Buying forest land, implementing solar

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Well, the generator has /never/ just suddenly stopped running after few seconds but it DID this time! Add in the fact it went from "kind of hard to pull" to "impossible to pull" inbetween tells me something f'ed up the engine, not the pullcord. If the pullcord went kaputz, the engine would've kept on running just fine but it didn't.

That's not true. The pullrope will stop it just as it's starting, that's just about the only time it will. That it becomes impossible it trademark of the pullrope jamming, in fact a seized engine usually isn't impossible to turn, (Well, maybe for a megaweakling it is) that means it's jammed and of course the pullrope can jam it.

You take the cowling off, you'll have a square end on the shaft, you put a wrench on it and see if it suddenly is much easier to turn. The pullrope would be easy to pull once it's off the engine, right? You sound like you're in such a hurry to assume the engine is seized because you'd rather just get a new one rather than fix this.

The point of pouring a lubricant into the cylinder is to let it spread itself as best it can, I don't know that it's about 'Soaking in,' and then you'll put a wrench on the crank and force it to turn. Sometimes it'll loosen up enough, sometimes it won't. I think of this as something you do when someone has been driving on a leaky head gasket and it seizes, your mower engine is air cooled and it could be something else.

My mother used to be off grid, solar with a generator backup. The generator ran more and more, I'd go to visit and I'd do what I could with the solar shed, she got to where the brother out there that worked on it was too mad at her to go over there, finally she threw in the towel and paid thousands for them to run a line to her house.

My parents planted banana trees before I was born, maybe at the age of 10-12 I had to cut them all out. They'd never once produced real bananas we could eat, never grew that well or seemed healthy unless I'm a bad judge of what banana trees are supposed to look like, Southern California just didn't seem to be the place for them.

I have a tangerine tree, I was growing an apple tree and an avocado tree when a relative with psychological problems came to live with me and dug them out, I thought they were doing well but I'll never know. She cut away most of my tangerine tree, too, but it grew back. I tried tomatoes and carrots, didn't do any better than others around me did when they've tried, they struggle and the tomatoes will eventually die off. I don't know how much being a real farmer would have helped, my neighborhood was orange groves before it was developed.

You capture bees:

1) With a special vacuum. I posted links to building your own.

2) You calm them down with smoke. Something about getting ready for a forest fire coming their way makes them docile. Anytime you have to work with the hive you'll smoke them.

Give some thought to what you're getting into with your own bees. A guy I know has beekeepers near him, (Which is how I know anything about it) he was recently stung by he's sure just one, it triggered something he was calling "Cellulitis," but he could have been getting it wrong. Says the doctor gave him one of the nastiest shots he's ever had. I can just picture the moaning and groaning that'll go up on the board here if you have bees.

 

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My parents planted banana trees before I was born, maybe at the age of 10-12 I had to cut them all out. They'd never once produced real bananas we could eat, never grew that well or seemed healthy unless I'm a bad judge of what banana trees are supposed to look like, Southern California just didn't seem to be the place for them.

They need enough temp, water, enough minerals in the soil and humidity. They grow well with 60 inches or more of rain, but I get the feeling that California doesn't have enough humidity. Cocoa is like that; not humid enough, won't fruit. They need humidity so that the leaves don't lose too much water, water the plant needs to grow the fruit. I'd guess the same is probably true of tomatos - they do exceedingly well around these humid parts. As well as leafy trees. Banana trees will grow here, but they need to be temperature protected during the winter due to their 18 month growth period.

I'm thinking of "throwing in the towel" and getting the line laid down, but... I'm guessing I'm a couple thousand short, lol. My idea of laying down the line is getting 500 feet of 12 gauge extension cords and hooking it up to my neighbor's socket, lol. That's something I could afford right now. I have to cross the road though... something feels uncozy about that.

Just to reconfirm... you're saying a jammed pullcord can stop the engine after it's been running for like 6 seconds? I thought the pullcord was mechanically decoupled from the engine; doesn't make sense it'd be designed to spin the pullcord mechanisms while running.

 

[Dauntless]

Just to reconfirm... you're saying a jammed pullcord can stop the engine after it's been running for like 6 seconds? I thought the pullcord was mechanically decoupled from the engine; doesn't make sense it'd be designed to spin the pullcord mechanisms while running.

Okay, so if the mechanical decoupling FAILS, what happens? There's a breakdown in your logic. Mechanical decoupling is a way of saying freewheel, right? Ever heard of a freewheel failing? Ever used a rachet wrench and had a problem? If something gets in there, etc. Excuse me, I've fixed mowers where the pullrope assembly was the problem, including my own. (One gas engine I'll never miss is on the mower.)

 

[swbluto]

Just to reconfirm... you're saying a jammed pullcord can stop the engine after it's been running for like 6 seconds? I thought the pullcord was mechanically decoupled from the engine; doesn't make sense it'd be designed to spin the pullcord mechanisms while running.

Okay, so if the mechanical decoupling FAILS, what happens? There's a breakdown in your logic. Mechanical decoupling is a way of saying freewheel, right? Ever heard of a freewheel failing? Ever used a rachet wrench and had a problem? If something gets in there, etc. Excuse me, I've fixed mowers where the pullrope assembly was the problem, including my own. (One gas engine I'll never miss is on the mower.)

Okay, so there's a freewheel in these things. I did not know that, thanks for letting me know, I will check it out eventually after I can ascertain a way to temporarily get back to 100% capacity.

 

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That experience, I know it's not the time to think about it.... it just keeps coming back.

I don't know how to explain... sultry and steamy. Felt something like that. I've had lots of experiences, but I wouldn't call them sultry and steamy. Affectionate or best-friendy, yes, but not that. That feeling kind of made me think I was in the middle of a brothel or a backalley, except I wasn't, lol. I would say it felt like I was talking to a bitch in heat and I think the chest jutting forward should've been a clue she was 'in heat' but I don't want to call anyone a bitch, that has different connotations. Did I anticipate such an interaction ahead of time? Nope, not at all. I just thought the chest being thrusted forward was kind of uncommon, even though I knew it meant /something/.

I thought it meant "Chest full of pride", but that webpage's explanation of "A women looking to make babies" or whatever... that actually makes a lot more sense given what the conversation felt like. And, what I figured what was really happening.

 

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Okay, well...

I've decided. Took a lot of time doing this deciding.

On sunday or saturday (At the earliest), need to rearrange the batteries into 24V, connect up the server power supply and wire everything for 24V service. The server power supply will connect upto into the generator.

