Come and Make It

 Self rising batch was kinda weak.  We are unsure how good it would be in the hands of a hoople head, much less a trained chemist.

The batches where it had air entrained via mixing fared much better.  Although one batch never set.  Likely too concentrated soap.  

Too much paying jobs in the pipeline next few days to mess with it more.  This weekend maybe.

My shop’s in a 1978 building—old-school construction, lighter codes back then, lots of stuff grandfathered in. Owner’s problem, not mine. Tenants don’t own the building’s compliance headaches.

Owner hires this “fixer” to sort some issues. Instead of helping, she treats me like a walking wallet. Insists I use **her architect**, even though we have the full 1978 drawings already. Keeps dropping hints about “problems” if I don’t. Classic shakedown vibe.

I check with my own architect: he can sign off on the old work, only a couple small fixes needed. Engineer says those fixes are cheap—couple hundred bucks at most.

I sit down with some real engineering-department contacts (friend-of-a-friend hookup). They look at the paperwork, say it’s straightforward, no drama. It is a regularization of a old building, not new construction, like the endless money spend the fixer trying to do.

Then I hit the fixer with basic questions:  

- Licensed firm?  

- Proper invoices?  

- Written contract?  

Crickets. No contract, no credentials, nothing.

Once that got documented and fed back through channels, she’s now blacklisted from the city engineering office. Done.

Moral for anyone in an older commercial space:  

- Owner owns the old crap, not you.  

- Never let someone bully you into their “preferred” pros.  

- No contract + no receipts = run.  

- Real inspectors usually play straight when you show up with facts.

Anyone else get hit with a fixer trying to turn compliance into a cash grab? 

 https://youtu.be/CayBqnhCZeg?si=HcX-nsvluQId6rDq

Something afoot.  Sabotage or the usual chinese lack of safety. Likely just carelessness.

🚨🚨🚨 🌍⚡️EARTHQUAKE WARNING (Level 3 of 5): Extremely high probability for a large earthquake in the coming 48 hours

🚨ONGOING: Severe Solar Radiation event (S4) and Severe Geomagnetic Storm (G4)

‼️NOW: Solar Wind Speed: 1117 km/sec ‼️ It's not common with speeds over 1 500 km/sec as we seen this time. See the diagram above.

❗️This assessment is based on solar activity, in this case a very large trans equatorial corona hole and an X2 flare with a prolonged CME, as well as planet alignments, the moon phase, Earth's magnetic field and other data points and anomalies, for instance the Schumann resonance.

⚠️📈 The warning level is based on the risk probability and the potential damage the earthquake is expected to cause.

🗒 NOTE: Take this warning serious and avoid unsafe buildings, not least high-rise buildings, in earthquake-prone areas. Let's hope for the best. 🙏🏻