Lots of things June 2023
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texxgadgetBefore I get to what Ive been up to, I note that a few people on here (the few who follow me) are hurting.
I understand the pain of losing a cat. We lost Chessie the friday morning after Trum was elected in 2016.
I joke that she knew when to get out, but at 18 years, she was an elderly cat who needed help to get up the stairs.
Shes buried near the front door in the hole left when the over 100 yr old oak fell over.
When I catch another rodent in a trap, I drop them on the ground near her and interestingly enough,
the dead rodent disappears in minutes.
The Art of War teaches us to always know your adversary.
This means you REALLY NEED to understand the MAGA crowd and Ex Pres Poopypants (Hes been in adult diapers for years)
So WHO ARE the MAGA crowd, REALLY?"
They are uneducated white males over the age of 65 and most are not in good shape.
Lots of beer bellies etc.
There isnt much of a pipeline of new people to join the MAGA ranks.
I read an interesting article on the millenials and Gen Z.
Gen Z is goint to completely turn the US upside down (Mostly in a good way)
What this means, is that the Maga bunch is going to be dead in 10 years with virtually no replacements.
Gen Z is just starting to hit voting age and they are NOT going to put up with this crap.
The Florida citrus industry is hurting because there is a blight destroying the trees down there.
If Disney wanted to, they could just mothball the whole Florida operation and decimate the Florida hospitality industry.
It would be expensive, but they would also take out much of the rest of the industry down there in collateral damage.
The highest point in Florida is 250ft above sea level at the summit of a garbage dump.
Sea rise will eventually reclaim much of the state.
Florida does not realize it, but thay have begun to circle the drain, likely with no recovery possible.
In 50 years, we have gone from it being possdible to be arrested for setting foot in a gay bar to a world
where much of the world just doesnt care if you are gay or straight.
In fact, gender is becomming irrelevant. Millenials only 65% identify as "straight".
Gen Z only 45% identify as "straight".
The drag queens and the transfolk are going to have a rough couple years, but its only going to be a few.
We are going to go from transfolk coming out of the closet to "and the Pope is Catholic" when someone comes out trans in a fraction of the time if took they gay community to do so.
Something to be careful about is making sure we DONT persecute the Evangelicals when they lose power.
Yah, they desperve it, but we should show them the christian mercy they refuse to show the LGBT+ community now.
As they say, its always darkest before the dawn. We just have to hang in there and wait for the MAGAs to start dying off (shouldnt be too long).
SO, enough with the soap box for now...
The Covid disaster has been declared under control.
Masking has been dropped, but by some quirk, after a couple weeks, Amazon Oak5 has been ordered to mask up again.
Most people are wearing their masks under their chins.
I am no longer triple masked, Ive dropped down to double masked, with a thick cloth mask and a paper surgical one under it.
I never un masked. Its unpleasant, but I havent had a cold since 2019 !
It depends where I am, sometimes I mask, sometimes I dont, but always at Amazon.
We have a half million sq ft which somewhere between 1/4 & 1/3 is taken by Oak7 fenced off from Oak5.
Oak7 closes this month and we will be expanding into that space.
Much of the summer, we will be a construction zone with new conveyors getting installed.
Another manager Im quite fond of is moving to Atlanta, and her last day was last Sat morning.
A couple process assistants Im fond of are also moving to other facilities.
When I started, I wore long trousers and after 3 months, having gone thropugh the knees, I went to cargo shorts.
I wore a canvas utilikilt on St Pats day, but this year, wearing through the crotch of the cargo shorts,
Ive been in the utilikilt since St Pats day this year. Its actually warmer than either ther shorts or the trousers.
Memorial Day, San Ramon Art & Wind Festival, KSW had the boiler trailer, the steam powered printing press, steam powered ice grinder for snow cones, steam powered rock crusher, and a steam powered refrigeration system.
Our best thermometer hits minus 40 and we passed that with the engine driving the coompressor
We were crushing gravel into sand, and making our tradional bar coasters for the event.
At the end of the weekend, we "blew down" the boiler venting pressure from the bottom to clean scale out.
The steam plume crossed 4 lanes and the median of Alcosta Blvd.
I dont know if we turned a profit on the snow cones or not.
