At least Fall has finally arrived. It’s still hot but the humidity is lower and so is the max temperature. It was pleasant all day yesterday and the sun wasn’t set on ‘brain broil’. It was 77F by the time I finished my evening quiet time.
I spent part of the morning doing office stuff, then I spent some time poking at the golf cart. I cut away some of the melted plastic body, took a cover off, and triaged the damaged bits. The solenoid and motor controller look ok. The motor controller got VERY hot though, so I’m going to replace it anyway. I’ll test the solenoid before making a decision about it. The Forward/Reverse switch seems to have been the start of the fire and suffered the most heat damage. Luckily the wiring harness will just need some ends spliced on, and not complete replacement. The fat DC cables to the motor look fine. I’ll order the parts later today. After looking at video of a golf cart burning down a home after being subjected to flood water, I don’t think swapping for a liIon battery system is a good idea anymore.
Speaking of today, I’ll spend a few hours this morning at the middle school with the district’s staff guy, poking at stuff. If we can confirm the PSU is toast, that should move the district’s replacement policy along, and I can move on to working on the theater program’s show without worrying about it.
After that, I’ll do a pickup and head home to poke at the cart. And continue working on my client’s issues, and probably go grocery shopping. And I’m sure there will be at least one more ‘and’ before I’m done…
Keep working. Keep stacking. Keep improving.
nick
Thursday already? Where is this week going? Good morning!
Lots on at work today, and I need to make some time to deal with domestic admin too, such as paying bills… Grump.
I had a nice evening out yesterday with a colleague and friend who had been away from work for ten years in order to take care of a child with special needs. I admire him and his wife for their dedication. I think many other parents would have had the child institutionalised. Certainly puts one’s own very minor challenges in perspective.
Nice that one can see a friend after ten years and still enjoy companionable silence soon after exchanging the key news items of the past decade. Of course, W1 later peppered me with all kinds of questions that I “should have” asked. Wimminfolk.
Eep. The good news is, if you heard the shot, they missed you!
Speaking of which, doctors in Bavaria are running a state-wide exercise today: a major catastrophy, including gunshot wounds and working together with the military. The Germans are low-key preparing for an invasion.
I don’t understand why Nick got a golf cart. As I understand it, Nick doesn’t drink. As I understand it, based on any number of video clips, you have to be three sheets to the wind to drive a golf cart. Something’s not adding up.
Hmm. Maybe it’s for the kids. D1 being hung over all the time would explain why she’s “sick” so often.
This smells like a political stunt.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hail-satan-invocation-ottumwa-city-212546948.html
Satan worship built Hollywood.
Glorifying and normalizing debauchery certainly contributed to hollywood success. Not as convinced there was organized satan worship, as P. Diddler and his parties showed the world, once you were inside that world, they had you.
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The Germans are low-key preparing for an invasion.
– another step in the march to war – nations prepare for war.
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73F. Coffee is brewing and breakfast is heating up.
Snack is packed.
Kinder are poked but not in evidence yet.
n
I almost went looking for news this week of our old friend ebola. Seems my instinct was correct.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ebola-patient-dies-disease-spreads-kenya
https://allafrica.com/stories/202610080007.html
It had been out of the news for too long.
n
Preparing for war.
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00097919.html
n
I was gonna argue that this woman wasn’t “elderly” at 67 but then I saw the picture.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16190297/Elderly-Indiana-lady-drink-donuts-courthouse-lawn.html
Ok, fair enough.
n
It’s about time BillyG and his ilk use experimental mRNA, etc, drugs on other than the US population. BillyG is not a genius and will not get immortalized when he croaks.
I’m back in Vegas and managed to get a bug the last day in SA. Runny nose, raspy throat, and hack with phlegm. It is probably COVID and will subside in a couple of days. I can breathe through my nose at night so little nasal congestion.
The mover’s driver called last night that he would be in Vegas on Saturday. They’ll have to get a smaller truck to shuttle stuff into the house. Their 50+ foot trailer can’t make the turn through the gate. The storage unit, where most of our precious junk is going, is no problemo.
MrsAtoz will drive with her SIL and nephew to Vegas on Sunday. The Bug is loaded with my Mac server and NAS stuff.
People age at different rates, and it’s “funny” (peculiar). Yesterday at lunch, we mostly old fogies were talking about going back to work after retirement, and we were mostly against it. This was in the context of my 78-year old friend still working full-time (he owns the company).
