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….

Tomorrow:

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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:

• 05:00 going back to bed, been up all night.
• 07:00 Work on the house while it is cool
• 08:00 Instacart food delivered and I put charging cable on primary UPS batteries.
• 10:00 Replenished our liquor supply.
• 11:00 Lunch
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Working on bench power supplies and blogging.
• 15:00 Ordered safety goggles for weed Whacker
• 16:00 Cleaning
• 21:00 Bed

Narrative: I added a SB50 connector to the primary ups and put two PP30’s on the mating connector to charge the batteries from the generators.

White Fragility: While it is true that black men between the ages of 25 and 29 are killed by police at a rate between 2.8 and 4.1 per 100,000, that’s well below the rate of their death in accidents (76.6 deaths per 100,000), by suicide (26.7 deaths per 100,000), from other homicides (22 per 100,000), from heart disease (seven per 100,000), and from cancer (a little over six per 100,000). Moreover, black women in the same age bracket are killed by police at roughly 5 percent the rate of black men; surely if police killings were driven solely by racial animus, then black women would be victimized at a much higher rate. Despite the racial disparity in rates, a study of police-involved homicides between 2009 and 2012 shows that whites constituted a majority (52 percent) of victims. What explains “state violence” against whites? All in all, the evidence paints a murky picture, though still a troubling one. Too many people—including whites—die at the hands of law enforcement, but black men and women are much more likely to be killed by civilians and certain diseases than by the police. This is one of the best articles I’ve read, it certainly passes the sniff test. https://www.city-journal.org/hearing-what-black-voices-really-say-about-police

Feelings:

Tomorrow: Tuesday.

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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 Up eating breakfast.
• 08:00 Morning planning meeting
• 09:00 Getting ready for church
• 10:00 Church services
• 11:00 Lunch and check on 18AH battery charging.
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Adjust power supplies and measure power from Solar panels (235W)
• 15:00 Blogging
• 16:00 Making battery cables.
• 17:00 Post Office run and put a battery charging cable onto the car.
• 18:00

Narrative: My bench in my “Man Cave” draws about 170 Watts of power 24/7. 170W x 8Hrs = $0.17 per day or ~5$ per Month in savings. During the day the six 100W solar panels offload the power from my power bill. The power supplies are set to just below the voltage of the solar charge controller. That way 100% of the load can be taken by the SCC relieving the two redundant power supplies. An internet controlled switch enables the output of the inverter during times that the sun is actually on the panels. (Making it 100% efficient at night and 80% efficient during the day if the sun is not powerful enough to relieve the power supplies.)

White Fragility: By 1980, the earnings of black women with college degrees surpassed those of white women with a college degree. Black married couples typically have relied more on women’s earnings than other races and the percentage of single-parent, female-maintained families is highest among the black population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_States

Feelings: People looking for material to post on You Tube are taunting the police with vulgar language across the country and recording their behavior in an attempt to entrap them.

Tomorrow:

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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.

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Social Security Administration

Information About Current Social Security Benefits

Beginning July 2020, the full monthly Social Security benefit for a given month are paid on the 2nd Wednesday of the following month. (For example, Social Security benefits for Mark Vogt in July will be paid in August.) We’ll deduct $144.60 for medical insurance premiums each month.

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Plans:

• 07:00 Up and making breakfast
• 08:00 Walking around the block.
• 09:00 Added some shade to my Pi Aware receiver.
• 11:30 Eating Tuna sandwich for lunch.
• 12:00 2nd Nap
• 14:00 Testing batteries
• 15:00 Watching the great race
• 16:00 Blogging

Narrative: Put a piece of tape across the Pi Aware receiver to keep the sun off the Raspberry Pi.

It cooled off the Raspberry Pi more than 4 degrees C in less than five minutes, the Raspberry Pi can run at 80C which is quite warm.

