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We have been getting these "offers" for a few years and they were so low and insulting we just threw the "offers" in the trash. However, I started to collect them to see who was sending the "offers" and if there was any pattern. I just looked at the "offers" I have kept so far. There are...

We had three deliveries this week with packaging issues. Thankfully, nothing was missing or broke, though how some of items did not get lost is a miracle. Two deliveries were from Amazon. One package was a paper bag/envelope instead of the usual tear resistant bag/envelope. The paper had...

Charging voltage will differ depending on the battery type/chemistry. Putting a charger for a lead acid battery on a LiFePo battery is very likely going to cause problems. One needs to look at the required charging voltage for a given battery and make sure the charger is charging as required...

Yep. And the Japanese were taking damage. The attack of the aircraft, DDs and DEs, and even the baby carriers, did cause serious damage to the Japanese ships so the Japanese had good reason to think they were tangling with a larger force, especially carrier wise. When making a decision to...

It was also one of those battles that really should have turned out differently. All the Japanese had to do was to keep pressing their attack and they would have wiped out the light warships protecting the amphibious ships. Then Japanese would have slaughtered the amphibious ships...

Princess Pride is a classic. We have it on DVD and on Amazon. 😁 The Harry Potter movies we watch over and over and over. Even the new Fantastic Beasts movies we like. Finally broke down and got the three John Wick movies, which I like, but they are too violent for the wifey. Never watched...

I have seen some sections of Reacher on YouTube with a big dude as Reacher. Can't imagine Tom Jumping Couches Cruise as Reacher. I think I saw one Cruise movie and that was enough. :ROFLMAO: Later, Dan

Depending on how the "survey" is being done, it is likely that your answers are being added to the data various companies keep on you. The more data they have on you, the more they know about you. Years ago I read an article on how liking something on the Internet allowed companies to know a...

There rae way too many drownings this season. Been a couple of drownings at the beach in the last week or two and I saw a report in GA where three siblings drowned. To kids under the age of 6 and an adult sibling that was 22. What a horror show for the family. Later, Dan

The other expense to consider is TIRES. I saved up and bought a new sports car in my 20's. Tires lasted 20,000 miles, maybe 25,000 miles, before needing a new set. Insurance was expensive but I was living in South Florida where over half the drivers did not have coverage. Tires were a...

DOT is building more and more roundabouts in my area, and they do work, once you get the hang of it. Having said that, we have many people from other areas that are confused by the roundabouts.... One day I was behind a car with four guys in it and the car was plastered with bumper stickers...

I used to live in South East Florida. It is a jungle down there and I doubt it has improved since I left... One of the road rage incidents down there always stuck with me. Two guys in two cars, an hour or so before sunrise and well before the traffic built up, much less got bad, got into a...

There is no understanding these people. A few years prior to the lock down we had had a bit of winter weather. I drove to work but the roads were dry and clear. Once stretch of road is a two land rural highway that goes 10-15 miles and I got behind a guy who does not know how to drive or use...

When 55 was the law, <puke> I would travel frequently on the Florida Turnpike going to/from Orlando and South East Florida. There is nothing out there but scrub and the road is flat and mostly straight. Poking along at 55 was a mind killer. Until one day.... I saw a flight of four A-10s...

It was not a horn but a jack a...ss on a Harley with loud pipes. I was doing the speed limit and the a...s hole had to pass me. Fine. However, that a...ss hole down shifted which made the pipes scream, right as he got next to me. He did this on purpose. Extremely loud and scared the s...t...

Someone that entitled might very well have decided to argue with the officer and it escalated with her getting arrested which might have cost her her job. I have seen similar behavior except the woman would get into a right turn lane and then turn left. I would see other people do this so they...

When I looked at PowerWalls years ago I was shocked that they did not support generators. Glad to see they are doing something in that regards today. As a comparison to PowerWall type battery systems, take a look at https://www.victronenergy.com/ and https://www.victronenergy.com, which...

I was VERY disappointed at the time lapse..... There was absolutely no photos of Big Foot! NOTHING! :eek:o_O🤔:ROFLMAO::LOL::D Though, there was some strange movement by the big tree at the trail intersection that I could not quite make out. Could that have been Big Foot peaking around the...

Since so much of these "features" are computer controlled, use is logged and stored. Some of the data is only kept in the vehicle but some is sent to the car company and whoever they choose to sell the data too. They know which door opens and closes. How fast you were driving. How hard you...

Today, more than ever, one needs skills that will provide income. If you don't have those skills, one is limited income wise. This is NOT just a US issue either. I was reading an article about employment and education in China. There is very high unemployment for young people, it is about...

After cleaning and oiling the bore, how about using an glob of epoxy adhesive, aka, JB Weld, on the end of a dowel pushed onto the cannon ball. Let it cure and see if it will move the ball. Might help to have the cannon sorta pointing at the ground if possible so the "glob" does not fall off...

Too many decades ago, I worked with a young, thin guy, well, we were all young back then and maybe thinner. :unsure: :ROFLMAO: Anyway, this guy would eat at Pizza Hut almost every day. Sometimes for dinner and lunch. :eek: I like pizza, and I suppose I could eat pizza every day if the...

I like anchovies but I don't consider them "Crazy ingredients." :ROFLMAO: There is/was a pizza place near where we lived in the city. Forgot the name, but they had a huge list of ingredients you could put on a pizza, both for dinner and desert pizza. A group of us from work went to this...

I was thinking about Boboli! We used to use them as a pizza crust in the 90's. I did not realize they were made back in the 70's and 80's. We stopped using Boboli when a French bakery opened up locally. That place made me gain at lease 20 pounds! We would get a fresh baguette, cut in...

