I guess I did not think about it. I had left some Serrano ham skin in the back porch for a couple of feral cats that roam the backyard, but Bubba Le Pew beat them to the punch.

https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/3e4af557-7526-4931-b7cc-e6c327115970

A little while ago I bought a 5 gallon air tank for $5 at a yard sale.  The old Schrader valve manifold was dead so I made a new one for $15 worth of parts from Harbor Freight.

It is easily filled using a 1/4 inch connector from another air compressor.  The 1/4 inch female connector allows me to attach another air hose to connect a tire inflator or blower.

It is great for daisy chaining to an 8 gallon air compressor and making a 13 gallon compressor.

Recently a coworker was cleaning out his garage and gave me a 10 gallon air tank with a dead Schrader valve.  Another $15 in Harbor Freight parts and it’s been improved too.

Here are pictures:

What you need is a 1/2 to 1/4 inch NPT adapter, two 1/4 inch T-connectors, a 1/4 inch ball valve, 1/4 inch male and 1/4 inch female air hose connector.

One thing I use it for frequently is using this instead of canned air.  I’ll fill the 5 gallon one up and hook a short hose with blower nozzle on it and let the wife use it to clean her sewing machine.  Given the price of canned air, this paid for itself quickly.

Works like a charm.

If you come across an air tank like this at a yard sale on the cheap (I’ve seen a few), this is a worthwhile modification.

8.55 lbs of brisket are on the smoker.

Rubbed with brown sugar, kosher salt, paprika, and garlic powder.

My brisket has a fishy friend:

Salmon done with dill, garlic, and butter, on the smoker.

This unbelievable Twitter conversation:

so our cars got robbed this morning because Los Angeles is a crime riddled 3rd world shithole of a city but tremendous appreciation and gratitude to the hardworking officers at the @LAPDWestLA who not only arrested the motherfucker but they got all of our stolen goods back

— Casey Neistat (@Casey) November 24, 2021

Dude I’ve lived here for over 20 years. You’re nuts haha. It’s lovely here. Don’t leave anything valuable in it. It’s called living in a big city.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) November 24, 2021

i can still be mad tho right? feel so violated.

— Casey Neistat (@Casey) November 24, 2021

You can be mad but I guess I don’t personally view my car as an extension of myself and I’ve never really felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken in to. Once a guy accidentally left a cool knife in my car so if it keeps happening you might get a little treat.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) November 25, 2021

Holy fucking shit.

Readers may remember that in June my truck was broken into in a hotel parking lot.

They garbage who did it popped the window with a crowbar and damaged the window frame.  They had to replace the entire door.

I had to pay a $500 deductible for the repair and it took a month to get it fixed.  Not kidding.  COVID and stimulus checks meant the insurance company approved body shop was low on workers and had a backlog of cars to do.

So, 15 times is $7,500 in deductibles, assuming that your insurance company doesn’t drop your coverage, and six months to a year of combined time driving around with a window covered in plastic.

For a guy should makes $8 million per movie, paying out of pocket for a new door plus having the interior detailed is barely an inconvenience.  It’s a bigger hassle for his personal assistant who has to handle the paperwork and get Rogan limo service in the meantime.

For a working or middle-class person, it’s a massive pain in the ass.

And yes, it is a feeling of being violated.  Even if you don’t see your car as an extension of yourself, to have someone damage your property means they damaged you and the work you put into acquiring that property.

To say “yeah, some scumbag broke in to your car but thats just the local flavor of a big city” is an obscenity that can only be uttered by someone ridiculously rich and out of touch.

Maybe Rogan will feel differently if his mansion was hit by one of those 80 person Nordstrom looting mobs, a property crime proportional to his $8 miller per fim wealth as a broken car window is to person making $800 a week.

"It only makes plant-based even more attractive to consumers."

Food inflation is actually good news for the plant-based food market. Andre Menezes, the CEO of soy-based chicken startup Next Gen Foods, explains why https://t.co/d9clihtBzD pic.twitter.com/6zwLVLOthH

— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) November 24, 2021

They will not use inflation to force me to give up meat and eat this plant based abomination.

That is the plan, of course, to stop us from buying gas and meat and other things by raising the prices until they are unaffordable.

I will not eat bugs and fake meat.

I swear that if they make meat unaffordable I will refer their bodies into animal feed and raise my own meat to eat.

When prices went up Jen Psaki told us it was good, because that meant people were buying things.

Then the news broke that consumer spending didn’t match the rate of price increase, which is direct evidence of inflation.

So now the story had to change.

Now the story is “companies are raising prices with illegal gouging.”

Wondering why your Thanksgiving groceries cost more this year? It’s because greedy corporations are charging Americans extra just to keep their stock prices high. This is outrageous. https://t.co/ZGhL7c3piR

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 24, 2021

It’s clear Senator Warren expects people not to read the article she Tweeted.

Consumer products companies — the ones that make most of the stuff we buy on a daily basis — are posting strong profits this earnings season, even though labor and supply-chain difficulties are making things more expensive.

Prices for businesses are up more than 8% over the past year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, adding pressure to their bottom lines.

“What we are very good at is pricing,” Colgate-Palmolive CEO Noel Wallace said. “Whether it’s foreign exchange inflation or raw and packing material inflation, we have found ways over time to recover that in our margin line.”

Unilever, which owns a staggering number of household brands, reported that while the number of sales dipped slightly across several of its major segments, it was still able to grow profits by raising prices by roughly 4%-5%.

“Consumer-facing price is the last lever we normally use to manage inflation,” Unilever CFO Graeme Pitkethly said before describing how they did it: “We find that taking several small price increases is more effective than one large price jump.”

Some of the retailers that sell many of those companies’ products also weighed in on their buck-passing ability.

“We’ve been very comfortable with our ability to pass on the increases that we’ve seen at this point,” Kroger CFO Gary Millerchip said. “And we would expect that to continue to be the case.”

“We’re trying to keep prices down,” CEO Robert J. Gamgort said. “We’re only passing on the coffee costs because they are excessively high.”

“We have leaned on productivity because it’s available to us much more than pricing because it’s the right thing to do for the ecosystem of Keurig,” he added. “I recognize that concept is very different concept than traditional CPG.”

A key reason companies are able to succeed with these hikes is that so many of them are doing it. If only Unilever charged more, that could drive shoppers to choose an offering from Colgate-Palmolive or P&G.

When all of them do it, you don’t have a choice.

So company costs are up 8% but they’ve only risen prices 5%, and the CEOs admit that they don’t want to raise prices because it scares off customers, but they have no choice because of increasing costs, and only because the entire market is being hammered so hard is it possible because everyone’s prices are going up.

That seems to be exactly the opposite of what Warren is alleging, that companies are engaged in an illegal price fixing scheme to screw consumers.

But they are going to push this because it’s easier to drag a bunch of CEOs in and berate them with Leftist talking points than admit they fucked the market to death with inflation and shutdowns.

We’re turning into Weimar Germany and they are going to keep going with their bread and circuses.

We’re so, so, so very fucked.

I am way long overdue with an AAR about this kit who was graciously gifted. Suffice to say it works beautifully and you get to do a lot of practice without breaking the piggy now that .22LR is getting more available.

CMMG AR15 22LR Bravo Rifle Conversion Kit +3 Mags $214.99 FREE S&H (ammoland.com)