I plan to march in the parade with Amazon ( GLAMAZON )
I understand the pain of losing a cat. We lost Chessie the friday morning after Trum was elected in 2016.
I joke that she knew when to get out, but at 18 years, she was an elderly cat who needed help to get up the stairs.
Shes buried near the front door in the hole left when the over 100 yr old oak fell over.
When I catch another rodent in a trap, I drop them on the ground near her and interestingly enough,
the dead rodent disappears in minutes.
The Art of War teaches us to always know your adversary.
This means you REALLY NEED to understand the MAGA crowd and Ex Pres Poopypants (Hes been in adult diapers for years)
So WHO ARE the MAGA crowd, REALLY?"
They are uneducated white males over the age of 65 and most are not in good shape.
Lots of beer bellies etc.
There isnt much of a pipeline of new people to join the MAGA ranks.
I read an interesting article on the millenials and Gen Z.
Gen Z is goint to completely turn the US upside down (Mostly in a good way)
What this means, is that the Maga bunch is going to be dead in 10 years with virtually no replacements.
Gen Z is just starting to hit voting age and they are NOT going to put up with this crap.
The Florida citrus industry is hurting because there is a blight destroying the trees down there.
If Disney wanted to, they could just mothball the whole Florida operation and decimate the Florida hospitality industry.
It would be expensive, but they would also take out much of the rest of the industry down there in collateral damage.
The highest point in Florida is 250ft above sea level at the summit of a garbage dump.
Sea rise will eventually reclaim much of the state.
Florida does not realize it, but thay have begun to circle the drain, likely with no recovery possible.
In 50 years, we have gone from it being possdible to be arrested for setting foot in a gay bar to a world
where much of the world just doesnt care if you are gay or straight.
In fact, gender is becomming irrelevant. Millenials only 65% identify as "straight".
Gen Z only 45% identify as "straight".
The drag queens and the transfolk are going to have a rough couple years, but its only going to be a few.
We are going to go from transfolk coming out of the closet to "and the Pope is Catholic" when someone comes out trans in a fraction of the time if took they gay community to do so.
Something to be careful about is making sure we DONT persecute the Evangelicals when they lose power.
Yah, they desperve it, but we should show them the christian mercy they refuse to show the LGBT+ community now.
As they say, its always darkest before the dawn. We just have to hang in there and wait for the MAGAs to start dying off (shouldnt be too long).
SO, enough with the soap box for now...
The Covid disaster has been declared under control.
Masking has been dropped, but by some quirk, after a couple weeks, Amazon Oak5 has been ordered to mask up again.
Most people are wearing their masks under their chins.
I am no longer triple masked, Ive dropped down to double masked, with a thick cloth mask and a paper surgical one under it.
I never un masked. Its unpleasant, but I havent had a cold since 2019 !
It depends where I am, sometimes I mask, sometimes I dont, but always at Amazon.
We have a half million sq ft which somewhere between 1/4 & 1/3 is taken by Oak7 fenced off from Oak5.
Oak7 closes this month and we will be expanding into that space.
Much of the summer, we will be a construction zone with new conveyors getting installed.
Another manager Im quite fond of is moving to Atlanta, and her last day was last Sat morning.
A couple process assistants Im fond of are also moving to other facilities.
When I started, I wore long trousers and after 3 months, having gone thropugh the knees, I went to cargo shorts.
I wore a canvas utilikilt on St Pats day, but this year, wearing through the crotch of the cargo shorts,
Ive been in the utilikilt since St Pats day this year. Its actually warmer than either ther shorts or the trousers.
Memorial Day, San Ramon Art & Wind Festival, KSW had the boiler trailer, the steam powered printing press, steam powered ice grinder for snow cones, steam powered rock crusher, and a steam powered refrigeration system.
Our best thermometer hits minus 40 and we passed that with the engine driving the coompressor
We were crushing gravel into sand, and making our tradional bar coasters for the event.
At the end of the weekend, we "blew down" the boiler venting pressure from the bottom to clean scale out.
The steam plume crossed 4 lanes and the median of Alcosta Blvd.
I dont know if we turned a profit on the snow cones or not.
I plan to march in the parade with Amazon ( GLAMAZON )