There was a near drowning of a five year old in a water park in NC a few days ago. 60 people in a pool with eight life guards plus supervisors on duty. I doubt all eight life guards were on duty since some had to be on break. The article did not mention the size of the pool but 60 people is a...

Once upon a time, I worked with one of the most obnoxious, rude, arrogant, spoiled know it all I have ever had the displeasure to know. We worked with a guy from India and the Obnoxious One was bragging, for days, how he loved hot, spicy food. He just would not shut up about how he could out...

:ROFLMAO: :LOL: :D That is almost word for word what a man I worked for said to me after he had preserved some Jalapenos. Well, he had more descriptive words but TBN is a family friendly website. :ROFLMAO: Later, Dan

Family member just had a second knee replacement. Seems like it went better than the first, but other health issues make it hard to tell. The surgery was a disaster because of other issues but the knee replacement seemed to have gone better and most of the knee pain is gone. A new doctor with...

I have some pizza dough in the freezer... Guess I should defrost it before I forget about it, again. :ROFLMAO: YouTube has some great cooking channels. Far better than what was every on Food TV before it went down the drain with reality TV instead of how to cook. Hmmmm, is that pizza...

I can't remember the first pizza I had, but as a kid, we had pizza from restaurants, frozen and from a box. The "stuff" in a box was just horrible and we did not buy that very often. Once was enough Frozen pizza can be ok, especially today, not so much back then. My kids, I don't know what...

We looked at log homes and homes built with 6x6s(long story on that design) but in then end, after talking to people and investigating these construction methods, decided to build stick built. We also look long and hard at ICF. Log homes have issues with settling/shrinkage, bugs, rot, and...

That would be one BIG, and I suspect, bad a...ss bird. I think I would hide. :eek: 😁 :ROFLMAO:

I would have loved to have seen a B58, flying or not, since it is one of the coolest looking bombers ever flown. We used to live near Barksdale AFB n LA that was, and still does, operate B52s. I could see planes landing from the front yard and the view was even better if I climbed the pine...

The Wall Street Journal report on the issue has the excess inventory down to misjudging product demand and having orders arriving late, causing a build up of inventory in some product areas like laptops, patio furniture and home decor. If I bought any items in those categories, I am not likely...

Back in the 1980's there was an A-10 unit in Myrtle Beach, SC. One day I was driving up the Florida Turnpike, which is a long, straight, BORING road, and at the time had a speed limit of 55 mph <sigh>, when ahead of me I saw four A-10s making strafing runs on a Cypress head, aka, a bunch of...

Yeah, here in NC, the fire ants don't seem to have bothered the ticks or chiggers that much. When I lived in Florida, I don't remember finding ticks on me, but chiggers, Oh Lordy, Yes. My dad thinks the lack of ticks in Florida, at least back then, was because of all of the dipping of the...

Gas in many US states is taxed less than diesel and the Federal tax is higher on diesel than gas. When ULSD was required, diesel prices went up due to the extra processing required to clean up the fuel. The world was in an energy crisis last year due to government policies. These same...

I am sure I read of this accident here on TBN. Years ago a guy was out bush hogging his property and was found dead slumped over the steering wheel. He had mowed next to a fence and the blade had picked up either a nail, fence stable, or some such. The metal hit a fence posts and ricocheted...

A few years ago I was driving home from work and I could see a contrail that was heading north. What was odd was that the plane made a HUGE 180 degree turn and headed south parallel to it's north bound track. Never seen a plane do that before. The turn had to have been many miles across and it...

Like I mentioned previously, I use Flight Aware to see what is flying around the house. Usually, the aircraft that gets my attention are jets flying into RDU, low flying general aviation, and helicopters. The helicopters are usually medical and running from hospital to hospital. For month...

Since I was a little kid, I wanted to own some land, I figured 5 acres or maybe 10 acres would all I could afford. Then I took drafting in high school and I wanted to design and build my own house. Do they even teach that skill anymore? It is something I use almost every day. Eventually, I...

It totally depends on what you want to do. If you just want to take snap shots, share the with friends and post on the Internet, a smart phone camera is hard to beat. The vast majority of people using film cameras back in the day were not using an SLR. They were using point and shoot cameras...

Neighbors will get a cat, and let it roam free, which I don't like since I don't want the cat to kill birds. We will see the cat for a few months and then the cat is never seen again. A few months later, a new cat is seen, but it too disappears after a few months. This repeats over and over...

Back around 1990, the US budget was around a trillion dollars and the interest payments on nation debt was $200 billion a year. The debt payment was high because of the high interest rates at the time. Having a debt payment of 20% of the budget was criminal. Think of the tax cuts and/or...

There are fields of solar panels in my area and have been for a few years now. They are pretty danged ugly and one owner put up one of those fences with green plastic to hide the solar panels, which looks worse than the panels themselves. :eek: 😁 Most of the farm land here is small acreage...

Yes and there were multiple freezes fairly close together that wiped out the citrus groves in the 1983-85 time frame if I remember right. Florida citrus has had freezes going back over a century that have wiped out the citrus groves. However, the freezes, Global Warming don't you know, all but...

I have used Permethrin for years. It works. Soak your work clothes in it, let it dry, and off you go. It will last a tick season of washing. Permethrin will chase off, or kill, ticks and chiggers. This year seems a bit worse than usual but it was a warm winter. For the last couple of...

The charge to renewables is most certainly going to cause power supply issues, increased power costs, and will lead to rolling blackouts. From one of several reports on the subject from The Wall Street Journal, Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S. The MISO, mentioned above, will...

