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https://youtu.be/3T92rCMQOMI?si=tjBj12XnFcKTN55-
A great piece of orchestral music as we roll into the 1st full week of November.
The bunnies have been busy.
Hey 
Buc-ee Gas Station: It seems this left coast communist has been shooting his mouth off about you.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/matty-matheson-bucees-18965445.php
Isn't that an act of war?
Sure is, and it is a war he won't win. Nothing can win against Buc-ee's restrooms.
You know... When considering Buc'ee's assets, I think I would have gone with the banana pudding, the sandwiches, or even the Beaver Nuggets™, or just about anything else before offering up the surgical suite clean crappers.
True, you got a point. Still it ain't a battle he's going to win.
I watched the A&M game last weekend because UK isn't that good so I couldn't be bothered... I think 
Gig em Aggies is going to ban me from watching Aggies games after that one...
Reminder to go vote today if you're in America. Make your voice heard.
https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/HON301/franchise.pdf
Once again on election day, I will read the short story "Franchise" by Asimov. Polling is down to such a science that the supercomputer can pick the next leader based off the opinions of one person.
Nah I was too busy yelling at my tv about how we can’t tackle the South Carolina qb, to notice you.
Hopefully we all voted like we were curing cancer.
Good story. I haven't thought of that story in decades.
This in relation to the election. If so there was more life in the Florida State offense then at the Harris rally they showed on TV
ROFL!!!
Trump won. The United States will remain a free country for a little bit longer.
But President Trump didn't just win, he won by a landslide with what is shaping up to be 312 electoral votes and more than 4 million in popular vote. The senate is flipped red and it is starting to look like the house will remain red.
Now for some most excellent swamp draining.
Now that the election is over, it is time for some words of reconciliation.
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1854294754239930760
Well hold on we (A&M) needs the swamp and some gators to take down the longhorns this weekend
Tony Todd, an actor who played the killer in Candyman and its 2021 sequel and appeared in the Final Destination franchise and Platoon among more than 240 film and TV credits spanning 40 years, died November 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69
In the Trek world he is most known for playing Worf's brother Kurn in four episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also played a Hirogen in Voyager and an Adult Jake Sisko in that tear jerker DS9 epsiode The Visitor
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The Amazon packages arrive no problem. Loose mail from friends and family have yet to arrive.
Fascinating
Amazon has far better logistics than the USPS. That is why Amazon is setting up their own "last mile" delivery in any region with a population greater than a couple teepees and a coyote.
Kind of sad, ain't it?
The USPS is a government operation. Performance is not a priority.
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We had EV fire number three and half[1] in our district this afternoon. This one was a Tesla sedan. I don't know what model, but the owner said it was coming up on three years old with over 30,000 miles on it. He and his family were on their way home from a week at Disney. He told us that the only warning he got was a battery temperature warning. The car dropped his speed to a crawl. He pulled off the highway. When he stopped the Tesla shut down completely.
He had no idea the car was on fire at this point. He sat in the car trying to wake the thing back up for several minutes. At some point, his wife noticed smoke coming from under the car on the passenger side. They bailed out of the car, each one opening a back door and grabbing a kid. She called 911 while he went and rescued cell phones, luggage and souvenirs.
First units in arrived six minutes after the 911 call at 4:20 p.m. By this time that car was making satanic sounds and blowing flames from underneath.
Based on previous experience and training, we set up the porta-pond[2], and began pouring water on the damned thing. (Yes I meant that in the biblical sense.) But there is a problem with putting these EV battery fires out. We can't get to the batteries. Those batteries are in armored enclosures. The little tiny cracks and crevices that are venting flame like giant blow torches with really toxic smoke are not conducive to allowing water in. In fact, they are designed that way intentionally.
For a one car fire, we had three pieces of equipment, a pumper, the brush truck, and the large tanker out of service (unavailable for call in the district) for just a touch over six hours on a car fire. For reference, a fully involved car or small truck fire would rarely go beyond an hour on scene. This is significant because as a rural fire department that is half our trucks. (Not counting the ambulances.)
As a bonus, burned EV's have a nasty habit of rekindling one or two times in the next 72 hours. The first one we put out lit off again in the tow yard the next day. Or local tow driver now puts EV's in a large open top roll off container. That way, if it goes off again, we can simply flood the dumpster. (He really hates EV's...) Our training tells us that after an EV fire, the jostling of being loaded or hooked and then towed has gotten them going again on several occasions. So the brush truck was out of service even longer because it followed the tow truck to the tow yard and stayed while Stewart unload Firestarter™ into the roll off and secured the door.
Got to tell you, I'm not a fan of federal mandates on private industry. But in this case I am willing to make an exception. EV manufacturers have got to make a way to rapidly swamp those batteries with a tanker full of water during a fire. I understand the reason for armoring the cases. I get it. Our first EV fire was the result of a piece of the brake system from a semi-trailer knocking a hole underneath an early model Tesla. But this is freakin' ridiculous. We were basically keeping the fire from spreading while it burns itself out, happily melting it's way into the asphalt the whole time.
What a pain in the... seat. Now to go shower and see if I can get the smoke stink off me.
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[1] The half was an electric bicycle that went up while charging in a garage.
[2] A frame that unfolds to about three feet deep and roughly 12 feet square, a heavy rubberized canvas liner is set up in it that holds several thousand gallons of water. It is used when fighting a fire where there are no hydrants close by. The pumpers pump out of it while the tanker runs for more water.
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