I expect the generator will see a variable load and there will be voltage fluctuations, and I'm just hoping that the server power supply doesn't just "shut down". I don't know if these server supplies have "brown out" protection or something. I also don't know if the server supply will handle the load. The big question is the server power supply. Here's hoping.

At night, I will put in the effort to rewire into 12v for my 12v inverters.

If that doesn't work...

Then hotdog, I don't know what. I was fancyig hte idea of switching the equipment over to the battery inverter using some kind of switch during refueling, and hook the equipment directly into the generator, but I don't know if the meanswell power supplies will work (I guess?) with the voltage fluctuations, and I don't know if this generator "stays on" under high variable loads. Seems like the UPS often enough switches over to battery as if the power goes out... if it does temporarily lose power like it seems like it might under high variable load, the equipment will shutdown pretty quickly (within 1 second). So, I guess that might not be a viable idea but it might be worth trying out.

If I cannot for whatever reason viably use the 1400w generator to power all my equipment, I will have to rely on the 1000watt honda generator like I currently am, and when the honda generator eventually dies, I might be left with some hard choices. I might have to beg and plead with my neighbor to hook into his power, I could hope that my closest new neighbor will get power before that happens and he might let me have some, or I might just have to quit the business and go find a job here. Without power, I can't run the business.

Anyway, I can't investigate the honda 2000w because it's in the shed and the shed is not receiving power. I don't have a power cord long enough that's not in use since I'm using both gennies currently to power the business. Saturday or sunday, I will have power available to power the shed (Fan and light).

 

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I just had a moment of passing feeling like "I got this", then I fully woke up and realized "maybe I don't", lol. That transient feeling was a good feeling regardless.

And this is the video I'll need to watch for cord removal/checking (And that looks involved, lol).

[youtube]5WAuEW8decY[/youtube]

 

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I'm thinking more strongly of applying for jobs, now. Padding my weekly income would be a welcome benefit (Boosting my discretionary income by a factor of 3 would be kind of nice; living expenses have a way of limiting discretionary income when the net income isn't high enough and they've been trending lower than normal the last couple weeks.); it'd help weather these kinds of issues. And, should everything go a la mierda, I at least have that. I just need to secure the property with a suitable fence when I'm gone. I really need to be sure to maximize productivity on my 'off' days so I can sufficiently service standing orders. And, that looks like it might be hard with the current power levels assuming I were running one genny. I guess if I bought a more powerful genny, it wouldn't be so hard. (I guess I could use my gennys in parallel when high productivity is desired.)

And, it might be of interest to pursue future offerings that don't require a lot of power/energy.

Anyway, I thought about it... and I don't need to use the 24V server power supply. I can continue using the existing supplies. I would wire in the battery on the output of each of the existing supplies, and to make it possible to turn off the device, I'd make it possible to switch off the battery to each of the devices so I could turn the device off, so I'd need a suitable connector or switch.

And, I absolutely know that would work because the meanswells work when there's power applied; they don't just "shut down". But, I do wonder if the "brownouts" might accelerate their wear&tear.

Anyway, the wiring for that is a bit easier since I don't have to finagle with wiring in another power supply and I can use the existing cords as they are. I just basically have to wire in the batteries with a switch. I don't think the meanswells would be damaged by a battery "backfeeding" into it, since I think the board has a capacitor on it that has a voltage backapplied to the meanswell when the meanswell turns off.

There is the theoretical problem of "paralleling" the meanswells power supply, though. It might be possible one meanswell might apply more current than its rated current levels when "charging the batteries" or possibly powering other devices. A single server power supply wouldn't have this possible issue. If it did supply more current than rated, it'd shut down, which is OK I guess... it'll turn back on later... unless it starts turning on/off in a cycle that ends up destroying a power supply. Well, I guess the risk is that a power supply might get damaged due to unforeseen issues with what would essentially be paralleling the meanswells. I'd think, however, that as its rated current levels is approached, voltage would decline, limiting the current. So, there might not be an issue. At least laptop power supplies act like that. It's worth trying, I think. If one gets damaged, I'll have to use the server power supply scheme and I'll replace the power supply. If they all get damaged... not that I expect that... well, doesn't that suck, lol.

I guess I should try backfeeding a battery into one power supply just to make sure that's not a problem when I hook up all of them. If I'm going to kill any, I should try to limit my losses to one.

 

[Dauntless]

Oh, on your machete situation. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/us/texas-sword-knives-law-trnd/index.html

If you're making money at what you're doing, what job can you get that won't interfere with that? So I first started getting any paid work in TV/Film/Photography/Writing when I was a 20 year old college student. Very encouraging, except I had to work and put myself through school, my father died weeks before the first gig and mom moved away. So I was also hitting temp agencies, worked in a store that closed shortly after I started, throwing newspapers out of my car, local store marketing for a chain of pizza parlors, even became a party DJ of all things, all the while only looking for fulltime work in TV/Film but scoring the freelance gigs mostly accidentally because I was really working on fulltime. By the time I was 24 I figured out I had to give all that other crap up because it was interfering with what I was really trying to do and not really paying much as it did. The LSM was the only thing that carried some small amount of weight with the people I needed to impress. What can you really hope to find down there where you'll make anything and not be forced to shut down the hemp farm? You thinking of applying at Mission Control?

I just had a moment of passing feeling like "I got this", then I fully woke up and realized "maybe I don't", lol. That transient feeling was a good feeling regardless.

I feel like putting up a video of Spock saying 'Fascinating.'

I've decided. Took a lot of time doing this deciding.

To think I'd have already used up the Spock video idea.

Ah well. If you know where the libraries around you are, you can find the magazine with this cover and there's an article on beekeeping and the socalled bee die off. I hadn't realized it was a normal cycle, they made such a big deal of it. But apparently that was the 23rd major bee die off since 1860, bee matters have improved since and honey production is UP. And bee keeping is a migratory art, people travel from place to place to let their bees pollenate their clients orchards, etc. Dang. oh, here's another interesting scenario. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2630383/Moment-5-000-bees-swarmed-woman-middle-high-street.html

Oh, but with all your crazy talk about sultry brothels and all, I thought I'd do a search for nude female beekeeper and see if there's anything funny to come from that. Oops, there's women wearing nothing but the swarm of bees. I don't think I want to get anywhere near that one, you never know when they'll come back, eh? And then there was the picture captioned 'Lady Autumn Steals Honey.' I'm stunned. The actual Flickr pic won't load for me, so I can only guess this is right, let alone NSFW. https://www.flickr.com/photos/radoslawpujan/22641059174/ Do you get the idea that the chicks dig the bees? Well, maybe not that one from that article.