With the laser link capability that is in the latest StarLink satellites, the ability to get the traffic to earth where Starlink wants/needs too is part of the plan. Will this be used to provide secure communication in totalitarian states? I sure do not know. One problem would be getting...

Just read today some more reports from people using StarLink on boats. The report was of four boats in Mexico that were using Starlink. Some people, and I think these include people on boats and RV, are just mounting Dishy flat on a surface facing up and it works.

With the heavy rain we have been getting a few times a week over the last month, we have seen some disruption of Starlink's internet connectivity. Usually it is a matter of seconds but last night we had a 5ish minute outage. Normal rain has not caused a problem but we have had some very heavy...

People are already using Starlink on boats, not just at anchor or tied to a dock. It is not supported but it works. The physical antennae is not trying to adjust it's orientation as long as the boat is maintaining its heading. The reports are that the antennae does not move unless there is...

Exactly. I could not read the OP's link because it is behind a pay wall but the Wall Street Journal had an article years ago about people retiring to a cruise ship. It makes quite a bit of sense for some. The cost to cruise full time is expensive but so is a good retirement home in a...

Many of the old TV shows I would watch as a kid were shown late at night. During the summer I would stay up until 0200, when the TV channels went off the air. Hated when the TV showed the symbol and started that noise. :ROFLMAO: I would sometimes watch Carson, The Tomorrow Show, and it seems...

The sad thing is that we watch old TV reruns more than "new" shows. We just don't watch the major TV networks at all. No reason too. The only "new" show we watch is Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon which we buy on DVD. Watching the Tonight Show reruns with Carson is not only entertaining...

I would visit my grand parents during the summer and one grandmother would watch TV during the day but they other did not. The grandmother that watched TV would watch Mike Douglas, Merv Griffith and a bunch of the game shows. She would never watch the Soap Operas which seem to be mostly gone...

Oh My. Ultraman! :ROFLMAO: We lived for a time in Atlanta and there were four TV stations! Woot! ABC, NBC and CBS PLUS TBS! Yes, TBS before cable! 😁 I would mostly watch TBS because it had Our Gang, cartoons, Gilligan's Island, Adams Family, and ULTRAMAN! Never saw many episodes of...

My parents and grandparents would watch Bubble Man. I would leave the room when he was on TV. :ROFLMAO: Up until the last year or so, The Lawrence Welk Show was on PBS every Saturday evening. I would see it would be on and let the first few minutes to play to make my wife cringe. :ROFLMAO...

StarLink portability is aimed at people who have boats or RVs and who would need Internet access away from home. This is a REALLY big deal for boats. Starlink seems to be limited to 12 miles offshore at the present time, which I think is mainly due to the need to have satellite to satellite...

I have not burned in years, but when I did, I would ALWAYS get a burn permit. At the time, I had to go to the local farm store to get the permit, but I think the permits are online now. For every permit where I actually started a fire, I bet I had two or three I pulled but did not use. I...

In NC, the use of a tire is illegal. If the fire marshal catches you, which he might if the fire goes out of control, and the responding units discover belted tire cord in the burned out area. :unsure::eek:😁 Later, Dan

Regarding wind mill blades and dealing with "old" blades by using them to make cement. The Wall Street Journal just had this story, Cement Makers Burn Turbine Blades as Wind Power Faces Recycling Headache, which is likely behind a pay wall. Found these two statements "interesting."...

Due to fire risks, I would not use the Lithium battery chemistry used in the various vendors Power Wall products. There are batteries using Lithium Iron Phosphate(LiFePo) that are very safe from fire. Not zero but pretty danged close. LiFePo batteries from reputable companies have a lifespan...

The idiots making these decisions can't even do simple math. From the Wall Street Journal, America’s Power Grid Is Increasingly Unreliable which is likely behind a pay wall. Putin's War is in part caused by the EU addiction to Putin's gas supply after they shut down huge numbers of continuous...

I think you are already deep into the rabbit hole. :ROFLMAO: Never heard or seen a bilge pump that had paddles. I too think it was use to mix and pump something. Later, Dan

We have had Starlink since February and I had to power it off/on last Friday. That is pretty good since DSL and MoFi would require at least weekly, if not daily, resets. MoFi with Verizon has been broken for weeks now and we need to find some time to get it fixed. The wife spent a day on the...

Most/Many banks, especially large ones, are using IBM mainframes to store and process transactions. The systems are highly secure. In the last couple of generations data is encrypted at all times. In other systems, data is only encrypted at rest, meaning when stored. The latest mainframes...

If it was another mill owner, why leave the stone after they put in a huge amount of work to get the stone up the ridge? Yeah, getting that stone up hill was asking for trouble, but kids will be kids, if kids did move the stone. We did stoooopid stuff as kids, and somehow, must of us...

In Umstead Park, which is a very nice, public park between Raleigh and Durham, NC, and is over 6,000 acres, I have found some interesting stuff. The park is bounded by I40 on the south and US 70 on the north. The south side of the park has a large creek, and many years ago, there was a mill on...

We have been streaming over our slow 1.5mpbs DSL for years, then over the cell Internet, and now over Starlink. With DSL we might get stoppages while the stream buffered but it was not too bad. With the faster services it is just that much better. Disney, Amazon, NetFlix and YouTube stream...

That would be about the right size, though1.5 inches seems on the larger size. The wifey says NASA was engraved in the ball. Someone else in the family has the ball so we are going to have to ask who has it. The ball almost certainly was placed as a joke, but it would have been very easy to...

