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Dead mouse in my 1550 gal rainwater capture tank at the ranch. I added a lot of unscented bleach but I don't know if I'll ever want to drink it.

Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so.

High today was 105, so we picked up blizzards by noon. Noticeably cooler in the hole. But still pretty miserable. Half is down to about 40". I won't be able to go up for a week or two, but I think I'm going to build a ladder. We put 2x8x16 blocks around the edge. Also got a nice sheet of treated plywood. Hopefully better next time I get a deluge. From the road:

Guess who had a delta 8 gummy and ordered two kitty cat baseball cards? This guy!

Lots of rain. May have to come up with a solution.

Up near Mullin where I got my hole a neighbor's gauge had 5.5 inches. The creek did rise. Go a mile north or south and it was 1 to 3 inches.

State worker perspective: Management is older. And maybe there is a Fox-news anti-millenial/GenZ angle too. But there is clearly a cadre who wants to see state workers come to the bright shiny new north capitol complex. The Leg spent millions, gotta see some buttons in seats. (Fwiw Perry was going to move agencies out into cheap endless low slung office complexes out on 130, but Abbot changed that to expensive high rises downtown). Fact is most state jobs pay sucks. Lots of 40-50k type wages. A lot of folks only make it because they bought a house in the 1990s. Virtually every new hire lives betlyibd Hutto or Smithville or Luling. Upper management is barely in the 100s, which isn't enough to live in the city. Add to that people carrying student debt, Austin's insane housing prices, and the cessation of the state pension as a carrot. The only way state govt will continue to function is to let folks work from home 90% of the time. They should also consider relocating functions that require being in the office to lower cost cities throughout the state. To the broader discussion: it doesn't matter one CEOs preference. What matters is what it takes to get and retain good folks. Stubborn codgers are just going to get rolled by market forces far beyond their control. They might not like it, but they will have to adapt anyway.

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! (But if I find Padre Lopez's 15 burro loads of gold and silver, I'm keeping it.)

Another $50 gas to work half ass for 2 hours or so. At about 20" there is a fragmented shelf of limestone. Not so bad past that. Some fist size rocks, but all in all relatively doable. Here's the work site. Deepest point is now 36". I have left a step in one corner. Need to blow out the rest down to deeper point, and the step. All buttoned up for the day: Pondering a steel set system. It would be skinnier (lagging on the inside), more permanent, and when I get down as far as I want to, easier to pour concrete along the sides.

He's a smart feller, not a fart smeller

Here is my plan: OSHA regulations stipulate that a pit of more than 5 ft needs support. So once i get that deep, I will start shoring. This is my hole digging hero How to timber: https://youtu.be/HooY2cFAvVU Cutting timbers: https://youtu.be/rWRS4TqebRE Digging the shaft: https://youtu.be/zAcElBWErT0 Putting in set: https://youtu.be/VdEPVP5EdgU

My neighbor's well about a quarter mile away is pretty shallow. Maybe 40 ft? So there is a maximum depth I'll reach. Realistically 20-23 ft would be deep enough to have a standing room side tunnel at the bottom. It'll probably kill me before then, though.

I got a new 27" transfer shovel coming in this week! Heat treated head, powder coated, D handle. A sexy shovel to add to my shovel arsenal. My current bag is 3 larger fiberglass shovels (one point, one transfer/flat, one post hole), and one smaller pointed shovel. So clearly this was a big need. It will be helpful when I get down on my knees and fill an old kitty litter bucket. The bigger shovels getting a little unwieldy. Spouse says no more throwing money into the hole for a bit. 😕 Hole got some good rain this week. Not sure how wet the hole will be this weekend. May need to start covering it up. But I think Thurs and Friday will be plenty dry - perfect conditions. Aside from the 97 degree high.

Seems like the blowing away cops sort of defeats the "arm more people" idea. My advice to whoever sold ARs or whatever to a edgelord 18 year old is to pack up and move away pronto. Or eat a bullet.

Official statement from Red Bull regarding alleged murderer Ms. Armstrong's subsequent flight from authorities: "Red Bull gives you wings!"

Conspiracy theory: monkeypox Russian bioweapon released at euro sex parties Conspiracy theory 2.0: monkeypox bioweapon released at euro sex parties to false flag blame Russians

My ranch hand and I got back out there. Built and erected a headframe. Just a swingset kit. Eventually we can hang a winch to pull up buckets when we get deep. I may try to figure out some way to drape a sun shade over it, although the scraggly trees worked ok for today. Moved into place: Got out the jackhammer Big enough to fit a kiddo now. We were only good for about 2.5 hours labor. But I feel like we made some progress. Mostly got down to the next layer. Started busting that up to.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKAjHQ9oAu8

All he had to do was stay in the "weird sci fi dude" lane and get universal love. Keep a low profile in culture war shit. And only try to fuck chick's that want to bang billionaires.

There is aggie talk of deploying the corps to guard the Century Tree against Bama tree poisoners. First I've heard of this tree (which has its own Twitter handle??) but I'm here for it.

Porno, right? You are making pornos?

Ah, bummer. I remember reading something like 32 deaths in 4.7M sales. Which is awful, but also maybe kmjust random noise? Those were magic for many.

I wonder if it calls into question the recall of the Fisher aprice rock n play. If millions and millions were in use, and 1 in 150k infants got SIDSz wouldn't some kids die and it not be the bassinet fault?

Nintendo Switch probably. Many classics, though some required subscription. But maybe you'd be happy enough with that retro Nintendo classic thing.

Hope those business plans accounted for 55% collapse in prices. Hoodl! Diamond hands! LOL