This is nuts.
It happened in Austin this weekend.

They shut down 4 intersections in Austin on Saturday night doing this stuff.
Traffic was backed up until they took off to another location.

worth1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:44 am They shut down 4 intersections in Austin on Saturday night doing this stuff.
Traffic was backed up until they took off to another location.

What is it all about? Those are some pretty pricey explosives to lob around. Guess the only saving grace is they havent started to make the cheaper versions?

This past week my littlest one got cellulitis in his tissue around his eye and massive ear infections. Once again, we had a bit of trouble getting his antibiotics. I found myself feeling that getting half the course on Friday and half on Monday to be normal since this has happened a few times, and i realized that is kind of a sad thing to adapt to.

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:48 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:44 am They shut down 4 intersections in Austin on Saturday night doing this stuff.
Traffic was backed up until they took off to another location.

What is it all about? Those are some pretty pricey explosives to lob around. Guess the only saving grace is they havent started to make the cheaper versions?

Call them thugs or whatever.
The have about half the police force in Austin they used to have or some such thing.
The young ones know it and they know they won't get charged for anything due to the DA Garza.
So they just go out and raise hell wherever they want.

The night this happened there weren't any police in that sector of Austin.
One man that was stuck in traffic said a person came up to his car and said he was going to kill his wife.
The guy in the car put his pistol on the dash and the thug ran off.
Take it for what it is but the mayor and city council has let Austin go to hell in a hand basket.
Shootings and killings all the time cars racing down the highway with no cop in sight.
They also got rid of the curfew for under age people so teenagers can run wild 24 7.

Two more people gave notice and quit this week.
Not for sure about one but the other is going to a company that all the others have gone to for supposedly higher pay and better benefits.
Much higher pay.
It's almost as if the other company is trying to destroy our company by taking everyone.
I know who runs the other one and they're pretty slimy in my opinion.

I go to a meeting at the office today.
Then I put together some equipment that someone took apart but couldn't remember how to put back together.
Then the same type equipment was broken and told that guy what was wrong.
Picked up stuff and took off to pick up stuff that was ordered in Austin and clocked out to go home.
Ounce home off the clock I've been fielding calls all day.
So much for a nap.

Then later on in the night I decided to go in the garage.
Turned the lights on and there was a young opossum looking at me not 3 feet away.
I had left the garage door open.
It wasn't really scared and didn't really run but sort of moved under my lathe.
That's after we looked at each other for awhile.
I just left the door cracked so it could get in and out because I didn't want to trap it.

Had a baby opossum in my garage years ago, hiding in or behind a box, can't remember which. It was so cute. I used to leave the garage door open about 6 inches in case any animals needed shelter from the cold in the winter. Cats go in the garage and the price of oil now, can't do that any more. The cold comes in under and around the door to the garage and the cats are indoor only, so the garage stays closed. I miss being able to that though.

We raised a baby possum. Our dogs killed the mother and all the babies save the one. Pookie the possum. We gave it some kind of milk the veterinarian said to give. I caught live crickets and grasshoppers for Pookie. Pookie would go nuts for those. When Pookie was bigger, we let him go out in the town’s Wilderness Park. We never really handled Pookie and he still seemed wild.

my oh my, the things you learn in school.
my wife is teaching at the christian school. earlier this week during lunch time, one of the students
was complaining about the pepperoni in her lunchable box. she didn't like it. it doesn't taste like pepperoni
or look like pepperoni. another student disgreed. sure, its pepperoni. there isn't anything wrong with it.
the bickering went back and forth for a few minutes, maybe longer than my wife cared for, so she said in her
direct marine core manner, "bring me the box". she looked at the ingredients. pork was the first ingredient.
nothing wrong with that. then she saw mechanically separated turkey. the students asked what does that mean.
my wife said "i don't know". lets look it up." so, she looks it up on the computer, students are gathered around, and
the description says that it is turkey carcass that is ground up, and run through a sieve. its contains bone marrow, blood vessels
and nerves. EEWWWWWWW!!! one of the students says, i'm going to puke. don't say puke says my wife. i don't like that
word. say vomit or throw up.
the next day, the student that didn't like the pepperoni said to my wife, that she told her mother not to EVER buy that
food again!

so now, ya know.


keith

That is funny! I've never seen ingredients lists mention "mechanically separated turkey" - usually they are more vague about things like that. As I tell those who think offal is awful (sorry, I can't help myself.), if they eat any kind of charcuterie, there is no telling what is in it!

Centrifuge is the contraption they use the separate meet from bones in the plants making this garbage.
It's what fish sticks are made of on the factory fishing trawlers up north.
Think McDonald's fish sandwich.
Probably the chicken nuggets as well.

I just got a text saying my Lone Star card was blocked.
Oh my God what happened now I better call the bank.
Wait a minute............
I don't have a Lone Star card.
Jerks.

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Toyota, Honda, possibly others have Hydrogen fuel cell cars already being produced and marketed in limited areas. Just not enough places to get the hydrogen yet.

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Well that came out of nowhere.
I just watched a video about the deadly stuff in Victorian homes.
One was green paint and another was natural gas and steam heating.
No laws whatsoever regulating safty.
Places were literally blowing up and people not waking up when the gas lights flickered out overnight.

A couple of guys had a knife fight on the roof of the high rise I'm working on.

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:07 am A couple of guys had a knife fight on the roof of the high rise I'm working on.

Anyone hurt?

karstopography wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:29 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:07 am A couple of guys had a knife fight on the roof of the high rise I'm working on.

Anyone hurt?

Not that I know of, they were the roofers.
The whole bunch was in the job trailer getting their butts reemed out.
Probably 20 or 30.
We had to have our meeting in another room.

They're having the spring employee appreciation BBQ at the office Friday the 17th.
Be there at 11.
My drive time would add up to 5.5 hours to attend the event.
I mentioned it to the head project manager of the general contractor I'm working for in conversation.
His reply was ##$& that.
He's like, me go to work and go home.
He also brings his dog to work and it stays in the job trailer.
She's some sort of Cocker Spaniel.