My father in law found a "stone" that was perfectly round, whitish colored, about the size of a golf ball but smooth on his rural property. The "stone" had NASA on the stone. I can't remember if it was carved into the stone or just "painted" on the stone. The mystery was did the "stone"...

We received our ethernet adapter this week and the FedEx guy said he had one more to deliver. Not quite sure how I am going to use the adapter but I ordered it just to have it. If I could get $300 maybe I should sell it! :ROFLMAO: Later, Dan

What is maddening with dumping in my county, is that there are NO fees for dumping at the dump or the various collection centers. Those services are paid for in county taxes and when one goes to the dump or the collection center one does not pay a penny. Yet, people will still toss trash along...

I don't know of any forums but the NC Extension office had at least one good article on raising mushrooms that I read decades ago. I would check your states extension office to see what information they have as well as other state's offices. They can be a great source of information, they know...

Depending on state law, possession of the pistol without a permit could be a problem. I would suggest taking the pistol to law enforcement and running the serial number. Given the barrel was missing and the pistol was tossed in the water, it is likely the firearm was stolen. The missing...

When I worked on a farm as a teenager, the owner would dump trash into a ravine on the property. Never could understand him doing this because we were only on the farm for a few days at a time before heading back to the city. He could easily have taken the trash home and had it picked up with...

I have some high end camera and lenses, but even with that capability, trying to get images of the albino deer we had 5-10 years ago, was an exercise in frustration. I have the images but thy are blurred in spite of the quality of the equipment. There were two albino bucks but they did not...

Once upon a time, I was walking on my wife's family farm, was in the woods and walking along a gully which headed down to a river. The gully was also a good 6-8 feet deep, so anything, or anyone, in the gully was out of sight. :unsure: In the gully and I found a bunch of pipe that looked like...

When we were looking to buy land, we came across some family cemeteries that were part of the parcels. In this area, these family cemeteries are common. There is one right next to a major road that gets cleaned up from time to time Confederate reenactors. Others, just kinda go wild which is a...

The problem with a lithium fueled fire vs gasoline, is that the fire department has a chance to put out a gas fire. A lithium chemical fire is going to be much harder to extinguish and likely going to require a HazMat response. I have never kept a car in a garage and I kept all of the...

We have wanted to put in solar power at our house for years. When I designed the house, I made sure we had close to the optimum roof pitch to maximize solar power production and we sited the house to do the same. We just don't have the money to put in a system and the ROI is iffy. What the...

Thought of another one, two or three.... 😁 When I was a kid, my dad and I would go camping in the NE Georgia mountains which were also being use by the US Army to train soldiers heading off to Vietnam. We would often see convoys driving up to the mountains, which I always thought was cool to...

You will have to read your Verizon plan. I am not sure what our plan says, the wifey handles all of the cell phone contracts, but I know we are limited to 150GB per month. We never exceeded 150BG with Verizon, but we did a few times with UbiFi, so we watched our usage to not exceed that...

Before we bought the land we now own, I was walking around the place, and out of the corner of my eye, saw what I thought was a body laying in the woods. :eek: Turned out to be a large balloon from a business in a nearby town that had a bunch of very large helium filled, heavy duty balloons...

Starlink has some DOD contracts, has gotten some subsidies for providing rural Internet access, and has at least one contract with NASA but I have never read the Starlink was a DOD project. Starship will launch up to 400 satellites compared to the Falcon which puts up 60 of the older satellite...

We had been using UbiFi for a couple of years and it was $90 a month, if I remember right, then they upped the price to $120 a month and the service would not work. THAT was a price increase. :eek: But we would have paid it to have the service. They did cancel our service without playing...

Just like our Verizon connection, which says it is working, but is not, 🤬 data transfer rates vary on Starlink. I have seen as low as 35 mbps a few times and over 200 mbps. Most of the times I have checked it is in the 50-150 range. Never saw much more than 20-25 mpbs on our Verizon 4G...

Regarding the loose dogs, does your county have a leash law? I would think that would be a local issue to solve not the state police. Bear spray is supposed to work wonders at distracting bears assuming you can by pepper spray in NY. Later, Dan

This. ^^^ The Postal Service is really the first place to contact and have jurisdiction. See what they say before contacting local or state law enforcement. Not sure what a local lawyer would do or could do, other than sending a letter to cease and desist. Postal Service would be my first...

One of the amazing things about the image is the galaxies in the "background." Later, Dan

If you have parents, will you need space for them if they can no longer take care of themselves? Just something to consider. When we designed and built our house, we cleared space for a garage, which we had hopped to have built by now, as well as a having sewer pipe laid out so that it would...

That last sentence is the key. One has never been documented but that does not mean they have not, or do not, exist. The coelacanth was thought to be extinct once upon a time and it was a near run thing that one was caught, recognized for what it was, and then preserved. If the fish had not...

The Fox Fire books have stories about big cats in the Appalachian mountains. The stories in the various Fox Fix books called them cougars, panthers, and the most interesting word, painters. Fox Fire books are highly recommended both for rural leaving, but also history of how people still...

I did not want the dish on the roof ridge, or on the roof at all, and I did not like the looks of the mount. Having said that, my temporary installation is made from scarp 2x4s and is weighted down with heavy concrete edgers that are much heavier than bricks or pavers. It kinda looks like the...

The problem with EV is where is the power going to come from to charge the battery? The US power grid has very little extra generation or distribution capacity. The amount of energy used in vehicles is huge, if the energy is not from gas or diesel, and now is electric power, generating and...

