That would be a an average Costco Cashier who has been employed at Costco for at least 5 years because they are Teamsters Union and there are pay raises...

My trips to Houston will never be the same again. And the same holds true for my streamlining. The Bayou City just lost a longtime radio legend a couple of days ago. The legendary Paul Berlin, who in recent years had done some shows spinning old big band and rock tunes on his Saturday night show, died at the age of 86 after a very brief illness, though he'd had some health issues in recent years.

What I remember about him was his work on KBME-AM (790) when it played...

Friday night into Saturday this past week proved that, in life, there are no guarantees. That's especially when one tries to get needed sleep for one more work day. At 11:58 p.m. on Friday night, it look one loud crash of lightning to interrupt what had previously been a good day of weather and a good night's sleep (so far), and, thus, proceeded to bring a few hours of change to the weather landscape in North Texas.

You should have seen it. Lightning strikes were...

Funny how, when I make time for road trips, however great or small, something always happens. It's my objective, any time I do a long trip, to have to make sure I have everything and never leave things behind. And on most excursions, at least one thing always gets left behind, and usually, it's something small.

Hopefully, this time around, I won't be too lazy to double-check and triple-check the things I pre-pack before I actually finish the rest of the packing....

Detractors from renewables power all want to scare you that it is too expensive to store electricity.

To fortify yourself against this attack you need to know about something called the pumped storage plant.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi...ge_Power_Plant

Pumped storage is like a hydroelectric power plant. It produces electricity when needed by allowing water to flow to a lower level. This water is pumped up to the higher level...