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I have done indoor drying a few because my drying decided to go out for a beer (though I realized later that a good kick resolved the issue). I also have done indoor drying for a linen shirt (complete with iron) but it does not help. This is why I avoid buying linen shirts

The beauty and ease of linen is that it’s meant to be wrinkled. You can’t be accused of being slovenly in linen.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 9:49 pm The beauty and ease of linen is that it’s meant to be wrinkled. You can’t be accused of being slovenly in linen.

I believe with linen, you're legally required to call it 'relaxed' rather than 'wrinkled'. Like being 'eccentric' instead of 'weird' when you're rich.

Yeah, I'm eccentric, absolutely love wearing linen far more than a straight guy should and more relaxed than His High Judgmental Supremacy, Judiciary Pag, L.I.V.R. (the Learned, Impartial, and Very Relaxed).

I adore everything about linen. Wearing it, sewing with it, the fact it is relaxed, it's cool in the summer too.
If you absolutely MUST iron your linen, a mister bottle of cheap vodka is the way to go.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 6:39 am I adore everything about linen. Wearing it, sewing with it, the fact it is relaxed, it's cool in the summer too.
If you absolutely MUST iron your linen, a mister bottle of cheap vodka is the way to go.

Wait, is the vodka for you or the clothing when you are trying to eliminate the wrinkles? I have a few linen shirts but I don't personally deal with them anymore. They go to the cleaner and come back nicely pressed on hangers.

The more vodka, the less you notice it's wrinkled. It's sort of like the relationship between bourbon/rum/gin/wine/beer and organ playing. The more you have, the better your playing gets, as far you know.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 7:44 am The more vodka, the less you notice it's wrinkled. It's sort of like the relationship between bourbon/rum/gin/wine/beer and organ playing. The more you have, the better your playing gets, as far you know.

It's the foundation of Karaoke Night.

See also: Dance Floor.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 6:39 am I adore everything about linen. Wearing it, sewing with it, the fact it is relaxed, it's cool in the summer too.
If you absolutely MUST iron your linen, a mister bottle of cheap vodka is the way to go.

My planned reward for hitting the 200 lb mark (I still have a bit to go) is some drawstring-waist linen pants from Cubavera. I will have earned them by that point.

More than once in the last few weeks ERCOT has had to beg Texans to reduce their power usage due to unseasonably high temperatures and power plant outages.



This past Friday 9 generating plants were down.

Good time to be on the North Fork. When actual summer comes to Texas things could be bad.

But if your 18 year old neighbor with anger issues needs to buy a truckload of guns and ammo, Governor Roller Nazi and the Legislature are gonna make sure he doesn't need to show an ID to get them.

If Democrats propose a law that the clerk should frown if the kid asks "Is this ammo good for killing toddlers?", Republicans would piss themselves running for a TV camera to scream about the tyranny that would be.

Just in time to blame Abbott in the run up to the election.

maybe convert to coal

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:09 pm

Just in time to blame Abbott in the run up to the election.

"... and this should worry Biden and Democrats because..."

xpost

Nobody cares about blatant lies in the land of alternative facts anymore.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 wrote: Texas has its own electrical grid, so either the senator is lying — knowingly — or he has no idea how the state he represents actually runs.

Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz wrote: The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas.

https://dallasnews.com/business/energy/ ... -kicks-in/

AKA electricity problems in Texas, here's why that's a problem for Biden...

Hey Ted, you know where electricity costs ain't through the roof?

My house, bitch.



You know where gas prices aren't through the roof, either?

My house, again!

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:58 pm AKA electricity problems in Texas, here's why that's a problem for Biden...

A reply to that tweet wanted to blame Biden because he made the oil prices go up and that is why Texas power cost has gone up. Somebody* was rude enough to copy a graph from Ercot that shows the percentage of the power generated by source. Oil was relegated to the other that made up 0.1%. As one would expect, the sources are natural gas 47.3%, coal 20.3%, leftist commie wind 20%, nuclear 10.8%, Marxist solar 1.1%, etc.

* I was not the rude somebody. I was getting ready to reply with the same chart but somebody beat me to it. You have to wake up early in the morning to be the rude one on Twitter.

Senior editor of Texas Monthly. Dunno what the latest active shooter situation is. They all blend together.

Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks wrote: Had to get my car towed. Driver told me that his 26-year-long wife, who he’d known since high school, died in the cold during the 2021 winter blackout. Im never going to stop being angry about that week, and the lack of accountability that followed

also we had to stop at intersection to make way for a SWAT convoy on its way to an active shooter situation. things are going great here!

So, what did Texas do to prepare for this summer?

Jim wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:49 pm So, what did Texas do to prepare for this summer?

Tots and pears? Dunno what they did, but they claim it'll be fine.

ERCOT says Texas power grid prepared for summer despite recent call to cut use

With an unseasonably hot May giving the state’s strained power grid about all it can handle, what's going to happen when demand for electricity hits anticipated record levels amid even hotter temperatures this summer?

According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state agency charged with operating the grid, it should be fine.

ERCOT said this week that generation capacity is expected to be sufficient to serve peak summer demand "under normal system conditions" and most of the scenarios it has modeled for moderately worse to extreme weather and grid conditions.

But it remains to be seen if Texans will find the agency's annual summer assessment of the grid reassuring — coming on the heels of a weekend that many might have spent wondering if their lights would stay on.

https://www.statesman.com/story/busines ... 805797002/

My impression is that Texas didn't do much to prepare for the summer heat. Abbott doesn't want his rich uitility plant owning supporters to have to spend money improving reliability.