To mount Dishy while waiting for the mount I ordered, I screwed some scrap 2x4's together in a square/rectangular shape, then screwed the Dish mount that comes into the 2x4s. The 2x4 "grid" is sitting on part of our roof which has a 3/12 pitch which just happens to look north. One side of the...

Natural gas is used to make fertilizer. Natural gas prices are high because countries are shutting down coal, oil and nuke power plants, and trying to depend on intermittent solar and wind power, backed up by generators using natural gas. When the sun don't shine, and the wind don't blow, the...

This was my experience after Hurricane Floyd. I don't know where the Mennonites came from, I did find out years later, they do have a community in the NC mountains, but they were on the ground working before the flood waters had receded. They impressed the heck out of me. The Baptists were...

A decade or so ago, I was brewing beer and I was getting the supplies and equipment from a small chain of garden stores in NC. Yes, a garden store was selling brewing equipment. 😁 The store had three sections, beer brewing and wine making, a garden center as one would expect, and a...

I ordered a mount and adapter after I got my order confirmed. Have the dishy but still waiting on the adapter and mount. We have a wiring closet and the Starlink router just does not fit, and even if it did, I would be concerned with overheating the closet. Starlink just does not have a good...

A coworker and I used to have this conversation years ago about the software business. We could see the decline in quality and support over the years... The question is, if other companies have the same quality of support, what is one to do? Customer support with CenutryLink and Verizon is...

Congratulations! 😁 We are still waiting for the adapter and mount but my hack install is working just fine, even the 40+ mph wind gusts we got yesterday.(y) Those ping times and data speeds are what we are seeing as well. Sometimes higher though. Later, Dan

Work requires a VPN to access work systems on work devices. As well as a bunch of other security requirements. We use a different VPN for our home devices. The transport method, DSL, cell or now Starlink, matters not. VPN protects over all three. A coworker was hacked via people accessing...

We have only had a few billing problems caused by the insurance company. I can only think of one but I will say a few simply because we have soooo many health care bills that we must have had more than one problem. 😁 The vast majority of billing issues are from the provider. 🤬 We just had...

Yep. I always joked with my wife, that if the world was ending, and we were near her uncle, should we run and grab a hold of him or run away from him as fast as possible? :unsure: :eek::ROFLMAO: He was a really good man. He could cook a good pig. (y) Well, his father and uncles did not...

My wife had a relative, he passed a few years back, who was big into BBQs. He had a garage full of BBQs from little, itty bitty Webers to large pig cookers. I could see having two, maybe three, BBQs but a garage full? Anyway, one day we went to his house for a pig cooking and I noticed his...

One of the men who helped build my house had a relative many, many, decades ago who ran a still. The still was owned by the Sheriff! :eek: During an election year, the Sheriff would want to show he was doing something about moonshiners, so he would drive to where HIS still was located. He...

Our Golden Ticket arrived last week. 🕺:LOL: Starlink went down at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning after it was setup, I assume doing an software update. Since then it has been rock solid. The router said there were a couple of 2 second or less disruptions but we could not tell. We do have a...

The NC National Guard used to use copters to find pot growing in the woods. Don't know if they still do this though. I do remember them finding quite a big grow operation in some woods along a major road. Later, Dan

A previous post mentioned a helicopter ride. Years ago we found out that in at least some NC hospitals, cardiac patients are transported by helicopters between hospitals. That copter ride will set one back a few pennies without insurance.... Later, Dan

Well, the F16's for MIG29s makes a heck of a lot more sense than the original program. :unsure: Later, Dan

As my granny would say, thank your lucky stars that you did not need health care. Another granny saying was, you have nothing, if you don't have your health. Three people I know have died in the last month. One went for a run and dropped dead. The other two health issues over the last decade...

Customer service is lacking these days... :( I really don't see StarLink being any different. :( We have been running two Internet services to have backup for the inevitable outages. It is going to happen and it will take a while to fix. :( Now, with Starlink, we will drop DSL, which will...

Those speeds are the high end of what we get on our older laptops. My new work laptop gets higher speeds. Hoping that we can improve the in house network a bit. The StarLink router is in the utility room, in the center of the house, which is good for overall connectivity but I think it limits...

That is better service than we get with Verizon, UbiFit, or CenturyStink. :eek: Not to say that a two day response time is good, but it is better service than we are getting. :( DSL and phone went out, it took a week or two for someone to show up... UbiFi screwed the pooch, and after a few...

Dealing with US TSA, Customs and Immigration seems to have rude interactions too many times. We got "yelled" at by Customs in Communist China but that was because the lady did not speak English. It really was out of a comedy routine. If they can't understand your language, yell louder...

Supposedly, JFK was given some Cuban cigars when he was president and they were contraband. He gave them to some of his staff members and told them to destroy the cigars by burning them.... :unsure: :eek: :LOL: Later, Dan

Exactly. The problem with taking Social Security later is when you have a decent retirement fund of your own and you want to keep as much of your money as possible. If we take Social Security early, that is money that we do not have to spend from OUR retirement accounts. We can't pass on...

Not really. The land was THEIRS because of marriage. When they split up, they split the assets of the marriage. He had to sell the land to split the assets since he did not have the money to buy her share of the land. Later, Dan

Nobody has told me this, but I don't joke around with Customs or Immigration officers. Even then, they did not like my answers when we returned from China. Thankfully, we the last US passport holders off the full plane and there was a long line of people they needed to check. Pretty sure the...

In early February 2021, I think it was the 8th, we ordered StarLink. The shipping date moved out over 2021, and at the end of 2021 we got another date of March 2022. A few weeks ago, we got The Email, ie, do you want StarLink note. 😁 Well, yes. :ROFLMAO: We eventually got a shipping date for...