 

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Oh, on your machete situation. http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/us/texas-sword-knives-law-trnd/index.html

If you're making money at what you're doing, what job can you get that won't interfere with that?

Assuming full production, I could compress my workweek to 3 days. (I say that... but it makes me wonder why it doesn't seem like it right now... lol... I guess. I could be underestimating this.) That leaves an extra 4 days/week I could apply to work elsewhere.

If I had reliable scalable power, I'd probably just go the route of increasing production to increase income but... I don't. For example, if I were hooked upto the grid. The generator I'm currently using hasn't proven itself scalable /yet/ (But it might soon enough with the inline battery backup), and I don't know how reliable it is. I just get this itchy feeling I'm working with something finicky and longterm costly.

One of the bigger issues with applying to work elsewhere is vehicle reliability. Because, in these parts... it'd seem applying to work would definitely require a reliable vehicle. I would prefer a local job for precisely that reason, but I know there's already a number of people here who undoubtedly have already applied to what few are here, so most any job would likely require daily transport of upto 15 miles one way each day (30 miles total), minimum. I would prioritize something local for that reason (Assuring reliability). But, on the other side, there's probably a number of higher paying opportunities within 15 miles, so the payoff could be worth it.

So vehicle reliability... means, I'd likely be looking at getting another vehicle sooner or later. Just hopefully not sooner, lol.

There's also the rich steel factory owner who might have a job for me, lol. He's right around the corner. I think he's probably type-casted me by now by the looks of the RV, though, so that might not be realistic.

Mission Control is based out of pearland (SE Houston) which is about 80 miles away, so that's probably not happening. But, if I /did/ score a gig down there, it might be worth thinking about apartment life. And, a full time gig down there does mean I'd have to scale back production, but who cares, lol. On that note, if I did score a high paying office gig out of The Woodlands, there'd be the same method, but commuting does become a possibility.

Anyway, I thought about vehicle engine life a bit more closely. I figured engines typically last upto 200,000 miles under normal use. 30mph average -> 6600 hours of operation. I figure they use 30 mph in vehicle average figures, because I'd guess that's how they figured the old standard oil change intervals -> 30mph * 100 hours = 3000 miles.

So an aircooled small honda engine getting 2000 hours of operation in a slightly dirty hot environment might be fairly standard. I just didn't have a very realistic expectation as to their longevitity - I thought with their 2 year commercial warranty, they'd last at least more than a year. (it lasted precisely 6 months)

Anyway, as to that 'crazy talk', I was just describing the feeling behind the experience, the actual words spoken weren't like that... the /way/ they spoken were, lol. At that point that 'sultry and steamy' feeling had happened, she hadn't yet got so cutely mad. So, I think there was that undercurrent as soon as she spoke. Maybe that's what I found interesting in her voice; she was 'in heat' (Putting it more plainly, she was aroused. And, I don't think necessarily because of my person, though at the time, that no doubt played more than a small role, lol.). As much as I'd like to theorize, "I found her curiosity immensely interesting", being in heat just makes more sense given the zeitgeist of the whole thing and the previously noticed chest puffing.

 

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Okay, next morning. Woke after 4-5 hours sleep, felt unusual... some kind of quasi-weepy-sickly feeling in my eyes, felt like it was originating from my chest or something. Went back to bed despite not feeling sleepy, and had a dream... in a wasteland with a girl, I don't know who, sister or girlfriend... whoever it was... I was protecting her... anyway, came across these two guys in a vehicle and one pointed his gun at me, I dodged, he shot, than somehow he got vanquished and then I woke up to the sound of an animal lapping up my water bowl that I use to prevent ants from climbing up my wires. Have no idea what it was, couldn't see it... didn't care too much, though I was curious.

It was curious how yesterday was just about the first day in my life where I felt like I needed to go to a bar, lol. I guess I noticed I'm usually pretty happy-go-lucky despite getting periodic suicidal feelings, usually when thinking about a girl. Or eating whole banana peels... lol... I have no idea why, but eating whole banana peels seemed to be making me suicidal, lol. It could've just been overlapping with the girl or something, I don't know.

Anyhoo, got the generators started and the champion generator would shutdown about 7 seconds after starting. And it kept doing it. I was getting pretty antsy here, it only has 15 hours of operation on it, Googled, apparently if it's not on a flat enough surface, oil and/or gas levels may not be "high enough" for the genny and it'll shut down. So I corrected that and it appears to be working. Yep, this is definitely more finicky than the honda, that's for sure, lol. But, I can work with it assuming that is its only issues. I hope with proper maintenance, it can keep going until at least 1000 service hours. If it can do that, and scalably power my load, then I might have a winner here. I think I will still be finding a job here, though, I need to build up savings for big ticket items like this and... the house... and a backup vehicle... and it's lot faster building income through a job than an online business. Online business is great in the sense it can be persistent, but it can be volatile and right now is not a good time for me to be volatile.

After the current workload completes by this evening, i should be able to wire everything up and test it. If the generator proves unscalable, I will think really really hard.... and eventually come to a firm conclusion. That conclusion may indicate terminal decline and an inevitable expectation of just giving it up, lol, but I won't give up so easily.

Update: Okay, wanting to do an estimate on solar costs. I figure 200w should be good. A 24V 10a(or 15a?) mppt charge controller and a 24v to 110v grid tie inverter (300w?) seems like what I'd need. I just basically need to run fans, lights, computers and my cellphone. The power hungry crap will be powered by generator.

24v 250watt mppt charge controller- $26 ( https://www.amazon.com/FORTRIC-Charge-Controller-Regulator-Waterproof/dp/B01CYC6OZQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1500139481&sr=8-9&keywords=24v+mppt+controller )
200 watt solar panel - $200
24v inverter - Don't see a good rated one under $100

Seems like it'd be cheaper wiring for 12V, inverters are easy and cheap to come by.
And, I saw estimates for 800wh on average for 200w panels...

With 90w being used per hour (60w fan, 20w laptop, 10w phone), I'm thinking I'd need somewhere around 1000wh in a day. So, I'm thinking 400w might be more appropriate. That would effectively double the cost of everything, so likely would be around $500 for the entire system. If I powered just the shed, I could get it down to 20wfan,20wlaptop,10w phone (50w) or about 600wh in a day so the 200w solar system might work. Would be more comfortable with 300w.