White Fragility: I am finding hard to relate to our friends of color, I am not into violence to achieve change in the USA systemic racism. I also do not know how they are planning to improve the black quality of life out of poverty. You can’t work in the food service industry and own a home. (Unless you’re really good.) The Mayor of Chicago built housing for the low income families that was a disaster. It eventually had to be torn down. (I think gangs took over the buildings and made life miserable.) I know that families have to have “Skin in the game” or they will not take care of homes given to them. They need the financial ability to maintain the home that is usually diverted into other areas of family life or Drugs/Alcohol. (So the home falls into disarray.)

Feelings: I am discouraged that it feels like much of the effort for change is being laid onto the shoulders of the white privileged.

Tomorrow: Church, we are not looking forward to getting schooled on Racism.

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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:

• 06:00 Put out recycling and close the garage door.
• 07:00 Breakfast and morning meeting.
• 08:00 Getting organized.
• 08:31 My SS check will arrive on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
• 09:00 Nap
• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 Blogging and Instagram.
• 14:00 2nd Nap
• 15:00 Up, blogging and Instagram.
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Blogging and Instagram
• 18:00 Rehoming Ekecity plugs
• 19:00 Repairing Pi Aware

Narrative: I was on the roof trying to repair my Raspberry Pi ADSB receiver most of the evening. I checked the temperature of the Pi earlier today and it was 74C which is just under throttling temp. When I checked the throttling status it showed that insufficient power was being supplied to the Pi.

It was a lot of work to change out the power source tonight. I had a tiny 12V USB power supply that should have been sufficient. I changed that out for a rather large potted 24V 3A 5V power supply that I connected using an old Cana Kit micro USB power cord.

White Fragility: I’ve given a lot of thought tonight about the black population and the systemic racism that they have to deal with. It’s true that we white privileged Americans won’t change our habits unless they make us suffer a little. (And keep their knees on our necks for a while.) However they cannot get greedy and hurt us white folks enough that we rebel, then they’ll get nothing changed after that. They’ve crossed the line with the monuments and now they are shooting innocent drivers in their cars when they get scared. Protestors should not be able to encircle someone’s vehicle until they are threatened by the imprisonment of the driver in their vehicle that cannot move.

Feelings:

Tomorrow:

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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:

• 08:00 Breakfast
• 09:00 Instacart shopping and talking to mom.
• 10:00 mom’s cell phone dead, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
• 12:00 Lunch, researching portable air-conditioner, portable Split by Forest Air.
• 14:00 Nap.
• 15:30 Up

Narrative: Working with the elderly on a new subject over the telephone is extremely difficult. What I am imagining and what she is seeing always end up to be a different picture.

White Fragility:

Feelings:

Tomorrow:

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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: Turn off the noise and stay calm.

• 08:00 UP and breakfast.
• 09:00 Went for a walk.
• 09:30 Call Ameriprise
• 10:00 Called mom, sent a message to Renea.
• 11:00 Drove out and signed papers
• 12:00 Lunch and a nap
• 15:00 Reading Esther
• 16:00 Sharing scripture with Kathy and having a good discussion.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Getting ready for church
• 19:00 Church
• 21:00 Bed

Narrative: I have paralleled three of the four 35AH battery banks to run the secondary UPS circuit of about 350 watts. 105AH @ 48V should keep 350W running for at least 12 hours. The refrigerator has 70AH @ 24V which should be about the same running time.

White Fragility: Suspended my FB account this morning, we are very tired of the violence and hatred on FB. We have also suspended Kathy’s FB account and will move to Instagram to see our grandkids photos. We noticed for the first time in over 10 years that the majority of our parishioners are black and they appear to be looking at us as white privileged possibly racist.

Feelings: We are scrambling to learn how to communicate with our parishioners of color.

Tomorrow: Instacart in the morning and Chili’s in the afternoon.

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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. Covid numbers are really high, we’ve considered shopping in my Son’s county where they have all of FOUR cases!

Plans: Stay home and isolated from the drama.

