2nd day * 2 days unto the 4th = 8? Huh. Can't keep up with the passing of time anymore.

Looking to be a hot July this year.

 

No heat wave here yet--not like last year. I have new plants to fiddle with, and more landscraping tasks to finish. I'll get right on it.....

 

RIP Lee Iacocca, at 94.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/02/l...-ford-mustang/

Pop

 

I remember his commercials in the 80’s.



I had some fast bosses in the past, not directional, but mighty fast!

 

Whew, fireworks in the neighborhood went on till after 10:30 last night.
Pretty intense for a while.

 

11:30 here it still sounded like a pre-invasion bombardment.

 

How shaky have the recent earthquakes been in the LA area?

 

Rolling, a little bumpy. No big hit or jolt. Felt last nights while stopped in the explorer. Just short of causing worry about popped drywall.

 

That's one of the best descriptions I've read! I fully concur.

The one last night was a higher magnitude (7.1), and it rolled for longer, but not more intensly. At least where I was, which was at a McDonald's having a plain shake with friends.

The overhead lamps were swinging from their cords about 8 to ten inches.

The aftershock activity looks to be moving north along the Little Lake fault. Oh JOY! To refresh memories, lava is seen on the surface up in that area.

Pop

 

Glad no one was hurt. I feel for those in mobile homes.

So the 7.1 was the main event or 2nd foreshock?

 

That was my thought also Pop. Kind of interesting how the pattern is forming
That area by Little Lake is fairly new in geologic terms.

 

As of now it’s the main quake, but the way this is shaping up there may be more.

 

For once, the taxation of the California state government has been eclipsed by elsewhere, though i'm not really surprised by where.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritz...inois-gas-tax/

Lucky Sean!

Pop

 

I think we have painted ourselves into a corner when it comes to taxes. We all should remember the "small government" and "reduce the deficit" talk of roughly 30 years ago. But it seems to me 9/11 and the subsequent wars put that idea on its ear.

Then there is infrastructure. The massive post WWII projects are coming due for major repair or replacement. I was just back east and travelled Boston to Philly to Arlington, to DC to Gettysburg to Hershey and back to Boston. Some of the potholes could be counties. Looking up a the steel bridges makes you a little ill. Ditto out here--pot holes, big projects in progress on the I-5 and 99, and those damn light rail projects--which do haul a lot of folks at peak times. Then there are the public employees and school teachers. Some bad deals have been made, but short of going BK as a city, county or state, we are on the hook for the pay and benefits. With unemployment so low, it's not like your going to break the public service people with cheap contracted labor.

We need leadership that can tidy up some of this. But tidy or not, we have a big nut to crack, and I don't see current CA leadership willing to do much of anything but make it worse. And it's not like there's a big austerity mindset in the White House.

I've been nagging the wife in so many ways to get out of here. She's a native, so it's going to take a lot hotter water for that frog to jump out of this pan. That said, our capital gains hit for selling this overpriced dump would buy 200 acres with a gator farm and circle track in the Florida panhandle....

Looks like I'm staying here for a while.

 

Bonus, we have tollways too.