Bits & Bytes

2024: DeSantis has withdrawn from the race and endorsed Trump, leaving only Nikki Haley holding out for some kind of Hail Mary from her RINO and Dem supporters.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/desantis-drops-out-from-2024-race-endorses-trump-5570603

BATTERIES: Heat over 85ºF can shorten battery life and power delivery, so garages and attics are a poor choice for storing them. But even in our most comfortable living spaces, the heat can go above 85ºF. The “Life Storage Blog” says, “we recommend investing in a climate-controlled storage unit if you can.” Oh, really? Uhhhhh … we pretty much all own one already. It’s call a “refrigerator.” I keep all my spare batteries in a single bin at the back of the bottom shelf of my fridge. Besides keeping my batteries at a steady temperature and all in one place, the bin keeps me from losing leftovers in that hard-to-see, harder-to-reach area.

• https://www.lifestorage.com/blog/storage/how-to-store-batteries/

CHEESE: Dearest’s Italian grandfather got his start in the U.S. buying fresh cheese from farmers in Italy, warehousing it over there until it was yummy, then shipping it over here to sell. He married a lovely first generation Italian lady whom he met when he ate in her parents’ New York City restaurant. She was waiting tables. She told me they started their family here, but decided to move to Italy. “On his income, we were thousand-aires here, but in Italy, we were millionaires!” I was shocked to realize my very frugal mother-in-law had grown up going to private schools and summering at their second home on the Italian coast. I was less shocked when I learned the Nazis had confiscated their big, beautiful home and booted them out. A neighbor let the ten of them live in the space above his store. If I recall correctly, the only water they had was what they could get from a community tap on the street.

DISCECTOMY: On January 10, 2024, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders published a study entitled “Association between spinal manipulative therapy and lumbar spine reoperation after discectomy: a retrospective cohort study.” Researchers at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center compared two groups of patients who had had lumbar discectomy surgery. In the group that received chiropractic care following their first surgery, 7% required a second operation. In the control group, 13% needed a second operation.

• https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12891-024-07166-x
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/chiropractic-care-may-reduce-the-need-for-future-back-surgeries-study-5567836

EVs: Ford Motor Co. is moving about 1,400 employees from its EV plant to plants building the Bronco, Bronco Raptor, Ranger, and Ranger Raptor gas-powered vehicles. Ford stated that they’re still confident in electric vehicles’ future “for specific consumers.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/ford-to-scale-down-ev-production-transfer-crew-to-gas-vehicle-assembly-plant-5569443

J6: Last month, SCOTUS agreed to hear an appeal by Jan. 6 defendant Joseph W. Fisher, one of the victims of the Biden administration’s novel use of an Enron-era evidence-tampering law. If the court finds in Fisher’s favor, it could potentially erase some of the charges pending against President Trump and overturn many of the J6 felony convictions. The case has not yet been scheduled.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-supreme-court-action-alters-course-of-jan-6-defendant-sentencings-5569464

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: [3:03] – Coin Mail, Fertilizer Ban, and Hawaiian Mongoose.

GRAMMY NOTES: When my oh-so-brainy-but-kinda-ditzy daughter served up the Chicken Parmesan she’d made from scratch, she apologized ahead of time. “I forgot to take the recipe to the store, couldn’t remember what kind of cheese I was supposed to get, so bought sharp cheddar.” After we got off the floor from laughing, we discovered that Chicken Sharp Cheddar is delicious!

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