Category: culture

And hopefully it won’t be a scorcher or a gully washer. National forecast has us in the t-storm possible zone for the weekend. With the kid’s activities, it would be nice to not have the rain all day. Kinda like yesterday, some rain would be nice to keep the temp down, but not enough for flooding in the streets…

Did my things yesterday. Napped, then estate sale with crazy high prices, then two pickups over an hour apart, then more kid stuff. Last kid got home at 11pm.

Today starts are 515 with taxi for D2 and her friend to her school activity. Later in the day I’ll be picking her back up from school, then she’ll bring over some excited girls and do stuff here before the next installment of ‘my busy life.’ At some point in that W gets home and can deal with the girls.

I might take another pass at the estate sale as it’s close by and there will be some discounting. I’m sure it won’t be enough. IDK how this company set prices but I’m assuming google lens and the first or highest value returned. Twice ebay asking price in many cases. I’m interested in a box of 80s and 90s vinyl in great condition, mostly bands or albums I want for myself, but I’m not interested in paying more than ebay prices for them. IT’S ALL DISCRETIONARY SPENDING. No one NEEDS anything at an estate sale right this minute, no matter the cost. I’m suspicious of sellers who price very high. They are often scammers who will make a low ball offer for the stuff that’s left at the end of the sale, after purposely discouraging sales with unrealistically high prices. Then they sell it in another market, with reasonable prices but they don’t have to split with the estate and they got it cheap, because “clearly no one is interested in buying it”.

I might even ask some pointed questions out loud because I hate scammers.

In any case, it’s gonna be a long and busy day of other people telling me what to do and when. No me gusta.

Stack, it’s easier.

nick

Hot, humid, wet, who knows? We got a ton of rain yesterday in various parts of Houston, and barely any in others. Maybe we’ll get some today, maybe not. But it still will be hot and humid. That I’m pretty sure of.

Did my auction stuff in the morning, then did pickups in the afternoon. Got a bunch of stuff for the aquatic side of the BOL. Some other stuff to add to the stacks. Some cheap stuff just in case.

Today I’ve got kid taxi duty as D1 is likely to be home sick. Then I’ll get her to the doc in the box. W has a business trip and won’t be home until Sat. Lots of school activities this week and weekend. I’m going to be busy.

And I’m trying to keep some momentum on my own projects. So I’ll be squeezing those in between the other stuff. I have a feeling I won’t be napping.

It’s a great life if you don’t falter.

So don’t falter.

n

and do keep stacking, the world is NOT getting better.

Still hot and humid, but only got to 101F in the sun yesterday. That’s a couple of days in a row that it didn’t get past that on my weather station. And into the high 70sF at night. That’s an improvement too. Supposed to be clear for a couple more days, so should be nice weather.

Did most of what I wanted to do yesterday, details are in the comments. Didn’t get the computer work done, didn’t get the printer to the shop, but made progress none the less. Today will hopefully continue that momentum.

I’ve got a pickup downtown and can roll three other pickups into a big loop, and stop by my secondary to pickup parts for the big 3d printer. I want to put it all together in one lot and list it for sale. I’ve got more versatile and yet smaller printers and whatever I do with them will be more hobby oriented that using the big printer. And I’ve got too many projects to modify or re-use the printer with different hardware and software. Time is not on my side.

So today will be driving and a big shuffle of stuff around, but hopefully the end result will be progress.

Always be working. And stacking.

nick

And another small step towards Fall. It was hot yesterday, but not Summer hot. 102F in the sun, with the sun broiling my brains, and the humidity high enough my clothes were soaked through in just a few minutes outside. 81F when I went to bed, but very comfortable with a gentle breeze. As long as you weren’t working hard.

I slept in a bit, then did auction stuff in the late morning. Decided to poke at the body work on the Ranger a bit more. I saw stuff I didn’t see the first time, and was able to move some of it around. The end result so far is “tolerable.” I wouldn’t accept it from a body shop, but if I’d done it just after the accident, I’d have been happy with the result. I think I’ll do the bed swap anyway, despite my truck being dark blue and the donor truck being white. The donor bed is just in that much better condition.

Then I mostly read, while keeping an eye on auctions. One of my regular sellers has a trove of Reliance Aquatainers and I’m still bidding on them despite already having won several in previous auctions. At ~$4-6 each, I can’t really say no. They are expendable after all, as they get brittle in even indirect sunlight, and the spouts always fail. Plus, water is your first need and the Aquatainers are a good way to store it.

I also added some stuff to the scrap pile. One of the metal cabinets I bought some time ago rusted badly. 4 inches of the bottom just disintegrated as well as half the bottom shelf. I kept the other shelves but will scrap the cabinet. It makes some room in the stacks.

I didn’t get to my PC repairs or getting the printer out of my office. I’m committing to doing that today. Yeah, plans. We’ll see. I also might do one pickup. I won some metro rack shelves that I need to get today or tomorrow. I might be able to combine the trip, so it won’t feel like a waste of gas. Better to get it out of the way.

There’s always more to be done, but that’s my life.

Keep stacking. Keep improving.

nick