Cooler.\u00a0 The front arrived.\u00a0 It was 61F last night, and is likely to be cool most of today.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday’s weather was a mixed bag, with a HUGE wind coming in with the cool front.\u00a0 One of my weather stations has a full memory, since 2014, and didn’t get a good windspeed today, the other didn’t see any wind above 13mph.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s entirely possible that it didn’t as the wind was very gusty and mixed.\u00a0 Flags were tearing free but I felt no wind at ground level.\u00a0\u00a0 My guess is 30-40mph gusts in places.<\/p>\n
I did some domestic bliss stuff, laundry, cleanup, restock the kitchen fridge, that sort of thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I also move a small bit of stuff around in my office.\u00a0 Man that needs a bunch more work.\u00a0 Spent about an hour on the pool.\u00a0 It was pretty sunny while I was working on the pool, but got very overcast later in the day.\u00a0 I also spent some time moving and cleaning some stuff in the driveway.\u00a0 I need to spray the house foundation with bug killer, but I’ve misplaced my jug of poison.\u00a0 I have that on my list for today again…<\/p>\n
Also on the list, getting some stuff out of the house and over to storage.\u00a0 And moving some stuff around in the garage.\u00a0 I figured out where to put a cabinet I took down during the initial re-org.\u00a0 I’ve got to tetris some stuff around to get it into place.\u00a0 That should also expose some older auction stuff that just got buried and forgotten.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if we’ll have a hamfest swapmeet in March, but I’m still gathering stuff as if we will.\u00a0 It’ll be fewer radios, and more random electronic parts and ‘stuff’.\u00a0 Switches and relays sold well, so I’ve gotten more of them.\u00a0 Power supplies and wire always do well too.\u00a0 In the mean time, it sits in bins in the garage.<\/p>\n
Halloween should be a big deal this year, weather permitting.\u00a0 Last year we got rained out, and there is a LOT of pent up demand for ‘normal’ things.\u00a0 I’m going to do my part and stay distant while feeding candy to the little beggars.\u00a0 We’ve got a lot more little beggars in the neighborhood now than when we first moved here, and that’s nice.\u00a0 People have an incentive to support the area when they have kids here.<\/p>\n
We got a note from the elementary school that they had\u00a0 a teacher test positive and enter self-isolation.\u00a0 The kids affected have been notified to ‘be mindful’ of their health.\u00a0 My elementary student has been virtual all this year so it didn’t affect us, but it did come right on schedule with the new crop of ‘in person’ learners.\u00a0 No indication of which way the infection went.<\/p>\n
Still not seeing many Biden\/Harris signs or bumper stickers.\u00a0\u00a0 I see lots of Trump signs.\u00a0 They look much more ‘vigorous’ for lack of a better term.\u00a0 Trump supporters REALLY support him, Biden supporters seem to be kind of reluctant.\u00a0 Not sure how that translates at the polls, but I can hope.<\/p>\n
There are moments when the weight and enormity of what I believe is probably coming\u00a0 just slams into me.\u00a0 My number one daughter and I had a very intense discussion about racism, BLM, and rioting last night.\u00a0 At the end she was looking for reassurance and asked me “would you shoot someone who was coming to burn down our house with a torch?”\u00a0 “Yes sweetheart.\u00a0 Right in the head.”\u00a0 “I love you daddy.”*<\/p>\n
So take some prudent steps to secure you and yours if things do indeed go pear shaped.\u00a0 Decide when and how you’d leave, and where you’d go.\u00a0 Or what you’d do to stay.\u00a0 And keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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*FWIW she initiated the conversation, and definitely brought stuff she’s getting outside our home.\u00a0 She’s angry and frustrated by the double standard for acceptable behavior depending on what you look like.\u00a0 She does not approve of rioting or violence toward innocents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cooler.\u00a0 The front arrived.\u00a0 It was 61F last night, and is likely to be cool most of today.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday’s weather was a mixed bag, with a HUGE wind coming in with the cool front.\u00a0 One of my weather stations has a full memory, since 2014, and didn’t get a good windspeed today, the other didn’t see any wind above 13mph.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s entirely possible that it didn’t as the wind was very gusty and mixed.\u00a0 Flags were tearing free but I felt no wind at ground level.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n