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Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

The first time I was asked if I wanted the Senior Discount, I asked how much it was.  When the cashier told me it was three bucks, I jumped on it.  If it had been a dollar, I told her I'd have paid full price and kept the illusion alive.  

Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

The other night I watched a documentary on fentanyl use in Appalachia.  The takeaway for me was that, once you get addicted to fentanyl (which is not hard to do) your life ping-pongs between feeling miserable or getting the next cheap hit.  It's very hard to come off that drug.  The folks who were interviewed did a good job of describing just how awful they felt when the dose wore off and the desperation until they got the next hit.  They said that in the small West Virginia community where they lived about 40% of the people were addicted and that included young men who lay around all day getting high, never having worked.  In their area, it was pretty easy to sit around in cheap housing being addicted to fentanyl and a couple of other opiates.  There really weren't many streets to sleep on, although there was an abandoned house where addicts hung around and got high.
In San Francisco, I guess the equivalent to abandoned houses is the streets.  So that's where the addicts hang out.
If I ever became a fentanyl addict, there's a good chance I'd look for a cheap place to live and get high, until I'd spent my last five bucks and found myself on the street.  That drug and some of the other additives would just take away all of my initiative and hope.  I don't judge the people on the streets, as the only difference between them and me is that, inshallah, I haven't become hooked on opiates.
San Francisco has tried, is trying and will continue to try solutions.  They can't solve the pipeline of street drugs which I understand come through legal border crossings.  So they tried 'safe injection centers', where deaths could be avoided and sanitary needles provided.  These services were illegal under State law and Governor Newsom recently vetoed a bill that would make them legal.  I believe there are some private organizations trying to provide those services, including counseling to those who want treatment.  
To reach the non-addicted homeless, there was a woman who rented a warehouse and put tents inside so that those folks who did not feel good about communal shelters could pitch a tent inside the warehouse and keep all their possessions with them.  I recall it was very successful but there were some issues of liability and it closed.
I even recall a program a few years ago to put toilets on the street so folks wouldn't have to drop a loaf on the sidewalk. 💩
San Francisco has its homeless problems right out on the street where anyone can see them.  Personally, I think when you've got a problem it's good to keep it out in the open so that people can help find solutions.  San Francisco has solved problems in the past, including problems that made a lot of folks uncomfortable.
I'm hopeful that San Franciscans will find some solutions for their current problems too and I'll turn to pessimism as a last resort.
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Honestly!  All the Sturm und Drang about disasters, plagues and house arrest leaves me weary.  🥱
First thing tomorrow, I'm planning to cancel all my insurance - car, house and medical - and let the chips fall where they may.  I haven't been blown to Bermuda yet and I'm betting I never will be. 💨  Three years of wearing a face mask and all I have to show for it is clear lungs and a rubber rash behind my ears.  😷  And why I worry about getting t-boned by a driverless Waymo is beyond me.  🚕  Just as you say, it's all bullshit, pure and simple.  💩
Once I'm finished tearing up my policies, I think I'll fill in my driveway with some nice bamboo and eucalyptus.  It's not like I go around tossing lighted matches and, if the fire trucks can't get through, I'm sure I can piss away any flames before they really get going. 🔥 🔥 🔥
All that's left after that is to get rid of my stash of snacks and booze.  Unfortunately, everyone I know these days is a teetotalling vegan so I may have to bite the bullet and finish them off myself.  There's bound to be some health benefit from grain alcohol, processed cheese food, artificial flavor and preservatives.  If not, at least the weather's nice and I won't have to spend my day indoors hunkered over the commode. 🤮
What a relief it will be to finally stop worrying about overblown disasters that will probably never happen!  I feel better already!  

Rainfall has been extremely heavy here in the Coachella Valley for the last couple of hours, though it is finally slowing down. My house is surrounded by flowing water. Gov. Newsom showed up at the Palm Springs Emergency Operations Center at noon.

The weather site I use shows rain hitting Palm Springs after midnight tonight, dropping off tomorrow morning, and then hitting hard between noon and 9:00pm on Sunday.  Peak rain and winds will be between 4:00 and 5:00 on Sunday afternoon.  Of course, these forecasts can change by the hour.
Here's hoping everyone stays safe and comfortable.
When this deluge has passed, I'm imagining there will be some incredible displays of desert plants through August and September.  I hope there will be lots to celebrate in the weeks to come.

Any time that heavy rain is forecast in Vancouver, my aunt calls and tells me they're expecting an 'atmospheric river'.  When I was a kid, we had light rain, moderate rain, and heavy rain.  The media likes to make things much more dramatic, and I'm waiting for the day that she calls and tells me that a 'climate tsunami' is on its way.  She also calls any two days in a row with temps above 25C (78F) a 'heat dome'... lol.

