Category: Blog

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defence-of-white-people

POTUS has COVID-19, he’s 74 and overweight… Vulnerable!

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging.
• 07:00 Modifying bedroom NodeMCU, reduce it’s “Equivalent” mass.
• 07:30 Breakfast
• 08:00 Checking the news, quiet time …
• 09:00 Preparing for church.
• 11:00 Running generator #4, looks good.
• 12:00 Nap time
• 14:00 Post office run.
• 15:00 Listened to the sermon again.
• 16:00 Salad
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Xfiles
• 21:00 Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit on 13 October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Looked for plastic lawn chairs, insanely expensive $250 and up!

Repairs: Ran generators #2 and #3, generator #3 sounds like the gas tank is hitting the inverter board capacitor. (It falls because the weight of the gas tank is on the lid)

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

“If we wish to establish racial equality or gender equality, or equality in any social structure — acknowledge that we can’t pick and choose who gets to be a part of the equality equation. As a humanitarian, before any label that I associate with myself; I hope we recognize that we can only resolve our issues through respect and humility. Through recognizing that it’s not okay to simply “demand” respect whilst belittling an entire culture.” medium.com/in-defence-of-white-people

POTUS has COVID-19, he’s 74 and overweight… Vulnerable!

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging
• 06:00 Reading about the poor and giving.
• 07:00 Blogging.
• 08:00 Breakfast
• 09:00 reading the news and Blogging.
• 10:00 Worship team meeting.
• 11:00 walk
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Generators #2 and #3.
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Watching RED
• 19:00 Watching a movie about the first BIOS
• 21:00 Playing Scrabble
• 22:00 Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit on 13 October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Looked for plastic lawn chairs, insanely expensive $250 and up!

Repairs: Ran generators #2 and #3, generator #3 sounds like the gas tank is hitting the inverter board capacitor. (It falls because the weight of the gas tank is on the lid)

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: 2K tax bill that needs to be paid by Dec.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

POTUS has COVID-19, he’s 74 and overweight… Vulnerable!

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging
• 08:00 Up sipp’n coffee while getting dressed, Home Assistant working great.
• 09:00 Headed to the doctors office (Flu Shot)
• 10:00 Home, called mom, running Gen #3, working great!
• 11:00 Blogging eating Lunch.
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Change oil generator #3 and pack it up. Grapes and cheese for snack.
• 14:00 Tearing down generator #1 for pictures that Lifan wants.
• 15:00 Waiting on a response from Lifan.

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I had to order this generator from Home Depot since it wasn’t stocked. It came tightly wrapped in a black plastic bag. (I assumed to keep the oil from leaking onto other products.) I ran it hard for about a month and didn’t change the oil as per the instructions provided. Eventually it didn’t run anymore, the red LED saying the oil was low could not be extinguished. After fighting with it and looking on the Internet for answers I disconnected the oil low switch on the engine. (Normally Open switch) The engine has been running perfectly since.

Generator #2 was run through the same break-in period of no load for a tank of gas and then 100W for a tank of gas Etc for about two weeks. It ran fine for about three months and had a healthy alternator on it! Then one day the output waveform was distorted and i found the capacitor had been broken off the inverter board by the gas tank. To fix generator #2 i robbed the board from Generator #1 when I was troubleshooting another problem with Gen #1 fuel pump being flooded. (From fighting with the oil switch)

Another problem with Generator #1 was the fuel filter was pushed into the gas tank and i haven’t found a way of removing it. The last of the line of issues I plugged Gen #1 and Gen #2 onto a Power Factor Corrected power supply that did something to the regulator board. (It locks up the regulator and overspeeds the engines on both generators.) Eventually the Inverter green light extinguishes and the engine runs at high speed. Generator #2 acted normal on the last run, but I thought i’d try getting a new regulator board.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit on 13 October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Saturday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging
• 08:00 UP, getting ready to shop at Kroger
• 09:00 Putting away groceries and eating breakfast
  • Called mom.
  • Writing a letter to Childfund kids.
• 10:00 Checking on NodeMCU Thermostat while sipp’n on coffee.
  • COVID19 Looks good for Gwinnett, still dropping!
• 11:00 Reading the news
  • I really want a nap, troubleshooting home phone.
  • lunch
  • Ordered a 2nd thermostat for our new unit.
• 12:00 NAP
• 14:00 Cleaned wife’s toe with peroxide.
• 15:00 Quiet Time.
• 16:00 Running Generator #1, charging 48V battery banks (All)
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Mow the side yard. Run Generator #2, which worked well by the way.
• 19:00 Watched XFiles with the Wife.
• 21:00 BED

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit on 13 October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

There are currently SEVEN NodeMCU’s working with Home Assistant software to control the air conditioner. One of those seven NodeMCU’s is dedicated to operating the dehumidifier using the others as sensors.

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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.

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Schedule:

We like to walk in the mornings but we have an early Doctor’s apt tomorrow.

We take naps between 11 and 1PM.

We’ll probably watch the Camp video in place of eating lunch tomorrow and say a prayer for support.

