I have heat!
Finally! What a difference a month makes. I began the process of ordering a new super duper heating unit a month ago. Took 3 weeks to get it. Reason: Shipped directly from China. Then a week to figure out how to use it. Seven years higher education was of no value.
Victory mine, however!
Elon Musk is not one of my favorite persons. However, perhaps I shall reconsider my feelings.
The reason my new heater I was finally able to use last night. With spectacular results!
It is tiny. The body itself plugs into an electric socket. Within moments , a room is totally heated.
I do not know the name of my unit. Not on it anywhere, nor the box it came in, nor the box shipped in directly from China. But, it is exactly the same in every respect as the one held on the internet this morning by Elon Musk. Musk in the article is described as its creator. The article calls it the Ultra Air Heater. The one pictured lacks any printed information on it, including its name.
All I know is it kept me warm all night. At the moment it is 61 degrees outside and I am writing this blog wearing only a tee shirt. A far cry from the past 3 weeks of being bundled in everything I could find.
I must give credit where credit is due. The new heater is tiny (size of 4 packs of cigarettes) and costs $39. Available via Amazon under many different names.
Key West weather 61 degrees at 7 am. No problem for me with the new heater. The high today will be 72. Low during the evening 64.
Today’s podcast China and Tampons. Tastefully done. Surprising. I did the podcast 6 years ago.
Syracuse lost to Duke last night by 20 points 86-66. It was Syracuse’s game in the first half. Duke came back strong in the second. Syracuse’s defense faltered dramatically in the second half.
Boston College next on wednesday January 10.
Drones are graduating. No longer will be used only for waging war. Beginning this year, we will have “delivery drones.” Reportedly will be “mainstream.” Meals, prescriptions and household items at your doorstep in less than 30 minutes.. Imagine, no longer will a multi-ton vehicle be required to deliver a 5 pound package.
On this day in 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs and 2 others.
Benito Mussolini asserted his right to “supreme power” this day in 1925, thereby effectively becoming Italy’s dictator.
Such did not occur overnight. Mussolini worked within the confines of the Italian constitution to accrue power, eroding democratic institutions until his movement gave way to his speech on January 3, 1925, before the Italian Parliament.
Sound familiar?
Today’s white Christian nationals are looking more and more like Nazis. Reflective of what our government will look like if Trump is reelected in 2024. The new government under Trump will make Hitler and Mussolini’s look like kid stuff. I “kid” you not.
A sign Florida voters want their say on abortion. Directly from them, not their legislators or courts. A group called Floridians Protecting Freedom has been collecting signatures to place a proposed Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in 2024.
Required are 891,523 valid signatures. Thus far 864,000 have been collected.
The way the issue should be decided! Of course, the State is opposing the move. Already Florida’s Attorney General has filed a court challenge regarding the wording of the summary that would appear on the ballot.
I never made it to the Grand last night. He who was to assist me with the last step in making the heater operational did not show up till after 4. Tonight will be different. I have a need to get out. It will be Brady’s Irish Pub at 6:30 for me.
Enjoy your day!
It sure seem to me that evil is the root of all organized religion.
I say this without malice and only after having watched the news on FOX TV.
Hey Lou, I didn’t notice any comments from you about Claudine Gay the president of Harvard who resigned! Lou you have 7 years of higher education and I’m no doubt a tremendous amount of ethics. Harvard has expelled numerous students for plagiarism. Claudine Gay wrote about 12 papers and few short notes and currently has about 50 examples of plagiarism in those works. Oh wait, her liberal defenders claim she didn’t plagiarize, she just “mis-cited” some of her work! Lou, why is she allowed to keep her $900k plus professor position at Harvard? I can’t for a moment imagine Syracuse would keep her as a professor.
Hey “In Eyw” I haven’t noticed any comments from you about Donald Trump former the president of the United States as having told nemerousn lies and “mis-statement.”
Odd how YOU are so quick to complain about Lou not mentioning someone else, yet YOU YOURSELF seem to be OK with that when it suits you!
Talk about hypocrites yeash!
That’s because Donald Trump is not Black and In EYW only comments when it has to do with black people do something he doesn’t like.
Hey Lou, who said anything about the race of Claudine Gay. I certainly did not. Only Katz seems to have gone down the racist road! Gay should have been fired from her Harvard President position because of her anti-Semitic comments and then fired from her professorship because of her plagiarism. Lou, that’s what I’m sure you would hav expected and wanted from Syracuse!
WHO YOU KIDDING?
You have a long history here of posting disgusting racial hate! Had Claudia Gay been white YOU would NOT have posted.
Hey Lou, quite to the contrary of Karen’s hateful comment, if you check my posts, there has never been a racist comment ever made by me. Try to prove me wrong! My comments, you may not agree with, but I try my best to deal with the issues. Karen I can pretty much guarantee I have donated more time and money to predominantly African American charities and organizations than you have. There’s a good chance the amount of money I have donated to African American causes is more than all of Lou’s posters combined.
Total bull sh*t, you have been a persistant troll for a long time, using different names when ever Lou has finally had enough of your crap.
You are a hateful, racist piece of crap, only trying to stir up trouble, so that you can cry how abused YOU are.
…and your donations BS shows once again exactly how your third grade mind really works. Buying chicken fingers at Popeye’s is NOT a donation to African American causes, no matter what you think!
Hey Lou, I’d like to genuinely extend an apology to Karen. I would never want my thoughts to upset someone to the point they start yelling and name calling. Recognizing there are other points of view is healthy and I appear to be one of the only ones here who gives a different viewpoint. It’s part of civil discourse. And no, I don’t use other names here,(no, I’m not Patrick!lol). Karen, I would be more than happy to give Lou all my info and he would see my claims of charity and volunteering are accurate. In the mean time, Karen, enjoy the weekend and we can chat again soon.
No one said you were Patrick, don’t put words in our mouths.
We all daid you were a liar and a troll, both of which I at least stand by.
Want to prove you are not a troll or a jerk, STOP POSTING BULL SH*T.
My guess is that ANY money you might have given to ANY black organization (apart maybe from Popeyes) was court ordered as restitution for fire damage YOU caused to one of their churches.
But this wasn’t about you giving money to black charities, It was about, out of the blue, criticizing Lou for NOT criticizing the now ex-president of Harvard for plagiarism. Even though that wasn’t something even in Lou’s blog.
…so don’t pretend to be some sort of victim