{"id":13139,"date":"2026-10-09T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:01:30","slug":"fri-oct-9-2026-couple-of-things-to-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/10\/09\/fri-oct-9-2026-couple-of-things-to-do-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri. Oct. 9, 2026 &#8211; couple of things to do today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we might have a slightly cooler day to do them.  It was pretty nice yesterday, just a bit warmer than I&#8217;d have liked, especially in the sun, but humidity was a bit lower which helped.   I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;ll be going back next week to go through every mic and channel and make sure it&#8217;s working.  There isn&#8217;t enough time to share anything with the kids AND troubleshoot.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the afternoon doing a couple of pickups.  I got a &#8220;Relax the Back&#8221; lazyboy style massage chair for cheap.  Now I need to decide where it will live.  I&#8217;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&#8217;m sure my fisherman buddy would like a new chair.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m sleeping in as the kids&#8217; 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&#8217;ve all got Monday off so I&#8217;d have a normal weekend up there.<\/p>\n<p>Later today I&#8217;ll do a pickup or possibly two, and then work on the cart or my office.   I couldn&#8217;t find distilled water at the HEB, so I&#8217;ll have to figure out where to get some, or get out and run the distiller I have tucked away.  I&#8217;d like to top up the cart batteries and see if they take a charge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there will be other tasks tacked onto my list.<\/p>\n<p>Keep working on it.  And stacking.  Ebola and global conflict are still out there.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we might have a slightly cooler day to do them.  It was pretty nice yesterday, just a bit warmer than I&#8217;d have liked, especially in the sun, but humidity was a bit lower which helped.   I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Did my volunteer effort at the middle school.  District guy brought a piece of gear to swap out for the dead one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/10\/09\/fri-oct-9-2026-couple-of-things-to-do-today\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Fri. 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