One year ago today: March 16, 2025, joists, dude.
Five years ago today: March 16, 2021, credit warps business.
Nine years ago today: March 16, 2017, more tendonitis.
Random years ago today: March 16, 2008, every dork along the way.
A new Cadillac Escalade, only $113,000. I could mortgage this place, I suppose. For more stats, see addendum below. For now, here is the Squirrel Picnic. The game camera is tricky to position to catch how the critter gets to the food, but easy to show the food. In this instance, there was a metal crate resting near the feeder that was just close enough for him to make the leap. The clock says he emptied the feeder in 16 minutes flat at a balmy temperature of 80°F. A yard inventory shows a terrific windstorm went through here in my absence.
Where is the USS Lincoln? There are rumors of an anti-fake news law on the way. That is, freedom of the press is limited by an old rule that the news must be in the public interest. Banning fake news could have an hilarious effect on the Internet. Now we see articles about replacing all the statues destroyed by the leftists. I’m okay with that only if they use the J6 software to ID and fence the bastards, then send them the bill.
As for bill, that stay in the hospital, though I was cut off from my banks and spending, still cost me $480. Half of it my electric bill. My “wifi” bill is now $112 per month, twice that of 2016 when I arrived here. I wrote a letter to the Reb detailing the costs here just in case. The joint would have to sell, but then, it is certainly the cheapest fully-habitable and comfortable small place you will ever find in Florida except a trailer somewhere. And those are now rare.
One thing that has certainly sunk below replacement cost is ghetto housing. If you turn off the filter, places like Georgia light up with places below $60,000. All of them in neighborhoods you would not want to live in. Too bad the same houses are not on an acreage a few more miles out of town. My guess is that welfare now pays so much that people who would normally rent such places can now afford better accommodations.
And you can have your pick of mobile homes, I predicted this long ago when I paid thousands for my units. That one day the pad rental would become so expensive that people cannot sell their units. Sure enough, hundreds of units on the market for less than $500. To sucker people into paying the rent. I got out just in time, folks. (Mind you, I did shop around and found the nicest place, all Frenchies from Canada.)
In the finally tally for 2025, California spent $81,000 on each homeless person.
Indian reservations in S. Dakota.
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Unable to stay idle, I went out to the shed for an hour and forty-five. Took the neighbor a coffee sampler, this is a variety of coffee from my private stock. Otherwise people buy one brand and get coffee burnout. If you don’t like medical, skip this afternoon. He was working in the shed, although it was a wet day, it was warm. He had on a tank top and wow, did the catheter people ever do a number on him. It was a femoral but the guy has bruising from his neck to his ankle on the right side. Says he’s fine, but best we keep informally checking in.
There are two boxes in the picture, it’s the bigger unit that goes to Sunrise, Florida. I found several steps of the build too physical to do a better job. Or example, if corners don’t fit right, you’d think it easy to just bend the wood into place and staple it. Or lift the box to flip it over. I regularly had to stop that and reaching for a clamp isn’t an answer because twisting the final squeeze turns out to also be over the limit.
Here’s a look at the setup required to print the logo on an assembled box. Yes, it is precarious. The laser servos are strong enough to wiggle the whole stack just enough to cause concern. If you have not seen this process before, that is a Z-box on the bottom standing on end, and the whole laser etching device perched on top, not running at the moment.
Most annoying are the two leg wounds, where the veins were harvested. The left leg, where they finally got the tubing, had healed over two weeks ago, but has begun acting up. The right leg drains constantly, for nearly 50 days now, but it is slowly healing. I had water retention before, this procedure has just given it a path. I’ve been taking water pills for over twenty years.
For historical detail, I have pedal edema, a result of falling off a small kitchen stool in 2021. I’ve had a prescription for Lasix for decades, but no water retention of any real concern until the fall. The pills worked on my right leg better than the left. It is the pitting variety, where a press leaves a small pit for a second or two. Painless. As far as I know, it really is water. I cannot discount that I now have some new condition.
ADDENDUM
Over half the vehicles on the road nowadays are SUVs, the new models average in price $61,400. I grew up in a world were operating a car gobbled 25% of your take-home pay, but nothing prepared me for this. I have planned that the KIA replacement will cost me $15,000 even if it lasts another four years. That thousand-dollar alternator was a warning. Almost $600 of it labor because they had to remove half the motor to get at it. There is a point at which you know somebody is behind it.
Make no mistakes about it, SUVs are trucks, pushed as family vehicles to get around EPA laws for cars. I see the potential for a return to small sedans in the $30,000 range. Maybe a bare bones model for $20,000. They would have to change the laws. But the reality is a vehicle in America is a necessity. An all-weather enclosed vehicle. The system is designed around that.
