White Fragility: Found a good website, i’ll fill this in eventually.
Feelings: I wish that the “Protesting” didn’t involve threatening violence, it would make listening to their demands more palatable. Walking onto a judges lawn threatening to “Burn Down the House” is not acceptable.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Taxes are DONE! Sheltering in place, our neighbor has the virus.
Plans: Take a dinner to a friend and church in the evening.
07:00 Up and eating breakfast.
08:00 Cleaning
09:00 made a set of solar panel cables similar to what mom has.
10:00 Delivered a meal to Dekalb County.
11:30 Back home, cleaning up
12:00 Instacart build, and delivery.
13:00 Nap
15:00 Blogging, Air Conditioner working good at 96 Degrees outside.
16:00 Cleaning
17:00 Looking at the weather.
18:00 Mow lawn
19:00 Get ready for church.
Narrative:
White Fragility: Because of its thoughtfully-crafted agenda, values and mission, BLM is unmistakably incompatible with Biblical Christianity, and the many reasons Christians have to reject this movement can easily be found at BlackLivesMatter.com. According to its own “herstory,” BLM was founded by three black women, two of whom are self-proclaimed “queer.” The-stated-goals-of-black-lives-matter-are-anti-christian/
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Get organized
07:00 Up eating breakfast, coffee, planning
08:00 Walk around the block
09:00 Blogging, call mom.
10:00 Nap
11:30 Get Tree out of storage to dispose of it.
12:00 Back home, lunch and blogging then another nap.
14:00 Checked AC and blogging
15:00 Mowing lawn
17:00 Eating din Din
18:00 Watching news looking for wire guides
19:00 Helping Pam
20:00 Blogging
Narrative: Air conditioner is working pretty good for a hot day, discharge temperature was about 62 most of the day. It dropped to about 60 in the evening which is about as low as I want it to go. (Any lower and I would be worried about it freezing.)
Took the tree out of storage that was full of mice droppings, it needs to get into the trash can this week.
Need to order a new cover for the water pressure reducing valve, I gave mine to our neighbor. She’s trying to sell her house and I thought giving her mine would be easier than trying to find one at the last minute.
White Fragility: It was pretty cool today when Mr. Trump called the media out for not counting the number of white people that have died.
Feelings: We’ve kinda have had a hard day emotionally with all the discourse going on these days.
Tomorrow: Church Wednesday and taking a meal to a friend.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, our neighbor has COVID-19.
Plans: Get started on my taxes.
0700 Up, Breakfast and Coffee.
08:00 Blogging, Jackson EMC website is down.
09:00 Taxes Printing 1099’s and watching Instacart
10:00 Federal Return done… State next.
11:00 State Done! Whew!
12:00 Nap time
15:00 Rested, Federal return was accepted
15:30 Made some crème cheese dip and watching TGR.
16:00 State Return was accepted by Georgia, blogging.
17:00 Mow front lawn, eat dinner
18:00 run gen #1,2,3 and mow side yard. Picked up ext cords.
19:00 Gave spare Saturn parts to neighbors.
20:00 Watched the Pelican Brief with the wife.
22:00 Check power consumption, Jackson EMC is offline.
Narrative: Neighbor’s son came over to me without a mask and it made me uncomfortable. He said he got tested last week, but I know that doesn’t mean that he’s not at risk for having COVID since his mom does have it. He’s selling stuff from his mother’s driveway, neither him or his buyers are wearing masks.
White Fragility: I sometimes feel like that Black Americans are holding white privileged people/cities for ransom to get reparations for the sins of our fathers.
Feelings: I am SO glad that our taxes are behind us, even though it was a bit expensive.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place our neighbor has COVID-19.
Plans: Have church and start taxes.
08:00 Up and eating breakfast.
09:00 Getting ready for church
10:00 Church
11:00 Lunch with Tracy.
12:00 Instacart
14:00 Post Office run
15:00 Planning and munching.
16:00 Scrabble
18:00 Blogging
19:00 Working on the Air Conditioner.
Narrative: Had another busy day. Church was disorganized but we got through it. The biggest struggle of the day was the Air Conditioner. Best guess, it is low on Freon and is pulling too much heat out of the house. I took the evaporator coils apart yesterday and they didn’t get abnormally cold with the additional air flowing out the access panel. The air flow didn’t seem to be centered on one area of the coils so I doubt we have an issue with dirty coils. Also the drip pan was spotless, there was no material in it.
I set the fan on circulate hoping the additional air would keep the coils thawed when the compressor was not running. It almost worked, but I can watch the temp of the air drop below 60 degrees where I assume the icing started. It got cloudy in the afternoon so the problem with the evaporator coils got worse. (I assume as the outside temp drops the volume of the refrigerant also decreases.)
