Monday, May 31, 2021

The ice cream owner who tried, failed – and now owes $200,000

 I can't believe that Yahoo News actually posted this.  But shows the hash reality of trying to open a new business in CA.  And especially, SF.

He tried, and he failed. But the worst part is he never got a chance to even start. And now he’s got a $200,000 debt to pay off.

That’s the story of Jason Yu, a 30-year-old father of two who had the audacity to attempt to open up an ice cream shop in San Francisco’s Mission District. Unfortunately, the city got in his way.

As reported by San Francisco Chronicle, Yu started his project – a shop that sold green-tea-flavored ice cream – in late 2018, and ultimately found a location in mid-2019 where he got to work. After committing to a lease ($7,300 a month – this is San Francisco, remember?) he hired an architect to draw up plans for the space, which proposed no structural changes or modifications.

Then the city stepped in.

What he encountered was a byzantine permitting process that sucked all the money out of his wallet.

The article does say that perhaps the local politicians are waking up to the problem.  But to honest, I doubt it.  You need to vote these people out and then ban them from ever setting foot in the city ever again,

Saturday, May 22, 2021

Latest post on Texas Coronavirus Data as of May 21, 2021

 Posting the latest Texas Wuhan Virus stats in graphic form. There are three numbers to look at:

1-    It took a while, but the daily hospitalizations are well under the trough we saw around August thru October in 2020.

2-    The second line shows daily deaths are under the trough at the same time period

3-    The third line shows that we have finally reached the low of daily deaths we saw before the volcano erupted on this whole thing.

Are we out of the woods?  I think we are.  But I've been wrong before.

Note:  I should make it clear that the daily deaths were smoothed out by converting it to a 7 day moving average.



I stumbled across a quick chart I put together and posted on another website (behind paywall). I superimposed the first wave onto the top of the beginnings of the 2nd wave.  This one was as of 2020/11/18. The date is from the timestamp on the file.

I wish I had posted this one here.  It was pretty prescient.


So now the question becomes: is this the lowest it's going to get?  

Stay tuned!!  I plan on to continue reviewing the data. I'll probably try to post once a month. I put off posting anything for a couple months because it was tough trying to determine where this was all headed.  It was sort of a cliff hanger.