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Tonopah And/Or Bust

Posted on | August 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho


I was originally going to just remark that there might not be any posting from Yr. Ob’t Servant this weekend and let it go at that, but you loyal readers and members of the Commentariat deserve more, so here it is.

After months of banging the paperwork together (it’s mostly electronic, but still) I have been approved to move into a subsidized apartment up in Tonopah, which is almost exactly halfway between Reno and Las Vegas on US-95. It’s a small rural town (pop. ~2600) so that’ll be a new experience for me as I’ve only lived in cities or their suburbs before this. I intend to enjoy the experience, as well as the cooler weather, and may wind up buying a house there with my unused VA loan. Or I might move back to Las Vegas. We’ll see how things go. Anyhow, despite the fact that I originally applied for the apartment in April, I didn’t get approved until a couple of weeks ago, which means I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to arrange for internet service, setting up electric billing, etc. so that when I move up there tomorrow everything will be good to go. I already know it won’t be, because I had to reschedule the installation of my Frontier internet to Monday since the movers aren’t going to show up at my storage locker until 1 PM, which is when the Frontier guy was originally going to show up.

In other Nevada news, a lot of people here are PO’d at Governor Sisolak, who has been dutifully following the Democrat party line on dealing with Corona-chan. The net result is that a lot of the people laid off because the governor closed the casinos, bars, restaurants, etc. had to wait literally months to get unemployment because the state wasn’t ready to deal with a quarter-million unemployed people at once. There are still people out there waiting to hear back on applications they filed in April, and others in bad shape now that the additional $600 Federal assistance has ended. Despite the lockdown not having improved matters, and quite possibly made them worse, Sisolak is sticking to his guns and refusing to open up the most populous counties in the state. Whether people remember this next year when the Assembly and Senate are up for election remains to be seen.

As usual, we are enjoying triple digit temperatures here, which is probably one of the factors keeping rioters and other scum off the streets. The other factor is that the Metro police here in Clark County have been present in overwhelming force during the handful of protests, so the violence has been minimal and I expect it’ll stay that way, since our Democrats are somewhat saner than those in New York and understand quite well that if they allow Antifa and #BLM to burn down the Strip or Fremont Street, that’s going to be the end of the city, because Las Vegas is still heavily reliant on tourism and the economy here is bad enough already with the lockdown just beginning to loosen up to the point where most of the major Strip casinos are open. All of the major conferences and national meetings that usually fill the Convention Center, the Sands Expo Center, and every hotel room in town have been cancelled, and there’s talk that even the National Finals Rodeo is going to cancel. Millions, maybe billions of dollars not coming to Las Vegas. It’s not pretty.

And that’s the news from Las Vegas.


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    […] Tonopah And/Or Bust I was originally going to just remark that there might not be any posting from Yr. Ob’t Servant this weekend and let it go at that, but you loyal readers and members of the Commentariat deserve more, so here it is. […]