Hot and humid, chance of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 So “summer in Houston”.\u00a0\u00a0 Bet it’s pretty much the same for the next 2-3 months, gradually getting hotter at 8am until Fall starts again.\u00a0\u00a0 It did break the mold a bit today, as some weather blew in and there was a cooler edge to the wind at 5pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Some lightning too.\u00a0 Never got worse than that though.<\/p>\n
Did mostly auction stuff yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Took a while to get caught up.\u00a0\u00a0 Did some small things around the house but nowhere near what I should have done.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did get a message from my neighbors at the BOL.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometime after I left a wind storm came through and knocked over most of one of the trees.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s in my garden, not the road or the\u00a0 house, or worse, the neighbor’s house, so it can stay there until I get back up there with a chainsaw.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a pretty big chunk of oak tree, so I’ll get to keep some of the firewood, and maybe my tree guy will have to revise his estimate a little lower, now that I’m cleaning up that particular tree instead of him.\u00a0 It left a trunk about 15ft high, with a small portion of the rest of the trunk above that, like a sapling growing out of a stump.<\/p>\n
I also got a message from the gate guy at\u00a0 my client’s place.\u00a0 He does need a hard wired ‘net connection at the gate after all.\u00a0 I’ll need to finish installing the other nano as a ‘cable replacement’ and put an enclosure and small switch at the gate.\u00a0\u00a0 I might try to do that today, although my client is returning home from a trip today.\u00a0\u00a0 Tomorrow would be better for me, him, and the gate guy, but now I need to head back up to the BOL and clean up storm debris.<\/p>\n
The phrase “it’s always something” comes to mind.\u00a0 And so does the realization that I need to get off my azz and power through some of my backlog to get close to caught up.<\/p>\n
Add to the regular list, and I’ll be even busier than I pretend to be…<\/p>\n
You can’t stack up time, but you can stack up some things that will save you time later.\u00a0\u00a0 Having what you need close to hand is a force multiplier.\u00a0\u00a0 I just got my chainsaw running, and now I get to use it for realz… I’ll should put on the wire screen face shield and the cut-stop chaps too.\u00a0 It sure would be silly to hurt myself with the proper PPE sitting on the shelf in the garage…<\/p>\n
Stack what you need to do the jobs that are most likely to pop up, before they pop up.<\/p>\n
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Hot and humid, chance of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 So “summer in Houston”.\u00a0\u00a0 Bet it’s pretty much the same for the next 2-3 months, gradually getting hotter at 8am until Fall starts again.\u00a0\u00a0 It did break the mold a bit today, as some weather blew in and there was a cooler edge to the wind at 5pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Some lightning too.\u00a0 Never got worse than that though.<\/p>\n
Did mostly auction stuff yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Took a while to get caught up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n