One year ago today: April 7, 2023, except for this blog.
Five years ago today: April 7, 2019, she stole his truck.
Nine years ago today: April 7, 2015, I can’t weld.
Random years ago today: April 7, 2005, yep, the same Harry.
Ah, Sunday breakfast at sunup. Egg, grits, coffee, & muffin. I also woke up feeling dehydrated and a wheezing noise in the chest—enough to call it a flu and take the day off like retired folk are supposed to. That’s fair. That just means I have a plan for such days. In this case, it’s a small list to look into out of interest. To date I’ve built only one set of matching boxes. Pretty nice if you ask me, but hardly close to what I saw twenty years ago on Young Circle. How odd I never took pictures of the boxes that inspired me – until you factor in the near total unreliabiliy of economical digital cameras.
Before that, let’s take a peek at cheap real estate in Tennessee. How do you like this ugly house, slapped together from old sheds. I don’t like it either and removed it from my searches. Why is it here? Because it keeps dropping in price and gets back on my radar. It even has a nickname, “Rocky Top”. It was originally listed last September for $100,000, sitting on two acres with no zoning restrictions. My only interest would be lowballing it at, say $35,000 and flipping it. See addendum for more details on this strategy, but it is nothing new. I am unlikely to move on this during an election year, as price will drop either before or after the event, the unknown is how much they will climb before then.
These can be difficult to filter out. It takes a special kind of stupid to create a real estate webpage that cannot be filtered by location. Pinhead millennials, are they thinking maybe if you really want a house badly enough, you don’t care if it is 450 miles from where you work? (Point2homes.)
If you want to see the real dogs for sale, try ZeroDown. Many of the properties are condemned. It is a useful guage for the prices of what else is worthless. Here, take a look at the cheapest place (other than Memphis where they can’t give houses away) that has a non-caved in roof and a $25,000 asking price. In some place called Rockwood, we may have driven past it last month. It snuck past my 100 mile radius limit (it’s 125 miles) and billed as “ready to be restored to its former glory”.
What’s this? At an anti-immigrant protest in Ireland, some Antifa dropped his unlocked phone. The nationalists are going through his archives discovering all manner of incriminating facts, such as the names of those collaborating with the immigrants, links to anti-White newspaper editors, and plans that reveal the leftists planned well in advance to turn the protest violent, thinking only women and children would be present.. Worst for the left is the contact list which is yielding the identity of most of the moles and newspapers behind the unwelcome aliens. What a humiliation for the Left, but it could get worse. It is proof to the Irish they are being targeted.
If you think that’s bad news for the commies, look what just happened in Palm Beach. For the last month, the Democrat propaganda machine was working overtime bragging how Biden got a record (astounding, stunning, unprecedented, etc) $25.9 million at a fundraiser. Biden had to cash in favors with Obama and Clinton, but all it did was raise suspicions why the Democrats base winning on who has the most money. Then along comes Trump again and pulls in $50.5 million in one Saturday night, smashing all former records while riding the crest of the fastest slam-dunk primary in history. My advice don’t stand downwind from any Democrat for the next week.
First picture of an exoplanet.
(Planet outside the solar system.)
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Rumor has it the delayed Powerball draw was because the winner was drawn from a low-income tax red state and the Democrats have told them they must pick a winner from a high-tax blue state. One winner got it all, $1.326 billion (the record is $2.04 billion in 2022). Taxing the lottery is totally a libtard concept, but intergenerational greed runs deep. Have you seen the latest “new” Chinese airliner, the C919? Hailed as China’s bid to break the westerner duopoly (their words) it fools only those who want to be fooled. You can smell that BS a mile away.
Investments. No partying yet, but I’ve received word that the insurance check is on the way. Once it does, we will establish the “beer fund” referenced last day. That’s the $2,132 at 7% aimed at off-setting the 25 cent per bottle increase. Turns out only one of my gig locations raised the price but the wheels of investment here grind very slowly and this just gives us more lead time when others follow suit. It will be the Caltier Reggae fund and I’ll keep you posted. This fund is commodity speculation and it will be watched very closely for at least the rest of 2024.
The money is diverted from the other Caltier fund, so it will likely flesh out very quickly. Further funding will follow my traditional path of winner-take-all, where in the short run the best performers attract the bulk of any new money. The situation is a bit fuzzy in that Reg A is also an SEC set of guidelines which, amonng other things, restricts a fund from any single investment larger than $5 million dollars, I think. Thus, the nickname is Reggae to keep the two apart. While the REIT fund is based on what they call exit strategies of around five years, the Reggae is commodities which I expect would be sold at any time a market peaks.
Let’s remind everyone all investment is risky. It took me a year to get comfortable with how Caltier runs things, and there are still grey areas. Their web page remains operated by mental morons and the five-day delay on money transfers is pony express. The Caltier statements are typical of on-line “upside down” web-think, where the most recent items are at the top. I keep an independent set of books that follow GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). And I am slowly adapting to the more secure aspects of crowdfunding, once again a solitary pursuit in the world I live in. I do not and have never met another individual who has a properly managed investment strategy, much less anyone who has done it entirely with their own money and is willing to share the figures.
Bullshit artists, on the other hand, are as common as hearing aid ads on a Firefox home page. And I’ll tell you who had one sick sense of humor. Now, this must have happened in the 1950s, because I can remember things beginning in the 1960s. The complete arse-hole who designed the wrapper on butter. Whether it is the bricks or the sticks, it is damn near impossible to start at one end and work along. What manner of madman comes up with such evil?
During some reading navigation, I’ve encountered some new way time is being calculated. It’s probably nothing, but since time is Mod 60, I will devote time tomorrow morning to following this up. There seems at least six variations on how to calculate the Sun’s Geographic position, the only segment of the process I’ve gotten good at. But the rest, I have a darn good idea of how it is supposed to work and could learn the details in a day if I ever find a good reason to do so. As so many times in my life, I could ace any exam. The practical part, let me comment on that.
Tending to recheck my calculations, I found that errors in navigation tend to occur in self-cancelling pairs. There seems no single method to do the work without some portion that involves an estimate, some rounding, or a llittle guesswork. No two methods produce consistent results, so applying two different sets of equations seems equally accurate as rechecking your work. If you try this and get the feeling you have to keep multiple factors in mind at every major step, it is no illusion.
Thus, I smile a bit when I reach a good result, because I know what a relief it must be for the navigator at sea when a cliff or island appears even twenty miles off course. Trust me, from what I’ve learned when that lookout hollars after ten or fifteen days in the middle of water, nobody is going to squabble if he was even fifty miles off, especially not the captain. I still cannot imagine doing the calculations before sight reduction, which I’ve read took four hours each.
ADDENDUM
Once again the plan is to out-troll the trolls. These are people who speculate with borrowed money. That’s the keyword, “borrowed”. They are compelled to operate on the bank’s schedule, and I am not. The parameters are again vague, but somewhere between $50,000 and $150,000 is the zone in which most people don’t have the cash and the banks won’t lend. You cannot get a bank mortgage for, say $120,000 any more.
Keep checking sites like Redfin, Landwatch, and PropertyShark, looking for price drops or odd selling prices. The strategy is that sooner or later, every one of these speculators is going to need money and have a property that drops into this range. It has to be dumped to keep himself afloat and nobody has the cash.. Heads up, none of these real estate sites does what you want it to do and all have bad listings that clog up your search. My least favorites are rentals posing as sales and auctions with a zero or misleading minimum in the price slot. Other annoyances are sites that will not let you define your own boundaries. This is not helped by the number of nearby states that have towns with identical names. Like Franklin.
