This and that for a Monday

T - minus 15 on Facebook Jail. 

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I received a special certificate from NOAA a few weeks ago for my 2500th report on rain/snow/hail in Columbus.  WKOW has used my rain totals for Columbus for a couple years now and I was WISC use them a few times.    And of course my photo from Columbus was discussed on The Weather Channel a few years back. OH!  I'm somebody!  :-)  

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I got a Coinbase card that is linked to my BitCoin and have been testing it out the last week.  I'm still not sure if its scammy or not.  It costs 2% to use it but I get 4% back on EVERYTHING a different Crypto coin .. Steller Lumens (XLM)  another cryptocurrency that I can use.  I have 85 shares already which shows you how expensive  Steller Lumens are  LOL  While Bitcoin is $38,000 a share XLM is way way up to $0.26 a share. 

BUT - I do get 4% back in gas and groceries which my credit card does not give me.  But now with Bitcoin surging because Amazon might accept Bitcoin I don't want to use it as its up 10% today. 

I had to buy Elwood a new air conditioner because his all of a sudden did not work. The guy is a complete failure when if comes to anything mechanical.  I used Bitcoin to pay for it.  The good thing was Menards had zero AC units for sale most of this year.  There was a container ship full of them but there were no truck drivers to get them to Wisconsin.  Monday they arrived.  I was so surprised when I went there and they were 100% stocked. I bought the first one. 

HOWEVER - I get to Elwoods and take his out.   OH!  the filter was 100% blocked.  sigh!  And you wonder why the moto died.   

He grew up without a dad and had 5 sisters.  That's his excuse.    

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OK - maybe everybody knows this but for DJ and I our Iphones won't ring if we have the Bluetooth on and nothing is listening.  Problem solved. 

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Seems the FICO credit score is becoming a thing of the past - Capitol One and Synchrony are discontinuing looking at it for loans and several other large lending institutions are slowly getting rid of it. 

THANK GOODNESS I can stop paying on time now.  Seems 53 million Americans have never borrowed and have no score.   Raid Isaac Corp gets 99% of its profits from FICO scores.  sucks to be them. 

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Carjackings of UBER drivers and other "like" companies are way up with  124 so far this year. 

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Arkansas has raised 368 million in Medical Cannabis sales since it began last year.   Meanwhile Maine sold $6.5 million in June.   Wisconsin continues to be racist with not allowing ANY cannabis sales.  I say racist as cannabis became illegal because of Herbert Hoover believed black jazz musicians smoked cannabis.  Then white people started liking jazz and thus liked cannabis and thus the two races were intermingling - can't have that!  

Did you know Hoover never admitted there was such a thing as organized crime?  Maybe I mentioned this last time - sorry.  The whole anti cannabis thing has its roots in racism and it was an excuse for police to arrest more black people.  

MAN the 60s  were so corrupt. Every politician (including Kennedy) was being paid in some form by organized crime (woman for JFK).  Joe Kennedy made a $1,000,000 bet on JFK to win so it would look like he was the favorite  LOL  

But I digress

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Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart - what an odd pair but so funny together. You KNOW they gotta be stoned on their cooking show

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I'm enjoying Big Brother.  a bunch of really nice people in the cast this year.  It's Survivor in a house.  Sunday, Wednesdays and Thursdays

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  OH - BTW - We are JUST coffee fans for several reasons - one is that roast really good coffee.  2. They are are ACTUAL fair trade coffee buyers - not the fake Fair trade you see on packages.  Fair Trade really only means the buys pay more then 1 cent more then the market price. 

These guys were hippies that went to Mexico and discovered awesome growers that were getting totally ripped off (probably looking for cannabis fields at the time) and became amazing coffee roasters .. . . .ANYWAY . . . 

We buy Skate Perk or Bike Fuel normally but every summer they get Dais Del Sol a Light roast which is Sunshine in a Cup.  LOVE it. The cool thing is every package has a code and if you go to their website you can see EVERYTHING about the coffee.  The entire history of purchases, routing, prices. Complete 100% transparency.