On an article of marital infidelity, it appears many miconstrued my comment of "I love me some rabbit" for the playboy bunnies or similar. No! I literally meant I love the rabbits around the forest. I think someone killed them all... or something did... haven't seen the young one for 3 weeks now and it last looked like he/she was a young teenager.

Coincidentally, that one fairly sexual nosering wiccan gal widely considered a slut in her earlier years was a rabbit owner. The association could be coincidence, maybe not, lol.

It's funny... this one article "What's your sexual IQ?" basically asked to identify all the girls facial expressions. If you thought everyone of them were interested in you, you had a really high IQ, lol. Kind of seems to me like if you assume every possible reaction was a sign they're interested, you're doing good. Kind of makes sense, it does seem to be a matter of induction and if you act like they're interested and act on it (Make an advance), they might just become interested soon enough if they haven't already.

I once exclaimed, "The only girls I seem to attract are sluts", and this one guy overheard and was like "Hey, I'll be your best buddy", lol. His respect factor for me apparently went up a little, lol. The class slut in that particular class was not the exception. I don't normally go for known sluts, but it does seem like I typically go for girls whom I later find out to be sluts. I think it's because I go for sexy people, just like all the other guys.

It's funny how these kinds of thoughts seem to come around 1-2 p.m.; what's funny, is that I met her around the same time. Maybe it's not that more desirable people are out in the middle of the day, it could just be that I'm feeling more sexy then. Could be the sun and warmth. It's about the same time of day that lady bought me bananas. I guess I should be meeting other people in the middle of the day more often... lol.

Sun is a known vasodilator (triggers nitric oxide production and boosts the immune system), and so is the warmth. Could be that there's more blood flowing to certain anatomical parts.

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/i-seem-to-only-attract-slutty-girls.194887871/

Barnes and Noble. Your problems are solved.

Funny, there was that girl edging ever closer to me in the Woodland's Barnes and Noble. I think she was wanting me to initiate a conversation with her. I'd be lying if I said she wasn't cute. She came across as an aspiring middle-upper-class cute homemaker. But, I wasn't really looking at that time... my business hadn't resumed operations and I hadn't even got to my property yet, lol.

Applying to a job in the woodlands. Yeah, it doesn't look like a bad place to work. All well manicured, well-designed and spiffy looking set along a riviera. The commute is 35 miles though, not the kind of mileage I want to put on my 130k mile van. But a higher paying job might justify it. If I start doing that, though, I do have to consider 1) Health insurance (effectively a tax) 2) Student loan (effectively a tax) 3)Federal taxes 4)commuting and vehicle costs. Just like any business opportunity, one has to consider the expenses. I'd have to do some estimates before coming to a good conclusion on overall profitability and compare it to my other opportunities.

Anyway, now I need to wire up for 24V battery service. Will do that soon enough.

 

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I can't tell if its what I ateor thinkingabout applying for an officejob... Man,Ifelt likeballing my eyes out,lol. Maybeits her.

I think back to her, and I just can't seem to get her out of my mind. I think when I made that advance on her and she reciprocated and turned into a puddle of jello, I think that effectively pair-bonded at least myself. I don't know about her... but, yeah, anyway... I like to think it was flirting, but holy crap, that 'flirting' seems to have had some kind of permanence that I could only imagine might be pair-bonding. It's just so bad it's been at least a month since I've seen her... and this persisting feeling just won't quite go away. Had I known I was signing an invisible contract of nature, perhaps I wouldn't have done what I did, lol. (And, it kind of felt like I instinctually knew exactly what I was doing, but I consciously didn't.)

I think that's why maybe I'm feeling like balling my eyes out tonight. lol

I think about those antagonists who are like you need this and this requirements and blah blah blah, and I'm thinking, you know... YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND... nothing will stop this! Not even /that/. Granted,don't get me wrong, I"m sure it doesn't hurt, lol.

Anyway, just passing sentiments of today, lol. I feel like recording it somewhere.

 

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So you talk about cutting down trees, then the girl. You bemoan the girl, talk as though you're thrilled as the trees fall. Trees - Girl. Trees - Girl.

Is THIS the girl you're talking about?

 

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Oh yes, and Artermis was her name!

I think the guy looking longingly at this female Closest-Organic-Banana-Resupply-Depot associate and with her soon turning away and giggling just triggered it I think. I think I confused it with the idea of applying for an office job earlier that night, because I was earlier walking with a face of disgust and revulsion thinking of it.

Anyhoo, I see that these $11/hr or $21,000/yr office jobs are fairly common here, and this would probably explain the $21,000/yr female average in these parts. Usually titles like receptionist/assisstant/etc. I figure these types likely make $1500/month after taxes, and that would help explain all these $400/month new cars I see driving around.

Not really sure what the males are doing here for 45k/year. My guess is the trades, seems to be there's a bit of construction in this general direction.

I don't know why the male average of Conroe is suppressed compared to the rest of Houston. Pretty much identical with the female average, suggesting they're sharing the same limited retail or lower-paying office jobs.

And the males of the woodlands, I really don't see what they're doing for 75k/year. Maybe those job openings aren't around anymore, it's possible. Maybe I'm not looking at the right job categories or websites as of the moment (Maybe software engineering or petroleum engineering isn't considered an "office job" on indeed.). The downshift in the payscale could've hit Houston as well as the rest of the nation.[I don't get the sense they were hit to the same extent as the west coast, though banking regulations seem to be affecting some businesses in terms of access to capital.]

The downshift in the payscale didn't hit just pay in places like Spokane, but hours, and thus monthly pay. Someone might decry the nature of $8/hour work here in the nearby retail businesses, but $8/hr at 40 hours week pays more than $8.25/hr at 25 hours a week. It seems like the high achievers in the face of this were, instead of pursuing higher paying fulltime work like in yesteryears, were moreso balancing multiple jobs to get the total hours upto fulltime or more.

Still learning the nature of the economy here. I think her implied exclamation of the foolishness of moving here may have been her warning of the low paying work & economy in the nearby areas. But, she does't have my west coast perspective on what "low paying" /really/ is, lol. And a 35 mile commute for high paying work is not out of the norm across the nation (Actually, looks to be roughly the 10th percentile according to DOT; that's somewhat out of the national norm, but I do wonder about the Houston norms).

