In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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BRENDA, you must REALLY have been in a cramped situation! It sounds to me like you were forced to move into a teeny tiny place with all of your wordly possessions quite a while ago, and you're FINALLY getting a chance to unearth/unpack your things, and make a home for yourself! I'm glad that you're able to arrange your things and make a nice place for yourself. It must be so pleasant to be able to revisit memories, and to be able to invite people over and have a place for them!
I'm happy for you!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
SIG, I was. I couldn't unpack because there was no place to put anything. All I had unpacked at the other place was the basics and even then that wasn't much.
It is good to be able to even use the word "home" to refer to where I am living. And it does feel more like home. I've got a good number of pictures done up. With more ideas for things.
Once I am more organized and get a couch, I will have people over.
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Message from my brother yesterday. He said that he is being transferred from the hospital where he is to another one in his own city. He still needs some rehab. He had a bad gash on his left leg.
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KIKI, here in the flatlands some people felt it and some people didn't. I was out weeding in the front yard and moving around so I didn't feel a thing. Hubby had just stepped out onto the front stoop to offer me a cup of coffee and was standing still and he felt it.
I'm still chugging ahead with my earthquake preparedness. I had rinsed and refilled my two 55-gallon barrels and found that one of them had developed a crack - in the bottom, no less- so that one is no longer useable. So I'll be scrounging around for another barrel or alternate water storage. I figure one gallon per day per person for one month. Presumably afer a month emergency supplies will be brought in, and/or they will have energency repairs made and central water-distribution taps that people can fill up at.
Still sick from the previous sore throat, coughing and wheezing; hubby developed ear infection/ dizziness / deafness. The only person to have recovered 100% is dear daughter.
Anyway, I put myself on a "schedule" which is the only way I'll consistently get things done, and that means clearing out the two things that I kinda hate doing early in the AM when it's still relatively cool, and that's taking the dog for a walk and weeding. Once that's cleared out of the way (when family is still usually asleep) I can work in the kitchen while hubby and I talk geopolitics (his favorite topic!). Once THAT'S done I can make progress on all of the "projects" going on around here, starting 1PM. Dinner at 7PM, that's the plan.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Hey Jack
If it's any consolation, you probably lived in your place for less than $150/month, in terms of taxes and utilities. And I think you'll get at least 50% of your original investment back, if not 80%.
And that's not nothing!
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Yeah... that's the way I'm looking at it. I figure if I get $30k I'll be alright with it, if not exactly ecstatic. Really hoping I can get at least $50 for it though. My friend who's into real estate seems to think I could get $60k and said if it wasn't for his fiancee he'd offer me that right now. He said he'd still might if they want another rental property. I'm not going to hold my breath on that one though. The market here has recovered quite a bit since I bought it near the bottom. I also did put a lot of work into it the first few years I lived here, and none of that work is compromised. It's just a shame that these issues are way out of my wheelhouse. I'd be able to sell for a profit already if they didn't exist, and if I'd been able to put just $10k more into the house before I sold it I could probably nearly double my money without them.
Got to do something soon though. Like I said, the problems aren't going to go away on their own and they're getting worse at an exponential rate.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIX. Life, as they say, is what happens as we make other plans. I'm sorry to hear that progress on your house it out of your hands. Sometimes things like that happen.
Sounds tho like you have a goal in mind, and that's to move someplace smaller and closer to your brother. It's good to have a goal to look forward to, instead of just treading water! Also, will you have AC??
Where I grew up, our bedrooms were basically a converted attic, right under the roof. The roof was well-insulated, but there were no windows facing west (where the wind usually blew from) and no cross-breeze, and I remember having an EXTREMELY hard time getting to sleep. I didn't realize it then because I was just a little kid, but it was just too damn hot. So I know a little about hot humid weather, and I know it's worse the further inland you go. I think I got my hatred of hot weather from that experience.
