@Jodi thank you!! Yes, I’m glad we got vaxxed on schedule this year !

My experience with Faz is minimal, but when I played one, it seemed rather on the too clean, sterile side. I wonder if the character is baked into the piano’s scale design to an extent.

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I'm assuming it means the employer is matching 4% of the employee salary into a 401K or other tax-deferred plan. The employee would effectively be saving the equivalent of 8% of their salary. Compounded over time that's a pretty good chunk of change. If that's what it is, I actually think it's quite good. It was for me. My company matched 3% and thirty years later I have a tidy retirement account. The magic of compounding....

I refuse to buy any refrigerated appliance that is connected. My GE Cafe stove is, but it's only good for firmware or software updates. I deleted the app on my phone as I really don't need to start the oven from the family room.

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Especially with the strength of the stuff now. I recently shared a joint with someone. It reminded me of why I haven't done that for 40+ years. It was not the fun silly little buzz it was in my youth, but felt more disassociative like PCP or something. I cannot imagine it helps anyone with any sort of brain or nervous function.

Was visiting the Porsche museum and learnt about this piece of pre-1900 EV history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egger-Lohner_C.2_Phaeton The Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton, erroneously called Porsche P1, is an electric vehicle built by Egger-Lohner. … It is powered by the "octagon" electric motor, that Ferdinand Porsche designed, which took its name from the eight-sided design of the motor housing. The electric motor can produce an output of 3 hp (2.2 kW) at 350 rpm and, for short periods of time, up to 5 hp (3.7 kW) with a top speed of 35 km/h (22 mph) by overcharging it. … On September 28, 1899, Porsche drove a C.2 that was entered in the Berlin road race, where it won the gold medal and crossed the finish line 18 minutes before the second car. It also came out on top in the efficiency test, where it was recorded as the lowest energy consumption vehicle in urban traffic.

@Rontuner So presumably it’s connected to… the internet? what year is it?

McDonald's used to be good. They were all good. Now they're all disgusting.

@wtg Yes, ours are tracked too, from when they send them, to when they receive them, to when they count them. I really appreciate it. I think you have to opt in for notifications, and we do. and then you get this! [image: IMG_3317.jpeg]

@jon-nyc said: @Steve-Miller said: … and go stay somewhere else. That was always my plan. The problem is when there’s a huge power outage everyone else has that plan and the nearby hotels fill up. Once I spent a week hopping between hotels every night or two for a week. You’d believe the reports that power will be restored tomorrow, then when it isn’t, and you call to extend, they say no because the room has been rented out. So I find another hotel. Then the same thing happens again. The next month I bought the generator. We have the same problem with hurricanes. By the time you need to rent a room there are none- zero. It's a fictional option. The y say conditions in shelters (I've been told) during hurricanes aren't ideal. In the case of my acquaintance his experience included backed up toilets and no toilet paper. The authorities come through with cars with sirens and bullhorns telling us to leave. I spent Helene at a friend's house in Pasco. I stayed home for Milton. Milton was the one they thought might hit Tampa directly. It wiped out much of Ft. Meyers instead Btw, Our power is underground. The power in HI isn't underground for residential. Drilling tunnels through volcanic rock- not happening. The privatized utility charges a fortune (I mean an astronomical amount) but never keeps the lines properly maintained vis a vis trees and underbrush. Better to give the money to the shareholders. Bog stand routine there. So in a storm, the poles fall over, the broken lines start fires, and towns burn to the ground. Oh, and if there's a hurricane in HI, there's really nowhere to go. You're ****ed.

@andyd I'll take #1. Stunning views and very private. I like #2 a lot. I would usually choose a house with land, but I'll take the villa. Love the view. Also that the property is enclosed the way it is- I think it would be like a castle. No need to tell strangers to get off your lawn. Interesting two choices. @bernard Really? I've never paid any attention to him. I know next to nothing about fashion designers. I love the setting. It is a little severe. I admit. @shirokuro I watch videos about houses, gardens, and architecture pretty much daily. I'd have to ignore my phone all day if I wanted to avoid the temptation.

Just one?

@kluurs holy cow! That’s a crazy huge number! also sounds like fun. In the end, we only had the two groups. There are some families with kids in the neighborhood, but we are at the end of our street. And we didn’t have decorations up earlier, so those factors might be part of it. Oh, and our immediate neighbors next door have two daughters but they are away, and our across-the-street neighbors don’t have kids. So maybe I could have predicted this, but we had more last year so I wasn’t expecting our turn out to be this low. There are two places in town (not our neighborhood but along the commute to work) that do amazing Halloween displays, one with a huge selection of those massive balloon characters, very very cute, young kid-friendly. The other is the scary kind, with giant skeletons, a skeleton dinosaur, a scarecrow man that looks like its must be 10 feet tall. I wonder how many visitors those places get.

California update. More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state’s voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant-rights group. It’s the first outside analysis of a list that the Department of Justice has used to threaten prosecution of election officials. The analysis also found that thousands of U.S. citizens appear to be flagged as ineligible to vote on the government’s list. The contention was made in a filing by two data analysts at the University of California, Los Angeles. They analyzed the 20,930 names that the department demanded that California election officials treat as possible illegal voters by separating their ballots during the vote count on Election Day. https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-noncitizen-voters-midterms-45b31d5aefb03723f0e59f6084e918d4

We’ve had two groups so far, and one of them was three boys not in costumes (they looked to be maybe 13 y/o and seemed sheepish!) There’s only 10 minutes left. Phooey!

Nevada and Connecticut won't for long. Link to video We get an extra hour of sleep tonight. Yeah.