nesting season, Mom watches this one a lot... http://harrisonbayeaglecam.org/

The Cubs pitchers are good, but they're not so good that getting a single run in support results in wins. The Indians pitching has been good, but I'm not sure the Cubs could score runs off me at this point.

Golden Eagle? They haven't been seen here in quite a while It takes a juvenile Bald Eagle 4-5 years to get its white feathers, until then they're basically all brown. Bald Eagles have a very distinctive call, and it's nothing like you hear in the movies (which is typically a Red Tailed Hawk call).

SmugMug. Not free but not expensive and I can send you a discount code.

My kids get fussed at when I catch them shooting at one another. The guns get taken away when they point them at me.

Welcome!

Competition for Farnsworths, hope they do well.

I'm sure there's state/national guidelines, but the local municipality is the final authority.

If they expanded the safety zone to the whole road, I bet we'd all be amazed at the revenue that would generate (not that I'm advocating tickets as a revenue stream). If it was a new road, there's no way the speed limit would be more than 35. Look at the Pigeon Forge bypass for comparison... way less traffic, 4-6 lanes with a median, less curves, practically no businesses, and 40 mph limit. Knox city/county is too afraid to piss off all the influential folks who use it daily to cut the limit to something more appropriate and actually enforce it. Thankfully I don't have to drive Chapman Hwy regularly, and I avoid it whenever possible.

Not enough business and residential density? It's wall-to-wall businesses nearly from one end to the other. Traffic density is as high or higher than any other road around. And both of those illustrate the difficulty with fixing it. It will be hugely expensive because of all the businesses 30ft from the road and hugely inconvenient given the current traffic load. All the lunatics driving 70mph and generally lax enforcement certainly don't help the situation. It's much easier to persecute bikes on a windy road with no intersections and little other traffic.

Most deadly road for miles around, yet bikes crashing on the dragon always make front page news instead. It desperately needs widening and barriers, and the speed limit should be 35 over the whole length.

Tried to vote last week but the line was long and not moving. Went to a different location today and it was much better.

I suspect the early voting turn out will be high while the Election Day turn out will be low. After all, has anything they've said in the last 6 months changed your mind? Me neither.

Gotta pull for the cubbies, and I'm certainly glad "the usual suspects" aren't there.

A locking shoulder so I could finally finish my FAL, and a small amount of .380 and 5.56.

How's the trigger?

Most small generators have throttle controls to (try to) maintain constant speed, so yes it's supposed to run at full speed regardless of applied load. This is part of why most generators produce "dirty power". Every time the load changes, the throttle controls must react to maintain constant rpm. But they can't react instantly so the rpm varies, which then causes the voltage and frequency to fluctuate. This is why it's a bad idea to run some electronics (computers, etc.) using a generator that produces unconditioned "dirty" power. Generators that are rated "electronics friendly" condition their output to minimize all those fluctuations. They do it by converting the AC signal output to DC, passing it through a capacitor which acts as a buffer, then converting it back to AC which cleans up the signal. Easiest way I know to do that on the cheap is to use a small engine (or bicycle, water wheel, etc.) to spin a car alternator and run the alternator output through a power inverter.

Yes, voltage (and frequency) are proportional to engine speed. Generally, a generator has to run at full speed (3600rpm) to generate full voltage.