Category: culture

Cooler for certain. Yesterday was nice, mid 80sF high and somewhat muggy in the afternoon, but until then it was cool. 72F when I got to the BOL with a very light fog in the valleys. Hopefully today will be cool.

Did my non-prepping hobby meeting, then came home and napped for a few hours. Loaded the truck and headed to the BOL. Still managed to forget a big box. Arrived without incident despite some light fog in the valleys.

Today I’ll sleep in a bit, then see what I feel like doing on the list. There is electrical work to do. I’d like to finish the circuits I ran for the server closet, the bath fans, and the towel warmer. I’ve got lighting to replace on the dock too. And mowing and and and…

Lot’s of folks up for the long weekend.

There’s always more to do. Don’t falter. And keep stacking.

nick

Cooler and drier than lately, but still with sunshine and blue sky. That’s my hope anyway as I left the chair I bought in the back of the truck… It was nice all day yesterday, even a bit cool in the shade. Fall has arrived.

Slept in, then did office and auction stuff in the morning, followed by a pickup and auction stuff in the afternoon and evening. Bit of a late night playing kid taxi.

Today is my non-prepping hobby meeting. I am still planning to head to the BOL for a couple of days following that. I’ll have to see how tired I am, but that’s the plan as of now.

I’ve got a load of stuff to take up, and stuff to do while there. And that list won’t do itself.

Always be stacking, and always be improving.

Life is short.

nick

And we might have a slightly cooler day to do them. It was pretty nice yesterday, just a bit warmer than I’d have liked, especially in the sun, but humidity was a bit lower which helped. I’m hoping today is even cooler and drier, as that would really help sell the idea of Fall. Still 79F when I went to bed though.

Did my volunteer effort at the middle school. District guy brought a piece of gear to swap out for the dead one. The dead one did have some slightly swollen caps on the PSU board, but I’ve seen worse in running gear, so IDK if that really was the issue. In any case we swapped it out and were back up and running. We made a couple of additional changes that will help the kids with some minor but tedious issues. I’ll be going back next week to go through every mic and channel and make sure it’s working. There isn’t enough time to share anything with the kids AND troubleshoot.

Spent the afternoon doing a couple of pickups. I got a “Relax the Back” lazyboy style massage chair for cheap. Now I need to decide where it will live. I’m thinking bedroom, but it might replace a bigger fatter chair at the BOL. That would make a bit more room in the living room area. I’m sure my fisherman buddy would like a new chair.

Today I’m sleeping in as the kids’ have the day off. Youngest still has an event to do tonight, and I have my hobby meeting on Saturday, so no heading to the BOL. I might still go up by myself Saturday night to do some work, and cut the grass. We’ve all got Monday off so I’d have a normal weekend up there.

Later today I’ll do a pickup or possibly two, and then work on the cart or my office. I couldn’t find distilled water at the HEB, so I’ll have to figure out where to get some, or get out and run the distiller I have tucked away. I’d like to top up the cart batteries and see if they take a charge.

I’m sure there will be other tasks tacked onto my list.

Keep working on it. And stacking. Ebola and global conflict are still out there.

nick

And the weather is variable. Probably hot and humid. Maybe just really warm and humid. Yesterday was mostly in the 70sF but ended over 80F. It was sunny with fluffy clouds in a blue sky and breezy which was vary nice. And then it got still, hotter, and damp.

I did go to the kids’ old middle school to help out with the theater audio. I found a couple of problems. I was able to resolve a couple, pass the buck after troubleshooting one, and gather some info to keep looking into the problem on Thursday when I go back. It’s hard to get anything done during a 50 minute class, so I stayed an extra hour working by myself. The main task is figuring out what changed between last year when everything was fine, to this year when stuff is not fine.

Some of the old gear was replaced with shiny new gear, but not fully tested. Some of the old gear no longer has das blinkenlights where it should have das blinkenlights. Dead network port, or a dead selector switch, or possibly a locked up piece of gear. No lights except power, and no displays, so no way to know if it’s even on because you are supposed to use the web interface to interact with it.

The new crew kids seem eager and committed. We’ll get it figured out.

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Today I’ve got to pick up a uhaul trailer, and then do an auction pickup. I bought a golf cart for the BOL. It’s not running, had an electrical fire, but it was very cheap for all the parts that are there. I’m hoping that some of the parts I’ve been accumulating in the hope of buying a project cart will actually work to get this one back running. I don’t need more projects so if it’s extensive (like replacing the motor, controller, and batteries — they make drop in kits) I’ll park it at the BOL for a while. Lots of upgrade options, I’d just like to do it with cheapness in mind. I’m usually going to pick good and cheap as my two sides of the value triangle. (Good, fast, or cheap, pick any two.)

That should take up most of the day.

It’s a prep. Really. For the BOL. and it will let me use some of the parts I stacked….

nick