We make dinner at 16:30 and eat an hour or so later.

Saturday morning we walk, have the worship team meeting at 10AM and a date with our Daughter for lunch.

Struggles:

I’d like to eventually repair the open dialog that I once enjoyed with our brothers in Christ without worrying about the color of their skin.

According to my reading there just seems to be so many ways for a “White” person to offend people of color these days.

The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal?

Read a “Primer” about the book “White Fragility” that shoots pretty big holes in the book’s value. “It is so riddled with conceptual, empirical, and logical errors that it is useless. Flaws in White Fragility Theory: A Primer

Time:

I have spent a good deal of time building an distributed thermostat for our limping air conditioner over the last month.

My mom calls me every day just to chat and then calls again if she gets confused about her finances.

I subscribed to a website called “Medium” that gives some insight to what the black American nation is thinking.

Kathy bought a good book about the bible that I need to spend some time reading.

Prayers: My mom in Vegas is still in Rehab, I need to call her and find out when she’s going home.

Melvin sent me a lament that had the phrase “My Voice” that I searched for in scripture today.

Kathy still struggles with her mouth and it gets bad every so often.

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

I read Luke 7 and 8 yesterday.

Psa 5:3 In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.

We looked up the Kingdom in Daniel together today to prepare for Kathy’s study tomorrow.

Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Family News: Mom’s in Rehab Center.

Arts: X Files Season 1, The Fifth Element

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging
• 07:00 Coffee, Breakfast and planning meeting.
• 08:00 Blogging (Wednesday)
• 09:00 Checking NodeMCU
• 09:30 Checking Childfund
• 10:00 Digging into Home Assistant Entities
• 11:00 Nap
• 13:00 Rebuilding Humidifier NodeMCU relay box.
• 16:00 Eating dinner
• 17:00 Preparing for church service tonight.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Thursday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging
• 06:00 Drive to Lowes to get a new air filter.
• 07:00 Up sipp’n coffee and making plans.
• 08:00 Walk around the block.
• 09:00 Chatting with Childfund about their E-Mail
• 10:00 Building a replacement NodeMCU box for the dehumidifier.
• 12:00 logging onto Zoom and building links for sessions.
• 13:00 Nap
• 15:00 Drive Kathy to dental appointment.
• 18:00 Chatting with Childfund
• 19:00 Setting parameters for heating our home into Home Assistant.
• 21:00 Headed to bed, the debate is Horrible!

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Wednesday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 01:00 Blogging

• Monday…
• Called Childfund in the morning
• Renegotiated lunch for tomorrow, bad weather.
• Helped Todd most of the afternoon
• Watched TV with Kathy

• 07:00 Up, sipp’n coffee planning our day
• 08:00 Shower then get ready for church at 10
• 11:00 making plans, then a NAP!
• 13:00 Watched some TV and down for a second NAP!
• 16:00 Blogging.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Watching TV with the wife.
• 21:00 Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

New issue, compressor stopped working during a normal thermostat operation. The only thing that’s unique is that the coil temp dropped to 44 degrees right away.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 08:00 Sunday morning Omelet and sharing.
• 09:00 Preparing for service
• 10:00 Morning services
• 11:00 Lunch and a nap
• 13:00 Blogging and reading the www.
• 16:00 Air conditioner blocked with oil, programming automatic recovery.
• 19:00 Watching TV
• 21:00 Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Monday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: The “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of reprisal? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

Even in our homes family members are very polarized and resort to going into our corners after showing our dissent to them.

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 07:00 Up, sipp’n coffee and chatting with the wife.
• 08:00 Grocery Shopping
• 15:00 Mow the front lawn
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Reconfigure Air Conditioner, it got oil logged again.
• 19:00 Early Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Sunday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Read something: No matter how loud they shouted, many Soviet citizens thought such exercises (in free speech) absurd. But they hid their real thoughts because speaking (Out) honestly (in a crowd) was dangerous. The Soviet dictatorship created a fear society that failed the “town square test”—can EVERYONE express themselves freely, publicly, without fear of punishment? Can we speak freely without checking for a BLM protestor confronting us wherever we are? Can we have a sign like Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter in our yards without fearing damage to our homes? Three-warning-signs-of-ideological-totalitarianism

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Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until 13 October.

• 08:00 Up late, sipp’n coffee and chatting with the wife.
• 09:00 checking the Home Assistant software.
• 10:00 Writing letters to ChildFund.
• 11:00 Time for lunch and a nap.
• 13:00 Helping set up remote network and Pi’s.
• 14:00 Rebuilding Pi’s and debugging Home Assistant.
• 17:00 Tomato soup and cheese sandwiches for dinner.
• 18:00 Watching TV.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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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.

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Tomorrow: Saturday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income. Back to shopping for groceries in person, 800/Month is TOO much on a retired budget.

Project Engineering: Hiding our temp sensors inside fake plants.

Purchases: USB Cables

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to read Luke and comment on the author.

Family News: Mom’s in the hospital.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Swollen feet have collapsed, no more potato chips!

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Waiting on Land taxes.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

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