What are you doing right now?

[City_Slider 2,716]

What are you doing right now?

We are starting the BBQ Season 2021 by +8°C right now. It´s cold outside and raining, but the Beer loves it... and me the Beer. The Steaks are waiting... and the Beer also ^^

Cheers

[spiritualfire 138]

First time posting in this thread:

What I'm doing right now is a combination of slacking/working. Not sure how to explain that other than by saying I'm letting my mother-in-law and wife clean the house the way they want while I sit here on my computer downloading content and dealing with a pre-waking migraine from this morning....

Also, not sure who to contact but the LEX isn't connecting for me. Page says it isn't directing properly, something about not accepting cookies.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Listening to the Yankee game...they are ahead of Detroit in a 2-0 pitcher's duel.

[Whte_rbt 1,431]

Currently taking a smoke break from typing up degree project. Keyboard would probably be on fire if I wasnt having to type with one hand after breaking my shoulder. Fun.

[City_Slider 2,716]

After 4 Day´s in Jail... (don´t ask) i´m checking the Board ;-)

Oliver

p.s.: i´m glad to be back...

[City_Slider 2,716]

+20°C... i´m gardening since 8 AM... and i love it. We see the Sun after many many Month :-) Thanks God for it... finally it´s SPRING!!!

Have a nice Weekend all :-) Oliver

[City_Slider 2,716]

7:25 AM... Breakfast Time ;-) it should need a bit (1 Hour).

[City_Slider 2,716]

I´m playing with the full SPAM Mode from Pegasus... and... its fun, to work with it.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Working from home today due to a Tele-Health appointment. I would have gone for a walk in the park for 45 minutes, but it's 94F out there, and there's a heat advisory in effect. I have two fans going in my den, which lacks a/c.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Lucky you, here its freaking cold (+18C°), windy and raining for the last 5 Days... no end in the Future. Germany are the new Everglades:-D

[Whte_rbt 1,431]

You southerners need to toughen up. +18C° is not cold. It's that temp here and I'm in shorts & T-shirt.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

12 hours ago, Whte_rbt said:

You southerners need to toughen up. +18C° is not cold. It's that temp here and I'm in shorts & T-shirt.

Kind of like when you Yankees come down here and look like you stepped through the gates of Hell, 5 minutes off the plane. 80 degrees with 90% humidity is a wonderful thing.

 

[City_Slider 2,716]

I´m working on a new Plugin Folder, with only Pegasus Files in there ;-)

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

I suffered through yet another Yankee loss and the Giants splitting a doubleheader in Washington DC. The Giants have a wonderful record, the Yankees stink, so one of my two favorite teams is doing well.

 

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

On 6/10/2021 at 8:53 PM, SIM-ple Jack said:

Kind of like when you Yankees come down here and look like you stepped through the gates of Hell, 5 minutes off the plane. 80 degrees with 90% humidity is a wonderful thing.

 

Air conditioning is what made the South's economic development possible. 

Paul Johnson wrote that in a book, "How We Got To Where We Are." He also discusses the importance of the sewer system.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

15 hours ago, Kiwiwriter47 said:

Air conditioning is what made the South's economic development possible. 

Paul Johnson wrote that in a book, "How We Got To Where We Are." He also discusses the importance of the sewer system.

Pretty sure it was cotton, sugar and tobacco, and, later, on and off-shore oil that made the South's economic development possible. Tell that to Paul, next time you see him. Cotton was King, so goes the motto, and there are pre-Civil War houses still supported by cotton bales. Up until the 1960's, ceiling fans were the main way to cool houses in the South, and swamp coolers in the South West. Central air  started getting retro-fitted in the 1970's. As for sewage systems, I think Emperor Caligula invented that(one of his few beneficial contributions to mankind).

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

2 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Pretty sure it was cotton, sugar and tobacco, and, later, on and off-shore oil that made the South's economic development possible. Tell that to Paul, next time you see him. Cotton was King, so goes the motto, and there are pre-Civil War houses still supported by cotton bales. Up until the 1960's, ceiling fans were the main way to cool houses in the South, and swamp coolers in the South West. Central air  started getting retro-fitted in the 1970's. As for sewage systems, I think Emperor Caligula invented that(one of his few beneficial contributions to mankind).

I was referring to the industrial 20th century and post-industrial 21st century.

However, I doubt that the owners of factories and mills in the South cared much about heat and cold levels in both facilities during any weather conditions, as workers there would attest. That led to a lot of court battles over child labor and union battles over the right to organize.

The most interesting one was the UAW vs. Henry Ford, who refused to give in until 1941, when the US government said, "If you want contracts, you have to allow elections." Ford may have been a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite, but he wanted that money. So the bitter old man grudgingly allowed his workers to vote whether or not they wanted to join the UAW. He thought they were so loyal to him because of his safety programs and Harry Bennett's private police, they would vote against the UAW or stick with the "company union."

They didn't. They voted to unionize in the UAW. Ford, aging and bitter, was stunned. When Walter Reuther came to negotiate the contract, Reuther expected a fierce battle from the Old Man. Instead, a flattened Ford gave the UAW everything it wanted. He gave up control of the company in 1943 to Henry Ford II, whose first act was to fire Harry Bennett and eliminate the goons. His second act was to tell Ford dealers to stop selling the "Dearborn Independent" which mostly reprinted anti-Semitic writings.

Meanwhile, Ford haunted his mansion, extremely depressed by the greatest war in history. He had backed Hitler, who was now a losing horse, and when the GIs liberated Dachau and Buchenwald, his grandson brought in the newsreel footage of Hitler's concentration camps. Ford, a pacifist and a Quaker, was so shocked by the grisly material, he suffered the first of the series of strokes that ultimately killed him in 1948. But I digress...

The South was dependent on agriculture then and now, and, of course, today on oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The agricultural economy of 1609 to the 1940s would have done better if it wasn't so labor-intensive and they had crop rotation back then. 

Last time I saw "Roots," with my family, I told them that if I was running some plantation back before the Civil War, I'd do two things.

1. Rotate the crops to end over-dependence on King Cotton. That would likely add to profits and efficiency.

2. Summon all the slaves to a meeting in front of the big house and tell them "You are now all employees of the Apple Wapple Company. You will be paid wages based on hours worked with overtime. There will be no use of whips or torture on Apple Wapple property. All Apple Wapple employee children -- and that includes mine and the staff -- will attend a school together. You will all be issued Apple Wapple Employee cars, which will function as 'Slave Passes' for when you have to deal with idiots. In 30 days time, I expect you to unionize and prepare for me a list of issues to be addressed by management in our contract. And the only sex between management and union will be consensual."

That might show a profit, make some lives better, and drag the Apple Wapple Company out of the "Old South."

[City_Slider 2,716]

I´´m watching our newest Kids. Born between 07/19 and 20.

Chipmunks... arent they sweet?

Two Girls and two Boys... Oliver

 

 

[AsimPika3172 1,129]

Watching badminton olympics live today! Malaysia Lee Zhi Chia VS French Brice Leverdez! 🏸

[City_Slider 2,716]

I´m watching the Rain... Drop by Drop are knocking on my Windows. Should i open it? Guess better NOT.

BTW... where is the Climate change? On Holidays? That was the coldest Year since i can drink Beer :-p. Well, let us see whats the next Spring is calling.

I can tell you this: He comes late... very late... very late and we get an hard Winter... trust me.

[AsimPika3172 1,129]

Visiting Islamic cemeteries for pouring water and throw flowers over the my late mother grave 😇