Category: march to war

Cool in the morning and at night, and mostly very pleasant during the day. Yesterday proved that the sun can still broil my brain and pink my skin. Noontime sun was brutal. Hoping for more today. We could use a bit of rain though.

Did my pickup, and the kid’s event. Did some clean up and some more Halloween decor. I can keep moving if I alternate tasks. It’s not as efficient as just knuckling down, but it helps me keep some momentum going.

Today I’ll visit my buddy’s new store and start working on a plan for cameras. I’m thinking I’ll re-use his old system for part of the building and upgrade the retail areas to 4K with good night vision and full motion, full time recording. I might even suggest a third system with only a couple of hidden cams as backup to a sophisticated attacker. We’ll see.

Then it’s back to the list and keep nibbling away at it. Gotta keep the momentum in the coming week, which will be filled with some time sensitive things like work for my client and volunteering at the middle school. All that in addition to my normal life. It’s a great life by any measure, but it can be demanding.

Stack, work, live.

nick

Kid has an outdoor event so hopefully today will be like the rest of the week. Mild, sunny, and warm in the afternoon. That pretty much sums up the last several days. Still, it’s Houston so the cool is a damp cool and the hot is sweaty.

I did get some things done yesterday. Did my pickup. Made a run through Costco for school lunch snacks, Holloween candy, and some lunch meat snacks for me. Did some work on the cart. Heat is good for shaping the plastic sheet I’m using to replace the burnt up bodywork, but it’s some sort of slick thermoplastic not the PVC foam based sheet I thought it was. It will not glue with plumbing solvent. That means it’s not ABS or PVC. I’ll have to use a different glue or maybe mechanical fasteners, or maybe both. The Sikaflex panel adhesive I ordered SHOULD stick to it, and the plastic the cart body is made of. I’ll find out today if I’m lucky or not.

Plan for today is get up early and drive west to Fulshear for a pickup. It’s stuff for my hobby sale and for the BOL. Then drive two hours east to the other side of Houston for the kid’s event. If they do well, they are stuck there until midnight or 1am. Home around 2am at the latest. That’s a long day for the kids with about 14 hours of sitting around waiting. I almost wish they wouldn’t do well so they could be home around 7 or 8pm.

I’ll be coming home after the first thing, as I’d rather drive hours than sit for 6 and THEN find out I need to drive home anyway. It’s all to make it easier for the district, it really should be two separate days.

In between, I’ll try to do some more decorating, or work on the cart, or work at the shop.

Just keep swimming.

And stacking.
nick

And again, I’m hoping that the beautiful days continue. We did get into the low 90sF yesterday, and it was mostly clear and sunny. Light breezes kept it nice all day. More please.

Did auction stuff in the morning, then worked on my golf cart project. Made a lot of progress on the body work. I decided that having a big hole in the side was bad, considering that it kept the fire to a limited area in the first place. If I screw up and there is another fire, having it contained by the body seems prudent. With that in mind, and because it’s definitely easier without the controls in place, I moved it up the list. I want the structure there, even if I save the cosmetics for after it is a moving cart.

I also made a run to my shop, taking some stuff to sell and some stuff to scrap. Stuff is leaving the house, and eventually leaving the shop, which is a good thing.

Other than that, I can’t recall what else I did, even though I was busy and awake all day. Sometimes it be that way.

Today I’ll continue as I have been. We’ll see what gets done.

Work. Stack.

nick

Cool and sunny, warm later. Lower humidity. Like yesterday. It did get hot in the late afternoon, but was pleasant and mild most of the day. 73F at 930pm. I’d like more of the same.

Spent the morning getting the HVAC guys going, and then doing a pickup. 3 sets of rolling Metro ™ shelves for the shop. Came home and napped for a bit, before heading back out for the HVAC finish and the second pickup. Didn’t get much else done as I was tired.