My dad does the peanut butter, nanners as 5030 says, and mayo sandwich. The mayo is the disgusting part. I like a PB and nanners sandwich, though I will put honey in the mix. Mayo? No way and I like mayo. 😁 Later, Dan

I have no idea, how, or why, YouTube started showing me videos on death and dying but it did. I think I was watching some random Ted Talks and one on death and dying showed up that sounded interesting, so off I went. To watch the video that is, not to die. 😁 Here is the video that started...

There was a report in the WSJ in the last couple of days regarding taking care of parents. A woman went bankrupt taking care of her parents who had to go into nursing homes. One parent, was cost $10,000 a month for quite some time before he died. We have a friend who is taking care of a...

Just got a notice about the NetFlix price increase. Gonna have to talk to the wifey about it.... We do watch a few shows on NetFiix. Gonna have to go and see how much we really watch and is it worth the money... We do spend far more time on YouTube watching content. If I could spend 12...

Since we have gone from cream cheese to acidic sugar water..... :eek: I do remember Wink, Moxie and Fresca. There was a guy when I was in college who would show up for an early class with a Big Gulp of Jolt cola. Not sure how he could drink that stuff.... As a kid, we had a field trip to...

I hope you find the answers. It is a sad story for many people. As others have suggested, put HER DNA in Ancestor.com, though I never will, so it is easy for me to say. 😁 Also might put YOUR family DNS into the website to see what pops up, though given the age of the people you are...

Yeah, I have seen that off and on for the last few months too. A few weeks ago, there was quite a bit of products out of stock. This week everything was in stock. Years ago, one of the problems we had with our local store was lack of employees. The manager just would not hire people to save...

I knew a guy who was married for decades and then got divorced. He was forced to sell land that had been in his family for generations that he had just inherited. To say he was angry and bitter at his ex wife is an understatement. :eek: Land a few miles from his property is getting...

Regarding people in the office, exercise and stench. Once Upon A Time, I worked in Tampa, Florida. During the summer time. Tampa is one of those cities that defines Hot and Humid. :eek: Just stepping outside and you would be drenched in sweat. I worked with some Europeans. One guy was from...

Pasta was in stock this week but I have seen those shelves pretty empty. Later, Dan

Was back at the store today and there was a bit more cream cheese on the shelves but it was mostly the bricks of plain cream cheese. A bit more of the flavored cream cheeses, but not the normal amount, and there was still bare shelves. I did not notice any other bare shelves in the store...

I had never seen chili jelly/jam before my mother in law gave us some for Christmas years ago. I thought what an odd thing to turn into a jelly/jam and I am not sure I have ever tried it. She has given us some off and on for years. My dad eats it. :D My mother in law is not making the chili...

What is odd about the shortage is that there was not shortage here in the stores in November and early December. I was eating smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagels at that time. But the shortage is here in the middle of February. It is the only thing I have noticed that was out of stock. No...

I was and am thinking about making my own! :ROFLMAO: I have been taking plain cream cheese and mixing with the ingredients I want. :D I go through periods of eating and not eating cream cheese. Usually around the holidays I will have cream cheese, smoked salmon and bagels. Well, what the...

Wow. I read a diverse set of newspapers and this is the first I have heard of the attack on the company. Back in December there was a very big security vulnerability and I suspect that story overshadowed an attack on a company on the media sites I read. Still, one would think there would be...

Has anyone else noticed a shortage of cream cheese? Weeks ago I noticed that the shelves, and there are several shelves for cream cheese, were fairly empty. There was cream cheese but not the usual flavors and not many containers of what was available. This has been going on for weeks. A...

To answer the subject line, no you are not crazy or paranoid enough. Years ago, I used to use a Google service to show photos I was taking at my kid's school events. You could lock down who could view the photos and all was good. Then they wanted me to start tagging, i.e., naming the kids...

Yep, it is interesting how some historical figures are targeted for removal, while others like Yale and Duke, are not.... As the song says, things that make you go hmmmmmm. Later, Dan

There are some rails to trails in my area. There have been crimes on them but mostly in the urban areas. The crime will go in waves though. There will be a few assaults, robberies, murders, and flashers for a few months, patrols will be started, the problems will go away, and patrols will...

Except that the market Starlink is going after is not going to be likely served soon, if ever, by 5G. 5g requires antennas all over the place. The article mentions one has to be within 500m of a tower to get 5G. How many people in a rural area are within 500m of a cell tower. Not many. To...

USPS service, and lack there of, is local. Our service is pretty good. My parents service in a different state is horrible. So many times, too many to be truthful, we have paid to have X Day delivery and the package does not show up on time. Amazon, UPS, and FedEx can do deliver on...

We have had our credit history locked down for years. It is a PITA when we need to have have a credit check done, but that does not happen too often, and it is nothing compared to the trouble we would have if our identity was stolen. My wife's identity was stolen years ago, it had to have...

Funny that you mentioned the battery backup solution. We are thinking about using a battery backup instead of a generator. We have a generator setup for our DR Mower. When we needed to use it, the engine would not start, 🤬 due to ethanol destroying the carb. Had to fix two engines because...

I use Flight Aware to see which planes are flying over us. Kinda amazing to see what is up there. I have never seen military flights on Flight Aware and I see lots of military choppers with some planes from time to time. Seen quite a few Osprey's over the last few months. They make a very...

Look at different financial institutions. Don't just try one. Our credit union would not finance our big land purchase. They would provide loans for lot sized property but not large land purchases. I was lucky in that a coworker's spouse was a loan officer at a bank and that bank provided...