The first time I was asked if I wanted the Senior Discount, I asked how much it was.  When the cashier told me it was three bucks, I jumped on it.  If it had been a dollar, I told her I'd have paid full price and kept the illusion alive.  

Reproducing the human voice is not especially taxing for even the smallest, thinnest speakers.  But if the TV is set up to emphasize other frequencies, human voices may end up being de-emphasized.
Many flat panel TV's, mine included, have an audio adjustment menu.  Mine has a setting called 'Dialog'.  When selected, it will bring human voice frequencies to the forefront.  I find it makes a difference in intelligibility, though it may not provide the best sound for enjoying a musical.
Digital signal processing (DSP) is one of those things that's easy for TV manufacturers to do, so they do it.  But their out-of-the-box settings may be a pain in the ass for those of us with the old-fashioned expectation that we should be able to hear what somebody's saying.  🗣️👂
 
(Apologies if the linked article covered this.  The paywall let me read only the first couple paragraphs.)

The weather site I use shows rain hitting Palm Springs after midnight tonight, dropping off tomorrow morning, and then hitting hard between noon and 9:00pm on Sunday.  Peak rain and winds will be between 4:00 and 5:00 on Sunday afternoon.  Of course, these forecasts can change by the hour.
Here's hoping everyone stays safe and comfortable.
When this deluge has passed, I'm imagining there will be some incredible displays of desert plants through August and September.  I hope there will be lots to celebrate in the weeks to come.

The first time I was asked if I wanted the Senior Discount, I asked how much it was.  When the cashier told me it was three bucks, I jumped on it.  If it had been a dollar, I told her I'd have paid full price and kept the illusion alive.  

The first time I was asked if I wanted the Senior Discount, I asked how much it was.  When the cashier told me it was three bucks, I jumped on it.  If it had been a dollar, I told her I'd have paid full price and kept the illusion alive.  

The weather site I use shows rain hitting Palm Springs after midnight tonight, dropping off tomorrow morning, and then hitting hard between noon and 9:00pm on Sunday.  Peak rain and winds will be between 4:00 and 5:00 on Sunday afternoon.  Of course, these forecasts can change by the hour.
Here's hoping everyone stays safe and comfortable.
When this deluge has passed, I'm imagining there will be some incredible displays of desert plants through August and September.  I hope there will be lots to celebrate in the weeks to come.

The weather site I use shows rain hitting Palm Springs after midnight tonight, dropping off tomorrow morning, and then hitting hard between noon and 9:00pm on Sunday.  Peak rain and winds will be between 4:00 and 5:00 on Sunday afternoon.  Of course, these forecasts can change by the hour.
Here's hoping everyone stays safe and comfortable.
When this deluge has passed, I'm imagining there will be some incredible displays of desert plants through August and September.  I hope there will be lots to celebrate in the weeks to come.

The weather site I use shows rain hitting Palm Springs after midnight tonight, dropping off tomorrow morning, and then hitting hard between noon and 9:00pm on Sunday.  Peak rain and winds will be between 4:00 and 5:00 on Sunday afternoon.  Of course, these forecasts can change by the hour.
Here's hoping everyone stays safe and comfortable.
When this deluge has passed, I'm imagining there will be some incredible displays of desert plants through August and September.  I hope there will be lots to celebrate in the weeks to come.

The first time I was asked if I wanted the Senior Discount, I asked how much it was.  When the cashier told me it was three bucks, I jumped on it.  If it had been a dollar, I told her I'd have paid full price and kept the illusion alive.  

Just returned from the supermarkets, where the shelves look like they did during the pandemic; e.g., Albertson's had no bananas, the ideal food in a power outage (very nutritious, and no need for refrigeration or heating). I had to go to two supermarkets to get everything on my list. Ironically, the sun just came out strong.

The skies are dark, I hear occasional thunder and have seen some lightning. When I take my dog out, he hunkers down and refuses to move in any direction. I have taken inside anything movable, have shut off our underground irrigation system, and as soon as I have finished reading everything on this site, I will head to the supermarket to stock up on supplies (I have my priorities, you know.)

Hey California guys! Let us know how you are preparing for and getting through your first Hurricane in decades.

The first time I felt old was at 34yo.  The supermarket had a big sign posted that for alcohol purchases all shoppers who appear under 40 must show photo ID - no exceptions.  I was getting my driver's license ready when the cashier (who looked like a teenager) just told me the total, without asking for ID.  I was going to complain to the manager, but this was a couple of decades before the Karen phenomenon.