Cat in French is chat.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
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Cat in French is chat.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Ah, Google Translate to the rescue: Minou is kitty.
We've got Invest 93L set to come through in a couple of days. Not so worried about the wind, but we've been absolutely soaked the past several weeks. I just hope it isn't slow moving and gets out quick enough so that flooding isn't too bad.
Invest 93L???? Are tropical storms getting corporate sponsors, these days?
Sounds like you'll be getting soaked by an investment scam. They do tend to do that.
I had to look that up. While I didn't look for very long, I also didn't encounter an explanation for that name. It's a tropical depression, so it isn't a named storm, yet. The 93L is not so surprising, but where did the Invest come from?
Investing during a depression seems likely to produce poor choices.
Ohh, quite the opposite. Investing during a depression is the best time to earn the most money with a long time preference. As the old saying goes: buy low, sell high.
Yeah, if you have money to invest and a long horizon. The only major depression we have good stock market data for managed to last a pretty long time, and have a lot of businesses go bust. I wouldn't have wanted to be trying to decide which direction to go back then. That was a nasty time.
Before I read Murray Rothbard's America's Great Depression I wasn't aware that there were actually more millionaires created during the depression than anytime before it.
I did know, however, that Louisiana was so poor already that many didn't realize that there even was a depression.
That's depressing.
On a less depressing note, we're having great weather here. Low 90's for several days now. Very rare for July here.
It's been unreasonably cool here too. I see that the Northeast is experiencing a heat wave, but in South Louisiana it's been cooler than normal. This tropical development that, thank God, never formed is also helping it stay cool.
For context, our high for today was 85f where as it was 91f in 2024, 94f in 2023, and 93f in 2022. When you take in the "feels like" with humidity, a difference of 6 - 9 degrees is huge.
We're on fire, but only slightly, so far. It has been a reasonably comfortable July, with only a few days hitting triple digits.
This past week was cool, except for today. I'm glad my car has a fast-working AC.
I was cool this past week...the weather was not.
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Yeah, but were you this cool?
From about age 25 to 50 my cars didn't have AC. I use to pick my granddaughter up at 5pm and then spend 30min in rush hour traffic driving home when it was 108 degrees in the summer. Even worse, I had a car with an overheating problem and would have to drive with my heater on in the summer to keep the car from overheating. That's what happens when your poor. Luckily I was in pretty good shape back then. It would literally kill me if I did that now.
All the time I was growing up, every car had AC: You just opened the window.
We didn't have rush hour, let alone traffic.
There were those little triangular windows that directed air into the cabin.
Didn't you grow up in northeast? I've never got the impression hot weather was a real problem there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
There's only a few spots in town that have traffic backups. This road is the main way to go across town. That time of day it's just waiting at every signal light, sometimes multiple cycles. The old 2 60 AC works Ok if your moving, doesn't help when sitting still.