BrianW

My company is hiring electrician apprentices right out of high school at $15-17/hr. 2 years later when you reach the state mandated hours and get your license you will start out around $30-35/hr. Electricians with 10+ years experience are making $50-60+/hr with endless overtime available.

Not sure your stance with pesticides but I have been keeping a 100+ year old ash alive with a soil drench of Dominion 2l. Amazon sells it for like $25 a bottle. Its the same bottle the pros use.

Its going to be a bad year for ticks. In addition to the non native Asian long horn tick and the lone star tick CT now has an established population of Gulf Coast Ticks. Their Northern range was Maryland/Delaware. Also, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station is reporting massive numbers of ticks this spring. 46% of dog and deer ticks recently tested were positive for Lyme disease. NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) – The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station reported populations of the Gulf Coast tick in Fairfield County, and noted its potential to further spread in Connecticut and transmit diseases to both people and pets. According to Dr. Goudarz Molaei, a research scientist who also directs the CAES Tick Surveillance and Testing Program, its is the first report of populations of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum, in the northeastern United States.

Gypys damage of yore. @Damage In Tolland

That drought has been locked in those areas it seems for years. From New Haven down through SW CT has never been remotely near any drought condition in a long time. I'm at almost 5 inches of rain in the last 30 days.

I've been reading there might be some big changes coming to cracking down and tracking these cryptocurrenices. The malware hackers that are paid in bitcoin have been able to operate untouched as it really can't be traced. I think I read that hundreds of millions are being paid to these hacker groups as ransom weekly. These Malware attacks are becoming a huge issue. Nobody can get Chemotherapy at Yale New Haven hospital as a ransomware attack has cripple the chemo machines software there.

Shoppers enter those locations by swiping a smartphone at the entry gate. Inside, they’re tracked by cameras, software algorithms and shelf sensors—then charged for what they take when exiting through the designated gates.

Amazon is putting in its first Amazon Fresh Market in CT in Fairfield County. There is no checkouts or cashiers. Very few people actually work in the store. Its all automated and they are using state of the art technology to track purchases. You just fill your cart and walk out the store.

Yep. Working in Danbury today and its quite the torch.

Just an observation but I have never had the flu in my life and had zero reactions to both Moderna shots. Other people I talked to reported the same thing about no reactions and never having the flu either. The people I know in my age group (late 30's) that had reactions were people who told me they get sick often with the flu, colds, sinus infections, etc.

The U.S really needs to step up fighting all these malware attacks. They are starting to attack medical facilities now and critical infrastructure. The Chemotherapy machines have been down for 2 weeks at Yale New Haven hospital after and recent attack. I remember reading the hospital in Burlington VT was like completely crippled last year from one. I read that almost all of them are originating from Russia and many think Russia is directly involved. I read their official stance on it is as long as you don't attack anything in Russia you can do what you want.

Quest Diagnostics recently lowered the price of their antibody test to $69. It was like double that last month. I know a ton of people that just took it and got back positives and never knew they even had. If I did one and was positive and didn't have any symptoms the first time around I would think it probably safe to skip the vaccine. I believe they are considering a positive antibody test is the equivalent of the vaccine card.

You can still have a nice lawn and go organic. Used a Milorganite type product and cedarwood oil spray for insects. I remove weeds by hand. First cut. We just got the fence in for the puppy.

I can't find the article but in CT more children committed suicide in just the month on November 2020 than all of 2019. When the stats come out its going to be alarming. Another article said 40 children are waiting everyday to get iinto the Yale Psychiatric Children's hospital with sever mental issues including suicide.

I didn't realize how much Pfizer's Groton CT location was involved in the vaccine. Its their largest research facility according to this article. Had no clue they employ 2600 and have been manufacturing the lipids for the vaccine. https://www.theday.com/article/20210313/NWS01/210319722

Congrats New England.

Tornado warning up.

Some great info on what is going on in the hospitals in CT. Who is being hospitalized with COVID-19 in Connecticut? Almost exclusively unvaccinated people, officials say The overwhelming majority of Connecticut residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19 were not vaccinated before contracting the disease, hospital officials say. Despite more than half of Connecticut adults having been vaccinated, the state currently has 518 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, up nearly 40% over the past month. But data from local hospitals suggests this isn’t because vaccines aren’t working but rather because not enough people have yet been vaccinated. Yale New Haven Health, for example, has treated only six COVID-19 patients who have been fully vaccinated, out of hundreds who have come in and out of the system in recent weeks. Of those six, all were older and most had underlying conditions, yet none required intensive care and all have left the hospital. “Those are patients who would have been very much at risk for death a year ago, and they left the hospital and survived COVID without a severe course of illness,” said Dr. Deborah Rhodes, Yale New Haven’s vice president of care signature. “I really think it speaks to the effectiveness of vaccination.” https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-covid-hospitalizations-vaccine-20210415-zxftqu2m2zh4jhvrzwxbumofiy-story.html

Majority of this stuff is genetic. I paid a few companies to analyze my DNA and got a full genetic report. It was scary accurate and marched up exactly with prior health issues I have had. One interesting thing I found out was that I have a gene that makes me mostly immune to the norovirus and the flu. I have never gotten either.

Cannabis is not even remotely close to being as dangerous and harmful as alcohol. From the CDC. Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day. These deaths shorten the lives of those who die by an average of almost 29 years, for a total of 2.8 million years of potential life lost. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and cost the nation $249 billion in 2010. More than half of alcohol-attributable deaths are due to health effects from drinking too much over time, such as various types of cancer, liver disease, and heart disease. However, short-term health effects from consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time accounted for most of the years of potential life lost, such as deaths due to poisonings that involved another substance in addition to alcohol (e.g., drug overdoses), suicide, and motor vehicle crashes.

My wife has a fitbit that tracks her heart rate and it's quite disturbing what alcohol does to it. Its very common for people to report with fit bits their standing heart rates will increase 3-6 bpm for a day or two after drinking.

A battery leaf blower with a giant joint in the intake? Is there a video of this? Lol

You ride the zip line at two roads yet? Down a few IPA's and go for a zip.

I agree but its hard to grow year round in New England. Most people growing in tents are doing it organic with Fox Farm stuff from Humboldt County CA. They have an awesome organic soil and easy to use 3 step organic liquid fertilizer. There is a strain now called an autoflower. Its a cross with the cannabis rudelis from Northern Russia. Since where it grows has long sunlight and a quick summer it grows fast. It doesn't need a change in sunlight to flower and you can give it 24/7 light. It basically starts flowering in a few weeks and you harvest it around 3 or 4 months. A 4x4 tent with 2 autoflowers can yield 10-14 ozs .

Yep. A grow tent with a led light and carbon filter for a few hundred is all you need. You can legally buy seeds in the mail aka (souvenirs) from North Atlantic Seed Company in Maine. With autoflowers in 3 months you can have like the equivalent of a few grand in Mass recreational prices.