Hot and humid. Of course. Unless it’s raining.
Yesterday got hotter and hotter until it was 109F in the sun in my driveway. It was over 100F in the garage. I was moving, but sometimes a bit slower. I tried to switch tasks, moving from the house to the garage to the sunny driveway to the shady yard, and back. I drank 2 liters of lemonade, and some iced tea and some water.
I mostly was trying to clear out the four corners of the garage. One corner blocks entry for the freezer. One corner is where I want to put it. The other corner is my main water and food storage area, now being re-purposed as my hobby area and storage for some bulk buckets, and non-perishables, as well as my fire rated file cabinet and a work area. If I get to cutting the hole in the wall, that’s where the A/C unit will go too. The last corner is the other side of the roll up door and completes a big U of clear space around the center of the garage, which is mostly full of stuff.
In any case, I made some slow progress. Never got to my secondary location as I was on a roll and didn’t want to stop.
Wife painted the new back door, and ordered dinner delivered from one of the local chinese food places. It was pretty good, and I sure didn’t feel like cooking after being out in the heat all day. It’s not the end of the world after all. Except maybe for Florida, Arizona, and Texas.
I guess we’ll see, but the trends are worrying. Our neighbor to the south seems to have completely lost control of the wuflu situation. Their curve doesn’t look like it will flatten for some time. The rest of latin america, africa, and india aren’t looking so good either. Funny how little news we’re hearing from them.
I’m keeping on keeping on. That’s the plan anyway. One of the boxes I found in the garage cleanup was a bunch of wound care supplies from my mom. Dad doesn’t need them anymore, so I’ll stack them and hope I never need them either. Running into reminders like that is bittersweet.
But hey, while I was cleaning and organizing, I sold some speakers on ebay. Turned around and spent the money on parts to fix the bandsaw in the garage. If it’s gonna sit there, it should work. One little casting broke, and the machine is NFG. The casting was way under-engineered (or OVER engineered, and under-spec’d) and is an obvious weak point. One of the medium term goals for the garage is to have a mini version of my bigger workshop close to hand. Getting the little 9″ bandsaw running is a step in that direction.
Also found some airsoft and a CO2 powered bb pistol. So I set up some cans in the yard and put a couple dozen rounds through them. That was fun! It was also a nice break from the heat to shoot in the 95F shade. I’ve never shot a CO2 airgun before and I like it. It’s way more like semi-auto and better ‘substitute’ practice as you don’t have to re-cock the spring, or pump up the air. The pistol doesn’t jump around as much, the trigger is wobbly, and it’s a full sized handgun, but it’s still good practice for acquiring the target, getting sight alignment, etc. I’ve even got retention holsters for them if I wanted to practice drawing and firing. I’m not getting to the range any time soon, and ammo is expensive and hard to replace, so airgun practice it will be. It does make a distinctive sound that carries quite well in the unusually quite suburbs…
So, even if you can’t do what you’d normally like to do, keep working on skills, and keep stacking.
nick