Narrative: I didn’t get up very early this morning and I have a rendezvous this morning at 9AM with a friend to make some cables for me. I checked the lawn first thing this morning for progress on the Weed+Feed that I put out last night. There was no grains of the product left on the leaves. (It must have rained.) That’s good and bad, i wanted enough moisture to carry the product into the plan but not enough to wash the product off the leaves?
Word Press notified me that https is now enabled for my website! Cool! That will protect my passwords to the website and my blog.
The skin doc said that the lesions are nothing to worry about, he froze them without taking a biopsy.
We had church service in the evening and we called it a day.
Narrative: I was awake very early and I’ve had this itchy spot next to my eye for a bit. Normally when I’ve gotten Basil Cell Carcinoma it’s surface is flaky like dandruff. These are itchy, but not scaly on the surface. (At least not yet.) Now that I know what to look for, they don’t get very big before I see a doc. Now that I am on Medicare I don’t have to have a referral, just make an appointment!
They are still quite small, but I have an appointment tomorrow with the skin doc. I’ve had cancer cut out of my nose and a very tiny one cut out of my ear lobe. (The Doc didn’t see that one for a whole year, I had to point it out to him.) The rest of the time they’ve frozen the lesion and I was good to go. We get a full body scan once a year.
We installed six systems in Nevada, Hours of backup power, Fortigate Firewall with VPN remote network access, Eight D-Link wireless cameras, Six VeSync outlets to turn appliances On/Off, Eight Hue Light Bulbs with Hue Hub, Home Assistant (Automation) to log the house humidity and temp.
The only anomaly at present is the camera for the front door has moved significantly from it’s original position. But luckily we can still see the entire ramp! Hopefully the systems will hold together until we return.
I saw in the news that Coffee prices are skyrocketing so we put in an order for 16 bags of our Favorite Coffee.
We got CPAP supplies yesterday from Aerocare and they shipped a mismatched mask and supplies for an older mask. We called them and now they are shipping the correct supplies and we have to send the supplies we got yesterday back to them.
If we have a power outage in Nevada this alarm will go off waking us up.
Then we can use the house network UPS to power our units overnight. (Not sure how we’d charge the batteries, solar would be a good option?)
The Air conditioning is keeping up with the extreme 115 Degree temperatures pretty well. (I’ll get worried if it doesn’t cycle in the middle of the day.) The thermostat is set to 78 degrees, i’ll put a NEST on the house next trip out so that I can manage/control the temp remotely. The short cycling from the bathroom vent is helping keep the humidity up during the heat of the day.
Laid out some Weed+Feed to knock down the Creeping Charlie that has taken over our lawn.
Narrative: Sipped my coffee while I worked on the wiring for next Sunday’s service. I checked the audio we recorded and it all looks good. At least all 16 channels were recorded! I copied the files to my NAS and boxed up the SD card for the trip to TH’s house.
I found one movie on the NAS that was corrupted over the last few days, i’ll have to copy it again from a backup.
I put some weed+Feed on the Creeping Charlie on my lawn as a test. I looked it up online too and that’s the recommended way of dealing with them.
Put the battery chargers on two of the 48V battery banks that I tested yesterday.
Dinner was awsome, we made Bisquick Biscuits for dinner!
Checked Nevada, everything looks good. Time for bed.
Narrative: Got up really early, like 7 AM to get ready to do an inside service today. Drove to the school at 7:30 and D.E.’s son was waiting on me. We were totally rushed for the entire service, but it went well overall. Packing went ok and we went out with J+J afterwards for some Mexican food.
Had a LONG 4 hour nap before wasting away the evening making plans for Next Sunday. I bought some cables and made some design documents before retiring for the evening.
Nevada is in good shape, the cameras and Home Automation are working very well so far. The pump house door is still closed.
I charged my 48V battery banks a couple days ago and let them rest a couple days before testing them. I connected one of the two Eaton 1500W UPS units and put a 500W load on them (10A) and the batteries are fine. The internal batteries are disconnected on these units so I connected the charging cables to top them off over night. There are two circuits that run all of the electronics in our home. The two Eaton UPS units can take over each of them from the 3KW Tripp Lite Powerverter. There are a total of four 48V 35AH battery banks in case of a long duration power failure. The Tripp Lite Powerverter has the responsibility for a short term outage. Once it’s depleted I can bring up the Eaten units an charge the batteries with a tiny generator.
Nevada has two UPS units, the house UPS is 840WH of battery and the garage UPS has 200 WH of battery with a 2.5 hour limited run time to protect the batteries.
The garbage can is no longer on the curb at my dad’s house. Someone came to the rescue and hauled the trash can to the side of the garage for us today.
The pump house door has also stayed closed, we still do not know why it was open every time when we returned to my dad’s house.
Spent most of the day preparing for tomorrow’s service. At the end of the day it looks like an outside service on the inside. Generated and distributed the drawings to the team for the first inside service in a year!
I have moved to a weekly entry until my life gets caught up a little.