In any event, one of the younger participants looked at me after I made my comment about not wanting to get another job, and said I was young enough to go back if I wanted. He guessed, out loud, that I was about 55.
Now, I’m sure there’s a bit of “always take off 10 years when guessing ages” about that, but I told him I’m 72.
Cigarette smoking, excess drinking, and drugs can have a huge effect, and those are not my vices. Looking at her picture and reading the story, I’d guess she’s got at least two of those factors.
My dad retired at 55 and just turned 80 this year. Almost immediately after retiring, he started supporting his church’s IT equipment. Not a fulltime job most days, but it got him out of the house more often than not. He is still doing it and plans to continue until he can’t anymore.
Keeping active is the key. I just got back from a quick visit with him and he had just finished washing the siding on his house and was getting ready to clean the deck. I do see he has slowed down a lot, but he is healthy (for 80) and in way better shape because he doesn’t just sit all day.
. . . miles of bad road n.
Rode hard, put up wet.
I just got the email notifying me of this. Now I am wondering whether this counts as taxable income or not. My first pass at looking into this leads me to think that it becomes taxable income if I elect to include my Medicare premiums as itemized deductions on my 2026 tax return – which leads me to think that this will become a “gotcha!” trigger for tax audits.
Research into this continues….
The Africans have a resistance to the doctors there already, apparently believing that they are out to kill them rather than save them.
Reduce your deduction for Medicare premiums by $90.00. I highly doubt the IRS would audit about $90.00 even if you don’t reduce the amount.
So are you saying they are incorrect?
Canadian doctors are killing more patients, intentionally, than people die of gunshot wounds in the US. Not per capita, actual numbers. American Standard-of-Care for Covid killed (at least) tens of thousands with ventilators and Remdisivir, not to mention denying them Ivermectin, Hydroxycholorquine, and antibiotics. And that’s if you believe the vax was harmless.
Why should Africans believe doctors there would do any better?
Personally, I trust AI more than doctors, and I don’t trust AI to tell me the current weather.
No, but horses for courses.
Unlike the flu, if I was bleeding from my eyes, nose, mouth, and anus: I’d risk the MRNA side effects.
Didn’t get a lot done yesterday: using a hammer and mason’s chisel on Tuesday did a number on my hands.
Today I am weeding, the neighbor’s bin is available for the tumbleweeds, but gets emptied on Friday mornings, so it has to be done today.
Tomorrow morning there is a dental appointment.
Tough to get improvements done.
Bah.
African elites are another demographic overrepresented at the Austin VA, particularly among the nursing ranks.
If what my wife has witnessed first hand from that group is any indication, Africans should be afraid of dying.
@Lynn
”The warehouse is 3,750 ft2 with a huge overhang on one side. Three 18 ft wide, 16 ft tall doors. The guy that I bought this place from used the warehouse to rebuild his three Caterpillar D9 bulldozers on lowboys after building a subdivision or a golf course. There is an 800 ft2 two story office with a kitchen and shower.”
What’s the nut?
$2,700 per month. Water and septic included. Electricity is not included, the warehouse is on its own meter. Plus there is a fenced side yard of about a half acre.
Nope, that is the rent. The nut is what it costs me. Duh.
Probably about $1,300 per month. Law mowing, property insurance, property taxes.
That does not include the sunk costs.
And that does not include fixing broken stuff like pipes and air conditioning. And 72 bulb LED light fixtures, of which one just died on me that is 25 feet off the ground so I have to rent a man lift to replace it. They are out of production but I have three spares.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZK6Q26?tag=ttgnet-20
And the warehouse tenant paid his October rent last night. I am amazed and grateful.
Home and eating lunch.
Swapped out the dead gear. Opened it up out of curiosity, and there were visibly swollen caps on the PSU board. Not real bad, but apparently enough that the 5v rail doesn’t power the network card.
Did some more maintenance and mods to the system and came home.
After lunch I’ll do my pickup. Maybe a dump run too.
n
This story stinks like fake hate.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/us-politics/article-16191393/Married-Democrat-says-horrifically-raped-man-political-slur-fixing-campaign-fences-late-night.html
yeah, sure he did.
n
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16186995/cornell-7-rape-investigation-timeline.html
Yeah, again, something ain’t right.
n