I’ve raised the speed of the air handler in hopes of keeping the evaporator from freezing, I probably won’t know until midday tomorrow whether that worked.
White Fragility: So are we in the middle of a reformation or a transformation?
Feelings:
Tomorrow: Monday, Instacart groceries in the morning.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Under Siege: The young appear to be so “empowered” that they just might take control and completely change our capitalist “United States of America” to some form of socialism to provide reparation type resources for the black neighborhoods.
Status: Our air conditioner is low on FREON and has to be coddled until the repairman gets here in 9 days. We are sheltering in place with a neighbor that has COVID-19 right next door to us.
Plans: I need to finish the movie “Network”, more and more I feel that’s where we are as a nation.
07:00 Up, checking blower for dirty vanes and cleaning the air conditioner filters.
08:00 Breakfast and cleaning up the leftovers from the air conditioner work.
09:00 Still cleaning and testing Gen#1, it runs MUCH better with Mid Grade Gas!
10:00 Zoom with the music ministry, that was fun.
11:00 Ran four of the generators, Gen#2 may have a bad inverter. I didn’t run #5.
12:00 Chilis
14:00 Nap
16:00 cleanup and watch You’ve got mail with the wife.
18:00 researched Mayor Bottoms videos for something she said.
20:00 Bed.
Narrative: There is still a lot of junk laying around the house that I need to get rid of, the question is how…
White Fragility: With the decentralized BLM organization and that the protests are being organized on social media, we are on a long road…. I am now thinking revolution, mayor Bottoms is calling it “Transformation“.
We’ve talked to several members of our church and they say no. However, there is no reason for BLM (mostly white lately) protests to let up and their laundry list of demands is never ending. If the city governments don’t capitulate, BLM protestors allow ANTIFA to destroy and burn while the demonstrators keep the police and fire departments at bay using lasers to blind the police. With the pressure being exerted by these two organizations the cities are giving them a pass on minor violations and rapidly trying to produce legislation that will appease the mob.
Feelings: The young are listening to social media and social media is not telling the whole story to manipulate them.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Lots to do.
07:00 Up, breakfast and coffee
08:00 Prepare for trip to the doctor.
09:00 Dr. Appts for wife and myself.
10:00 Return home.
11:00 Start work on Air Conditioner that seems to have a frozen evaporator.
12:00 Locate circuit board for Stove.
13:00 Start work on stove that has a burnt circuit board.
14:00 Waiting for the wife.
16:00 Mow lawn.
17:00 Dinner, beans and ham.
18:00 Planning, maybe a nap.
22:00 Blogging
Narrative: Had a busy day that started with two doctors’ appointments and ended up with massaging the air conditioner so it stays running for 9 more days.
The trip to the doctor was the first time we met in person since the virus outbreak in February. (Then it was a virtual appointment.) Yesterday we went to the office but Kathy was the only one with the appointment. Today we both had appointments in person with masks and a process of using hand sanitizer before handling the office clipboard.
When we got home the air conditioner was running on high cool but the temperature was one degree above set point. (Unusual) Using a temp gun the air coming out of the vent was 65 degrees. Too warm for the compressor on high cool and too cool for it not to have run recently. I turned off the breaker for the compressor and let the fan thaw the evaporator coils in the air handler. (Took about half an hour on high fan, surprising!) I took the cover off the coils and they looked pristine with no material in the drip tray. The drip line had mold on the underside of the pipes which I wiped off and discarded. Turned on the compressor and checked the temp of the coils, they were above 60 degrees which is right on target. Also there was good air flow through the coils. (I have no idea why the coils are freezing up.)
I did manage to fix the stove today. Lightning took out a diode and that blew both of the control boards for the stove top. I replaced the first board before I knew the second one was also blown.
White Fragility: It feels to me that the black population has an entrenched hatred for police officers. I agree that there has been some aggreges abuse, but the forgiveness seems a bit short. Eventually the “Movement” will have a steep hill to climb if the protesting keeps willfully disregarding established laws and ordinances. (Instead of positioning themselves above our existing laws as though they didn’t apply to them.)
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Dentist appointment today, a new struggle.
08:00 Up and eating breakfast, morning meeting with the wife.
09:00 Blogging and getting ready for a dentist apt.
10:00 Drive to Dentist.
11:00 Dentist appointment time.
12:00 Should be returning home.
12:30 Instacart ordered
13:00 Instacart shopping
14:00 Done with shopping, ordered Chili’s
15:00 What a let down, food was late and cold.
16:00 Researching UV lights for Air Handlers.