May I make a suggestion? For your next job, set your sights higher? You're a smart guy, you know how to problem-solve. Maybe there will be a responsible position where your problem-solving skills are an asset, and you don't have to be a droid manager. Licensed hanydman? Software developer? Not sure what fits your skillset, but I have faith in you.
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Thanks.
I'm not worried about anything. Just like the loss of my job, I just needed some time to wrap my head around everything and "mourn" for lack of a better word.
I built up pretty good rapport with the realtor. She's old enough to retire, but loves what she does so she keeps doing it. I asked her about the job situation down there and she said her husband works at the Caterpillar plant and they're having a hard time getting good people that stick around. She then went on to talk about the "kids" these days and how they don't want to work and told me a story or two about people her husband must have known who didn't make the cut.
Asking myself the question "do I really want to work full time" might not be an option for me going forward anymore, at least until I put a sizable amount back in a bank account, anyhow. I let her know that when I first called her I thought I'd be coming down there with quite a lot more money than I likely will be now. The house I like that we looked at might not be something I can purchase without a mortgage at this point. It wouldn't be much, but it would still be a mortgage. Even if I manage to eek out enough in the sale of my current house to barely cover it, I wouldn't want to leave myself with virtually nothing and feel that panic of living paycheck to paycheck that I haven't felt since my early 20's.
Banks don't typically like giving loans out, even small ones like this, unless you have quite an established work history, so even if I have a decent job down there I might not be able to secure the cash I need unless I can get somebody to co-sign the loan with me. I'd like to think that would be an option, given that I'm really the only one in the position to move right down with my brother and they'd know that I'd be down there within a few miles of him (the house I like right now is only 3 blocks away, actually).
At the end of the day here, I'm still a lot better off than a majority of Americans. I'm going to have to do something about my income situation, but as far as cash on hand and whatever this house is still worth, I'm not in terrible shape. Even if my worst fears come true and I can't even get rid of this house for less than $30k.
I was talking to my mom and step-dad about it when I got back and said it's not as if I didn't learn a lot and improve myself while this was all going on. I also felt that maybe it came just a bit too easy for me this time around and I didn't appreciate it like I should have either. Sure... I had to sacrifice a lot of things to save up that kind of money, but let's face it... I&#
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Looks like it is raining. But I have things to do.
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Found something else in a strange place. My dad's discharge papers.
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New major quake supersedes previous quakes, making the previous 'big' 6.4 quake a fore-shock.
7.1
17km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA
2019-07-06 03:19:52 UTC-0.9 km
Though it's named for Ridgecrest, it appears to be along the NW/SE Searles Valley earthquake axis, to the NW of the previous cluster. About 5 - 10mi to the NW of this new quake and cluster is a smaller cluster of new, 'smaller' earthquakes (up to magnitude 5.5) listed as Little Lake.
I had just got in my car and turned it on. It was a quite distinct NE/SW directional irregular shifting back and forth that lasted appx a minute, which is quite an extended time.
fwiw the largest earthquake I've experienced at close range was the M5.9 Whittier Narrows quake and I was basically on top of it - a quarter mile off. Log scales being what they are, a roughly M6 earthquake is 1/10 of a roughly M7 earthquake.
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Looking at the earthquake map, and completely unrelated? to the recent large quakes I see three nearly parallel faults starting where the San Andreas branches off near Loma Linda. The main part of the San Andreas continues running to the SE, through Thousand Palms and east of the Salton Sea. Another fault set starts just to the west of the San Andreas around Loma Linda and branches off to the S then curving and running SE parallel to the San Andreas. They become a series of braided faults called the San Jacinto fault zone, west of the Salton Sea and down to near Mexicali. And west of those faults is a separate parallel set of braided faults, running SE to the west of Mexicali.
ALL of them have been very active over the last few days.
The more northern part of the San Andreas has been very active from San Fran SE to Simmler. The section SE from Simmler to Loma Linda is quiet. So everything's moving except for the section north of the San Gabriels, from Simmler SE to Loma Linda at the eastern end of the San Gabriels.
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