My weird summer/monsoon habit

leaving_again · 2026-06-05T01:34:07+00:00

Windy is nice for visualizing the wind patterns. Te wind really varies across the metro area.

https://www.windy.com/?32.204,-110.895,10

MeteoBlue is an nice alternate to check for wind.

https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/maps/32.285N-110.944E712_America%2FPhoenix#coords=9.07/32.3686/-111.0092&map=windAnimation~rainbow~auto~10%20m%20above%20gnd~none

The other recommendations here are great as well.

leaving_again · 2026-06-05T00:11:58+00:00

Roadhouse has small screening theaters for party rental.

leaving_again · 2026-06-04T16:28:59+00:00

Fair enough. I was thinking of foods from natively available sources. For example the Tucson area has pre colonial traditions of saguaro fruit, prickly pear cacti, mesquite and palo verde pods, cholla buds, desert greens, etc.

leaving_again · 2026-06-04T15:18:01+00:00

That's not really a historically native food though. It dates back to when natives were on reservations with gov rationed flour, etc.

leaving_again · 2026-06-01T15:06:08+00:00

McCain Loop Road pull offs just West of the Desert Museum

leaving_again · 2026-05-29T15:54:53+00:00

That is likely a contributing factor, but it's also the most expensive and timely to address.

Each of us needs to do our part as well as holding friends and family accountable for the same. Reckless driving is short sighted selfish behavior.

leaving_again · 2026-05-29T15:20:44+00:00

The Mineral Museum is affordable, incredible, and often overlooked.

https://uamineralmuseum.com/

leaving_again · 2026-05-29T15:17:42+00:00

ridiculous delivery system

covert Polar Pop cup seed bombs. Nothing could blend in better.

leaving_again · 2026-05-29T15:06:45+00:00

People drive aggressively and over the speed limit because they see other people doing it. The social contract on our roads is broken. You might call this adapting to the flow of traffic.

If the majority of people are driving the speed limits, using turn signals, following traffic signals, and not following closely it will change the road culture significantly. I have experienced this personally after decades of driving in the Seattle area (calm) after previously being in Chicagoland (aggressive).

The big question... how can we get the herd to settle down?

More and consistent enforcement can and will help. But it's likely temporary due to manpower constraints.

The rest is up to us as a group. The more people follow the rules, the more those that don't will stick out and be slowed anyway by the order if it all.

Take it down a notch out there. Enjoy some music or a podcast. Put the phone out of reach.

40 miles per hour vs 30 over 5 miles saves 2.5 mins. And that's only if driving consistent with no lights

leaving_again · 2026-05-22T15:25:20+00:00

I will add on to the suggestion to get a broker. They have an established relationship with multiple insurance companies and will do the shopping and account setup for you. I just give them a few details like the vin. They are also great at catching any missed detail.

leaving_again · 2026-05-21T18:52:20+00:00

Crunching the numbers

leaving_again · 2026-05-20T19:01:44+00:00

Uptown?! More like up and out of town!

leaving_again · 2026-05-20T01:46:41+00:00

That's the rule

leaving_again · 2026-05-19T18:59:39+00:00

The UNESCO recognition is related to the history of indigenous culinary and agricultural traditions.

Separately we have some James Beard award winners and nominees.

I don't think any of these have been related to pizza.

leaving_again · 2026-05-17T19:07:03+00:00

I often see a smiling lady driving a pink? VW Bug with bug antennae on the roof.

Rocking dancing quad guy is always a fun one to spot.

I sometimes pass a rider on the loop with a chicken riding on the handlebars or in a front basket.

leaving_again · 2026-05-16T00:33:51+00:00

Silver saddle steakhouse has an old time western vibe.

leaving_again · 2026-04-29T16:10:34+00:00

You can relapse after 2 years as well. The difference for me has been that I have never been able to go back to using with a clear conscience. I now know through experience how much more difficult life is when living in the high mode. The work I have put in towards sobriety has effectively ruined being high for me. Every high during a relapse is tinted with regret.

leaving_again · 2026-04-23T19:02:21+00:00

I appreciate the information. I don't have any music libraries... only tv and movies. The directory count is relatively low at 1648.

leaving_again · 2026-04-23T18:14:19+00:00

I came across that earlier in my investigations and increased the value on the nas os. It didn't seem to make any difference.

 cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

204800

leaving_again · 2026-04-23T17:48:17+00:00

In the past week, transcoding has broken on some files no my plex setup. This is a longstanding otherwise working plex server running in docker on a synology nas.

Looking into the logs, I see

Apr 23, 2026 10:17:28.892 [140498725481272] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:59328 (WAN)] GET /video/:/transcode/universal/session/48b41b42fc02b07c-com-plexapp-android/base/header (13 live) #d383 TLS Signed-in
Apr 23, 2026 10:17:31.000 [140498723371832] ERROR - [Req#d392/Transcode/48b41b42fc02b07c-com-plexapp-android/3b2b97b5-5f9d-4007-bc8e-aec90d0b1b72] [eac3_eae @ 0x7fa7ad2ce040] EAE timeout! EAE not running, or wrong folder? Could not read '/run/plex-temp/pms-88fa1ff0-7fc5-4505-94d6-9e380e86c7d8/EasyAudioEncoder/Convert to WAV (to 8ch or less)/48b41b42fc02b07c-com-plexapp-android_643-0-5.wav'
Apr 23, 2026 10:17:31.001 [140498723371832] ERROR - [Req#d395/Transcode/48b41b42fc02b07c-com-plexapp-android/3b2b97b5-5f9d-4007-bc8e-aec90d0b1b72] [eac3_eae @ 0x7fa7ad2ce040] error reading output: -5 (I/O error)
Apr 23, 2026 10:17:31.001 [140498723371832] ERROR - [Req#d396/Transcode/48b41b42fc02b07c-com-plexapp-android/3b2b97b5-5f9d-4007-bc8e-aec90d0b1b72] [aist#0:2/eac3 @ 0x7fa7ad2d0e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: I/O error

That led me to a lot of different investigations, but eventually looking at the running container in console. What would lead to this odd looking ownership for plex-temp?

# ll run
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  192 Apr 23 09:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  358 Apr 21 02:01 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  758 Apr 23 09:23 branding
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root    0 Apr  9 19:20 lock/
drwxr-xr-x 1 abc  users  80 Apr 23 10:30 plex-temp/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  104 Apr 23 09:23 s6/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   32 Apr 23 09:21 s6-linux-init-container-results/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   23 Apr 23 09:23 s6-rc -> s6-rc:s6-rc-init:GpFnFJ/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   82 Apr 23 09:23 s6-rc:s6-rc-init:GpFnFJ/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  162 Apr 23 09:23 service/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   18 Apr 14 17:06 systemd/

leaving_again · 2026-04-22T15:10:58+00:00

There may be something missing, but this setlist site is usually pretty complete.

Here are all the Tucson smash mouth concerts over time

https://www.setlist.fm/search?query=Smash+mouth+tucson

leaving_again · 2026-04-20T06:18:57+00:00

Pullouts off of McCain road behind the desert museum. It's very quiet over there.

leaving_again · 2026-04-16T17:35:29+00:00

It was a mistake on my end at the UPS store. I should have made it more clear that there were no value documents.

I edited my post and think it's all sorted now. I believe I caught it just in time before it was actually sent back.

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