This is about all I have left of my parents.
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative: Sunday, church services in the morning and spent the entire evening moving my network onto the new firewall.
Monday: Built some cables to connect the new Peavy speakers and put a connection between the two firewalls for management. Looked into cost of plane tickets and rental cars.
Tuesday: Cleared church equipment out of our cars.
Wednesday: Church services in the afternoon. Added $15 to our three sponsored children for COVID related expenses. I realized today that my driving skills have gotten rusty. Need to drive more often!
Thursday:
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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
I have moved to a weekly entry until my life gets caught up a little.
This is about all I have left of my parents.
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative: Sunday, spent all day running an outside church service. Taking equipment, setting it up. Tearing it down and taking it to storage.
Monday: Mowed the front lawn.
Tuesday: Mowed the side lawn.
Wednesday: Unpacked my four new inexpensive speakers.
Thursday: Updated the firmware on my cameras and DVR. (That took all morning) Mowed the back yard today and then got a double scoop of ice cream from Brusters. Constructed four more
Friday: Getting organized, laying out tasks and firming up requirements.
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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
I have moved to a weekly entry until my life gets caught up a little.
This is about all I have left of my parents.
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative: Sunday, we held a Zoom service it went well. Sunday afternoon we got our mail and spent some quality time.
Monday: Created a stage setup for the team although we didn’t keep to the design, it was close.
Tuesday: Cut up 200′ lengths of wire into 50′ pieces and terminated the ends with power Pole connectors.
Wednesday: Working with the team to assign tasks for Sunday.
Thursday: Finished the speaker wires for running the Yamaha speakers. We celebrated at Chilis and had ice cream.
Friday: I went to storage and picked up the equipment for Sunday. It’s two full car loads of equipment.
Saturday: Spent the entire day with Larry playing the Yamaha speakers and measuring the results.
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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
I have moved to a weekly entry until my life gets caught up a little.
This is about all I have left of my parents.
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative: Sunday, church service was two car loads of equipment and a lot of work, but it went very well. Beautiful weather by the time we had service! I finally got the large Yamaha speakers out of the bedroom, they are in storage again.
Monday, making plans and getting an update on the news this morning. Spent the morning sorting wires and repacking the audio equipment for storage. This afternoon I loaded up the car and took it to storage. Our car will be empty for the first time in weeks. Mowed the front lawn today.
Tuesday, ran to the office first thing this morning. I pulled the cover off the broken amp and it looks like D2 is shorted.
Sent a message to L and he picked up the unit for repair. He dropped off the pre-amp that the potentiometers were broken, it’s repaired! Mowed the lawn this afternoon, the squatting neighbors haven’t.
Wednesday: The weather wasn’t as nice as Tuesday so we worked inside. The amplifier may take a while to repair so I did some engineering to run all the speakers on the one amplifier I own.
Thursday: I ordered a third monitor speaker for the lead singer. I need to buy one more s115 Yamaha speaker for Sunday. But they are in stock so no big deal.
Friday: We worked on family stuff and played a game of Scrabble.
Saturday: We had a Zoom meeting for the Sunday service, hardly anyone was there. I put K’s chase lounge together and worked on indexing scriptures in the gospels so I could remember where things are.
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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
I’ve been terribly busy making plans for an outdoor Easter service and didn’t update my blog for a few days. I may move to a weekly entry until my life gets caught up a little.
This is about all I have left of my parents.
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative:Sunday, church service in the morning. The PiAware receiver on the roof is loosing contact with it’s USB receiver. I unplugged the cable between them a couple times and it’s working as it did yesterday. I’ll have to wait until it fails again before getting a new receiver and building a new SD card. The program on the Pi was still running so I think the power and the Pi are ok.
Monday we got groceries from Kroger and i changed the oil in Gen#2 and letting it run for a little while. I received the speaker delay today from Amazon, so I think I am ready for Sunday.
Tuesday, I went up onto the attic and installed a generic SDR dongle on the PiAware receiver to test the receiver that was dropping off. It picked up aircraft at 25NM which I thought was amazing actually. I then went to storage and retrieved the 5″ Kustom speakers to test them for frequency response. I used my computer to send white noise into the amp while measuring the output using a microphone. I also tested the lunch box guitar amplifier for the same purpose. I mowed the back lawn because it looked like it was going to rain. It was a little wet by the fence. There was a lot of wet grass stuck up under the mower when I cleaned it. I didn’t clean it from the front lawn and the grass attached itself to the dry grass filling up the housing. I realized yesterday that the garbage service took half of my dog kennel that I was using to keep the recycling dry. Boo!
Wednesday I worked on insurance this morning, and it took all morning. Went over to a friends house for our midweek service. It was raining, but not a storm.
Thursday I worked on my Flight Aware. I also made some restroom signs for Sunday.
Friday I loaded my car with all the hardware for Sunday.
Saturday we got up early and setup the Yamaha speakers in the lower parking lot. It sounded really good. LOTS of volume!
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
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