Anyway, that chest sensation was getting intense last night at 4 a.m. (fell asleep at 11, woke at 3 a.m. ; went back to sleep at 6, woke at 8.); I had previously downed a bunch of honey and peanut butter and was laying on my stomach. I took some apple cider vinegar thinking it was likely heartburn, but the intensity of it did make me have second guesses. It soon quelled after standing up and taking the apple cider vinegar. I was earlier somewhat concerned about these later-determined-to-be dark red indentations in my foot, but they went away in about 5 minutes or so. I'm not sure if that concern contributed. I'm thinking ingesting much honey is not a good idea.

And, man, I just don't feel like doing anything right now, lol. But I should finish wiring up the batteries. But I'm using them right now... so... lol.

I think I'll need to maintain separate 24v/12v battery banks. Unless I get a 24v/12v converter. I did actually get one for the van, and it's rated 240w too. Well, that's just perfect, I use about 60w when running on battery. So 24v battery bank -> 24/12votl converter -> 12 volt -> 12V to 110v inverter.

And, I could totally not need a 24v inverter for the solar panels with that scheme, cutting that inverter cost out.

So, basically looking for just solar panels and a 24v mppt charge controller.

So rewire the batteries for 24V, use the 24v/12v converter, attach to 12V 110V inverter. That way it can serve as an inline 24v battery backup and power my other equipment when I need it to.

Might want to get a 24v lead charger.

 

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So you talk about cutting down trees, then the girl. You bemoan the girl, talk as though you're thrilled as the trees fall. Trees - Girl. Trees - Girl.

Is THIS the girl you're talking about?

On that note, isn't this an appropriately named film starring Marie Doro considering the subject at hand? The Wood Nymph. (The conversational parrallels go unmatched)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wood_Nymph_(film)

 

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Yep, figured out I wasn't using the right site. Looking at Dice.com, there seems to be plenty of tech jobs in the woodlands area (That would help to explain the kind of jobs that characterize the 75k male median in that area). I'm sure there's other specialist sites that show the other highpaying jobs there. Not that I personally think I have an incredibly high chance of scoring a job there (No perfect resume here, no nepotic foot in the door.), but I have absolutely no qualms with applying. I do stand a better chance than say if I were a recent graduate applying across the USA. I do use my particular set of skills extensively in my business, so I definitely have claimable experience.

Seems that most of the tech jobs in Houston are centered around the West downtown to west houston(katy) area. Katy is mostly middle class suburbs obviously designed around highway access to get to the city of houston, and it appears that most of the tech jobs center around that particular highway (I-10) into downtown. I kind of get the impression that's where the upper-middle to upper classes of Houston tend to live.

Update: Been doing a lot of recent walking around. Not sure if I feel excited by the idea. Seems like I would appreciate the money, but it just seems like if I landed a position, it'd be too easy - I understand it wouldn't be "easy", per se (No doubt there'd be difficulties here and there), but it seems like I could've possibly strived and worked that much harder to achieve the same result. The idea that I worked hard for 5 years seems more exciting than the idea of "I fiddled on a keyboard, and did some hard thinking, rubbed shoulders for a year and talked to clients."; But, at the same time, I don't mind the idea of buying any kind of home I might want in any location within 10 years. Doesn't seem like location really matters to me, as long as I have the castle in my neighborhood (And my own little pond/pool palmed shrangi-la), I'm happy. lol And, being a new resident, I don't realistically expect to have the local castle, lol. That actually goes to the rich 80-something steel owner, but you can't see his property from the road anyway, he doesn't matter, lol.

But, I understand that people tend to buy based on ISD, seems like it's widely advertised. "You buy this house and your kids go to this school!"; I honestly don't think ISD should really matter until highschool age. The skills learned in grades 1-8 are a joke (And it's roughly comparable across the board), high school is when course offerings diverge across the city and some schools have better opportunities than others in preparing for college.

So, I'm still thinking about it. Not convinced that excitement /should/ be a prerequisite to the ideal course of action, lol (I don't think marine frontline units are normally 'excited' to invade, but someone has to do it, if it's to be done at all.). No doubt it doesn't hurt. [In contrast, being poor as /f/ and being financially constrained is not exciting either. Definitely less exciting than applying, lol.]

I would definitely prioritize applying there over nearby fulltime minimum wage jobs though; one because of job security (Skills are more marketable) and another because if I don't apply now, I'm only making it harder to enter later. And, I may very well be looking back and regretting it.

I am in kind of a sweet position. While I'm applying, I'm living just fine and I can easily work on expansion, so there's really no downsides. Other than possibly a lack of pressure. Pressure, one of those things that can be bad (Especially chronic types), but yet very good in terms of yielding results sometimes. It depends on the context.

And, yes, this was one of those 'backup plan' ideas with choosing this property. I knew I was close enough to a healthy wealthy relatively stable job market, and I knew large cities tended to have an abundance of skilled job offerings. Granted, I don't know the competition levels for these particular jobs here, but with widespread opportunity for comfortable paying jobs and low cost living accomodations, I have a feeling it's easier than on the west coast. Probably not as easy as getting my foot into my father's workplace, but I really didn't like the idea of being a family shoe-in. And, I didn't really like that area (climate/economy in particular). I feel more empowered here and I like it.

 

[Dauntless]

Gee, did I come off as someone who went to film school on THAT ONE, eh? A lost film. (Sigh) Oh yeah, here's another:



I've solved your dilemma. CHESS. Do you SEE the sort of women it attracts. Maybe not in the U.S., but in those Eastern Bloc countries of Europe, they've got absolute supermodel types hung up on the game. I mean, can you believe?

Anyway, you can try indeed.com for jobs. In the last few years I've witnessed the death of a number of sites I used to jobhunt on. Others that used to be free they started wanting $20/month, etc. Not that they were ever worth that, anything that only brings low paid jobs is a waste of money if you have to pay. If it says "Join for FREE," that means you can look but don't touch, as soon as you actually see a job you want to apply for you have to pay to join to actually see who it is and get the chance to apply. The most recent to go over to the dark side was Mandy.com. In fact the only one to look at short of desperation anymore seems to be http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/reality-tv-film-production-jobs/jcat.asp?jcat=112

But 'Too easy?' I've never had a job where 'Too easy' applied. Maybe because the simpler the job was, the more unpleasant the work environment. Then there was the dead end factor, with bosses that seemed to try to kill you to keep you from leaving. I wish moving seemed easier, I almost feel handcuffed to my house. The way prices rose if I sell and move to a house at the same price my property tax will go up 8-10 times. The there's the cost of going. If it don't work it costs me a bundle, eh? But there's not much for me right here. Ah well.

