Hot and humid.\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 Unless it’s raining.<\/p>\n
Yesterday got hotter and hotter until it was 109F in the sun in my driveway.\u00a0 It was over 100F in the garage.\u00a0 I was moving, but sometimes a bit slower.\u00a0 I tried to switch tasks, moving from the house to the garage to the sunny driveway to the shady yard, and back.\u00a0\u00a0 I drank 2 liters of lemonade, and some iced tea and some water.<\/p>\n
I mostly was trying to clear out the four corners of the garage.\u00a0 One corner blocks entry for the freezer.\u00a0 One corner is where I want to put it.\u00a0 The other corner is my main water and food storage area, now being re-purposed as my hobby area and storage for some bulk buckets, and non-perishables, as well as my fire rated file cabinet and a work area.\u00a0 If I get to cutting the hole in the wall, that’s where the A\/C unit will go too.\u00a0 The last corner is the other side of the roll up door and completes a big U of clear space around the center of the garage, which is mostly full of stuff.<\/p>\n
In any case, I made some slow progress.\u00a0 Never got to my secondary location as I was on\u00a0 a roll and didn’t want to stop.<\/p>\n
Wife painted the new back door, and ordered dinner delivered from one of the local chinese food places.\u00a0 It was pretty good, and I sure didn’t feel like cooking after being out in the heat all day.\u00a0 It’s not the end of the world after all.\u00a0 Except maybe for Florida, Arizona, and Texas.<\/p>\n
I guess we’ll see, but the trends are worrying.\u00a0 Our neighbor to the south seems to have completely lost control of the wuflu situation.\u00a0 Their curve doesn’t look like it will flatten for some time.\u00a0 The rest of latin america, africa, and india aren’t looking so good either.\u00a0 Funny how little news we’re hearing from them.<\/p>\n
I’m keeping on keeping on.\u00a0 That’s the plan anyway.\u00a0 One of the boxes I found in the garage cleanup was a bunch of wound care supplies from my mom.\u00a0 Dad doesn’t need them anymore, so I’ll stack them and hope I never need them either.\u00a0 Running into reminders like that is bittersweet.<\/p>\n
But hey, while I was cleaning and organizing, I sold some speakers on ebay.\u00a0 Turned around and spent the money on parts to fix the bandsaw in the garage.\u00a0 If it’s gonna sit there, it should work.\u00a0 One little casting broke, and the machine is NFG.\u00a0 The casting was way under-engineered (or OVER engineered, and under-spec’d) and is an obvious weak point.\u00a0 One of the medium term goals for the garage is to have a mini version of my bigger workshop close to hand.\u00a0 Getting the little 9″ bandsaw running is a step in that direction.<\/p>\n
Also found some airsoft and a CO2 powered bb pistol.\u00a0 So I set up some cans in the yard and put a couple dozen rounds through them.\u00a0 That was fun!\u00a0 It was also a nice break from the heat to shoot in the 95F shade.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve never shot a CO2 airgun before and I like it.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s way more like semi-auto and better ‘substitute’ practice as you don’t have to re-cock the spring, or pump up the air.\u00a0 The pistol doesn’t jump around as much, the trigger is wobbly, and it’s a full sized handgun, but it’s still good practice for acquiring the target, getting sight alignment, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve even got retention holsters for them if I wanted to practice drawing and firing.\u00a0 I’m not getting to the range any time soon, and ammo is expensive and hard to replace, so airgun practice it will be.\u00a0 It does make a distinctive sound that carries quite well in the unusually quite suburbs…<\/p>\n
So, even if you can’t do what you’d normally like to do, keep working on skills, and keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid.\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 Unless it’s raining.<\/p>\n
Yesterday got hotter and hotter until it was 109F in the sun in my driveway.\u00a0 It was over 100F in the garage.\u00a0 I was moving, but sometimes a bit slower.\u00a0 I tried to switch tasks, moving from the house to the garage to the sunny driveway to the shady yard, and back.\u00a0\u00a0 I drank 2 liters of lemonade, and some iced tea and some water.<\/p>\n