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Yep. Mom in Chattanooga already has several. We put feeders out last weekend and I saw our first hummer yesterday.

Have friends or neighbors get quotes from existing services. Compare them to what you'd charge for the same work.

Say hello to my little friend...

It was. The plane was struck by lightning shortly after takeoff. The strike fried some of the electrical systems that make flying easier, but the plane was flyable. The pilot tried to land in high winds, while too heavy*, with reduced flight control. It hit the runway so hard it broke the landing gear and punctured the fuel tanks, which caused the fire. * Yes, you can take off in an airplane that's too heavy to land. Fuel can be up to 50% of the total weight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492 A very unfortunate case of get-there-itis.

My Dad had a built-in 8kW propane generator when he built his house. He did it right with a transfer switch and separate breaker box for isolating various circuits, the whole bit. Except he never used it and found it useless 10 years later when the power finally went out for 3-4 days. I agree completely that one of the chain-able 2kW units is the best option. The 3.5kW versions aren't overly large.

We just opened a bottle of Bushmill's single malt. Friendly price and it's pretty darn good. Smooth, mild taste.

Exactly. People freak out about job loses due to business failures, but it happens every day. If there's opportunity for a profitable business, smart people will make it happen. Dumb people need to learn hard lessons or find something else to do.

I mostly agree. Most lessons learned best are learned hard. Businesses that couldn't last a couple weeks of shutdown should be allowed to fail, as that's just bad management. Businesses strong enough to weather the storm should be rewarded for better planning. But thats not what all these leaders learned in business school. They're taught that it's good to run it like a government, always in some level of debt. Cash should be put to work, not held in reserve for hard times. You just "adjust your workforce" when bad times come, never mind the impact to your minions. But no one could have foreseen this length of shutdown. So how do you choose who gets a bailout and who doesn't? That's never going to end well, so the only solution is everyone gets a handout.

Another benefit of having talked my wife into learning how to cut our hair a few years ago. It was initially motivated purely by cost as those $50 trips to the barber add up fast. But now lots of my coworkers are looking pretty shaggy. So far the bosses haven't fussed about guys wearing ball caps. We'll see how long that lasts.

I'm marginally right eye dominant and left handed. I grew up shooting rifles left handed but switched to right handed when I got into handguns. Everything is made for right handed people so it's just easier. I cannot shoot handguns with both eyes open and use the sights. I get double vision when I try. I can point shoot well enough in close, but have to close one eye beyond about 10 yds. I try the tape on shooting glasses trick with my boys (bb guns). They don't like it, but it seems to help.

Cheers.

Happy Easter y'all! It's one we'll all remember.

The explanation is the virus isn't new. I recall reading somewhere that there are multiple strains, some more aggressive than others, and the tests don't isolate the more aggressive strain, only the family of strains.

Me three. Hence my comment about not slowing down.

I'd suggest a bolt gun, it'll make you slow down. I find I tend to just bang away with a semi-auto and don't really focus on the fundamentals.

I don't think this guy has Clinton connections.

There's more than a few unanswered details to consider, but generally speaking, I don't think I could stand by and watch helpless people be murdered.

Marriage 101. We have one 50 gal rain barrel. The warmer the weather, the nastier the water in it. I'd have to be pretty desperate to mess with it mid-summer. There's a creek fed pond about a 10 minute walk from the house. I'd use that first. Id like to have a small inverter generator, but its low on the list because we live 1/2 mile from the city limits. In 13 years, I think the power has been out less than 10 cumulative hours. I'd also like to have a small solar panel. A 3kW solar setup would be perfect, but that's frickin huge. We have the internet and plenty of books to read. And the library does curbside now. I still go to work every day and we started home schooling the kids last fall, so this hasn't been huge disruption. And I'm very thankful for that.

We have a highly advanced cloaking device.

I agree, this is definitely an instance where having a idea of the worst case scenario is valid. I just think far too many people took it at face value so it created undue distress. Then again, it seems to take some level of shock value to get folks attention these days. So perhaps a "shock and awe" strategy was warranted. It's a pet peeve how some tend to present the computer model results as gospel without any sort of understanding of the assumptions and variability. When the talking heads start up with that, my BS meter jumps into the red real fast. I guess it's the engineer in me.

Funny how computer models suddenly become much more accurate when you input reliable data and already know the correct answer. I also enjoy the "estimates do not include uncertainty" caveat. Because if they did, you might realize we really have no idea.

Our biggest customer went to "hot desks" a couple years ago. It was met with some resistance at first but folks seem to be ok with it now. They don't have enough desks for all the employees. Between travel and sickness they assume there will never be a time when everyone is in at the same time. Everyone does have a locker or lockable drawer in a filing cabinet. It's a big place with wifi so folks just sit wherever they like.

Wifi at home. I'm sure it was operator error. I'm not the best phone typist.