Oh yeah, one more chess champion. This is the one who started it all. When asked about the image she was creating with all the photos and the outfits, she responded that the women playing chess needed to dress more like her if they wanted chess to be an international sensation and make a lot of money at it. They decided she had a point.

 

[Dauntless]

So, my current job dilemma.

I live maybe 20 miles or less from the office on this one. Important in SoCal, more than 30 miles away and they dismiss you, what with the traffic here and all. Oh, to squirm, I've always wanted a job like this. I've worked on things that forego the most in depth preproduction, etc., this would be so EASY compared to the low budget way I've always worked. But somehow these fools always construct that I'd be in over my head in their spoiled little world. Ah, what would I DO with myself without the sense of panic I normally work under? http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/Roadtrip-Nation/Producer/job/234621/

Or maybe to be on the development side. In the past I was offered development jobs at ABC and NBC. At NBC it was temporary, someone was taking pregnancy leave and I'd be out when she came back to work - Unless they had someone else for me by then. Or at least by then I'd be experienced in comparison, a relative insider. So before my first day of work I got a call from my would be boss who told me that she was TOLD in no uncertain terms one of the bigwigs was sending over someone to have the job. AFTER they let her do the interviews as though she was filling the job in a serious manner. Yeah, it's Hollywood, I should have expected it. ABC the day after I'm offered the job it's in the news about a big shakeup, layoffs - need I explain that I called in to find out? Yeah, here's the direction I'd wanted to pursue my career from, and again, I've done all this before, if not with the simplicity of the software they use now. But they'll never consider me capable of handling their spoiled little easy job. http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/Netflix/Manager-Physical-Production-Docs-and-Comedy/job/233114/

But here's a big chunk of my real career up until now. ENG is supposed to mean 'Electronic News Gathering' as when they shifted from shooting 16mm film to gerryjigging consumer video equipment to shoot the 'Film at 11.' But those cameras proved so incredibly versatile and convenient that we used the ENG configuration for most things, even the users at home saw their cameras become ENG like. I've done the nonlinear editing of course, I've done news gathering at City cable channels, (At an interview the guy turned on the City of LA channel because I was saying I worked there and the credits rolled on a show and he asking if my name would come up. I said it would, it did, but it didn't seem to mean anything to him after he'd made such a big deal) and a lot of the marketing communications video I've made comes off the same way as news gathering. We use the phrase 'Run and gun.' But because I've never worked in a microwave truck (The newswagon will have that dish on top that sends the video to the station from location) I know I'm wasting my time to apply. It means nothing that I've used the P2 type cameras so prevalent today, nor would I have to actually WORK the microwave dish. But. . . . http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/Disney-ABC-Television-Group/ENG-Camerapersons/job/235293/

Yeah, we did a lot of Reality TV for the cities before it was so common on national TV, but would they touch the real people doing for jobs when it caught on with them?

Ah well, I'm facing another week with not much to do. You produce in the low budget world of cities and corporate video, you're your own coordinator. But can you GET a job as a coordinator where there's the time and money to make it easy? http://www.entertainmentcareers.net/The-Walt-Disney-Studios/Staff-Production-Coordinator-Features/job/236694/

Ah well, all this whining about how it's all gone bad, I should mention I'm cooking up something that might undo some of my problem. If it goes anywhere, even as I'm not looking for a job I'll send resumes everywhere. All those jobs on those websites that would never consider me for the job, the random shots I used to take, everything. I used to encounter people who would acknowledge they think the remember my name from something, or some that mentioned my resume turned up at three different places he'd work. And then there was this local Orange County trade journal for Film/TV that never profiled me but mentioned me in so many profiles of other people. At least I can get back to that feeling of being a legend again. . . .

Oh well. Good luck getting the job you say you're qualified for.

 

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Well, if I were in LA, I'd try to find the companies that had growing revenues and I'd start schmoozing with the execs/hiring-manager/etc, lol. But, I know it's a lot easier saying that than doing it, because I'll admit, I don't know how you'd go about doing that especially if you didn't have ties to them already. Maybe networking at seminar events or industry events or whatnot. Seems like you already know the LA-specific details in that and I don't expect my very general advice would be particularly helpful, lol.

Houston is a pretty good location because it has fairly profitable underlying industry, so there's a bit of money flowing into the "white professions/industries"(I don't mean to be racist, I just don't know of a more appropriate way to describe it.). Granted, maybe we're not talking about systems development companies or anything, but business apps and whatever the energy industry is looking for. If I were specifically looking for technology jobs, I might be inclined to start off in a more tech-centric city (Or get an internship at my father's company), but there's really no way I could touch Austin,TX and surrounding counties with its regulations and not be forced into a rental situation. (Hard to rent if you don't have a job lined up already, seems apts ask for paystubs, which I don't doubt.)

I get the impression one resident in this area has a greater than normal probability of being an educated worker. Maybe a tech worker. He has a reserved manner about him that seems reminiscent of a nerd(?) and he has the stereotypical good looking wife and I saw that he built a small trebuchet, which interesting because it's what I built one time in my backyard when I was 17. And, it proved effective; definitely throwing those 10 pound weights further than I could - hit the neighbors house one time. (I was glad they weren't home at the time,lol.)

We waved to each other once.

On the chess girls, those eastern girls. Definitely get the sense they're not particularly hard to poach. But, then again, depending on who you are at the moment, not many are. (I get the sense if they are looking too, it's not hard at all.)

They do have a reputation among arab countries.

 

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On that note of job seeking, I think entitlement has something to do with how well you do. You might talk about qualifications, but I think ambition tends to be more influential, and people with a sense of entitlement tend to pursue the better opportunities so don't necessarily take my advice, but if you don't want to, don't limit yourself.

I think that's partially what degrees really bestow, a sense of entitlement.

I'm not going to say that it's the /only/ thing that matters (For sure, not getting stabbed in the back is important. And, I could offer tips on this, but I do suspect the fates might be involved to some extent in some cases.), but I do believe it's strongly influential, especially if nothing else is really limiting you. [Like, lack of qualifications. I actually have plenty of qualification in creating business apps; it's what my business runs off of,lol.]

