NoTellRiverHotel

02/02/2026

My MEMORIES on here have reminded me of the many years I declared winter over on this day, whether god liked it or not, as I am now suffering through 8 days of not reaching our normal high, two nights of freezing temperatures with more projected to come, and the prospect of at least 14 additional days of not seeing a normal high.

I hope the weather is better where you are.

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10/10/2024

Electricity on in Weeki Wachee Gardens.
Bless those linemen

09/06/2024

Here's what is wrong with 28% capital gains tax.

Let's say you buy a piece of land for $10,000, keep it for 12 years and sell it after it's appreciated 3.5% a year with inflation(change in the value of the currency) over those years only going up 2.75%. More people being created than dying puts upward price pressure on the cost of a limited commodity.
At the end of 12 years, the land would have appreciated to $15,110.00, but because of inflation, it would take $13,847.84 to purchase the same things $10,000 would buy 12 years before.

However, the government doesn't take into account the change in the value of the currency(Inflation) and treats the 5,110 as profit and would tax it at 28% which equals $1,430.80.
$15,110 if there is no real estate commission less $1,430.80 = $13,669.20 and it takes $13, 847.84 to buy what $10,000 would buy 12 years before so you actually LOST $178.64 in purchasing power.

You didn't make the $ 5,110 - $1,430.80 = $3,679.20 the government wants to act like you did.
You lost $178.64 in what the money would buy and 12 years.

Even 20% like it is now would only be:
$5,110 profit x 20% = $1022.
$15,110 - $1022 = $14,088 - $13,847.84 = $240.16 actual profit.

In the 20% case, there was actually a profit in terms of purchasing power of $15,110 - $13,847.84 = $1,262.16.
The government gets $1,022.00 of it and the citizen/investor only gets $240.16.
Government gets 80.97% on the increase in purchasing power and the citizen/investor only gets 19.03%.

To be fair to the citizens the long-term capital gain tax of 20% perhaps should be lowered instead of raised.

08/11/2024

I'm voting against all our present county commissioners which include Elizabeth Narverud, Brian Hawkins, John Allocco, Jerry Campbell, and Steve Champion.

It's not the job of our representatives to do what we want.
It's their job to figure out what's best and do it whether we like it or not.
They unanimously voted to allow frigging golf carts on Shoal Line Boulevard, a thoroughfare citizens use to get from one distant place to another because they heard from more people in Hernando Beach with golf carts than without.
Shoal Line is not a neighborhood street.

Think everyone should consider doing the same.

08/07/2024

Found out the slab in the little house isn't perfectly level. The upriver side got damp. The downriver side of the kitchen/living room was perfectly dry.

05/21/2024

Two weekends ago there was a badly damaged Geicko lizard on the hot pavement between the houses. If you'd touch him he'd just flip around. Upsidedown, round and round. Couldn't control his movement. Broken neck or something. Felt sorry for it and took it to a shady spot where I urinate outside thinking it might draw flies he could catch and eat. But there was a very tiny lizard in that space who picked on him.
Turns out it can't hunt or protect itself so I took it inside.
We have these biting yellow flies some call May flies that are the only thing we hunt here. John killed 68 the other day before the lizard showed up, which I believe is the record, but there are still a few around and we started feeding them to this lizard. Give it water with a little syringe.
Kept it safe and alive for over a week.
Weren't any flies this morning so in a panic I discovered I could feed it small parts of a hard-boiled egg.

04/29/2024

Heard the other day that Lia Thomas who was born a male and still has all the male appendages but is swimming as a female is also a le***an and has a female girlfriend.

Personally, I'm shocked. What a surprise.

04/29/2024

When the Titanic sank, it carried millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. The money in his bank account was enough to build 30 Titanics. However, faced with mortal danger, he chose what he deemed morally right and gave up his spot in a lifeboat to save two frightened children.

Millionaire Isidor Straus, co-owner of the largest American chain of department stores, "Macy's," who was also on the Titanic, said:
"I will never enter a lifeboat before other men."
His wife, Ida Straus, also refused to board the lifeboat, giving her spot to her newly appointed maid, Ellen Bird. She decided to spend her last moments of life with her husband.

These wealthy individuals preferred to part with their wealth, and even their lives, rather than compromise their moral principles. Their choice in favor of moral values ​​highlighted the brilliance of human civilization and human nature.

Also, Benjamin Guggenheim did the same.

03/13/2023

Sometimes Laziness Pays.
Didn't have to spring forward our clocks.

03/12/2023

Was doing Okay on my Carnivore diet of 8 days until Amanda, Holly and another showed up with at least 12 different actual foods, plus numerous chips, Cheetos-type things, dips and vodka.
It was the cheddar cheese Cheetos-like product that finally did me in.

Did what I believe is my first social drinking of the year.
She poured me a really stiff vodka and I finished it off with only about 1/5 more diet root beer and the drink was unbelievably tasty. Thought I'd found a replacement for whiskey.
Until I found out during my second drink it was Pinnacle Vodka Cake, and it was the cake part that made it so good.

If you weren't at the NoTellRiverHotel today you were making a big, big mistake.