Know_not_Scotty_does

If anyone asks I just say I voted for the president. Anyone asking me that doesn't need to know and anyone who knows me already knows based on my personality.

Don't forget Republicans trying to distance themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

I'm not a fan of how they fit or their toe seams.

I haven't thought about Gaslight in a while, I need to mix them back into rotation.

It was a new one for me as well. I have been on a Morello kick the last few days and I stumbled on it.

Pass into the iris yes, the ice cream machine is still broken.

Accidentally

I was told that I gave one of our young engineers a "crisis of conscience" for telling him about how a product we were developing needed some more work and testing because we didn't have enough data on it to release it for use.

Somehow management decided that I was poisoning the company and was toxic for not releasing a partially tested product that could either get people sick or set things on fire and then get people sick.

I was told to get on board and apologize to the young engineer for being a bad example or leave. I started polishing my resume, then turned in my resignation.

I spoke to the young engineer in a friendly and non-acusatory manner and he denied staying any of that to management, he claimed he understood what I was telling him and he agreed with my statements. We still keep in touch.

Ride until you break stuff, then upgrade what broke or what's limiting you. Logical increments is a great way to live imo.

Yeah if my wife's family wasn't here and unwilling to move, I would be somewhere less hostile and more functional too.

To run a heater or ac, you need a significant generator. I have been looking at battery systems and to run an existing residential ac, its like 10k and you need two inverters. Where I am, the power failures have been minimal and manageable (30 minute intervals every couple months) The exception was Hurricane Beryl and we were out of power for 3 days. I intermittently ran a generator for our fridge and the neighbors to charge stuff but even running a window unit was not an option on our 5000w generator. It burned maybe 2 gallons of gas?

Running an electric central air heater is also essentially out of the question. With a gas heater, you just need to run the fan and not heat the elements.

Despite the health risks, that is why we still use. Gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas dryers, and a gas stove in our house. I want the fallback of running stuff without power. The grid is also shitty to the point (in some areas) that it fried my uncles induction stove, fridge, and ovens even living in a major city.

That also wouldn't have helped during the winter storm in Austin because the gas supply basically froze and lost pressure so those folks were really hurting.

I think the big built in generators run 15k plus and run off natural gas. I did learn that they also require a maintenance subscription (because of course they do) and thats like 2k a year iirc.

Check your homeowners insurance cost and property taxes before you start talking about how cheap houses are in Texas. It can run $18k/year in insurance and another 10k in property taxes for a $400k house... If you put 80k down on a $400k house, the mortgage is roughly $2100/month in principle and interest, plus another $933ish per month for Property taxes($5000/year), insurance($5000/year), and hoa fees($1200/year). Your housing cost is ~$3k/month. Property taxes go up every year on top of that. They are limited to a 10%/year increase but historically, that translates to basically a guaranteed 10%/year increase, especially in the last 10 years. Insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 10 years as well.