In my personal history, I think about the past, and I posit "Well,my homelife was bad,so that's what the issue was." but... I was no longer at home in the military... and I could see the same trends unfolding.Granted, perhaps my trying to convince my roommate I was going to do some nefarious act because I was trying to scare him as a joke considering the environment was also known as The Spanish Inquisition probably wasn't wise,lol,so I think my person might be somewhat to blame there, lol. I can think of all the failings in that context, and my choices were ultimately to blame, so I don't necessarily think I can blame the fates... (I was actually chosen to be the next undisputed leader until they found the 'contraband'.). Unless I can blame a lack of impulse control and psychopathy on the fates, lol.

Lack of impulse control and psychopathy... what's the mental disorder I can come up withnow? Google is coming up with sociopath. Uh, funny, I already came up with that google result when googling my statement to a coworker "I'm just looking for your undying love and admiration". This keeps coming up on the radar, lol. I did feel like I felt a bit of emotional depth when making my advance on her, but the sudden reversal in regard after hearing what I perceived to be immature baby noises... seemed maybe a tiny bit shallow. I obviously didn't lose all interest, and I think she knew it, she was smiling with happiness as I left as was I for a few days after.Then the despair hit after 3 days of not seeing her, then the suicidal sentiments started to hit, but I'm over that now. Had no strong sentiments on that matter yesterday, what seemed to be the first day. [So, in otherwords, traits like these are a spectrum, and I'm probably just lightly tinged. I'm not concerned about it.]

Psychopathy indicates a lack of remorse about the act of manipulating or taking advantage of others in order to benefit in some way. While some people with psychopathy do commit violent crimes, others may simply use their superficial charm and ability to manipulate to get ahead. In fact, research shows that psychopathic personality traits are disproportionately represented among CEOs.

CEO, what I happen to be right now,

Psychopaths are often voluble and verbally facile. They can be amusing and entertaining conversationalists, ready with a clever comeback, and are able to tell unlikely but convincing stories that cast themselves in a good light. They can be very effective in presenting themselves well and are often very likable and charming.

Well, doesn't sound all that bad to me, lol.

Anyway, seems like sales have been very recently slumping, so I've been busying taking countermeasures to actions that may have precipitated the slump. I was going to wait until a certain day to compare sales to previous weeks to come to a firm conclusion as to cause and affect, but I decided to take action right now. I get a little ansy when revenue seems to be falling, especially when it seems it could be due to something I've done.

If revenue is falling across the board, that does suggest online spending is on the decline. Given that it comprises 8% of consumer spending, it'd indicate a decline in consumer spending and thus possibly a recession if sustained. I don't have a long enough sales history to suggest this just yet, and summer time can be unpredictable. (I didn't notice a slump last summer though.); so I'd need at least two more weeks of sustained slumping to come to a firmer conclusion on this matter.

If there was sustained slumping, and this were my only income source, meeting my savings goal for house construction by late september might be hard. Because, even though I can expand (And I definitely will soon enough), there's only so much a contraction can be counteracted via expansion. If spending is down across the board, it affects almost every business dependent on consumer spending. (In particular, retail; common refrain back in my area "Even mcdonald's isn't even hiring!". Pretty sad when getting a job at a fastfood joint became a matter of being a friend of the hiring manager.)

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/article/consumer-spending-and-us-employment-from-the-recession-through-2022.htm
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Shows that consumer spending went from 1232 in 2007 to 1109 in 2009, about a 10% decline. Coincidentally, 10% of the workforce was lost in the same period.

Anyway, I need to find a terminal that will connect to my battery posts. The bolt is kind of big, so I might need to look around. If I can't find anything, I'll need to find another way to securely connect the wires to the battery.

Ok, figured it out. The large spade won't fit around the bolt, but it'll squeeze perfect between the wingnut and washer when tightened, so it should be relatively securely connected.Yep, so I'll connect it all up very shortly after I get done using the 12v charger today. The 24v powersupplies should keep it charged in the future, especially if I just leave them on and don't use them for a little while (Charge up the battery a little to reduce charge flows, so I'll have enough current to power my devices).

 

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I think back about the experience... and... I noticed the steamy feeling came when she turned her back to me and kind of tilted her head as if enjoying the moment (Like a cat,oddly enough.)

I'm wondering about that...

I don't know if it was entirely my imaignation or if she was (possbiliby instinctually) arousing me, because as odd as it seems, it seemed like it would have been so appropriate to wrap my arms around her and kiss her neck or something, lol. I don't really know why she turned around, doesn't seem there was a real reason for it, I think she was following the script of the moment or something. Yeah, anyway, that moment just seemed oddly momentous.

Girls have done that to me, you know, turn around and stick up their butt, like a female mouse signaling their readiness to mate (Not talking about twerking, but keeping it up). So I just wonder if that's what was happening there... I wasn't paying attention to her butt, lol, but I wonder if she was suggesting something in that vein by doing that. Because I was definitively 'feeling it', lol, and her tone of voice and utterances was getting ... sexy right beforehand. (Well, mine was first. It was a crescendoing ... duet.)

Maybe she was putting things in the bag. They don't turn around for that, though, it's on the side.

9 signs she's definitely into you

https://familyshare.com/24664/9-signs-shes-definitely-into-you

If she's giving you a coy smile, that's also good news. What's a coy smile? It's a smile where she smiles at you and then turns away or lowers her head. Better pay attention or you'll miss it.

I definitely didn't miss it, lol.

I guess my impulsive advance was entirely appropriate and no wonder why she melted. Wow, that definitely was one big dance.

 

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https://theartofcharm.com/approaching-a-woman/girl-body-language-back-get-closer/

Ok, time to do a closer analysis.

