Irish whiskey last night with a corned beef sandwich, then corned beef hash and eggs for breakfast. All the more enjoyable since I found out I do have a little bit of Irish in me.

Irish whiskey last night with a corned beef sandwich, then corned beef hash and eggs for breakfast. All the more enjoyable since I found out I do have a little bit of Irish in me.

But allow me to raise a glass in celebration of all my DU friends. You folks are the best. I wish I could meet every one of you in person. Imagine a cruise ship full of DUers. Wouldn't that be something?

My wife made Jambalaya in a wok.

We are packing to move soon, so we just kept a few kitchen items out and packed most of them. We kept the wok because of how versatile it is. It worked very well.

crooked, incompetant pile of bullshit I'm surprised the Gotti family haven't sued him for defamation.

and handed out MAGA hats. Imagint the reaction if Biden went there and handed out aviator sunglasses. I guess the red hats are an improvement over throwing paper towels.

We had a freak snowstorm yesterday and overnight. I live in Northern California in an area I have lived in for over 30 years. Usually years go by with no snow at all, maybe a little dusting every few years or so.

I live in a Senior Mobile Home park. We had over a foot of snow fall in about 18 hours. I know that doesn't sound like much to people in some areas, but it was a minor disaster her. About half of the carports, including mine, collapsed under the weight of the snow. Many of these aluminum awnings have been here for 50+ years. Most people took the precaution of getting their cars out from under them, but some didn't. About a half dozen cars are probably totaled.

We do have insurance but can't get through to them on the phone. We have been without electricity since 8:00 last night and the power company says to be ready for it to be out for an extended period of time. I do have a generator, and those of us that do are sharing as many watts as we can spare.

No one was hurt and all the mobile homes themselves are intact. Everyone is helping each other out. As one would expect in a senior park, there are many who need help, but we are all pulling together. My house is keeping the coffee flowing and the phones charged for those that need it. This is worse than any earthquake I've been in, and I've been in some big ones. We are okay for now, but I hope the power at least comes back on soon.

The worst part is we were days from putting our place on the market for a planned move to be closer to family. Now we have thousands of dollars of damage. Hopefully we can collect some insurance money then just sell the place as is at a reduced price and move on.


*Update: We recieved a check in the mail today for an amount that is quite satifactory. It will more than cover the damage, but we will just sell the place as-is and put the cash towards our move and the new place. Realtor says that since there was a lot of damage in the area inventory is low and she thinks we can actually raise our asking price a bit.

Let's see how much of the greatest page we can occupy with his name.

will one day listin to this one.