Ramblin Wreck

Most realtors drop off the face of the earth and return to the golf course once they get you to sign the 6% listing agreement.

I’m playing catch up with the poster above me.

2003 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 convertible
No Corvette
2000 Jeep Wrangler Sport
2019 Silverado instead of a Ram

When I lived in Baton Rouge?

Season 1 - mow lawn twice a week in a sweaty, mosquito infested environment.

Season 2 - mow lawn once a week in a sweaty, mosquito infested environment.

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How do you offshore an engineering job? Don’t engineering jobs require the engineer to frequently be present at the site of the building that’s being built?

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Local person takes measurements or scans the field equipment, new equipment drawings are scanned and emailed, calculations and drawings are done over seas.

Company thinks it saved 75% on engineering. In reality lots of things are missed by the engineer and designers not being in the field, the engineers don’t personally speak with the on site operators and maintenance people for additional insight, calculations and drawings are of poor quality and require rework multiple times, and all this creates less of a demand for US engineers and designers while making wages lower. Lots of field revisions are required and the construction contractors charge for scope revisions. But hey, we saved 75% on engineering hourly wages even though engineering hours increased and large field revisions and delays occurred. Those costs get blamed on something else so management can claim their savings.

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Tariffs are paid by the end user... AKA us...

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In this case, the end users are Chevron, Exxon, and every other company that heavily uses engineering resources. What most of the management in these companies don’t understand or want to understand is that there really isn’t any savings. Without going into details, anyone that has had to deal with “high value engineering” realizes this. There is also a huge advantage to having someone physically at the location where something is being engineered and installed.

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At least you have the 459 in Birmingham. This is light years ahead of Baton Rouge

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And don’t forget that 1.88 miles of the northern beltline, Interstate 422, was opened last week. It was first proposed and the route drawn in the 1960’s. It has only taken sixty something years for almost 2 miles to be completed. Lightening speed compared to the Baton Rouge loop.

Per ESPN

Odds of 10 or more regular-season wins for Big Ten or SEC teams:
Georgia 92.3%
Indiana 86.3%
Alabama 75.9%
Texas 60.9%
Ohio State 57.9%
UCLA 43.2%
LSU 41.8%
Nebraska 38.1%
Oregon 31.2%
Tennessee 25.2%
Missouri 22.7%
Wisconsin 18.6%
Iowa 12.7%

Penn State (8.4%), Mississippi State (7.6%) and Florida (7.5%) all fell below 10% with this weekend's losses, and while Northwestern (7.3%) and Kentucky (4.1%) are on the rise, they still have some catching up to do. (Northwestern's schedule remains ridiculous, too.)

Regular season college games should always be on campus. I’m looking forward to the UGA - Florida game being played on campus too. I wouldn’t even mind Texas - OU being played on campus.

LSU are so hypocritical, making fun of Bama fans for LSU posts and they are even more guilty of making Bama comments. Shouldn’t you being getting drunk for tonight’s game?

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I thought Citgo was refining Venezuelan crude as well

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I thought the refinery in Chalmette could too. Wasn’t it owned by the Venezuelan government at one time?

How about a green statistic that matters more to me?

Top 10 Most Forested U.S. States -

According to data from the USDA Forest Service and World Population Review, the states with the highest percentage of land covered by forests are:
• Maine: 89.06%
• New Hampshire: 83.04%
• West Virginia: 78.05%
• Vermont: 76.47%
• Alabama: 71.35%
• South Carolina: 67.21%
• Georgia: 66.93%
• Mississippi: 64.53%
• Virginia: 63.48%