E4 No More

Yeah, I was just about to correct myself.

But if you look at the date it ended as 3# yesterday. It is nowhere near #3,

Did you notice the sidearm too?

My son and his boss were sent home from work yesterday due to fever. Both of them went for flu and corona virus testing. The flu results take 24-hours; the corona results take days. If the flu results are negative he'll have to isolate for a month, and he doesn't get sick pay. With my underlying issues I would likely die from it if I caught it, so no seeing my son or grandson for a month.

The Sheriff in LA County just reversed himself on his stupid decision using this advisory to save face.

That's exactly what I mean by legwork. You either set-up your stand and pray for a random deer to walk within range of you during the appropriate hours, or you scout the area to determine the most likely place you'll find a suitable deer to shoot during the appropriate hours. My understanding if that can take quite a while to perform.

No offense taken, (nor do I intend disrespect towards you or any others), but I've seen hound-hunting of raccoons and bear performed over my 59 years on this earth, and that's all I need to form my personal opinion of it which is that there's little challenge to it - unless you are too out of shape to keep up with the dogs, but that's more about conditioning than skill. As I said before, I am NOT a hunter. I am not a hunter because I don't even want to sit in a tree hoping to snipe a deer when I don't like the taste of the meat. I'd only eat wild animals if I had no other choice. I have no problem with people killing animals for meat, population control, or because of nuisance. My own sister hunts deer and turkey every season to help feed her and her husband for the year, and I have no problems with that. It's just not for me at this point in time.

They might tax you for it whether you return it or not. It is the government, after all.

Yeah, now that I think about it that's probably true since they see in grey scale and the bear hunting is presumably in the daytime. But the other things hold true.

Yes, much of it is about location and the capacity of the providers. The idea of SD-WAN is to load balance different connections, and ideally, broadband connections from different providers altogether. The whole "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" school of thought. It is well suited to keep minimal traffic on important MPLS links and use the broadband for cloud services. Level 3 I don't personally hold as better from a technical sense. Those A-holes used to be one of my customers and would have me do their switching solutions. When I applied for the actual position that was always asking me for help they ignored my application.

I got suckered into that crap by my high school music teacher when I was 18.

I sell Ethernet switches and Software-Defined WAN devices. Neither would really help with VPN bandwidth into the businesses from increased number of WFH employees. The latter could with load-balancing multiple MPLS and broadband connections to their VPN concentrators, but understandably, now is not the time for business to do something radical to their infrastructure unless they were absolutely incapable of sustaining it now. And I couldn't stomach Pelosi and Schumer's BS either.

I have no issues with giving money to those workers who need it. I do have issues with arbitrarily giving it to some and not to others like people over $100k can't be financially impacted by what's going on - although I also have issues with sending money to those who do not need it. Being in networking sales, what I made in 2018 is not an indicator of what I'll make in 2020. What I make in 2020 will be heavily dependent upon how quickly the economy recovers. Right now companies are buying notebooks to accommodate working from home, so I'm a touch jealous of what my counterparts in computer sales are doing. So to sum it up I'm conflicted.

I don't hunt at all, (although I would if I needed to), but at least in a tree stand you have to do some leg-work figuring out where best to place the stand - or go by blind luck. Dogs have much better eyesight, hearing, smell, and speed than a human. I'd be more impressed if a pack of humans were to tree a bear.

I understand that they are going off of the AGI of your 2018 taxes; therefore, my wife and I certainly won't get $1,200 each. I'm actually conflicted about this. On the one hand I support a disabled daughter and her three kids, and on the other hand I don't want to contribute to this insanity.

Proof that someone will make a meme out of anything to say what they want.

You'd think, but I have seen them scrape the trees off an entire hillside to put in apartments on Old Hickory in southern Nashville on a couple of occasions. But like you said, back to the pandemic.

Well, that certainly makes sense. Unfortunately, the stores near me haven't been stocked - although I haven't been in one since Saturday. The only meat they had was frozen turkeys and whole briskets. No toilet paper or paper towels. No cleaning supplies or hand sanitizer.

Thanks, Erik

I resemble that remark!

What TP? I still can't find any in the stores.

On another note that's pertinent to your industry, if the world was so interested in the levels of CO2 then why don't they promote the planting of trees? Trees eat up a lot of CO2 and return oxygen. It sickens me to see contractors who knock down every tree on their lot to build ____, and then plant a couple of Bradford Pears in replacement. Also, there's a lot of wasted space in huge cloverleafs that could be planted with trees. Once again, the simple solutions remain ignored by the left because it really doesn't fit their agenda.

For the most part, models are computer-generated predictions and thus follows the "Junk in; junk out" rule of computing. This is the source of my skepticism of the whole human-caused climate change model - particularly since it was discovered that the modelers had an agenda. In a manner it distresses me that scientists have come to rely on computer models so much. While I get that the bigger things absolutely require massive computer analysis it also lends itself to faulty modeling, and that's where common sense must prevail.

That's when I did mine too. They came back better than they left. They have been reliable but I'm not a shoot-a-holic.

Scratching her itchy hemorrhoids.