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I’m sorry to hear that about your wife. That cannot be pleasant. Hopefully her eyes get fixed up. Here there are advertisements on the radio about RLE, refractive lens exchange. Insurance does not cover this I don’t think, but it gives far and close vision in focus and never cataracts. They remove your lens and replace it with a new lens…[Read more]

I have ice seal the doors but nothing that thick. Wow.

It’s raining here again. Same old. Not cold, just typical winter weather here word.

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Yeah, that rain after the snow is killer. Provides a nice coating on the cars. It’s kind of nice looking until you try to open the door. 2.5 hours is a lot. Wow. That’s where you need one of those remote starters. Warm the car up and it thaws itself. First time I saw that was at Cub Foods in Apple Valley in MN. I was walking by a…[Read more]

I hope you all over there are ok. My son in DC is buried. I hope he is ok, but they had 20″ of snow and then turning to ice with a melt. Its a bad weather deal on the east coast for sure.

Seattle and New England are in the Super Bowl. Seattle’s gonna take it.

Take care, be safe, don’t shovel like you did in your 20s.

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I went to a financial planner yesterday. They have CPAs (actually our CPA coincidentally) and access to lawyers etc. I gave them our numbers and financial situation and they made me feel quite optimistic about retiring fairly soon. I’ll find out in a few weeks I think. So I may not be working too much longer. Maybe.

Yeah Cuban has made…[Read more]

Nah, not even Rutgers has hope!!!!

I’m an Alabama fan and was glad they made it in the playoffs. But when UI crushed them, I had to believe in UI. I did not expect Bama to win necessarily, but to make a fair showing. The NCAA div 1 is getting interesting.

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The game was outstanding. I’m glad UI won. But it was not easy. Both teams had great defense and offense. It was awesome!

My wife and I spent the weekend at Mt Rainier National Park. We stayed in a cute little cottage that had ineffective heat (we did not know that) and a low hearth and I cut my head on it as I was trying to get the…[Read more]

I am unaware of that tactic. But we do have an oregon school that is so far removed from every other oregon school that it is part of the WA HS sports. It is just south of the border from Walla Walla. I’ve been there and they are isolated from the rest of Oregon for sure.

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Funny you mention the lights. Not solar. But we have lights that light up the deck a little at night. My wife suggested we unplug those and see if the motion lights work. So I did, and the motion lights came on. So they are working, its just that the deck lights produce too much light for the night sensing. I would never have thought…[Read more]

It seems warmer here. I spent Sat removing old motion sensor lights and installed new ones. Of the two removed, one still worked so I put that on the shed. Unfortunately, I installed it too low and the door can’t close. So I have to fix that. Additionally, the new ones don’t work. So waste of a Saturday.

Our cities generally have…[Read more]

For the schools, they don’t need to lose teachers, they need to lose all the support staff. That is where the increased charges are held.
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Here, they are pushing people out. They raise taxes only, no reductions. No discussion of “we are raising this so we will reduce that”. It is only upwardly mobile. Last year taxes were raised 9 Billion, the largest in state history and this is due to ever increasing spending.

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Yes, that’s the key. Gotta keep busy. We are not in that situation. We are in the house that our kids consider their house. Been here 20 years. However, WA is considering an income tax even though that is patently against the state constitution. The State Supreme Court doesn’t feel constrained by silly little things like that. So it…[Read more]

Indeed. I remember when my Dad retired, I asked him if he would go back on contract and continue. And he said he was thinking about that. About 3 months went by and I had heard nothing. So I asked him if he was still thinking about going back. He said and I quote: WHY WOULD I GO BACK TO THAT PLACE!!!!! I figured that he had made the…[Read more]

Happy New Year Ryou,

I had the whole Christmas to New Year’s off. So I did not log in here. I hope your Christmas was very happy even with such a full house. We had 4 of our 6 kids for Christmas so that was good. It was great.

I was able to get rid of all the maple rounds that were left over from a tree cutting. They were very…[Read more]

8PM is awesome to be able to play there – Congrats to your #1 Grandchitlin’.

Temps here are moderate but will start to go down in a few days. But forecast is not to go under freezing yet. I’m sure it is coming. However there is a new flood advisory. We have major roads damaged. I-90 has two lanes closed due to erosion.
US 12 and…[Read more]

The little stream in our front yard crosses the property via an underground pipe. Sometimes it get clogged due to the amount of water rushing through and it floods the neighbors property. I look at it when it rains hard to make sure that is not a problem. There are a number of major roads that are closed so things are not great here. For…[Read more]

Well, we are sending more your way as the Pineapple Express dumps 3-5 inches on us again this week. Not cold. Will start sticking in the mountain passes Wed or so. Right now Steven’s Pass is closed for being washed out I think. Big ski area there. Snoqualmie pass is lower so they should be ok even though the ski areas there might get…[Read more]

Lots of rivers here are above flood stage and some are at record highs. Not a good deal word.

I hope you get to feeling better.

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We won’t get below 45F for the next 10 days. It rained 2 inches in the last 24 hours. It will continue to rain heavy for the next 10 days or so. 1.7 today, that may count part of the 2 inches. 2.2 inches wed. .55 inches thu, .2 Friday, .1 Sat, .35 Sun, .9 Mon, .4 Tue. That’s 6.4 inches in the next 10 days or so. During that time it is…[Read more]