Twas too long ago to remember! :ROFLMAO: Didn't Harv make this last century? :unsure::D Later, Dan

Getting late to this thread. :( When I saw the news about Mayfield I was worried about RSKY since I knew he lived in that part of KY. Glad to here RSKY is ok. Very happy to hear of the outside organizations arriving to help. I think because of the vast news coverage, I saw Mayfield...

Now, THAT was funny! :ROFLMAO: :D:LOL: Later, Dan

We seldom have a problem with Amazon delivering orders on time. In fact, lately, it has been the opposite. I have told them to deliver a day or so later, on a Monday instead of Sunday, yet the truck shows up on Sunday. :eek: One does have to be careful when ordering to make sure one is...

We once lost DSL and phone service when a squirrel built a nest in the phone box. :sneaky:😁 DSL and the phone went down a month or so ago but it sounds like someone in the office simply disconnected our service. :eek: Later, Dan

Our system is gravity fed, on a slope, and we have clay where we do not have rocks. :rolleyes: When the septic field was built, we had to have clay brought in to cap the field. In other words to prevent rainwater from entering the septic lines clay was put on top of the septic field. The down...

I am still working, the company makes money, my product makes quite a bit of money, yet I have not seen a bonus or raise in years. 🤬 As my granny used to say, thank your lucky stars. :ROFLMAO: It will be interesting with the hot job market to see what the company does with raises and...

Thank you to ljjhouser and K0ua for the information they have provided. K0ua has had a few MC conversations on TBN over the years, and frankly, MC is co complicated I have to read the multiple conversations to try to figure out MC. :eek: :D I am years away before I can sign up for MC but at...

Yep. We have taken out travel and trip insurance going overseas and staying in the US. We figured there was some risk in some of these trips, and for the US trip there was, and the insurance was used. No problem getting the insurance to pay up. The problem with getting sick overseas is not...

You really don't need a second saw but you do need a second bar and chain. :D Usually, when I pinch the saw, I can work it out, but there have been times I have had to take the saw off the pinched bar and chain. Then I would put on the spare bar and chain to free the pinched bar and chain...

Sounds like the dog has a food allergy. As others have said, it happens in dogs more than one thinks. Most of our dogs have had food allergies even when buying the "best" commercial dog good. We spent quite a bit of time and money buying expensive dog food but they all had fillers and the...

Seems like StarLink was busy sending out email.... 😑 We ordered Starlink in early Feb 2021 and were told it would be here early mid summer if I remember right. Then the date was moved out to 4Q21. The latest email said March 2022. <sigh> UbiFi has been working for us but their meltdown...

There are interesting power lines on my wife's family farm land. The power lines run from a major road across their farm land, cross a river, and then to where ever they go. There is a road on that side of the river and my guess is that when the power company was first bringing electricity...

Regarding landowner liability. Years ago when we were in the process of buying land, I was reading the NC Extension office website, which is a treasure trove of information, and found a paper about land owner liability. The best thing a land owner could do was to post the land since it is all...

I would suggest, if the stand owners ever do make contact, to meet at the nearest law enforcement office. Later, Dan

Just wrote up the long tale of Internet Woe in the Starlink thread. We have been using UbiFi but the service all but stopped working last week. We tried US Mobile, which said it would support our MoFi on their website which we confirmed with a phone call to a person. We bought the sim card...

Ordered Dishy in 2/8/2021 and my account says it will be delivered mid to late 2021. Since it is late 2021, 🤞 We have maintained two Internet services for years, two DSL lines with CenturyStink that are 1.5mbps each, and UbiFi cell service which is usually 6mbps worst case. A month or so...

I sure agree that the techie stuff is not intuitive and I work in the business! :eek: :D My truck is 20 years old and the thought of getting a new vehicle, if one could actually get a new vehicle today, is not a happy thought. There is a difference between hand free cell calls and using...

My father in law picked songs for his funeral. One was Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. (y) After the service, I asked the preacher if he ever had a Pink Floyd song played before, and he said no, that was a first. :D Later, Dan

I blew out the speakers in my car with that song! :eek: :D Course, back then, the speakers in cars sucked, so it was easy to blow them out. Replaced the speakers and stereo so I could play Dire Straights even louder. I still remember that night I was driving the car, the road, it was cool out...

We ordered our Dish in early Feb 2021 so I am hoping we get it soon. The website says mid to late 2021. Well it ain't mid 2021 anymore so hopefully soon. We have been using UbiFi for a couple of years and they just put a bandwidth limit on us at 300MB per money, which really will not affect...

No, cost has to be considered, but the people pushing these mandates don't consider the cost, or they make it up. But if one has a way to generate power, and there is a surplus of that power, using it to make and store hydrogen might make sense. It does get down to costs. My example of the...

My post was about the UK having energy price hikes because they are becoming dependent on wind power that is not always available. If the wind is not blowing, they are having to turn on coal and gas power plants to produce electricity. At some point, with the closure of these plants, how...

The technology exists to use hydrogen to produce power in fuel cells as well as burning hydrogen in an ICE. Toyota is talking about both. Later, Dan

Well, that was what I said in the post. :D It makes perfect sense to use renewables to make Hydrogen because it can be stored and used later. When the wind does not blow, the electrons do no flow. If one has not stored the power created from renewable energy, one will have to do...

The difference in US prices and many places in the world is simply due to taxes. The huge problem with renewable energy is that it is intermittent and requires energy storage. Batteries are very expensive any way you slice and dice them, especially if one needs to run HVAC. Some countries...

