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In this video a bail bondsman (woman) accompanied by her son meets with a client in the bail bondswoman's office. She gives him an order and he disobeys her.

Wow...

This is good.

Note:WSJ Sunday publication.

Workers complaining because McDonald’s would not raise their wages might want to start looking for other jobs sooner rather than later: CEO Steve Easterbrook has announced that by 2020, every McDonald's in the U.S. will be stocked with self-order kiosks.

1,000 stores will get the new kiosks every quarter for the next two years; they already exist in around 3,500 of the roughly 14,000 domestic outlets. Half of the McDonald’s in the United States will feature the kiosks by the end of this year; the locations in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. are running ahead of the American stores.

Many 'South Africans' s now living abroad still have property and farms in SA which they rented out for a small amount or basically just asked family or friends to watch over it when they decided that this country was no longer fit for them.
The Gauteng government wants to “immediately” expropriate without compensation privately owned land lying idle.
Premier David Makhura said the province was completing an audit of all unused privately owned land to test the Constitution instead of waiting on the parliamentary process currently reviewing the property rights clause of the Constitution.
“There are tracts of land, others just being used for speculation, other land parcels have been abandoned by landlords living overseas waiting for one day to sell the land to developers at huge profits.


I think this is fair.

I also think that this situation is an ideal time for an enterprising entrepreneur to start a business where it will find appropriate tenants or occupants to occupy some of these properties at a handsome fee, (houses, Blocks of flats, hotels, prime farms etc.) while the owner makes a plan to sell or whatever he/she thinks fit so as not to lose totally on the deal..
Many pro's and cons to take into consideration here.

Is this a bad idea or will one pick up too much flak from the government?
Personally I'm not interested in this but know of people that are.

I'm into my 4th year living in a condo and every year the HOA monthly rates go up. It was $450 the first year and now over $625. Much of the increase was due to rising insurance. I attended an association meeting last month and the president (of the association) stated some of the expenses the residents have to pay was mostly for the roof and structure insurance.
She stated, they keep a surplus because coming up will be the expense of re-roofing which is done should it fail inspection. Historically they try to avoid special assessments when something in the building fails.
I noted the vent fans in the elevator have rusted and ceased working, it appears it's not covered in the maintenance agreement with the elevator company and will have to wait for some other event to be considered.

Today in Yahoo Finance they ran a story about condo owners in Florida hit with a 563% increase. Not to get political about this, I think the governor should be working on a plan to help lower insurance rate hikes.


Before this move, I lived in a 70 year old house without a mortgage so no one monitored that I didn't have insurance coverage. Old style construction so I took my chances and was very lucky nothing happened, like a hurricane taking my roof off or the original wiring going up in smoke. It became an issue for the new buyer to obtain insurance for a structure that hadn't been insured prior to the sale.

My current neighbor does building maintenance and his wife is a realtor so they have connections about the development. Many of the residents are in their 80's and retired for many years, unexpected increases have them strapped for funds where some of them were forced to sell and move to assisted living facilities... what a horrible thought.




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I wore construction boots when I was a project manager, as a good part of my day was on jobsites. It's a requirement by OSHA to wear thick sole, steel toe shoes when in a construction environment.
Job change and the boots were put aside.
Yesterday, I had an appointment to measure a new project that is in the 'framing stage' where all the partitions are going up, prior to electrical and plumbing. Lots of sheet metal, pipes, air conditioning grills on the floor as tradesmen went about their business.

This is the right time to spot errors in layout and make corrections to the shop drawings that the factory builds from. We need all the time to fabricate so the product is ready when the contractor is requesting delivery.

The screws used to hold the metal studs have sharp points needed to pierce sheet metal and the framing crew don't pick up any that fall to the floor. I was on the job for a few hours and had to pull screws from the bottom of my boots a few times.

That was the easy part as I had the boots on for 5 hours and couldn't wait to get home to remove them. They were killing my feet yesterday afternoon and I felt pain this morning when I got up!
I'm back in soft shoes today and getting into my normal routine... maybe with some aspirin for breakfast.

...How about this CS site? Sure, I've been brown nosing the Cyberscrutinizer and her suits for some time, now. But I love the place, and pray nightly, that my puerile antics here only land me in temporary jail, if that.
But not really being a computer jock, in fact, I still always consult my brilliant and lovely rug rats on the topic. Yet, I know this will sound odd, but people generally like me, and I have all sorts of friends. A few are big time computer types, and one even worked for a dating site for a while.
Now this, with a sample size of one, is a bit evidenced anecdotally. But I listened with interest to her story. Which I'll be glad to share, after much more urgent business---Bravo's walk. Tootles, all.

Back, folks, and pleased to inform that with little Bravo, everything seemed to come out OK. So, my totally vuckable hottie good lady friend computer scientist, and her alleged experiences in the employ of an unnamed love search site. And may a piece of one of Allah's own heavenly asteroids soon be upon her husband. But I digress.
Says she began as a low paid intern, who's job it was to expunge the pics if certain unmentionable male body parts from the site. Can you imagine? Our mods would certainly understand. And perhaps a few FANS of this site would worship the job. Nuff said.
But soon she was promoted, actually to use her cyber skills more professionally. So she soon had the skinny on site population demographics, not to mention a few funny war stories. No one would be surprised to know that men far outnumbered the tarts, in vulgarity, exhibitionism and scamming. With exceptions, as in our now rarely seen CS friends from Oz, and the Great White blackface North. And that men in their late teens, or early 20's almost exclusively ran the scams, hailing from the nether regions of God's world, and using pictures of hotties taken from various places, excepting with knowledge/OK of the lady herself. She claimed that almost no one found decent grounded acquaintances/partners via their efforts on site, at which my experience is at odds. One datum really surprised me, and made me question the validity of her stories. (Of course, ladies like she could lie to a schlub like me all day long.) She said that on average, it took fewer than half a dozen on site chats (things with these crowds soon went to private mail), and in most of these cases, dates soon followed. And here's the kicker, for this innocent fellow, sex almost always followed after only two or three "dates".

Lots more, but what a world! I must be protected by the purity of my essence, and by the Goddess herself. And by hanging out on a safe site.

I see Reuters news service reported that Twitter has permanently suspended the account of 'My Pillow Guy' Mike Lindell for repeated violations to their company policy on election misinformation.
His personal account had nearly half a million followers.

It appears to be a self inflicted wound as QVC shopping channel quietly stopped selling his 'MyPillow' products in June of 2020.

Business 101 states: Never mix business with religion and politics.

Twitter has changed their logo from a bird to the letter X
Starting today, it's a white X on a black background.