{"id":2697,"date":"2016-01-29T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:19:22","slug":"friday-29-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/01\/29\/friday-29-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 29 January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:19 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Amazon updated my Kindle Fire, and presumably Barbara&#8217;s, to the new version of their OS overnight. The changes are significant, and many of them appear gratuitous, but we&#8217;ll see how they work. I normally work in landscape mode, and they&#8217;ve moved the home and back arrow keys from the side to the bottom of the display and changed the icons. That&#8217;ll take some getting used to.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">My new desktop system from Costco arrived yesterday, but I haven&#8217;t had time to unbox it. It has three times the memory and about 10 times the processor of the notebook I&#8217;ve been using, so it should be a lot better for my typical work habits. On the downside, it runs Windows 10, which I have to leave on it because I need Windows to run the stamps.com software. All my time over the next couple days is allocated to government-mandated administrative crap, but I&#8217;ll get moved over to the new system on Monday.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Other than general relocation\/moving-in type tasks, I didn&#8217;t get much done this week on the prepping front. Here&#8217;s what I managed to do:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I read a bunch of PA novels, most of which weren&#8217;t very good. One exception is the one I started last night, Matthew Mather&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BT4QRHG\">CyberStorm<\/a>, which I borrowed with Kindle Unlimited and got through about a quarter of last night. Unlike most of the new breed of PA novelists, Mather can actually write. He&#8217;s also prolific and likes to do series, so I expect there&#8217;ll soon be a sequel or sequel to this book.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I did more research on small solar power setups. I don&#8217;t yet understand all the issues well enough to start buying panels and so on, but I&#8217;m getting there. My goal is to have sufficient solar capacity to be able to run our well pump and provide sufficient power for basic lighting, comms, and so on. I do know that I&#8217;ll focus first on acquiring the high-tech components&#8211;panels, charge controllers, inverters, and so on&#8211;and worry later about storage batteries. We could, if necessary, use ordinary automobile batteries, although they&#8217;re not ideal.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So, what precisely did you do to prepare this week? Tell me about it in the comments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:19 &#8211; Amazon updated my Kindle Fire, and presumably Barbara&#8217;s, to the new version of their OS overnight. The changes are significant, and many of them appear gratuitous, but we&#8217;ll see how they work. I normally work in landscape mode, and they&#8217;ve moved the home and back arrow keys from the side to the bottom of the display and changed the icons. That&#8217;ll take some getting used to.\n<\/p>\n<p>My new desktop system from Costco arrived yesterday,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/01\/29\/friday-29-january-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 29 January 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-weekly-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}