Once upon a time, I was on the parkway during the summer and it was kinda warm/hot so people were in shorts. Got up to Mount Mitchell, there was a strong wind blowing and it was COLD! You needed a heavy jacket, which nobody had, since it was warm out. People were taking a quick look around...

Yes, and the incompetence of it all was buried by the press. Later, Dan

We got some letters Saturday from a land buying company located in AZ. They offered 25%, yes 25%, of the likely value of the land. :eek: :mad:👎 They most be smoking something... Later, Dan

Earlier today we had a CH-47 flying west. We don't see that helicopter very often since they are not based near us. There is a helicopter unit at the airport but they fly Apaches and Nighthawks. Heading west is not a direct path to get to LA I wonder if it was off to help out with Ida. An...

Dang. Hang in there. Hope you can drive out and fine gas for the generator. The advantage of our location is that there is always a direction out of the storms path to get supplies. Some places just don't have that as an option. Later, Dan

From the Wall Street Journal, the story is likely behind a paywall, GM’s Chevy Bolt Recall Casts Shadow Over EV Push GM has lost quite a bit money selling the Bolt and Hyundai is loosing about the same about per vehicle on that SUV model. The might be able to claw back some of the battery...

The dog was trained but for some reason she would run off at that place. The dog never, ever ran off any place she lived. Later, Dan

We had a dog who was smart but I guess could have been smarter. :LOL: The dog had a collar that would beep when near the "fence" and get shocked if it crossed the wire. The wife would come home and the dog would be out running around. The collar battery would be dead so it was replaced. The...

Before we found our current place, I was visiting the courthouse to find vacant land, owned by people not living in the area, parcels of a certain size and a specific area. I was going to send mail to the owners to see if they would sell. Then the place we now own hit the market and we bought...

Yep. Having said that, alcohol and smoke are preservatives. :ROFLMAO: Later, Dan

When I designed our house, we put in a similar shower. We can roll a wheel chair into the shower if needed. Easy Peasey. We don't even have a shower door or curtain. It just works. We do have a whirl pool tub but it has not been used in years. :eek: :ROFLMAO: The limited hallways we...

A Christmas or two ago, I bought new steak knives. :unsure: They are SHARP! I very seldom cut myself, but my finger lightly touched one of the knife edges, and I was bleeding. :eek::LOL: I put find ground pepper on the cut along with a bandaide. The pepper stops bleeding. Not sure it...

Macular Degeneration runs in part of my family and has caused family members to go blind. They went blind before the shot was available but I have one family member getting the shot in the eye. I take AREDs, it is a good source of some minerals and vitamins, to lower my chances of going blind...

A one hour firewall does not do much when the lithium chemistry batteries used in cars can burn for many hours and are very difficult to put out. Some fire departments in Europe have large "dumpsters" they fill with water into which they dunk burning electric cars. Never could figure out how...

We have been to Ireland twice and try to stay away from the tourist areas and live like the locals. The first visit we were on a boat and spend a week or so traveling along the east coast of Ireland and got as far south as Waterford. Yes, the place where the crystal is made and we took a tour...

It may be BS in your state but it is not in others. The NC Extension office has a document that states that posting your land makes it very difficult to be sued because the person trespassing is committing a crime. It is hard to sue someone if they get hurt while committing a crime. If one...

On product reviews, I looked for thousands of reviews, if possible and depending on what I am buying, then if the top two ratings are 75-80% of the ratings, that is a good sign. I will still read some of the 1 and 5 ratings to see what people are saying though. Average, i.e., 3 ratings, I...

I picked on some of the wife's family because of how they say some words. :eek: One word is Clorox. They say it ClOrox, meaning the first "o" is a long "o." So I got to saying ClOrox to pick on them, and my wife, though the wive does NOT say ClOrox. :D But the worm has turned, and now ***...

Yes, yes they are. It is a shame that they are dying out. It ticks me off when people are shamed because of their accent. (n) Later, Dan

Decades ago, I was listening to the radio and there was a show on about NC accents. There are SOOO many accents in NC it is unreal. The show mentioned that the old time families on the Outer Banks in NC, and some in VA, were talking in Shakespearean English. I am sure that is changing as so...

Yep, the link between culture, history and language is huge. I read a variety of foreign "newspapers" in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Reading the reports can be hard to understand, not because of the language, but because of the cultural or historical references...

Yeah, I think my family members records got burnt up too. What little I did find, did not make much sense, and created more questions than answers. It really is sad because the family members had extensive military service, including combat, and we know nothing. Course, the family members...

Last time I checked, in NC it is illegal to live trap and move beavers. So check one's state laws before doing so. Later, Dan

ALL of the people who have have trespassed our land to hunt, have been locals. When we were looking to buy land, we were talking to a 80-90 year old land owner, when we noticed a guy rabbit hunting on the mans land. He asked me if I would go with him to trespass the guy which I did. The...

Very, Very, VERY disappointed in this discussion.... :eek: Sad it is. :sneaky: All this talk of Big Foot and nobody mentioned the Boggy Creek Monster of Arkansas or the Florida Skunk Ape? Disappointed am I... Everyone one knows they are real! Heck The Boggy Creek Monster was in a movie...

I THINK Denmark did ban mink farms. The NL banned mink farms prior to the pandemic but the farms had a few years to close down. Then the mink were catching WuFlu so the NL went in and killed all of the mink. They buried the gazillions of dead minks but then animals were digging up the dead...

Early in the pandemic, well, before WuFlu escaped China, so I guess it was not yet a pandemic, China was killing vast numbers of dogs because the dogs could/did carry the illness. There were videos on the Internet of people beating dogs to death and throwing them into trucks. Not just strays...