Life lesson's taught, some learned, others?

 Well, Campers, you'll be happy to know that as of this morning, there are only 83 shopping days until Christmas.  Better get out there and resuscitate the economy.

Lord knows nothing our gummint is doing has a f'in chance in hell of working.  However, I am 100% certain that what ever actions it takes will 1) make the politicians wealthier and 2) raise prices for all the things the rest of us need.

A pox on them all.

End Rant!

So, juvat, how are things in Texas? Well...according to this site 34% of new Texans come from California.  (As an aside, I think the rest come from the Rio Grande. Just sayin').  By the way, that same site says almost a million folks moved her between 2010 and 2019.  

From my personal statistical point of view, I had never seen a Tesla prior to last year. So, no Californians. Now I'll see half a dozen on the 10 minute drive to town.

It's hard to haul hay in a Tesla. Also, 300 miles doesn't get you close to anywhere around here, and certainly not there and back.

But, on a happier note, I found a YouTube series entitled "Californians move to Texas". I thought it completely truthful and very funny.  YMMV.

So for your visual pleasure.

And...Just because I'm feeling generous.

Ok, enough of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (even if it's funny).

Major  milestone achieved in the Saw Incident. Today was the first day I've gone without any bandage on my thumb.  For those who didn't know, a couple of months ago, I made a stupid mistake in using my table saw to cut some wood.  A couple of milliseconds later or millimeter's closer and I probably wouldn't have a thumb.

Tingles a bit still and I don't have a lot of strength in it, but it's getting better.

Fortunately, as you can see, that isn't the case.  So, Thank you Lord!

I did make a few modifications to my miter sled though, just to remind me!

The tape and lines denote the "No Hands" area with a fairly generous additional distance from the blade.

On the other front for last month's trying episode, Kathy is doing ok, (probably better than I would be).  Sue and I have been over there a couple of times under the camouflage of helping her get financial data off Gary's computer and on to hers.  She uses QuickBooks, he used Quicken.  

Why two different software programs?  Haven't a clue.  However, the real complication in the whole shebang is Gary was using Quicken 2013!

Yeah, Beans, 10 year old software.  

Unfortunately, they don't maintain/update that version any more.  And Quickbook's converter software only goes back to 2018.

So...another lesson to keep in the back of your mind, make sure your computer data (any that you care about or that someone might need) is kept up to speed.  I was able to get a list of all their financial transactions for the company over to Quickbooks.  Had to export it from Quicken into Excel, then convert it into a CSV file then import it into Quickbooks.  Suffice it to say, I was a tad concerned.

Other than that, Kathy has some very interested buyers for the winery.  That will take a lot of stress of her, so we're praying it goes through.

On a more pleasant note, we've got our first dog trainer training session as you're reading this.  Hopefully there will be some progress. We'll see!

After that is over, we're headed to College Station for a few days to do some renovation work on MBD's and The Rev's home and, somewhat more importantly, retrieve most of my power tools that have migrated over there. As mentioned at the beginning of this post, Christmas (and Birthdays) are approaching and I've got presents to make.

Peace out y'all