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This coincides with the annual arrival of the season known as "summer."
I see reports of "OMG, this sets a new record!" (With the caveat that in this instance records started being kept in 1905.)
It's all about "look at me/my channel/my website" ad infinitum.
I would also note that the thousands of experts on weather are also experts on economics, military strategy and tactics, politics, human behavior, also ad infinitum.
I really miss hanging out with my grandkids, their worries encompass the basics: when and what are we going to eat, can we get a new toy, do we have to go to bed now, etc.
Hhmm, sounds a lot like what goes through my head since I retired.
For now I sit and wait for the mini-split guy to come by and service the equipment which is shielding us from the "surface of the sun" temperatures gracing Little Rhody on this day. It's a semi-annual thing to make sure the equipment is performing correctly and will continue to do so.
In other news, I need a new oil tank. The old one (came with the house, so it's 42 years old) has developed a minor leak on the underside, so it's time to get a new one. It'll match the new boiler we had installed a few years back. It's been contracted and paid for, just need a date when they can do the ...
And they just called, we're on for next week, sweet.
I swear, the only thing original on the house is the internal structure, we've replaced everything else!
Ah well, the joys of home ownership, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Well I would, but the world doesn't let ya live rent free. Everything costs something.
Sigh ...
Ah, the joys of owning a home :-)
ReplyDeleteMaintaining it, Repairs, FINDING good honest folks to do the repairs seems a problem for the last few years. Most are aging out of the business.
If I could wave the magic wand, I'd make taxes on your home voluntary after you've paid school taxes twice over the years your kids were being taught or at least proportionate to your income. Paying double what it costs to teach your kids at least helps lower income kids have a chance for a decent education. I'll not post my dismay at the quality of teaching I've seen in our young workforce to date.
It hurts to see Seniors being taxed out of their homes.
I hate property taxes. I get their reasoning, but don't believe they have a right to tax my property forever.
DeleteThinking about a mini-split myself, that window air conditioner get heavier every spring bringing it out of storage and installing it upstairs. Echoing Michael about those property taxes....mine have increased 480% in the thirty five years I've been here......:( Funny how the basic needs echo those of the grandkids hey Sarge?
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend the mini-split. No longer hauling window air conditioners upstairs and installing them, they also helped lower my heating bill in the winter.
DeleteSarge, although apartment living has had its benefits, the nearness of people and the fact that there are lots of things you cannot do to your living space makes it not a completely desirable solution.
ReplyDeleteApartment living sucks, no other way to describe it. But you go with what you can afford.
DeleteYes, apartment living sucks. On the other hand, I don't have to mow, worry about tree services, deal with major issues and such. And I don't have to worry about property taxes, though our governor is proposing eliminating PTs completely, though I don't know how unless they increase the sales tax. PTs are one of the major causes of lease prices climbing steadily, of course.
DeleteSomebody has to pay the vig to the Man.
DeleteCouldn't you just weld up the tank ;-)
ReplyDelete(putting on grumpy pedant cap) grumble, mumble, grumpy, grump...
Standard rant about Cross Quarter Days being the real starts of seasons.
No. You can't.
DeleteFlex Seal will fix it!!! I've seen the commercials!!! They don't lie on the TV so it must be true!!!
DeleteToo bad the insurance company won't accept that.
DeleteWow, Sarge; oil heat! Had it in Germany and liked it. The neighborhood would go in on a full tank truck to get a better deal.
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Yes, we had it there as well. I liked the community negotiating the price (per liter of course).
DeletePretty warm up there, Sarge, but it looks like your igloo is still in good shape. Triple digits down here also, but it’s accompanied by high humidity. Ughh!
ReplyDeleteSummertime, gotta love it.
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Texas weather is something I'd prefer to avoid. Our hot spells generally don't last all summer, and most of spring and fall as well.
DeleteLush has it no better- 95 today, but with low humidity, and only the faint hint of cow manure. San Diego on the other hand- as wonderful as ever at 75.
ReplyDeleteI realize that my experience of Sandy Eggo is rather limited, but most of the time I was out there it was hot, damned hot. Of course, most of my experience involved being on the pier inside the ship where it was nice and cool. The walk from the car to the ship, and back, was always hot, one mile each way, just not up hill and no snow.
DeleteAnd NAVSTA San Diego is a pain for parking so I get it. Need to come on vacation. I know this great bar...
DeleteHeh.
DeleteHa! It's cooler down here. Hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, like there's never been high double or low triple digit temps up in your area forever (which I don't believe because I seem to remember temps up in Maine a decade or so ago hitting 100's.
When I first moved to Gainesville, FL, we had an August with very high 90s and strings of 100's over days. We haven't had that hot an August or summer since, yet the media screams "Record high temps" when daily temps get to 95. Going deep into the local weather archives and... much of the data has been either hidden, eliminated completely or 'adjusted' by people like Michael Mann (the guru of 'man-made climate change.')
There's an interesting meme/visual out there that shows some Euro reporters reporting on the dangerous unprecedented heat wave striking Europe a few years ago, with overly hot areas shown in red. Side by side with a visual of the same map from 15 year ago shown in greens, even though the temps were 3-5 degrees Celsius higher than the modern temps. Almost like someone's trying to scam us.
We are definitely being scammed. Damned globalist/socialist/fascist a-holes. It's about control, not the environment.
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