17:00 Talking about BLM
18:00 Probably a nap is in order….
Narrative:
MASKS!: Were at a dentist office today that one office person did not wear a mask across her mouth. (She said that we wouldn’t be able to hear her with her mask on.) The company policy is that everyone wears a mask! She came out to the car to deliver some forms with the mask pulled down to her chin (Below her mouth). Now we are breathing her exhale in a small space! She pulled up the mask after balking and we had no trouble hearing her through the thin mask she was wearing. (Not even a cloth mask.)
White Fragility: I am sincerely afraid of engaging in a conversation with most of my fellow parishioners of color. We were warned during a church service by a woman of color weeks ago that a white person would not be able to console a person of color. We’ve tried engaging them when they’ve posted vulgar hate videos online to which they responded with “We’re raising awareness”. I am sure that every person in America knows about BLM by now. Any “Raising Awareness” at this point is holding a mob of white college student’s knee on white leadership’s necks until they give in to the BLM organization’s demands. My feeling is that we now have a church of Black Christians that have not forgiven the sins of others who have hurt them. Before George Floyd we were a united church of Christians that were of many colors. Open conversations about our walk in Christ last year was easy and without any risk of offending each other.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans:
07:00 Eating breakfast
08:00 Walk around the block.
09:00 Blogging and reading the news
10:00 Cleaning.
11:00 Moved Backup CKT to a Standby Modified Square wave UPS to reduce heat.
12:00 Shut down Pure Sine Wave inverter. (Reduced the noise considerably)
13:00 Cleaned up materials used in testing the batteries for MSW Inverter test.
14:00 Built cart for groceries tomorrow. (Now very complicated with Dental APT.)
15:00 Nap
16:00 Dinner
17:00 get ready for church and changed the fireplace lights to 60W bulbs.
18:00 Setup table for church and a charging cord for my phone.
19:30 Church Ezra.
20:00 Installing wireless charging stations in all of our rooms.
Narrative: Shortly after we bought the house I had a homebuilt Un-Interruptible Power Supply that powered my computers and the lights on the fireplace. Over the years it has become a secondary breaker panel with outlets in every room that will remain powered when the utility power fails. It also has become two completely redundant circuits with separate power sources that can support their loads for more than five and up to twelve hours. (Including a third circuit for the refrigerator.)
Today I have stepped backwards on one of the two circuits, I have decommissioned the “Online” UPS for an offline modified square wave one. (That I used to use about 10 years ago.) The advantage is they don’t produce any noise and very little heat. The disadvantage is that they tie the utility power to the house circuit as long as it falls within an acceptable range. Outside that range a relay switches the power to battery with a minor break in power to and from battery. (The online UPS use battery power for their inverters 100% of the time so there is no break in power.) There is a significant power loss with the “Online” UPS units of about 20% where the offline ones are near 100% efficient when they are not charging the batteries. The last problem that the “Offline” versions have they don’t recognize a MSW as an acceptable power source and will run on battery. I found out that my new 48V online UPS units are also in that category, which was unnerving.
I’ve already moved most of my loads off of the online UPS in the garage to reduce the temperature extremes that are not good for my batteries.
White Fragility: I really wish that the national news would not carry EVERY SINGLE incident of abuse to a black man without giving an equivalent amount of media attention to all colors of men and women that have been abused. It paints a very biased picture that black men are always the target of abuse.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies. We replenished our liquor cabinet yesterday. The odds of someone in Kroger with an active case of the virus is roughly 50%. Overcast day, I need to block the switchover to solar power.
Plans: Need to start working on our Taxes and finishing up projects on the homestead power.
08:00 Up, Coffee, breakfast and our morning meeting.
09:00 Vacuuming the floors and blogging.
10:00 Reading the news
12:00 Lunch and Insta cart.
13:00 We got TWO cartons of eggs for the first time today!
14:00 Tested a really old 700VA UPS, not sure if I like it enough to keep it.
15:00 Wasting time reading the news.
16:00 Checking Kickstarter event.
17:00 Watched You’ve got mail and went to bed early.
Narrative: Spent a good part of the day wiring four 18AH batteries for a 12V UPS (Top Right on picture below) and powered up five 24V UPS units to reform their capacitors.
White Fragility: A student got expelled from school because she produced a video that described the published results from White-White, Black-Black and White-Black homicides. OK it was a little dramatic. However, with all the hate speeches promoting BLM being allowed, what happened to free speech when it opposes BLM?
Feelings: We are wore out trying to understand all the political parties that are aligned with BLM as a slogan. BLM is a scary organization….
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes Did I DMBT be happy? Yes *Did My Best To
