And still raining. Ground is SATURATED. Bayous are full. Some people are going to have a problem soon.
Slept late after being up all night with the power outage and restore. Followed by an Amber alert. Felt worse after sleeping until 10 than if I’d just gotten up at a normal hour.
I went out to do a pickup- got a 440mhz ham antenna for very cheap. Turned out I missed the guy’s estate sale with all the radios and gear. The house still had 3 big antennas, a multiband HF yagi on a crank up tower, a set of 144 and 440 yagis for EarthMoonEarth on a rusty old tower, and a multiband vertical ground mounted. I asked, and she wanted $100 for all but I needed to take them down and take them all. Closer inspection, I realized the crank up tower was cranked up. The guy had been gone for a long time. If the tower was still in the up position, it probably didn’t COME down… I offered on the ground mount, but she turned me down. I don’t want the project or the risk of taking down a broken tower. I sure would have liked those antennas though. (The HF yagi was 35 feet across and 60 feet up. The EME yagis are about 10 ft long.)
Got home and went to work putting up the range hood. Finally finished that around 10pm. Still need to get up in the attic and hook up the power and the duct. It looks great, but ended up about 4 inches too close to my face. I’ll either get used to it or not.
Did go through another bin of stuff for the auction. Arranged to meet the plumber at the rent house on Tuesday. So I got some stuff done but it still didn’t feel like a lot.
And everyone’s bedtime is now messed up.
Today’s plan is more of the same. Finish the range hood. More auction stuff. Cleaning. MAYBE some Christmas decor if the rain stops.
And of course, keep working on skills, keep building community, keep stacking.
nick