• 08:00 Up eating breakfast with the Wife.
• 09:00 Paralleled the two 48VDC battery banks in the garage.
• 10:00 Mowed the weeds in the back yard.
• 11:00 Testing batteries secondary UPS
• 12:00 Delivering Banana bread.
• 13:00 Nap
• 15:00 chk weather, Mow lawn
• 16:00 Working on our finances.
• 17:00 Din Din
• 18:00 Testing secondary UPS, talking to Vegas
• 21:00 Getting ready for bed.

Narrative: I’ve tested and exercised the four new batteries for the primary UPS but I didn’t have a battery management device for them. There are three battery management devices on the secondary banks of batteries. This morning I paralleled two of the banks onto one battery management to move it to the new battery bank. Each of these three 48V battery banks have 11 fuses in the string between the batteries and devices to protect them.

White Fragility: I am finding it quite difficult to navigate the current state of things being a retired white male. (What I say comes from a position of “White Privilege” and is not received well by the people of color.) Worse, the Anger and Hate in the news puts a conversation into a shouting match rather than a negotiation since I have no influence on the current situation. (I am just supposed to agree with the mainstream agenda.) Those I talk to are quite unwilling to discuss anything that would diminish their continuing to keep up the momentum of BLM.

Feelings: I am exhausted and emotionally drained.

Tomorrow: Church, we are not enthused about meeting everyone.

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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. People are tired of wearing masks and social distancing.

Plans: Keep working on the homestead and start our taxes.

• 07:00 Up and eating breakfast.
• 08:00 Installing 12VDC fuse block.
• 09:00 Instacart delivery.
• 10:00 Wrote a letter describing our intentions with the solar panels for Mom.
• 11:00 Lunch and a nap.
• 13:00 Working on making my whiteness a little darker.
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Working on gifts for a friend that’s having a baby.
• 18:00 Putting ends on battery wires.
• 19:00 Buying presents for a baby shower.
• 20:00 Scrabble.

Narrative: Our homestead is like a motorhome with low voltage DC wired to every room. We have Solar power that is added to Grid provided AC that is converted into 12 and 24VDC to power important devices throughout the homestead. The DC has a battery backup to carry it through power outages. The wiring to the rooms is connected to the voltage needed within a distribution panel (Below) located in the garage.

White Fragility: What is “Racism” and what is it to be a “Racist”…

I believe the attacks being presented to us today are part of a well-orchestrated and well-funded effort that uses racism as its sword to aggravate our battlefield dispositions. This weapon is used to leverage and legitimize violence and crime, not to seek or serve the truth.

The dark forces’ weapons formed against us serve one purpose: to promote radical social change through power and control. Socialism and the creation of a socialist society are their ultimate goals. https://www.westernjournal.com/

I had a long talk with a fellow parishioner tonight. It was a long conversation partly about how the police were mistreating our people of color. I was unable to console this learned and successful individual about an incident where he was pulled over for the sticker on his license plate being in the wrong place. He was deeply offended just being pulled over and how the officer’s lack of respect for him made him angry. It amazed me that the threatening feelings he had about even the thought of being under an officer’s authority. I feel it is beyond any discussion from a white man of privilege to console him, even though he is a fellow man of God that has taken Jesus on as his savior.

Feelings: We are drowning in the hate and violence everywhere…

Tomorrow: Tuesday. Regroup from yesterday.

Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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: Rest today, maybe get Chilis.

• 08:00 Up having eggs and ham for breakfast.
• 09:00 Watching services from the website.
• 10:00 Walking around the block.
• 11:00 Connect batteries moved to my man cave from the garage.
• 11:30 Move refrigerator onto spare UPS that has remote batteries in my man cave.
• 12:00 Nap time.
• 14:00 Instacart
• 15:00 Research on blacks and guns
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Helped mom connect her TV to battery power.
• 18:00 Research.

Narrative:

White Fragility:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/ We are aware of two previous efforts to develop measures of structural racism at the state level.27, 38 Both of these approaches used the gap between White and Black populations in measures of structural advantage/disadvantage as an indicator of structural racism. Racial inequalities in these measures are a direct result of structural racism, which is “the systematic exclusion of non-White racial groups from resources and mobility in society as a means to secure or maintain power.”

Feelings:Tomorrow:Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

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