Today I have no plan. I’m sure I’ll do the things, but nothing on the calendar. WAS going to maybe turn money into noise, but the range is closed all day. Perhaps I’ll move several projects along. Not interested in tempting fate with a plan.

Sometimes, you just gotta stack and have faith.
n

Cool, then warm. Maybe even hot. We did get into the low 90sF yesterday afternoon. It’s nice though. Very pleasant after the heat and humidity. I’m hoping for more days like yesterday.

Didn’t get much actually done yesterday. I did make one pickup but it was personal stuff. I might sell something, but most of it was for me. I missed my second and optional pickups. Sometimes I fall down a rabbit hole online and time flies by. Yesterday it was cloning or migrating a wordpress site, this one specifically, to a backup URL on a different host. I also realized that I’d let my personal “resume'” site lapse, and our “family” site. I’m sitting on variations of names for my business site too, and I’ll probably never really need that site again, other than for email. It’s expensive to park names if you pay for all the privacy options.

I need to consider if I want to renew all those variations, and what I want to do with any of the family or speculative names I bought. I let go of several that were reserved for business ideas that I decided I’d never pursue last time they came up for renewal. And it turns out I’ve been paying for a hosting plan I’ve never used. I can use that for backup, the resume’, or for something new. Or let it lapse too.

It’s easy to let stuff just automatically renew. That’s one of the reasons I hate that everything is moving to subscription models. They KNOW most people will end up paying for stuff they don’t use, just out of inertia.

Today I will be meeting with the HVAC guys at the rent house first thing in the morning, and again at the end of the day. In between I have to pick up three metro shelf racks for the shop. I might be able to fit in another pickup after that too. In any case, I’ll probably be away from my desk all day, so y’all will have to amuse yourselves.

It’s all working on improving my situation. And stacking. Right?

nick

At least it’s a bit cooler as Fall begins to assert itself. It’s been cold these last two nights. The damp adds additional discomfort even if the temp doesn’t sound that extreme. From 95F to 55F is a pretty big jump for a couple of days. Time to get out the cold (by Houston standards) weather clothes.

Slept in a bit too long and then was tired from low blood sugar. Once I got moving, my brain was good but my back was sore. I did a variety of domestic bliss, with more to be done today. Then I worked on the electrical system of the golf cart, alternating with cleaning up my driveway and getting out some more Halloween decorations. They are all related as the driveway stuff was mainly me looking for other things. I have let things go, and stuff that was useful has been damaged or deteriorated, or proved that I didn’t need it in several years. I’ve got some culling to do.

Today I’m trying to keep moving. I’ll do more with the cart, a bit more decor, and some more cleaning and sorting. That’s after I cut my hair and shave though. Oh, and do a load of laundry. Told ya I had more domestic bliss to do. I need to find time to do more volunteer hours at school, and spend at least some time at the rent house on Wednesday too, so this week should be full of opportunities to find some joy. Just chock full.

Plenty of time to keep working too. And maybe a bit of stacking.

nick

Cool or even cold, then warming a bit. The wind never stopped blowing yesterday until long after dusk. Temps might have gotten into mid 70sF, but dropped below 60F before I went to bed. I think today will be similar, but then we’ll be back to milder weather after that.

I didn’t manage to sleep in Saturday, which was ok. I ended up meeting the HVAC guy at the rent house and doing a couple of other things before getting home. After I ate, I did a bit of work on the golf cart and then put out some more decor and lighting.

I’ll do more of that today. IF the battery charger works, I should be able to get the cart moving today. I’ve got all the critical control stuff that I ordered and it’s straightforward to replace it. I was hoping to do some of the body repairs while I had the stuff out and better access but I couldn’t find some of the plastic sheets I’m pretty sure I have somewhere. Getting it rolling is the most important thing, making it pretty can come later. Knowing me though, the more I get done in this initial burst, the better. Could be years before I get back to it.

Because there is always something that moves to the top of the list, like HVAC at the rent house… or a storm damaged tree, or something.

Do what you can with what you have, when you are able. And stack.
nick