She took a step back while momentarily looking down. It was at this moment I did detect defensiveness, but it was apparently very temporary, because even though it didn't seem like she was very interested based on her forced baby imitations (Granted, it probably seemed forced because she probably was trying to push through the anxiety of talking to her newly found crush looking back - I didn't have quite that insight at that exact moment.), she acted like she was in tears when I rolled my eyes and turned away. I was like "What the hell?", lol. She was obviously uncomfortable, which I completely understand (I felt the discomfort at the precise moment she took a step back, but I could feel it melt away so quickly, and feel her affection.), but the way she acted like she was so butthurt by me blowing it off almost made me think she really wanted it, whatever it was. Perhaps it was the house she may have illegitimately inferred, perhaps it was the garden, yes. But, I get the impression she was missing the future of us... because she acted so nervous and acting like her breath was taken away, what can I say (I tend to have that affect on susceptible girls... the last one was a slut... and so was the other one... yep... she's probably one too, lol. But... maybe not... I want to think she doesn't act like all the other sluts I've known, but it's hard to argue she wasn't tempting every guy she could, lol. So as much as I want to think she's the exception because she's 'smart' and 'strong' (At least until I came along, lol), probably not, lol.). But when I smiled and continued our friendly conversation, I think she soon realized I wasn't 'gone' and she was so happy. But, then I was gone forever and that's the end of the story, lol. And she seemed to have no problems affectionately greeting the other guys, and I inferred she was going to find someone sooner or later, she was obviously fishing. So, yep, I'm not really dedicated to her as if convinced "She's the one", lol, but I do get a great sense that our personalities are so compatible in a way it seems few are. Of course, she may very well be compatible with almost everyone, one of those 'friendly' people, so I'm not convinced I'm one of the few compatible with her, lol. But, she obviously was struck by the experience, she made sure to express happy farewells multiple times, more than normal. I feel pretty confident in saying I was the only person that day she expressed happy farewells excessively so that day.

 

[Dauntless]

Yeah, the whole problem is I've never been a psychopath, so the people at the top don't see me as one of their own.

I come from a field where the people with at least a BA outnumber those without, at least as far as actually making a living is concerned. There's a lot hanging on by their fingernails to piecework but making a living painting houses or selling real estate or driving a tow truck or. . . . Qualifications are outweighed by personal agendas and politics. You go to a city or a county looking for a job they have a selection process where they rank the applicants. About half the time I've been #1 on these jobs I wanted but never once got. Here's where the black privilege, female privilege, gets someone the job they're not qualified for. The people making the mistake of hiring the person refer to some sort of "Opportunity" in making the mistake. That or being friends with the City Manager when you get out of jail and lost your last job while you were in, remembering one actual incident where the jailbird got MY job. Then they turn around and start trying to scam for someone to do the job unpaid that the privileger getting the paycheck isn't doing. These are the people who've been giving themselves $10-20k a year raises every year, if you followed the news in Southern California here recently. Just scam artists by their very nature. I just don't understand how this worked that so many city employees even had the power to assign themselves these huge raises every year.

But their are cues that will tip you off it's time to walk out on the interview. One is where they start talking about "Seeing your passion." The way to show it is by being the victim of this scam they're setting up. Entitlement issues are probably the number one pathology not just in Hollywood but in any non-Hollywood TV also.

But the difference between TV and say engineering is that all the people that find the math and engineering classes too hard decide to take television instead. So I go to take this test for the LA City Schools channel 58 and the room has maybe 150 people, I'm assuming they'd deemed every one to at least be minimally qualified. So I'd guess at most 6-10 were my real competition for the job, I suppose that's how many of us were given an interview after the test, myself of course being one. But there was only one job, ultimately. Engineering you can quit your job and go get another next week. Television, this might be your last job. I was the envy of so many because I was stringing 12-15 employers together in a single year to work something close to fulltime. But I'd envy them their failing at TV and holding a steady job at something else. . . .

 

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This is true, with a 3% unemployment rate for engineers, it's pretty easy to switch if you need to. But, obviously, this depends on the person and their history in question - each person has their own individual 'unemployment rate' if you will. This does ignore the 12.2% unemployment rate for "new engineering job seekers". I have a feeling it might be a little less here, because 20,000 openings per 6 million population, that's .3% of the entire population; The amount of jobs outnumbers the amount of openings (Or should if the field has been established for a while), so this is an encouraging number. This is probably not the best numbers across the USA (Hotspots like Seattle or San Fran might have higher ratios), but it's definitely better than Spokane was!

 

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And that look that I saw google was calling the "sexy look", looks like it has another term on urban dictionary (I've never heard it before but it's surprisingly popular; is it recent? Maybe I don't hang out with the right crowd, lol. Looks like it came into vogue the summer after I graduated highschool, no wonder why I've never heard it - highschool - the birthplace of urbandictionary slang.).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eye+frock

When you make eye contact exactly at the same time and you stare for longer than 3 seconds but you have to think of all the dirty things you want to do to that person.

Well, I can't say I was thinking of any dirty things in particular, but I can't deny that the overall ambiance in that vein was there.

But, if this is true this is what the look conveys, then her getting so butthurt over my withdrawal tells me she really wanted to /f/. That does make sense, she was acting like I was her boyfriend for a few seconds. And her hitting on all the guys, jutting out the chest, talking affectionately to everyone... agrees with this conclusion.

I'm just wondering if that's a term. Crazy slut.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/tags.php?tag=crazy%20slut

Not that I'm calling her that (I don't know much of her personal history, you see. I don't have the benefit of knowing her reputation.), but I have suspicions. The other girls who'd be falling for me, you see, weren't hitting on all the guys like she was. But, for sure, I fell for the one that was, lol. [So this "I attract all the sluts" maybe is moreso "I'm attracted to sluts", lol. It's probably both. I guess I'm firmly in the slut camp and I need to accept my lot in life, lol. I think I'm really in the "really friendly girl" camp, which has a lot of overall overlap with flirty sluts.]

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/i-hate-girls-who-are-super-friendly-and-flirt-with-everyone.250127100/

I hate girls who are super friendly and flirt with everyone...

Makes you feel special and then you see her flirting with every other guy as well.

Oh well...

i love those girls because they're easy and slutty

Seems to be the case. On that note, she didn't really make me "feel special", but she was definitely turning the knobs.

OP said flirt and key word was with everyone, not just a select few people.
and it is definitely a tell-tale sign of a hoe wanting some dick.

Just as I suspected. But she acted cute and sexy and she looked my mother, and my mom is no whore. This isn't fair, lol.

Don't marry that hoe, she sucked too many dicks and you know the old saying, you can't turn a whore into a housewife

She needed to stop looking like my mom, lol.

She was all whimpering and acting like she was crying when I withdrew, like a doggie who's had their bone taken away. Jeez, lol.

And she definitely was acting like one of those crackwhores when ... I don't know the situation... when their 'master' takes away their crack and they're all jittery, desperate and traumatized by it. I got the impression that this girl wasn't quite the girl I thought she was, lol (Definitely not my mom). But, she sprung back to normalcy pretty quickly and was hitting on the next guy in no time.

It's interesting, it doesn't seem like I've seen a lot of 20-somethings that act like this. I'm sure they're out there, but I wonder if this is something a lot of girls outgrow with age.